Who Loses, Wins

"Staying in is the new going out!"

I was readying myself to jump out of the shower, when Celine wandered into my bathroom. “Ah, just in time. Pass me a towel, will you? I forgot to grab one before getting in," I asked her. “Good thing I’m...

Winter Flame

"An outcast among her family, Cora finally has the Christmas of her dreams."

Christmas, 2015. Canada had an exceptionally cold holiday season that year. The Scarlet family, however, spent it as they always did: in the relative warmth of their large log house. In the evening, everyone in the family was gathered together...

A Year From Hell

"Two women, alone for different reasons, come together."

Lexie tilted her head back and drained the last of the beer from the glass bottle. Standing from her chair, she took a few steps forward and tossed the glass bottle into the plastic container sitting near the garage. After...

My Best Friend Gemma

"I thought I'd lost her when I fell for her."

Gemma had been my best friend for as long as I could remember, my dearest confidant, my soul mate. When I discovered my sexuality as a teenager, she was the first person that I told about it. She never judged...

It is the perfect echo of that day. Leaves on the lawn, gold and green. They lie where they fall, rich and restive, kissed by a cooling sun. Bare branches are once more braced against the snap. The world is...

Annalise and Daniel have been married for six years but now she is alone again, as she has been so many times before, her wine-washed thoughts tumbling like kaleidoscope colours in a long, hollow chamber. She looks across the table...

Guest of Honor

"One woman is shown exactly how much she is wanted."

Ashley knocked on the door of her friend's house and stood there waiting for Sandra to answer her. The window on the door was covered. Why? Ashley didn't know. When she heard the door opening, she looked up and saw...

Extreme Measures

"Two women who should be enemies are linked by much more."

Gwen walked out onto the balcony and looked down at the citythat she was assigned to protect. She had always done her job well. Nothing ever stopped her from completing a mission that she had been assigned to, until now....