Stories

Following the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Robbie is forced to move from England to start a new life living with his uncle’s family in Canada. Homesick, confused, and missing his close friend, it soon becomes apparent that Robbie is carrying a lot more baggage than he arrived with.

On the edge of adulthood, Noah Jacobs carries the weight of two absences— a father who died before he took his first breath, and a mother who chose to leave. With high school behind him, he intends to spend the summer alone in the quiet refuge of his father’s old room. But life has other plans, and an unexpected arrival soon alters the course of his grief, his future, and his heart.

The past has a way of catching up with you and it can turn your life upside down. When you haven't faced things completely, but hover in between, it is easy to fall into a complex of lies and half truths.

You may think you know what you want, but life has a habit of throwing a curve ball. Will Alex and Matty come through unscathed or will events prove to be overwhelming?

Whatever the outcome there will always be a sense of doubt.

In a salt-worn coastal town, Elias Voss has built a life of routine and uncomplicated arrangements. His closest bond is with Camille Leclair, whom he once dated and now calls his best friend.

But when Camille's estranged son, Rowan, is forced to move to Wrenhaven after his father's death, what arrives is not a young man but a lit fuse: beautiful, furious, and sharp. What begins as mutual hostility between the two men slowly turns into something neither of them can avoid: a consuming, intense, secret love affair.

Wrenhaven is a story about desire, lust, and a town too small to keep secrets and too proud to forgive them.

I thought this trip to a luxury resort with my five rich, straight high school friends after our first year at college was a rare chance to finally be included. Turns out, they had something very different in mind—and I was about to find out just how far they'd go when there were no girls... and no rules.

This “book” contains a few short stories with a common thread. I did indeed work in a grocery store, and had the occasional sexual fantasy about a co-worker. Most of these are almost completely fiction other than the idea be hind each one.

They are pretty much as they were first published on nifty. There may be some minor enhancements as I tweak them for posting here. We’ll see. Filling in ideas has gotten a little tough for me lately, but I wanted to continue to share, so I give you ‘Grocery Store Fantasies.’

They meet at a diner that serves bad coffee and better silence. Two strangers orbiting the same sleepless hours, held together by routine and maybe something more. Jamie draws to breathe. Luca edits video to fill the hours. Neither of them means to start unraveling, but in the late-night hush between classes and expectations, something begins. A glance. A conversation. A quiet they both understand. This isn’t love. Not yet. It’s just maybe. And sometimes, maybe is the loudest thing in the world.

Wayne Benson is an engineer in the small town of Rosewood, Kentucky in the year 1993. Odd things begin to happen that eventually propel him and others into a fight for their lives. This story is told purely from his perspective through his journal entries.

🍎 William-Decker Irving is a country boy from the South. He was happy, free, innocent, and the son & heir to his family’s successful Apple Orchard business. The country life is all he ever knew. That’s all he ever was. But, when he is forced to move, up North, into a busy suburban town & attend public school for the very first time, being a homeschooled boy with little to no social skills or knowledge of the modern world, he faces new experiences, challenges, & meets people that he will never forget for the rest of his life.

Nathan Harris is an angry loner, who just wants to be left alone, until an interaction with Corey Andrews leads them both alone together in school suspension. The two soon learn they have more in common then either of them realized.