Stories

Carl is the American boy next door that women fawn over, girls shy from, and boys vie for his attention.

Rigby, impossibly innocent, swaps suffocating middle-class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London. Revelling in the freedom granted by anonymity, he becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, teacher and resolute seeker of new experiences while living and travelling in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, when travellers were uncommon.

{A year ago I posted several chapters, then stopped because I needed to make a few changes. Apologies to those who began reading, only to have it rudely terminated.

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A young boy visits the North Pole and discovers it is not what everyone says it is. He finds dark mysterious forces and the real secret behind Santa and the elves. He could never have imagined the North Pole could be like this, will he ever be able to look at Christmas the same again?

Starting college can be difficult for a lot of people. For LGBTQ youth, it can be particularly difficult. Navigating a new environment and making new friends is a daunting prospect for Taylor, who finds college life isn't quite what they expected.

Colin is certain of his faith above all else, but when he finds it questioned, he is forced to make a decision that costs him dearly. Losing Daniel, a young man raised on the streets, has him reevaluating his relationship with his church, and with himself.

Aaron's task of seeing a drunken co-worker home turns sour in more ways than one.

What do you do when your whole life is falling apart? How can you just get back to the simple way of living, the big worry is your wardrobe, your type of car, or maybe even what you should do with the money you make?

This attemps to consider those things while fighting to survive.

Little bits of me.

Having spent the day hard at work, Tobias is keen to practice his baking skills and go home foe a good nights rest. But there is a demon waiting in the woodland with other things on his mind. The discovery of a shared talent sends their futures in a rather different direction than either of them could have predicted.

Chipper Pereira, a senior at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, has the opportunity to audition for a national talent show. Follow along as he interacts with celebrities and fellow contestants and discovers the music business has good and bad experiences.