A Stoner McTavish Mystery

There were dark forces afoot in the sleepy little New Age town of Shelburne Falls, hungry ghosts who had chosen Aunt Hermione as their prey. Stoner McTavish, lesbian travel agent and reluctant detective, her lover Gwen, and her best friend and business partner Marylou, must stop them before it's too late. But who are they? What do they want, and why? And how do you stop an enemy you can't even find? Stoner embarks on a journey that forces her to face her worst fears. And they just might come true.

Sarah Dreher is the author of the well-loved Stoner McTavish Mystery Series as well as many award winning plays. She attended Wellesley College and went on to earn a PH.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University.
At the age of 17, she was threatened with expulsion from Wellesley College for “being too fond of other girls.” In an interview, Sarah reveals,

“I was accused of being a lesbian, though I wasn’t ‘out’ at the time,” she recalls. “I felt like killing myself. One of the rules of being gay in the 1950’s was that you should hate yourself. It took me 15 years to get over it; it took the women’s movement really, to get me past it.”

Sarah’s play “Alumnae News” parallels this experience in her life. As in all of her work, the poignancy and bristling energy are leavened by humor, and by the author’s empathy with her characters.
Sarah passed away to writer’s heaven at her home on April 2nd, 2012, just one week after celebrating her 75th birthday.

Being a teen isn't always easy, and for gay, lesbian, bi, and trans teens - or those still exploring and discovering their sexuality or gender identity - it can be even tougher. Yet courage, friendship and acceptance can be found in surprising places.

That was the last thing Klaus had to say before we left J.C.' s diner to go our separate ways. On my way home, I decided I would drive by my grandparents' home. Every once in a while I'll do that, even though it's very painful to realize that they're gone now and that house belongs to someone else- a total stranger. When I come to the house, I park in front and just sit there, recalling that during the Prohibition Era this house was a blind pig and my grandmother was the proprietress. As a young boy, I would walk the three miles from my house just to sit on the front porch with "ma" so I could listen to her tell stories about the "old days". It's been thirty years since I've been inside that house, which was a second home to me when I was growing up. I have a feeling that if I were to go inside now, that my grandfather would still be sitting there in his favorite chair wearing nothing but his BVDs (the kind with the back flap that buttons up) reading "True Detective" or "Field and Stream." I am tempted to walk up the front steps and ring the doorbell, but I don't dare. 

Not far here was a little pond and a garbage dump. In the summers of my childhood, I'd go down to the pond and catch tadpoles and pollywogs, or I'd walk over to the dump and scrounge around for hidden treasures amidst the trash. Say, what's happening to me? Maybe I'm dying. No? Then why is my whole life- beginning with my earliest memories- suddenly passing before my eyes? 

It's my birthday, I'm five-years-old old and I'm sitting on a wooden pony on the fifth floor of Hudson's Department Store in downtown Detroit where I'll be getting my first professional haircut. Later that same day, my mother takes me to Sanders for a Hot Fudge Sunday. Cut to that little pond I mentioned. I've been catching pollywogs with a strainer and putting them in a jar when a big kid comes up to me and orders me to leave. I refuse and he wrestles me to the ground, demanding that I say uncle. When I refuse to say uncle, he gives me a good pounding, then takes that jar of mine and empties its contents back into the pond. I don't cry, but holding back the tears, I vow to myself that I'll get him back some day. But I never do. 

So many things from my childhood have disappeared, like that pond, for instance, which is no longer there, and the garbage dump, and the creek where we fished for carp and the bridge that spanned it- all of that's been gone for years. Gone, too, are the vacant lots where we played pick up baseball in the summer, and the woods where we had bonfires in the fall, roasting marshmallows over the fire while warming ourselves. Now that I think of it, my grade school is gone- torn down years ago to make way for a Farmer Jack's. And the schoolyard where we held our marble tournaments before and after school (knuckles down, no hunching) and played kick ball and dodge ball- that schoolyard where I had so much fun- buried and paved-over into a parking lot- gone. Gone the way of the sheeny-man who came into our neighborhood riding an antique horse that clop, clop clopped down our street pulling a wagon full of junk while the sheeny blew his shrill-sounding horn to let the neighborhood know that he had arrived. Gone too, the ice man who carried big blocks of ice with silver tongs for our ice box; and gone- the man who delivered the coal that went rumbling down the coal shoot and into the coal bin, a fascinating place in its own right when you're still young enough to appreciate such things as coal bins All that's gone. 

Within walking distance of my grandmother's house is the movie theater. I'm six and I'm standing in a long line with all the other kids holding a quarter in my hand: the price of admission back then. For a mere twenty-five cents you've gained entrance to that darkened theater to watch three movies, a newsreel, a serial, (Flash Gordon was my favorite.), cartoons and coming attractions. Seven years later, in that same theater, I sit down next to a strange girl and ask her if she would like to neck with me, and she consents, taking my hand in hers and leaning her head on my shoulder. (Necking wasn't really allowed, and if you weren't careful, a very official-looking usherette, who wore a uniform with gold buttons down the front and epaulettes on the shoulders, would shine her flashlight on you.) The last time I drove by the Lincoln Park Show it was advertising itself on the marquee as Adult Entertainment. 

