“You were supposed to go to the Ball for a few hours and have some fun, not find a husband!” – Nikki Woolfolk Title: The Men of Summerly (Sweet and Steamy Series: Book Two) Author: Nikki Woolfolk Publisher: Word Nerd Press Pages/Word Count: 61 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tradition is as quaint tradition does….
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Small Gems Sunday: “The Men of Summerly” by Nikki Woolfolk
“You were supposed to go to the Ball for a few hours and have some fun, not find a husband!” – Nikki Woolfolk Title: The Men of Summerly (Sweet and Steamy Series: Book Two) Author: Nikki Woolfolk Publisher: Word Nerd Press Pages/Word Count: 61 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tradition is as quaint tradition does….
Small Gem Sunday: P.D. Singer's "Tail Slide"
Title: Tail Slide Author: P.D. Singer Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Pages/Word Count: 37 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Fresh powder snow and running water in the Colorado back country call Lon like the moon calls the wolves. Belly-sliding to a good time on the weekends makes up for a workweek at a desk, and meeting…
Small Gem Sunday: P.D. Singer’s “Tail Slide”
Title: Tail Slide Author: P.D. Singer Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Pages/Word Count: 37 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Fresh powder snow and running water in the Colorado back country call Lon like the moon calls the wolves. Belly-sliding to a good time on the weekends makes up for a workweek at a desk, and meeting…
Garrett Leigh Takes Readers On A Sweet Stroll Through The “Gypsy Rain”
“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…
Garrett Leigh Takes Readers On A Sweet Stroll Through The "Gypsy Rain"
“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…
In Which There’s A Difference Between Magic And Illusion – The Magician’s Apprentice by J.M. Snyder
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. – Karl Germain Ah, what a tangled knot we twist when magic practiced does exist, when illusion is not a simple guise, and to mock its existence proves most unwise… Sorry. I’m pretty sure I’d make the absolute worst poet…
In Which There's A Difference Between Magic And Illusion – The Magician's Apprentice by J.M. Snyder
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does. – Karl Germain Ah, what a tangled knot we twist when magic practiced does exist, when illusion is not a simple guise, and to mock its existence proves most unwise… Sorry. I’m pretty sure I’d make the absolute worst poet…
In Which I’m Pretty Sure My Brain Checked Out Somewhere Around The Lap Dance – Take It Off by L.A. Witt & Aleksandr Voinov
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. – George Bernard Shaw Oooh. My. Bwaaah… Yes, that’s me being rather speechless in a very complimentary way, because there’s just not much room for words in my head at the moment. Why? Because I can’t seem to erase the mental picture that L.A. Witt and…
In Which I'm Pretty Sure My Brain Checked Out Somewhere Around The Lap Dance – Take It Off by L.A. Witt & Aleksandr Voinov
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. – George Bernard Shaw Oooh. My. Bwaaah… Yes, that’s me being rather speechless in a very complimentary way, because there’s just not much room for words in my head at the moment. Why? Because I can’t seem to erase the mental picture that L.A. Witt and…
In Which One Reading Just Wasn’t Enough – Asylum by Piper Vaughn
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. – Oscar Wilde Johnny Cairo knows a thing or two about temptation. He’s been attracted to his best friend’s little brother for a while…
In Which One Reading Just Wasn't Enough – Asylum by Piper Vaughn
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. – Oscar Wilde Johnny Cairo knows a thing or two about temptation. He’s been attracted to his best friend’s little brother for a while…
Small Gems – Light the Fire by JL Merrow
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz Though for Kurt, that puppy is about as welcome as a raging case of jock itch when Matt, an overly enthusiastic guy at the gym—who can’t seem to take the hint that Kurt is intensely(!) uninterested in the attention—comes along and makes Kurt begin to think…
Small Gems – Be My Boy – A Free Story by Casey K. Cox
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…
Small Gems – Quid Pro Quo by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov
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…
Small Gems – We’re Both Straight, Right? by Jamie Fessenden
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…
Small Gems – We're Both Straight, Right? by Jamie Fessenden
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…
Small Gems – Dulce et Decorum Est – JL Merrow-thon Book Five
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…
Small Gems – Permanently Legless – Book Two In My JL Merrow-thon
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…
Small Gems – Adventures of Jake #1 by Jeff Adams
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…