Download or read book Lyrotica An Anthology of Erotic Poetry and Prose written by Rebecca Ammon and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty poets and eighteen authors come together under the editorial dominion of syndicated sex and lifestyle blogger and columnist Rebecca Ammon to bring you a divine taste of debauchery. With work from established erotica writers to literary storytellers, Lyrotica is a masterful mosaic of lyrical and sensual short stories and poems. Inspired by the classic masters of literary erotica, Lyrotica is brings you captivating depictions of love, lust, and pleasure that will keep you enthralled. More than just a collection of titillating stories, Lyrotica is thought-provoking literature about the transformational power of human sexuality. Within these pages, you'll find tales of empowerment and revelation told through the ancient language of lust and desire.

Download or read book Junkie Love written by Joe Clifford and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Clifford didn’t start drinking beer until he was almost twenty years old. By the time he turned twenty-two, he was addicted to methamphetamine; and the heroin wasn’t far behind. Soon he’d lose his wife, his job, his home. Junkie Love follows the roughly ten years Clifford spent wandering the streets of San Francisco and beyond, first as a wannabe rock star, and then as another homeless junkie with his head lost in the stars. In between are the harrowing events and close calls, the shady characters and the enduring friendships, the redemption and restitution that led Fix Magazine to call Junkie Love “one of top four recovery memoirs” of all time. From the Forward by Jerry Stahl "The good news is Clifford’s is exactly the kind of voice our poor, strung-out country deserves in these toxic end-times. Like his hero Kerouac, this is a writer drawn to life’s more rough-edged and unsung corners. But, in the best Beat tradition, he writes about the lost and monstrous with a life-affirming, almost depraved sweetness. The miracle is, hardcore addicted, in love with a beautiful schizophrenic, Clifford returned with mind and talent intact. But that no trace of clichéd bitterness or streety one-downsmanship pollutes his tone."

Download or read book Hero Worship written by Rebekah Matthews and published by Battered Suitcase Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie longs for a hero—someone to rescue her, someone like her childhood idol Xena, Warrior Princess. Hero Worship is a collection of linked stories that follow Valerie’s search for love and connection in a world that feels dangerous. As Valerie approaches adulthood, she must grapple with a mysteriously ill mother, the discovery of a clandestine relationship between her teenage step-sister and an older man, a Christian roommate obsessed with home-makeover TV, and the looming memory of an ex-girlfriend. From a stint selling ice cream on a bicycle in Toronto to a visit to Dolly Parton’s theme park, Valerie must figure out how to reconcile her reality with the childlike hope that someone else will save her. Hero Worship explores the many facets of relationships between women—sexual, romantic, platonic, maternal, and some of the things in-between.

Download or read book Celestial Blue Skies written by Maggie Collins and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belle Place, Louisiana, where the sugarcane grows a mile high to the bright blue sky, Celeste struggles with her mentally ill mother, Tut, and works with her grandmother Maymay to hold the Creole Bastille family together. Celeste has bigger dreams for her life, and is falling for the handsome and wealthy Vashan. But, when Tut runs away to live with the man she met working in the sugarcane to escape her reputation as the town whore, Maymay fears that Celeste will end up like her mother. And just as things are finally looking up for Tut, her past returns with violent, tragic results. Will Celeste end up like her mother, or will she redeem her family from the hoodoo curse that haunts them? And will she find love with someone from a culture just as exotic as her own?

Download or read book Carnal Machines written by D. L. King and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica. For such a reputedly tightly-laced age, people were certainly spending a lot of time thinking about all things carnal. The rich and slightly decadent visuals of the steam age lend themselves perfectly to the new carnality of the post-punk era. And, of course, what was formerly repressed is even more exciting once the corset is unlaced! Carnal Machines, a heady collection of steampunk erotica, shows sex at its steamiest - literally!

Download or read book Cat and the Dreamer written by Annalisa Crawford and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teenager, Julia survived a suicide pact, while her best friend, Rachel, died. Julia’s only escape from her guilt, and her mother’s over-protection, is her imagination. When Adam arrives in the office, Julia’s world takes a startling turn as she realises reality can be much more fun than fantasy. Finally she has someone who can help her make the most of her life. But can she allow herself to be truly happy?

