Stories

A disillusioned college student meets a mysterious stranger, both with secrets hidden even from themselves...

A tryptych of poems based around a fascination, or a love, depending on how you define the two. It's only by taking a leap of faith into the unknown that you ever find out which of the two it is. If it's not worth taking that leap, it's only fascination. If you can bear to not take that leap, it's love.

I found an old poem that I wrote when I was a teenager. My family and I weren't getting along. I was having a really hard time at that point in my life.

Ukiah's always been a painful place for gay teens to be themselves. What happens when one teen finds a way to forget the pain?

The story of high school life in Ukiah continues, and again romance takes a rocky turn as homophobia and teenage angst threaten to ruin the day.

About the wall in my mind and whats behind it and how I can't let the people around me see these emotions on my face.

Sam searches for love and acceptance as he deals with the pressures of student life, a troubled family and his emerging confusion over his sexuality as he finds himself falling in love with his best friend.

Is everything a choice? At what point do we decide it is a conscious decision? How do we tell the right from the wrong, when we could be just as confused as those we condemn? It is, of course, not everyday that we tell our brothers we love them. Under what obligation were we to love them anyway? This story follows the lives of two brothers, and how, in a confused moment, a catastrophe was born.

Chris grew up a loner in small-town Arizona, but things began to change for him when he started college. Sometimes for the better, but sometimes for the worse, and often with humor, the changes affect his life, as he sets for on the road of life, and towards finding the love of his life, with a lot of adventure along the way.
Genre: Action/adventure Status: Completed

A sestina about coming to accept your sexual identity with the help of another – a person who instils the courage to love yourself for who you are.