A Halloween 2023 Contest Entry
On Hallowe’en night in 1983, a familiar and alluring stripper lost her life in a tatty motel room. Forty years later, she finds a living friend.
A Story in the Naked In School Universe
Dana is an activist honors student with a STEM bent. Teri is an antisocial slash-ficcer starting to successfully publish original works. Mike is a paraplegic smart-ass with a gift for languages. Three teenagers are selected to go through the Naked In School Program at the same time—instead, they go through it together.
King David coveted another man's wife. One never knew what Bathsheba felt and that's the first difference in this story. There is plenty of love but no sex.
A girl jumps off a party barge to escape a fate worse than death. She's picked up by a single guy, and neither of them had expected that was about to happen! / (Reviews)
This story is a little bit offbeat for me. It's intended as an homage to a couple of excellent stories with similar themes published earlier by a couple of the best writers on SOL. Readers will recognize the genre as the story develops, but I don't intend to give it away at the outset. Warning to strokers: This story has some sexual content, but it is limited and slow to develop.
The setting is a county town close to the Welsh border during the reign of the Norman King Henry I, youngest son of the Conqueror. William, the archer, has no family to sow his Welsh fields so travels late to the market towns of England to sell the Welsh longbows and fletched arrows he's fashioned throughout the long winter. He is forced to tread old ground where he hasn't plied his trade in for years, bringing back memories he has tried to forget. At a tourney he recognises an old longbow..
George, a troubled young man barely existing in the shadow of a tragic mistake, wants only to survive high school. However, his life is upended when a gift from his long-dead father turns out to be the vessel of a powerful Genie, and the woman of his dreams.
This is a reimagining of an old story of mine from 2007 called A Beautiful Wish, which is still on this site. It includes a retooled setting with new supporting characters, villains, and love interests. I hope I can do my old work justice.
New beginnings. A new way of doing, of seeing, and of acting. She thought her one chance had slipped through her fingers, but fate lent a hand. He thought he might never see her again, but he was wrong. A tale told from both sides. Romantic Dominance and submission.