atmospheric - Stories

Two ruined men—one a disgraced aristocrat, the other a madman fleeing Bedlam—forge an unlikely alliance in 1748 London. To survive, they must navigate a world of gambling dens, back-alley degradation, and highway robbery. But when their partnership deepens into something more dangerous than any heist, they’ll discover that survival is cheaper than love—and far less costly. A gritty historical romance about redemption, resilience, and finding family in the darkest places.

Ruth comes to James’ Park searching for a place to begin again. The old house seems ordinary at first. Some houses hold memories. Others set them free.

“Buck, there are Sundays at Augusta that test a golfer, and then there are Sundays that reveal him. Tim Orszulak has absorbed every ounce of pressure this championship can offer and, to this point, he has not blinked. He did not merely survive yesterday...he announced himself. Here is a nineteen-year-old college student sharing today's leaderboard with some of the best golfers in the world. Today, we find out whether that was the beginning of a story, or the end of a dream.”

A continuation of the series "Dad's Helping Hand"...

The Harding men reunite for their annual family camping trip, gathering in the woods to celebrate Lucas's special birthday. But Richard and Matt have unfinished business as father and son. Away from home, the boundaries they’ve spent months circling begin to disappear.

As old secrets surface, new ones become harder to hide. Uncle Patrick is watching more closely than they realize, while Justin may find himself drawn back into old habits. And with Matt and Justin’s quietly handsome stepdad Enrique along for the ride too, the boys' circle is wider than ever.

James and Devon are building a life together—the cold flat, the burned eggs, the post-it notes, the tea. Then, on what should be the happiest day of James's life, everything stops. This is a quiet story about the small rituals that hold us together, the ordinary objects that become unbearable, and the slow work of learning to live when the person you built your life around is gone.

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.

A mythic retelling of the American Revolution told as an epic poem. Ordinary colonists rise into heroic figures as they confront an empire and fight for liberty. Blending history with legendary imagery, the poem follows their trials, sacrifices, and triumphs as fate, courage, and unseen forces shape the birth of a new nation. It is a narrative of struggle, hope, and the forging of a republic.

A note on this story: it is written in the dense, melancholy register of 19th-century Gothic fiction, and does not shy from grief, loneliness, or loss along its way to its ending.

For a hundred and fifty years, Jack has walked a county that has forgotten him, a farm boy who bartered his soul at a crossroads and paid twice over for it. Refused by Heaven, unclaimed by Hell, he has only a stolen coal to light his way, and windows he can watch but never touch.

Then he finds Julian's: nineteen, ill, certain no one would notice if he stopped waking. As October nears Halloween, the veil thins, and an old bargain comes due.

February 2011. Tripoli is burning.

Special Envoy Will Carter is trapped in a collapsing palace, hunted by militias and running out of time. His husband Andrew is the only thing standing between him and execution—but the city is a warzone, and the hunters are closing in.

From the corridors of power in Ottawa to the burning streets of the Libyan capital, the Carters are about to discover that some wars are fought with bullets, and some are fought with everything you have.