Download or read book Werecat The Sim Ru Prophecy written by Andrew J. Peters and published by Vagabondage Romance. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Werecat: The Sim Ru Prophecy is the final installment of The Romance Reviews Readers’ Choice favorite, the Werecat series A fugitive from two murder investigations in New York City and a bizarre, big cat attack at a bank in Barbados, Jacks Dowd flees to South America to find the ringleader of a shifter terrorist organization deep in the Amazon. The world is on the brink of all-out war between shifters and humans, and Jacks needs to somehow broker a deal for peace. But a special U.S. intelligence agency emerges as a new, possibly even more dangerous enemy. Both the terrorists and the U.S. government will stop at nothing to get an arcane codex that could unleash an unstoppable threat to mankind or exterminate werecats everywhere. While Jacks dodges danger from both sides and decodes the ancient book, he’s left with the impossible choice of how to use it. This action-packed gay shapeshifter romance brings Andrew J. Peters' Werecat series to its stunning conclusion. Peters tells fans that his original Werecat romance was an experiment. He asked himself: What would a gothic paranormal romance story look like with gay men in prominent roles? Now, this Romance Review Readers Choice finalist reaches its apex, as Jacks Dowd makes peace with his Werecat nature.

Download or read book Werecat The Trilogy written by Andrew J. Peters and published by Vagabondage Romance. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three installments of the popular Werecat series together in one book! Twenty-two-year-old Jacks is on a mission to drown his past in alcohol when he meets the handsome drifter Benoit on a lost weekend in Montréal. It's lust and possibly something more. Jacks never suspects that a drunken hook-up will plunge him into the hidden, violent world of feline shifters. Benoit traps him in an arcane ritual to be joined as mates, from which Jacks emerges with fantastical abilities and a connection to Native traditions that were buried by his family. But his new existence pits his human instincts against his wild animal nature. When Jacks meets the young medical student Farzan, who wants to be with Jacks no matter what or who he is, Benoit's feline jealousy rages like an inferno. Jacks must figure out how to survive with his dual nature and a boyfriend who will kill any threat to their relationship. When a secret society called The Glaring shows up with a plan to exterminate humankind, Jacks will have to work quickly to gain command of Benoit's magic before the world shatters into a war of man against beast. Praise for the Werecat series: "...steamy enough to satisfy romance-genre die-hards. Peters builds interest by seamlessly moving the narrative from past to present. Jacks' struggle with identity and independence make him a sympathetic, nuanced character. An innovative take on the shape-shifter genre; this first offering in a gay fantasy series should garner a large following." -- Kirkus Reviews "If you've ever wondered what it is like to live and love as a big cat, this is the book for you." -- Brian Holliday, Wilde Oats Journal "I LOVED this story. A new and intriguing twist on shifters...I thought both characters were well-developed, the story interesting, the suspense intriguing and I even liked the way the sex scene played out (not gonna tell you; you'll have to read it and see)." -- Cathy Brockman, The Cat's Meow: Reviews That Purrrr "What a great start to the series. Kept me hooked from the beginning to the ending." -- Sean Norris, World of Diversity Reviews "Peters does a great job giving us the foundation for the series and helping us to understand Jacks and the struggles he faces." -- Jay, Joyfully Jay M/M Reviews & More

Download or read book Emma Jean s Bad Behavior written by Charlotte Rains Dixon and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling novelist Emma Jean Sullivan longed for a baby for years. But when she was unable to conceive with her husband, Peter, she staunchly vowed to become the standard bearer for all childless couples. And she succeeds spectacularly. At age 48 (43 according to her blog, "Life, Full Tilt") Emma Jean enjoys a rabid anti-baby fan base, and her novels have sold millions. But now, she confronts a dilemma larger than any her heroines have faced: She’s pregnant. And the baby’s father is not her husband. Terrified of losing both her fan base and her identity, she struggles to maintain her brand and her marriage, but Peter is too busy embezzling Emma Jean’s money and completely uninterested in fatherhood. Not only that, her latest novel is a miserable failure, and a Vanity Fair reporter, who plans to out Emma Jean’s pregnancy to her fans, is stalking her. What’s a suddenly broke, failing, middle-aged, pregnant novelist to do? Why, flee to a glamorous resort town, of course.

