These poems don't ask for your sympathy. They don't explain themselves. They were written the way the guy who wrote them lived — fast, loud, honest, and without much regard for what anyone thought.Thirty-four poems across thirty years, moving from the streets of Los Angeles through the long grind of getting older and the slow, strange business of still being alive when you half-expected not to be. Dark comedy, raw feeling, and the occasional moment of something that looks almost li...

SICK is a collection of thirty-five poems by John Patrick Flannery, written across a decade in Los Angeles and beyond.They are poems about hating your job and loving the night. About relationships that start hot and end cold. About the criminal life and what it costs. About getting older without getting wiser, and about finding something worth smiling at anyway.The voice is direct, often profane, and always honest. These are not poems about poetry. They are poems a...

Freakville is a warm, witty, and quietly moving novel narrated by Frank Tosca, a Wisconsin-born doctor living a life that never quite fit. When a routine government letter reveals he has a daughter named Ophelia — born to a wife who vanished without explanation the night before his medical school graduation — Frank becomes obsessed with finding her. The address on the letter leads him to an unlikely place: a walled community in rural Arkansas that serves as a retirement ho...

Peter and Joey have spent their whole lives together—same streets, same bars, same bad decisions. When a chance encounter outside the Five Point leads to the heist of a lifetime, these two small-time criminals find themselves sitting on a storage locker full of pharmaceutical gold and more cash than they ever imagined.But nothing comes easy. A dead accomplice leads the police straight to their door. Two gangsters with designs on their stash turn a routine evening into something nei...

“Remember this. One offering, at the beginning of the month, to appease the ghosts that have left the hells. One more offering, at the end of the month."At the end of ghost month, offerings are made for the wandering ghosts released from hell. Accompanying his grandfather, Song and his brother encounter another visitor and trade ghost stories.Sometimes, though, the ghosts aren't just in stories.A short ghost story penned by Tao Wong.

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Being a ranger means adventure, action, and protecting the weak. But who protects the ranger when they lose their way? From the bestselling author of The Moth Keeper and the Tea Dragon Society comes a must read MG graphic novel for fans of soft sweeping fantasy romances.SHORTLISTED FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD**Rowan knows exactly what they want: to be a ranger, protecting their village alongside their trusted flying horse Kes. But...

Cameron WallaceMy childhood was fraught with tragedy and pain, but my siblings and I stuck together and we made it through, despite the odds. However, I’ve been forced to keep a secret from them. One that might drive us apart. And now an outside force is threatening to expose me, and I must risk everything in order to save my family.But when Teresa ‘Tess’ St. Marks barrels into my life, I find myself falling for a woman who could threaten everything.

TILL DEATH DO US PART?When her estranged husband Dylan's inadvertent dealings with a crime ring bring danger to her doorstep, Grace McIntyre has no choice but to follow him into the witness protection program. To safeguard her children, they must all go into hiding as one big happy family. Grace doesn't know what's worse-having to pretend she's in love with the man who betrayed her trust or keeping ahead of the killers. In hiding, Dylan is all that stands between their safety and c...

Fun and Creative Ways to Talk and Tease Your Way to an Exhilarating and Exciting Sex LifeHave You Ever Considered Adding Dirty Talk to Your Sexual Repertoire?You know how to talk. You do it every day in lots of different circumstances and ways. Far fewer of us use our ability talk in one of the most exciting places, the bedroom!If you want exciting tips for how to use dirty talk and games in the bedroom, this book is for you. If you want ideas on how to start the fo...

Luc McCabe is done paying the price for other people’s lies.Luc McCabe knows exactly what it feels like to live on the outside looking in. Tired of half-truths, broken promises, and being treated like something to be kept hidden, he leaves Chicago determined to start over and build a life on his own terms.Then Julian Worthington comes back into his life.Julian is everything Luc should avoid—successful, guarded, and tied to a powerful family built on...

This erotic short story is about a female by the name of Lola. She is a first generation Asian American who has been sheltered by her strict parents her entire life. She started to have feelings for women from a childish game when she was a teenager and was forever changed. She knew who she was and knew what she wanted to do with her life, and who she wanted to be with. But all of her dreams and goals were not traditional and were immoral among her family and culture. She hid behind the fe...

Last year, I published a book of writing prompts to help jumpstart muses and get the creative juices flowing. Many of the prompts that didn't make the cut in that book were salacious, to say the least. As an erotica writer, I sometimes like to think outside my own boundaries and try to tackle the art of writing sex in new and exciting ways. Let's be honest -- there are only so many things you can say about sex before you start feeling as if the scene has become rote or mechanical. The roma...