light-hearted - Stories

Jamie's sick of being single and decides to try online dating. After all, he can't meet his one true love unless he puts himself out there. Fate will make sure his future husband and father of his children is on the same site. That's how it works. Right?

A gay couple, Yale and Mason, own a duplex and live on one side while renting out the other. After Thanksgiving, they get an unexpected surprise when they discover they’ve selected enough of the correct numbers in the lottery to have won some money. They didn’t win a great deal, but now they’re deciding how to spend it.

Two poems in tribute to a beloved author, friend, mentor and champion of life.

The Gulf of Stintino, in Sardinia (Italy), a shower after the sun and the sea water, the light goes out.

And then it is a matter of tact, isn't it?

An unpleasant misunderstanding threatens to cut short Anthony's part time job as an artists' model.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sam Miller owns a duplex on the beach and lives there with his fourteen-year-old son, Devon (Devie). He rents out the other half to thirty-five-year-old Taylor Winters and his fourteen-year-old son, Cillian (Cillie). The dads share an attraction to one another, and their kids have an attraction for each other. The two sets of couples decide to explore becoming a family while Taylor, and Sam date, and Cillian, and Devon date.

Georgie’s younger brother Simon turns up with some friends to celebrate his seventeenth birthday, but the next morning, a monumental hangover and an unexpected discovery threaten to cast a shadow over their close family bond.

It's Connors birthday and he's spent it alone. But can a call from a good friend cheer him up.

Note: I wrote this story for a school project many years ago and just found it existing in a corner of my hard-drive. I have edited it slightly but otherwise it exists as it did then.

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