Stories

In most of the northern hemisphere, today is the darkest, longest night of the year; the Winter Solstice. Not where I am, however. Today is just as dark as yesterday, and the day before that, and it will be just as dark tomorrow.

What cross your mind if I say London? The Queen, London Eye, fun? Instead, I'll tell you about: violence, exploitation, sex, drugs and unhappiness. But also about love and hope. This is immigrants' London in the genuine immigrant's diary.

As he watches his, now ex, boyfriend drive away, the weather starts to go wrong in Devon Smith's life. It rains every day, and out in the countryside, that much water has devastating effects. Dev tries to stay positive as weeks turn into months, and the rain continues to hammer down, and dreams about meeting someone who can fill his heart, and his world, with sunshine.

Renard has always had the perfect plan: graduate from college and go to Brighton Uni with his best friend, learn, drink, discuss literature, and dance with all the pretty boys in England's gayest city. But when Darren decides to go North instead, and Ren finds out that he and uni life don't actually get on, he starts dreaming about cowboys. Is there a cowboy out there for Ren, and does he have the guts to try and find him?

When Keith first had met Elliot two years ago, little had he known how madly he would fall in love, and how torturous this love could be, being rich in material world didn't bring him much richness in love, Keith started to lose his patience to Elliot, until one day when choice was brutally taken away from them, and Keith learned the heartbreaking story about his boyfriend, and he had to take a special journey together, at the same time separately, with Elliot, a journey about letting go.

Memories of our first time are things we carry with us throughout our lives. For Owen, his first time is the defining moment of his life, and the moment he found the reason to live and survive, they are memories of a golden boy he's never stopped loving.

Oli Volkov is not particularly good at being a werewolf. He much prefers his quiet life on the outskirts of town, working freelance for an ad agency, and visiting home whenever he absolutely has to. But when his neighbour comes to him with an injured dog who is actually a wolf, Oli finds that his life is about to undergo some rather dramatic changes.

Kieran Tristan Toyne is beautiful, talented, sexy, and independently wealthy. He's used to getting what he wants, when he wants; and that includes his friend's dates, cute club boys, fast cars, and motorcycles. Unfortunately his charm and charisma doesn't work on Robin, and Kieran is not used to being denied what he wants. The road to real happiness never did run smooth...

A man once revered and hailed as a hero is suddenly treated as an outcast. What had he done to undergo such as tragic reversal of fortune.

Come meet quirky, irrational, impulsive Jonah, who runs when life gets complicated. This time he is in Sicily, Italy. What else? Oh yes. He talks to Zach, his imaginary laptop friend, collects people who want to take care of him, as well as slightly possessive, manipulative boyfriends. Time for a change.