Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“By running off to the seminary? Joining the Marines? Trying to save every street kid who lands on your doorstep? Who do you think you’re kidding? They’re all just substitutes for the one you didn’t save.” -- Danny to Eddie in Black Dog I am a huge fan of Cat Grant’s work, so when I... Continue Reading →
“By running off to the seminary? Joining the Marines? Trying to save every street kid who lands on your doorstep? Who do you think you’re kidding? They’re all just substitutes for the one you didn’t save.” -- Danny to Eddie in Black Dog I am a huge fan of Cat Grant’s work, so when I... Continue Reading →
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” ― Therese Anne Fowler Taylor V. Donovan’s Six Degrees of Lust is a novel that’s part murder mystery and part relationship mystery, with a heavy emphasis on the relationship and even more on the mystery of how Sam Shaughnessy and Mac O’Bannon... Continue Reading →
“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.” ― Therese Anne Fowler Taylor V. Donovan’s Six Degrees of Lust is a novel that’s part murder mystery and part relationship mystery, with a heavy emphasis on the relationship and even more on the mystery of how Sam Shaughnessy and Mac O’Bannon... Continue Reading →
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.” ― Woody Allen Sasquatch starts out with Jack celebrating his TGIF at the local Oyster Bar. This is not a bar where most gay men would find themselves out for drinks. Jack was just redneck enough where he didn't care. Jack just wanted to... Continue Reading →
“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.” ― Woody Allen Sasquatch starts out with Jack celebrating his TGIF at the local Oyster Bar. This is not a bar where most gay men would find themselves out for drinks. Jack was just redneck enough where he didn't care. Jack just wanted to... Continue Reading →
Sakura Genji is a flying fish, the title given to the traveling actors in seventeenth century Japan who performed both on and off the stage, playing their roles to entertain their audience, then playing a different role behind the scenes for the samurai who demanded their bodies for an entirely personal sort of pleasure. Genji’s... Continue Reading →
“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.” – Francis Bacon Sakura Genji is a flying fish, the title given to the traveling actors in seventeenth century Japan who performed both on and off the stage, playing their roles to entertain their audience, then playing a different role behind the scenes for the... Continue Reading →
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle Seb works as a fudge maker in a coastal community of England. Dex is a wanderer who kindly returns Seb’s wallet one late night. Seb befriends Dex and they slowly become friends over the course of a summer. This short story by... Continue Reading →
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ― Aristotle Seb works as a fudge maker in a coastal community of England. Dex is a wanderer who kindly returns Seb’s wallet one late night. Seb befriends Dex and they slowly become friends over the course of a summer. This short story by... Continue Reading →
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. - Emma Donoghue Sometimes the title of a book says it all. Case in point, Josephine Myles’ Blooming Marvelous and Collected Stories, an omnibus of nine short stories all... Continue Reading →
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side. - Emma Donoghue Sometimes the title of a book says it all. Case in point, Josephine Myles’ Blooming Marvelous and Collected Stories, an omnibus of nine short stories all... Continue Reading →
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. – Bruce Lee One thing I love about reading is discovering a “new to me” author. After reading M/M books for a few years I thought I had read or at least heard of most of the best authors in the genre. Then one day, Lisa sends... Continue Reading →
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. – Bruce Lee One thing I love about reading is discovering a “new to me” author. After reading M/M books for a few years I thought I had read or at least heard of most of the best authors in the genre. Then one day, Lisa sends... Continue Reading →
’Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they! – Arthur Cleveland Coxe Halloween Heat is a collection of five short stories from five authors, each taking place on the one night of the... Continue Reading →
’Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they! – Arthur Cleveland Coxe Halloween Heat is a collection of five short stories from five authors, each taking place on the one night of the... Continue Reading →
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes. – Henry Ward Beecher All the experts agreed that vampires weren’t real. Which is exactly why vampires exist—not because the experts say they didn’t but because chaos theory said they could, the underlying order to it being that when humans think they know... Continue Reading →
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes. – Henry Ward Beecher All the experts agreed that vampires weren’t real. Which is exactly why vampires exist—not because the experts say they didn’t but because chaos theory said they could, the underlying order to it being that when humans think they know... Continue Reading →
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. ― Emily Dickinson In this, the first installment of the Birds of a Feather series, we meet the three major players. First there is Randy, an out and proud gay man. Recently... Continue Reading →
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. ― Emily Dickinson In this, the first installment of the Birds of a Feather series, we meet the three major players. First there is Randy, an out and proud gay man. Recently... Continue Reading →
Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. – Paulo Coelho Special Agent John Starkweather and drakul possessed Caleb Jansen are in that does he?/doesn’t he? phase of their relationship, the part where they really aren’t quite sure where they stand with... Continue Reading →
Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. – Paulo Coelho Special Agent John Starkweather and drakul possessed Caleb Jansen are in that does he?/doesn’t he? phase of their relationship, the part where they really aren’t quite sure where they stand with... Continue Reading →
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Like a feel good book that leaves you with a severe case of the warm fuzzies? Yeah, me too, and N.R. Walker’s Blind Faith is definitely one of them. This is the incredibly sweet and sometimes poignant story of a... Continue Reading →
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Like a feel good book that leaves you with a severe case of the warm fuzzies? Yeah, me too, and N.R. Walker’s Blind Faith is definitely one of them. This is the incredibly sweet and sometimes poignant story of a... Continue Reading →
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