coming of age - Stories

Jake has just been wandering the neighborhoods of Marshalltown, Iowa. What is going through his head could only drive him insane or drive him to love.

A collection of emo-esque poetry, so I guess that makes me an esque-emo. So by my logic, if you like igloos, you'll love this. :P

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.

"Every interaction was an opportunity to impress him, to teach him, to care for him. To make him love me. I wondered, in that moment, whether we could ever maintain a healthy relationship, or if I’d continue down a one way street of unrequited love."

When unrequited love occupies the largest part of your mind, it spills into your dreams. Charlie is the perfect boy, but he's an ocean apart even when in arm's reach. Oni is the story of a young man's unfulfilled romance and its manifestation in a world of Japanese mythology.

In leaving a sick system we must seek freedom. Freedom, to be gained, must have a sacrifice. You must cut it from the world and run off into the night with it.

WAR IS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN (Amorous Things, Library of Horror Press 2010) tells the story of two young men: one, a grocery store clerk; the other: a soon-to-be-armed-service member. In the midst of John's preparation to join the military, his partner, Markus, is almost unable to function, as his partner's past comes flooding back like a tidal wave approaching a shore in the form of words from a dead man's lips.

Contemporary fiction short story, it's sad and for some hopefully an eye opener.

Dialogue heavy with moderate language and scenes not for the weak of heart.

Short excerpts of thoughts on my life. I'm not sure what this will become or what I will talk about. It feels more like an organized and focused journal than an actual story. I feel these thoughts are worth sharing, though.

Sean is from a small town in Utah and being gay there just isn't what happens.
His Dad has decided to send him to military school to try and "straighten him out" but Sean knows it won't help. For him it's not about learning to accept himself, he just has to try not to get beaten to a pulp by his bunkmates!

Follow Sean on his journey through his year at a new school with his many misadventures in this comedic (hopefully) story.

Young cousins find out that they have a lot more in common than they thought.