American Songbook - Stories

A story about an old twelve gauge double barrel with a cracked stock that kicks like hell, and several generations of the Sanderson family, ending with young Ty.

Tristan's big break up is more than welcome news for Aaron. Getting even is fun.

Spring break, and everyone is back from college for some good Southern partying. For those who never left, like Marshal, their friends coming back means booze, girls and hanging out on tailgates with a bigger crowd. Marshal is happy to spend his evening lusting after a man he can't have, but someone else has other ideas.

Deputy Sheriff Blake Alston is driving around a nothin' town on a Saturday night and sick of going back to an empty house and cold bed. But Axel Carmichael seems to have a talent for being in the right place at the right time. Blake isn't ready to have his heart broken again, but even with the fact that Axel is seven years his junior and in love with someone else, he can't quite get the young man out of his head.

The morning after the night before, Nate laments his drunken phone calls to his ex and the resulting messiness. Everything in his relationship seemed to happen when it was raining, and at midnight, Nate is drunk, and it's raining again.

As he watches his, now ex, boyfriend drive away, the weather starts to go wrong in Devon Smith's life. It rains every day, and out in the countryside, that much water has devastating effects. Dev tries to stay positive as weeks turn into months, and the rain continues to hammer down, and dreams about meeting someone who can fill his heart, and his world, with sunshine.

Boston boy Liam gets a bit drunk and disorderly on his sixteenth birthday, and in response his parents move their entire life to La Fayette, Georgia. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with no friends and nothing to do, Liam needs to learn how have fun outside of the city. After all, there's always something goin' down in a nothin' town.

Seth Dacosta loves thunder and lightning, which is good, because he lives in South Florida where tropical storms roll in and make noise all of the time. Unforntunately for Seth, the man he loves does not feel quite the same way about the destructive beauty of nature. After two years together, will Seth discover why, every time there is a thunderstorm, he finds his boyfriend hiding in the wardrobe?

Clem is a six-four rough and ready farm hand who drives a pick-up truck and spends his work life bringing in the hay and fixing fences. His boyfriend Nathan is pretty often mistaken for his twin - except that he wears a stetson. but two big strong guys together is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be, and in between make-out sessions that always seem to be on the verge of turning into fights, Clem finds himself getting jealous and envious of the softer side of girls.

After getting dumped by Clem Linton, Nathan Cole spends his time breeding and training horses and sleeping with who ever he pulls in Austin nightclubs when drunk. After he wakes up next to Taylor, Nathan starts to realize quite how wrong his outlook on life is. But dealing with how low he has sunk and being willing to find the strength to pull himself into redemption are not quite as simple as galloping across a field.