The Depression having ended by the time I was born, my earliest memories begin around the time of World War II. My mother is sitting down at the kitchen table placing little green stamps in her ration book. Once the book is full, she'll go to a redemption center and have the stamps redeemed for money to buy food with. That was the year we planted a victory garden in the vacant lot next to our house. In a similar vein, the kids on our my block had paper drives and collected scrap metal. It was all part of the war effort, for as young boys we were learning how to be patriotic and to love the flag and "the country for which it stands"- America. As a matter of fact, my very first lesson in patriotism came in the form of a warning from the big kids on my block never to let the American flag touch the ground or I'd have to burn it- just one of a number of taboos I learned as a child similar to, but nowhere near as fearful as, "step on a crack and break you mother's back'. 

Where are they now?- my comic book collection and those hundreds and hundreds of matchbooks that I picked out of gutters and found in empty fields on the way home from school. And why? Because, as a kid of nine, I found the endless variety of match covers fascinating. What happened to my Lionel train- the one I woke up to find underneath the Christmas tree, my Red Ryder be-be gun and my American Flyer bike?- where are they now? 

At that age, my indoor world was a world of tinker toys, erector sets, and games- all kinds of games: hockey, basketball, football and my favorite, APBA baseball,- and the radio. Every Sunday, after church, my dad would buy a paper from the paperboy, and when we got home, I would do is spread out the comic section on the living room floor, then turn on the radio and listen to the Sunday comics being read over the air. During the week, when I get home from school, the first thing I do is turn on the radio and listen to my favorite programs: Jack Armstrong, All-American boy, Captain Midnight, (I wear my Captain Midnight decoder ring that glows in the dark), Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and broadcast from WXYZ, our very own Lone Ranger. Hi-o Silver, away. In the evening was Baby Snooks, The Great Gildersleeve, Inner Sanctum, Lights Out, My Friend Irma, Bulldog Drummond, The Shadow, Mr. Keane, Tracer of Lost Persons, Name that Tune, Mr. I.Q., Life with Luigi, and another local favorite, The Green Hornet. 

My outdoor world was the streets, the vacant lots, the fields and the alleys of my neighborhood. In the street we played hockey in the winter and touch football in the fall; in fields and vacant lots we played pick up baseball and built our underground fort where we slept out on hot summer nights playing Hearts and Crazy Eights by candlelight, or we climbed up the rope ladder to our tree house where, with our binoculars, we could spy on all our neighbors. Alleys were for alley-picking and for war games played with cap pistols, be-be guns, and sling shots. We made walkie-talkies out of old tin cans and string, kites using clothes line, parachutes, and model airplanes. In the vacant lot next to my house we played cork ball- if you ask me, the greatest game ever invented. You could play cork ball using a large bobber or an ordinary bottle cork for a ball and a broomstick handle for a bat. A ball that landed in the alley was a triple, on the other side of the alley, a home run.. 

Item: our alleys were paved with cinders back then. The White Street gang lines up on one side, the Garfield Street gang on the other. There's going to be a rock fight. Before you know what's happening, the sky is filled with rocks. You throw, you duck, you throw another rock and then you duck and then something happens- your face is burning and throbbing. You've been hit. My god, you could have lost your eye. You could cry, but you don't. You are a casualty in a rock fight and you will carry a scar beneath your eye for the rest of your life, and you didn't cry- you are a hero. That night, after your father comes home from work, you get your first good licking. In bed that night, you pull the covers over your head and listen to your favorite radio programs before you fall asleep. 

I'm back in the real world again, saddened by the sight of my grandmother's house. Whoever lives there now has let in fall into disrepair. No, I wouldn't want to go inside; it would depress me to see how everything would be different. No, I'll go now. I turn on the engine and head for home. I wonder as I drive past the familiar landmarks of my youth how time has changed so much, transforming Main Street into block after block of blighted buildings. Where there was once an ice cream parlor, a barbershop, and a shoe repair, there are now ugly abandoned or boarded-up buildings. Our two dime stores: Niesner's and Woolworth's, and Winkleman's, a classy women's clothing store, are now a dumpy-looking Dollar Store, a Temporary Jobs Office, and windowless Community Mental Health Center. Cunningham's, with its lunch counter where you could sit and have a chicken salad sandwich and a cup of coffee while you waited for your bus, is gone, and Sanders closed its doors ten years ago. 

Last week I went with J.C. on a delivery run down near the docks in River Rouge and saw the Columbia, one of the two Bob-Lo boats, in dry dock. It's being restored. All the same, there will be no more picnics on the island because Bob-Lo Island, with its roller coaster, its dance hall and its many amusement rides, was sold to private developers and everything was torn down. At one time we had four such amusement parks; now there are none. Gone are the penny arcades of my youth, the slots where for a penny you could get sepia-colored pictures of ballplayers and boxers, movie stars, wrestlers and cowboys. All that's gone. But most tragic was the demolition of Hudson's, as thousands lined-up to watch the spectacle of this great landmark implode into a huge pile of rubble. 

