Stories

A short story inspired by Prompt 709.

A detective is woken from his bed in the middle of the night.

Short mystery that is the prequel to the upcoming novel "So Weeps the Willow"

Short stories of Joel and Lucas, perhaps from prompts or simpy when my muse whispers seductively in my ear...

After walking out on Kyle Blackner two years before, Jared Maloney walks back into Kyle's life unexpectedly. Turns out Kyle isn't the only one harboring resentment towards the man who walked out on him with no explanation. A series of attacks designed to keep them apart manage to bring them back together. Can Kyle and Jared rebuild the life they once shared or will the psycho after Jared succeed in keeping them apart for all of eternity.

It was a very restless time for the boys in New York City. Forced indoors by the pandemic, the school year was coming to a close in name only, as much felt left undone in the paradigm of remote learning. Then on Memorial Day, a black man in Minneapolis was lynched by a white police officer who strangled the man with his knee, touching off a firestorm of pent-up rage. Naturally the boys had to get involved in the protests. They had to, but then one of their own fell victim to police use of excessive force

He was just another kid on the street, a kid that had nothing left--no home, no future, no hope. He was my past. And I was going to become his future.

The Waldron police -- Chief Owen Neland, Lt. Ike Omari, Detectives Elena Petrakis and Don Burris, and Sgts. Jae Ryu and Rob Perez -- are on another case. But this time, it's their own

It took the murder of eleven perpetrators of corrective rape or murderers of township lesbians before the police made a connection. Was there really a connection or was it sheer unconnected coincidence? In addition what if anything had the execution style murder of young Ian Robertson and his gay lover three years before have to do with all this?

Josh lives a shy and quiet life, but meets someone who makes him want more. Can two very different men make this work?

Meeting your man and getting him - then it's happily ever after, right?

For Joel and Lucas, life takes another turn. Where will that leave them?