Stories

Noah Lindholm and Jackson Lemaire have spent six years trying to beat each other during hockey games. Now they're expected to play on the same line for the Philadelphia Bobcats, and neither is happy about it.

At first, everything is a battle: practices, power plays, stubborn personalities and a locker room determined to tease them into getting along. But somewhere between a children's hospital visit, team barbecues, delayed flights and countless hours on the ice, rivalry gives way to something quieter. Neither notices that conversations last longer, silences grow easier, or that they're becoming each other's first choice for company.

When Jamie and Connor find themselves stranded on a deserted island, they have to learn to put their rivalry aside and work together to overcome the challenges of the island and the primal urges of being young, red-blooded American men. Hate, lust, danger, and survival come together to forge a relationship that just might save their young lives.

Elliot Reyes and Theo Marchetti can't stand each other, apparently. Then, one ordinary Thursday night, in a London office tower that's emptied out for the evening, the power goes, and the only two people left in the building find themselves trapped in a stalled lift between the eighth and ninth floors, in the dark, for hours. Just two men, one torch, and the slow, terrifying business of being seen.

In a salt-worn coastal town, Elias Voss has built a life of routine and uncomplicated arrangements. His closest bond is with Camille Leclair, whom he once dated and now calls his best friend.

But when Camille's estranged son, Rowan, is forced to move to Wrenhaven after his father's death, what arrives is not a young man but a lit fuse: beautiful, furious, and sharp. What begins as mutual hostility between the two men slowly turns into something neither of them can avoid: a consuming, intense, secret love affair.

Wrenhaven is a story about desire, lust, and a town too small to keep secrets and too proud to forgive them.

In a quiet West Hollywood restaurant, a broke waiter and a reclusive world-famous actor unexpectedly connect. Their guardedness and loneliness meet, launching a story not just of falling in love, but of a connection tested by time.

He woke up in the wreckage of an accident, with no name, no past and no one looking for him. As his recovery begins-body broken, memory gone, something in him doesn't feel lost... just hidden, if he could only remember. Placed into foster care under a name he didn't choose, he must rebuild a life from ash and shadow while the echoes of who he was begin to surface. Because sometimes, the past can't forget you even if it's Encrypted.

Sometimes life just doesn't fit neatly within the lines. Having grown up in foster care from age 5 to 14, tattoo artist Sevastyanov Diaz knows that well. Fortunately, family can be found when you least expect it to grow beyond tragedy. After he loses his foster sister, Ava Diaz, and is left to raise her daughter with the help of her ex-boyfriend, Aiden Ward, life takes on new twists and turns, including new discoveries about a man Sev thought he knew everything about. But broken crayons still color, and if people are meant to be together, they always find a way.

Tyler Scott can't wait to start his senior year. An agreement with his dad means he needs to get an A in Advanced Calculus. That might be an unachievable task as his math teacher takes pride in never giving out A's. And he might have to do one little thing that could be considered gay to fulfill a bet he lost to his best friend, Devin. As a result, Tyler begins to question his sexuality. The only person he can turn to for advice is Brandon Myers, an old friend he hasn't spoken to in three years since the boy came out freshmen year. Can Brandon help him comes to terms before Tyler's life falls apart?

After a long period of emotional distance and self-reflection, Jim, a middle-aged man recovering from a divorce, is learning how to navigate life and fatherhood. When he meets Jon, a younger, confident man with whom he shares a mutual interest in fitness and running, Jim feels a spark he hasn’t felt in years. What begins as a casual friendship soon develops into something more, but Jim’s hesitations and fears about his age, his past, and his responsibilities as a father complicate his emotions.

Michael Evans destroyed lives. He shattered trust and never once owned up to his wrongs. Instead, he chose to run, believing that escaping was the solution. But the past doesn’t stay buried, no matter how far you run—it always finds a way to resurface, and when it does, it’s far more unforgiving. This is a continuation of the story, Straightening Affairs from Michael Evans point-of-view.