Read Short Character Based Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
Harry Sylvester is marrying Bernice Abernathy. They will be honeymooning at a luxurious resort in Acapulco. Or Harry may be running off to a remote island off the coast of Tahiti, where there’s no electricity or running water.
Some things we set aside, or bury deep inside. Some things we simply carry, pretending they don't exist — until one day everything surfaces, and we can no longer deny ourselves.
A warm spring afternoon. A dip in the river. A life changed, carried away by the murky waters of destiny...
Peter just told his niece and nephew a bedtime story about Morty, the Jewish musk turtle, and many of the dysfunctional, fairy tale characters strangely resemble people in his own family.
Marcus Applebaum has no life. He lives in the basement of his parent’s house, hates his job and his love life is nonexistent. But that’s all about to change thanks to Harry Wong.
Everything's beautiful. Never mind that the world is a swirling mass all around me. Never mind that I can barely walk straight.
This is a story from the perspective of Scorpius malfoy after his mum died.
While middle school chums shopped designer jeans and risqué tank tops, Jodie Farnsworth was hunkered down at the local hardware store ogling a set of box wrenches or brad point drill bits.
After all, one can make choices, to forge a new path forwards...
Sixteen-year-old Ned Scoletti is travelling north on a Greyhound bus from Fort Pierce, Florida to Spaulding, Massachusetts, to visit Aunt Josie. Problem is that his mother's identical twin sister died when Nick was just a toddler. Or maybe not.
Grandpa Bartlett’s cleaning lady, Rosalita, can’t speak a word of English, and the older man doesn’t understand Spanish, but that’s no problem.