Stories

Here is where I collect my occasional attempts at poetry.

Wesley Cain is a young and vibrant man in his twenties, he was making his way up in the points at the rodeo. Then his Grandparents died, leaving him their ranch and his younger brother Joseph to watch over. He took his responsibility for his younger brother seriously. The two boys had lost their parents when Wes was a teenager. With his Grandparents gone and no-one to look after his brother or the ranch, he quit the rodeo, and moved back home.

This is the story of Bryce Silverton, a 15 year old lad,

who lives and works on the family cattle station in the remote Western Australian Outback.

Come along and enjoy the ride of Bryce's ups and downs in life, hang on as it gets bumpy...

Teenage sleuth Danny teams up with his father, famous private detective, Steve Wagner, to solve the supposed haunting of an old Hotel.

Poetry by Lacuna. The title is based on my first name, Lydia, which was an iron age empire located where Turkey is today.

Sometimes I like to pretend I'm a poet. This is a dump for the products of that pretension.

Book TWO of the Boy’s Trilogy. Moscow born, Vladek’s coming of age tale. His first love is Hans Eberhardt, his German high school teacher. Fluent in German he works for Soviet intelligence during World War II and becomes an aide (and lover) to a Soviet General. His next lover is an American officer. He eventually moves to the USA where he becomes respected in his profession while having many friends and numerous affairs.

Book ONE of the Boy’s Trilogy. Peter, the quiet, scholarly, marching band member, and Tom, the outgoing, popular, athlete, have a chance meeting. Outwardly so different, inwardly so much the same. They develop a strong relationship but being the 1950s they hide their true feelings from friends and family. From high school to university to graduate school to professions their love grows while having numerous adventures. In Chapter 36 they meet Vladek whose coming of age story is in the book – Russia My Home.

A young scholar of the mystical arts finds himself in a life and death situation in regards of summoning the wind and talking to a certain soldier of gentle eyes. Because of a simple mistake, his demise may come swiftly by the Duke’s hands. But maybe embarrassment will cause it to arrive sooner.

A young gay Egyptian learns to live with his sexuality and survive in Cairo in the 1970s and 1980s. How can he keep his love, or does he have to submit to being like everyone else?