Christopher Clarke

The forty year story of Halogen Entertainment, an LGBTQ production company that produced TV and music for the LGBTQ community.

In 1978 Gus and Ben, two teenagers, are abducted by an alien force. Forty years later they are still living with the effects of that night. Ben has become an alcoholic and Gus has been hiding his true origins. Both have tried to cope in their own way, but nothing has worked. Flashing between 1978 and 2019, our protagonists are challenged at every point by friends and family, some of them still demanding to know what happened to the duo that night all those years ago.

Hugh and Struan’s happy world as a couple in their tenth year together is turned upside down when Struan’s mother dies and they take in his father.

Vince Carver is a seventy-five year old man living alone in a sleepy village by the sea. Recently he had a heart attack and now has a district nurse come to see him once a week. He decides to take in a lodger.

Daryl Pearson lives with his grandmother in Coventry. Abandoned there by his mother when he was a baby, he is lost and searching for his father. When a box arrives from his mother he finds more than he could hope for inside it. Adam is trying to juggle recapturing past successes and dealing with his friend's marital problems. Ominous dreams signal that there are other things at work, and love, music and fate combine to reveal the truth.

Stripped of his military pension when he was outed thirty years earlier, Henry now works as a cleaner. When he meets a young ex-soldier, Jake, he learns he may be able to have his pension reinstated. Suffering from PTSD, Henry is not sure he has the strength to fight another battle, but when his former boyfriend Benji needs a place to live, the three men learn how to live, love, and be a team.

Bertha is an IT specialist, a high-flyer in everything in her life but love.

Dirk Bridle has just been released from prison after 8 years for good behavior. He has always maintained his story of falling asleep at the wheel and not drunk driving that caused the death of a teenager. While in prison, Dirk had an affair with a prison officer, Josh Cummings. Josh has been persistent in tracking down the person who mixed up the lab results in the case against Dirk while Dirk is hellbent on finding the dirty cops who he thinks framed him.

Tortu is a successful IT consultant, loves his job, and works hard. But then he is laid off and can't find another job. He loses his home, his dignity. He begs on the streets of Middlesbrough for months until his friend, Gary, saves him and gives him the money to go live with his uncle, Hugo, in Noyers, France. There he meets Lucas, a local farmer, himself transplanted to the country when his father hands him the keys to a farm. The two men fall in love. But things are not great, as Tortu, has to go home due to the immigration restrictions.

Vince Carver is a seventy-five year old man living alone in a sleepy village by the sea. Recently he had a heart attack and now has a district nurse come to see him once a week. He decides to take in a lodger.

Stripped of his military pension when he was outed thirty years earlier, Henry now works as a cleaner. When he meets a young ex-soldier, Jake, he learns he may be able to have his pension reinstated. Suffering from PTSD, Henry is not sure he has the strength to fight another battle, but when his former boyfriend Benji needs a place to live, the three men learn how to live, love, and be a team.