Stories

The story of how a boy grows up into a man, and the many horses he trains, and who train him, so that he can be ready to train the horse whom he will come to love the most.

Shane is lonely on his couch, missing his boyfriend, and thinking about all the fun they've had together. But tonight, memories aren't enough, and Shane needs to hold the man he loves.

Elsie breaks her vow. She promised to never love him, but fell for the man she married.

Jackson is deaf, and his boyfriend wants to see what life is like for Jackson. This story is based on the first 2006 anthology theme "A Day of Silence".

Almost every day, he sat opposite me, with or without the silly little dog, and I wondered who he was. What he was like. It wasn't long before I found out.

Liam Fenton was Bas's first major crush in college. When Liam stood him up on a date, asking for a rain check, Bas figured their timing was not right. They meet again after six years. Bas has scars from a failed marriage and a volatile ex-husband. Liam has thought about Bas and their missed date for years. After they meet, Liam decides to take the chance fate has given him and works to get to know Bas better.

The Athruvians and the Ç’HkïJaråans have been at war for longer than anyone cares to remember. Da Lahron's parents died while serving in a post destroyed by Ç’HkïJaråan soldiers. DhiM’kha's mother was a civilian who died in a civilian post attacked by Athruvian forces. Are they really that different from each other?

The early mass leaves a man reflecting on his past.

After a strange anticlimactic kidnapping, Axel Graysen is pulled into the tumultuous world of the Wook Family. Axel treats Jeha Wook’s gunshot wound and ends up treating the oddly large team of brothers who work for Jeha. The problem is that Jeha’s people seem like delinquents, and Jeha is the largest delinquent. Axel worries about keeping the man he likes from getting hurt again.