Stories

Hunter is a sixteen year old high school student. That’s the closest to normal his life will ever get. He was groomed to be the perfect spy by what some would call the golden age in USSR Intelligence. Adopted at age five by the quintessential American family, he has to balance a web of lies to maintain his cover. Keeping his new family safe; juggling missions and surviving the perilous high school halls where love is about to throw a monkey wrench into this well-oiled machine’s core.

When his best childhood friend moves to another country, Andy’s life suddenly feels very empty. With his friend’s visits becoming increasingly less frequent, Andy is forced to find friendship – and romance – elsewhere.

In the summer of 1993, a group of high school friends in a small town are forced to grow up overnight when love, bigotry, betrayal and mystery rain down on them in equal amounts.

Chris has always been seen as one of the lucky ones. Normal beyond normal. Nice looking, good grades, popular, basketball team, and the envy of most with a girlfriend like Chelsea. However, it's his new best friend, Conner, that has suddenly thrown a monkey wrench into the machine. And while Chris' sexuality has never been something that he had to question or think about in the past...his confusing new feelings for this new boy may just rattle him to the point of redefining what love and attraction really is.

A third-grade valentine develops a life and meaning of its own as its recipient struggles through his teenage years.

One misstep sends Alex's world upside down. At first, it is a simple question of 'what happened that night?', but quickly turns into a search for the person he spent the night with.

Sam Baker had three ambitions. He wanted to get through his last year of school with good grades. He needed to keep his head down, so as not to be the focus of the school bullies. And finally he wanted to be free from school, and free from Dane o’Hanlon.
Not that Dane even knew that Sam had the biggest crush on him, in fact Dane barely knew of Sam’s existence.

Martin Pop is the vein of magic people who show up, fix the problems a family is experiencing and then leaves. He is a creature of magic like Mary Poppins or Nanny McPhee. Where he goes healing, love, and happiness is bound to follow. Martin, unlike the others, finds himself working in the United States rather than England or Australia, because unfortunately Americans need that type of magic more right now. What happens when this magic man is called to aid an injured soldier and his poor nephew? 

Written for the 2018 Fall Anthology - Fight Back and/or Good Intentions

Chase thought he had it all: he was a well-liked athlete on his high school's basketball team and his girlfriend was one of the prettiest and most popular cheerleaders in the school. But, after a stunning betrayal, Chase finds himself rethinking all he knew about relationships, including what he wanted and what his feelings towards his new friend, Terry, are all about.

Jason and his younger brother Matt lost their parents. After two years in the foster-care system, they start their new life with the Benets. Suddenly presented with a non-hostile environment, can Jason overcome his past and regain his ability to trust?