My Stories

Here you will find stories written by me.  Scroll down to see the full list or use the dropdown menus below to browse by genre, main character, length, or completion status.

 

How That Bitch Stole Backstreet Christmas

Synopsis:
It’s been decades in the making, and after a year’s delay, the Backstreet Army is beyond excited to celebrate A Very Backstreet Christmas! But when a thirsty bitch and several spineless companies conspire to thwart their plans, the Boys and their fans must stand together – heart to heart and hand in hand – to keep the Christmas spirit and Backstreet pride alive. Inspired by true events.

Genre: comedy
Starring: group
Status: complete
Published: December 2022

 

The World Will Be Waiting

The sequel to My Brother’s Keeper

Synopsis:
Four years after the tragic accident that changed his life forever, Kevin tries to keep moving forward… by going back.

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Kevin
Status: incomplete
Published: October 2022 – present

 

My Brother’s Keeper

Synopsis:
As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2008, Kevin Richardson felt like he had it all:  a wonderful wife, a beautiful baby boy, and a newfound freedom to do whatever he wanted to provide for his family.  Not like his former bandmate, Nick Carter, who could barely take care of himself, let alone someone else.  But when a tragic accident changes Kevin’s life forever, Nick is forced to step up and start caring for his friend.  Will he rise to the occasion, or will Nick crumble under the pressure of trying to support Kevin and straighten out his own life at the same time?

Genre: drama
Starring: Kevin, Nick
Status: complete
Published: April 2021 – July 2022

 

Dodging the Daylight

Synopsis:
Brian’s life had never looked brighter, until a devastating diagnosis plunged it into darkness.

Genre: dramedy
Starring: Brian
Status: complete
Published: April 2022

 

The Road to Bethlehem

Synopsis:
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Backstreet Boys rent a remote mountain cabin where they can quarantine together and work on their long-anticipated Christmas album. But just days into their retreat, disaster strikes. When they find themselves in an increasingly dire situation, the five men fear they may not all make it out of the mountains alive.

Genre: drama
Starring: group
Status: complete
Published: October 2020 – February 2021

 

Heroic Measures

Synopsis:
In the fall of 1995, the Backstreet Boys’ future is looking bright. Fresh off the release of their very first single, the five young men from Florida have embarked on a promotional tour, feeling like their dreams of stardom are about to come true. Instead, they come to a crashing halt on a rain-soaked bridge in Chicago, where a horrible accident puts their career plans on hold and leaves their lives in the hands of the dedicated doctors and nurses at County General Hospital.

Genre: drama
Starring: group
Status: complete
Published: June – August 2020

 

A Heart That Isn’t Mine

Synopsis:
Life can change in a heartbeat.  No one knows that better than Nick Carter.  After an unexpected loss leads to an estrangement from his wife, he finds himself in the Florida Keys, broken-hearted and alone… until a chance encounter changes everything.

Genre: drama
Starring: Nick, Brian
Status: complete
Published: February – November 2019

 

The Call

Synopsis:
Within the brotherhood of the Backstreet Boys, Brian and Howie have never had a particularly close bond. But a frantic phone call in the middle of the night brings them together to face the unthinkable.

Genre: drama
Starring: Howie, Brian
Status: complete
Published: October 2017

 

Michael Jordan

Synopsis:
Brian’s thoughts during the infamous fight from the Backstreet Boys’ documentary.  A companion to Rose’s story Frick Versus Frack.

Genre: drama
Starring: Brian, Nick
Status: complete
Published: February 2015

 

Beauty and the Backstreet Boy

Written for the Fairy Tale Challenge at Absolute Chaos

Synopsis:
Tale as old as Backstreet time… true as it can be… barely fanfiction, with some twists thrown in, unexpectedly.
Just a short story… small to say the least… made for the forum’s fairy tale challenge, with Brian as the Beast!