When I think of all that's been lost, I am saddened. One magnificent railway station demolished, the other, Michigan Central, an empty hulk. Now that all of its windows have been busted out, it's nothing more than a vacant shell of a building. And those lavish movie palaces of a bygone era, almost all them gone- closed or destroyed. The great burlesque houses, like the famous Gayety and The Esquire- they, too, have vanished, as have those magnificent ballrooms, the Grande and the Vanity; those proud hotels, the Sheraton Cadillac and the Fort Shelby; and finally, the Vernors' plant- the first one, the one located at the foot of Woodward Avenue where you caught the Bob-Lo boat way back when. I believe it's been more than fifty years since they tore it down. A local product, Vernor's has the distinction of being the first soda pop in America. Today, it is owned by one of America's largest conglomerates: the Pepsi Cola Company. 

I remember the day the carnival came to town and seeing the boy with webbed feet, the bearded lady and the man who had a baby growing out of his stomach. Until the day I die, I'll never forget that man with the baby. Of all the freak shows I've seen, that's the one I'll never forget. How on earth, this six-year-old wondered (as he stood inside that stuffy tent with the smell of sawdust in his nostrils, holding on to his daddy's hand) could a man have a baby growing out of his stomach? How did it happen? That was in the city of Ecorse some fifty years ago on the fourth of July. I remember it well, especially watching the fireworks from atop the Ferris wheel, a burst of sound- boom- then splashes of color lighting up the sky, appearing in an instant, lingering for a moment, then fading away into the dark 

A light goes on inside the house. I turn on my engine and drive off, but before going directly home, I take the overpass that connects suburbia with Detroit. Reaching the highest point of the overpass, I look out at the cityscape, all aglow and spread out like a magic carpet of light. Directly below- the refinery, with its eternal flame; then farther out, the Ambassador Bridge with its colorful beads of light, strung along the bridge from one side- the American side- to the other- the Canadian side; and then, at the farthest point of vision, the mills and factories bordering the river, their myriad lights; candles glowing in the dark, their smoke stacks; vertical canons, sending up ghostly wisps of smoke into the night sky -light to ward-off the coming darkness of a fascistic America ruled by powerful and impersonal corporations in league with a government indifferent to the dreams and aspirations of its people, the working people of America. We cannot let this happen; this relentless juggernaut has to be stopped. If we don't stop it and stop it soon, before it is too late (if it's not already too late), the lights will go out all across America and darkness will cover the land.

A bawdy love story set on the Texas plains. Longhorns ranges from hard riding action and sex as hot as the blazing Texas sun to lyrical descriptions of the Old West.

From Publishers Weekly

Gay pulp veteran Banis's pseudonymous soft core novels of the '60s are hailed as "foundational" to gay literature in Michael Bronski's fulsome introduction to this new novel, Banis's "re-emergence." Bronski goes on to call this Western a "response" to Brokeback Mountain, and a "queer meditation" on the cowboy as American icon. Forty-year-old Les, the trail boss of the Double H Ranch, works for its beloved chatelaine, the elderly widow Miz Cameron, "a little dumpling of a woman, dressed in black." Les rides herd over a crew of rowdy cowboys, roping steer and sleeping around prairie campfires. Young drifter Buck, part Nasoni Indian, catches up to them on a roundup. After proving himself an expert sharpshooter, rider and roper, Buck celebrates his initiation to the group by luring one of their number, Red, into his bedroll. But Buck is really after Les, sandy-haired and significantly endowed. Banis provides a well-researched, detailed panorama of wrangling steer and the narrowing of the American Southwest, but his characters fail to convince and his sex scenes are pallid. Buck unleashes a stream of single-entendre wherever he goes (it feels good to be "rode hard"), and after the first 10 pages, it becomes tiresome.
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About the Author

Victor Banis headed two small publishing related corporations in the sixties and seventies, producing packaged books and magazines, along the way he launched the careers of underground photographers Pat Rocco and Tom de Simone. He was an early rabble rouser for gay rights and freedom of the press, and went through a major obscenity trial in the 1960s which advanced the cause of freedom in publishing. Drewey Wayne Gunn (The Gay Sleuth in Print and Film) has called him a "national treasure," and Michael Bronski dedicated his book Pulp Friction to him. Social historians have credited his early gay books, The Why Not and The Man From C.A.M.P. as launching the gay publishing revolution of the sixties and seventies. He is the author of over 100 books, and his verses and shorter pieces have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

From high school crushes to best friends, secret admirers to out-and-proud teens, the stories in this collection of gay young adult romance by author J. Tomas bring to life all the amazing—and frightening—aspects of falling in love for the first time. Whether you’re sixteen and looking for tales about queer boys your own age, or you’re older and want to reminisce about the “good old days,” there’s something in this book for everyone.

Caught—When Mike catches JV teammate Robby stealing, he doesn’t know what to think. Has Mike’s perception of his friend been wrong all these years? Is the ChapStick a cry for help or a way of getting Mike’s attention?

First Kiss—Noah has a fierce crush on a hot jock whose locker is down the hall. When Melissa Bradshaw, only the most popular girl in school, suddenly shows an interest in Noah, he suspects he’s being set up for a cruel joke.

