opposites attract - Stories

Owen has been hiding his whole life. Closeted in a Catholic funeral home family, fake-dating his best friend Margot for three years, headed to a college he doesn't want. Then Ryder messages him on a dating app and everything shifts. Ryder is rough, honest, reckless, and completely unwilling to be someone's secret. As their connection deepens over one Ohio summer, Owen finds himself caught between the safe lie he's been living and the terrifying truth Ryder keeps pushing him toward. Something has to break. And Ryder's determined to take him on the ride of his life before it does.

Maximilian Hawthorn is eleven years old, terrifyingly clever, and the undisputed master of his school. He runs a black-market homework empire, negotiates better lunch privileges than the prefects, and has reduced his form teacher to tears more times than anyone can count.

Then he notices Gabriel —quiet, unimpressed, and immune to Max's schemes. His carefully constructed world begins to unravel as he discovers that some things can't be outsmarted, some people refuse to be impressed, and sometimes the best strategy is no strategy at all.

Crushes, chaos, and the theatre kids who bring even the most arrogant boys to their knees.

A forbidden, slow-burn wedding saga about a mouthy younger brother and the man he was never supposed to want.

Mickey Ryder is twenty-three, deeply in debt, and the captain of a barely-functioning mail ship held together by salvage tape and bad decisions. When a runaway cult boy named Isaiah hides in his cargo bay, Mickey does the one thing he never does—he says yes. Now they're running from New Eden, hauling mystery cargo, and trying not to kill each other. But between a dead exploration ship, a screaming alien in a crate, and a religious mandate that just dropped a nine-year-old son on his doorstep, Mickey's about to learn that surviving is easy. Living? That's the hard part.

Rami is a home stager, selling the illusion of perfection. His ex brother-in-law Dan is everything he's not supposed to want: too big, too hairy, too straight, too... Dan. But working together with one sweaty week to get Dan's house on the market proves to Rami that the best things in life can't be curated.

Avery is a consultant and master of traveling light. A breakup sends him home to lick his wounds—a temporary situation, but aren't they all? The variable he didn't plan on is Dino, the high school jock turned divorced mechanic. Does their weekend fling have a future? Or will it end in another exit strategy?

An ambitious writer competing for a prestigious fellowship encounters a handsome himbo drifter determined to help him — whether he likes it or not.

When journalist David Levy shadows an MMA fighter, he expects to meet a brute. Instead, he’s paired with Connor Ryan—a ginger-haired knockout with a sharp wit and a past as bruised as his knuckles. As David follows Connor through the high-stakes world of cage fighting, the lines between observer and participant begin to blur.

With Connor training for the fight of his life and David’s career on the ropes, both men must choose between ambition and desire. But when a dark secret surfaces and a single mistake threatens everything, winning might mean losing each other for good.

Co-written by Sween McDervish.

Plants and animals were my thing. The intricacies of nature intrigued me and yet there was an elegant simplicity that I loved.

6888 Ardra. Heavy gravity planet. Human-compatible atmosphere. Generally temperate climate; I’d aimed for the southern continent which had milder weather and a good mix of terrain.

“Damn Sonez anyway.” He’d tried to keep me on his ship instead of letting me explore the planet with a team after the probe returned. Well I’d stopped his plotting before he could ruin my life.

And I’d show everyone just what Essell Deray could do.