Stories

Two young boys share a summer that will change their lives

Death is manifested by human actions, beyond the limits of right and wrong. All choices lead to death, but how you arrive is where the story will take you.

He's graduating high school, heading off to college soon. Is he ready? Something plagues him, doubts, dreams, voices from ... Nowhere.

The South Pacific, 1842. These are powder-keg times, and in the midst of French Imperial gun boat diplomacy, Redburn has had enough of the sea. He draws a reluctant Toby into an adventure, and in the process loses something more valuable to him than his own life.

After a bad relationship ends, Noel is closed off and trying to focus on other things. But along comes someone that opens his eyes to other possibilities...the Facilitator.

Wil is lonely and there is only a month until Christmas. He decides to take matters into his own hands. But then there is The Letter ... should he open it? And if he does, how will the contents affect his life?

Book 2 centers on the growing problems and pieces of intrigue from the insidious CISS to the Halls of the Vatican to the thousand year old battlefields of the Middle East, Hunter Douglas and his friends are entering a web far deeper and interconnected than they ever imagined.

This story is now on Hiatus until I find a new Head Editor/Beta Reader

Adlai Ben Yusuf the son of a humble carpenter, grew up in the village of Nazareth in the troubled land called Palestine. With with his brother Tavi and cousin Cephas he enjoyed the usual escapades and misadventures of a normal teenage boy. Whereas Adlai was scholarly and introspective his brother Tavi was an extrovert. He was a warrior, an adventurer and a womaniser; trouble followed him relentlessly. Being popular and well-loved, he was his father Yusuf''s favourite. Then suddenly a simple mistake occurred which was to have tragic and far-reaching consequences; consequences that have endured to the present day.

Writers make mistakes, especially when writing quickly. Students make mistakes, even when writing slowly. Students writing quickly often make lots of mistakes, and they get unintentionally funny. Here are some of them.

In Germany, it appears there's a whole cult that collects these. In America, we largely have the popular British book Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. This collection follows both of those.

A friendly caution: A little of these goes a long way, so don't try to read them all at once. They get less funny. Very less funny. Far less funny. Oh so less funny. You were warned.

Yuto Tanaka has been training harder than ever for the Ogawa High School swimming club's first meet of the year. While he is not as strong or fast as some of the older boys on the team, he has been making progress. Progress due in no small part to the mentorship of his senpai, Gen Uotate. With only a few days until the meet, Uotate-senpai pulls Yuto aside for one last bit of preparation, intended to strengthen both Yuto's standing on the team and their bond with each other.