Stories

James has just been attacked at school. The new boy at school comes to his rescue, and finds out the truth about James. A truth that James has told nobody.

2007 Anthology

This is a short story (couple pages) which was a challenge given by Bardeara. The Title belongs to him, but the content is all mine. It's about the worries and joys of meeting a new potential mate.

Short Poem for the New Year

It also announces to everyone, I am back to writing again!

Nick always knew he was different. He was born when his parents were teenagers, and his mother died when he was six months old. This left his father to raise him all alone. After vacationing in Virginia, Nick's dad decides to move them across the country. Adapting to his new life is hard, but just when he's ready to give up, he meets a new friend, Taylor. While all of this is happening, Nick learns that it's okay to be different.

Like the namesake movie released in 2000, which is set in LA, What's Cooking (in NYC) explores the lives of four families as they make preparations for the Thanksgiving holiday. As with the movie, there is much unexpected drama, but with the added wrinkle that all four families, who are well-known to NYC Holidays readers, are waiting for loved ones to arrive on the same flight from California. When a glitch in Air Traffic Control occurs, anything can happen.

Two fourteen year old wrestlers find themselves wrestling with more than one problem.

Perhaps you can help solve one for them?

Memories can be beautiful and painful. What they say is often true, “You can’t go back again.”

Carl is the American boy next door that women fawn over, girls shy from, and boys vie for his attention.

Everyone knows what Christmas is about. Jesus, of course, some say. Excessive consumerism, others reply. But is that really all there is to it? Two young teens learn that it might be more than that.
A short story for reflection.