Stories

Short mystery that is the prequel to the upcoming novel "So Weeps the Willow"

TJ needs to contemplate where his life and relationship with Stephan is going to go while he also deals with some work issues.

Even the most difficult times are manageable with the help of someone you love, but without that person, what would you do?

This story has been edited and re-worked based on several comments I received when it initially posted. Please enjoy the new and improved version of Without You.

Who knew that a rejection would lead him to something much bigger and better... and his journey would take off like that!

This is the story of the sortie and sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck in 1941, as seen from the eyes of a British officer on board HMS Suffolk.

The thing about monsters, is that not all of them appear as monsters. Some come in the form of Prince Charming.

Luke is on the run. In his past there is a man…a man willing to do anything and everything to find him and control his life once again. And as the Deputy Director of Interpol, he has all the resources to make it happen. Luke has succeeded in escaping him for a few years, but his luck runs out when he settles in Spain for too long, after falling in love with a handsome local. When his cover is blown, Luke wants to disappear once again, but he knows he can’t run forever.

Amos and Byron have been friends since they were young but as they grew they has to assume their roles in life; Byron as a young noble and Amos as his man servant.

Through the years they each harbored a secret love for each other, something they both had buried due to thier positions.

The time is almost right though that secret to be uncovered. Can Byron over come a year of pain and guilt? Will Amos stay long enough to discover what he has known for nearly a decade?

What happens if the mind is unwilling, yet the heart is open to the possibility of "What if?" What if one learns to give in to his fears, to his doubts, only to see that it is simply a step to knowing what love really means? This is a story of man, whose past and present collide, the power of his regrets and forgiveness, and his dreams of a life he hoped to have had, would only give him the courage to ask himself a question that opens the one truth that most of us do not ask...

"Every adventure requires a first step. Trite, but true, even here," the Cheshire cat, Alice in Wonderland.

Ellis's mother did him spite, she harried thieves in the dead of night.
Put her son and his child to flight, they slew the babe, they slew his knight.
Through ill fate, he'd survived, but with this, his loves had died,
And now alone he must endure the days without child and paramour.