Gimme Pride—At 15, Chip is out and proud. When he sees fellow student Bobby at a local Pride event, Chip hopes it means what he thinks it means. But Chip learns not all gay teens are as comfortable flaunting their sexuality as he is.

His Biggest Fan—When I hear my BFF Ross’s favorite band is coming to town, I decide to treat him to the concert. Show him a good time, show him how I really feel. But with the lead singer gyrating his hips onstage, will Ross even notice I’m there?

Just a Little Note—Bryan’s in love with his friend Jesse. So is Emily, who enlists Bryan’s help in writing a note to win Jesse over. When Jesse tells him about the note, how can Bryan keep his own feelings quiet?

My Online Secret Admirer—Mike finds a fellow student’s blog…and learns someone in class has a crush on him. With the help of his friends, he tries to figure out who the mysterious blogger might be. Could it be one of them? If so, which one?

The Man Next Door—A new elderly neighbor with a German accent riles up prejudice in young Jake. But soon he learns Jews weren’t the only ones who suffered during the Holocaust as he learns what it meant to be Jewish—or gay—in Nazi Germany.

Trouble at School—A quick kiss in the hall lands Jordan in trouble. He doesn’t know which is worst—the school’s punishment, or his father’s reaction to the fact his son was caught kissing another boy.

Who’s Watching Whom?—While Logan babysits his brother Dylan, his mother forbids him from inviting his boyfriend Chad over. Logan’s only consolation is his cell phone, connecting him to Chad. Now, if Dylan will just leave him alone…

Worth the Wait—If everybody’s doing it, shouldn’t you? Sometimes respecting someone’s decision—even one you don’t like—says more about love than words could.

Men Loving Men: 6 Sexy Romantic Adventures Crammed with Heart.

Book 1: The Handyman Can – Jake loves landscaping almost as much as he loves his kid sister. Cory is a successful real-estate tycoon devoted to family. Sparks fly when the two hunks meet and build something fit for a home makeover TV show.

Book 2: Wrestling with Love – Sometimes you have to give it your all and let yourself fall in love so hard it hurts. Enemies turn friends. Eric and Quin compete at wrestling but grapple with an attraction to each other that they struggle to understand. All in love is fair until their secret is revealed, and they have to fight to keep love alive.

Book 3: Never Kiss – Out of work, Tony turns to the Internet porn to pay the bills. When a seemingly, straight Clark Kent lookalike wanders into his life, Tony falls for Superman. Will the hero agree to being filmed? Could a “straight-bait” video further something between the two?

Book 4: Four-Wheel Flying – Trevor dreams of joining the Air Force and flying planes for a living. His friend Pete likes to ride ATVs and struggles to get by. Small-town Tennessee and narrow-minded families hold both hot rednecks back. Off-road explorations release pent-up desires, and a friendship buds into something more. Can they escape the town?

Book 5: Waiting for Dartmouth – Tommy has had his eye on the family landscaper Chris for some time. On a sweltering day a week before heading off for Dartmouth, Tommy invites the weed-whacking man into the house. The boys let off steam and get an education even Dartmouth couldn’t offer. Could a budding romance change Tommy’s plans for a white-collar life?

Bonus: Pet Monster – Richie, a bookish and sheltered kid, is so ashamed of his oversized manhood that it’s held him back from having relations. When the virgin goes away to college and joins the basketball team, he discovers straight-but-fluid mates who show him the ropes. This brawny nerd learns he’s not a monster after all and pines for more with eyes on the hunky school librarian.

Working-Class Men in Love involves bi-curious men coming to grips with their sexuality and discovering first-time gay love. Discover how these stories intertwine with repeat characters, settings, and more.

• "Forget the sex, the emotions portrayed with a delicacy that weeps off the page!" says author C. Puccia.
• An Amazon Top Reviewer describes Sexton's work as, “sophisticated, informed and creative.”

This box set includes the entire Working-Class Man series...

• Two chart-topping novels (The Handyman Can and Wrestling with Love),
• The story Never Kiss that you can't get anywhere,
• Two NEW novellas Four-Wheel Flying and Waiting for Dartmouth,
• Plus, the BONUS story Pet Monster.

Over 175,000 words. 100+ five-star reviews. Find out why thousands of readers have fallen for Dan Sexton’s sexy series.

Five teens fall into sex trafficking and must find their way to a new life in this riveting duology. This collectable boxed set features the #1 New York Times bestselling Tricks and Traffick from Ellen Hopkins.

"Hopkins’s use of free verse allows the raw emotion to shine through, and mature teens will hang on to every word... Recommended widely for older YA readers." (School Library Journal)

In her #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduces us to five memorable characters faced with an enormous question: How did I get here? Eden, the preacher’s daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution ring; Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or any resources other than his own body; Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze; Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend and is arrested for soliciting an undercover cop; and Cody, whose gambling habit forces him into the life, but who is shot and left for dead.

And in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out? How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade. Heart-wrenching and hopeful, Traffick takes us on five separate but intertwined journeys through the painful challenges of recovery, rehabilitation, and renewal to forgiveness and love. All the way home.

“Each story is unique...while readers may connect with some characters more than others, they will long remember each painful story.” (Publishers Weekly)

About the Author

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.