Genre: comedy, romance
Starring: Brian, group
Status: complete
Published: August 2013

 

Shorty and the Deceased

Written for the Fairy Tale Challenge at Absolute Chaos

Synopsis:
Shorty was a simple girl with a book in her hand and a song in her heart. Nick was a broken man in search of someone who would love him for him. Fate would bring them together in this tale as old as time… that has been totally butchered for the AC forum’s fairy tale challenge.

Genre: comedy, horror, romance
Starring: Nick, group
Status: complete
Published: August 2013

 

Unsuspecting Sunday

Synopsis:
“Last night I saw the fireworks, the kind of pain that never hurts, the one you hate to love that’s made for you…”
An unexpected encounter aboard the S.S. Backstreet leads to drama on the high seas.

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Howie, Nick
Status: complete
Published: July 2013

 

Sick as My Secrets

The sequel to Unsuspecting Sunday

Synopsis:
“We had it all, this love so strong. Now everything we had is gone. If you could read my mind, you’d know I’ve crossed that line…”
While Nick struggles to deal with what happened on the cruise, Howie’s indiscretions lead to dire consequences.

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Howie, Nick
Status: complete
Published: February 2014 – June 2017

 

The Pandaskunk Saga

Synopsis:
In this trilogy of holiday tales, the Backstreet Boys team up with a mystical flying pandaskunk to save Christmas!

Genre: action/adventure, comedy, fantasy, sci-fi
Starring: Brian, Nick, group
Status: complete
Published: November 2012 – April 2020

 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Backstreet Boy

Synopsis:
After his defeat of Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter thought the danger had finally come to an end. But for the Backstreet Boys, it’s only just beginning. One of them is guarding a secret, and if it gets out, it could put the lives of the whole group in jeopardy. Can Harry and his friends unite with the Boys to save this band of Muggles from the wrath of wizards?

Genre: fantasy
Starring: group
Status: incomplete
Published: April 2012 – present

 

Hybrid

Written for the 2012 April Fool’s Challenge at Absolute Chaos

Synopsis:
The Boys battle killer monkeys from outer space.
(This was the “foolish” premise I was to turn into an amazing, believable story, according to the challenge for which I wrote this.)

Genre: horror, sci-fi
Starring: group
Status: complete
Published: April 2012

 

1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter

Co-written with multiple authors on Absolute Chaos

Synopsis:
Nick Carter tends to be tortured, maimed, and killed more than any other Backstreet Boy in fanfiction. So much so, in fact, that one day, several fanfic authors asked themselves, “Just how many ways CAN we come up with to kill Nick?” The answer lies in this story, a round robin collection of short stories in which Nick meets an untimely death in a variety of unique, interesting, and humorous ways.

Genre: comedy, horror
Starring: Nick
Status: incomplete
Published: August 2011 – present

 

Revenge of the Slaughtered: Nick Strikes Back

A companion to 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter, co-written with multiple authors on Absolute Chaos

Synopsis:
After being killed so many times, enough is enough. Oh my God, Nick’s back again… and this time, no fan is safe!

Genre: comedy, horror
Starring: Nick
Status: incomplete
Published: August 2011 – present

 

Nick’s Zombie Nightmare Before Christmas

Co-written with Rose

Synopsis:
A horrific Backstreet spin on a Christmas classic.

Genre: horror
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: December 2010

 

Curtain Call

Synopsis:
She had a dream. He had a secret. They had a deal.
In exchange for her silence, he’d make her dream come true. But at what cost?

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: July 2010 – October 2011

 

If…

A companion to Curtain Call

Synopsis:
She thought she’d lost him forever, but four years later, Cary is given a Christmas gift she’ll never forget.

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: December 2015

 

Behind the Curtain

A companion to Curtain Call

Synopsis:
It’s been ten years since Cary lost Nick, but a part of him lives on, in more ways than one.

Genre: drama
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: April 2013

 

Guilty Roads

Synopsis:
It was the fall of 1999, and the Backstreet Boys were in the midst of their sold-out Into the Millennium tour, when Nick Carter went out for a late night walk on the town. His biggest worry was that he would run into fans, but instead, he crossed paths with real danger. What he witnessed that night would forever change his life, and the Backstreet Boys would never be the same.

