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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 story about first love, last goodbyes, and everything that still lingers in between. A new city, a new life but somehow, his ghost still follows me. Maybe this time, love won’t leave me behind.

The next book in the Falcon Banner Saga.

A resurgent Empire at war faces the calculating man that brought it tumbling down in the first place. Enarbrem Sul'Rikard, the Chancellor. A genetically augmented mind with his sights set on the elusive power of the long extinct Peligian's and their all important mastery over time itself.

Darien Taine stands in his way, but a revolution inside the fledgeling Empire threatens to beat them all before they can meet the true threat. And the One True Emperor, the reluctant God-king, Matthew Elias must rise to take his place or they are all doomed.

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.

Love Is… is a trilogy of intertwined love stories bound by fate. In the first book, we follow Marcus, a loud, outgoing teen wrestling with unexpected feelings for his quiet, nerdy classmate, Justus. Their personalities couldn’t be more different.

As Marcus grapples with the question of why his heart races at Justus’s every smile, he must ask himself: Is this fear of rejection—or the fear of finally letting someone in? What does “love” even mean when every glance feels like a secret only he can decode?

Through a series of events, Marcus and Justas together will love what their definition of love is. And what do you think>

A young teenager meets a stranger in the street and almost against his better judgement and certainly opposite to the warnings he'd been brought up with, not to talk to strangers, he ignores the advice and his own apprehensions. At the stranger's house he accepts a somewhat peculiar proposition which allows him to liberate the secret he's been harbouring.

Jules Ross is a detective who loves a mystery whether it’s on his own time or the police’s. He is very good at his job and always gets his … man?

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.

Tim, an honor student from Los Gatos, grapples with heartbreak and self-reflection after being ghosted by Thet, a closeted blue-collar guy from South St. Louis. As Tim wrestles with anger and confusion, a dinner with his grandmother leads to a powerful coming-out moment. Their heartfelt exchange helps Tim process past trauma with his father and recognize the secrecy and pain others around him carry. When he later spots Thet out with a girl, he sees through the act—and instead of lashing out, reaches out with unexpected compassion, hoping Thet will one day accept who he is.

Before Grithen was the guarded, stoic vampire readers met in What Didn’t Kill Me Became Me, he was Grit. A loud-mouthed, fire-eyed ACT UP activist during the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1980s New York, screaming for the dying and daring the world to listen.

This is the story of who he was. What he fought for. The best friend he loved... and lost.

The night that turned him into the ash of the man who once burned so bright.

This isn’t a happy story.

But it is Grit's story.

When a divine being of glamour accidentally inspires a Roman emperor, history gets high heels. This hilariously fabulous short story reveals the true (and very sparkly) origin of drag — or rather, D’reg.

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.

A shadowing visit at film school turns cinematic.

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.