Liam Green is a sixteen-year-old boy who has just moved to Fairmont with his family. On his first day in his new high school, he falls for Alex, a handsome jock on the swim team. Alex doesn’t seem to be gay, but that does not end Liam’s obsession with him. Fate pushes the boys together, and they become friends—until Liam’s secret is revealed. 

Swimmer Boy is the first book in Jay Argent’s best-selling Fairmont Boys series. It begins a coming-of-age story about friendship and the kind of love that is found in the most unlikely places.

This is the second edition of the novel. It contains the original storyline with editorial improvements based on feedback from readers to entertain future readers with a new, stronger manuscript and improved style.

Alex Wesley is a seventeen-year-old senior at Fairmont High School. He is a star jock and the captain of the swim team. Everything in his life seems perfect, except for one big secret: Alex has a boyfriend. In his efforts to keep his relationship hidden from his friends and family, Alex makes a mistake that changes everything and pushes him deeper into the closet. 

I am Not Gay is the second book in Jay Argent's best-selling Fairmont Boys series. It is a story about fear and the kind of courage that is found in the most unlikely places.

Carefree and in love with each other, Alex and Liam are preparing for a college ball. To make the evening perfect, Alex comes up with a plan he hopes will surprise Liam big time. Nothing can go wrong and their happily-ever-after seems inevitable.

Just when Alex and Liam least expect it, two people from their past arrive in Eddington with bad intentions. Alex does not realize the seriousness of the situation before two lives are lost.

The Death of the Good Guy is the fourth book in Jay Argent’s bestselling Fairmont Boys series. It’s a story about the kind of love and friendship that is larger than life.

Beyond doggy style and the missionary position there are countless possibilities for enjoying sex between men. The author presents 69 of them - each and every single one an opportunity for readers to bring some fresh inspiration to their love lives.

How Do Gay Porn Stars Make Bottoming Look So Easy? 

Hung tops stick it in like a glute inject and the bottoms don’t even flinch. What’s their secret? And what can you learn from them so you can have ecstatic butt sex without any pain? Some of the answers will shock you. 

Learn porn star secrets to bottoming without pain and start making love with volcanic pleasure. Written by gay sex advice columnist Woody Miller and a team of urologists and colon-rectal specialists, this book combines porn industry secrets with innovative techniques from the latest gay male sex research. 

How We Got The Porn Industry’s Secrets To Bottoming Without Pain. 

We sent a team of researchers to interview a truckload of gay male erotica industry folk—cameramen, scouts, producers, directors and performers. The result is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look into the industry and the secrets they use to get performers to bottom without pain or messy scenes. The main sections: 

1: What You Can Learn From Porn Star Bottoms. A fascinating view of bottoming in the porn industry—how gay erotica performers prepare for a shoot, how they can take huge tops without any pain (even if it’s their first time) and how they stay loose despite day-long shoots. If you ever had a question about how the porn industry works, this is the place to find answers—from how much money porn stars make to what percent are heterosexual (shocking!) to their favorite brand of douches. 

2: Free Your Mind, Your Butt Will Follow. How To Bottom Like A Porn Star: The Ultimate Guide To Gay Sex is part porn exposé, part how-to from the latest gay sex research. In this chapter, we’ll look at how “Anticipatory pain” and a perceived loss of masculinity can put your butt in a headlock. We’ll show you how to resolve the emotional blocks that stop you from trying or enjoying anal sex with other gay men. 

3: Why It Feels Like You’re Being Impaled By A Fence Post. From our urologist and colon-rectal experts who specialize in gay male sex: It isn’t just your sphincter causing all that pain; it’s your “S-curve” as well as involuntary puborectal contractions. Learn your anatomical structure so you can make the tips in this book work better. 

4: How Porn Star Bottoms Relax Their Sphincters. Not all do it, or need to, but the gay men in the sex industry that do swear by it. Find out whether you should use their controversial method. 

5: The Porn Star Method Of Eliminating Pain. Find out the shocking things gay male erotica stars do to eliminate pain. Some cannot be recommended, but others can and we’ve combined them with a technique that blends systematic desensitization, pattern breathing, progressive muscle relaxation and sexual imagery to completely eliminate pain and heighten pleasure. 

6: How Porn Star Bottoms Handle The Ick Factor. Find out their secrets to getting your butt cleaner than a Brady Bunch rerun. 

7: A Device That’s Better Than A Douche Or An Enema. Enemas and douches are a bad idea (despite the porn industry’s reliance on them). Find out why and what product doctors recommend that will get you as clean as a douche without any of the harmful side effects. 

8: How To Bottom Without Pain For The First Time. Here you’ll learn how to combine the best position with the best angle of entry. Missionary? Doggie-style? Straight in? Angled up? When it comes to gay sex, it matters. 

9: A Guided Tour Of A Pain-Free Bottoming Session Between Adam And Steve. A beginner’s real-time, step-by-step guide to bottoming—porn style!-- that will light you up like an all-night liquor store. 

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The First Sex Guide For Tops!

