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Extremely short stories (micro-flash fiction) related to colors. Each is intended to be a complete story in less than 300 words.

The year is 1987, and an aging Tokyo crime boss with a shady past has called on an old friend for help with what he believes to be a dire situation. There is only one hope for the future, in his mind. But is he preventing an apocalyptic clash between the humans who walk in daylight and the vampires who live in darkness? Or is he only delaying the inevitable? Can his vampire contact save what he values most? Read and find out!

This story, a short three-part adventure, is different from my others, hopefully to demonstrate my versatility.

Talent Morrow, a 28-year-old guy with a big heart, drives a hearse for a living. One day he absconds with the hearse and its deceased occupant and he, his boyfriend Josiah Dixon and said deceased occupant take off on a zany spree that takes them to Las Vegas.

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Supernaturals are being murdered and Oberon, the Seelie King, wants to put a stop to whatever it is that's threatening the world. After being too late to save one, a young dragon in danger is thrown into his path, tied to him by fate, and opening to him a new path to stopping this evil.

All this one ever wanted was to be left to his cooking. A born hunter, Sinjaro is known in the ruined fort of Eagle's Strand as one of the best cooks around. But when he is attacked by a werewolf on a hunt, his life changes.

A year later, he is finally returning home from the hunt, a successful hunter. Unfortunately, Sinjaro is about to be caught in another hunt, one that could change the fate of Nirn itself

Tiana is a warm hearted young woman with an always there smile and mother hen nature. Her friends are some of the most important people in her life so when Barbara goes missing her world collapses into chaos.

Barbie is one of Tiana's closest friends, a sister of sorts, so it comes as no surprise that Tia doesn't accept her police declared "death" without a fight.
Together with her gang of mixed personalities she sets out on a mission to solve the cold case and bring Barbie home, learning a few lessons on Leadership, friendship and strength along the way.

People are dying and they all have a connection to Patrick's dead ex Gavin Martin.

Adam has to stop this mad man before he and Patrick are next.

This story is a short glimpse into the lives of Galen and Josh three months after the end of The Hollow Hills. It can be read as a stand-alone, but it would make more sense if the reader is familiar with the original story.

Luis falls over a stunning guy at the coffee shop on Valentine's Day. Only it's not any cute guy. It's a Cupid trainee.

This story belongs to the Cupid Central arch of Timothy M.'s Viking Valentine series.

It can stand alone, but it's better to read at least #2, 6 and 7 before. Or you just read the rest too.

Charlie and the gang decide to spend Valentine's Day investigating a mysterious visitor to the solar system.

You know, regular holiday stuff.

Saga in six parts describing the lives of two gay men surviving the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Era of the 1930s-40s. Research, along with the comments from an oral history project were the inspirations for this tale spanning several decades in the US.

A jogger is surprised

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.

Two worlds divided by a thin line, joined together due to a peculiar anomaly. Two lovers met one fateful night. Their love gave rise to a child that would be heir to both.

Well known as a bully and antagonist by his peers, his arrogance is a thing of legend and scorn at the annual Congress of Alphas. Overconfidence in his own greatness led the beat down of his life. Self reflection takes him on a journey of how the unlikely wolf eventually became the alpha.