Stories

A romantic vignette for the character of Andrew Pendergast from James Howard Kunstler's World Made by Hand series

It started happening almost as soon as the Supreme Court decided that marriage equality was a Constitutional right. What were the social conservatives going to do now? Was the fight for equality really over or did they have something else in mind?

Prompt 553 inspired this short story

A gay couple, Yale and Mason, own a duplex and live on one side while renting out the other. After Thanksgiving, they get an unexpected surprise when they discover they’ve selected enough of the correct numbers in the lottery to have won some money. They didn’t win a great deal, but now they’re deciding how to spend it.

After years of self-deception, Dan had finally seen the proverbial light, thanks to some caring friends. Scott was a game-player, brazenly wreaking havoc with Dan's heart, and he had let him. Christmas be damned, it was time to reclaim his dignity, and accept that he deserved better... much better.

Aiden is young, rich, and beautiful. Banking on his fellow gays' love for sex and drugs, he's become a self-made millionaire before most guys his age have finished college. But the glamor of the cars, boys, and clubs isn't there anymore, and he no longer feels the thrills he used to. When Luca steps in to his life and reminds him what passion feels like, he considers giving it all up to feel that fire again...even if he has to take on the city's biggest crime family to do it.

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 is the result of a randomly generated prompt.

Halloween is never the same on the cul-de-sac when the decorations are destroyed. Three neighbors have three very different reactions. Read on and enjoy.