Stories

Fourteen-year-old Simon is getting a haircut. He has choices: a crew cut or a mullet; to continue his isolation, or to murmur a personal 'open sesame.' Later, with a little help from his friends, he finds out he is not nearly as alone as he imagined. And he suddenly can face the prospects of a long summer and entering high school in the fall with hope.

Hunter and Ty escape to Vagas to connect away from their kids.

Another true story from one of my boys youth.

This planet should be paradise. No one in thousands of kilometers, just nature and my archaeological excavation, my own camp with all the latest technology... Yeah, paradise, if it wasn't for my inbuilt fag hag, Lisa, who is out to make my showers shorter by cutting the warm water... and the hunk that is stalking me... and don't forget the fundies in Shboa, who are out to get me.

This is a short story in two or three parts. Basil is an artist. A hermit. He's been hurt far too many times to count. Until he meets THE SWIMMER. An enigma that challenges his sanity.

A hopefully growing collection of my own poetry

Every so often, you meet someone who turns your world upside down, screwing with your psyche in ways you never thought could happen and giving your imagination those shockingly detailed images and thoughts that rattle your confidence in your own identity. That's what has happened to me with one particular co-worker. Chad is his name, and Jim is mine, thus you can begin to see what some might consider to be a problem in a mostly "straight" world. . . .

Another true tale from one of my boys youth.

Sometimes evil wears the garb of generosity and 'guidance,' and the young can sense this destructiveness around them. From ages ten to fourteen, Simon has his inherent goodness and resolve tested by the shady undercurrents within the small town where he is growing up. Will he come out on the other side of his adolescence as pure as he went into it? These five novellas will explore questions of faith and Simon's process of becoming a young man.

A couple of online friends have a falling-out; one of them caves and makes a drastic decision.