Stories

Kenneth Hall, Det. NYPD, and his best friend from his boyhood, are on opposite sides of the law. His friend, Joe Vincente, is a mob boss.

I was fourteen years old for six hundred years. I'm ninety-five now.

Matthew, my companion, my lover, my life, lies in the hospital bed next to mine. His breathing is shallow. I am worried. It was my turn to die first this time.

Before Matthew, there was another …

After a strange anticlimactic kidnapping, Axel Graysen is pulled into the tumultuous world of the Wook Family. Axel treats Jeha Wook’s gunshot wound and ends up treating the oddly large team of brothers who work for Jeha. The problem is that Jeha’s people seem like delinquents, and Jeha is the largest delinquent. Axel worries about keeping the man he likes from getting hurt again.

Murder On The Hudson is the first novella of a series of mystery stories about Kenneth Hall, a New York City detective. This one is an homage to Agatha Christie, with an eye to Ten Little Indians

A collection of randomly inspired stories. The concepts can come from anywhere, and they have no correlation or connection to each other. Genres and themes will be arbitrary, characters may or may not come from my other stories, and chapter posting will happen at any time.

In other words, a story dump. Enjoy!

Short things ...

Sammy is working their shift at the charity call centre when they starts speaking with a frequent caller called Tom, a vulnerable teenager, someone they try to help.

It is January 2004 and the United States and its “allies” have just completed the successful invasion of Iraq and Saddam Hussein has been captured. US Presidential Elections are on the horizon. Howard Dean is the frontrunner to be the Democratic candidate to take on George W. Bush.

These events weigh lightly on the mind of Will Schluter. He just graduated from high school a semester early and is looking forward to spending the next eight months in the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure and mind broadening experiences.

Neither Will nor his country had any idea about the challenges that lurked ahead.

For the past five years the Galactic Alliance has been fighting to repel an invasion by a relentless enemy. Now it is time to go on the offensive to kick the invaders out of the galaxy

Ryan is fourteen, soon to be fifteen. He hasn't had a very happy life and now events bring things to a head.

Can he pick up the pieces or will they remain shattered?