big city - Stories

The VUN goes to China

They say "meet cutes" are dead and only dating apps can get you the man of your dreams—or a good lay. But maybe, they're wrong? Meet Marcus, he's a rich and powerful investor who has the physique, the face, and the money. Meet Eliot, he's a short, skinny, broke freshman, and extremely shy to the core. This is the story of what happens when these two men get "a little too close" in the subway.

They say "meet cutes" are dead and only dating apps can get you the man of your dreams—or a good lay. But maybe, they're wrong? Meet Eliot, he's a short, skinny, broke freshman, and extremely shy to the core. Meet Marcus, he's a rich and powerful investor who has the physique, the face, and the money. This is the story of what happens when these two men get "a little too close" in the subway.

Owen has never met his best friend.

For four years Xavier has been a voice in his headset. Xavier knows about the dog Owen lost at nine. He knows which voice Owen uses when he's lying about being fine.

Xavier lives two thousand miles away. That's what Owen believes.

At midnight, when a man appears under the tree across the street and won't leave, Owen calls the one person who always picks up.

Xavier tells him to breathe and stay away from the window, and promises he's safe.

Xavier means every word.

He's lying about almost everything else.

Seventeen years ago, Tyler was Martin’s high school drama club rival, accusing him of stealing the role he deserved. Now in their 30s, Martin has no interest in reconnecting with the guy who made his school years miserable. But when their employers team up to create a theater program for underprivileged youth, Martin and Tyler are forced to work together. It doesn’t help that Tyler is still cute as hell.

As old rivalries give way to some kind of friendship, Martin is plagued by painful memories of the past—and increasingly aggressive fantasies about his former nemesis. Have these theater nerds grown up at all?

It’s 2018 and Londoner Nathanial Greystone is a twenty-five-year-old waiter who works at a charity ball and he has an online blog. Nathanial starts showing signs of having schizophrenia and he is too frighted and ashamed to let anyone know. He meets rising star comedian Charlie Conray and meets someone called AJ online. As his relationship with both of them strengthens and his career working in the writing industry starts to climb, the worse his health gets to the point he questions if any of this is real or if he really deserves anything good. Can Nathaniel find the strength to help himself before it’s too late.

Johnny Day the top surfer in the California surf scene. He is the top surfer until finds there is more to his life then surfing.

Life was both hard and peaceful. I kept to myself mostly, but one night changed that. Ever since then, I'm forced to think about what had happened.

Some truths are hidden.

Others are forbidden.

After walking away from a promising connection, Gareth buys a mysterious box from an old man who seems to know far too much about him. Inside are four impossible objects—and a lesson Gareth has spent years refusing to learn.

As the walls he's built around himself are dismantled, Gareth is forced to confront the one truth he's never allowed himself to know.