Stories

I guess it was my own fault for getting mixed up with the wrong crowd, Jimmy, Toddy, Hog and me, we had been sort of friends since entering year eight in high school, I didn’t smoke tobacco or weed like they did, nor did I drink alcohol, and my school mates seem to accept that, and still let me hang out with them at night on weekends.

Now at the age of 15, I was now being processed to enter a juvenile detention centre for a period of 3 years, for the brutal killing of an elderly man with a baseball bat, the same bat that my mates and I had been using for over a year now in the warehouse, and that’s how they found my prints on the bat.

Studying psychology while getting firsthand experience from his ‘college boyfriend’ isn’t the college experience Ace wanted. Luckily, a frat leader Carter hates offers to help break the abuse cycle Ace’s been gaslit into. Leo's only rules?

"Tell me if anything changes, or if I go too far."

"Don’t go back to Carter. If you need toxic, call me.”

Messy hook-ups are to be expected in a frat. When a chaotic freshman drags Leo into his on/off relationship, Leo uses a little consensual tough love to help Ace leave Carter. Ace's only rules?

"No sex.”

"No kissing."

Will the unspoken rule be broken first?

Don't fall in love.

How do you face eternity when fate has abandoned you alone? Warning: Character Death

Hunters don't live long in a world full of myths and monsters. But Gideon, rookie vampire Hunter and hopeless good boy, really did expect to live a few years--and survive a few missions--before he meets his end. At least he expects to die when he accidentally lets loose a feral vampire in the city of Babylon, but somehow, that doesn't happen.

When his mentor, Aschure, starts to act weird, though, Gideon realizes that whatever is going on is not yet over. And that life as a Hunter can take a real turn for the worse.

It’s the early 1950’s in Australia and Ryan Seaton has a dark secret. At twelve years old he’s discovered he’s a homosexual and in that decade being gay could be fatal. Added to that, his mother uses emotional blackmail, making his home-life miserable. Then his best mate confides he’s also gay, but the combined hostility of society, religion and the law, ensures that any relief is short-lived. Tragedy follows.

The decade known as the 1950’s was word-wide, the worst time to be gay, but out of the depths of despair a new period of enlightenment began. This is the story of some young souls living through and surmounting that awful decade.

A collection of poems

After selling his start-up, Theo considers leaving his life behind in search of something different… and he finds it, in the form of a young Greek farmer.

This story is about a boy named Daivd who knows hes gay and has a hard time being accepted by friends, and family.

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?

This is part 4 of “Catering With Benefits” - in the Appetites series.

Our favourite characters are living in the time of the pandemic, but don’t let that stop them from getting on with life.

The Flinders Street complex housing Poppy’s, Deans’s Bar, Divas and Dare to Bare, is closed due to the statewide lockdown.

On the other side of town the younger generation are coming of age and stepping out to discover what life has to offer.