Stories

When the whole world turns white and no one is prepared, may be it's just better to turn in bed , pull up the blanket and pretend there's no such thing.

Or this is at least what Liam tried before everything went wrong.

Warning: Although the whole plot, jokes, scenes and thoughts are mine, I used a lot of help from AI. I might go through the whole story and rewrite it myself for now my apologies.

Cory a gymnastic and Ray a football player have to room together.

They both have interesting stories to tell.

Two broken boys, one collapsing town. Garrett was the golden-boy quarterback until his knee—and his future—shattered. Now he’s a secretary in a glass box, choking on resentment. Finn is the beautiful, feral foster kid hiding self-inflicted tattoos under mechanic’s coveralls, running from a past that won’t let go. They’re supposed to hate each other. In the greasy dark of an auto garage, hate gets confused. It’s messy, brutal, and the only thing that makes either of them feel alive. But in a place where everyone’s watching, their private war might just destroy them both.

When Martin joins his quiet lab partner, Owen, at a secluded coastal cabin, he expects a boring weekend. He doesn't expect Owen to be hiding an athletic body under his baggy clothes. Martin is about to find out that the quietest boys run the deepest.

When William's borderline diabetic diagnosis threatens his love of sweets, his baker boyfriend Cameron attempts to create healthier alternatives with catastrophic results.

Joel's day has been completely normal until he comes home to find his younger brother sitting out on the front steps. After a word of warning, his life abruptly changes when a careless mistake reveals his one secret to the rest of his family.

*Originally part of the 2023 Secret Author Contest: Secrets (Only chapter One)

TL is a popular librarian who experiences a playful evening full of ticklish fun at the hands of his boyfriend and their best friend.

Two friends meet up with a stranger in the Pyrenees who gradually tells them his story of life and love in the last years of Franco's regime when homosexuality was a crime. We meet Ximo and the love of his life. Can that love survive what life in a dictatorship throws at them?

A university dropout is brutally shoved into the concrete hell of Cradle Grove. Targeted and destitute, Kieran’s only path is scavenging and shame. Then Ben, a terrifyingly silent force, saves him from a beating. A protector? A predator? As bodies start to fall, Kieran is thrust into a savage new hierarchy, where survival means embracing the violence and dark loyalty of a world that wants to destroy him.

This is a collection of very short stories, that I had written over thirty years ago, when I first started to write, and they are recollections of real events that took place on the farm where I grew up in Western Australia.

Preston aka Quokka