modern - Stories

A little slice of my life so far.

Similar to Christmas caroling, residents go from store to store and are rewarded with treats. Traditional Julebukking involves a kind of masquerade, where carolers where costumes and masks and attempt to hide their identity from those they are singing to, while the recipients try to guess who's behind the mask.

Aspen Falls.. what a misnomer... the Aspen was about the only thing left standing! Little did he know that when the last wind blew he will have fallen too.

Justin is a mischievous high school student living a comfortable life until he gets caught with another boy. He is sent away to a place run by an evil man, where every day is a struggle for survival sanity.

Charlie and Kippy and friends find themselves drawn into helping their elf friend, Max, as he works his way through a problem - with The Big Guy, himself!

Nick's father dies and he goes to the family owned school before he takes over the family business at Christmas.

Valentine's Day isn't for everybody. Especially when you're young, gay, and in the closet. But what if you got a sweet little message anyway? Maybe the right gesture, at just the right time, could change your mind.

A short story to warm the heart. Enjoy!

Teenage love story that entails acceptance, tolerance, forgiveness and love. One struggles to understand his sexuality and questions whether he is gay. Once a relationship is established their coming out and their interaction with family members and friends and how they deal with those whom aren't very accepting. The struggle to support a friend whose family rejects him for being gay. The story begins at early childhood and continues to their high school graduation.

Cinema engineer Craig is tired of life on the road; eating junk food, staying in bland hotels and never knowing if he’ll get home at night. He can’t see any way out until an unexpected turn of events and an encounter with a fellow traveller makes him realise there might be an alternative.

Nat lost touch with former friend and lover Grant after they finished university. He knows from Facebook that Grant inherited a farm in the country and married the 'Lord of the Manor'. So why has he received an invitation to a mysterious local event in aid of the recent flooding? Could there be trouble in paradise?