Stories

A new collection of prompts and shorts.

How do you navigate jealousy in your relationship? It can emerge at the most unexpected times, over the most unexpected people. For David, it's not something for which he was ever prepared.

Rich needs a loan. So he really shouldn't slip into inappropriate behavior toward his loan officer.

This is an odd little story adapted from an idea for a collaboration a long time ago. It changes points of view and goes from first person to third, although not within the same chapter...I think. The name comes from a 'saying' or 'colloquialism' that equates everything being jake; to everything being fine or good, which in the end it is. Or is it?

In another world, legends merge with reality.

Sam's family lives in an isolated religious community, and Sam has a secret he can't tell them.

Between the dreams, the sleep deprivation, and the hallucinations, teenage loner Casey is left wondering if he really is going crazy.

Welcome to Part 2 of my "Pleasant View" gay erotic soap and mystery series,"The Mystery in the Mansion." Please be sure if you haven't already to read Part 1, "Officer Jack Albertson" first. In this part of the series, as their romance continues, Jack and Brad help Miz Vivian deal with a ghostly mystery in her sprawling old mansion and encounter plenty real danger in the process.

This was an amusing project Skinnydragon and I started almost a year ago. In it, characters from two of our stories spent a day together. Skinny asked me to complete the story, but it has taken me a long time to do so.

Peter Morticelli finds himself thrust into a ghoulish mystery, along with the rest of his small town. Strange sightings and happenings are leaving many to beg the question: is somebody tampering with the spirits of the dead? While a mystery is afoot, Peter is more interested in solving the mystery of Simon Chernosky, an unfriendly loner at his school.