By Raphael Kadushin. There are weekend vacations, quick getaways, and overnight jaunts. But in this border-hopping anthology by 16 authors, of travel memoirs and fiction, every trip is a big one, and where love, passion and adventure is a wordlwide odyssey.
Edited by Blair Mastbaum and Will Fabro. This inspired collection of 18 stories portrays the wide array of perspectives of young gay people - a generation mostly exempt from the pain and hassle of “Coming Out” and more open with their desires and fears than generations past. There are tales of abusing drugs, of living with a ghost in New York City,
By Alex Sanchez. When Frederick shows up at school, Xio is thrilled. The new boy is shy, cute, and definitely good boyfriend material. Before long, she pulls him into her lively circle of friends. Frederick knows he should be flattered by Xio’s attention. After all, she’s popular, pretty, and a lot of fun. So why can’t he stop thinking about Victor, the captain of the soccer team, instead?
By Erastes. 1642, England. David Caverly’s strict father has brought home a young man, the quiet, puritanical Jonathan Graie to help his dreamer of a son work the family forge. With war brewing in Parliament, the demand for metal work increases as armies are raised. The indolent and deceitful David Caverly is bored by his father’s farm and longs to escape, maybe to join the King’s Army, mustering at Nottingham. David finds himself drawn to Jonathan, and after a passing cavalry trooper seduces the beautiful David
By Jaffe Cohen. After he is publicly humiliated on his hit gossipy radio show, astrologist Joel Eisenberg heads up to Cape Cod to look for the soul mate who the stars predicted, the man who “paints houses”. Joel moves into the home of Dennis Fairchild, a successful artist, but what Joel doesn’t realise is that his real soul mate is probably Bill Doyle, the ‘house painter’ living in Dennis’s backyard, fixing up the artist’s home.
By Mabel Maney. A parody of the 1950 boys’ adventure series. With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly Boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. Dark-haired, muscular Frank and his loveable kid brother Joe return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents have been kidnapped!
By Michel Lacroix. Alex Sumner, 26, is the closeted gay son of an obscenely wealthy New Orleans oil tycoon. At the insistence of his father, Alex has become engaged to Camilla, the pushy and totally self-absorbed daughter of another oil man. Appalled at the looming prospect of a hollow, arranged marriage, Alex hightails it for Key West. On the way, he meets Cord. Big, strong, and on the skids, Cord is an out-of-work personal trainer about to humble himself begging his homophobic dad for a job.
By Michael Craft. A Mark Manning Mystery. Mark Manning and his lover, Neil Waite, investigate when a proposed merger between the family newspaper, The Dumont Daily Register, and a local paper company leads to a fracas between society reporter Glee Savage and the company’s manager, who later turns up murdered, and the discovery of some questionable actions on the part of the paper company.
By Jack Pollock. Jack Pollock, artist, gallery-owner, raconteur and cook, has managed to get to the wild, hilarious and ribald pyrotechnics of his life between two covers. The result is an unsparing self-portrait of the artist as desperado, joker and survivor.
A collection of five stories originally published in the mid 1980s which offers a good selection of Townsend’s work. Locales range from a Nazi concentration camp through widely varied US settings to a truly futuristic science fiction story. All laced with Townsend’s usual entertaining, insightful and erotic S/M themes.
By Andy Zeefer. A sexy, and outrageously funny novel that takes a look at what an actor can – and will – do to survive in Hollywood. Young, ambitious, and gay, Adam Zeller arrives from New York with the looks and talent to become a star but soon finds himself lost in a seamy (and steamy) underworld of gay porn and male prostitution, dealing with down-and-out directors, washed up starlets, and the pretty boy Hollywood “A” list.
By Robin Lippincott. On a hot summer's day in 1931, three five-year-olds meet on a dusty street in a small Midwestern town, beginning a friendship that will last all their lives. Kathryn, the oldest in an ever-expanding family, is bright and earnest, and thinks she wants to become a nurse. Starling is an only child with an absent father. He doesn't yet know that he is of mixed race - he doesn't even know what that means - all he knows is that when he grows up he will be a star. Luke doesn't know what he wants, except for his older brother not to be dead. Together they experience the joys and pains of childhood, although the anxieties of puberty and awakening sexuality nearly destroy their three-way friendship forever.
By Joseph Geraci. The classic novel about an American photography scholar working in Holland who has befriended the ten-year-old son of colleagues there. Over the next two years, Will is increasingly caught up in the tensions between Sander’s mother Marijke and her estranged husband Niek over his growing intimacy with Sander. As Sander’s twelfth birthday draws near,
By Greg Herren. It’s Carnival time in New Orleans, and Scotty Bradley, ex go-go boy turned private eye, is looking forward to relaxing with his boyfriends, Frank and Colin, and partying it up. But nothing ever seems to work out the way Scotty wants it. Not only is it cold and rainy, ruining his costume plans, but former FBI agent Frank has “issues” with Scotty taking Ecstasy. Fortunately, the weather clears up, Scotty’s dealer, Misha, delivers the goods, and the boys are off to the races. After a night of partying, they come home to find the cops waiting for them. Misha has been murdered and guess who...
