Stories

This is the story of George Granger, a young aristocrat who joins the Royal Navy during the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars. This is the first book, and tracks George as he joins his first ship in 1791

The Cat Burglar is the first book of The Professions Series. It was inspired by the 2021 anthology theme An Unconventional Gift.

Kavan has an unsuspected encounter on his 24th birthday that changes his entire life.

The Professions Series series should best be read in order, but each book follows a different brother.

It's a tale as old as time: When woman is traded to the faeries, the Lord of the Wood falls for her. It's the perfect love story — for them.

Life is less picture perfect for the Lord's former lovers. For decades, Feldspar, Gneiss, and the Lord were a triad inside and outside the bedroom.

Eight months later Feldspar's heart is still broken. He has tried everything. Torrid threesomes, exercise, mind-altering substances, and faking it.

When Silver, a strange faery who spends most of his time with humans, returns to the Wood Feldspar has a chance to remake himself. Will he be able to find love again, or will fear get in the way?

Captain Auriel Bristow and her crew struggle to make ends meet in a Galaxy run by an opressive regime known as The Covenant. As an independent trader, she takes calculated risks on cargo and passengers. A new crew member and four passengers will place The Persephone in a crossfire between The Covenant and a group of Extremists from the Rivulak System. What is in store for the bold Captain?

This story follows the life of Kipling F Ashburton, who is a 6th generation Western Australian, whose family have worked on the same cattle station since 1896. The story also follows Joshua Alliston, the son of Commander Trenton Blackthorn, who has commanded a number of large research submarines that patrol the world's oceans. After a family dispute, Joshua goes his own direction, having completed university with a degree in Marine Science, and he goes in search of a former Uni classmate, to convince him to join forces to set up a research project in the Indian Ocean.

Tony and Jordan are life-long friends and do everything together. Tony even helps Jordan get through one of the most devastating times in his life, but that all changes when Tony learns Jordan’s secret. Will they be able to get past this or will his discovery end their friendship? The story takes them from seventh to eleventh grade>

Young Esthor is the best sorcerer in all the kingdom and beyond. When King Norius calls upon him to save his eldest daughter, Esthor resorts to drastic measures that will have some people fighting to get his head, and others vying to win his heart.

Every so often, you meet someone who turns your world upside down, screwing with your psyche in ways you never thought could happen and giving your imagination those shockingly detailed images and thoughts that rattle your confidence in your own identity. That's what has happened to me with one particular co-worker. Chad is his name, and Jim is mine, thus you can begin to see what some might consider to be a problem in a mostly "straight" world. . . .

When the new baron of Ellesmera goes missing, three unlikely heroes must seek him and his lost party out. What they find changes the course of their lives forever.

The adventures in sex and friendship, online and off, of Alan Damshroeder, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, high school teacher.

Says Alan, "Sometimes I think it takes a triumvirate of saints to keep me out of trouble."

Note: These stories are written as exchanged e-mails and reading this way is an acquired taste.