coming of age - Stories

Henry is a loner attending an exclusive Silicon Valley boarding school. A mysterious new kid shows up mid term in order to guide Henry on an unexpected adventure.

Vanus Kaufman has diamond eyes; everyone thinks he's a daemon. Three days before he is to turn eighteen and leave the orphanage, he discovers he is the heir to a powerful dynasty. In the blink of an eye, he finds himself surrounded by wealth, fame, and power beyond anything he could imagine. But even for a powerful magician the city of Vaylin is a dangerous and corrupt place. If Vanus wants to keep what is his, he will have to fight for it.

A shout out to Author Thorn Wilde who kindly gave me permission to use his name, which is awesome!

Cammy knew he was ‘different’, and not just in his dress sense, but he didn’t care. He knew people thought he was ‘odd’, but his mother said he was unique and that’s just what Cammy wanted to be. Pretty much everyone in the school adored him. Cammy had an enormous crush on Thorne, but Thorne didn’t seem to know he existed―until today.

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.

Another A to Z snapshot; Zander wonders about love and what the future holds.

Sean is moving up in the world, academically, but he's off to a rough start with a bully and a fight in the first day. He hopes to hide his humble beginnings, but quickly finds himself in the middle of romance and murder that leaves little room for secrets.

Daniel found his forever friend in Hone when he was just four-years-old. They grow up inseparable. The only secret between them is that Daniel is gay. If life is a puzzle, the only piece missing is the truth.

Posted for Pride Month

A narcoleptic, epileptic, and out casted teen, starts high school off with a bang. He gets thrown into the life of Merit, a popular senior with a secret of his own and from there, a possible relationship gets shaken up by their peers and the drama that surrounds them all. Through it all though, he just wants someone to see him, truly see him because often in high school, teenagers don't truly see each other or their inner truths, they just take what is right in front of their eyes.

One summer well before the Bolshevik revolution, when Russia was a noble country, young Alexei, as was the custom of the time, left the city with his family, for the countryside.

It was a time of discovery, excitement, longing, and also sadness. A time in which he made new acquaintances and fought battles with himself, as the child he still was struggled free from many constraints into a world of dangerous possibilities.

This is a collection of short stories about supporting characters and antagonists from my novel Nemesis. It's probably not necessary to read Nemesis to enjoy these, but if you intend to read Nemesis you should probably do so first, as this contains spoilers.