First Stories

As four teenagers traveled to a wilderness survival camp, a gate opened and dropped them into another world—a world of danger and magic, where as humans they’re hunted by the reptilian Kolchoi. Can they escape and find a way back to Earth? And at what cost to themselves? A portal fantasy that starts when things get _really_ weird. [CW: mind the tags]

Heath is put upon to drive home 4 girls from college home (in all directions across the province) now that the 2020 pandemic has shut down their university, but a panicked phone call and a family emergency lands the five of them alone, out of touch, and quarantined in a creepy old house owned by Heath's crazy old witch of an aunt.

Gino Manelli Jr. has worked as his dad's janitorial assistant for the past six years, since graduating from Rivadale High School. Now that his dad's emphysema has progressively worsened, forcing the senior Manelli to retire, Superintendent Edna Nelson promoted Gino to Head Custodian.

A woman in her 30s discovers she can not only turn herself invisible but travel back in time. Using these two new powers, she goes back to literally re-discover her younger self.

Tess is struck by a bolt of love in what she thinks of as the most unlikely of places - a baptism. Warning: This story may not be to everyone's tastes, but that's not about squicks. I conceived this story in response to a comment in Frank Downey's blog about the stupidity of virgin marriage, and it is about a relationship in the context of being christian. There is sex, but there's also religion, which some have found uncomfortable

A summer drive-in movie becomes the backdrop for two friends' first time, an impulsive act that changes everything, leaving them to face the profound consequences of their shared secret.