Stories

Harlon Eldrick's mother is dying of recurrent breast cancer and wants him to go tell his father. Harlon lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his father lives across the country in a small collection of buildings called Black Dog, Washington. Harlon wants to make this an adventure. He will take the train to Chicago and hitchhike from there to Black Dog. It's been over a week, since Harlon left Chicago on a trip that's been anything but an adventure. He is welcomed into a semi by Steve Lennard for what he hopes is his last ride.

A man contemplates the journey his life has taken, and the way the music of love has overcome the profound silence he has felt for so long.

While climbing a mountain the narrator has an epiphany.

(Submitted for the 2007 Fall Anthology "The Rainy Day")

A touching story of what's Behind the Curtain

In a magical world, heavy with expectations for the ruling family, Prince Terryn is reluctant to accept a role he was born for, but not made for. If he wants to escape the throne, the time is now, but what does Fate have in store for him?

Life is a series of possibilities and impossibilities. When Sojourner decides to take a long break from his work, his parents, and his mundane life in general, he intends to combat the demon from his past. He travels alone to San Francisco, but plans to make an experiment. He writes a series of letters to a "Perfect Stranger" as he explores the City, and his inner self. Will this be the best year of his life..., or his last?

Colin Thurlow is traveling back from a business conference in Jacksonville, Florida on Halloween when his car starts acting up. He drives to the nearest town, St. Marys, Georgia, in order to get it repaired and learns that he will have to stay overnight. He takes a room in the 102-year-old Riverview Hotel and during the night he begins to realize the hotel is haunted. So, what led him to draw this conclusion?

…previously on Mojo, things got too hot to handle at the Flying Dutchman artist's compound in Long Beach. Kohl and Assauer set the 'divorce' aside because Assauer thinks he's being followed by the donkey cult folks. Kohl and his eighteen-year-old boyfriend, Gordon, agree to quit L.A. with him and make their way to an old customer of Assauer's…

What cross your mind if I say London? The Queen, London Eye, fun? Instead, I'll tell you about: violence, exploitation, sex, drugs and unhappiness. But also about love and hope. This is immigrants' London in the genuine immigrant's diary.

In this story we meet FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit Agent Remmington Montague on the case, hunting a serial killer known as the Hudson Murderer. For 5 years now, bodies have been getting pulled out of the Hudson River in metal boxes, and in various states of rigor, having gone through unspeakable tortures. When the madman calls Remmington to tell him that his mother is the next victim in line, the case becomes a race against time.