RavingBlack

"Need a match?" The stranger came closer, lit smoke between his lips and hand hunting in his jacket.The match swiped and sparked to life, flame already eating its way down the stick as it lit the two of them a type of yellow that lived and breathed and died. The stranger reached up to shield the match as he lit the end of Vance's smoke, something like a smile playing at his lips. Vance didn't know which one he wasn't supposed to be looking at between that faint smile or his flame-painted hands near his mouth. --Vance Romano, a wayward son that drank, smoked, and sinned with the other sons of his hometown. He was a man east-born but west-bound, and he would go someday. But before that day came, he would meet a stranger that grinned silver and would go on west with him.…

RavingBlack

A steamy 1950s small-town romance between a tough but strangely innocent greaser and an irresistible teenage heartthrob becomes Northfield's juiciest secret love affair! The introverted Vance Romano is a just a closeted teenager trying to fit in with the pack, but the notoriously charismatic Blake Coleman charms his way past Vance's guard. Over the course of the unlikely pair's secret trysts, their casual fling unexpectedly blossoms into a passionate romance. But as Vance and Blake grow unavoidable feelings for each other, old flames and family drama force them to choose between their newly budding romance or their old, familiar lives. Will this unlikely love story survive graduation and the adult world beyond?…

RavingBlack

Rose is an ordinary thirty-six-year-old woman that lives alone in the dull blue facade of a quaint house, but after catching the attention of her charming next-door neighbor Dan, she has recently taken up rearranging her home in preparation for his visits. Rose redresses her house with shades of innocuous beige and demure chartreuse, attempting to hide the darker shades lurking just behind locked basement doors. As Dan inches closer to the truth humming beneath the house, Rose's true colors begin to bleed through her blue curtains...…

RavingBlack

Vile's blissfully monotonous life as a small-town dressmaker is upheaved by the arrival of Idunn, a noblewoman in urgent need of a spectacular dress for her coming-of-age ceremony. Idunn and Ville's opposing views and personalities clash as they hurry to complete the dress in time for the ceremony; however, tensions only mount higher as Idunn starts to question the life she's expected to live as a noblewoman and Ville grapples with difficult feelings for Idunn bubbling up within him.At a time in their lives when their duties clash with desire, how will they be able to come to terms with the mysterious will of the Gods? And how will they deal with their own emotions rising in opposition to fate's inevitable threads?🥇Winter 2023 Awards…