Stories

Trevor, Kurt, David, Jeremy, their brothers and a friend take off for a week in the nation's capitol, and end up getting more of an education than they’d bargained for. (March - April, 2009)

This is the 19th story in the Naptown Tales series, which can also be found at Awesome Dude and Nifty. Please see the Introduction for important background on the series.

Confronted by some bizarre happenings in his home town, a young engineering student ends up needing to unearth the truth behind the mysterious murder from almost a 1000 years ago, whilst having to try to come to terms with his own unrelenting past, and a budding romance with a mysterious new arrival in college. He has to put together all the pieces of the puzzle in time, or end up being the helpless victim

Nate is forced to leave his friends, school and comfortable home in California to attend an all boys boarding School somewhere he was least expecting. But that wont be the only unexpected surprise Nate will face.

Rani graduates from hairdressing school and heads off to London.

Phil Weber, a Iowa college math teacher in his mid-twenties, heads off to Mexico for the summer, to try and forget his ex-lover. He's looking for an adventure, and he finds a couple he hadn't expected.

MaruMonzters is a new game that is fast rising in popularity. The first edition of the MaruMonzterz World Tournament will run through all continents, and Rumiko's team is the favourite to win (if only because the're the Main Characters). As they advance in the tournament, however, they realise there is more to the game than meets the eye, and what was once a children's game becomes something much more sinister.

In this story we meet FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit Agent Remmington Montague on the case, hunting a serial killer known as the Hudson Murderer. For 5 years now, bodies have been getting pulled out of the Hudson River in metal boxes, and in various states of rigor, having gone through unspeakable tortures. When the madman calls Remmington to tell him that his mother is the next victim in line, the case becomes a race against time.

When Owen Liston is invited to join a Nature Conservancy delegation traveling to Havana, his husband, CJ Abelló, tags along. He claims there was no chance he would pass up the opportunity to visit Cuba. He may be planning on spending his time sightseeing and day-drinking, but changes are coming to the land of his grandparents. and he will find himself in the middle of events. CJ and Owen will be popular with American and Cuban government officials by the time the dust settles..

While climbing a mountain the narrator has an epiphany.

(Submitted for the 2007 Fall Anthology "The Rainy Day")

Damon and Domonique have been searching for their beloved for over a century and finally found him in Seattle, Washington at an auction.
Sounds simple right? Meet beloved, claim beloved, live happily ever after. Well what happens when someone fro their past comes back and threatens their very existence.
Tyler is an 18 year old werebear who has been looking for his mate for two years. What happens when he comes across Damon AND Domonique?