Historical Drama - Stories

"You can never trust a Crawley." Those were Albert Cooley's words to his sons, spoken every chance he got, and August did his best to do what was expected of him after his ma passed. The Crawleys and the Cooleys were ranching families, and they didn't mix, not ever, but more and more, August had a problem with letting his father decide everything for him. Was Fletcher really his enemy? Could he trust the man he'd butted heads with over and over, one he'd known pretty much his whole life? All he knew for certain was he was tired of all the conflict, and needed his life to change before he exploded. That's where his Gran came in.

When Travis Buck becomes famous for playing golden boy Jackson Pryce in the TV hit Palisades, the role begins to consume him. Off screen, he hides trauma, addiction, and a secret relationship with his best friend, Will Schluter — while his co-star Ken “Kendo” Dolan lures him deeper into self-destruction. As Travis’s real life mirrors Jackson’s unraveling, fame, love, and control collide. Forced into isolation to survive, he must decide whether to keep performing the perfect life everyone expects — or risk everything to be real.

Travisty is a story about identity, survival, and the cost of being seen.

This is a story in the genre of historical fiction. The protagonist is a fictitious Swedish Count living in the early nineteenth century. He is the heir to a large estate in mid-Sweden, pursues formal studies abroad and has contacts with the royal family. His sexual orientation remains an issue throughout his life. This story offers an insight into love relations and friendships at the time. Some actual historical persons figure in the plot in a fictionalized version.

In 1603 France, an investigator with secrets of his own is dispatched to a remote village to unravel a peasant boy's bizarre confession of lycanthropy. But for men who walk forbidden paths, the truth is more dangerous than any myth. (Inspired by historic events.)

Two friends meet up with a stranger in the Pyrenees who gradually tells them his story of life and love in the last years of Franco's regime when homosexuality was a crime. We meet Ximo and the love of his life. Can that love survive what life in a dictatorship throws at them?

Summer, 1968. An ex-soldier with regrets pairs with an ex-boxer who never lost his punch. Their mission: finish a sci-fi comic in five days. But as the city melts, the story of hidden aliens mirrors the chemistry unfolding between them. Sometimes, unmasking is the only way to survive.

Escaping the crushing poverty of 19th-century Hungary, László endures a harrowing journey to the industrial heart of Huntington, Indiana, where his existence is defined by the relentless rhythm of factory machinery and deep solitude. It is only in the autumn of his life that he finds an unexpected sanctuary in the arms of András, a fellow immigrant with whom he builds a quiet, tender domesticity hidden within their bustling ethnic enclave. But as the two men pour their life savings into lifting up the community around them, the very neighbors they supported turn against them..

In 1969, two boys from opposing nuclear-armed nations along the banks of the Amur River met. This is their untold story with the backdrop of ideologies, rhetoric, and national priorities.

(Part of the 2025 Prompt Team Event)

It is August of 2004, the month that the Olympics were held in Athens. Will Schluter will be there, then he'll start his freshman year at Harvard with his cousin Marie. It's a bittersweet event because the man he loves, Travis Buck, has to remain in Hollywood to work on his acting career, and they'll have to deal with being separated by thousands of miles.

Meanwhile, Will's brother JJ is firmly established in New York City, trying to deal with the inevitable challenges life throws at him, while his father Brad will face a crisis that could ruin his marriage.