Stories

After a horrible week, Michael seeks out a local sorcerer for a money spell. To teach Michael a lesson, the sorcerer makes him choose between love and money.

My thoughts on frustration...

When Peter decided he couldn't live the lie anymore, he came clean to his parents. They cut him out of their lives leaving him to make his own way in the world. When you are in college and trying to make ends meet there aren't a whole lot of options. Sometimes you do what have to in order to survive, especially during the holidays.

Since losing all his closest friends, Remus has nothing left to live for. Indulging in booze and casual sex, he tries desperately to find something that will make him feel, but in the end there's only one thing that can. Inspired by a song by Tool.

Jason wasn't confused. The rest of the world was.

A response to Valkyrie's Guest Prompt #2 a short story of at least 500 words in first person without using the pronoun 'I'

April is National Poetry Writing Month, and this is my collection for 2021. The goal is to write 30 poems (one per day) throughout the month. The majority of poems are responses to prompts supplied by Jan Hutchinson. Since I turn fifty this year, a lot of them will feature remembrances, musings, and thoughts about the next fifty. A retrospective of my life.

It's been said that suffering builds character. And there are few that know suffering better than young Justin. Only 14 years old, he has found an easy way out. A suicidal tendency that he is hoping will bring an end to his misery. But when he meets a mysterious boy at the end of Navy Pier one dark evening...he is given an alternative. One that will give him purpose, and set in motion the events that will lead to his ultimate destiny....in a world not like our own.

Last New Year's Eve, Jack spent an amazing night with a stranger. He didn't even know her name. Can he marshal the nerve to ask her out this year?

In which Ben and William find that sometimes you wish you only had rats in your basement...