Stories

Little side stories from the EPIC-verse

When Gerard is eight, he starts getting hurt without getting injured, and it doesn't take long for him to realise that he's experiencing someone else's pain. But when Gerard falls from his bike and ends up losing his foot, he dreams of flying through the countryside on a big red horse, and his whole life becomes about the desire to feel just as complete as he does when he's asleep.

Renard has always had the perfect plan: graduate from college and go to Brighton Uni with his best friend, learn, drink, discuss literature, and dance with all the pretty boys in England's gayest city. But when Darren decides to go North instead, and Ren finds out that he and uni life don't actually get on, he starts dreaming about cowboys. Is there a cowboy out there for Ren, and does he have the guts to try and find him?

When people come into the tattoo studio and don't really know what they want or why, there are generally only two outcomes, and Canaan is prepared for both of them. What he's not prepared for is the boy with the virgin skin and the big doe eyes...

Cyan is afriad of boys, especially beautiful boys. When he met the beautiful boy on the bus he really shouldn't have looked and when he bumped into him in the club he should have walked away

Josh and Mark were boyfriends until Josh caught Mark kissing Roger. The whole thing explodes and Josh tries to pick up the pieces.

A man who feels invisible finds out he's important to someone.

Deputy Sheriff Blake Alston is driving around a nothin' town on a Saturday night and sick of going back to an empty house and cold bed. But Axel Carmichael seems to have a talent for being in the right place at the right time. Blake isn't ready to have his heart broken again, but even with the fact that Axel is seven years his junior and in love with someone else, he can't quite get the young man out of his head.

Ian has never fit in. His personality leaves people cold. Tired of the club scene and one-night stands, he goes in search of something real and finds someone he never expected in a place he never would've looked.

Part III of "All We Have Now"