Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay
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Atlantic Overture
by Grover Hartt III
The year is 1941. Talk of the US entering the war is on everyone’s lips, but no one knows quite when or how. But technology is shifting quickly, and the new radar-directed armaments aboard US ships might just be the key to turning the tide. So,...
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The Aim of Art
Corrected Edition by T. G. Colbert
How does a straight soldier come home from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his cherished souvenir? The answer is the story of Michael Lenihan, an orphan with an eighth-grade education who spent the Great Depression on...
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Antique Roman
by Syd Neben
In the tale of Hamlet, Horatio is recorded as a loyal friend, but what if he were more? What if he filled Hamlet’s heart and dreams? And Hamlet filled his? This modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, told through Horatio’s eyes is much more...
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Sweet, Lovely, Attentive
by K. W. Jeppesen
Arm has just arrived in Minnesota from Thailand, excited for his first semester of university in America and to leave some painful parts of his past behind. Exhausted after his long flight (and almost having his bags stolen), he quickly passes...
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You Can't Make This $#!+ Up!
Retail: Politics like you've never seen it before! by Mike Triggs
This can’t be happening! Mike Triggs had spent most of his life in politics, primarily working for the Republican Party. In fact, he was considered a political golden boy until his career is forever tarnished. While managing a governor’s...
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On Time
A Novella in Seven Chapters by T. G. Colbert
“Okay, so according to your questionnaire,” she said, touching it as if reading, “you got together over forty-two years ago. In 1977.” “September 21, 1977,” I specified. “It was a Thursday.” “And how did this come about? How did you meet?”...
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A Master Plan of my Love Life
by Anne Beatson
Anthony falls in love. His story throws a bright shaft of light on the miss-trusts, the family secrets and the lies, whilst dealing with his mom’s mental illness, her cancer, and his errant father. Imelda, Anthony’s mom, persistently interferes...
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Wandering Stragglers
by William Yu
Xiao Wei is lost, in more ways than one. A member of China’s “Forgotten Generation,” survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, he finds himself at a Central Committee Meeting one year after the Tiananmen Square massacre. There, he meets Ming. Both...
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Concerto for Two Boys and a Dog
by T. G. Colbert
Growing up in Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s, Bob and Jeff are intimate friends who are separated at age eight by a family tragedy that breaks their world apart. Reunited in high school, they both have changed and each is afraid the other won’t...
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The Handsome Twist
by Pezhmun Dennis Ghiassi
The Handsome Twist is a dark fiction fairytale inspired by the very true events in the author’s life, being raised in Iran as a LGBTQ+ male, which for many who don’t know is equivalent to a punitive fatality in this country. Due to tackling...