Complete - Stories

Prompt 263: First line: "It's behind me, isn't it."

Centaurus 4 is the latest mission to Proxima Centauri b. Three attempts to reach the distant planet were unmanned. The main reason for that was that Proxima Centauri b (PC-b) is 4.22 light-years (1.3 parsecs) from Earth. Recent advancements in space travel have reduced the travel time to 153 days at ten times light speed. The story takes place roughly two hundred years in our future.

Centaurus 4 has a crew of 16. The first three members of the crew have recently exited the ship and started their survey of the immediate area. What they experience is shocking, to say the least.

Bobby (later known as Bob) Stimson is the son of an Air Force colonel and the brother of Teddy. He's an 18 year old senior in high school, a first-team football star, and is dating a cheerleader named Angie. When he graduates, Bob plans to join the US Air Force and follow his father's career. It is the spring of 1966, and the war in Vietnam is ramping up. Bob expects to go from basic training straight into combat, and he's worried about leaving his family and girlfriend behind.

Gael is a starry-eyed young man, dreaming of a fairytale life with Carlos. But when dreams shatter and reality reveals the painful truth, Gael is left questioning everything he once believed about love. Heartbroken and lost, he must decide whether to fight for a love that may never be as it seemed or walk away from the man he thought was his forever. When fate offers a second chance, will Gael dare to believe in love again—or is he doomed to repeat his heartache?

Making the transition from school life to working life rarely comes easy. Throw into the mix a young man's raging hormones and it only becomes more complicated. For Grayson Porter that combination proves a dangerous combination, but from that comes the greatest adventure and the greatest love of his life: Rafael da Silva. The question is, can they survive long enough to enjoy it?

This is a Vampire story there is Blood and Death.

A sixteen-year-old boy wrestles with his sexuality, hormones, and obsessions innocently unaware that his world is surrounded by murder, mayhem, and tomfoolery. Swirling around him, a supporting cast of boys, girls, men, and women, indulge themselves and each other in a series of erotic, tawdry, and sometimes humorous encounters.

Another episode from the files of Detective Gennaro Saggio. Things have been relatively quiet. Orono, Maine has once again returned to being a sleepy little town. Detective Saggio is working Memorial Day, not looking forward to investigating the excitement caused annually by drunks.

There was excitement, but not the kind he expected.

From a less than happy childhood Alex Mason escaped to the army in search of something, but what? With a facility for languages, a ruthless disregard for himself and a definite disposition towards solitude, he was recruited into the Special Forces and subsequently MI6.

His life was, with very few exceptions, empty. Until he met Ben, but Ben was another fleeting encounter, even if the connection between them was instant. Alex had a mission and it was dangerous, duty called, with no time for sentiment.

This is a fictionalized version of a true saga in my life. I've taken a series of actual events and extrapolated them into what I think is a fun story. It's sexy; it's a bit adventurous; it's a recent period piece; it's a travelogue; it's a soap opera; and it's a little bit romantic. What happens when a naive young gay man accidentally encounters the seamier side of gay life? What happens when he says "Maybe" to its temptations? Read on to find out and have a little fun along the way!