urban - Stories

Colbyn - a small town in the middle of nowhere...

Nerd Alex stumbles into a soldier, Max... and a little chat over coffee on a rainy day leads to a friendship, that contains pining, healing and self-discovery.

Kevin, who fled from an abusive life-long situation, got literally picked up from the curb by Tom. Tom knows how it feels to have nothing and basically no one, and he wants to pay back what he once received as help...

Gabe is pining over Sam and Sam needs a boyfriend to show-off at Christmas dinner. While Gabe believes in all this and experiences all his firsts, the lines of pretend start to blur on Sam's side...

Wars have been fought over obsessions, and millions have died; but not all obsessions produce effects that severe or lethal. Most only affect a small group of people. But what personal obsessions often have in common is that trivial, careless remark, or an unknowing or uncaring act, that triggers them in someone of an impressionable age. A small thing, perhaps, but it can last a lifetime, as our narrator discovers.

Dexter Osenfield is a restaurant owner and executive chef, who suffered several setbacks and is on the verge of losing everything.

Reese Hershell is trying to get his head above water after his mother's death, dropping out of college, and supporting his younger brother.

They'll strive to live better, find their lost passions, and perhaps gain more than they could ever imagine.

(Weekly Publications- Every Friday with bonus Chapters on certain Mondays)

Jake Henderson has a husband.

And a habit of ending up in Haven Cooper’s bed.

Haven’s rich, reckless, and beautiful in the way bad decisions usually are.

He makes guilt feel like seduction, and walking away feel like losing.

Jake tells himself it’s just an affair.

But lines blur quickly when ego and obsession start to look like love, and control starts to feel like safety.

In a city full of glass towers and dark corners, the real danger isn’t in being watched.

It’s what happens when no one’s watching.

It is Sunday morning. Liam sits alone in his room, at the top of the building, and hides himself away. The world outside has suddenly become a dangerous place and he must stay away from it, and he must also remember that his name is now Leo.

This story follows Liam through one fateful Sunday and, through flashbacks, tells the story of how he came to be there.

In a glass-and-marble New York life, Nora Beaumont, an immaculate fixer who keeps other people's chaos on schedule, looks up one day and realizes her own marriage to Daniel, a beautiful cipher built of calm and covenants, has been filed under "maintenance." On the eve of her birthday, a single, reckless wish knocks something loose, and a stranger enters their lives to rearrange the furniture of their desire.

What begins as a staged surprise becomes a slow-burning reckoning. As Nora watches the man she loves become someone she's never met, she must decide whether reinvention is an act of love, or a controlled demolition.

Peter has a big problem. It's with Andy's allergies. To figure out a solution, he takes one of his long walks in the city. During his walk he buys a dog named Suzie. His walk is interrupted by a falling overloaded 20-foot container. He doesn't go to Heaven or Hell but ends up in the Hereafter. There is a beach, tea is in the morning, a wonderful buffet is served promptly at noon, and there's an evening soiree. Also, there are three background characters who are up to no good.

Two young women living on an island meet and begin to fall in love. A plague has ravaged the population, but it ended before either of them were born, and they only know the world as it now is.

Noah's plan for a cinematic Parisian romance goes spreadsheets-up when the city proves to be a nightmare. Resigned to a week of corporate training hell, he meets Matteo, an Italian who finds Paris just as disappointing. Together, they wage a sarcastic war on tourist traps and clichés. But in their quest to prove the City of Love is a scam, they find the one thing they weren't looking for: a genuine connection more real than any fantasy.

Everything in Emmett urges him to run away from Finley, who radiates danger. After a few encounters, however, when his healing nature takes over and tries to put a smile on the face of the constantly sad Finley, the question of what Finley actually is becomes more pressing, cause being in danger is the last thing he needs.
Fin tries rather unsuccessfully to run away from himself, with nowhere holding him for long. But Emmett's bright smile and strange blue-violet eyes intrigue him more than a little. Now if he only knew what exactly Emmett actually is, he might be able to deal with his strange-behaving dragon-side.