Stories

My first novel, previously published in Dutch but now translated.

It is the story of three gay travellers in Scotland, immediately after the Great War.

It is about double discrimination, about flowering and gradually subsiding love, of exploitation of tenants by the local gentry and of over-zealous clerics, but also about the development into adulthood against the background of a slowly changing society.

An itinerant photographer stops by the one town he’s avoided for the last twenty years. What is it he hopes to encounter there? What is this ‘one last thing’ he feels he has to do?

The story of Anthony Larkin, his struggle against injustice, and the evolution of gay rights in the UK.

Cade Bennett is a college student and he happens to see an online ad for a house sitter. It’s only for one week and sounds like it will be easy money, but the week he’s hired for includes Halloween and he soon learns there’s more to this job than he expected.

This is going to be the repository for those products of my mind that have no other place.

Be they new or old

Be they jewels crafted by genius

Or the drivel of a madman

Enter at your own risk

This is a collection of my short non-fiction pieces.

It's mostly lightweight stuff, just written to make you smile or laugh.

This collection parallels that of my short fiction on this site -- Circumstances. Also, pretty lightweight.

Enjoy.

A romance suggested by the song "Waltzing with Bears," a song by Dale Marxen adapted from the Dr. Seuss song of the same name. Although the "present day" of the story is 2011, the events related in it take place in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

Scenes from early in the development of the musical Oklahoma! provided by a very untrustworthy source.

Benji is invited to an exclusive retreat for incoming high-school freshmen.

Andy's father pushes him to take a position as assistant to a gambler. No one but Andy seems to notice that his new employer is a snake. An actual, scaly, fork-tongued, yellow-eyed, limbless reptile.