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Award-winning author Jae penned 13 short stories that range from sweet and romantic to hot and erotic, and from humorous to heartfelt. Whatever you're in the mood for, you're sure to find it in this collection of lesbian short stories.

The greatest flood in the history of Oregon sweeps away houses, barns, and animals in the Willamette Valley. At the same time, fourteen-year-old Amy is swept away by her feelings for her best friend.

After zero-gravity heroics left astronaut Nicolas Rogers injured, his new job as a hermit — er, park ranger — seems perfect. Until he ends up babysitting rock star Deen Jayse, sent to the Smoky Mountains by his manager for image rehab. Behind their personas, they’re startlingly similar. Yet Deen can't just drop everything to go live in the mountains, and Nico can't abandon them. After a taste of being together, how can they face a future apart?

Catch up with the original monster-human couple, Danny and Wyn, in their Wastes-style adventures. Witness Moth and Wyn's blossoming and potentially concerning friendship. Find out all the new ways Edin has been frustrating Hunter (lovingly) since their story ended. And join Lor and Jugs in welcoming a new furry addition to their monster-world family.

Matt is exhausted and short on cash, but when the charismatic couple Freddy and Andy invite him on an impulsive New Year's Eve trip to Berlin, he can't refuse. After spending a charged Christmas at Silverbourne Manor, the Canadian expat knows he wants to be with them—but not the mess that comes with dating.

Ricci Velez is a fiercely independent woman that worked her way up from the poverty line to become a respected engineer and property developer. Mistaken as the little wifey by Tara Reeves, the new tenant at her Manhattan apartment building, Ricci wants to evict her before she even signs the lease. A slighted ex-tenant, a vandalized apartment, and an interfering best friend means that she’s forced to offer Tara a room in her own apartment. Can she survive having the secretive hard-nosed executive judging her in her own home?

Max has been in love with his childhood best friend, Ash, for years. The reason he has kept it a secret is because Ash also happens to be Max's brother's ex-boyfriend. Complicated doesn't begin to explain their relationship.

Wren is off on his next adventure, but a vehicle malfunction leaves him stranded outside the property of someone who might take him on the adventure of a lifetime.

Et gennemgående tema i disse 12 mesterlige noveller af Tove Jansson er passion som både velsignelse og forbandelse, hvad enten den er kunstnerisk, erotisk eller eksistentiel. I centrum står forskellige nære relationer med alle de roller, vi spiller over for og med hinanden. Samlingen, der udkom på svensk i 1978, og som ikke før har været oversat til dansk, er det første værk, hvori Tove Jansson åbent - og helt usensationelt - skriver om kærlighedsforhold mellem mennesker af samme køn.

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just 23, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: “remarkably gifted” (The Washington Post), with “a genius for empathy” (The New York Times Book Review), and “a knowledge of others' lives...that a writer twice his age might envy” (USA Today). “Regardless of age,” wrote the New York Times, “few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages.”

In 16 remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color - cunning, bold, and resolute - facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other.

Als eingefleischter Metalhead glaubt Birdo eigentlich nicht an die Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Doch mitten im Moshpit entdeckt er das wunderschöne Gesicht von Lukas und Amors Pfeil trifft ihn mitten ins Herz – oder ist es ein Ellenbogen aus der tobenden Menge? In jedem Fall findet sich Birdo in der Notaufnahme wieder und Lukas fordert ihn heraus, alte Glaubenssätze über Bord zu werfen und seine Welt neu zu überdenken. "Love in the Moshpit" ist eine lustige Kurzgeschichte über einen Metalfan, der sehr lange überzeugt ist, der einzige schwule Metaller in seiner Szene zu sein.

Tony Vlachic, a ruggedly handsome Navy SEAL, has kept his sexuality a secret for years under the threat of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". That is until he meets Adam Wyndham, a charismatic yet troubled film star. Tony knows that by approaching Adam in front of his teammates, he's jeopardizing his military career. And Adam, nursing a broken heart, has no interest in a relationship. Still, neither man can deny their instant attraction.

Ingeborg Bachmann a près de 30 ans lorsqu'elle écrit cette nouvelle. Le personnage qu'elle met en scène a vécu jusqu'ici "sans s'en faire". "Jamais il n'a pensé que pût être prononcé le mot décisif, et que le jour viendrait où il devrait montrer ce qu'il savait faire et penser, où il serait forcé d'avouer ce qui lui tient vraiment à cœur." Le jour vient pour lui de faire l'expérience de la douleur. Puis, de brisure en brisure, celui qui va sur ses trente ans arrive enfin au terme de son accomplissement.

After years of playing the tormented actor Joe Laughlin on the hit television show Shadowland, Hollywood star Robin Chadwick Cassidy is ready for a change. Joe's character embodies the real demons of Robin's past - his struggle with his sexuality, his battle with alcoholism - and portraying the part has taken a heavy toll on his personal life. Robin's husband, FBI agent Jules Cassidy, has noticed the strain and will do whatever he can to make Robin happy.