Fiction Stories

Three young restaurant coworkers—a charismatic extrovert, a guarded transgender artist, and a quietly troubled cook—navigate a tangled web of desire, secrets, and the daily grind. As their lives collide, they discover that the key to surviving work, love, and their own demons lies not in going it alone, but in forging a unique, unbreakable bond with each other.

A Story in the Jake's C&W Invitational Universe
A guy comes to a point in his life when he starts to wonder whether he made the right decisions when he was young man. Written in response to Jake River's forth C&W invitational.

One of the greatest movies ever made, this short fictional piece explores what could have happened behind the scenes between these two emotional people. The smolder on-screen is nothing to what happens behind closed doors. Written with a dear friend, this award-winning story will raise your own passion level.

Retired Captain Scarlett was appointed Martian envoy to the Western Alliance. Then the President of the Western Alliance promoted him to Vice Admiral, and recalled him to active duty. Then he was kidnapped. And that's just the start of his problems. Fly with his wife, Pandora Vermillion, as she flees to Mars in the NSS Naha while a crazed madman in a dangerous, stealthy spaceship hunts her down. There's also Captain Scarlett Saves Mars! and Captain Scarlett vs. The Scrapper. Old-school Sci-Fi!

Toby Adamson has been best friends with twins Andrew and Natasha Stevenson ever since they met in kindergarten, when they were five years old. Toby was totally in love with Natasha by the time that they reached the age of ten. This part of their story begins in 1966, as the Stevenson family move away from their old home, near Toby's house, to a newly built ranch-style bungalow, near the hamlet of Northolt, in the English Cotswolds. Toby is about to go and spend a few days with the family...

Woman on vacation finds danger and romance.

A Max Burnage Story
Man gets help dealing with cheating, scheming wife and ends up much better off...

A Cameron Drake Story
Man get help dealing with cheating wife, and is changed in the process.

An old man reflects on his childhood and later life in a large Department Store at Christmas. Is he too old to wish?

The topic is "The End of the Affair." My problem is that everybody from Ovid to Henry Miller has had something to say about that - not to mention a few million folks on this site. So, I took a slightly different interpretation of "the end" here. My hero makes a bad choice. But he has decent instincts and with a little help from an unlikely source he eventually learns how to be a good person. Some of you might find this a bit allegorical. If so, I couldn't possibly comment.