Stories

Side Salad 4 of the Catering With Benefits series.

What happened when Juanito's cousin came to visit.

Matt and Jeff have volunteered to help out at the school Fair For Life. As usual with his boyfriend, there's a small catch involved, and Matt has let Jeff talk him into accepting it. That he might regret it is almost certain!

A short story written seven years ago, one of the first I ever posted anywhere.

Love continues to grow between these two young boys as they strive to fulfill Jake’s dream of marrying Danny, the love of his life, and they learn that it takes more than innocent love to make a relationship work.

A story set in the Charlie Boone universe.

When not being a part of Charlie’s own adventures, Pacha, Mike, Bobby, and Kontus are off on quests of their own. The scholarly Pacha’ka is a wonder at deciphering the clues that lead to the hidden remains of long-vanished galactic civilizations. Mike, Bobby, and their Trichani friend, Kontus, love being a part of those explorations.

This time, the four are on the trail of a lost place of the ancient Hartonin. They set out to follow those clues, and quickly find themselves off on a totally unexpected chase across time, involving the most interesting artifact they have encountered yet!

Tired of the parents ruling over him, judging every decision, making him pay for his mistakes with their never ending list of demands. Daniel decides to make a change, it may hurt, more than himself even, but to be truly free is worth it all.

Charlie and his friends have gotten their business, Third Planet Inquiries, rolling. After a slow start, job inquiries have been coming in, and they have launched into solving unusual mysteries all over the planet and beyond. So when a man contacts them about investigating a house that refuses to be renovated, the guys are off on another adventure that will take them to the ends of the earth, and more!

This is part 4 of “Catering With Benefits” - in the Appetites series.

Our favourite characters are living in the time of the pandemic, but don’t let that stop them from getting on with life.

The Flinders Street complex housing Poppy’s, Deans’s Bar, Divas and Dare to Bare, is closed due to the statewide lockdown.

On the other side of town the younger generation are coming of age and stepping out to discover what life has to offer.

Michael (Mac) and Devin are now sophomores (2^nd year) at college, and Michael is looking at things with different eyes, since he is also a skinwalker now. This doesn’t merely mean through the eyes of the animals and others he transitions into, but in general he now looks at situations differently, since he has this new ability, but will it change him?

Wesley Cain is a young and vibrant man in his twenties, he was making his way up in the points at the rodeo. Then his Grandparents died, leaving him their ranch and his younger brother Joseph to watch over. He took his responsibility for his younger brother seriously. The two boys had lost their parents when Wes was a teenager. With his Grandparents gone and no-one to look after his brother or the ranch, he quit the rodeo, and moved back home.

Andy and Donnie have been friends since the beginning, growing up in the same neighborhood, sharing the same friends, and now playing football on the same team in middle school. They’ve been inseparable throughout it all; but now a new line has been inserted in the equation that is their lives, one they have to learn to deal with, or face having their friendship perish:

Love.