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Jamel James is in love with his husband, for better, for worse...Since their initial encounter, the two military veterans have been through a few storms, such as Connor's step out of the closet to stand up to his family. As a couple, they have built close friendships, family ties, and a community in their New England town. Through it all, their bond is still strong and their intimacy still undeniably hot.Now a married, domesticated couple with a ten year anniversary on the horizon, Jamel and Connor must navigate dueling work schedules, communication issues, and family drama awhile trying to maintain the fire they once had. But when tragedy strikes Jamel's life, the aftermath could affect their happy life and change things between them. Is the perfect match they worked hard for no longer perfect?

Eurydice is dead, and there's no rest in the Afterlife. The place is a college filled with classes like Hauntings, Controlled Baking Disasters, and Threads of Fate. When Eurydice was alive, she tried to find her voice in her music, in romance, and in her friends. While creating a suite of destruction that eventually led her to, well, being dead. Now, here among the shades (and newer, more ghostly, friends), Eurydice has to come to terms with the life she left behind: mostly in the enfant terrible boyfriend who put her here. The infamous Orpheus. Clever and brutal and hilarious, Jordan Kurella's novella is a mythic read. A finalist for the Nebula Award for Novella!

These romantic L-love verses entice the reader into a tantalizing dream where precise and gorgeous language builds a beautiful, mysterious palace in which your imagination can play. Poetry and poetic prose that stirs the emotions is written with intriguing delicacy as these poems and stories interplay on the level of the mystic giving voice to universal experiences of romance, love, and life. Savor each of them. They are exquisite precious jewels from a native of New Orleans who is one of its living treasures.

Piety, compassion, lust, love... Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused as an adolescent. It's Holy Week 1987. The priest is Fr. Linus Fitzgerald, and the young seminarian is Orlando Rosario. Both are shocked and shaken as they reflect on their desires and dreams, secrets and sins, hopes and faith, and the paths that brought them together. In Homo Novus, Gerard Cabrera illuminates with deep empathy and stark emotional honesty the journey these two men take separately and together - a journey that began with a violation of trust and leads them to places - sacred and profane - that they never imagined.

Despite his cerebral palsy, Alan Jones has overcome many obstacles in life. As a senior systems analyst, at a Fortune-500 company, he makes a very good living. He owns a two-bedroom, two-bath condominium in West Hills. His attendant Selena Harris lives with Alan but occupies the other bedroom. In the first chapter, Selena tries to get Alan up for work but he purposely "brats," stays in bed, and looks forward to her "consequences." Before dropping him off at work, she gives him a pep talk prior to his presentation to the board of directors.Meanwhile, Catherine O'Malley has also vanquished many obstacles due to her version of cerebral palsy. She's a corporate attorney who defines herself by her career success. In her first scene, she aggressively defends a company that violated O.S.H.A. regulations. A former employee, a mom with two children, sues them for contracting terminal cancer. But, despite having moral conflicts with her client, Catherine pursues every legal technicality to get make the dying mom look bad. That night, she drinks her guilt away with five Long Island iced teas. Later on, Catherine is back at work but she's beginning to have mixed feelings about representing faceless corporations. On a subconscious level, she aches for a meaningless one-night stand with a guy who will just bang her brains out. A male coworker senses vulnerability in her and manipulates her to invite him to her home to work on a case. One thing leads to another and they have mind-blowing sex. The next day, she wakes up feeling like a new woman. But, when she gets to work that day, Nicole tells her that he bragged about "scoring" with a desperate "disabled slut" last night. Catherine and Nicole devise a plot for revenge. Then, Catherine and Nicole find comfort in each other's arms. Alan and Catherine happen to be eating at the same restaurant. Alan's dining companion, his brother Tommy, encourages Alan to introduce himself to the woman in the wheelchair. At first, Alan resists. But, after much prodding, he finally gives in just to shut his brother up. When Alan tries talking to Catherine it is a disaster! Alan has Selena drive him to a legal Nevada brothel. On this particular visit, his intimacy provider comments on the obvious chemistry between Alan and Selena. After Alan and his provider are done with their session, she makes Alan promise to talk with Selena about their relationship when they get home. The next day, Alan and Selena open up their feelings to each other. But, there's an unforeseen obstacle.A few scenes later, Nicole tries to be affectionate with Catherine in a very public place. Catherine isn't ready to be "outed" so this causes an impasse. But a life-changing incident makes Catherine realize how truly important Nicole is to her long-term happiness. After a series of personal discoveries, Selena wonders if any real or imagined obstacle can stop the powerful love she has with Alan.

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Enter a Kaleidoscope of Queer Speculative FictionStories take us beyond the bounds of our own lives-into new worlds and new situations. Perhaps most importantly, they invite us into new identities. Through the characters we temporarily become, we open ourselves to a rainbow of experiences.Speculative fiction gives us new lenses through which to explore our world and ourselves, and a deeper understanding of what makes love and connection so amazingly diverse.In the second All Worlds Wayfarer anthology, immerse yourself in 30 unique stories featuring LGBTQIA+ protagonists in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.Open yourself to Prismatic Dreams.

On his way to meet friends at Winter Carnival in Quebec City, Brian wrecks his car in a snowstorm. The incident precipitates a collision of cultures - Brian's gay secular world - and the conservative Muslim one of the garage owners in Sherbrooke. One of the owners agrees to drive Brian to Quebec City only to get stranded with him as the winter storm intensifies. Later in the week, the owner's handsome nephew, Omar, delivers Brian's car. Omar and Brian experience instant attraction, setting in motion a chain reaction of erotically charged passion, self-discovery, and international intrigue linking Quebec, Morocco, and Boston. Can Brian and Omar cross personal and cultural borders or will they remain entrenched in vastly different worlds, repeating history? Enjoy this fast-paced plot and richly textured narrative.

Vivienne Roche lives a life that is envied by many. As an openly queer, world-renowned, high-flying performance painter, functioning alcoholic, and female lothario, she's spent the first decade of her career virtually untouchable. She's a far cry from the idealistic, hopeless-romantic persona of her past who lurks inside her. After a devastating tragedy, Viv becomes mortal and struggles to regain her position as the art world's most recognizable face. As she prepares the show that will put her back atop the pedestal the world had previously placed her on, a mysterious figure from her past reappears and unravels her tightly wrapped world. Immersive Love is a love story that will keep you guessing, counting the lies, and questioning just how strong love can be.

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