Stories

Entry for the special anthology Secrets can Kill.


Pop star Little D has the career he's always dreamed of. The only thing missing is the man who made all this possible. Gus was once the name in the Martian music business. Now he's just a footnote. He lost everything in a tragic accident. He even lost a significant chunk of his memory and every day is a struggle for survival. Can his former lover restore what was lost?

Ryker thought he volunteered for an experiment that would help his government in a war against an alien planet. He didn't know he would become the experiment, or that he'd end up on a planet full of aliens that killed humans on sight. He wasn't exactly human anymore though.

Soulmate, noun, a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond.
Most people search their entire lives for theirs. Alex and Jeremy found theirs before they even knew what love and commitment is all about.

A werewolf called Rover, a cat who can fly (among other things) a confused vampire, a spiteful faery and a testy human all confined in the same house and trying to learn to live together. A strange mix and a strange story.

A freak attack forces Xander's family to relocate from their home in Ohio to Vermont. Once there, he runs into Bates, not the nicest guy on the block. Unbeknownst to the 13 year-old, Xander becomes Bates's primary target.

Morgan Bentley is a bastard. Matthew hates him. Cory is Matthew's best friend but too close to see. When Cory gets an internship at Morgan's father's company things begin to get complicated and then they get dangerous.

Jonas takes a chance and tells his father his secret and ends up tossed out of his house. Throwing his chances to the wind he takes a wild new job and might just end up with a fantasy lover.

Ash has a gaping chasm inside that can only be filled by one man. Unfortunately that man is his art teacher. Josh is falling hard for his gifted but troubled student but is too professional to ever act on it. It's an impossible situation.

Sometimes, life just sucks. Jared Warren knows this better than anyone. His 'loving' marriage has had thirteen long, long years to explain it to him. In detail. But when the choice between an experimental life-saving procedure and dying comes up, he doesn't hesitate. After all, he has to protect his kids!

Zane is having problems. He's on the outside looking in when deep shit is going down. Fortunately his friend lets him in but it's a while before he realised that something is not right; because there are not footprints in the dust.