Would you alter the course of history if you had foreknowledge of a catastrophic event?Lazarus wrestles with this dilemma as he carries on his business as a healer in 1879 St. Petersburg. Accustomed to working with the talented and prominent, his charmed life gets upended with the introduction of a peculiar boy apprentice who might be the malevolent instrument of fate."Goodman’s book is a peek into Imperial Russia from a unique point of view. Rich in history and full of cur...

Take thousands of years of Chinese culture, add the three great philosophies (Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism), toss in a blue dragon with an agenda, arrange it all with Mahjong tiles, and you have "The Seed of Immortality." A peasant on his deathbed is given immortality by a less-than-trustworthy Mahjong sharp. Together, they travel around ancient China, learning its secrets, discovering new methods of extracting coins from people, and even meet with the first Emperor of China in his my...

Take thousands of years of Chinese culture, add the three great philosophies (Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism), toss in a blue dragon with an agenda, arrange it all with Mahjong tiles, and you have "The Seed of Immortality." A peasant on his deathbed is given immortality by a less-than-trustworthy Mahjong sharp. Together, they travel around China, learning its secrets, discovering new methods of extracting coins from people, and even meet with the first Emperor of China in his mysterious...

In 1906, Mikhail Kuzmin published "Wings," the first book in Russian to discuss same-sex relationships in a positive light. With "Vanya Says, ‘Go!,’" Wayne Goodman retells the story from the perspective of the young man at the heart of the tale. The original work contained only three sections, but a fourth has been added to round out the story and provide some closure.Kuzmin was one of the most celebrated poets of his time, the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. While his poems were qui...

If you could go anywhere and do anything you wanted, what would you choose?Join non-identical twins Timothy (Tim) and Tamara (Tam) on their adventures aboard the intergalactic, interdimensional space pirate ship Richard the Fourth. Meet strange aliens, travel to places no human has ever gone, and get home in time for dinner. Their first big mission together is to collect phantom matter that the craft needs for propulsion.

What if Jackie Kennedy was pregnant when JFK was shot? "The Last Great Hope" is the account of a retired Secret Service agent named Stone who was at Dallas on November 22, 1963, and was subsequently assigned to adopt out a mysterious baby under an assumed name. Forty years later, his megalomaniacal boss, whom he refers to as Top Dog, calls Stone out of retirement to search for the missing Kennedy child. His journey across the U.S. also includes his own coming-out process. As a still-handso...

Joseph Asten, a handsome, 23-year-old farmer living in the Allegheny River Valley shortly after the Civil War, secretly longed for intimacy and love with other men. He devised a misguided plan to marry a woman who knew of his “dual nature” then his life took some unexpected, fateful turns.Bayard Taylor’s "Joseph and His Friend: A Pennsylvania Story" is considered the first American Gay novel. Originally published in 1869 as a serial in "The Atlantic," the author could not relate th...

All the Right Places is a collection of short stories, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship.

"Britain's Glory" is about the life of one of history's most overloo...ked women. Granddaughter of King George III, she was third in line for the throne at birth. Her amazing, but all too short, life bears re-telling in this dramatized biography. I believe that if she had survived and become Queen of England, this world would be a much better place today. She was one of the first feminists, a friend and fan of Jane Austen, and I believe women's rights would have been about 50 years ahead o...

Would you alter the course of history if you had foreknowledge of a catastrophic event?Lazarus wrestles with this dilemma as he carries on his business as a healer in 1879 St. Petersburg. Accustomed to working with the talented and prominent, his charmed life gets upended with the introduction of a peculiar boy apprentice who might be the malevolent instrument of fate."Goodman's book is a peek into Imperial Russia from a unique point of view. Rich in history and full of cur...

Follow Ace, the Automated Cab, on a fun filled day transporting passengers around the Los Angeles area.The artwork in this book was created using Dall-E AI but the initial output has been edited and revised to fit the contents of this book.

In 1906, Mikhail Kuzmin published "Wings," the first book in Russian to discuss same-sex relationships in a positive light. With "Vanya Says, 'Go!,'" Wayne Goodman retells the story from the perspective of the young man at the heart of the tale. The original work contained only three sections, but a fourth has been added to round out the story and provide some closure.Kuzmin was one of the most celebrated poets of his time, the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. While his poems were qui...