Stories

A boy from an impoverished family tries to make Christmas special for his mother and sister. Without the means to make it happen on his own, he turns to Santa Claus for help.

Verse written for my husband in the 90s

written for Juan Ramírez de Lucas

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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.

Logan avoids Seth as he faces a truth about himself that he can no longer ignore.

It's Sword-toting masked man of mystery vs. Ninja in this story. Who is going to win in this epic war?

A thirty-six year-old man’s reconnection with his estranged family has an unexpected consequence.

Elijah sometimes feels as though he doesn't belong. He's still in the closet, and he is the only Jewish boy in the whole dorm. During the end of the school year, Elijah's friends make him feel included when they gift him a Jewish ornament, a menorah, to hang from the Christmas tree in the common room. When it goes missing overnight, the consequences threaten to spoil the holiday spirit for everyone. As Elijah pieces together what happened, he discovers more than one truth.

To remember the heroes of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New Your, New York. To them we owe our present.

The ex-gay movement has hit the headlines recently with the films The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Boy Erased, but what is it like to live by that belief, what price does it demand of an individual?

The story, in four chapters, set 1991, looks at how difficult it is to live a life denying your sexuality, and the cost the ex-gay life takes from a person.