Stories

A college student puts his life at risk by standing up against hate.

Kyle Omara's life is turned upside down when his best friend Leo is hospitalized. Kyle never Trusted Ethan Hartman, Leo's boyfriend, and it seems his suspicions are proven correct when Ethan savagely beats Leo. Now, with Leo in a coma and Ethan showing no remorse, Kyle enlists the help of a new friend in order to bring Ethan to justice. If only they had any proof...

Christianity is dead. The old gods and magics of the Void have returned to the twenty-first century. For this the Theocracy was created, a world-spanning organization put into place to keep the forces of the Void from bleeding into our world.

After a lengthy hiatus following his last case, death magician and agent Vanus Kaufman is teamed with Astorathian agent Bazzelthorpe to investigate a viscous occult murder that will lead them into the dark depths of Inferno, a hell-like dimension. If they are to survive they will have to learn to trust each other.

A tangled love affair between two young men who start as antagonists but eventually fall deeply in love. A fundamentalist church with an evil Pastor. A drug lord who will stop at nothing to gain more wealth. A financial audit that discloses the true nature of evil. And some sex. All of these, set in the beautiful background of Australia’s Mornington Peninsula

On a future Earth, demons and their spawn have reformed society. Sygny is an almost human magician of considerable power. Arno is a part-demon mechanic who avoids relationships. When their paths cross just as the local great demon starts losing control of the territory will they form a bond or break apart like the ground beneath them?

Lacuna has no memory of her life before she met Tali, Arno, and Rex, but new developments mean that the answers she has sought may be on the horizon. Can she handle the upheaval and make peace with her past, present, and future?

Twenty-nine-year-old Sam Miller owns a duplex on the beach and lives there with his fourteen-year-old son, Devon (Devie). He rents out the other half to thirty-five-year-old Taylor Winters and his fourteen-year-old son, Cillian (Cillie). The dads share an attraction to one another, and their kids have an attraction for each other. The two sets of couples decide to explore becoming a family while Taylor, and Sam date, and Cillian, and Devon date.

Modern gay life is hard enough, with homophobia, bar culture and dysfunctional relationships, but how do you navigate it carrying the baggage of the ex-gay movement?

Chris was involved with an ex-gay organisation as a teenager, after a breakdown he broke away from them. Now, as an adult, Chris is trying to live as an out gay man but the baggage of his past keeps pulling him back.

So often the damage does not stop when the abuse does.

This six-part story asks how does someone come to terms with the aftermath of the ex-gay movement.

The intense heat and desolation hit you immediately the journey begins at the sordid truck stop, where sex is sold as easily as a beer. Jabez, the boy they call John, is a candy seller working for the hotel barman, a magician who can read people. But there is another reality, the Palace of Dreams where Jabez is the guide to strange events and pleasures. A bond is formed in the search to find El Cuervo de Plata (The Silver Crow).

Between the dreams, the sleep deprivation, and the hallucinations, teenage loner Casey is left wondering if he really is going crazy.