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An American teenager meets Adonis on a sailing cruise off the coast of Turkey. A merchant of the Silk Road encounters a dog - and a brother - from another world. An old lady on a distant planet attempts to help her great-grandson grow up in a world that will soon forget women ever existed. A Massachusetts boy refuses to visit fairyland. Another American teenager on vacation encounters three fallen angels and is transformed. Alex Jeffers’s first collection of fantastical stories is a treacherous box of delights.

In Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living, Daniel M. Jaffe explores various aspects of gay-Jewish life: coming out to self and family; (re)defining one's relationship to tradition and faith; surviving child abuse and teenage sexual identity angst; experiencing the adult joys and heartbreaks of dating, of forming relationships, and of losing them; coping with HIV/AIDS; considering parenting; and dealing with old age.

Reminiscent of Joan Didion's White Album or Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era that puts the listener on the streets of NYC during the early '90s AIDS crisis, also touching on such diverse subjects as the serial murders of gay men, Peck's first loves upon coming out, and the transformation of LGBT people from marginal, idealistic fighters to their present place in a world of widespread, if fraught, mainstream acceptance.

This is a compilation of nine lesbian short stories including: "The Old Woman": Jessica is a pretty good best friend, but she goes too far when she dares Rachel to ask an old woman on a date. Rachel has no choice; otherwise Jessica will do the asking, and Rachel has no intention of humiliating the old woman. Turns out maybe Jessica's idea was not so bad after all. There is a lot more to Ada than her age.

Geologist Kea Wright and her team of scientists travel the world, diving into fiery volcanoes or excavating mammoth bones in search of understanding Earth’s mysteries, but often find murder instead… Kea is invited to the Black Hills by her mentor, Dr. Harry Campbell, to explore Mammoth Drop, a paleontological discovery of mammoth proportions. She takes up residence with the other workers nearby Woolly Hole, a luxurious gay campground filled with boozing drag queens and bottomless mimosas. However, the joyous opening of the new park takes a dark turn when Harry is found brutally murdered...

Many a confident urban gay man in the Castro, West Hollywood, and Chelsea was once a wide-eyed newcomer. Every year thousands of young men arrive in these queer-friendly neighborhoods, seduced by city life and its sexual possibilities. In Where the Boys Are, Richard Labonté collects raunchy memoirs and stories about these newly arrived country boys. Here are stories of first times, initiations, bars, backrooms, dance clubs, and parties, reading (or misreading) the codes....

The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.

Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. Justin Chin's fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals, Chin's early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view.

In this second volume the girls (Mary and Jane) are simply man-handled, trained, and abused by any real-world standard. But gratefully for the sake of these promiscuous but adorable young creatures (they are registered as livestock animals) this is a fictional novel. The pair survives unharmed and satisfied emotionally, physically, and in many intimate ways as they grow up in the new USA Inc.

Tijabab [TEE-juh-baab] is a cute, little, genderless bunny who survives various encounters with fear and grows up to find Truth, Forgiveness, and Freedom.

If the thought of bikinis on the beach, cherry red latex miniskirts, or bare shoulders in the backseat make your heart race and your hands wander - don't stop now, because Soaking Wet is bound to keep the dirty fun rolling. Whether they're in pursuit of a new conquest or in the safety of their longtime lover's arms, the women in Soaking Wet are interested in one thing and one thing only: Satisfying their deepest, most insistent desires. In this scintillating collection of lesbian erotica, the women are hot and the sex is hotter.

The dance between the viewer and the viewed drives the stories of I Like to Watch, the first-ever anthology of erotica for gay voyeurs and exhibitionists. In the words of editor Christopher Pierce, "The possibilities are as varied as the individuals who have watched and performed this ritual since the first Cro-Magnon man accidentally saw two men getting it on and decided to stay and watch the show." No fantasy is left unfulfilled in this collection devoted to spying, ogling, teasing, flaunting, and showing off for a lover - or a stranger.

Jump-Start: To jump-start American consumerism after decades of zero economic growth, the vaganus is wholesaled in casino fashion.

If you’re a WWII aviation enthusiast and long for a sweet love story with two gay men, this one’s for you. And if those aren’t your preferred choices, then bravely dip your toes in the pond of "what if" and enjoy a great little gem on which to expand your horizons.

Are you struggling with a vicious pattern of negative thinking, stress, and anxieties but don't know how to break free? Unlike other guides that simply give you a bunch of theories, this audiobook will show you simple 10-minute mindfulness exercises you can use to live stress-free even in the midst of your busy day.

Diana Grant does not fawn over celebrities. She has always been a quiet, serious type of person. A budding anthropologist, she is interested in facts - not romantic ideals. She finds it odd then that ever since she saw a picture of Catahasa Yazzie, the young billionaire CEO of a property company in New Mexico, she's felt herself inexplicably drawn to him.

In Quarterly Essay 49, Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to solutions. In that spirit, he offers a timely assessment of the future for Labor. He examines the key challenges: the union nexus, the Keating settlement, a real education revolution, a new war on poverty, climate change, and handling the Greens. With wit and insight, he suggests that Labor's biggest problem is the steady erosion of its traditional working-class base.

Best Gay Romance 2009 is short fiction at its finest on the subject of love-first love, true love, and love everlasting (with makeup sex, wake-up sex, and everything in between). The romantic possibilities range from a surprising encounter between two blue-collar buddies to a brief airport rendezvous that become something more, and a reminder to us all that it is never too late for love. A self-confessed true romantic, Richard Labont has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often, in the most unexpected places.

Eight years before the events of Chameleon Moon, Book 1, Regan was just beginning to feel secure in his new life. He doesn't know many things for certain, even his place in Parole as it hangs in a fragile balance far above an ever-burning fire. But he has no doubts about how he feels about Rowan (who appears in the short story "The Library Ghost" in the collection Life Within Parole, and will again in Book 2: The Lifeline Signal).

This volume features 20 self-identified female authors writing about intersectionality, including women of color, disabled, transgender, and GLB/GSD (Gender and Sexual Diversities). We have curated amazing short fiction, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It's personal, political, and a great listen.