Stories

This is the tale of how I changed from a scared, shy,confused and depressed boy to a confident and optimistic young man and how someone special helped me in this journey.

The ghost of a murdered young male prostitute seeks help in bringing his murderer to justice before he strikes again. Unfortunately, there are obstacles in the way...of the darkest kind!

Not all fairies have wings and sprinkle pixie dust. Briar Toadthistle and Shade Sourthorn are attempting a mission they've failed before. If they don't succeed, their heads are on the line. Karma isn't limited to the human realm, though, and a choice made may prove more costly than either of them anticipated.

Eric is a shattered man, and this group session is his first step toward healing. Will it help him, or hurt him? Only time knows.

Justin is a mischievous high school student living a comfortable life until he gets caught with another boy. He is sent away to a place run by an evil man, where every day is a struggle for survival sanity.

Storms, vicious ones, are not always created by nature. This poem is about a different kind of devastation.

They're no good without one another. They both know that, deep down. Because when they're apart, they make some really stupid decisions. Contains gratuitous swearing and a whole lot of booze.

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.

Two strangers brought together by fate. One facing demons of the present. One haunted by the ghosts of the past.

Jacob doesn't really like Oliver, but somehow he seems to be his first for almost everything. Marcus hates his life, and his dad, and pretty much everything in his dreary industrial town, but makes a go at trying out new things anyway. Two short stories set before The F*cking Trilogy. Contains gratuitous swearing.