Techniques to keep your partner’s sphincter completely relaxed • How to overcome hygiene worries • New speed, depth and thrusting techniques • How to discover your inner top • Getting hard & staying hard, even with a condom • Solutions to emotional blocks • Using the “Erotic Feedback Loop” to maximize pleasure. 

• Keep His Sphincter Completely Relaxed As You Enter Him

Say goodbye to failed attempts at intercourse because your partner couldn’t take the pain. This wildly clever method turns a well-known fact of physiology into a little-known secret to complete relaxation. 

• Overcome Hygiene Worries 

Learn proven strategies for overcoming the fear and revulsion of undesirable sights and smells. A popular chapter in this gay sex guide. 

• Learn New Speed, Depth & Thrusting Techniques 

Along with the single best angle to enter him for the most pleasure and the least pain. 

• Discover Your Inner Top. 

Learn how to overcome self-limiting thoughts (“I’m not masculine enough,” “My dick isn’t big enough”) that stop you from trying to top or from doing it successfully. 

Be A Better Lover With The First Gay Sex Manual For Tops. Stop thinking that all you have to do is get it hard and put it in. Good tops are made not born. Whether you’re a bottom looking to be more versatile or a top who wants a better experience, this book will show you how to give and get more pleasure as the penetrator in gay sex. 

Express The Kind Of Masculinity You Feel Comfortable With.

You don’t have to act like a cop to be a top. Choose from a spectrum of possibilities you hadn’t thought of to have the kind of topping experience that personally appeals to you. Take the Erotic Temperature Quiz in this gay sex instruction book and find out your “topping personality.” 

Generate More Passion By Engaging The Erotic Feedback Loop.

This book on male anal sex has plenty of tips to sharpen your techniques. But stopping there would just make you a skilled worker. Being good in bed isn’t about what you can do to him; it’s about where you can take him. While you can’t “learn” passion, you can learn how to set the stage to express it in your own unique way. That’s where the “Erotic Feedback Loop” approach comes in. It creates an energy spiral that’ll book your partner on an inter-planetary flight. It’s easy to learn and even easier to apply. 

Solutions To Performance Anxiety. 

Find out how to deal with these erection-killing thoughts:

p>• You won’t get hard enough • Your dick isn’t big enough • You will disappoint your partner • Your partner will compare you to other guys • Your partner will judge you and tell the world • You’ll ejaculate too soon • You’ll take forever to ejaculate 

Keeping It Hard For The Condom. 

There you are with a raging hard-on but the second the condom goes on you go limp. This gay anal sex guide shows you three of the most effective things you can do to keep an erection with a condom on. 

How To Last Longer In Bed. 

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I don’t want Jason Vega.
Not at all.
It’s the worst idea ever.
Ah hell…

Jason is handsome. Smart. Dangerous. Hot.

He’s goddamn gorgeous—but he’s also sleeping on the street, hanging out with the local biker gang and selling his body for a living.

Our lives, our paths couldn’t be further apart. I’m crawling toward the light, while he’s falling into the dark.

But it doesn’t matter how different we are, or what logic dictates.

I really shouldn’t want Jason Vega—but I just can’t stop.

He’s under my skin, and sinking deeper…

Trigger Warning: violence and sexual abuse

This is a M/M (gay) romance and it tells the story of Jason and Raine whom you may have met in JESSE (Damage Control 2) and OCEAN (Damage Control 5). It is super hot, and angsty, and violent, but with a guaranteed Happy Ever After.

Alex and Liam have left their hometown and its ghosts to turn a new page in their lives—and their relationship. After their rocky road in high school, Eastwood University feels like a safe haven. None of their new friends, even the jocks on the varsity teams, care that they are gay. In fact, they welcome them with open arms.

Just when their life in Eddington seems perfect, Alex’s family life falls apart, and their relationship is once again in danger. Alex needs to decide whether to come out to his parents and face the fateful consequences. Worst of all, when Alex’s father starts to pull the strings, the situation is no longer in their control.

You Are Not My Son is the third book in Jay Argent’s bestselling Fairmont Boys series. It’s a story about the kind of love and friendship that are necessary to beat even the toughest obstacles.

Living a lie can be tough, but the decision to come out as gay is not always easy, either—especially if you are still at school. Charlie, Clay, Josh, and Grant are openly gay high school boys who share their coming out stories.

“The absolute worst room in the entire school—worse than the bio lab during frog dissection season, when the whole room smells like formaldehyde, and worse than the basement bathroom that the janitor never cleans and is always sticky and smells like cigarette smoke—is the locker room.”

Fears are confronted, tears can’t be avoided, and friendships are put at risk. Each story is unique, but what is common for all of the boys is that when they claim the life that is rightfully theirs, it will get better.

In New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's electrifying new thriller,a mother races to save her daughter before her darkest nightmare comes true.

“A chilling, captivating and all-too-timely tale of suburban suspense, THE GOOD SISTER is guaranteed to keep you up at night -- and keep a closer eye on your kids, too! I couldn’t put it down.” --Alison Gaylin, USA Today bestselling author

Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy, studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.

The only person Carley can talk to is "Angel," a kindred spirit she met online. Carley tells Angel everything—about her younger sister, about school, about the sudden death of her former best friend. Angel is her lifeline. And Angel is closer than she knows.

