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Since when does a kiss awaken the senses to an explosive human experience?Since when does a kiss reveal a truth so unmistakably? It's 1972 and twenty year old Neho, an aimless college student who has been abused by his stepfather, attempts to redress the crime but finds himself cast as the perpetrator. The backlash becomes almost unbearable and threatens to put him in jail and destroy his relationship with Martín, the man he deeply loves. An old creencia (belief) revealed to him by Martín takes hold and slowly changes his life. As he begins his new journey, it becomes clear what he must do. But is it enough? Aclaracíon is a bittersweet coming-of-age story whose message is a tribute to courage, faith and love.

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Just because you're alone, doesn't mean someone doesn't know your business... Lucas, the closeted son of a preacher who just graduated from Florida Atlantic University, returns home and is forced to make a life-changing decision--can he live a lie and marry his lifelong BFF, who his overbearing parents have been plotting to matchmake him with for years? Or, will he stay in Florida and start a new, more open life that he knows they will never approve of? Tyler, a talented artist on the edge of seventeen, is about to finish high school, and is looking forward to becoming a proper adult and fully exploring his sexuality. However, he soon discovers there's a kink in his plans--his father has decided to rent out the studio apartment he's been living in, putting an end to the independence he's enjoyed until now. Lucas answers an advertisement for the apartment, and sparks fly from the very first moment the boys meet--though both are reluctant to explore things further, since it wasn't what either of them had planned for their futures. But sometimes life isn't that simple, and doesn't always go exactly as planned...

A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to an American boxer and her wife. American father un-adopts boy by a single signature on a piece of paper. But just before he leaves the new house, ex-father discovers that the new parents, to whom he has "re-homed" his ex-son, are a lesbian couple. American ex-father spends the rest of the play trying to get the boy back. In his corner is Ryan, the boxer's coach and her wife's brother. Ryan doesn't like the new Korean boy, who is a bit weird. Wolf Play is a messy, funny, disturbing theatrical experience grappling with a wolf, a puppet and the very prickly problem of "What is a family, and what do we need from families today? Is it very different from what humans have needed from families before?"

Krista Bergren-Walsh's one act play, "Stopping to Sniff the Truffles: A One Act," is an illuminating drama focused on the intersectionality of disability (ADHD), alcholism, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has placed substantial stress on society. During these stressfull times, there is still an ability, as well as a drive to find joy in the simple things that life has to offer, whether it be a tender moment with ones life partner, or the simple joy of perfectly seasoned food.

Loaded guns, lesbian love, inverted expectations, and lecherous mafia-types make this a novella not to forget. Kika was a map of bruises. She was a cicatrix of vengeance, the scar of a wounded mind, the fetid and gangrenous lesion of a town's malevolent psyche. And she's come back to Carbon, Georgia, to find her missing sister.Fighting tooth and nail, wielding her trusty crowbar, Hell hath no fury like the violent storm Kika brings to Carbon. She'll tear through the town and its criminal underworld until she finds her sister.Inspired by Virginie Despentes' Baise Moi, The Shit of God by Diamanda Galas, and Cynthia Pelayo's Into the Fire and All the Way Through, this is the story of violence inflicted on women, and the cold vengeance served to those responsible. Informed also by female revenge films such as Coffy, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, I Spit on Your Grave, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Perras Malas delivers several acts of vengeance to the evil men of Carbon.

THIS IS BOOK 2 OF THE THEY ARE H.E.L.L SERIES. Please read We Are H.E.L.L first, as this book is a continuation.Prom night was meant to be the best night of Elsie and Lu's senior year of high school. Instead, it turned out to be the worst after a series of unlucky events.Now, wanted for murder and escaping police custody, Elsie and Lu are on the run from both the law and the retaliation of the mafia after killing one of their own.Plagued with awful memories, regrets, and worry about being caught and having to go to prison for the rest of their lives, both girls have to rely on each other to get through each day.It seems as though Elsie's wish definitely did come true, when she wished she didn't have a boring life. Now she has to keep running, so she doesn't end up in hell.

The story of a poor boy whose biggest dream is to be a filmmaker. A trajectory of sufferings, struggles, victories and defeats. This story comes to show us that dreams are untouchable and worth fighting for. Know the Story of Divine, someone who believed until the end in a miracle and in true love. This story is inspiring.

