Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Erotica meets the apocalypse in James Cox’s The Last Cowboy, when a deadly plague renders the human race all but extinct, and sex becomes a little bit like salvation for Benjamin, the last cowboy in existence on the wild frontier of Texas. Benjamin singlehandedly works his ranch and sustains himself off the land, and it’s... Continue Reading →
Erotica meets the apocalypse in James Cox’s The Last Cowboy, when a deadly plague renders the human race all but extinct, and sex becomes a little bit like salvation for Benjamin, the last cowboy in existence on the wild frontier of Texas. Benjamin singlehandedly works his ranch and sustains himself off the land, and it’s... Continue Reading →
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato In the imperfect fabric of Casey’s life, there is rejection and desperation and the physical sacrifices he makes just to survive after his parents’ throw him away. Into that weave comes Josiah Daniels, a man who still believes that doing unto others... Continue Reading →
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato In the imperfect fabric of Casey’s life, there is rejection and desperation and the physical sacrifices he makes just to survive after his parents’ throw him away. Into that weave comes Josiah Daniels, a man who still believes that doing unto others... 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 →
“The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.” - Unknown For Dante Pane, the torture of watching Deacon live with and love Aren Montrell was too much to bear. It caused him nothing but anger and resentment, and it compelled him to do something so destructive that the man... Continue Reading →
“The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.” - Unknown For Dante Pane, the torture of watching Deacon live with and love Aren Montrell was too much to bear. It caused him nothing but anger and resentment, and it compelled him to do something so destructive that the man... Continue Reading →
Joseph is a man with a ghostly doppelganger, a Fetch, a soul-collector that is a minion of Death, a shadow that has followed Joseph since he was a boy battling a disease that has now been virtually eradicated from the world. Though Death seems to have marked him as her own, Joseph has escaped her... Continue Reading →
Joseph is a man with a ghostly doppelganger, a Fetch, a soul-collector that is a minion of Death, a shadow that has followed Joseph since he was a boy battling a disease that has now been virtually eradicated from the world. Though Death seems to have marked him as her own, Joseph has escaped her... Continue Reading →
Charlie Harris has been summoned. ”Need you.” Two words that years before had meant something coming from the lips of someone Charlie believed had loved him. Those two little words effectively do their part to tempt Charlie to Whistle Pass, Illinois, where, rather than finding the man he’d fallen in love with in the trenches... Continue Reading →
Charlie Harris has been summoned. ”Need you.” Two words that years before had meant something coming from the lips of someone Charlie believed had loved him. Those two little words effectively do their part to tempt Charlie to Whistle Pass, Illinois, where, rather than finding the man he’d fallen in love with in the trenches... Continue Reading →
After reading Joshua Martino’s Fontana, the outstanding fictional tale of a professional baseball player who is outed by a journalist and then falls victim to the aftermath of that invasion of his privacy, I was both hesitant and tempted to read Kate McMurray’s Out in the Field. Where Fontana does absolutely nothing to romanticize the... Continue Reading →
After reading Joshua Martino’s Fontana, the outstanding fictional tale of a professional baseball player who is outed by a journalist and then falls victim to the aftermath of that invasion of his privacy, I was both hesitant and tempted to read Kate McMurray’s Out in the Field. Where Fontana does absolutely nothing to romanticize the... Continue Reading →
I’ve read quite a few of Cornelia Grey’s short stories and have to say I believe her to be one of the most creative and versatile authors in the medium. I’ve read and loved everything from her, from contemporary to paranormal fantasy to steampunk to pirate adventure, and now she’s tackled the Old West in... Continue Reading →
I’ve read quite a few of Cornelia Grey’s short stories and have to say I believe her to be one of the most creative and versatile authors in the medium. I’ve read and loved everything from her, from contemporary to paranormal fantasy to steampunk to pirate adventure, and now she’s tackled the Old West in... 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 →
Kissing Sherlock Holmes has everything in it a good mystery ought to have: treachery, treason, blackmail, murder, attempted murder, and most important of all, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson working the case. It’s the spring of 1896 and Holmes and Watson have left 221B Baker Street to travel to Surrey, to Toddington Oaks to... Continue Reading →
Kissing Sherlock Holmes has everything in it a good mystery ought to have: treachery, treason, blackmail, murder, attempted murder, and most important of all, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson working the case. It’s the spring of 1896 and Holmes and Watson have left 221B Baker Street to travel to Surrey, to Toddington Oaks to... Continue Reading →
Fifteen years is a long time to wait for the continuum of time to catch up to you, and only in the imaginations of authors who will bend the laws of physics and play into the fantasy of being able to manipulate clocks and calendars, to move forwards or backwards to influence the future or... Continue Reading →
Fifteen years is a long time to wait for the continuum of time to catch up to you, and only in the imaginations of authors who will bend the laws of physics and play into the fantasy of being able to manipulate clocks and calendars, to move forwards or backwards to influence the future or... Continue Reading →
”Tis one thing to be tempted…another thing to fall.” - William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure (Act II, Scene I) Lead Us Not is a scary-tale. No, not in a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kind of way, but in a life-seems-to-change-overnight kind of way. You meet the man of your dreams, fall in love, move to New York... Continue Reading →
”Tis one thing to be tempted…another thing to fall.” - William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure (Act II, Scene I) Lead Us Not is a scary-tale. No, not in a things-that-go-bump-in-the-night kind of way, but in a life-seems-to-change-overnight kind of way. You meet the man of your dreams, fall in love, move to New York... Continue Reading →
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