Stories

There's a special time as winter changes into spring. Here is a time to remember.

Practical joke or something much more sinister? Sam has to make a decision.

Robert, a man who recently turned forty, meets a much younger man in a dive bar and in an unusual way. Not one for romance, never been in love, but he is convinced that there is something different about David. Different enough to want to know him instead of taking him straight home to bed.

Gavin and Danny Berger are a married couple and want to either foster or adopt a child. When a toddler named Eric is brought to their house to meet them, they instantly fall in love with him. It starts out with them being Foster parents, but eventually they’re able to adopt him. His parents relinquish their parental rights because they’re in prison and he’d be a grown man by the time they got out. It didn’t take long for Gavin, Danny, and Eric to form a very loving family relationship.

Sean was out in the woods taking pictures alone, at least he thought he was...

A freak attack forces Xander's family to relocate from their home in Ohio to Vermont. Once there, he runs into Bates, not the nicest guy on the block. Unbeknownst to the 13 year-old, Xander becomes Bates's primary target.

This story is autobiographical in nature, but I have made some modifications to protect the identities of those included in it. All the names have been changed, and in some cases things such as gender, locations, and sometimes familial compositions have been altered.

All that being said, this is MY truth, and it's time I released it so that I'm free to create from a place other than brokenness and sadness.

This will be dark, but there are spots of light in the great black. No void is truly empty when one gazes into it. The light from our eyes illuminates more than we realize.

~Samuel

Growing up in Tampa, Florida I knew I was different. Living in a conservative community there wasn't much or any exposure that would help me understand my nature.

That was until the night at Stewie's we discovered porn.

join a place, where highschool is exactly what it seems. well you have heard of mean girls? well, Mean guys can be a lot worse.

A story created around Prompt 843 to include the following words:

a bloody shirt, a broken door, a school bag, a new book and a calico cat.