Stories

A Period Drama set in Africa at a time when the British Empire is at its height in developing the colonies and follows a young man's adventure in life, love and growing up in a wild, volatile and often dangerous environment.

It's a hot summer day, the type we remember from our youth, and Naomi has let her coworker lead her to places she normally does not venture. Let's tag along for fun.

Book ONE of the Boy’s Trilogy. Peter, the quiet, scholarly, marching band member, and Tom, the outgoing, popular, athlete, have a chance meeting. Outwardly so different, inwardly so much the same. They develop a strong relationship but being the 1950s they hide their true feelings from friends and family. From high school to university to graduate school to professions their love grows while having numerous adventures. In Chapter 36 they meet Vladek whose coming of age story is in the book – Russia My Home.

Emeric's life sucks; he's unhappy, drifting, lonely and sad. Things go from bad to crazy with the opening of a set of secrets that no one could have prepared him for. He quickly wonders whom he can trust, who is working for 'them,' and why this misfortune fell upon his shoulders in the first place. A twisting thread through history pulls him tighter and tighter, and eventually, either he or the binding may snap.

Do you believe in love at first sight?

A teen boy and his Gay best friend spot a girl in the Agora one day, and the auburn youth falls head over heels -- much to his friend's surprise. A week later, the boy has a plan to meet her and sets it into action.

**This is an extended preview of my long poem on a classic subject. There are ten Parts to Hymenaios, or the Marriage of the God of Marriage, and this is the entirety of Part II. Please enjoy while I continue to prepare the other Parts for posting.**

This What are you to do when the world begins to shift right beneath your feet?

Michael accepted the coveted Stewardship of Nothernlands because it was a prestige beyond his dreams, no other altruistic reasons. His job was to make wealth for the Duchy and keep it coming.

What he did not expect was having to put together the shattered lonely heart of a Duke and keep it safe from everything destiny could throw at them.

Can he and his Duke keep the most powerful kingdom in their world from falling apart from the storm of vengeance, deceit and greed that was brewing in the horizon?

In most of the northern hemisphere, today is the darkest, longest night of the year; the Winter Solstice. Not where I am, however. Today is just as dark as yesterday, and the day before that, and it will be just as dark tomorrow.

Various one shots that are random pairings for the hell of it

This is the third short story of a series that began with A Valentine In November and Barbara Fleurnois.

After betraying his lover, Samuel is determined to make things right, no matter what the cost. They flee Oscar's captors, only to be confronted by the very truth that put them in their predicament in the first place.