Stories

What do Bar Mitzvahs and food carts have in common? Nothing… unless you’re talking about a precocious young teen with a Jewish boyfriend and a best friend who's half black Cajun and half Asian, and who’s a gifted teenage chef. With a double Bar Mitzvah on the Fourth of July weekend, why not make it a pool party? Oy Vey!

These are Christmas stories, that are about previous stories, as an added chapter.

I hope that you enjoy it!

Merry Christmas, and have a safe and prosperous New Year in 2024. Q

Being an account of the adventures of Sir Ilinot, a knight and bastard son of Arthur, King of Britain.

Carl Waite goes out for his morning walk in the park, and along the way he passes an old man sitting on a park bench. Since the man looks sad and appears down in the dumps, Carl wishes him Merry Christmas. The old man, who we later learn is Bob Swartz, responds, “What is there to be merry about?” Carl immediately stops so he can find out why the man reacted this way.

When two astronauts (a male and a female) crash land on a distant planet they are dismayed to find that it is an all male planet. The men of Collosia have learned to clone themselves. Sex is free and easy. Trade is strictly on a barter system. In short, everything is peaceful and serene. There is no escape, and the astronauts must learn to adapt.

Roy Patterson just moved into town. About to be a high-school junior, he was not really happy with the move. But his dad got a promotion, he got a bedroom of his own. Leaving a few good friends didn't make up for all that. Two weeks in and he hasn't found anyone who could be a friend.

That all changes one Sunday. The circumstances around that change are, to say the least, a bit odd.

Bob came out when he was about to enter Boston University. He was not disowned, but his father forbade him from ever coming home again.

No excuses! This is an unabashed, sentimental tale, about a true Christmas miracle. Two young men find each other at Christmas time, despite the incredible odds. One of them saves the other’s life through divine intervention.

Every wolf suffers fleas.

17-year-old Michael “B” Smith and his fellow wolf-shifter Soldier Boyz learned to kill while other kids learned to ride bikes.

Mike’s dad, and leader of their pack, expects absolute obedience and perfection from him, or he dishes out beatings. He dutifully complies until his former best friend, 18-year-old Tamir “Pinky” Johnson, moves back into town, stirring long-suppressed emotions in Mike.

To save them, Mike must push Tamir and himself beyond their limits and become pack leader.

Will he succeed in subduing the Soldier Boyz and winning Tamir’s heart?

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.