Stories

Maxine had an unhealthy hold over Max. After a serious bullying incident, Max's mother is faced with the prospect of having to kill Maxine in order to save Max.

A simple poem has inspired generations of women to don their red hats and embrace growing old. However, when James, a husband and father, reads it, he embraces something more.

My collection of poetry and verse mainly consisting of introspection marbled with regret

Life's great and stable. Being married, having (almost) two children, a house, a job teaching English; Tristan ought to be happy. He is, well, most of the time. Things change with the arrival of a new colleague.
A love of baroque music seems the first similarity between them; follow how a simple harpsichord suite expands to overlap life.

The Tree is a local fixture in the rural town of Morton. When it starts to die, the whole town rallies around to try to save it.

Aaron and Slade have their world changed with an announcement: Aaron's moving. His father's promotion is relocating him to Boston, MA. Aaron has no choice but to move with his family. Can their relationship survive the long distance?

One Coming Out in Seven Short Stories

Dan has a problem. Or rather, many problems which combine to form one big... how do you call it, a conundrum? Unlike a lot of people though, he already knows what it will take to confront the conundrum and he sets out, on paper, how to do exactly that. In this coming out/coming of age story set in modern UK, I challenged the fundamental building blocks of a writer's craft. Dan's Conundrum is a commentary on what we write, why we write, and why we write the things we write.

Nathan is utterly smitten with gorgeous first year art student Sam, but Sam has a secret that may ruin any ambitions either of them have of a relationship with each other.

Deputy Sheriff Blake Alston is driving around a nothin' town on a Saturday night and sick of going back to an empty house and cold bed. But Axel Carmichael seems to have a talent for being in the right place at the right time. Blake isn't ready to have his heart broken again, but even with the fact that Axel is seven years his junior and in love with someone else, he can't quite get the young man out of his head.