Stories

In this follow-up to Sparkling Combustion, Jeremy’s tale is told. In the aftermath of losing the object of his interest to another, Jeremy begins a slow decline. Now it is summer and Jeremy has become a social-recluse. He will have to face the past that haunts him if he is to recover, and if he is to let anyone in to see the person behind the confidence and apparent joy.

Note: This story, while a sequel to Sparkling Combustion, Can be read by itself with ease.

Gabriel is a remote, successful man and Sahyl is a warm loving person but they create explosions between the sheets. Too bad Gabriel has something against falling in love, and too bad Sahyl can't seem to make himself stop. So Sahyl does the logical thing, he breaks it off before he can get too hurt.

$20,000, 1 month, 1 lie.

Unrequited love is a bitch. Sucks you into a narrowly focused world and leaves you blind as a bat to other things...Well, that's what Benny suffers from...

A series of stories between main characters Richard and Simon.

When you need a loophole to do something, having a lawyer as a best friend certainly helps.

David 'Dai' Davies' funeral is unusual. It all seems to be connected with the strange boy in the courtyard, the boy that everyone strains to avoid, that the family spurn and everyone is whispering about. Who is he and what has he done to have everyone reject him so bitterly?

Sharon knew that Carl was in a bad relationship. She would stop at nothing to get him out.

A first boyfriend, loyal friends, a stepfather he could do without, the snakes, frogs and lizards that hang out with a nice guy who wants to be more than friends, and the return of his best friend, who was pulled into a strangers car when they were eight years old and disappeared. No one ever told Jesse that growing up would be easy. When it wasn’t, he was always confident that he could hold his own. But one situation after another reduces even the sturdiest parts of his world to pieces.

Ben is a short story spinoff of Circumnavigation, though it can be read alone.