Where Fiction and Reality Meet
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 →
So they were both crushing on each other, and yet, both were afraid of venturing into dangerous territory. – Andrea Speed Luke Diaz has his friend Marc and an herbal drug laced health shake to blame for his sudden, and now soberly inexplicable, urge to sign up for an adult dodgeball league. He’s baffled, sure,... Continue Reading →
So they were both crushing on each other, and yet, both were afraid of venturing into dangerous territory. – Andrea Speed Luke Diaz has his friend Marc and an herbal drug laced health shake to blame for his sudden, and now soberly inexplicable, urge to sign up for an adult dodgeball league. He’s baffled, sure,... Continue Reading →
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. ― Chad Sugg, “Monsters Under Your Head” There are so many things that scare me about the “Infected” series. Not the beasties that could eat my face off. No, that’d be too simple. What I’m... Continue Reading →
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. ― Chad Sugg, “Monsters Under Your Head” There are so many things that scare me about the “Infected” series. Not the beasties that could eat my face off. No, that’d be too simple. What I’m... Continue Reading →
When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game. - Joe DiMaggio Jonathan Young did a very bad thing. Something so bad that he was turned into a pariah by an entire city. You might not think it such a bad thing. I certainly don’t. The very bad thing that Jonathan Young did?... Continue Reading →
When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game. - Joe DiMaggio Jonathan Young did a very bad thing. Something so bad that he was turned into a pariah by an entire city. You might not think it such a bad thing. I certainly don’t. The very bad thing that Jonathan Young did?... Continue Reading →
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ― Neil Gaiman August Ferrell and his high school basketball team are playing in the North Dakota Class A basketball tournament, and this one’s for all the marbles because August is a senior, so there are not more... Continue Reading →
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ― Neil Gaiman August Ferrell and his high school basketball team are playing in the North Dakota Class A basketball tournament, and this one’s for all the marbles because August is a senior, so there are not more... Continue Reading →
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb Flexibility is Maja Rose’s second contribution so far this year to Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthologies. Her previous story Made Good Under Pressure was featured in DSP’s “Closet Capers” anthology. In Flexibility, we meet a pair of Olympic Men’s Gymnastics hopefuls. Jared... Continue Reading →
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb Flexibility is Maja Rose’s second contribution so far this year to Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthologies. Her previous story Made Good Under Pressure was featured in DSP’s “Closet Capers” anthology. In Flexibility, we meet a pair of Olympic Men’s Gymnastics hopefuls. Jared... Continue Reading →
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ― Sophocles Goose bumps and tears. That’s what this book gave me, goose bumps and tears. Pretty nifty, that, I think, because it means an author has not only written a story that has provoked an emotional response but... Continue Reading →
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ― Sophocles Goose bumps and tears. That’s what this book gave me, goose bumps and tears. Pretty nifty, that, I think, because it means an author has not only written a story that has provoked an emotional response but... Continue Reading →
What's past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare I went into this book with great expectations for our boys Ty & Zane. After reading Stars & Stripes, I figured we were all good and the boys were on the right track, ya know? So as I sit down and start reading, I found myself in this... Continue Reading →
What's past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare I went into this book with great expectations for our boys Ty & Zane. After reading Stars & Stripes, I figured we were all good and the boys were on the right track, ya know? So as I sit down and start reading, I found myself in this... Continue Reading →
One breath. Inhale. Hesitation is my enemy. Solitude my ally. Death the only real victory. Exhale. – S.A. McAuley Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Sometimes it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sometimes your friends and your enemies come wrapped in the same skin. Sometimes you come... Continue Reading →
One breath. Inhale. Hesitation is my enemy. Solitude my ally. Death the only real victory. Exhale. – S.A. McAuley Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Sometimes it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sometimes your friends and your enemies come wrapped in the same skin. Sometimes you come... Continue Reading →
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies. But it takes a great deal more to stand up to your friends. - JK Rowling. Sometimes the most heroic thing a man can do is to follow his conscience, especially in the face of opposition from those he’s come to call... Continue Reading →
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies. But it takes a great deal more to stand up to your friends. - JK Rowling. Sometimes the most heroic thing a man can do is to follow his conscience, especially in the face of opposition from those he’s come to call... Continue Reading →
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ― Oscar Wilde WARNING! Raining Men is not your typical romance novel. Hot sex abounds! Love does conquer all! It is raining men! Amen! However, don’t expect gooey romance with this book. I was interested in how Reed was going to follow... Continue Reading →
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ― Oscar Wilde WARNING! Raining Men is not your typical romance novel. Hot sex abounds! Love does conquer all! It is raining men! Amen! However, don’t expect gooey romance with this book. I was interested in how Reed was going to follow... Continue Reading →
All great and precious things are lonely. – John Steinbeck In Lonely As God, Dale Chase sticks close to the path on which she is most comfortable; gay Western erotica. It is a story about finding love where emotions of any kind are in short supply. Lonely is the story of Tom Seeley, a young... Continue Reading →
All great and precious things are lonely. – John Steinbeck In Lonely As God, Dale Chase sticks close to the path on which she is most comfortable; gay Western erotica. It is a story about finding love where emotions of any kind are in short supply. Lonely is the story of Tom Seeley, a young... Continue Reading →
It isn't possible to love and part ... I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. – E.M. Forster There’s nothing you might expect and everything you might imagine in Keira Andrews and Leta Blake’s Ascending Hearts, the story of a man named Jack who, by virtue of his red hair... Continue Reading →
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