A coming-of-age story set in 1950s Singapore, written with photorealistic clarity. Skinny and his friends grow up in a self-sufficient kampong along an unnamed road. Reading about their lives, a distinctive character of their long-gone childhood and of Singapore emerges—raw from a recently concluded war, alive with student riots and social movements.Among the themes explored by the narrator is one of change, such as the transition from rural to urban living and the role of women in...

Do you want to become a million-dollar financial advisor, boost client satisfaction, and dramatically expand your business? This book provides all the answers and strategies you need to do just that.Complete with proven techniques, expert insights, and practical tips to maximize your profitability, The Financial Advisor’s Success Manual will show you how to break the cycle of moderate growth by teaching you how to:Develop a differentiation st...

Love conquers all. And so does Caesar. Or will he conquer the new beautiful, young soldier with a body like Adonis?This is part 2 of the longer novelette, Caesar's Lover, which can be purchased or borrowed in full.How could a beautiful young man from the countryside, who was drafted into the Roman legions, get the attention and favor of important men, and make his way up the chain of command, all the way to Julius Caesar...?...Practice. Cri...

Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly new translation, to "The Raid," "The Wood-felling," "Three Deaths," "Polikushka," "After the Ball," and "The Forged Coupon," all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time.

Love conquers all. And so does Caesar. Or will he conquer the new beautiful, young soldier with a body like Adonis?This is part 4 of the longer novelette, Caesar's Lover, which can be purchased or borrowed in full.How could a beautiful young man from the countryside, who was drafted into the Roman legions, get the attention and favor of important men, and make his way up the chain of command, all the way to Julius Caesar...?...Practice. Cri...

Gay Ancient World SeriesGay Gladiator Romance, Part 1, 2 and 3 BundleLucius was taken from the soft Roman countrysides to be trained as a gladiator, to fight in the brutal and glorious Roman games. The only problem was that he was a troublemaker and unwilling to follow the Roman soldier's orders.Would the cruel, beefy centurion teach him respect? Or could Lucius's caring and tender friend, Quintus, help him out with his struggles, a...

'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensation when it first appeared and Tolstoy's wife was appalled that he had drawn on their own experiences together to create a scathing indictment of marriage. 'The Devil', centring on a young man torn between his passion for a peasant girl and his respectable life with his loving wife, also illustrates the impossi...

Love conquers all. And so does Caesar. Or will he conquer the new beautiful, young soldier with a body like Adonis?This is part 3 of the longer novelette, Caesar's Lover, which can be purchased or borrowed in full.How could a beautiful young man from the countryside, who was drafted into the Roman legions, get the attention and favor of important men, and make his way up the chain of command, all the way to Julius Caesar...?...Practice. Cri...

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization after spending time with the wild Cossack people. Sevastopol Sketches, based on Tolstoy's own experiences o...

After surviving being marooned on a deserted island in the Caribbean, sailors Chris and Will get picked up by a British clipper ship and are forced to leave behind a sexual paradise utopia.Soon after, Chris, a wealthy officer, is able to get himself and his lover Will out of the Navy. He hires Will to be his personal manservant in their huge London mansion.Life isn't easy for manservant Will, who needs to be punished daily, or so the game goes. He ...

A Room in Dodge City follows a nameless drifter into an American heart of darkness. In this nightmarish version of the historic Dodge City, mythic beasts crawl out of the woodwork; bizarre rituals are enacted; and death is never the end. Equal parts humor and horror-show, David Leo Rice’s novel combines the mundaneness of modern life—motels, strip malls, temp jobs—with something stranger, darker, and more eternal. Told through linked vignettes that read like metaphoric fairytales ...

Like the rest of us, Gribby is willing to accept life in the surveillance state if, at the very least, it means there is the constant comfort and consolation of porn. He just didn't realize that clicking "yes" on the 12.99 a month plan would result in some hyper-real images of himself engaging in all manner of sexual scenarios--violent or otherwise--with his co-workers (for most people, that's not exactly an eroticizing thought--enticing one even less to come into the office). At first, Gr...