Rabe Schuyler Johnson, your average 21year old, gay, West Texan boy, known as Shy to a few and as Hey You to many others, could not be sure of much in this life, but he WAS sure of one dang thing - he had a motto and he knew how to use that motto and that motto always was and always would remain - It's All About Freedom, Baby! - YUP! - there it was! FREE was what it was all about, at least it was what HE was all about, free was how he rolled, how he rock-n-rolled that is, but he was findin...

Rabe Schuyler Johnson, a (young) man known by MANY NAMES, some of them even repeatable in polite company, was not enjoying being KIDNAPPED, no matter how much fun the kidnappers tried to make it out to be, yes, whether by train, plane, bus or runaway wheelchair, being kidnapped came down to the same, boring thing - you had to do what the KIDNAPPERS wanted and not what YOU wanted and that was a BIG HONKING MAJOR problem for The Rabester - losing your precious freedom was a life-changing eve...

You know, you don't always have to open a gift. You can just leave it lying there and walk away. You can. Especially if the gift reeks of garlic, is made of greasy, sweating rubber and has lips. Then you absolutely should. You should walk,maybe even run away. As fast as you can. You may just have an LHB on your hands. That's Alfred Pilger's advice to you, given FREE OF CHARGE. Not something Alfred does often. But hey! He's in a generous mood. It is his birthday after all tomorrow. And Alfr...

Darius Johnson, Los Angeles citizen, is a guy like any other guy. He loves his husband, is a prisoner to his mortgage, hustles like a crazy man at work on weekdays to keep his boss happy, lives for sweet freedom on his weekends once they finally roll his way, and is generally a man who tries to do the best he can by everybody with what he's been given to work with here on this earthly plane. Yeah, he's not an idiot with his karma. He figures what goes around REALLY DOES come around. He's a...

With such citizens, what would it take to get their attention?Anders Flagstad's new collection of short stories and novellas - Spare Parts - is an answer of sorts and San Francisco is the city, of course, always The City by the bay.Spare Parts is book one of series - Principal Parts - a set of interconnected books and characters about San Franciscans and how they got that way and what they do to stay that way and where they expect to go with all this stuff they're doing. Th...

What if you weren't comfortable in your own skin?What if you weren't comfortable in someone else's skin either?That wouldn't leave you with a lot of choices, would it?Paul Olsen isn't comfortableBut he has no cause to be that way.At least that's what everyone keeps telling him.He has everything a teenager could want. A large, happy family. Plenty to eat. A decent home. Friends. Best friends. A girlfriend even. Camping trips. Beer. Heck, Paul has ha...

So, what can you learn about life from the city of San Diego - land of beaches, palm trees, mesas, waterless deserts and demons and angels? This book of short stories attempts to answer that burning civic and personal question. What? What is there to learn?Angels are everywhere.In bowling alleys and department stores, on doomed European vacations and the tops of unlikely mountains.Drag Queens are everywhere.In sushi bar murders, in first-time love affairs, in co...

Anders Flagstad's new novel Thad Says Parts Is Parts (And Thad Is Right)is a screwball comedy of errors straight from the vaults. Literally. It's an adaptation of the Roman playwright Plautus's comedy Epidicus, but set in 21st century LGBT San Francisco, and asking the often agonizing and perplexing question "Is it possible to be rich, gay, San Franciscan and happy, all at the same time?"Many are those who ask. Few are answered. Even fewer remember what the question was when the an...

"The Crawlspace" is where horror hides, where nightmares collect and breed, where darkness takes shape. In this exclusive, expanded edition of Darryl Dawson's highly-praised anthology, you will find seventeen stories that will captivate you and make you see horror in a whole new way. Read it, and know what all the screaming is about!

Smart girls aren’t supposed to do stupid things. On her first day at Green River Community College, Madelyn Hawkins meets Bennett Cartwright, her biology professor. He’s funny. He’s interested. And he has no idea that Madelyn is only sixteen. When they’re together, Madelyn feels more alive than she’s ever felt before. And she knows Bennett feels the same way. She also knows that if she tells him her real age, their relationship will be over. So Madelyn makes a simple decision. She won’t te...

"Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty." -Michael CunninghamThey all thought I was good-natured, upright and responsible, generous, affectionate, and kind, and of course I could be those things, but there was much more to me than that, a side that unnerved even myself, and this side included William.Seventeen-year-old Evan's adventure begins with mowing a neighbor's lawn, a summer job that leads him ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.“Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror**Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfo...