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Based on a true story.

Jeff accepts another rideshare request, that strays way from his normal experience.

Joey and his two best mates are on vacation on the sunny island of Gran Canaria. All is great apart from his Mum's constant phoning to ask him about various aspects of their family business - A pub in London.
Later on, when Joey starts to moan about the workload his parents are placing on him, his mother decides to hire a new cellar hand to work on Saturdays. But life is about to get a whole lot more complicated, as a boy from Joey's school has immediately applied, and it's someone he thought he had left in his past.

Conversations are short vignettes in sets of three that check in on members of the Sanitaria Springs universe. They frequently happen between other stories and may reference events that occur in other stories.

Each day, Sidney loses more of Arthur. How do you stop the love of your life from slipping away?

Two boys meet on a stony Welsh shore, united by a common burden: they can both see ghosts.

Siku the polar werebear leaves his home in Canada and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, hoping to find his Mate. What the massive bear finds will surprise him, and bring two very different worlds crashing together with unforeseen consequences. Can he fight centuries of tradition and bigotry to claim the Mate that Fate has destined for him?

When my wife died, I decided to move back to Indiana, to spend more time with my grandson. Noticing that Cliff seemed despondent, I decided that a fall hike in Clifty Falls State Park was just what he needed. Suspecting that he was gay, it turned out he was, but his affect was related to something else entirely. We learned a lot about each other and the path we took turned out to be metaphorical as well.

Hunting was all I knew. Stalking prey, selling meat, and making pelts... Life was calm, but then I was found sleeping. What's to come is untold. May the divine bless my soul.

We are promised that He will be found when we search for God. “If you seek him, he will be found by you” (1 Chronicles 28:9) And we’re told there will be a great reward. What will Steven's search bring him?

Everything had wrapped up the way he wanted. The country had attained peace. The people were prospering, the country was prospering, and personally Kalian was thriving. Things were perfect and he was...bored. He hadn't wanted a life of violence but now thrust into a life a bureaucracy, he found he wasn't happy either. He soon finds himself wishing for a break from the monotony.

He should know by now that you should be careful what you wish for.

Life is full of random events; tragedy strikes where it will until random goodness displaces the ugliness. Neither event lasts, fades in our collective memories until the roulette wheel of life lands on the unlucky number of some town or city. We’ve become callused…numb…and disbelieving of events outside of our homes, neighborhood, and state. It simply happens somewhere else…until.

Jake is a popular high school student that couldn't be more lonely. Nic is a prickly loner with a dark past. The two couldn't be more different on the surface, and initially clash. An encounter between them changes everything, whether they want it to or not.

Set in the Sanitaria Springs universe, Ansel is a small town mechanic who is still working through some of his traumatic childhood along with his partner Joe. Continues the story line featured on 'I Got You' and, as with all SS stories, features some cameos by other established characters.

Jordan Baxter grew up as an orphan. Kennie Hardy is part of a very generous, and civic minded wealthy family. Kennie, and Jordan's paths cross unknowingly with various charity events, and on the day of the city's Christmas Parade, Kennie, his friends, and family create an intricate plot as an exciting, and creative way for young Mr. Hardy to ask his favorite orphaned volunteer to be his boyfriend.

Sammy is only fifteen years old but he loves to cook. It's been his passion ever since he can remember and he gladly relieves his working mother from the meal prep duties. He even has a struggling YouTube channel that nobody watches, but he dreams to be as big as his favorite cooks he likes to watch online. Will his determination and support from his twin brother Jake be enough to make it to the top?

The plan was simple: survive high school and get the hell out of his hometown.

Alec Kennedy failed miserably.

He fell in love. Unfortunately, he still carried out his plan and left town. Leaving his first love behind.

Years later, Alec's forced to return home to deal with an unexpected family emergency.

There was a new plan: desperately try to avoid his former partner.

He failed miserably again.

There seems to be a pattern here.

A sappy Xmas short story.

Jess struggles daily with the consequences of a deadly mission. Ben believes he knows what will help: a support dog. Jess is unconvinced.

His Personal Shopper is a tale about the importance of family, and the evil of homophobia.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sam Miller owns a duplex on the beach and lives there with his fourteen-year-old son, Devon (Devie). He rents out the other half to thirty-five-year-old Taylor Winters and his fourteen-year-old son, Cillian (Cillie). The dads share an attraction to one another, and their kids have an attraction for each other. The two sets of couples decide to explore becoming a family while Taylor, and Sam date, and Cillian, and Devon date.