Stories

Our dog Molly, with guest appearances by Rocky, her boon companion, and Fluffy, her mentor.

What if you were a witness to a crime, but didn't know it? Once the crime is solved, does what you know matter? If you put a period at the end of the sentence, does that give you a final answer?

A sixteen year old looking for a quiet place finds more than he bargained for.

As Caden and Hunter are well aware, you've got to take your opportunities whenever you can find them. On a random, lazy, weekend afternoon...a new chance to get together pops up.

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy.

Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

I am sure many of you, like me, learned this children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen predicts whether you will have good or bad luck. Something I came across subsequently, was the existence of many variations on this rhyme, some more sinister than the children’s version.

One of those is incorporated into this short story about boyhood abuse.

Martin Pop is the vein of magic people who show up, fix the problems a family is experiencing and then leaves. He is a creature of magic like Mary Poppins or Nanny McPhee. Where he goes healing, love, and happiness is bound to follow. Martin, unlike the others, finds himself working in the United States rather than England or Australia, because unfortunately Americans need that type of magic more right now. What happens when this magic man is called to aid an injured soldier and his poor nephew? 

Written for the 2018 Fall Anthology - Fight Back and/or Good Intentions

Dave Harrison is late for work, again. Turns out, that's by far the least of his worries.

2006 Fall Anthology

George decides to respond to the second email he receives from jebanke69.

A twenty year old cheats on his boyfriend only to find the man has a sexual disease. Scared he will give this to his boyfriend and get dumped, he goes to seek advice from his boyfriends ex who has now become a woman.