When another schoolgirl is found dead, Jen's unease grows. There are too many coincidences, too many links to her past. Every instinct tells her that Carley is the next target. For someone is intent on punishing the guilty, teaching the ultimate lesson in how to fear . . . and how to die.

From Susan Rebecca White, award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and Bound South, comes a breathtaking story of three richly nuanced outcasts whose paths converge in a chic Manhattan café as they realize they must give up everything they thought they knew to find a home at last.

Alice Stone is famous for the homemade southern cuisine she serves at Café Andres and her groundbreaking cookbook, but her past is a mystery to all who know her. Upon Alice’s retirement, Bobby Banks, a young gay man ostracized by his family in Georgia, sets out to revive the aging café with his new brand of southern cooking while he struggles with heartbreak like he’s never known. Seeking respite from the breakup of her marriage, wealthy divorcée Amelia Brighton finds solace in the company and food at Café Andres, until a family secret comes to light in the pages of Alice’s cookbook and threatens to upend her life. 

In her most accomplished novel yet, Susan Rebecca White braids together the stories of these three unforgettable characters who must learn that when you embrace the thing that makes you different, you become whole.

This half-farcical, half-serious novel about a young female P.I. Gayle Fisher. Not only does she electrocute her own cell-phone, but she also takes on a murder that the Shore Haven police want to sweep under the carpet.

PI Gayle Fisher needs to leave town fast. While she debates how to accomplish that, a new client walks in and gives her the perfect route. The case seems a little iffy, but the client insists that his sister didn t really kill herself, and he s willing to put his money on it. Gayle tucks the cash in her wallet, hops in her 10-year-old silver LeMans and heads out of town, but once she reaches the sleepy tourist village on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, things turn ugly.

In a world where same-sex relationships are illegal can Alice and Juliana’s love survive? What would your life be like if your love was illegal? It’s 1945. Juliana wants to be a star and she has the singing voice to do it. Alice (Al) is determined to make Juliana into the star she wants to be. The worst thing that could happen to Juliana is to be discovered as gay. The worst thing that could happen to Al is to lose Juliana. Al must guard their secret at all costs. Will the gossip columnists and the new laws destroy them? 

If you like stories about 1950s Manhattan and behind the scenes drama in theater and nightclubs you’ll love, Olympus Nights on the Square: Book 3 of the Juliana Series. It’s sexy, funny and deadly serious; it’s full of mobsters, the FBI, McCarthyism, gay bashing, lesbian pulp, a beginning awareness of transgender persons and “cures” for homosexuality. A lot like now. Get your copy today!

Juliana is a romance that takes place in 1941. Alice "Al"Huffman comes from the potato fields of Long Island with her beau, her best girlfriend and her girlfriend's beau to make it on the Broadway stage only to find she has no talent. On the kids' first day in New York City, they meet Maxwell P. Hartwell III, a failed nightclub owner, Broadway producer, and possible con man who, according to Al, looks a little like Clark Gable. He invites them to a nightclub where Al hears Juliana, the glamorous, perpetually-on-the-brink-of stardom nightclub singer, sing for the first time.  She thinks Juliana's voice sounds like, "warm milk slipping down the whole of my body." 

Through Max and Juliana Al is increasingly pulled into a secret gay underworld of men who wear hula skirts and women who smoke cigars, while her childhood friends continue in their "normal" lives.  Al glides easily between the two worlds until these worlds begin to collide.

Cameron is the most normal person ever. At least that’s what people think when they first see him. Sure, he’s tall and attractive, and he has an air of nerdy hipster that makes him extra cute to a certain type of gay guy. What most people don’t know about him, though, is that he works for the government in a highly classified position. Ever since he was a young man and he decided to hack the state government’s office, Cameron’s life has always been thoroughly planned for him. That means that he can only date people who are okay with being kept at arm’s length. His last boyfriend wasn’t okay with that, and while Cameron thought that he had found the one, it only became very clear that wasn’t the case when it was far too late. That landed Cameron in the situation he is now: in the middle of nowhere, working for a branch of the government so secretive that most people have never heard of it. For the first time in Cameron’s life, he might truly be putting his life in danger. 

Logan Kane, on the other hand, is used to putting his life on the line. He was always the kind of person who had plans, big plans, for his own life. But his high school girlfriend got pregnant and then he couldn’t even join the military. That put Logan in a difficult position until someone approached him and told him that they could make it so that he had the same salary and better benefits than the military ever did. 

That was when Logan Kane decided to become a mercenary. He didn’t know that was what he was becoming, but now he’s a professional contractor and the government has tasked him to go to a place called The Farm. That’s where he meets Cameron Yates, the down-to-earth but distrustful tactical agent who seems to want to take their relationship farther. Logan is bisexual, single, and very into him. Soon, Logan must choose whether to do his job or be with the guy who he has grown to care so much about, while Cameron must decide who owns him, really: the government or his own heart.

Please Note: This book contains adult language & steamy adult activities, it is intended for 18+ Adults Only. Novel, approx. 80,000 words in length. HEA (happy ever after ending). Does not end with a "cliffhanger".

