Stories

A part of Cia's 'Flash Fiction' challenge for the GA Newsletter, this short 'one-shot' story details the experience of a gay sibling coming home from college to meet his younger sister's boyfriend for the first time. Is he imagining things, or does he see more of himself in this boy than he expected?

Two doctors, two lives, two families. Can one man's secret change everything?

Alex Mandeville is on his final refusal when he is billeted with an oldie, Theodore Swire. Alex is full of resentment. Will the old man change that?

Book ONE of the Boy’s Trilogy. Peter, the quiet, scholarly, marching band member, and Tom, the outgoing, popular, athlete, have a chance meeting. Outwardly so different, inwardly so much the same. They develop a strong relationship but being the 1950s they hide their true feelings from friends and family. From high school to university to graduate school to professions their love grows while having numerous adventures. In Chapter 36 they meet Vladek whose coming of age story is in the book – Russia My Home.

The lens of the camera is shallow. It sees colour and shape. It gives the illusion of motion in two dimensions. It draws the light from the dark. In that space between lens and subject, between picture and reality, lies solitude.

Jonah lived in that solitude, content within its embrace.

Until Michael.

Ben and Randy are two guys who just got approved as foster parents. When the house across from them catches fire they are soon saddled with a pair of brothers and a horrible truth about their neighbors they didnt know comes to light.

Don is a sports enthusiast and writer who is married to Louis. They've had many happy years together until an accident changes that. It changes everything.

The continued adventures in sex and friendship, online and off, of Alan Damschroeder, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, high school teacher.

Alan says, "Sometimes I think it takes a triumvirate of saints to keep me out of trouble."

These stories are written as exchanged e-mails and reading this way is an acquired taste. But the first book of this series, Web Guys, has a small, loyal following, so here's the second.

A series of short stories, one-shots, and ponderings that I have collected over the span of the last decade or so

When Pete Simpson buys a new TV, he discovers it comes with a surprise. One which takes Pete's life in a different direction.