Stories

The Secrets of Pimsim Cove won 3rd place in the 2011 GA Novella Contest!A great big Thank You to everyone who read and voted for this story.

When Anna McLoughlin’s dad is kidnapped, there is nothing this brave 17 year-old girl won’t do to bring him back home. She finds herself in a fantasy world beyond her wildest dreams, fighting mysterious creatures. Will she find Dad in time? Will she ever reunite her family?

Seven Short Stories
From the Gay Heart
Of Tokyo

Charlie and his friends are off to help Horace on a ghost-hunting expedition, just in time for Halloween!

In the mire of corporate politics, Will Carter is the only honest man left standing. Trying to work out a way to save his company for opportunists. While a runaway, struggles to come back to the closet thing he ever knew to a home. Meeting a bookish, overworked and over stressed man in a grey shirt, who needs to learn how to relax.

Home is at the end of the road. For Scott Walker its been a long eight years living abroad. But now all he wants to do is go home. Yet coming home isn't easy as he realizes that while home hasn't changed, he has and trying to adjust to his old life isn't easy. He is caught up trying to prove that he isn't the stranger everyone mistakes him for. And love threatens to drag him into a bitter family rivalry.

Reid and his younger brother Toby, were in a serious car accident that killed their parents, and now they are on their way to the Tropical North of Australia, to live with their Uncle James, who is a doctor, and his partner Tim, who is a Marine Engineer.

Many adventures lay ahead for the two boys, as they settle into a totally new environment, with many new places to explore.

Barnegat Bay is a romance, which starts on the Jersey shore in the summer of 1932. It focuses on its narrator, Doc, and his friends Mike, Larry, Al, and Spence, summer lifeguards soon headed into their senior year at CCNY -- the City College of New York. This is in the uncertain times and job market of the still early years of the Great Depression, just before Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected. Joining the guys are Mary and Claire, local to the area but no less ambitious for their lives, and in fairly close by New York City, Doc's parents.

It may initially seem an odd book for this site, but, believe me, it's not.

These are the prompt stories that began in 2014 and continue until today. I hope you enjoy.

As life moves on we remember times both good and bad. For Kyle, Jacob and the others, memories from the past are a bounty of the defining moments in their lives.

The following is a series of moments, past and present that help guide their steps towards the future.

A retired Dutch psychotherapist meets a severely burnt little Gypsy boy, and takes him into his house. The boy turns out to be the vanished Heir to the Throne.