Stories

Life's great and stable. Being married, having (almost) two children, a house, a job teaching English; Tristan ought to be happy. He is, well, most of the time. Things change with the arrival of a new colleague.
A love of baroque music seems the first similarity between them; follow how a simple harpsichord suite expands to overlap life.

Claude Severin is a carefree prostitute until he runs into Guy Sewell, a braggart who takes blood as wine. Guy offers Claude the chance of an education. Claude is happy to raise his station, but at what cost to his soul?

Cody has not had a happy Christmas in five years since he got kicked out of his family home at the age of seventeen, until he meets up with Adam.

They were best friends, planning on going to college together. Sayer left for his annual summer trip; everything was fine ... until Sayer didn't come back. Birch waited for him but eventually tried to forget him; he went away to college and got his degree. Now he's moving back home, back where he was with Sayer last. Will the other man have come back to town while he was gone? Will Birch ever know why Sayer didn't come back to him?

It was a gift and now it's time to return it.

Twenty years ago the world was different. In a way it was also still the same. Now, as the wheels of fate still crank out more of the same he feels he can break away, break the thread that bind him, if only for one more night.

Deputy Sheriff Blake Alston is driving around a nothin' town on a Saturday night and sick of going back to an empty house and cold bed. But Axel Carmichael seems to have a talent for being in the right place at the right time. Blake isn't ready to have his heart broken again, but even with the fact that Axel is seven years his junior and in love with someone else, he can't quite get the young man out of his head.

The air changes, flecks of ice decorate the ground. It's the season's first snowfall.

After Sam's win at the Olympics; things are good, right? Wrong! Rife with jealousy over how his lover is now a celebrity, and more angry with how his time is eaten up; Brett is feeling insecure about everything. Will their plans hold up and will their love survive?

This is a story of twenty-somethings finding their way toward love. Can they get beyond their differences and terrible pasts?