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One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: “You into race play?” Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, Lester has found that his best tool for navigating American life is gallows humor. If you don’t laugh, you cry—or, you summon your inner rage. With biting wit, Lester’s book Rage interrogates all the ways that systemic racism and homophobia have shaped our society. All to pose that proverbial question: Can a gurl live?

The end is only the beginning! These ten standalone short stories pick up after the happily-ever-afters in some of our most popular lesbian romances and mysteries. From bridal yoga in Australia and animal chaos in Scotland to cupcakes and confessions in New York, experience excitement, love, and laughter—from months to years after our couples first fell in love.

In a series of intimate and humorous dispatches, McOuat examines her identity as a queer woman, and as a mother, through the lens of the pop culture moments in the '80s and '90s that molded her identity. McOuat stirs the ingredients required to conjure an unsettled spirit: the horrors of pregnancy and motherhood, love and loss, the supernatural, kaleidoscopic sexuality, near-miss experiences, and the unexplained moments in life that leave you haunted.

Un chiquillo muestra el camino que conduce al Altísimo por la senda de la desviación, el dueño de un perro difunto necesita a un taxidermista que lo inmortalice, dos comadres dictan sentencia sobre las impudicias del prójimo, un mariquita chismoso despelleja a un mariquita indeciso, un buscón arduamente casado se topa con el crimen y cae en él, un hombre abraza a su amado moribundo, dos figurines contemplan el fin de su propia exquisitez: no pueden soportar la indiferencia. La crueldad del mundo es un gozoso dolor que Luis Negrón plasma en todos los registros del alma y del habla.

Max has never been in love. She knows exactly what it looks like–she’s spent years studying the phenomenon in other people, but her Asperger syndrome makes it too anxiety-provoking to attempt such a thing in her own life. That is, until she meets Ruby, who makes Max want to give love one more shot.

His journey encompasses the survival and battle with the disease of addiction, living the lifestyles of recovery, and a spiritual journey of living one day at a time. We'll leave how it works to the big book, but have written a journey about a boy named Jordan.

Due racconti intensi e struggenti, due storie di amore, amcizia e morte, due grandi prove con cui Marco Mancassola si conferma uno dei talenti letterari più brillanti delle ultime generazioni. Il primo racconto, che dà il titolo alla raccolta, è un microromanzo di formazione in cui il protagonista ripercorre il periodo della sua adolescenza (gli anni Ottanta): un’educazione etica e sentimentale segnata dalla scomparsa del fratello maggiore stroncato dall’Aids.

Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience of queer Nigerian men. These stirring stories cut across age, class, religion, ethnicity, family and relationships, offering a glimpse into what it means to survive as a queer man in Nigeria.

Daniel is in a tight spot. He needs a job as soon as possible to pay for his rent and his motorcycle loan. He loves dancing, but he has a bad habit of flirting with everyone he meets. He lost his last gig at a nightclub because he couldn’t stop flirting and dating his co-workers and customers. He wants a daddy boyfriend more than anything, but he knows he has to focus on his career first.

Kelsey Peterson has one goal. To talk to Olivia Pritchard, the most beautiful woman she has ever seen. There’s only one problem with the plan! Kelsey is useless with women. So useless, in fact, that she tends to cause accidental bodily harm to herself when in the vicinity of an attractive female.

Looking for a Daddy? Looking for a boy? This Christmas Party mixer is for you. (Males 18+ only) This could provide the perfect solution for Blaine and Davie, whose minimum wage job has left them struggling to afford any housing, except a dilapidated motel room with a single bed. It could also provide the perfect solution for Daddy Jacob, a co-sponsor of the mixer, who’s decided it’s time to find a boy.

Kennedy’s Horror Collection series continues with Book 15. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time, they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will listen to this year.

The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.