Tear Jerker Stories

A Halloween 2021 Contest Entry
Natasha had a long, boring life worked out until her diagnosis. Her life turns in an unexpected direction as she learns about the stranger part of her town.

Making choices along the way, you can turn out your own unique Hallmark holiday film; of course, there is no such thing as a "unique Hallmark film"!

A Learning Together Story
Part of the Stories from the Hearth universe
John Patel's wife is at the bottom of barrel. Alcohol, drugs, and prostitution are consuming her. He doesn't want to leave. She's his high school sweetheart and he loves her as much now as he did then. How does he deal with it and take care of their six-year-old daughter? This is his story. Set in the Learning Together Universe, it takes place ten years prior to the rest of the series. Being it's in the Learning Together Universe there is spanking, of course. Caution: dark subject matter.

A hard working and faithful young man gets lucky when he finds out that the girl he loves and plans to marry has been deceiving him.

On a harsh frontier where survival is mistaken for virtue, a teenage boy is forced into an act meant to prove his worth—and lives with what follows.

Re-examining an old folk-song.

my wife needed some time to "Find Herself"

Following a deadly accident, the lives of a young couple are corrupted at the hands of their blackmailers and others.

When the Emperor becomes obsessed with a “kingdom-wrecking” beauty, he loses first his empire then his consort—to his lasting regret … and hers. A prose retelling of the poem Cháng Hèn Gē (長恨歌) by Bai Jiyu.