Where Fiction and Reality Meet
SEPTEMBER - OUTSERVE CHARITY SIP BLITZ Every year, the great authors at Torquere Press put their money where their mouth is, donating their time writing stories for our chosen charity. Those same authors donate any royalties earned on their stories to the chosen organization, with Torquere matching those donations 100%. In the past we've raised... Continue Reading →
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine Mountain Memories is a sweet story with some great twists and turns. We have Jax the concert pianist and composer. Then we have Mason, the park ranger with the National Park Service. Jax is running away from a broken... Continue Reading →
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine Mountain Memories is a sweet story with some great twists and turns. We have Jax the concert pianist and composer. Then we have Mason, the park ranger with the National Park Service. Jax is running away from a broken... Continue Reading →
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~ Shana Alexander The year is 1948: World War II has ended but the Cold War heats up significantly when the Soviet Union detonates the bomb that would serve to become the catalyst for a decades long arms race. Racial prejudice has the... Continue Reading →
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~ Shana Alexander The year is 1948: World War II has ended but the Cold War heats up significantly when the Soviet Union detonates the bomb that would serve to become the catalyst for a decades long arms race. Racial prejudice has the... Continue Reading →
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. – Washington Irving Lucius Parhelion may very well be the most anonymous author I’ve ever read. No “About the Author” blurb in the books, no website, no Twitter account, an unused Facebook page, no author page on Amazon or Goodreads. But that’s okay because, really,... Continue Reading →
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. – Washington Irving Lucius Parhelion may very well be the most anonymous author I’ve ever read. No “About the Author” blurb in the books, no website, no Twitter account, an unused Facebook page, no author page on Amazon or Goodreads. But that’s okay because, really,... Continue Reading →
Wear your heart on your skin in this life. – Sylvia Plath God, I’m a sucker for hot men with tattooed flesh. And stories about hot men with tattooed flesh make my mind wander all over the muscular landscapes of smooth, inked skin. And yes, that makes me shallow, but it also makes me happy,... Continue Reading →
Wear your heart on your skin in this life. – Sylvia Plath God, I’m a sucker for hot men with tattooed flesh. And stories about hot men with tattooed flesh make my mind wander all over the muscular landscapes of smooth, inked skin. And yes, that makes me shallow, but it also makes me happy,... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the 2012 Charity Sip Blog Hop from Torquere Press, being hosted on glbtromance.blogspot.com! Every year the authors from Torquere Press choose a GLBTQ charity and donate all the proceeds from the stories they write on a shared theme to the chosen charity. This year, our authors chose NOH8, a non-profit organization that protests... Continue Reading →
Hey y'all! I am still recovering from my first year at GayRomLit. It was an amazing experience for Torquere Press as a whole. I was able to meet SO many great authors, great readers and just overall wonderful people. The organizers Carol Lynn, Theresa, Ethan, Damon and Heidi were just phenomenal in all aspects. The... Continue Reading →
“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. You cannot fight without something to fight for.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton Five years ago, Eli Mayhew’s heart was broken by Jessie “The Demon” Dalton, former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, and the older man Eli loved…still loves, if the truth be told. But things were... Continue Reading →
“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. You cannot fight without something to fight for.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton Five years ago, Eli Mayhew’s heart was broken by Jessie “The Demon” Dalton, former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, and the older man Eli loved…still loves, if the truth be told. But things were... Continue Reading →
“The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.” – Russian Proverb The Amethyst Cat Caper could easily have been subtitled, “or the Case of the Stolen Hearts,” for as much as the Gentleman Thief scarpered with said cat from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, it was Hawk and Remi who absconded with the... Continue Reading →
“The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.” – Russian Proverb The Amethyst Cat Caper could easily have been subtitled, “or the Case of the Stolen Hearts,” for as much as the Gentleman Thief scarpered with said cat from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, it was Hawk and Remi who absconded with the... Continue Reading →
“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.” – H.G. Wells, The Time Machine It was the year 1912, and the Titanic disaster was making headlines the world over, but there was a tragedy occurring much closer to home for Francis Holden-Burrell that... Continue Reading →
“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.” – H.G. Wells, The Time Machine It was the year 1912, and the Titanic disaster was making headlines the world over, but there was a tragedy occurring much closer to home for Francis Holden-Burrell that... Continue Reading →
AKM Miles’ Take It Slow is a story with a message, a message about human weaknesses, about how words eviscerate and leave scars as effectively as any weapon ever could, and about how easy it is to say things in anger, in the heat of the moment, only to regret those bitter and hateful words,... Continue Reading →
AKM Miles’ Take It Slow is a story with a message, a message about human weaknesses, about how words eviscerate and leave scars as effectively as any weapon ever could, and about how easy it is to say things in anger, in the heat of the moment, only to regret those bitter and hateful words,... Continue Reading →
Jackson Stuart is a doctorate student at Boston University, studying for his PhD in Celtic and Gaelic history. He’s on the verge of defending his dissertation when the opportunity arises for him to make a trip to Scotland to study the history of the Highland Games, not to mention it’s an opportunity for Jackson to... Continue Reading →
Jackson Stuart is a doctorate student at Boston University, studying for his PhD in Celtic and Gaelic history. He’s on the verge of defending his dissertation when the opportunity arises for him to make a trip to Scotland to study the history of the Highland Games, not to mention it’s an opportunity for Jackson to... Continue Reading →
Life is about doing the best with what you’ve been given to work with. It’s about making a difference and offering second chances. It can’t be about saving everyone, because not everyone can be or wants to be saved, but it can be about giving at least one person a chance at a better life.... Continue Reading →
Life is about doing the best with what you’ve been given to work with. It’s about making a difference and offering second chances. It can’t be about saving everyone, because not everyone can be or wants to be saved, but it can be about giving at least one person a chance at a better life.... Continue Reading →
“This is not at all what I thought it would be.” This is so very much more. A beloved son. The Beloved Son. The son of the mother, and the Son of the Mother—both placed above and before all else for the good of all mankind. The Aisling and the Guardian, the Dream and the... Continue Reading →
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