holiday - Stories

Response to the 2014 Writing Prompts

During an unusual winter, TJ heads to his family’s cabin for some peace and solitude. However, solitude is not to be as a bad winter storm strikes, stranding a stranger outside his family’s cabin. Will he let his walls down and let this man into his heart?

A Wednesday Brief Holiday Short Story

Like the namesake movie released in 2000, which is set in LA, What's Cooking (in NYC) explores the lives of four families as they make preparations for the Thanksgiving holiday. As with the movie, there is much unexpected drama, but with the added wrinkle that all four families, who are well-known to NYC Holidays readers, are waiting for loved ones to arrive on the same flight from California. When a glitch in Air Traffic Control occurs, anything can happen.

The veil between people is thinnest at certain times of the year. This collection of Short Stories explores what we call 'Holidays.'

Three short stories about couples in my completed stories (Heart, Oakfield, To The Stars) enjoying Valentine's Day together.

Last spring, Jeff was reunited with his long lost love, whom he last saw nearly fifty years ago, when they were both in their teens. Abandoning a life in California and moving in with Paul in New York City, merging two lifetimes into a 3-bedroom prewar apartment proved to be more difficult than either of them imagined. Things come to a head when they can’t agree on how to renovate the kitchen. Leave it to Paul’s grandson, Seth, to come to the rescue with a surprise plan, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Becoming a vampire is nothing like they tell you in those books. Frankly, it sucks. Especially when you're a failure, your master rejects you and you want nothing more than to fade away from your miserable existence, even if it's Christmas Eve.

While on a family holiday in Malaysia, a disaster strikes, as a giant Tsunami seperates the family, some gone, others lost.

A re-interpretation of a Classic Fairy Tale:

Brad Brooks has become isolated, self-destructive, and beastly to others around him. Beau Cocteau is a petite and kindhearted gay college student with no family and few friends. A chance encounter one night will begin a tale as old as time.