Natalie and Evie are very different people. They are very different in age, and in income, and at very different stages of their lives. Natalie is a partner in a large law firm, and Evie is a law student at university. They meet at a work function of Natalie’s, where Evie is working as a waitress, and begin a relationship. Views: 308
Robbie loves Christmas. He loves everything about it, the smells, the sounds, the feel. Now if he could find someone who would share his love for it and his need to spice things up in the bedroom, he’d be a happy man. However, he is not going to get involved with anyone, not even someone as seemingly perfect as Trace.
Trace is new in town and just as lonely. When he lays his eyes on Robbie, he knows he has to have him. But when you’re dating someone as skittish as Robbie, things are never that easy and little outside intervention might be in order.
Can the Christmas cheer and Robbie’s best friend help Trace push through Robbie’s defenses and win his heart? Views: 308
On a dare from his older brother, a boy goes out after dark to an abandoned, wooded lot steeped in horror-style urban legends."Mike's Pond" is a very short fictionalized memoir about coming of age in Amherst, New York in the 1980s.I grew up in the 1980s in the idyllic suburban town of Amherst, New York, adjacent to the city of Buffalo. It was Middle America. The main cultural phenomena were Little League games and block parties.But we had legends.There were horrors that lurked in undeveloped plots of wooded land. There were stories born from the looming scare of chemical plants in nearby Niagara Falls, where a residential development called Love Canal made national news."Mike's Pond" is a very short ficitonalized memoir about a boy who goes out one night to explore one of those urban legends and discovers the real-life demons lurking close to home. Views: 307
Esen has spent his entire life an outcast, and he threw out his last chance at fitting in when he broke the engagement his family worked so hard to arrange. Sent to the royal palace to fulfill one last duty, he counts the hours until he is literally left homeless and destitute.But hiding away in the royal garden, he accidentally overhears a private conversation and meets the mysterious Queen's Man... Views: 306
Kingston has worked hard to get where he is: owner of his own shop, master potion maker, well-respected...and lonely, too busy with life to enjoy more than his regular visits to Acacia House. If he wishes his loneliness might be eased by Hux, the man he meets at Acacia twice a month, well, someday he'll work up the nerve to ask. Maybe.
Then Hux unexpectedly visits his shop, distressed and in desperate need of help to save his employer from a love potion... Views: 306
It’s a summer of transition for Fiona MacGregor and Meg Jordan. Having just passed the New York state bar exam, Fiona is excited about her emerging career, but something she never anticipated threatens to upend all of her carefully laid plans. Meg is spending the summer in New York City after finishing veterinary school, and before she moves back to Seattle to join her aunt’s veterinary clinic. A hot summer day at a Morningside Heights coffee shop brings them together when they hear the cries of motherless kittens. Fiona and Meg are forced to figure out if love can overcome much more than just geographical distance. Views: 305
If you want to score, you have to take the shot.
Chris Kimball is good at keeping things to himself, but when he breaks his leg during a hockey game, he quickly realizes his biggest secret might be impossible to keep. It was hard enough being in love with his best friend and teammate, Tim Robineau, but when Tim takes care of him as he recovers, Chris’s feelings only grow stronger.
Tim is aware that some people think he’s dumb, but they’re wrong. He’s just an easy-going guy who enjoys spending time with his team and friends—especially Chris. Tim has dated a lot of women who couldn’t understand that, and figures he’s cursed when it comes to love—but he’s not. He just doesn’t know it.
Yet.
*This story previously appeared in the Changing on the Fly Anthology*
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CONSPIRACY THEORIES…THINK YOU’VE HEARD THEM ALL? Think again… When Jessie Mercer’s brother is murdered, she launches a no-holds-barred investigation but the clues dead-end at a secret society. Resorting to desperate measures she dresses in drag and infiltrates the all-male world of Freemasonry only to discover the answers lie in the 33rd Degree. Unknown to Jessie, in a previous life she failed to expose Freemasonry’s royal secret. Can she reveal the truth about her brother’s death and Freemasonry this time around? A Matter of Degrees takes the story of world control by secret societies and the Catholic Church to a whole new level. First published 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Views: 301
Carter's fiancé is in love with someone else. Link has just been left at the altar. After bonding over mutual heartbreak at the would-be reception's open bar, Link and Carter pass out in the honeymoon suite—and are mistaken for the happy newlywed couple the next morning. Reluctant to deal with the fallout from their breakups, they embark on an exciting week of fake honeymooning, during which Carter starts to have real feelings for Link. A genderqueer artist who lives life by their own rules, Link inspires Carter to build a new future. Against the eclectic and electric backdrop of New Orleans, Carter and Link have to decide if a second chance at love is in the cards, or if they're only meant to be sidelined in someone else's story. Views: 301
