ghosts - Stories

Memories of a past lover motivate a trip home to say goodbye.

Zach is strong, popular and perfect. He's got a loving family and everyone wants to be friends with him. All he wants is Jeremy. He doesn't know what Jeremy wants. There's also a secret everybody is keeping from him. Then there's Mark, Jeremy's older brother. What does he know? Why does he keep staring at him? Will Zach find out the truths eventually or will he be... lost?

Beyond the veil is more than memory.

Dave and Ray had a suicide pact, but things didn't go to plan and only one of them died. This is Ray's story.

For almost a whole day, Jonah doesn’t really believe it. This isn’t the way people die. Not in real life. Not in suburban Greater London. People get hit by buses, they die in car crashes, they get sick—cancer, liver failure, heart disease. They don’t get stabbed walking home from a party with their lover.

Three boys have turned the old MacBriar house into a clubhouse,and they spend Hallowe'en night. The house is not as deserted as it appears. This story is based on the third 2006 anthology theme "Hallowe'en".

Paul, Sam, and Will, 18 year-old teenagers, have everything going for them. That is, until everything changes.

These are my responses to some of the story prompts found in the forum. Click on the "Link to prompt" at the end of each story for details of the prompt and to see what other authors have come up with. This is my 2012 collection.

Wanted criminal Hong Shen finally meets his end after being stabbed in the back by a comrade. As he makes his final resting place under a dead plum tree, he submits to death.

Instead, he receives two choices: die, or be given a second chance.

To take the second chance means he must complete a trial in the past in order to return to the present. But what he doesn't know is that the trial isn't only difficult for him, but even more difficult for the person he must be to fulfill it.

I had a friend.

'Had' is the keyword here. We weren't anymore. Some disagreements and differences of opinion skewed this view. I'm afraid our friendship is one-sided.