Stories

Paul Ragden takes his family on a summer vacation. The unexpected almost occurs.

"Old wounds have a way of opening when they should have healed. Nick Raimondi isn’t too fond of his mother’s love life, and even less fond of some of his more stuck-up classmates, particularly one Darius Wigglesworth. He feels a lot more warmer about Alec, a junior he rescued from a rabid cheerleader in the school parking lot. Life, though, has a way of dealing the most unexpected cards."

"Bud doesn't know who he is anymore, and Foster just wants his music. Both are going home for the summer after two years at college. Neither knows if the home they've always known is still the home they've once known."

2007 Anthology

2007 Anthology

My first and for now, only attempt at Fantasy. It was before I really began reading YA Fantasy book series. I don't think it is a good example of what a Fantasy should be and it was supposed to have a lot of subsequent parts to it, but I decided to just complete the story as it was. It is about a group of warriors selected to save their Empress who was taken by her sister and her sister's lover. Once trusted advisers to the throne, now looking to usurp it.

2007 Anthology

The Kombat Kids belong to Unit One. Unit One was Started by James and Matt Bateman to give the local boys an option to the mostly homophobic Church run youth groups and the scouting programs. The Unit is located near the Columbia river in the South East Corner of Washington State and is made up of mostly gay boys and men. Members learn to cope with their own fears and problems during the first year and a half of the Units existence.

The War of the Roses has been going on since the beginning of time, however it comes to the head for one young man when he is inducted into the sect opposed by his father.

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