I’m not sure about releasing this story as it is unfinished, but I’m tossing it out there to the masses anyway. Enjoy!

Confronted with a new reality, Third Class Linguist Jodiah Dalton is forced to change his plans for the future when his family makes a galactic move to escape the aftershocks of his mother’s death, and he is not happy about it.

With spin control spinning out of control, Senior First Kryst Tavyl looks to the newest arrivals as his last hope for sanity. Paired by performance percentages, test scores, and a firm denial of their strong attraction to each other; Jodiah and Kryst present a united front when Chancellor-Presumptive Tavyn arrives seeking his displaced monarch so that he can force the child into a true-bond, gain control over the avatar of Ma’kar, and, through her, take the crown.

Caught in a tangled web of half-truths and blatant denial, Kryst finds himself in the inescapable position of bond or be bound and discovers that being tied closer than lovers isn’t so bad when he respects you in the morning.

I understand that there may be some scenes intended for mature audiences, including interpersonal relationships between persons of the same gender, yet I still wish to read this story.

Jiovanni Ward’s world is falling apart.  First, his father is murdered. Then, his mother develops a brain tumor that is slowly killing her, and while she lays dying, his blood begins to burn.  Sworn by his father to seek out the guild no sooner than his sixteenth birthday and pressured by his mother to not seek it out at all, Jiovanni must deal with the growing pressures within himself and within his family.  His eldest sister Odessa is determined to remain under Hestia’s Protection and graduate from college.  The next eldest, Hunter, is a Ganami under the protection of the guild.  Unfortunately, his leg is broken and he is unable to work.  Cordell shows no interest in joining the guild although he is old enough and Elaina, the youngest, must be protected at all costs.

With Odessa and Cordel’s refusal to help and Hunter’s inability to work, Jiovanni feels as if the entire survival of his family is falling on his fifteen year old shoulders.  And he burns.  So he does the only thing an irrational teenager would do in his place: he steals his brother’s guild card and goes to work.  It is some months later when he has discovered who had his papa killed and who would have him killed and why he should run for the guild as fast as his legs can carry him that he finds himself in a position that he isn’t sure he will make it out of alive, but he does know one thing.  He is in love.  And the one he loves keeps his blood from burning and that is a goal worth living for no matter the hell he must survive to get back to his side.

I understand this story contains adult situations and that I may find some of the material offensive.

I would like to read this story in spite of it.