Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War, is an extraordinarily well written gay romance, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Told in first person, present tense, it flows beautifully, with emotion, drama, villains, heroes, and good friends. This rest was pure poetry. So lyrically told, the story of loving a man during... Continue Reading →
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. – Billy Crystal Warning: I’m about to say stuff, so rather than assault your unguarded and delicate sensibilities, I thought I’d give you a heads up first. Please, excuse my crudely crudeishness. And now… the naughty bits… George Michael once sang the praises... Continue Reading →
Sarcasm isn't just a way to mask your emotions and distance yourself from others. It's also super-duper satisfying. – Unknown. Howie Jenkins is a man with a plan. Yeah, that’s right, his plan is to work at the locally owned Artie Kraft’s Arts and Crafts store so he can increase his odds of getting laid... Continue Reading →
Maxim #35: That which does not kill you has made a tactical error. – Howard Tayler “The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” Cyberpunk! It’s my second favorite punk behind that of the Steam variety, and Rachel Haimowitz and Aleksandr Voinov have delivered some really fantastic steamy Cyberpunk in Break and Enter (Red Cell Book... Continue Reading →
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. – Leo Buscaglia Captain Harry Thompson of His Majesty’s Royal Navy is a man of honor and commitment... Continue Reading →
Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.” ― Mike Murdock Casey K. Cox’s FREE short story, Be My Boy, isn’t at all what I was expecting it would be. For one thing, with the Master/Slave dynamic as the entire premise of the book, I was expecting quite a lot of... Continue Reading →
To touch is to heal To hurt is to steal If you wanna kiss the sky Better learn how to kneel On your knees, boy — U2 Cosmo Rawlins isn’t really what you might call lazy. No, he’s more of what you’d call…aggressively unemployed. But he has his music! Yeah, he has his band to... Continue Reading →
Please, God, don’t let me be reading too much into this. – L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov I probably am. Reading too much into this, that is. How can I not, though, when there’s so very much there to want? Sometimes I wish there was a magicky button I could push to bend authors to... Continue Reading →
The play’s the thing… - William Shakespeare In contemporary times, Ted Ennis endures. He understands loss better than most. Ted has borne a terrible, terrible grief, the result of a deadly accident that has left its share of scars behind. Plagued by the physical remnants of that accident, his employment options limited by his afflictions,... Continue Reading →
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. – Mason Cooley Money makes the world go around. Or at least that’s how the song goes. But as poor, struggling college students, money is something Zack and Larry aren’t intimately acquainted with, though Larry’s got a get-rich-quick scheme... Continue Reading →
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. – Mason Cooley Money makes the world go around. Or at least that’s how the song goes. But as poor, struggling college students, money is something Zack and Larry aren’t intimately acquainted with, though Larry’s got a get-rich-quick scheme... Continue Reading →
Title: The Other Guy Author: Cary Atwell Publisher: Self-Published Length: 233 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: This book is charming and clever, and I adored it so much that I couldn’t put it down. In fact, I may just go ahead and read it again. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Emory... Continue Reading →
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together. – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever just wanted to hug a book really hard and then kiss it and then thank it for giving you hours of bliss? Oh. Well, maybe it’s just me. But, gaaaah, I... Continue Reading →
Healing is impossible in loneliness. – Wendell Berry George Johnson is a man whose soul bears a heavy burden, weighted by the yoke of shame and self-recrimination, so deeply scarred by an event in his youth that even years later its aftermath leaves George running frightened from the man he once was, the man he... Continue Reading →
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston And then there were Matt Berridge and Tim Knight and a cat named Wolverine who’s really the star of the show but deigns to allow his insignificant humans to share his space if for nothing more than the fact that they... Continue Reading →
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. – Leonard Cohen Tom Paretski is pretty proficient in the art of divination; not the kind of divination that means he can prophesy but the kind that means he can find things that are hidden—like water, for one thing. And dead bodies, for another.... Continue Reading →
The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. – Meg Cabot You know how sometimes you read a short story and the first thing you wish, when it ends, is that it’d been much, much longer? Yeah, me too. Odd, then, that finishing Permanently Legless didn’t leave me feeling... Continue Reading →
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead Pardon me while I channel my inner Buddy the Elf: I’m in love, I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it! Yes, I’m in love with Alan Fletcher, quite possibly one of the most guileless characters ever to live in... Continue Reading →
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year - Ralph Waldo Emerson Through all the days of the coming year, may your burdens be few and your joys be abundant. May we all welcome 2013 with a spirit of compassion, and may we embrace the hope for change... Continue Reading →
If you have and you loved it, go check out Double Trouble, the incredibly naughty little treat she's offered up to her readers for the holidays. Evan, Rai, and Josh are up to all good in this steamy vignette starring my favorite threesome, wrapped up together in some sexy, sparkly and stripey goodness. Click on... Continue Reading →
If you have and you loved it, go check out Double Trouble, the incredibly naughty little treat she's offered up to her readers for the holidays. Evan, Rai, and Josh are up to all good in this steamy vignette starring my favorite threesome, wrapped up together in some sexy, sparkly and stripey goodness. Click on... Continue Reading →
Love will find its way Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. – Lord Byron For anyone who’s been following The Mountains Series, you know that Jake Landon’s been facing some intimidating fears about his sexuality and what it would mean to come out to his family and live openly as Kurt Carlson’s partner.... Continue Reading →
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. – Roberto Assagioli There was only one thing I wanted to know when I finished reading about Jake’s adventure with Michael Hammond in this teasing little morsel of a story: when is the next adventure coming? Jake is a bit of an adorable geek who works at... Continue Reading →
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. – Gabriel García Márquez Luke Corbin has a very practical attitude toward sex: If it gets him a roof over his head, food in his belly, and a free place to study as he works to get his English degree, then bartering his booty... Continue Reading →
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