Stories

What happens when a thick, sarcastic factory worker walks into a boulder gym and straight into the hands of two men who want him exactly as he is. Very explicit. No fade to black.

Mark is seventeen and has been Sandro's best friend since they were little kids. Until one day, he isn't anymore. After half a year of silence, what’s broken isn't so easy to fix.

Half-elf ex-cop Flynn O'Briain is losing a war on a cellular level. His human DNA and Elven heritage are tearing each other apart.

When a murdered PI leaves Flynn a blueprint for a corporate energy project that uses magical beings as batteries, he and Poitr are pulled into a conspiracy that reaches from the streets of LA to the highest levels of power. The clock is ticking. Flynn's body is failing. And the only cure is in the hands of the woman they're trying to stop.

It's July in the 90's. The ozone is depleted, the trains are down, and Jimmy is trapped on a sweltering replacement bus in a sweat-soaked school uniform, glaring at the window and trying very hard not to stare at the impossibly cool boy across the aisle. Charlie is trying equally hard not to notice. But in the suffocating heat of a rattling death-trap bound for Hastings, two boys locked in a silent, agonizing game of glances are about to discover that purgatory—and orange Calippos—can lead to unexpected places. A story of first glances, frozen lollies, and the terrifying thrill of being seen.

Two strangers collide on a council estate at 2am. Cory is drunk, hostile, and desperate to prove he's straight. Simon is exhausted, terrified, and completely out of his depth. When Cory drags him home and demands to be "stopped," what follows is a messy, brutal collision of denial and desire. Neither of them is prepared for what comes next—or how hard it will be to walk away.

*A raw, darkly comic story about the lies we tell ourselves and the truths our bodies refuse to hide.*

Josh & Konstantin have been friends, with benefits, since High School. But one has been stuck in the past and one in denial. After an explosive night of sex, they begin to face the things they hid for so long. As they get closer to the truth, secrets are revealed, and by the end of the night, one of them will learn the greatest lesson of their lives.

Two high school enemies—a lanky anxious nerd and a brooding bully—end up stuck together working the closing shift at a dead-end grocery store. As summer bleeds away and college looms, they discover the social hierarchy means nothing when you're both scraping gum off linoleum. But when a rainstorm strands them at the bully's rundown apartment, Chad discovers Jake's deepest secret: he's a massive closet geek with a decade of hidden longing. What starts as reluctant friendship becomes something far more complicated—and far more real—than either expected.

In the fragile aftermath of battle, literal and emotional armor comes off, leaving Robert and Chad to navigate a landscape of vulnerability and unspoken truths. Intimidated by the prospect, Robert steps into a sleek corporate promotion, using it as a shield to isolate himself and keep Chad's fire at a distance. But the pressure of the impending Mecha Man relaunch pushes Robert’s stress to a boiling point, fracturing his control. What begins as a desperate, high-friction attempt to use a single night of physical release to burn Chad out of his system instead traps them both in a web of missed connections and mounting, unreciprocated feelings.

Emory had his whole life planned out. Go to college, become successful, marry Danielle. Then one night, he met a boy who took his virginity, and now Emory is about to turn his life upside down and follow the boy across the country. It's time for this boy to meet other boys.

Johnny Day the top surfer in the California surf scene. He is the top surfer until finds there is more to his life then surfing.