Phil is in love with himself. And he's a show off. He's crafted a personality disorder into a trade. Who'd be a stand-up comedian these days?Above a pub in North London, Phil is drinking and fighting off mild panic about his comeback gig. His manager's already dumped him and he's worried about finding a place to stay for the night too. As he laments his dwindling career, his supporters gather to wish him well.Craving success and celebrity too, Josh suspects his father of behaving very badly. With the time of the performance fast approaching, guilty secrets emerge that split the family wide apart. Tonight, Phil's career might not be the only thing in tatters.Comic and moving, Broken Lad is a subtle examination of masculinity in distress.

Book I provides an intimate glimpse of camp life in the Union Army during the Civil War.There's a memorable cast of characters, the most being Sergeant Johnathan Traver, a man laden with memories of his abusive boyhood,and Private Esher Coley, a young man also burdened with a painful and lonely boyhood.Johnathan is convinced that his misery will end while serving in this bloody war, but before he dies he wants to modernize training methods taught to recruits. He is regarded as a traitor by Army Command. He does not fear becoming an outlaw in the Army, all he fears is being discharged, still alive!Esher dearly wants to stay alive so he can raise a family on his farm on the Prairie. He is convinced that having a family will be the end of his loneliness. They fall in love. How can this be?Book I brings a surprisingly different perspective to our collective understanding of Army life during the Civil War.

Dive into Khai Allen's diary as he unravels how his affair with a married man took a deadly turn.Khai Allen is struggling with the harsh reality of life as a new Therapist and Clinical Manager. Working alongside his mother in their Family practice, he quickly learns that you can't save everyone. Plagued with countless sleepless nights and recurring nightmares, Khai turns to a life of meaningless hookups with strangers to cope with the anxiety of working in psychiatry and personal demons.It was routine fun and games until his chaotic one-night stand with Terrence, a former escort and recovering addict turned married man. After unexpectedly falling for him, Khai regrettably neglects his work responsibilities and resorts to drastic measures to keep their tumultuous love affair alive. Find out just how far he's willing to go in the private pages of his Manstress Diaries.Triggers include:Addiction and Drug UseS.I.Gay Romance RelationshipsErotic Scenes and Language*Ingram Edition*

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Daniel W.K. Lee’s first collection of poetry is a study on desire’s limbs, its breath, its unchecked tendencies on creatures—mortal and divine—who dare to love or be loved. Eros to agape, melancholia to saudade, he finds fruit in these conditions and exposes with carefully selected words and deliberate silence, our hunger. DANIEL W.K. LEE is a third generation refugee. Born in Kuching, Malaysia to an ethnic Cantonese family who fled wars in China and then Vietnam, he is currently working on escaping to his next city—New Orleans—with his head-turning whippet, Camden.

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Manuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full-length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the Middle East. Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and historical references to deepen and inform the narrative, and also to lay before the reader the idea of the continuity, over many centuries, of human love and desire. The beauty, joy, grief and tenderness in these poems are universal and belong to every kind of human affection - indeed Forcano has been described by the Catalan journalist and academic Pere Ballart as 'our foremost love poet'.Anna Crowe's beautiful translations demonstrate a remarkable understanding of, and sensitivity to, Forcano's poetry, so much so that one might say that Maps of Desire represents the perfect union of poet and translator.

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"Irresistible . . . intoxicating. . . . Enduringly original sensibility."—New York TimesAdele is a painter and an addict. Through her eyes, we meet her two lovers, Mala and Bill, and follow her destructive relationships over the course of fourteen years. A vulnerable exploration of the interplay between art, love, and addiction, Ode to Joy is an affecting new drama from respected playwright Craig Lucas.Renowned playwright Craig Lucas's newest work is a sensitive look at illness, addiction, and love.Craig Lucas's plays include Missing Persons, Reckless, Blue Window, Prelude to a Kiss, God's Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy, Prayer for My Enemy, The Singing Forest, and the book for the The Light in the Piazza (music and lyrics by Adam Guettel).

Nine of Gage's most popular one-act plays, including: Bite My Thumb, Patricide, Jane Addams and the Devil Baby, Battered on Broadway, Louisa May Incest, The Rules of the Playground, The Obligatory Scene, The Pele Chant, and Entr'acte, or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped.