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Ronyx The Mustard Jar 9 Recommended Works The Tarheel Writer - On the Web since 24 February 2003. Celebrating 21 Years on the Internet! Tarheel Home Page |
Ronyx over at The Mustard Jar caught my attention back in 2012 with It's Not Easy Being a Tree. More recently, I've been spending some time over at The Mustard Jar and reading some of Ronyx' wonderful stories. Whatever you choose from the list below, I am sure you will enjoy. Congrats to Ronyx for being an excellent author!
Recommendations are presented in alphabetical order.
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"A Different Road"by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com/ on 17 September 2024
High School
Complete with 12 Chapters and an Epilogue (41,905 words)
Completed 17 March 2021
Added 17 September (archived/word)
Corey and Brett have been best friends since they were five. After twelve years, Brett decides he no longer wants to be involved in a relationship and must now travel a different road. Can Corey survive without Brett in his life? Find out in this story of love and loss.
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"A Mourning Storm"by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com/ on 28 August 2024
High School
Complete with 19 Chapters (80,409 words)
Completed 2009
Added 28 August 2024 (archived/word)
Sometimes life isn't fair. Fifteen-year-old Richie Ferguson has to learn this the hard way when his mother dies of cancer and he's forced to live with a father who left the family two years earlier for another woman. Richie's life becomes a storm, whirling around with no sense of purpose or direction. Will the tumultuous winds destroy him or will he find a calm sea in time to save his own life?
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"Birds Don't Sing Before a Storm"by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com on 28 August 2024
High School
Complete with 29 Chapters (107,109 words)
Completed 14 March 2021
Added 10 August 2024 (archived-word)
Casey Barrett is a sixteen-year old who lives alone with his mother. After several incidences at school, she decides she can no longer deal with his rebellious behavior. She sends Casey to live with his father who deserted the family five years earlier.
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"Brittle as a Bird"
by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com on 28 August 2024
High School
Complete with 20 Chapters (83,222 words)
Completed 2008
Added 12 June 2021 (archived/word)
Joey Carpenter is a street kid. Living in his parent’s garage, he hustles to survive. Alcohol and drugs help him face the world. Rejected by his family, and an outcast at school, his future looked dim until he meets Allen Foster- who has his own problems. The special bond they form will give Joey a second chance at life.
Brittle as a Bird SEQUEL
"A Bridge to Yesterday"
by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com on 28 August 2024
Drama/Violence/Angst
Complete with 14 Chapters (57,583 words)
Completed 2008
Added 12 June 2021 (archived/word)
A sequel to Brittle as a Bird. Joey's life has changed very much since Allen's death. So too, has Gene's life. Tormented by the past, Gene has estranged himself from his family. An incident will bring him back into Joey's life. Will he once again be able to find the love he so desperately wanted years before? Can a bridge be crossed to a distant past?
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"Dancing on a Star"by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com on 28 August 2024
High School
Complete with 33 Chapters (124,673 words)
Completed 2018
Added 28 August 2024 (archived/word)
Jack Woolery's life was safe and secure. He was attending high school, and he had no intention of coming out to his parents or best friend, Jimmy. Then Tracy Craft moves in across the street and changes his plans. Tracy, a new student, and an aspiring ballet dancer, is strong and confident. He challenges Jack to reevaluate his life. Can Jack become friends with an openly gay boy, and yet maintain the secret life he trusts?
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"It's Not Easy Being a Tree"
by Ronyx
Link verified to https://www.themustardjar.com/?t=4vbfNiC5ikVO0tCe on 6 July 2023
High School
23 Chapters (102,860 words)
Completed 2011
Added 29 Sept 2012 (archived-html/word)
The internet can be a dangerous place sometimes. Chat rooms can be perilous. Sixteen-year-old Woody Fields finds out too late just how sinister a place they can be when he begins chatting online with another mysterious boy.
Okay. I know Mrs. Chapman told us that we had to write an essay about ourselves, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Me,’ but I just couldn’t do it. So, I decided to write about being a tree. It’s a lot better than writing about me.
Marco from Italy suggested this story for me to read and his recommendations are usually "spot on." So I gave it a go and I sure am glad I did. Ronyx's stories usually deal with "challenges" gay youth face and this is a really good one.
Comicality interviewed Ronyx on his monthly magazine Imagine. Here's a link to that interview.
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"No More Rainbows"by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com on 28 August 2024
High School
Complete with 15 Chapters (60,930 words)
Completed 2009
Added 28 August 2024 (archived/word)
Artie's world is turned upside down when his father gets arrested for a sex crime. His family is torn apart by the incident. Add to the equation his own budding sexuality and his efforts to hide it from a hostile mother, and you have a story with love and hate, fear and courage, conflict and reconciliation.
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"Taking Off the Mask"by Ronyx
Link verified to TheMustardJar.com on 28 August 2024
High School
Complete with 14 Chapters (57,126 words)
Completed 17 March 2021
Added 18 September 2024 (archived/word)
At sixteen, James has an almost perfect life. Then two boys enter his life and turn it upside down. Dion is a shy boy who James can't understand. Donovan is the star basketball player who James admires. Read how an incident with one boy will bring him closer to the other as masks are slowly removed.
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