Stories

It's the digital age, where people can order groceries, they can order drinks, and dating is done through an app, and its all done from their mobile phone. What if the impressions we left with people online had a real world consequences. A killer is using a dating app as his murder list. Anyone that ignores or treats him “wrong” is a target. Will Enzo be his next victim?

A lonely, older man has spent his life hiding his sexuality. One day, by chance, this changes. Then a young man arrives to help him widen his horizons, as he slowly comes to terms with life as a gay man.

Dean is a firefighter who is struggling with his fears of coming out and his feeling for a colleague. This story is the sequel to The Fire Extinguisher, but it’s not necessary to read that story first, unless you want to know exactly who Bart is.

Poems written when I was 22 years old.

Stephen McLeod, an early Computer Science Geek passes from High School to University in the 1980s, during an hysterical, venomous and lengthy battle to reform New Zealand's archaic laws against male homosexuality.

Paradoxically, the political battle makes it both easier and harder for a young man to come out and make his way in gay society that is finally emerging from the shadows.

Remembering summer nights and lakeside settings, best friends come together to renew their camping traditions one year after graduating high school. Lee is nervous his drunken coming out via Skype has ruined everything. But an invite and the glimmer of hope they can repair their friendship is impossible for him to turn down, especially after Lee spent a lonely year at college.

Josh Mackenzie has led a confined, restricted life until one weekend in May ...

The old meets the new.

How I Got Carter is the story of Jackson Willard, and his discoveries on the way to catching the boy of his dreams, the incredible Carter Mulkins. Carter has always been the unattainable god of his wildest fantasies. But at the end of the summer heading into Jackson's junior year, Carter starts to show more interest in Jackson. Little by little their friendship develops, and little by little it becomes more than a friendship.

I post this two part Whitman-based cantata in celebration of Pride Month.