Stories

Something I wrote a while ago (of course). It is based loosely on something that actually happened. An awkward moment in time. The sort of thing that can have in impact for years though you may not know it at the time.

How can one minute change you life ?

Two college men who have volunteered to tutor black kids for the 1969 summer in the South grow more and more attracted to one another. But the summer ends before they realize the full extent of their love for one another, and they go separate ways—one to get married and have children, the other to join the military and go to Vietnam.

Jake’s Side is a continuation of Jake's Hand, which looks at the same story from Jake’s point of view.

This is the story of two high-schoolers in the mid-70s growing closer and learning about life and love in rural Ohio. All songs and key phrases are linked to a video.

Four Days that changed a teenagers life

I'd crushed on other guys before, my cousin Jericho was my first experience with pure, unadulterated love.

Jimbo is serving his final year as a counselor at Camp Falls. He has just graduated from high school and will enter University in the fall. Everything is going smoothly until a troop arrives without a Scout Master. Jimbo is assigned to the role and meets Mason, a scout having his first experience at Camp Falls. The frisson between the two leads to a them entering a partnership. The challenges of Scout Camp, their parents and larger forces shape who they are as a couple.

Jimmy thought there would be plenty of time to decided who would ring his bell. He felt no compulsion to date, male or female, he was happy. Until the new student became a friend just before graduation.

A young man must move leaving his boyfriend