Bad Ideas and Better Company
0It was a bad idea from the start.
Misaki had gone in looking for a few volumes of manga when he’d seen it. That book. That obnoxious, idiotic book. The title – Dating Older Men – was scrawled across the front in pink glittery script. Normally he’d just ignore it. There was a time when he wouldn’t have even given it a second glance but Usami had been acting weird lately. It was the kind of weird that made him worry – had he done something wrong, had he forgotten something important, had something happened that Usami didn’t think he More >
Belonging
0The crowd at Veronica’s was different that night. There weren’t that many people out, not like most nights. He recognized most of the regulars, gave a quick polite nod to the few he had frequent dealings with. A steady bass beat filtered through the sound system, not quite fast enough to dance too but enough to get the blood moving from the suggestive rhythm. He found a perch by the bar and leaned back, letting his body relax loose and lithe across a stool. A few eyes lingered on him but it took a while before anyone approached.
He flirted. More >
In Shadows Found
0Castle Atrexia sat on a cliff overlooking a vast expanse of swamp. There was a smell coming off of the swamp, a stench so foul and complex that Harry couldn’t identify the individual parts, though if he had to hazard a guess he’d say it was six parts rotting corpse and three parts sewer. It was horrid and he hated it. The rain only seemed to make the smell worse. It certainly did nothing for his mood. Harry hated the rain. It reminded him of far too many bad things – of people dying, the smell of blood, and the More >
The Case of the Missing Necklace
0The lights from the TV cast long shadows across the room, shadows that jumped and danced every time the picture on the screen changed. Shawn and Gus huddled under blankets in the center of the couch. They shivered with fear and clutched at one another, arms held fast in each other’s grip. Two pairs of large eyes were fixed on the screen in rapt fascination.
Light flooded the room and they jumped up, screaming. They both scrambled over each other, pushing and shoving as they vaulted over the couch to cower behind it.
“What in the world are you boys More >
The Raven
0Kakashi teleported into his bedroom and froze. Iruka stared back at him, a look of abject horror stuck on his face as the smoke from Kakashi’s jutsu slowly dispersed. It was dark, but not dark enough that he couldn’t tell that Iruka was not wearing his normal clothes. Too much black, which Iruka hated, and too much mesh, which Iruka never wore. It was almost club gear but not. Iruka hated clubs – too much loud music. There was something familiar about the cut of his clothes, something that niggled at his memory. He’d seen that outfit before, but what More >
Release Day: Weight of a Gun Anthology
0The Weight of a Gun anthology, which I have a story in, is out today. Ebook’s $6.99 and the print copy is $13.99. It’s a rather hot and steamy anthology, centered around gunkink with a wide variety of genres.
Here’s a short excerpt from my story, The Machinist:
“I’m Avery, by the way,” he said into the silence. He could hear the other man fumbling with something behind him. “Avery Belfour. From Burning Grounds. And you are?”
“Shut up.”
“That’s an odd name.” Avery could feel his chances of survival decreasing every time he opened his mouth. More >
Goodreads and Contests
0Weight of a Gun Anthology, which I have a story in, is on Goodreads. An author page was created for me when the anthology was added. The anthology comes out on December 9th and is currently available for pre-order. (More info will be added to the “Published Works” tab in the upper navigation as it becomes available.)
Storm Moon Press is running two contests, which means two chances to win the anthology and a bunch of other awesome swag!
Winner of the International Blog Tour Giveaway receives: - a print copy of the Weight of More >
Resistance is Futile
0It had been Charles’s idea to share a room. One with double beds, thankfully. Not that he would have minded sharing a bed with Charles, but the burgeoning attraction Erik felt for Charles would have made things awkward, to say the least. He’s not sure how much, if any, of it Charles’s has picked up on. For a telepath, he’s surprisingly oblivious. Erik isn’t used to guarding his thoughts. His usual stoic demeanor had always been enough of a wall between him and the outside world, so it’s strange for him to have to go further than that, to guard More >
Sins of the Father
0The inmates had a custom. They’d go around, one by one, and sound off planets. Not just any planet, but the planet. The one they’d ask to be taken to when their time was up and they got their free ride to anywhere in the galaxy. A lot of names came up. Some just wanted to go home. Some – most – dreamed of more exotic locations – Rydia, Loriaxa IV, Etrydia. All gorgeous planets, all filled with luxury, all places that restricted ex-cons to the starport.
Aurora never came up, and with good reason. It was a backwater planet, More >
Casulties of War
0The missiles were a distraction. Shaw’s too well trained to give him any more than that, though even if he hadn’t had months, years maybe, of practice keeping telepaths out of his head, the pain of the coin passing through his head, through their heads, would have been enough to keep Charles from digging. It’s hard enough just to hold on, to keep Shaw still. Every instinct in him tells him to let go, to run from the pain. He’d spent a good deal of his childhood learning to avoid pain but he wasn’t one to back down, not when More >