Stories

Two teenage boys growing-up in Georgia during the 1970s begin secretly dating each other so they won't be found out. For revenge they pretend to date girls in their class and end up treating them horribly. When one of the girls ends up pregnant, their lives change drastically. The boy reluctantly ends up marrying this young woman and hides who he really is from his son. As the years go by we learn that his son has the exact same secret, but with a twist.

During the COVID pandemic, two thirteen-year-old boys fall in love while attempting to deal with the climate crisis. They meet while rescuing a racoon. Their relationship strengthens as they add information to parked vehicles, restaurants, and a fountain. Later they demonstrate in drag, practice foreplay, run around naked on the prairies, develop a close relationship with prairie dogs, and experience an extreme weather event.

***Winner of the 2013 Readers Choice Awards for the Best Story by a Promising Author ***

Please note: I'm no longer a Promising/Signature Author! I don't want readers to think I'm misleading them.

Story: The city is full of all kinds of people. Being a bartender, Asher Burkhart has seen them all. At least he thinks has until Michael Waters shows up.

Keith and Akira are trying to best each other at a video game. Shiro is able to provide a higher level of challenge for their competition.
winning is it's own reward...

A runaway orphan boy loses himself in a primeval American forest and, on the brink of death, is saved by the animals living there. As he recovers he finds that the animals have saved him for a reason, a reason that makes his life worth living. It seems like a fable that might have taken place in Africa, or India, a hundred years ago, but although this boy was not raised by apes or wolves, his story in contemporary America is even stranger. Be warned, however, that although this tale has many joyous moments, there is sorrow here as well, sorrow for the boy, and for the many who came to love him.

Ryan is fourteen, soon to be fifteen. He hasn't had a very happy life and now events bring things to a head.

Can he pick up the pieces or will they remain shattered?

A short story inspired by Prompt 158.

Spencer St. James has been experiencing some strange things lately. He doesn't know why, or what is going on, but it's starting to affect him physically. Headaches, throwing up, and unfamiliar emotions. As he copes with all of this, he meets Adrien Parsons, a strange, calming presence who is interested in him. Spencer isn't quite sure what to make of it all, but he's going to find out, no matter what--even if it means he has to give up a chance at love.

A coming of age story about Oliver, a 17-year-old boy who's spending another summer with his family in a Greek resort on Paros island. But a random encounter with Nikolaos, a vibrant and enigmatic local young man, will awaken his sheltered heart and change his life forever.

Brad Carson is a thirty-something single gay nerdish bear-chub who lives on a farm in the countryside near the small city of Pleasant View, Kentucky. Officer Jack Albertson is a presumably straight police officer in Pleasant View who is close to Brad's age and is secretly the object of Brad's hottest fantasies. The simple fact that Brad does not know how to swim leads to an unlikely friendship which will eventually turn into so much more for both men and change their lives forever.