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.
Halloween 2019
Anne Evans is a Wiccan who works as a nurse in a hospice. Peter Morgan, a coma patient, comes under her care. She senses that he responds to her presence. Her special treatments finally bear fruit (pun intended) in the night of Samhain. Winner of the 2019 Halloween Writing Contest.
Asmodeus J. Jones is Summoned to a parallel universe to fight against a wizard oppressing the countryside of a province of an unfallen Roman Empire. Sorry, no sex, though they do talk about it now and then.
I had no parenting skills at all, so I have no idea why my sister asked me to stay with her daughter while mom and dad went off the Europe on a business trip. My niece was incorrigible. She snuck out to a party. She got drunk. She had sex! I had to do something, but I had no idea what to do. So I did what my dad did when I screwed up. I beat her bare ass. Who would have known she'd actually LIKE that?! And it all went downhill from there. All because I had no parenting skills.