Stories

Ken Lawson is a Marine who has come to terms with being gay and serving his country. He has even formed a relationship with his former superior officer's husband's best friend since being stationed in California.

Out of the blue Ken receives a letter from the Department of Family Services in Maryland. Ken worries about how this will affect his relationship with Alex who told him at the beginning of their relationship he did not want any kids in their relationship.

The impact of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 was felt around the world, but in few places more than in New York City. Not only is New York home to the second-largest Jewish population in the world, but it’s home to peoples of many cultures, including a large Arab American population. In my New York Stories, New York Holidays and New York Anthologies series, I’ve introduced characters who might well have been in Israel at the time of the attack. October Fire is a 6-part story about Jewish and Palestinian New Yorkers who persevered in the face of hate.

Two for One

Book 2 The continuing story of Marc Alexander and friends as he navigates life in the family corporation, training, politics, lovers, mining, meetings and pirates. Helping people along the way as he starts his fledgling mining company. More problems than answers that can be easily attained.

This story is a prequel and sequel to my previous story, ‘The Boy on the Porch.’ While that was mostly Brendan’s point of view, this will be from the members of the Taft family's perspectives. It will cover things that happened before Nick was kicked out of his house, hit the necessary high points of what was covered in the first story, then continue on with their later lives, expanding on their pieces of the epilogue contained therein. I initially envisioned it to be Nick's story, but quickly determined it would be fairly short, so they all get some attention.

Tyler and Jacob were the best of friends, until a misunderstanding tore them apart. After Jacob's revenge, the boy he hurt the most becomes his strongest supporter in an attempt to undo the mistake that caused the whole incident to begin with.

This story is about the mistakes people make in the heat of anger, and the love that will stop at nothing to save them from it, and the overall consequences that follow. Join Tyler as he becomes Jacob's Advocate.

Benjamin is aging out of the foster care system, with no family and no home he strikes to move out on his own. he strikes an unlikely friendship with Josh. Can Benjamin learn to trust, learn to love, and can Josh break through the trauma and distrust and work together towards salvaging their road to redemption

My name is Todd. As a college dropout with a minimum-wage job, I just live in the moment with aspirations of becoming an artist one day. That was until Barrett, my older brother's sexy best friend and a paramedic, walks into a gay bar I frequent. And guess what, he's also a homophobe who crushed my interest in him during my teen years. What's he doing here? And I keep seeing him. At my job, at my dad's cookout, and at the bar again. No way is he going to convince me that he's a better man now who can steal my heart away...and possibly break it in return.

In the aftermath of losing his beloved husband Ethan, Jeremy has become a heartless business tycoon devoid of love and warmth. But when fate introduces Carter, a mysterious stranger, into Jeremy's life, a whirlwind of mystery, drama, and romance ensues. As secrets unravel and passions ignite, will Jeremy be forced to confront his past and rediscover the true meaning of love? Will he get a second chance at love or is his heart frozen forever?

A recent college graduate has a painful coming out to his family but gets a surprising response from his father.

Follow the story of Marc Alexander of Alexander Industrials. Citizen of the Westward Confederation as he navigates a teenager's life hardships, family legends and corporation responsibilities, relationships, dangers and adventures. Legends and pirates be damned.