Romance Stories

Emily finds a new friend, that she is drawn to. Pity is that she's a hooker with a secret.

A Middletown story
A trip back home changed their lives. This is the last part of the Olson family saga.

Caleb Hartwell goes on a hiking trip in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina with a couple of buddies. He goes off by himself for a moment, stumbles onto a hidden time portal, and is sent back to the year 1853. He encounters a runaway slave, and suddenly, he finds a sense of purpose.

A story in the Postmodern Galateas Universe
Story #1 of Postmodern Galateas. What if your love doll suddenly started talking to you? Mythology always has a grain of truth in it. Pygmalion and his beautiful statue coming to life was just the proof of concept for a magical secret world that would arrive when the world was ready for it. This is the story that the DOLLS category was created for.

A The Wanting Series Story
Ash is a nine-hundred-year-old incubus, summoned twice a week by people who want something. That leaves a hundred and sixty-six hours—and lately he wants just one thing: to be expected instead of wanted. So he applies for a job at Costco. No papers, no legal existence since Henry the Second, just a résumé reading "Available immediately." A warm, funny, aching short about a creature of appetite who'd trade eternity for a torn red vest.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire… Or in the case of 23-year-old Vincent Hargrove — out of a tragic past, into an unfaithful marriage. When it gets to be too much he runs away. Isolated in the woods hoping against hope that time will heal all wounds. Isolation in the deep woods of central Oregon he finds peace in solitude. As he develops a small parcel of land left to him by his grandparents he gets along with minimal human contact, until a desperate foreign woman crosses his path.

A Middletown story
Halloween 2024
He kept his promise to her all these years.

A Middletown story
Their last resource to save their marrige was an unusual therapist.

A Middletown story
A long and bumpy road to love.

In the imperial court of Heian Japan, words are everything — and nothing is ever said plainly. When a lady-in-waiting begins delivering the Empress's secret poems to a nobleman, she discovers the brilliant replies belong not to him but to his sister, a woman hidden behind a borrowed name for sixteen years. Their correspondence becomes two conversations layered inside one. A romance written entirely in ink and metaphor — between two women who can never meet. Until they must.