This second volume of interviews continues HB's vital collection of testimonies from fifty-five gay fathers. The fathers, all born in the UK between the 1930's and 1960's and interviewed in 1999-2001, talk further about how their lives changed as their hetersexual marriages came under strain and broke down. They tell how they managed the difficult transition from being married to being out in the gay community yet still in touch with their children. They speak very articulately, with great...

This first volume introduces a powerful collection of personal narratives from gay fathers in Britain.Fifty-five gay fathers talk about their lives, from childhood and growing up, through heterosexual married relationships that broke down, to being out in the gay community and still in touch with their children. They speak very articulately, with great honesty and sincerity, and often very movingly, about complicated life journeys. Their stories cover a huge range of experiences in...

He's the monster in the cage who would do anything to get back to his mates. Even me. Especially me.I'd heard the rumors about the sub-basement at Prometheus Labs. Now, with my student debts mounting and my funding in doubt, I have no choice but to take Professor Castaban's creepy assignment. Which is when I discover the rumors were true. They're keeping a monster in a cage. And I'm supposed to study him.Ruzzaur is the biggest creature I've ever seen, all w...

Ugly wisdom doesn't apologize. It doesn't bow, and it doesn't break.What Remains is the debut spoken-word collection from H.B. Knycole and the opening volume of the What Remains Saga. A voice forged through scars, silence, and fire. These poems are not gentle whispers. They are declarations.This collection confronts manipulation, obedience, and the cost of swallowing your truth. From The Rice That Lied to I Choose Violence

Maddie Neumann died the day she pulled away from her parents' house determined to make her dreams come true. She wasn't the perfect little princess she'd been raised to be, all she wanted to do was rock. Everything Maddie was tucked away in a box to allow for her re-birth as Rain Maxwell; a badass rocker who answered to no one and lived by her own set of rules.Rain's world is shattered with one phone call from her estranged family. No sooner does she get home than everything she th...

Colton Bradford never believed in love at first sight. And then, Rain Maxwell walked through his buddy's front door. He knew there was something special underneath the shy, guarded exterior and was determined to find out what it was.The problem? Rain had devised her own set of life rules and “Never get involved with a band mate” was right near the top of that list. She allowed Colton into her heart as one of her closest friends, but pushed him away at the mention of anything more.

In The Sovereign Tongue: Burnt Enough, H.B. Knykole invites the reader into the sacred chamber where truth is forged — not in light, but in flame. This spoken manifesto is carved from the charred remnants of survival, the ashes of self-abandonment, and the smoldering embers of a woman reclaiming the full authority of her voice. These pieces rise like incantations. They speak to the woman who has been tested in private, underestimated in public, and transformed in silence. They speak to the...

Three massive stone gargoyles. Monsters all. And now I belong to them.I didn't ask to be rescued. I was doing fine on my own, even if I had just lost my job, dumped my ex and taken a wrong turn down a dark alley. So when Carrarr thinks I need saving and sweeps me up in his huge claws, what am I supposed to do? Say no to this damaged, vicious, and sweet as candy gargoyle who only wants to prove to his mates he's worthy of their love?Mates who include Viriroz...

My new co-worker is a walking ethics violation, a vampire and a total asshole.What could possibly go wrong?I've spent my entire life proving I'm more than a witch without magic, so I reinvented myself as a top notch lawyer and it was all just about to pay off when a feral beast of a vampire showed up - and destroyed my office.Mondays are really not my day. Especially when I find my boss has found us new premises at a big corporate l...

Palestine is not a headline. It is a heartbeat. (Palestine.docx)Written in the noise of demolition and the quiet spaces where language fails, Palestine Is My Home by HB Mahomed is a fierce refusal of historical erasure (Palestine.docx). This collection of raw truths explores the indomitable spirit of Palestinian families—the children who weaponize their softness (2), the brothers who rebuild amidst tragedy (4), and the sisters who carry nations in their he...

Monsters are real. I've just found one under my bed.But he has no intention of staying there.It doesn't matter the bed is in my childhood bedroom where I've retreated to lick my wounds after being dumped by my fiance. It doesn't matter that my long suffering parents will not appreciate things which go hump in the night.Lokan is a gargoyle on a mission and that mission is to find a human female to breed with before his curse means he turns to stone p...

Alone, pregnant and running from monsters . . .I thought I knew what I was signing up for at Prometheus labs. A living wage salary in return for terrible hours, appalling working conditions and the occasional medical trial to give me a nice end of month boost in funds. I never expected to end up pregnant and transported to a completely different world, where gargoyles taunt me, and my life is immeasurably worse.Until they show up.Two alpha gargoyles...