Stories

This is the third book in The Barnstable Chronicles. While you don't necessarily have to read the first two stories to enjoy this one, I highly recommend that you at least read Book One, Stitcher as many of the people and events in that story are referenced here. If you haven't read the second book, Charlie Danner Finds His Way, you can read it at any time.

When his best childhood friend moves to another country, Andy’s life suddenly feels very empty. With his friend’s visits becoming increasingly less frequent, Andy is forced to find friendship – and romance – elsewhere.

Josh Mackenzie has led a confined, restricted life until one weekend in May ...

"Every interaction was an opportunity to impress him, to teach him, to care for him. To make him love me. I wondered, in that moment, whether we could ever maintain a healthy relationship, or if I’d continue down a one way street of unrequited love."

When unrequited love occupies the largest part of your mind, it spills into your dreams. Charlie is the perfect boy, but he's an ocean apart even when in arm's reach. Oni is the story of a young man's unfulfilled romance and its manifestation in a world of Japanese mythology.

In his late 30s, Dave has reached a point of mundane existence. As far as his sex life is concerned, it consists solely of random hookups at the bathhouse. On one of his regular visits he meets a younger man, a newcomer to the scene. This brief encounter causes Dave to reevaluate who he is, what he wants, and where he's going.

Jacob left Eli with more questions than answers when he turned the gun against himself.

Now Eli, quiet, docile and transparent, tries to pull back the layers surrounding his boyfriend's sudden death, and the people responsible -- accidentally finding love, losing love, and hiding in the shadows of a murder investigation.

A forbidden attraction on so many levels turns a town into a war zone....In this battle, love can hurt even worse than hate.....

Mateo 'Madison' Monroe is a genderfluid individual, who is androgynous in appearance. After a scandal forces their family to move, Mateo finds themselves a fish out of water in a small town in Colorado. Hoping for a fresh start to begin a new and to live as their true self while hiding their secret and past, Mateo soon discovers just how dangerous love & lies are

What if being your true self....is your downfall? Because in the eyes of some....Living your truth is downright despicable.

Winter Maestri leads Peraza after his parents' suspicious and tragic death. Andyvion, a servant from the household of the new king of the neighboring land, leaves his home and his mates to warn Winter of a plot. Winter will do anything to keep himself and his land free, even take on a fake mate. But Hazeth Montcroix is a bit more than Winter expected and the fake mating may become real, no matter how Winter fights his feelings for Hazeth.

Short stories from prompts and my own head.

Poems written when I was 22 years old.