Trust fund twink and college freshman, Chad Astor is ambivalent. Gulf States University, his father’s alma mater, isn’t exactly Stanford or Berkeley, but he plans to make the most of it. At first sight, Chad’s new roommate, Brody King, seems like just another dumb rugby jock—sweaty, straight, and basic—but things aren’t always as they seem. An unlikely friendship develops between them, but when one of his teammates shows an interest in Chad, Brody gets jealous and territorial. An argument, an expensive bottle of bourbon, and a male chastity device set the stage for a homoerotic ...

Having received a full baseball scholarship to college, Ryder Conrad is a few weeks shy of his high school graduation. As a condition of the scholarship, the eighteen year old jock must undergo a complete medical examination performed by Dr. Kirk Livingston. Not only is Dr. Livingston his family’s doctor, but the handsome, muscular doctor is also the best friend of Ryder’s father. Unbeknownst to everyone, Ryder, the young baseball jock, has been desperately in love with “Uncle Kirk” since the age of five. With a yearning to be submissive to the rugged and divorced physician, Ryder ...

After ten years, Warner Cassidy is about to be reunited with his ex-wife’s son, Corbin, and he could not be happier. With eighteen year-old Corbin on a tennis scholarship to a college nearby, Warner invites Corbin to live with him. When Corbin reveals that he is gay, Warner is supportive but secretly intrigued, forming an intense attraction to the younger man. Warner seeks answers within himself and is forced to examine how a love for someone who he once considered as his male progeny become so much more.... Will the thrice-married straight man expose his newfound feelings of love and ...

When a Terran Empire starship is pulled into a wormhole and crashes on an unknown and uncharted distant planet, the survivors of the ill-fated ship struggle to adjust to this world full of dangers and secrets while holding out a hope that they can escape their new home. Star-crossed former lovers, Burke Wolfhampton and Sitka Sabanthia, lead the sexually-charged group in an effort to build a new life on a hostile world that will defy their understanding of biology, family, sex and gender.

Short Story. Middle Age can be a bitch, especially when a man’s in a mostly sexless marriage. So 42-year-old Decker Collins is doing the only thing he can, and that’s deal with his eight-inch problem on his own. Alas, certain things have minds of their own at times. When Decker goes down to the basement in the middle of the night to take care of business, his son’s friend, Caleb, makes Decker an offer he can’t refuse. This gay, steamy short story is 7500 words.

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.