fireside fiction submissions

After declaring their love for each other on Christmas Day, Simon Peters and Mark Smith settle down to a cosy life of domestic togetherness.<br><br>A new year brings new joys and challenges. Sam, a neighbour boy comes to stay for a few days and adopts Simon and Mark as honorary dads.<br><br>A promotion at work gives Simon more responsibility. Mark finds employment at the local café. The purchase of a car allows the couple to get out and about to explore the Yorkshire countryside.<br><br>Snuggle up in an easy chair and toast your toes in front of the fire as you read Simon and Mark’s continuing romantic adventures.

Simon Peters and his partner Mark Smith face a number of challenging life events in the fourth and final volume of this heart-warming saga.<br><br>Because of his time working on the streets after being kicked out of home by his father, Mark worries he may have contracted HIV. Despite knowing the lack of treatment options if he were to test positive -- this is the late 1980’s before the age of retro-viral drugs -- Mark is determined to know his fate.<br><br>Things become complicated when Mark receives a letter from his father wanting to re-establish contact. Roy entering their lives presents further challenges, ones which ultimately threaten Simon and Mark’s continued happiness.<br><br>Gay teens Sam and Billy play an increasingly important part in Simon and Mark’s lives, often regarding the older men as surrogate fathers/big brothers. Can this unconventional family pull together and become stronger, despite all the world has thrown at them?

A gentle, cosy, and touching romance set in mid-1980's Yorkshire.<br><br>Simon Peters knows he’s Mr. Average. He works at the local library during the day and goes home to his modest and lonely house at night.<br><br>Mark Smith was kicked out of home by his drunken father for being gay. Buying a bus ticket, he travels as far as his meagre savings allow. He’s taken in by Jake, but soon realises the man’s darker, criminal side. Trapped, Mark is forced to work the streets.<br><br>One evening, when the loneliness becomes overwhelming, Simon gathers up his courage and goes to the red light district of the town to buy a little human companionship.<br><br>As the weeks pass and the weather turns colder outside, both Simon and Mark find warmth and friendship indoors.<br><br>When an explosion kills Jake and injures Mark, Simon has to make a decision. Can he offer Mark shelter and nurse him back to health without revealing his true feelings for the man?

A mysterious storyteller huddles by a campfire at the edge of a well trodden path. He waits as curious travellers gather by the fireside, the embers acting as a beacon in the night. Finally, he speaks. His voice is smooth, as if well used. His movements and words captivate the growing audience. He speaks omnisciently, sparing no details, as if he were there himself. Story after story, he weaves together. The audience loses track of where one ends and another begins. They soon come to understand, the stories are far more than they seem. Wild fragments, gathered by the storyteller; woven together to paint a vast tapestry. Unwittingly, you have already joined his audience.

Yoki is a quiet but resilient teenage girl raised in a remote mountain village in ancient China, where tradition, silence, and survival shape everyday life. When a sudden tragedy and a growing sense of restlessness force her to flee her home, Yoki journeys alone to a vast, dangerous city pulsing with secrets, power, and opportunity. In the city, Yoki begins to experience strange phenomena - whispers in the wind answering her thoughts, glowing symbols appearing on her skin, and emotions that bend the world around her. As she struggles to survive among thieves, scholars, and hidden clans, she discovers that she possesses rare magical abilities long suppressed by her village's past. Yoki's fate becomes intertwined with Atsuzi, a sharp-witted, mysterious girl with a guarded heart and a past tied to the city's underground magic. What begins as an uneasy friendship slowly deepens into trust, devotion, and an undeniable love that challenges the rules of their world. Together, Yoki and Atsuzi must navigate political intrigue, ancient magic, and the threat of forces determined to control or destroy them. As Yoki learns the true origin of her power, she must choose between returning to the life she escaped, or embracing a destiny that could reshape the balance between magic and humanity while protecting the girl she loves.

She was mean't to die He was mean't to lose Royalty, love, hatred, betryal, jealousy, ignorance, affliction all in one house. Where six friends stay to protect themselves from the deadly virus lurking around the city. Will they survive, will they love, will they lose, will they win.........

Richter and Tanner meet again! Tanner has a hard time staying in the straight life and out of the street life, and ex-cop Sandy watches his friend with both sadness and lust. When a fire in Sandy's nature park rages out of control, Tanner has to step up and give more of himself than he anticipated.

The Story Of The Boy Who Couldn't Confess His Feelings Towards His First Crush Gets The Second Chance To Do That. An 18 Year 12th Pass Out Is Transported In To His 14 Year Old Body With The Experience Of 18 Years,Can He Confess This Time?Will His Crush Accept His Feelings?

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On a storm ravaged night half a world apart two creatures of legend are born carrying with them an unforeseen destiny that will link them together. A Cherokee raised shape shifter, that the local, English speaking, missionaries have dubbed Kit Blaze Fox, sets out on his quest to be recognized through the ritual trials to become a Warrior Chief. He decides to join the US Army in a time of war against his clans wishes. He gets deployed to a small strategic island in the South Pacific where he takes pity on a small fox in a trap, not knowing at first that he has saved his own soul mate born on the same day as he.