Stories

Say that you'll prompt me!

365 days of drabbles written for various types of prompt. Updated after a week's worth of prompts have been written.

Heed the warnings in the information section please. Some of these get outright DARK and I do not want to upset anyone if I can help it.

Kevin Thorne's life was pretty straight forward. With a loving mother and an adorable but annoying six year old brother as family, he didn't think he needed anyone else to make it better. But as usual, just when you think you have it all figured out, life throws a curve ball. And Kevin now has to adjust to accommodate a stranger in his family - a stranger who brings sudden change in how he felt about a lot of things in his life.

Brad Harris is coming to grips with not being able to hide who he is any longer, and the feelings he can't stop.

Eight years have passed since Alex and Zach finally worked thru starting a relationship. Things finally seem to be falling into place in their lives and their love when fate steps in. Alex and Zach both learn what it means to love someone so much that you have to let them go.

A second book of poetry, posted in no particular order or schedule. Maybe it's better than the first. Or not.

A family's Christmas gathering gets enhanced by some shared fun and love.

Life is full of random events; tragedy strikes where it will until random goodness displaces the ugliness. Neither event lasts, fades in our collective memories until the roulette wheel of life lands on the unlucky number of some town or city. We’ve become callused…numb…and disbelieving of events outside of our homes, neighborhood, and state. It simply happens somewhere else…until.

The Waldron Police -- Owen, Ike, Elena, Don, Jae, and Rob -- are back, this time following a knife fight that started in a nursing home.

In a small Western Massachusetts former mill town, now part of a larger college circuit, people -- largely students -- keep getting approached.

They don't bring it on themselves -- or do they?

Police detective Elena Petrakis leads the investigation, while her standbys, Chief Owen Neland, Senior Detective Don Burris, Lt. Ike Omari, and Sgts. Jae Ryu and Rob Perez offer support.

Craig is a street kid. Kicked out of home at a young age, he does what he has to if he wants to survive, but when another street kid is beaten up, Craig wonders if it's all too much.