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brenna-d-lyons's picture
Sep.29.2008
They were secret lovers, allies separated by borderlines and loyalties. When a threat to Meretta's life forces Culdan to action, the only way to preserve the peace and salvage their relationship isto feign conquest. It's not the Lengar way, but it's the only thing Meretta's Magden Warlord father...
marilyn-jaye-lewis's picture
Sep.24.2008
Neptune and Surf is the fruit of the author's conversations with a group of women about their deepest fantasies. It's a tantalizing look at women's libidinous desires, exploring themes like interracial sex and lesbian nuns with a mesmerizing delicacy and frankness. With Neptune and Surf Lewis shows...
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Jun.08.2008
The Duke In His Castle by Nebula Award-nominated author and award-winning artist Vera Nazarian is a dark, lush, erotic fantasy novella in the vein of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, with interior illustrations by the author. Rossian, the young Duke of Violet, wastes away in mad solitude, unable to...
nicole-seitz's picture
May.24.2008
Essie Mae Laveau Jenkins is a 78-year-old sweetgrass basket weaver who sits on the side of Hwy. 17 in the company of her dead husband, Daddy Jim. Inspired by her Auntie Leona, Essie Mae finally discovers her calling in life and weaves powerful “love baskets,” praying fervently over them to affect...
cydney-m-chadwick's picture
Apr.25.2008
A failed man haunted by his successful past, a woman whose academic career can't hide her alienation and loneliness, a thoughtless young man living for his next sexual conquest; in Benched, these three people move through a world of sinister disconnections in search of something they don't...
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Mar.22.2008
Two novellas (long short stories) on the theme of evil in our society. These are not simple moral fables, but multi-layered and intensive investigations into the nature and source and allure of evil. The first story concerns the efforts of a man to protect a family from interior strife and outside...
linda-kay-silva's picture
Mar.07.2008
What happened to Delta? Left hanging at the end of Tropical Storm, you finally get to find out. Who makes it out of the jungle alive and who doesn't?
grant-mckenzie's picture
Feb.28.2008
Measles is a boy with Down`s syndrome who is a computer whiz. Owl is a fellow outcast, with a cleft lip and a hooked nose. The two boys find a unique friendship in their oddness and in a mutual desire to do away within illegal toxic dumpsite outside town. But there`s magic in the junkyard, as Owl...
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Jan.11.2008
See also separate blog entry on the film This Side of Heaven based on this work: http://www.redroom.com/blog/geling-yan/film-side-heaven This novella is about a clever, pretty twenty-year-old village girl named Chiao-chiao who, as the story opens, is traveling by train with two other girls from...