coming out - Stories

A story about a priest who falls in love.

These are my responses to some of the story prompts found in the forum. Click on the "Link to prompt" at the end of each story for details of the prompt and to see what other authors have come up with. This is my 2012 collection.

George Rivera doesn't talk to her father. Hardly talks to her mom. And she finds there even some things she can't talk to her best friend about, like her feelings for her. So why I guess the only thing to do is to...write. She's not a good writer, she's an artist. Well, a wannabe artist at least. It's really dumb for her to have a journal. But maybe that might change.

Ignoring his dad’s sermon, a new sensation gripped him. He had the uncanny perception of someone watching him. Initially he just shrugged the sensation aside, but it just grew more persistent. Eventually he looked about until . . . . . . eyes, eyes watching me, beautiful brown eyes. My god he’s looking straight at me. He . . . he’s beautiful . . . those lips . . . cupids bow, so, so kissable . . . he, he has the face of an angel . . . oh my god . . .

The angel winked.

Are things always as they seem.

Brandon makes the big step of coming out to his parents - and it goes far differently than he would have hoped.

Justin Parks had a plan after the "incident." But with a recent move to Shiloh Falls, everything will change.

I was moving to escape my past and my failed relationship, but as the unexpected happened and I broke down in some small hick town in Oklahoma I realized there was something there that I had always been missing.

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.

Though dating for over a year, Steven and Aaron are still in the closet and find it more and more difficult to find time to be alone. Over the course of a single day, stranded friends, love-sick cheerleaders and mothers returning home early all conspire to keep them from being alone. But before the sun rises, friendships will be cemented, secrets revealed, and love is tested...