Stories

A short story in four chapters set on the mountainous Italian coast. Seven years after ‘The Summer of the Firefly’, another teen struggles with his identity following a bust-up with his father and his best friend.

Ruprecht von Aalst, noble dilettante, diplomat and scholar, blunders into a political minefield: but is it an accident or someone else's design? More and more he comes to believe he's a prisoner of the past he studies, and that forces from his world's own lost history are breaking through into the present to steer it into a new future, but for whose benefit?

Sometimes life isn’t fair. Fifteen-year-old Richie Ferguson must learn this lesson the hard way when his mother dies of cancer and he is forced to live with a father who left the family two years earlier for another woman. Richie’s life becomes a storm, whirling around with no sense of purpose or direction. Will the tumultuous winds destroy him, or will he find a calm sea in time to save his own life?

The early mass leaves a man reflecting on his past.

On a hike up the creek to a waterfall, Benji finds an unusual treasure.

Jed is a man of interesting talents used to life on the northern coast of California. Things are fairly sedate until a spate of murders begins to occur, bringing an interesting stranger to town.

Four skyscraper poems in tribute to a great friend.

A poem about a fictional boy's journey.

Gordy Belser is coming home, to small-town Texas. This causes John Grant to reflect on his life. Could he have kept Gordy from leaving in the first place? If he had, would they still be lovers? Seems John is not happy with the choices he has made. Being gay was not even considered until he met Wylie; college roommate and eventually his best friend. How they deal with having gay sex is not the best way. But it worked for them. Didn't it?