urban - Stories

“The Rashomon Effect” describes an event given contradictory descriptions by each person involved. It describes the unreliability of eyewitnesses. Every element of the story is largely identical, but the dishonest retelling of the events shows each person’s ideal self by lying.

Gay lawyer Ben Carleson – from In The Plan – is back, this time in 1985, near the beginning of his career and soon after he finished law school and passed the California bar exam. But he and Gene De Wijk met over a different kind of bar.

1550 Loring Lane is a simple apartment building built in the early sixties using cement block painted white. You wouldn’t stop and take a picture of it as it squats amidst beautiful skyscrapers and old red brick fourplexes. But, there is something special about his building. Strange and bizarre things tend to happen to those living there and those with whom they associate.

593 Riverside Drive is a kind of drawing room comedy about the difficulty a woman living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1925 has in getting a divorce and the narrow-mindedness of one of the male lawyers in the subsequent trial. Still, there's a lot of humor in the rudeness, especially when Uncle Herbert's around. The book will serialize on Fridays, probably through November -- WELL, THAT HIT A MAJOR SETBACK WHEN I HAD A TRULY UNEXPECTED STROKE ON OCTOBER 2ND. NOW, I'M HOPING TO FINISH EDITING AND POSTING BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2024.

Ron ends up saving a kitten's life, but when he steps out for a moment, the kitten's former lives stop in for a visit.

My response to prompt 439. 'Use the following in a story – a clown, a motorcycle, vacation tickets, chocolate cake, and a ring.'

Joey is in a rut and his friend Rico is convinced that all he needs is a night of great sex to turn his life around. Rico has the perfect plan to hook his friend up for the night. What could possibly go wrong?

Hyun Lee's sister is kidnapped by a shadowy organization, that then blackmails him to hack into mysterious bank accounts around the world. To save his sister, Hyun seeks out the Yun Family for help. Raphael Yun is a man plagued by a past he can't forget and a father who won't let him make his own choices. When he meets Hyun Lee, a man who'll do anything to save his little sister, everything changes.

Kazuma and Hyde learn to fight for love and life, even when it means hurting others.

Talin focuses on work, barely giving anything else attention. One encounter in his club's parking lot drags him out of his dull life. Dimitri has watched Talin for so long, when Talin storms into his workshop, Dimitri decides he won't stay in the sidelines any longer. He wants Talin for life.

Ren hates New Year's. He actually hates every holiday extravaganza in New York City, but New Year's is the worse for him. It's loud, it's crowded and every time he goes out with his best friend on a holiday, something wild happens.This year he decides to go out with his friend and, as predicted, something wild does happen...possibly wild enough to make Ren stop hating New Year's.