First Stories

I detested my father, a greasy loser I loved to tease, letting him look at what he could never have. I thought I held the power. I never asked what he did with all that wanting, down in the basement, building a copy of me a piece at a time. The copy was only practice. The night I went down there myself he was too big and it hurt and I came around him anyway. He wanted me: fighting, hating it, coming, bred. Then he wore me down to nothing. Nobody saved me. No happy ending.

Thirteen-year old Jenny feigns illness to avoid a math test. I've been her family doctor -- and a family friend -- for years. Do I expose her fraud -- or exact my price?

The girls in Kenny's class have banned themselves from dating the boys. Each boy gets one chance to pass a test that will allow him to spend the weekend with three girls of his choice. Can Kenny pass the test?

Luke has got to be the unluckiest boy around, until....

A young man has superpower, but is scared that it will corrupt him. Will he give in to temptation?

This 17 year old nerd was on the receiving end of an attack at school. He is knocked unconscious and on waking up discovers that he can influence people with his thoughts - starting with his mum's best friend and progressing to include some of his female classmates and teachers and school admin staff.

A teenage lesbian struggles to understand her emerging sexuality while searching for that most elusive dream...True Love.

I got an email from a reader who loved the HOUSE series. Pretty much out of ideas, I asked for suggestions for a story. His return mail had a phrase that started my muse. This is it.

Sandy W. returns home from college and starts to read her diary. The incident with her stepbrother Randy seems like another world, another place. She wonders what he is doing now and if he is getting laid as much as he always wanted to. He sure was a good kisser.