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A poem featuring all 23 story titles from the 2025 Creature Feature Anthology.

Calvin Kildare is lonely and lost. It seems that everyone around him is in love and has a direction for their life. With senior year starting, he’s never felt so out of place. When the guy he’s had a small crush on starts paying him attention, he can’t help but think he’ll be the one for him. However, things are never that easy, and Calvin finds himself having to navigate situations that are bound to test his limits.

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.

A recent widower, who lives in a frigid climate, is still in mourning for his husband.

He agrees to vacation in Ft, Lauderdale, Florida for the Christmas and New Year holidays.

He will be staying with close friends. He is disoriented about celebrating Christmas in such a warm place.

This is the story of Douglas and Leo, two young men and there friendship.

I wrote and posted this to tklfrat, back in 2008, it was the first tickle fetish story I ever wrote. I ran my original post through Google Gemini to polish the plot and fix the grammar.

In Only What the Moon Sees, eighteen-year-old Gabe is quietly battling his identity and loneliness when a late-night encounter with a mysterious stranger shifts everything he thought he knew. Adrian, a centuries-old vampire, is drawn to Gabe in a way he can’t explain—or resist. What begins as a cautious connection slowly unravels into something intimate and powerful, forcing both of them to navigate the pull of desire, the weight of secrecy, and the blurred line between danger and safety. As their bond deepens, so does Gabe’s awareness of the supernatural world—and his place within it.

Perhaps childhood memories are not always about what we think they are. Through a chance encounter, a young physician learns things he didn’t know about his late parents.

Matt and Valerian spend an evening with their oldest sons.

Cooper and Bryan are not friends and haven't been in years. There's been a secret between them that caused them to drift apart, but when the two of them are forced to work together, their old wounds reopen. This time, it brings more drama than ever. Can the two of them face it and reconnect or will the obstacles be the very thing that keeps them from doing so?

This is a story about a young man from Sweden who loves chess and looks for like-minded friends. The story is set in several countries at a very interesting time in chess history, the early 1970s. It is not a story about the game of chess as such but it contains references to actual players and famous games.

In which a formerly dead alchemist does no work to solve his own mysterious resurrection, instead too busy falling in love with the eldritch entity stalking him.

Sebastian was the star quarterback, the golden boy. But when his parents discovered he was gay, they kicked him out. He responds to an online ad for a job on a farm, and his employer is everything he’s ever dreamed of. As he uncovers more of the man’s secrets, he will be thrown into a world of submission and domination.

This is a collection of my works from the 2025 Twitch Authtober Wordathon. Our collective goal is 1.5 million words by the end of the month, so I wanted to help by writing nothing but prompt responses.

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...

Jasper Reid is out, and the world knows he and Ryan are together. Surely the rumors will end, and everyone can mind their own business so the couple can have a normal relationship now, right?

Apparently not.

With their rising fame comes frustrating and tiring challenges.

After a career opportunity tears the newly-public couple apart, Jasper and Ryan must learn to trust one another and work through their own pasts, fears, and doubts.

Can the relationship survive the endless drama? Or will the problems they are both learning to leave behind ruin everything they are working towards?

The story of a teenage art prodigy named Aedan Jackson as he grows up bisexual. He has a best friend named Jake Grant that he becomes close with. (Previously known as "Aedan's Story". This is a polished, updated, and rewritten version!)

Myles Valentine Paton Fleming - Widower, Father of teen son, Computer Engineer, and owner of a catamaran yacht, based in Adelaide, South Australia, with holiday adventures and unexpected changes to the family group.

Stuck in 2026 World Cup traffic, friends Leo and Marcus are on the brink of a massive fallout over Marcus's annoying, high-energy dancing. The tension is instantly broken when Barnaby, a time-traveling capybara, accidentally teleports into their car and uses a calming temporal field to fix the radio's vibe, saving the road trip.

On Halloween night, Mason leads his friend up the old firewatch tower above Wilbur Falls — just to get away from the noise, the beer, and the same faces down by the creek. But something about the night feels different. The wind smells of smoke, the dark hums with electricity, and the space between them glows with something neither can name. High above their small town, mystery and longing blur together, and what begins as a quiet escape becomes a moment that will haunt them long after the night is gone.

A haunting Halloween tale about connection, silence, and the spark between two boys learning what it means to be seen.