Stories

Friends become closer when they take a Wilderness Survival test.

Following a brutal murder of his parents, a young boy named Angelo is left alone to fend for himself. Molded into a man with bitter man who runs an empire with an iron fist, Angelo trusts only his husband, Gabriel and best friend, Jack. But as Angelo enters a world of liars and backstabbers, he will learn that a whole lot of danger still lurks in the dark. When loyalties shift in a second, and evil hides behind a smile, Angelo will need all the help he can get from reliable allies and thrive like a wildflower in order to survive.

Kieran and his friends, returned from the Realms, face troubles of a human kind.

Why research can make a difference to your story.

1845. In the spring Redburn leaves Peru for New York on a warship. He has nothing, and feels like a failure. Worst of all is the loss he leaves behind him in the Pacific – his husband is dead, and Toby is lost and presumably long buried. What awaits him in the fall when he arrives back 'home,' to a place he has not been for four years? There he must consider what his brother wants for him, against how Redburn might honor the noblest sacrifices of the men who love him have made.

Death is manifested by human actions, beyond the limits of right and wrong. All choices lead to death, but how you arrive is where the story will take you.

Rodel was kicked out of his home when he was sixteen. He endured everything to survive, including joining the army. But surviving is not living, and Rodel must confront the animal spirits waging the eternal battle of hunter and prey, of life and death, of victim and hero, all to save himself and those he loves.

This story was written as part of the Idioms Are Real! Challenge. After being given the idiom "when pigs fly" I read a piece about Dungeons & Dragons in one of the forums and this story was born.

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