mature adult - Stories

Anthology Pot Luck Theme: Turn Back Time

British born Chinese gay man Stanley Cheung wakes with somebody else's hangover.

Not only that, but he is laid out on someone’s couch in a grungy student digs where a strange woman is telling him he smells like a brewery. The thing is Stanley rarely drinks.

When the woman finally leaves, he finds out that not only has he woken as six-foot-three, ripped, blond-haired, straight Caucasian Don Bradley, but today is not Friday.

It’s Thursday.

Again.

He is reliving the same day but this time as somebody else.

The beginning, after an ending.

Aaron's task of seeing a drunken co-worker home turns sour in more ways than one.

This story was written for National Math Story Day, 2017

After years of self-deception, Dan had finally seen the proverbial light, thanks to some caring friends. Scott was a game-player, brazenly wreaking havoc with Dan's heart, and he had let him. Christmas be damned, it was time to reclaim his dignity, and accept that he deserved better... much better.

Responses to story prompts.

The secret recipe for immortality; twelve candles each representing a sign of the zodiac, all contain a clue to the location of the next one. In here you will find dragons and unicorns, rams, bulls and archers, scorpions and fish in space, you'll meet some antagonistic characters, but they all have one thing in common, to find that last candle, for once the cycle has begun, it cannot be undone.

Patrick is a writer for a food magazine. Although Christmas is over it doesn't mean the work is. Cancelling out on his sister's dinner he asks for a raincheck. He gets it only to have it called in for that weekend. His niece has just graduated college. Now he will need to deal with snow storms, delayed flights, young adults, a crush, and a fall. Pat will have to deal it all, just maybe later.

A golden dragon is transported to another world where he must save the one if he is to have hope of saving many more.

A surprise gift comes walking in.