Identity / Self-Discovery - Stories

When my best friend asks me to help her boyfriend experiment sexually, I'm not on board. Obviously. They say your college years should be the time to have fun and do stupid stuff. Live, laugh, love and all.

But that always seemed too careless for me. Sue me for being cautious! Unlike others, I do think about the consequences.

I will do my best to resist. Even if his magnetic eyes make me lose my sense of self-control. It's going to be the hardest thing to deal with in my life, but I'll fight it. Because it's my heart I'm trying to protect.

Healing takes work, trust takes time, and the ground beneath them is still desperately thin.

While Chad recovers, basking in the miracle of a relationship finally brought out of the cold, Robert returns to SDN to face the fallout after the battle. The fault lines beneath them are already shifting and Robert is quietly bearing the cost so Chad never has to.

They're finally together, but what you see on the surface level can be deceiving.

Meet the Harding boys: Matt and his big brother Justin, their hunky dad Richard, and their fun-loving uncle Patrick.

When Matt gives his father a lavish vacation, it's meant to bring them closer -- but a secret plan to indulge a forbidden curiosity unsettles everything. An old passion reawakens in Richard, soon ensnaring Justin and Patrick too.

Sons collide with fathers, uncles with nephews, and brothers with each other. As the Harding men circle the same questions, the past simmers beneath the surface, threatening to redraw the boundaries of family, loyalty, and lust.

Nineteen, not out, and secretly into the guy who took the only open seat in his astronomy lab. The hottest guy he's ever met. Older, unbothered, straight as far as Cole can tell. A slow-burn, first-time story told across one semester, intrusive thoughts included. He kept saying I owe you one. Neither of them knew where it would lead. Fifteen chapters. The complete story.

Having crashed and burned after early success as a composer, Alex has managed to rebuild his career and his life. Carpenter Neil is between girlfriends, and his knowledge of music is limited. Yet despite their differences the two come together, and each spurs the other on to explore life further and to take risks. Add in a pair of mothers who are friends and Neil’s fragile younger brother—as well as a manipulative rich uncle and some lively friends—and you have a dynamic mix.

Sixteen-year-old Richard plans to come out to his parents - as he's in love with his best friend Nicholas - but his parents have a shocking surprise of their own. When he turns to Nicholas for support, it turns out Nicholas has a surprise for Richard too...

I originally put this story on here around 7 years ago but I have made a lot of updates to it, so decided to republish. Enjoy!

Now in his early twenties, Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, has been going through a rough couple of years dealing with deep rooted mental illness. Things somehow get even worse when he is forced to work together with an 'unhinged psycho' who manages to get on his nerves every step of the way. As they get to know each other better facing various adversities, they learn to respect their similarities and differences. Eventually, "respect" grows into something Nico finds much harder to deal with.

In the second installment of the trilogy, Zaïn is forced to confront the truth of who he truly is, while his newfound bond with Hadrian threatens to consume them both.
As the Dazaris’ plans close in, new threats emerge from the shadows, plunging Redwaters into darkness… once again.

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.*