Original stories by C. S. Adler, Marion Dane Bauer, Francesca Lia Block, Bruce Coville, Nancy Garden, James Cross Giblin, Ellen Howard, M. E. Kerr, Jonathan London, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Lesléa Newman, Cristina Salat, William Sleator, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jane Yolen

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young adults, and each honestly portrays its subject and theme--growing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends.

Bestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing programs like the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Johns Hopkins and from summer conferences like Sewanee and Bread Loaf—as well as a complete list of contact information for these programs. 

This collection showcases tomorrow’s literary stars: Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000. The best new American voices are heard here first.

When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first piece of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.

This incendiary collection contains a wide range of erotic short stories that burns up the pages with unabashed, uninhibited sex between men. Here two young guys' internet hookup leads to an exhibitionist encounter at a local shopping mall; a boy on the verge of manhood loses his gay cherry to the handyman of a local brothel; a college-bound boy raised by strict Christian parents comes out in the arms of his older brother's best surfer buddy; and two sexual dynamos have their way with a willing military man. These stories will definitely make you sweat.

Whether he's on the field or on the court, in a pool or in a gym, watching an athlete work his well-toned body and seeing those beads of sweat glistening over his skin charges your senses and arouses your appetite. But nothing gets a heart rate up quite like a private, deliciously naughty game of one-on-one in the bedroom - or the locker room - or the dugout - Sex is the ultimate contact sport. Featuring uninhibited stories from some of gay erotica's best authors, Team Players is a steamy celebration of fit, firm, and - dare we say it? - tight jocks who find that playing the field is even hotter than playing on the field.

Is it any wonder that college boys are the stuff of fantasies the world over? These dreamy hunks stride across campus, stirring lust in their wake. Whether toweling off after a swim, lurking in the library stacks, or engaging in some male bonding at the frat house, these gorgeous undergrads are good for page-turning, arousing action. An explicit collection of gay erotica, College Boys explores the first feelings of lust for another boy, all-night study sessions with a classmate, and the excitement of a student hot for teacher. This steamy collection relishes the joys of self-discovery and the revelations that happen when a young man has freedom to pursue his interests—in bed and out. From coming out to falling in love, these stories of sexual awakening will evoke trembling, heart-pounding, sweaty-palmed excitement. Featuring the top erotic authors Rob Rosen, Simon Sheppard, Neil Plakcy, Christopher Pierce, Rachel Kramer Bussel, and more. With searing male-on-male action and wickedly inventive writing, these stories are more provocative, authentic, smart, edgy, and hotter than gay erotica published anywhere else.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

William C. Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist

"A remarkable gift of a novel."—Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle

"I am so in love with this book."—Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still

"Feels timelessly, effortlessly now."—Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever

"The best kind of love story."—Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.

Incredibly funny and poignant, this twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming out story—wrapped in a geek romance—is a knockout of a debut novel by Becky Albertalli.

Shane Allison has put together that rarest of anthologies- bedtime reading for gay couples. Filled with romance, passion, and lots of lust, Afternoon Pleasures is irresistably erotic yet celebrates the coming together of souls as well as bodies.

Two husbears travel down south to meet up with a horned up twink in Jeff Mann’s, “One Afternoon in the Bible Belt.” A sneaky environmentalist is sandwiched between rock-hard dick hounds, Eddy and Dale in Bob Vickery’s salacious tale, “Loggers.” Two life partners have a Sunday morning roll in the sack in “Hank Edward’s “Breakfast in Bed.” Erotic bard, Rob Rosen’s “Skyrockets in Flight,” is delicious with naughty bits in every throbbing line. These are just a few of the tawdry stories of male on male sex that grace the pages of this anthology. So lie back with the one you love or the one you lust after and enjoy. Clothing is optional.

The dance between the viewer and the viewed fuels the stories of I Like to Watch, a stunning anthology of gay erotica for voyeurs and exhibitionists. In the words of editor Christopher Pierce, "the possibilities are as varied as the individuals who have watched and performed this ritual since the first Cro-Magnon man accidentally saw two men getting it on and decided to stay and watch the show." Pierce has assembled stellar contributors including Shane Allison, T. Hitman, Jeff Mann, Rob Rosen, and more in this collection devoted to spying, ogling, teasing, flaunting, and showing off for a lover or a stranger. Every exhibitionist needs a voyeur ― and in the intimately charged scenarios of I Like to Watch, the special thrill of getting caught is as much fun as completely shedding one’s inhibitions.

Shane Allison has gathered together, in one volume, what comprise the very best, hottest, most creative short short gay erotica for this collection. These are not the typical one night stand stories but tales that are intriguing, thrilling, unique and always surprising! When the lights go out, a couple decides to create a sex scene of their own in a movie theater in Logan Zachary's "Back Row."In Rob Rosen's "Hot for Teacher," a student will go the distance for an "A" including seducing his studly professor. Erotica veteran, M. Christian wastes no time in getting to the good parts in his raw and raunchy blow by blow tale in "Safe Sex". Shane Allison is quickly (pun unintended) becoming one of the top writers and anthologists in gay erotica and his anthologies are always fresh, edgy, and bold. These sixty nine sexy gay quickies may be short in length but are extremely long on pleasure!