Stories

Growing up gay and OUT in Mississippi in the 70s was unheard of. Well, I had no choice about the out part, and it sucked balls. This isn't a happy happy, joy joy story. This is where my nightmares come from.

Earth-shattering events are few and far between, but when they come, they have lingering effects.

Two teenage boys were swept up by the winds of change, and punished for it. A firebrand reformer enlists the help of a reluctant correspondent, and both unwittingly help a department store man come up with a durable innovation to bring a little joy into people's lives.

Plumber’s apprentice Andrew Richardson finds himself in an unlikely battle of wits with a pretentious American pop star visiting London for the Brit Awards. The singer is unhappy because there’s no heating, but the boiler needs replacing and on Sundays, Andy goes to church.

A Searcher is an instrument, yet he is a man too, needing time to rest and indulge in clearing his mind. His God however, has different plans, and The Searcher is in no position to refuse ...

What happens if the mind is unwilling, yet the heart is open to the possibility of "What if?" What if one learns to give in to his fears, to his doubts, only to see that it is simply a step to knowing what love really means? This is a story of man, whose past and present collide, the power of his regrets and forgiveness, and his dreams of a life he hoped to have had, would only give him the courage to ask himself a question that opens the one truth that most of us do not ask...

Don is a sports enthusiast and writer who is married to Louis. They've had many happy years together until an accident changes that. It changes everything.

November 1843 to February 1844. In probably the greatest same-sex love story ever told, one man's soul is redeemed by an act of self-sacrificing love, while all the rest are damned by a single man's hate.

Elsie breaks her vow. She promised to never love him, but fell for the man she married.

We all hurt. It seems the only cure is being willing to see things through the eyes of others.

The store's display department is incredibly busy. One young man's strained relationship with his boss is complicated by the arrival of an outsider from Hollywood, and a young woman he meets by chance.

The South Pacific, 1842. These are powder-keg times, and in the midst of French Imperial gun boat diplomacy, Redburn has had enough of the sea. He draws a reluctant Toby into an adventure, and in the process loses something more valuable to him than his own life.