Coming of Age Stories

This is a story about a young man that come from a family that made their living on the sea for generations. How does he take what he was born to do and make the most of it. Coming of age, rags to riches. 30 chapters. I hope you enjoy it.

A short exploration of a love that sparked during summer vacation.

An Uncle Bob Story
There is a story about a frog that is put into a pot of water at room temperature. The pot is put on the stove and the heat is increased slowly. The frog is alleged not to realize he is being cooked, even up to his final moments. I understand that frog, because in a sense, the same thing happened to me. My house was the pot. My niece and her two friends were the water. And a happy little accident was the source of the heat that slowly cooked me.

When your family needs help, you help. That's what family does. Danny takes the summer off and heads to the mountains to help out his cousin. She needs a lot of help.

Ryan's annual camping trip was almost ruined when their site was double-booked. He was ready to turn around and go home. But when 15-year-old Jordyn McMaster came bouncing out of her tent, he changed his mind pretty quickly. Her dad is a jealous, protective monster, though, and won't let her out of his sight! But then one morning, all four parents go out canoeing without them, leaving the two teens all alone for an entire day.

A False Start Story
You can never outrun the past. As he attempts to help his friends Li and Eduardo achieve their dreams while building his own path to a football scholarship, Blake discovers that changing the future comes with unexpected consequences and that some problems can't be solved with foreknowledge alone. In the second half of his freshman years. Blake must learn that true leadership isn't about having all the answers, it's about making the right choices when the stakes are the highest.

A story in the world of curious devices and their unusual affects.
It's not easy when you're fifteen, your sister is seventeen, and you come home from town to find her in the garden, in her bikini, sunbathing. "What did you buy?" she asks. "This," he says, showing her a curious mechanical Thing he'd found in a charity shop. And from there all kinds of revelations follow... A coming-of-age story with a few twists along the way. NB: some codes only apply late on, so don't let the codes fool you into thinking everying starts to happen right from the get-go.

It's been five months now since I'd given my virginity to Steve yet he was still the only boy I'd ever had sex with or even touched for that matter. With all the options available, I NEVER would have guessed that number two would be his dorky younger brother!