Stories

A response to Prompt #68:

Imagine where your character leads a pretty decent single life. Then there is a phone call and that life is turned upside down as they find out, they have just become a parent—to a teenager. Is this a cousin that has been left with no other family members? A god child? A niece or nephew? What is this first meeting between them going to be like?

The circumstances whereby Manny obtains guardianship are a little strange, to say the least. Not to mention what happens afterward.

To have someone to love is one of life’s greatest gifts, his grandma used to say. However, what grandma didn’t know, and Otis didn’t have the heart to tell her, was that getting there in this day and age required going through a painful phase called dating. Something he’s not very good at, to put it lightly. However, when someone moves in an apartment a few doors down from his, Otis begins to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.

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We follow Ken, Joe, Tom and George as they take a long awaited vaction. They decide to go to South Beach.

Being the oldest and growing up in a large family can be hard, especially when you are gay and the family is extremely homophobic. You are constantly being compared to your deceased father. A man whose stature and deeds are always increasing, as time goes by, and are held up as your goals. Anytime you reach those goals, your mother moves the goalpost further away.

You never seem to measure up. You are always being told that you are worthless and will never amount to anything since you cannot measure up to your father. It never mattered that you were a straight "A" student and that you were an athlete.

We follow Ken and family, as Ken receives a letter concerning something that happened whilst at University.

Once upon a time, in a little town called Dog's Creek, there was a boy named Adam...

Dallen's interest in nature and American Indian culture leads him on a series of adventures that will change his life forever.

An unnamed narrator recounts his first sexual encounter with an unlikely college classmate.

We follow Tom and George Vincente-Hall as they start at Binghampton University.

Mateo is a handsome young man who is living a life that many would kill to have. He's got it all, beauty, brains and money. But... he is a mistress (Paramour) of a billionaire closeted married man, Henry Jackson who is possessive of him and treats him like his property. Problems emerge when jealousy, feelings and an unforeseen danger threatens to destroy his life. Will he ever escape from his situation or is he in too deep?