Genre: suspense, drama
Starring: Nick
Status: incomplete
Published: June 2010 – present

 

Song for the Undead

Co-written with Rose

Synopsis:
The year was 2012, and the world was at war yet again. We were just ordinary people living our lives in the southeastern United States, and for most of us, the war seemed far from home. We had other priorities. Families. Careers. Dreams.

That day, the day on which Earth became Hell, changed everything. After that, it was just us. Ten strangers against the world, a world utterly different from the one we had known. And it was up to us to save it.

This is our story.

Genre: horror, suspense, alternate universe
Starring: group
Status: complete
Published: February 2009 – August 2015

 

Secrets of the Heart

Synopsis:
Brian Littrell and AJ McLean were not the type of men you’d expect to associate with one another. One was a music teacher and a family man; the other made his living in bars and tattoo parlors. Their paths sometimes paralleled, but never crossed… until fate altered the course of their lives. Through tragedy, the two men would meet… to bring justice to a life cut short.

Genre: drama, supernatural, alternate universe
Starring: Brian, AJ
Status: complete
Published: October 2008 – August 2012

 

Watch Me As I Bleed

Written for the August Challenge at Absolute Chaos 

Synopsis:
AJ is forced to relive the grisly murders of his bandmates.

Genre: horror
Starring: AJ, group
Status: complete
Published: August 2008

 

In Pieces

The continuation of Watch Me As I Bleed

Synopsis:
AJ continues to relive the torture inflicted upon him and his bandmates at the hands of a madwoman.

Genre: horror
Starring: AJ, group
Status: complete
Published: July 2011

 

The World Will Know Your Name

Synopsis:
As a guy who has sung the song “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” at every Backstreet show for over a decade, I am pretty damn good at performing without thinking. Sometimes, like now, I just wish I could perform without feeling. God knows I’ve tried.

Genre: drama
Starring: AJ
Status: complete
Published: April 2008

 

Genesis 2014

Written for the 2008 April Fool’s Challenge at Absolute Chaos 

Synopsis:
Brian, Nick, AJ, and Howie are among the only known survivors of Doomsday. In a time of uncertainty and despair, can they find a way to repopulate the Earth and save the human race from extinction?

Genre: sci-fi, romance
Starring: Brian, group
Status: complete
Published: April 2008

 

00Carter

Co-written with Rose, Dee, Mel, Lore, Veronica, Gozde, and Kelly

Synopsis:
Swashbuckling pirates. Gun-wielding Disney characters. Moonwalking penguins. You never know what the day will bring when you work for Himitsu Takana. And secret agent 008, better known as 00Carter, is ready for anything… just so long as he’s back in time to score with one of his beautiful Carter girls. He’s Carter… Nick Carter. Along with the elite agents of HimTak, he’s out to save the world, one mission at a time.

Genre: action, comedy, sci-fi, alternate universe
Starring: group
Status: incomplete
Published: February 2007 – present

 

Broken

Synopsis:
Nick Carter was on top of the world. But three simple words sent him plummeting to rock bottom.

Genre: drama
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: January 2003 – March 2004

 

By My Side

The sequel to Broken

Synopsis:
Can two different people, brought together by a mutually trying experience, really find enduring love? Nick Carter is willing to find out. It’s been a year since the surgery that changed him forever, and at last, his life is starting to look up again. Fully recovered, he feels ready to pursue a relationship with the woman who’s been by his side through it all. Scars fade, wounds reopen, and people come and go, as they both struggle to get on with the lives for which they’ve fought. And still the question lingers… is the bond they’ve formed strong enough to keep them together through it all?

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: March 2004 – January 2008

 

Footprints

Synopsis:
This is a collection of short stories meant as a companion to the Broken series. They show events that took place before and during Broken, told from the point of view of Claire, giving more insight into her back story and perspective.

Genre: drama, romance
Starring: Nick
Status: complete
Published: May 2007 – June 2013

 

Visit The Dreamer’s Sanctuary Archive to access my oldest stories, written between 2000 and 2002.