It is 1805, and Dr. Stephen Byrne leads the rather simple life of a country gentleman and a physician. However, on a voyage to Jamaica, where he has been summoned to try to save the ailing Governor, he encounters Miss Rosalind Marlowe, the beautiful daughter of the indomitable Vice-Admiral Marlowe, and his life turns in a rather unexpected direction.

It has been three years since Aaron Harrington's wife left him. Unable to move on, battling alcoholism, and facing problems at work, he struggles to maintain the will to live. For Jack Graeme, it has been three years since he met the married Anne Harrington. Now that she is his wife, he is forced to come to terms with the effect his actions - and Anne's - have had on her ex-husband.

"Why do you hide me from the other officers? Its not seldom that they take one of us as a mistress..." Matylda said. Walter stiffened. "You're not my mistress." "What am I, then?"

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

The year is 1789, and Henry Kent is captain of a ship bound to the High Arctic on an explorative expedition. On the way he meets John Manning, a charming boy of twelve with dreams of adventure. The secret he discovers about John is only the beginning of a long, harrowing chain of events that lead him on the path to horror, desperation, sadness, but ultimately, love.

It's them against the world- even if they don't know it yet. Danny’s mute. He’s anorexic, he’s rich, he wears all black, he loves his music. He's a closet gay. He’s extremely self-conscious and hides from reality. Olivier’s deaf. He’s dirt-poor, he’s constantly hungry, he wears his clothes from the Salvation Army. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him, and he might as well wear a shirt that states that he likes guys. But they have three things in common: their love of poetry, peppermint mochas, and most importantly, their love for each other. No one ever said that loving your polar opposite would be easy.

In the realm of Altaar, an elf by the name of Sen has been exiled from her lands and into the vast desert full of emptiness and despair. She's left wandering aimlessly as an outcast and a forgotten soldier whose name once burned legendary. Until she stumbled upon a spoken myth; the forest of Gardavia, the land of the dryad's. There she comes across Nara'Elenne, a dryad of serenity and protector of the sacred lands, who will do anything to keep her kind from extinction. Upon finding out that her city is within the eye of war, she is ordered to leave her home in search of the dragons of Seledine, the true guardians of the forest. With two serparate motives but one single desire of the destruction of Thalazar, Sen and Nara'Elenne join forces and set out on a quest to end the war between races forever and win back the safety of their kingdoms and the respect of their names.

A dark, modern day retelling of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Explores lust and obsession in the wake of maturing sexuality. Short story originally published in Midwest Literary Magazine, November, 2010. Also appeared in the print anthology, Bearing North.

The Immortal Detective Westward Q. Priest is hot on the trail of a killer who is just as supernatural as he is. A short story to start an ongoing series of short stories told from first person perspective 'casefiles' our hero has lived a long life and has many tricks up his sleeve when battling against the creatures that lurk below the surface of humanity.

Sara Saxton is an average 16 year old girl. Until she is diagnosed with cancer. All she wants is to get healthy and live a normal life, so when an opportunity seemingly offers her the chance, she takes it. Unfortunately she doesn't get either and her life changes in a way she could have never imagined. Now she must fight for her normal life and her freedom, but will it ever be possible to get it? I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad 6/9/2020 Cover by @TheOnlyHope4MeIsYou