Stories

Last spring, Jeff was reunited with his long lost love, whom he last saw nearly fifty years ago, when they were both in their teens. Abandoning a life in California and moving in with Paul in New York City, merging two lifetimes into a 3-bedroom prewar apartment proved to be more difficult than either of them imagined. Things come to a head when they can’t agree on how to renovate the kitchen. Leave it to Paul’s grandson, Seth, to come to the rescue with a surprise plan, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Another 'Daydream' short story! This is one about a young boy who is discovering, for the first time, that his feelings of joy and goodwill for his new best friend may run deeper than he originally suspected. During a weekend trip to the beach...he may find himself wrestling with feelings that he's never felt before. Can you juggle friendship and infatuation at the same time? Who knows?

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Poems for National Poetry Writing Month ...

Encounters on public transport are mostly fleeting, raising questions, never to be answered. Liam Kendrick needs to make some important decisions. While considering his own life, he observes a stranger's as they both commute back and forth.

Aged 10, Albert and his younger sister Florence went to live in the old house at Coldbrook with their parents. What happened there would change all of their lives.

Charlie and Kippy find that Valentine's Day doesn't always work out the way they expect it to.

Missed posting this one here at that holiday, but it's required for continuity of the series.

Simon has found himself in an open relationship for the summer—though not by choice. Instead of wallowing, he’s decided to make the most of a family vacation to Costa Rica by hooking up with the first hot guy available. Trouble is, he has no clue how to go about doing that.

Jacob doesn't really like Oliver, but somehow he seems to be his first for almost everything. Marcus hates his life, and his dad, and pretty much everything in his dreary industrial town, but makes a go at trying out new things anyway. Two short stories set before The F*cking Trilogy. Contains gratuitous swearing.

'Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it' This is Kris Karton's dictum, and he dreams of a small spot in Spain and a hot, horny Spaniard to fill it. But karma gives Kris exactly what he deserves: a wry, and sometimes bitter-sweet view of gay life in Manchester.

The ex-gay movement has hit the headlines recently with the films The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Boy Erased, but what is it like to live by that belief, what price does it demand of an individual?

The story, in four chapters, set 1991, looks at how difficult it is to live a life denying your sexuality, and the cost the ex-gay life takes from a person.