Stories

The sequel to my popular "Ranch Hands' book (on Amazon and other sites for sale).
This version was written in 2012, but another version was suggested, which was published in 2012 as well.
I've supplied both of them here for you so you can decided, which one should've made the cut?

The Deep Oceans are the last frontier of our planet. Charting has begun some time ago, but it’s time to use the resources from it. What might that process look like when we finally go to that extreme?

Elijah sometimes feels as though he doesn't belong. He's still in the closet, and he is the only Jewish boy in the whole dorm. During the end of the school year, Elijah's friends make him feel included when they gift him a Jewish ornament, a menorah, to hang from the Christmas tree in the common room. When it goes missing overnight, the consequences threaten to spoil the holiday spirit for everyone. As Elijah pieces together what happened, he discovers more than one truth.

The Ellesier brothers have been a team since the death of their parents five years ago. Geoff has done his best to help Richard with their little brother Jon, but raising a teenager is particularly difficult when you still have some growing up to do yourself.

It was supposed to be a fun day at the carnival. The fair? No, it's a carnival. Who calls it a fair? Tch.

Mixed feelings and new drama! Has this pair's secret finally come out?

When the laws you have sworn to uphold go against everything you belive in you become an Outcast, a Throwaway. Can an outcast ever truely find a new home, a new people. Ask Merek Tiberius.

A poem to my one and only close friend.

Tired of the parents ruling over him, judging every decision, making him pay for his mistakes with their never ending list of demands. Daniel decides to make a change, it may hurt, more than himself even, but to be truly free is worth it all.

Wrting Prompt exercises