Stories

Chandler Drake is in middle school and rides the school bus that Bob Bell drives. They’re also neighbor’s, so when Bob sees that Chandler is being bullied, he wants to help. Bob does what he can, but he would like to do more. When he discovers a second boy, Nick Morenus, who lives nearby and rides a different bus, is going through a similar situation, Bob attempts to offer a solution to help both boys. Chandler has devised his own solution that works even better when combined with Bob’s proposal. Will this strategy solve their problem?

This is my entry for the Fall/Winter 2021 anthology, ‘An Unconventional Gift’.

What if you were a witness to a crime, but didn't know it? Once the crime is solved, does what you know matter? If you put a period at the end of the sentence, does that give you a final answer?

Sean starts getting texts from someone who isn't out, but needs someone to talk to. Despite some initial thoughts about his friends pranking him, he decides to help this person virtually though a series of text messages.

Royce Hunter is a recent graduate from a Nursing School and it isn’t long before he’s hired to work the night shift at a nursing home. His first shift begins on Halloween and he soon learns that there is more than just the elderly patients in the building.

The loss of a father is never easy, especially when it's sudden. A family grieves, comes together to put their father to rest. In the process, James, comes to realize a truth about his father.

This story contains scenes of abuse and rape. Ronald has never had much luck in his life. From his childhood on it has been a fight to survive, but what else can a broken soul do?

Starting High School is tough no one can argue that. Especially when you have spent the last summer being hospitalized for a failed suicide attempt. All Nick wants to do now is try and put the pieces of his life back together and regain some kind of normalcy despite having a reputation as the school freak and through his efforts coming to learn that even someone as damaged as he is, is still worth being loved.

A man was killed in Rome. His heart was cut out and his body thrown down the Spanish Steps. A ritual murder? Is the crime connected with a burglary case in London? Steve Mills and Adam Johnson investigate the crimes.

A group of friends find more than riches when they set out to explore an abandoned house.

A boy's attempt to stop a bully brings on an approaching storm, that only turns on itself again and again.