Stories

18 year old Oliver (Olly) is gay and going through the process of discovering himself amongst his group of close friends as they navigate their senior year in Northern Minnesota. This is a coming of age journey about friendship and love with over 50 chapters to come!

A weary immortal being, known only by legend has spent fifteen centuries trapped in our world, hiding in plain sight among humans while quietly searching for the one thing that can take him home.

When a routine news bulletin reveals that a long-lost artefact has just been dug up beneath a future Tesco in Croydon, he realizes the wait might finally be over. A road trip across England of modern-day Arthurian proportions ensues as a mythical wizard, and a cocky young chav race against modern Templars, a meddling MI5, so a living legend can finally return home.

Arjun, my husband, is home sick when I go to the gym alone and see a twunk posing and trying to take physique pictures. I end up giving him advice and a hand, things develop from there.

Colbyn - a small town in the middle of nowhere...

Nerd Alex stumbles into a soldier, Max... and a little chat over coffee on a rainy day leads to a friendship, that contains pining, healing and self-discovery.

Kevin, who fled from an abusive life-long situation, got literally picked up from the curb by Tom. Tom knows how it feels to have nothing and basically no one, and he wants to pay back what he once received as help...

Gabe is pining over Sam and Sam needs a boyfriend to show-off at Christmas dinner. While Gabe believes in all this and experiences all his firsts, the lines of pretend start to blur on Sam's side...

Extra Innings is a companion short story series to Swing for the Fences, told in close third person and designed to step outside Nick’s first-person view. These stories reveal the moments he never saw—private conversations, hidden conflicts, and emotional turning points that unfolded when he wasn’t in the room, or when the truth looked different from another perspective. By uncovering the inner lives and quiet choices of the surrounding characters, Extra Innings deepens and expands the world of Swing for the Fences beyond what was ever visible on the surface.

During a stopover in London, a youthful encounter triggers Robert’s memories; almost sixty, he muses about youth and middle age, love and time.

Huxley is 17 and forced to move out of the US because of his father getting a work opportunity in Europe, moving to Pau a mid-sized town in the south-west of France he will have to start a new life and encounter new peoples. including one young man who will set him on an unknown path full of dangers.

Will Huxley successfully adapt to his new life or will his own demons make him crumble ?

In the shadow of a crumbling empire, Constantine XI Palaiologos stands as the last hope of Constantinople, a city teetering on the edge of oblivion. As the Ottoman army, sixty thousand strong, masses beyond the walls with cannons poised to shatter the city’s ancient defenses, he grapples with a faltering faith in the God and the weight of a two-thousand-year legacy. Will Constantine’s resolve to fight for the souls of Rome, noble and commoner alike, defy the inevitable, or will history remember him only as The Last Of The Romans, will The Purple Phoenix rise once more, or will it remain a pile of lingering ashes.