Read Short Coming of Age / Initiation Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Maeve Pellitier dreams of becoming a romance writer. When she joins a writing club at school, her first assignment is to write a horror story. Can she fulfil her obligation?
“I never knew friendship could feel like this—like a home.”
The way you feel, trapped in a destiny you didn't choose, makes you yearn for any kind of escape, even death. He has feathers blacker than the night sky. And he makes you feel something more, something better than alive. He makes you feel free.
Fourteen year-old Cheryl Oliphant’s best friend is a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. On the plus side, Cheryl just met Teddy Rasmussen who offered her a sympathetic ear.
Two young teens lives are changed forever when they decide to leave their town
Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.
Its almost Valentines Day, and junior Mindy only wants to fly under the radar for the rest of her second semester, and avoid the snobs of her school ..but finds herself in a series of situations that lead her to quite the opposite, love.