COAL
Life as President of a new chapter was harder and lonelier than I’d expected, even with my family and brothers surrounding me.
A call from a potential supplier derailed my carefully cultivated life in a way that I never expected.
I went from a single man to married and a father in the blink of an eye.
It was a responsibility I’d not expected,...

SAM

My life was planned out.
Or I thought it was.
I thought I’d found the girl years ago, next came making her mine, and building our family.
That was my plan, but life didn’t work that way.
I planned and fate laughed.
Instead, I got my heart broken and was left floundering, wondering what the hell had happened and how had I been so wrong.
I never...

SAM
All we wanted was to say, “I do” and get on with the rest of our lives.
But before we could do that, we had to make it through our normally sane, even-keeled mothers going completely off the rails.
Then came the family drama and long-lost relatives. There were old wounds that needed healing, and I had my own demons to finally put to rest.
No...