Stories

When Sam comes home from a business trip and finds the house half-empty, he is forced to face the truth he ignored for too long.

Prompt

“Hey, we never met but our showers are on opposite sides of the same apartment wall. Sometimes we shower at the same time and sing duets.”

Time to tell my own story.

What is Shawn to do when the man that he had loved since the beginning of his life was the man that he could not express his love for? What is Sam to feel when he stood behind the love of his life as the bestman instead of before, in his rightful place, as the groom? What are they to do when the love they share simply isn't practical because they are brothers? [Part of 'Tales of Love, Tales of Woe' short story collection]

Twelve-year-old Carson catches his fifteen-year-old brother, Logan at a pivotal moment with a gun in his hand and learns about a secret he has been keeping for months.

Matthew has lost the most important person in his world.

Why is this the moment when his estranged mother decides to walk back into his life? Why can't this be a happy moment?

Simon has been beaten down all his life. Finally he has had enough. Determined to take his life, he tries to drown himself. When he is saved by a young man, he begins to learn his life might have a happy ending after all. But no one ever promised life would be easy even with help.

What is existence? What makes it valuable? Having everything? Feeling everything? Knowing yourself?

Facing the past can be painful. A poem.

A novel in twelve chapters.

Summer 2020, and the inhabitants of the Italian mountain town of Ravello are making up for lost time after three months stuck at home. Families are celebrating being reunited at last, and the appetite for romance has never been higher.

However, two teenage boys are navigating this unusual summer alone. Cosmo, a lost soul, and Marco, a recently found soul, find their lives entwined by the fact that everybody seems to have a boyfriend except them. Both of them have experienced pain and neglect in the past; but can they both overcome it to find fulfilment in the present?