Stories

Like the namesake movie released in 2000, which is set in LA, What's Cooking (in NYC) explores the lives of four families as they make preparations for the Thanksgiving holiday. As with the movie, there is much unexpected drama, but with the added wrinkle that all four families, who are well-known to NYC Holidays readers, are waiting for loved ones to arrive on the same flight from California. When a glitch in Air Traffic Control occurs, anything can happen.

A sestina about coming to accept your sexual identity with the help of another – a person who instils the courage to love yourself for who you are.

Responses to poetry prompts

This is not a feel good-story or a happy story. It is about the deep and profound love between two young men, in the beginning of their twenties, both of them filled with high hopes and big dreams. But then an unexpected thing causes events of disastrous proportions, destroying these hopes and dreams…but not their unconditional love!

Yes, it is another long story. But I can’t split it up. It’s the kind of story that has to be read in one go to get the full impact of it.

JIm Stevens joins a defence company despite being firmly in the closet, with some unexpected results....

The tale of a teen searching for the ideal gift for his lover for Valentine's Day

For a very loved shelter dog

My reflection on spending the holidays with myself as company.

Andy's job seemed simple enough, but what do you do when things aren't what they seem?

An emotional experience between two guys, one of whom you may have encountered at one point in your life.