Stories

Every year, I step into the world of the dark and scary.

Or sometimes the funny and halloweeny.

This is the 2019 Halloween Month Collection. Within these chapters you'll find darkness, trips into worlds that are being written or worked on, and characters doing many different things.

"Step into my web" said the Spider to the Fly.

Poems of suffering and peace from a nearly forgotten master. Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele was killed in action in July, 1915, 26 years of age. His partner and friends brought out his Das tausendste Regiment ("The Thousandth Regiment") posthumously in 1917. Whether or not his work has been ignored because he was Gay, it's time to bring his name forward and place it with the other great WW1 poets, where he has always belonged.

This will contain any poems and short stories I come up with. I don't normally write poetry, but it is something I'm trying to do now. Thanks for your comments.

Devon fled Wyoming as soon as he turned eighteen, leaving behind his high school love, Levi. After six years, Devon returns to his hometown. Not much has changed, except that Levi is no longer in the closet. He’s also single and living his dream—managing the local wild horse population. Both of them are interested in picking up where they left off, but Devon is no more ready to reveal his orientation than he was as a teenager. No one is going to shove Levi back in the closet—not even Devon. For a relationship to work, they’ll have to put the past behind them and find the courage to face the future as who they really are—a couple in love.

This is where I will drop all my prompt responses and any short scenes/stories that push their way into my mind.

Please note: All bits and pieces in this collection are unedited. I will, of course, proofread to the best of my abilities, and add any changes people send me. But, they are just things that come into my mind and jump onto the page.

Life was going great, well I thought it was until one late Autumn afternoon, I received a phone call from my ex-wife, who informed me that our only child, 12-year Jonah Hunter Langston, had run away from home, after being forced to admit that he was gay, to his mother and step-father. It took me a good twenty minutes of arguing over the telephone to get most of the information out of Karen on what had happened, what shocked me the most was that this has happened over a week ago, and she was only just now starting to worry, after presuming that Jonah had gone to stay with friends for a while.

As someone who doesn't get embarrassed easily I sure was in for a shocker of a first day of my last year of high school. Everything was going fine in my boring school, boring town and boring life until HE came along...

I just wanted to get through the end of school and move on to bigger and better things. Apparently, that was too much to ask for. I should have known that life is never that straight-forward for me. Let's put it this way, I'm going to be in for an interesting few years of friendships, and relationships? Wait no - that can't be right. Well I guess it is, so strap in and let's both hope that this doesn't end in disaster!

For the past decade Nora has done her best to keep Lane safe by keeping her secrets. Now, she realizes, the time has come for Lane to know the truth. Feeling a desperate need to attone, she travels to Adermoor Cove to reconcile with her son.

Jane's got a plan and she's sticking to it. Quin's just trying to get over a heartbreak. Will Jane let Quin in before it's too late.

Lucky's a man who wants nothing more than to fall in love with another prince and have his own happily ever after. Unfortunately, he's arranged to be married to a princess as nothing more than a business transaction for his father the king. Lucky has a mission, though, and he is willing to cooperate with a former Big Bad Wolf turned police officer. In a modern world where magic exists with the fairest women and the most charming men, they must together to fight an evil force wanting control over the entire world. And with help of a few princesses, this won't be just another fairy tale story.