Stories

For the students and staff at Wolverine High School, it started as just another average day; homework, classes, meetings until an unfortunate event altered their perceptions. In Rashomon Effect, the incident will be revealed from several different perspectives.

Marcus Whaley is a fourth grade teacher at a neighborhood elementary school, and on Halloween he begins to notice some strange things happening. They occur on the playground first, but then he has a frightening encounter inside the school. What happened and how will it turn out?

Thomas had given up on sports and school for reasons no one understood until he decided to come out of the closet.

A senior and a freshman find love, lust, and homophobia at an upscale school in New York City in 1980.

Danny Bright has been waiting all year to compete, and the day is finally here. He'll have to earn the chance to participate, and once he does, he hardly even knows what he's getting himself into. Make no mistake, it's going to be a day he never, ever forgets. He'll need every bit of his skill, savvy, and a little bit of something special to win... The Contest.

Timothy is the school good boy. It's prom time and he wants to shed his teacher's pet image. So he asks out the baddest boy in school. Will he have the time of his life, or live to regret it?

Sage figures out that Marc has feelings for him and has to find his way down a new path that his new discovery has forged for him.

Trevor slipped up and is now out at school, but how will he tell his Evangelical Christian parents? He has a plan, but will it work? (September, 2007)

This is the 4th story in the Naptown Tales series, which can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. A slightly modified version more suitable for younger teens can be found at Codey’s World. Please see the Introduction for important background info.

Although modern day “Naptown” is very different from Indianapolis in 1972, it's still in the Bible Belt and gay teens face challenges even today. Let me explain what I faced that led me deeply into the closet. (Revised June 18, 2010)

Nate is forced to leave his friends, school and comfortable home in California to attend an all boys boarding School somewhere he was least expecting. But that wont be the only unexpected surprise Nate will face.