Stories

The streets are empty; children sleep snuggly and safely in their beds. Parents are watching the latest episode of Chicago Fire, but Gavin is skateboarding alone, heading for Wickham Bridge. The local meet up spot, where junkies hang out hoping to shoot up, and individuals with darker motives prowl, waiting in the shadows. Gavin knows who is waiting. He must make a decision. Will it be good or bad?

There is only one inevitable thing. They say you are your true self moments before it. Lets see if it is true. Discover the lives of so many ethereal beings and the love story that has lasted throughout the generations.

This is the search for the ultimate host and the lost long love between two entities. This is the story of Semyaza, Ishtahar, Death and The Unamed Woman. It tells of hate, control, destruction and most importantly love.

Medieval Japan. A master and servant get stranded on a lonely road. Across the moor, a haunting songs leads them to a humble shack at dusk.

Read and find out if dreams are nightmares we really can control or not...

10 people; 8 hours – conflict and opportunity

Love returned. Love rejected. Ecstasy and obsession.

Kalil's family has kidnapped the son of an important man. Even though he's only sixteen, the boy is called upon to do extraordinary things.

When you have been betrayed by everyone you ever loved and thought loved you, when you have been utterly abandoned and are sooo alone, when you have nothing, no one, only pain and shame and abuse... what do you do? What can you do?

Poor Man's Son is the eleventh story in the CAP Saga. The story takes place in 2000, with Gathan Hayes and Will Schluter as our narrators. Many of the characters in this story were introduced in “Chronicles of an Academic Predator,” “1968,” “The Land Whore,” “Be Rad,” “Man in Motion,” “A Summer Love,” “If It Fits,” “Bloodlines,” “The Box,” and "Millennium."

Adam is going home for his birthday the weekend before his family Cosplay event. He's bringing Patrick to meet everyone and Justin just because. All is not well because a troublesome neighbor is killed and Adam's mom is blamed.
Adam has to find who is framing his mother and clear his name.

Strolls; encounters; kisses through closed gates; lighted windows seen from below; rumpled bedsheets turning up men’s shirts . . . These are just a few of the images in August Stramm’s poetry collection titled “DU” (“THOU”).

What follows is a complete, fresh-look translation of the thirty-one poems of this set.