Stories

Alex was a student with the chance of a lifetime; to study in London.
Mason is a businessman overseas there just for meetings.
They meet by chance in pub and the sparks fly; but Mason is hiding something.
Will it all be chalked up to just Lust in London?

Ice, the best barrier one could hope for.

Angel is about to come into his inheritance but not everyone is happy about that. His guardian, Charles is about to be out of a job, a home and a very cushy lifestyle. When Angel's friends visit they begin to suspect that Charles might be prepared to do a little more than just push Angel around in order to make his life a misery in the time he has left.

Thirteen-year-old Simon sits face to face with Father Strathmore, but what has he done wrong... experimented with drugs, kissed a boy, or lied in Confession? The priest has a vested interest in finding out, and it is a deeply personal and troubling one.

Brian and Danny are married. But they are stuck in limbo and can’t get past it. Can an Advent calendar, some Christmas ornaments, and a cigarette get them beyond the stasis that has frozen their lives? Will the lights of Christmas shining in the darkness help them find the peace they truly need? This is a Christmas story in eight parts.

A peregrination, an exploration, a journey of mind, heart and memory,

I recall some San Francisco places that mean the most to me.

Strolls; encounters; kisses through closed gates; lighted windows seen from below; rumpled bedsheets turning up men’s shirts . . . These are just a few of the images in August Stramm’s poetry collection titled “DU” (“THOU”).

What follows is a complete, fresh-look translation of the thirty-one poems of this set.

...some old entries I stumbled upon in the course of my research...

Wanted criminal Hong Shen finally meets his end after being stabbed in the back by a comrade. As he makes his final resting place under a dead plum tree, he submits to death.

Instead, he receives two choices: die, or be given a second chance.

To take the second chance means he must complete a trial in the past in order to return to the present. But what he doesn't know is that the trial isn't only difficult for him, but even more difficult for the person he must be to fulfill it.

written from ages fourteen to nineteen