Stories

After a huge row between his twin brother and their father, Russell’s mother sends him off to stay with her cousin in Europe, with no explanation. Reluctantly, the shy nineteen-year-old faces the issues which have kept him in his brother’s shadow for the past five years. It’s a twisted path of denial, anguish and unexpected joy, as Russell struggles to deal with long buried emotions and hopes.

What is the Barbed Wire Heart? Someone is responsible for the death of an innocent. They need to be brought to justice, but how? Join the hunt as those touched by the tragedy struggle to deal with life while the truth is obscured.

Shawn is disillusioned with life and harbors a deep hatred for everyone around him, including his mother. He even hates himself. Furthermore, he has Anthony, a "personal tormentor" of the past few years. He isn't sure why Anthony seemingly singles him out, but he doesn't care. It just makes it easier to hate him. A chance encounter, however, will show them that they have more in common than they realize.

Blake has decided to abandon his life in Sydney to work as a divemaster in a tiny tourist town in the remote Australian outback. Not so much a ‘decision’ as an act of desperation, the change proves more difficult than he hoped, as problems left behind end up following. Starting a new life won't be easy, but luckily there’s a gorgeous co-worker to distract him ...

You can't please everyone, and sometimes, you just have to settle for pleasing yourself. Matt is forced to accept this when he has to defend the life he realized he doesn't want to live without. The life that has been so carefully laid out for him for the last 17 years is changing, and Matt decides that it must be changing for the better if it includes Jacob, even if along with Jacob comes some hard decisions and some fights he didn't know he was quite ready to fight.

Ariel has been painfully shy his whole life. Being around cute boys turns him into a clumsy, nervous, wreck. And now that he knows the biggest crush of his life, Randy, has a boyfriend all his own...will he shy away from ever falling in love again? Or will one of Randy's closest friends, Tyler, end up being the angel he was looking for all along?

The Funny Thing Is, things always change when you get older. Cooper, Kyle, Spencer, and Sebastian are all older, but barely any wiser. When a blast from Cooper's past returns to threaten his status quo, how will react? How will he balance the quest for true love with his new status as a family man.
Contains spoilers for The List.

Sam searches for love and acceptance as he deals with the pressures of student life, a troubled family and his emerging confusion over his sexuality as he finds himself falling in love with his best friend.

OK,so I admit it. This time I went a little bit too far, come on! Why in the hell did he have to send me to Timbukf! Ok, so he's not sending me that far in reality, but Zenis Indiana? You've got to be kidding me!! What's there Chickens? Cows? Corn fields? What am I supposed to do there? That son of dad's friend better be hot!. AND GAY! I don't know which would be worse, the cows or GOING BACK to juvy!!!

The semi-autobiographical story of a straight college boy named Matt who realizes he's not so straight when he crosses paths with a gay high school boy named Parker...