Stories

Dan has a problem. Or rather, many problems which combine to form one big... how do you call it, a conundrum? Unlike a lot of people though, he already knows what it will take to confront the conundrum and he sets out, on paper, how to do exactly that. In this coming out/coming of age story set in modern UK, I challenged the fundamental building blocks of a writer's craft. Dan's Conundrum is a commentary on what we write, why we write, and why we write the things we write.

After losing his mother at sea, teenage sailor Trevor Carlson pours himself into running the Atlantis while navigating grief, family pressure, and a guarded love life. As his world expands from school and friendship into romance and dangerous adult secrets, a high-stakes chain of criminal conspiracies and deadly threats forces him into a long voyage toward truth, survival, and hard-won freedom.

Facing a life-changing medical procedure, 14 year old Shay approaches it with the same detachment, confusion and dread that has haunted his emotions for as long as he can recall. Yet what follows instead is something that he could not have anticipated in his craziest dreams, and everything he knows is about to change forever.

Jordan Bricks has just been involved in a serious accident. Pulled from the wreckage and rushed to the hospital...he was clinically dead...for six minutes. After being revived by doctors, Jordan is thankful to be alive. But it appears that death has not relinquished its hold on him just yet. Are they illusions, these horrible things he sees lurking in the shadows? Or is the truth about what happens to us after we die...more terrifying than we ever could have imagined?

Follow Jacob into the world of The Botherhood and discover along with him not all is what it seems...

Running from a World that fears him A young teen learns the truth about the War that looms in the future

Lem and Mattie have been best friends, and neighbors, since they were little. Both raised on Montana ranches, they grew up in a world of 4H and Rodeo, but Lem finds himself insatiably attracted to Jeff, an older boy that just moved in.

Lem soon after discovers that he is also the object of his best friend's desires. It's a truth that blows up in both Mattie and Lem's faces, as Mattie finds himself seriously depressed, and Lem finds himself lost without his best friend.

Elijah's clever and Elijah's hot. Elijah thinks he's got it all figured out. Follow his life in the build-up to university--in which he discovers that, actually, he hasn't got a clue.

The story of Elliott Carter, a young teen who has plenty of stamps in his passport, but few friends to show for it!

Derek is the perfect boy.

His school is perfect. His family is perfect. Everything in his life is perfect.

Everything except Charlie.