coming of age - Stories

Landon pushed his luck too far this time, and nothing's the same anymore.

for Ross

Benjamin is aging out of the foster care system, with no family and no home he strikes to move out on his own. he strikes an unlikely friendship with Josh. Can Benjamin learn to trust, learn to love, and can Josh break through the trauma and distrust and work together towards salvaging their road to redemption

Lots of ordinary things pass us by while we're busy doing other stuff. However, sometimes the veil gets thin and glimpses peek through of something brighter.

Harry and his buddies go downtown for a day of hanging out. They're seventeen-year-old guys with a lot on their minds, although by their take-life-as-it-comes attitudes you'd never know it.

A short story in four chapters set on the mountainous Italian coast. Seven years after ‘The Summer of the Firefly’, another teen struggles with his identity following a bust-up with his father and his best friend.

Shawn is disillusioned with life and harbors a deep hatred for everyone around him, including his mother. He even hates himself. Furthermore, he has Anthony, a "personal tormentor" of the past few years. He isn't sure why Anthony seemingly singles him out, but he doesn't care. It just makes it easier to hate him. A chance encounter, however, will show them that they have more in common than they realize.

An itinerant photographer stops by the one town he’s avoided for the last twenty years. What is it he hopes to encounter there? What is this ‘one last thing’ he feels he has to do?

Fourteen-year-old Simon is getting a haircut. He has choices: a crew cut or a mullet; to continue his isolation, or to murmur a personal 'open sesame.' Later, with a little help from his friends, he finds out he is not nearly as alone as he imagined. And he suddenly can face the prospects of a long summer and entering high school in the fall with hope.

After an accident that leaves his boyfriend incapacitated, Conner is left to try and pick up the pieces and move forward with his life. But moving on is easier said than done as long as Justin's still breathing, and Conner's made a promise not to leave him. With so much of himself wrapped up in a boy that isn't really there anymore, Conner isn't sure he can handle dealing with life in general and starting new relationships, or even hang onto old ones without losing his mind.

A young American finds family and love on the Emerald Isle.