Shit That Happened Before 2011
A collection of short stories set between 2002 and 2011.
Dean is an aspiring young writer who just wants to find someone to love. unfortunately, he has the worst taste in boys and terrible anxiety. Until he meets Stephan.
Maddy is a genius, or at least what counts as a genius in the Harris household. She spends her entire schooling life the youngest in the class, but being acidemically gifted might fix her broken family.
Brent is the boy next door and Dean’s friend since they were four. Brent is reliable and introspective and steadfast. Except when it comes to Maddy. But Brent has a girlfriend, who he loves, doesn’t he?
Stephan is the fabulous, fashion forward, popular Italian guy. Except that he’s a basketball loving, skateboarding, alt rock, math nerd. Appearance is everything, including the boy on his arm. Until he meets Dean
Follow the stories of Dean, his sister Maddy, his best friend Brent, and Stephan as they navigate life in the early 2000s.
Neon Hearts
Pete was raised in a Jehovas Witness family. Pete just turned eighteen. Pete just told his family he’s gay.
Pete has just been kicked out of home.
Jumping off from the story HARM in Shit That Happened Before 2011, Neon Hearts follows Pete’s journey as he, then they, finds his footing as a gay non binary person in 2005 Melbourne.
Pete struggles with self harm and depression as life happens all at once.
Through sex, drugs and electro beats, Pete discovers that family is what you make it, but some can still be saved.
Guariare: Worrier
Stephan is weird. He likes basketball, skateboarding and alt rock.
Too bad Italians don’t generally like that sort of thing.
The son of a Sicilian mother and an Abruzzese father, Stephan just wants to fit in. It doesn’t matter that he’s gay, it matters more that he’d rather wear a basketball tank and skate shorts than a polo and chinos.
So when his mum is diagnosed with motor neuron disease, Stephan’s world turns upside down.
Told in reverse, Guariare: Worrier tells the story of a young man doing his best to be a part of a world he just doesn’t quite fit in