Stories

A lot can occur in a single day, and this day starts with Virgil Pruitt riding into a sad, struggling Texas town seven years after the end of the Mexican-American War. Sometimes it's not easy to be a good man, one who calls out unfair hate when he sees it, but Virgil doesn't always look for easy. Will he pay the price for being such a man, or will he be rewarded for standing up for young Wyatt Burnham?

Vanus Kaufman has diamond eyes; everyone thinks he's a daemon. Three days before he is to turn eighteen and leave the orphanage, he discovers he is the heir to a powerful dynasty. In the blink of an eye, he finds himself surrounded by wealth, fame, and power beyond anything he could imagine. But even for a powerful magician the city of Vaylin is a dangerous and corrupt place. If Vanus wants to keep what is his, he will have to fight for it.

My first novel, previously published in Dutch but now translated.

It is the story of three gay travellers in Scotland, immediately after the Great War.

It is about double discrimination, about flowering and gradually subsiding love, of exploitation of tenants by the local gentry and of over-zealous clerics, but also about the development into adulthood against the background of a slowly changing society.

A light-hearted novella in seven short chapters.

Sixteen-year-old Reza thinks he knows it all until his parents drag him away on a summer holiday to Ravello on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where a chance encounter by the hotel pool proves to be an education…

Terry Young has just been appointed as chief projectionist in a run-down old cinema. But from day one he has problems. Resentment from the man who thinks he should have got the job. An undeniable attraction toward his general manager, Dan. And the re-awakening of psychic abilities indicating something is hidden under the building.

This story is set in 2005, modern enough for there to be mobile phones and Internet access, but still within the timeframe when cinemas like the Regal, with a crew of projectionists running film still existed.

After the untimely death of Lothar, his father, the young King Adalbert receives an ultimatum from his enemies.

Nick is a bisexual man who is enjoying a 'friends with benefits' situation with a Jenny, but when she gets him to help her and her younger brother move out of the house for the very first time to go to college, they take a road trip that has him experiencing feelings that he was never able to act on before. Her brother, Maddox, is beautiful, both inside and out...and may be hiding a few secrets of his very own!

In a torn Jerusalem a young Israeli Army doctor falls in love with a Palestinian boy. My God, where does this lead to? Or would it turn out to be just fine, Inshallah?

Ridley wants a lot of things. To be left alone, for people to forget a stupid nickname, and for time to stop and rewind two years. What he doesn't want is to be featured in the school paper.

A young boy struggles his arduous way towards maturity in a small rural town, encountering uncertainties, fears, doubts and many questions, making him almost succumb to all the pressures. When a new lawyer comes into town, his life is shaken up with possible changes on a far horizon.

My first contribution to GayAuthors.org. I hope you guys like it