A Twitterlight StoryKill the dragon, marry the princess, and rule the kingdom. It's a fantasy come true… if you're straight.Adam is a chemistry student and martial artist, active in his local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism. But none of that prepares him to be the savior of a faraway land locked in perpetual dusk.In a world of shape-shifters, necromancy, and religious politics, Adam is fated to slay the golden dragon, Khaliv...

When Patrick's long-term girlfriend Li Ling dumps him just as he's working up the nerve to propose, he ends up drunk on David's couch—and later in David's bed. Although initially reluctant to pursue anything beyond a one-time drunken tryst, David throws caution to the wind during an intimate dinner, where the two men also discuss Patrick's dream of entering the food industry. Just as the friends-turned-lovers are settling into their new romance, Li Ling calls Patrick—she's pregnant.

There is a goose in a bottle. So big now it can no longer squeeze through the small narrow glass neck. How then, can you free it from the bottle without damaging the goose or the bottle?

Lex Cranbourne has adjusted to his unlife as a creature of the night--mostly. The unspoken divide between the living and vampiric is sometimes hard to take, and Lex has consoled himself to a lonely life. When a hot young man dares to push past his barriers to find his buttons, Lex has to decide whether or not he can let someone in. Featuring a vampire, half a cow, and no geese whatsoever.Sequel to Mr. Perfect.

Modern tech junkie Dirk spends his days webcamming with hot guys over gay chat sites–including today. Only today his best friend Fiona's dragging him out for a night on the town. But is it really better meeting someone in person as opposed to over the internet? And which is truer to reality: the persona we affect in person or the one we show the world online?

After being attacked for standing up for equality, Travis "Rook" Rookford falls into a coma. At his bedside sits fellow student Leon Capper, there to keep his new hero company. Instead he finds a boyfriend in nurse Warrick Kwok.When Rook wakes with amnesia, he thinks Leon is his boyfriend—which surprises everyone, given Rook's prior dating pattern. With everything that's going on, Leon has a hard time telling Rook the truth—and Warrick's possessiveness grates on him enough that he ...

Set in Edwardian England, Anya and the Dream Keepers follows eleven-year-old Anya, who discovers the fairy stories her grandfather told her are true. Separated by time and space, the two find themselves whisked away to the land of the dream keepers, their quests fatefully intertwined as they encounter evil sorcerers, fairy warriors, and unnatural beasts. Through haunting deserts and icy chambers, mystic ruins and secluded forests, the travelers wield the magic and science of this enchanted...

It is officially the worst night of Lex's existence. For starters, he's dead. Notice I said, 'for starters'. The Dead Man Walking* has been hired out by a group of Vampire geeks. And right now, Lex is really wishing he'd bothered to check their reflections in the mirror. Featuring cocktails, footnotes, three sheep and a duck, Lex may have finally found his Mr. Perfect. The question is. Mr. Perfect what?*formerly located at 228 Nicholson St, Footscray, Melbourne, VIC, 3011

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Webmasters job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger...

Because words can no more hold the truth than a net can hold water, we use koans. Koans are sayings, or doings, of Zen masters, the patriarchs and Buddha. Take for example the koan: The Sound of One Hand clapping. In its entirety it reads: "You know the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The obvious, intellectual answer is, No sound at all! But then what is this No sound? In other words, is it just silence?If one is to work on this koan, indeed on ...

The Bells of Mindfulness is part of the Parallax Press Moments series of short ebooks. Thich Nhat Hanh presents a dramatic vision of the future of our planet, a call for environmental awareness, and Buddhist teachings on interconnectedness. Ultimately, Nhat Hanh believes that engaging with the world is the key to our individual and collective survival. Selected from his best-selling title The World We Have.

The basic message of all the Mahayana Buddhist sutras is awakening - what the Zen teacher Bassui called "seeing the wordless sutra." Zen and the Sutras is an accessible study of the major Mahayana sutras as manuals for the practice of Zen. Low's insights and conclusions about spirituality and humanity will both illuminate and inspire, in the way of Zen, in the search for spiritual awakening.