Stories

Celebrating a friend's outstanding headline spot swiftly followed by their victory is just the beginning. A special friendship develops between two people who should never have got close. An unexpected hook-up was never going to be a one-night-stand - that's not really Jenny's way - if it could be helped. Christmas in Berlin is magical and doesn't only bring gifts wrapped in pretty paper, some things are better left unwrapped. There's even the juxtaposition of one who does it for the money and another who does it for real.

This story is only for those who enjoy medieval, magical fantasy starring boys and teens. It is from The Book of Heroes, the source for “The Translator,” “The Paladin,” and other stories. It is a simple story in which the love between a squire and a young cleric becomes a political liability—because the squire is also a prince.

Every year, I step into the world of the dark and scary.

Or sometimes the funny and halloweeny.

This is the 2019 Halloween Month Collection. Within these chapters you'll find darkness, trips into worlds that are being written or worked on, and characters doing many different things.

"Step into my web" said the Spider to the Fly.

Four boys who attend one of New York City's elite specialty public high schools face a unique set of challenges as the year draws to a close. Faced with a lost bet, Asher and Seth have agreed to spend a New Year's Eve together that neither will ever forget, and they've talked their friend, Freck, into hosting a party for the special occasion. In the meantime, Kyle's father makes a surprise offer that will help solidify his burgeoning relationship with Freck. As they count down the final seconds and sing Auld Lang Syne, the four boys will find that their lives have been changed forever.

The priests have proclaimed that I must marry Zaran, the leader of the army that had decimated my people for years. His reputation was fearsome but life couldn't get any worse for me, could it?

Ellis's mother did him spite, she harried thieves in the dead of night.
Put her son and his child to flight, they slew the babe, they slew his knight.
Through ill fate, he'd survived, but with this, his loves had died,
And now alone he must endure the days without child and paramour.

Théo Benoît, a 14-year old French prodigy, is driven to suicide from his lack of friends and the absence of his parents. As he is about to jump, he is pulled into the arms of 16-year old Jan, and a lasting relationship forms immediately.

Cocky firefighter Logan O'Donoghue is a total hothead. And that’s precisely why Aiden Kashima, a young culinary student and aspiring pastry chef, can’t stand him. But after a devastating fire destroys his apartment, Aiden finds himself taking up a bed in Logan’s fire station.

The tension and lust between them quickly blazes into a red-hot romance. Aiden may have a talent for baking sweets, but first he has to learn that love doesn't come with a recipe.

On a world where both science and magic exist, one is prophesised to come who can balance both. But in order to achieve that balance they will need to overcome their own limitations. Will they succeed, or pay the ultimate price for failure ?