Download or read book Prison Made of Mirrors written by Jennifer Loring and published by Strange Fictions Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Midsummer Wife written by Jacqueline Church Simonds and published by Strange Fictions Press. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reincarnated souls of King Arthur, Merlin, and an anxiety-ridden priestess return to save Britain after a devastating nuclear attack, only to find an old foe: Morgaine. After a nuclear attack on London that heralds The Time Foretold, Ava Cerdwin, the high priestess in charge of fulfilling a 1,500-year-old prophecy, must assist the heirs of King Arthur and Merlin in healing the devastated country. The descendants of Britain’s great men of legend have kept the myths and relics for sixty-one generations, but no one is quite clear on what they must do next. Nothing goes as planned: Ava falls for the wrong heir, the panic attacks are getting worse, the complex obligations of reincarnation are straining old relationships, and Morgaine and her henchwomen are trying to kill them. Somehow, some way, Ava has to make the Healing happen, or Britain is finished. The Midsummer Wife, Book One of the Heirs to Camelot is an urban fantasy that combines Arthurian lore, love, and a race to a breathtaking finish.

Download or read book Knight Prisoner written by Mark J. Mitchell and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious romp through an alternative 15th century, where two great literary minds meet and pull off a jailbreak of legend. In 1470, in the great City of London, the great French poet, François Villon, was in trouble. He had a talent for it. Carted off to Newgate prison, he is thrown into the company of that master of English crime and prose, Sir Thomas Malory. This humorous medieval alternative history tale is told by Fremin—Villon’s put-upon secretary -- who has never had an adventure of his own. He tells the story of the meeting of these two masters of writing and crime, while looking back at their early criminal adventures. Both men’s lives curiously echo their literary work. It also becomes the story of Fremin himself, as he grows from being the servant of two great men, into his own manhood. The legal and romantic situations go from bad to worse until there is only one man they can turn to, the old Knight in the prison. Knight Prisoner is a delightful tale of adventure through the dark alleys and filthy taverns of pre-Renaissance London, infused with a warmth and humor worthy of Chaucer himself. Mark J. Mitchell’s Knight Prisoner is an ageless comedy, filled with clever insight into humanity, whatever the century.

Download or read book Jenny Kidd written by Laury A. Egan and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While spending autumn in Venice, a young American artist, Jenny Kidd, hopes to create a portfolio of paintings to launch her career and establish her independence from her tyrannical father. At the Guggenheim Collection, she encounters Randi, a colorful British woman, who impetuously invites her to a masked ball at the Palazzo Barbon. There, she meets the seductive Caterina Barbon and her brother, Sebastiano, who entice Jenny into a world of glittering façades that cloak sexual perversion, art forgery, and murder. As Jenny struggles between her attraction to Caterina and her growing awareness that she is trapped within the beautiful walls of the palazzo, she discovers an inner strength and spirit worthy of her infamous pirate ancestor.

Download or read book Mort Morte written by David Henry Sterry and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On my third birthday, my father, in an attempt to get me to stop sucking my thumb, gave me a gun. “Today son, you are a man,” he said, snatching the little blue binky from my little pink hand. So I shot him. So begins Mort Morte, a macabre, coming-of-age story full of butchered butchers, badly used Boy Scouts, blown-up Englishman, virginity-plucking cheerleaders, and many nice cups of tea. Poignantly poetic, hypnotically hysterical, sweetly surreal, and chock full of the blackest comedy, Mort Morte is like Lewis Carrol having brunch with the kid from The Tin Drum and Oedipus, just before he plucks his eyes out. In the end though, Mort Morte is a story about a boy who really loves his mother.

Download or read book Home of the Can Man s Daughter written by James Vachowski and published by Vagabondage Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every boy sees his grandfather as something of a legend, and Richard Petty Schultz is no exception. His Poppy fought the Nazis during the War and notched 17 confirmed kills before a sniper’s bullet left him blind in one eye. In peacetime, the man survived heartbreak, cancer, bankruptcy, and a stroke. Most importantly, Poppy Schaeffer built the Eiffel Tower, which made Christmas everything that it is today. But even the greatest of men have to die sometime. Over the course of one hot summer weekend, Richard narrates from his eighth-grade perspective as he and the rest of the tourist-trap community of Christmas, Florida, struggle to accept Poppy’s impending death. A legend of a man who drew in traffic from across the Southeast by building scale replicas of French monuments using nothing but empty beer cans and quick dry cement, Poppy Schaeffer’s passing marks the end of an era for a town that has itself been dying for years, thanks to an untimely Interstate bypass.

Download or read book Our Beautiful Child written by Annalisa Crawford and published by Dark Alley Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Boathouse collects misfits. Strange solitary creatures that yearn for contact with the outside world, but not too much. They sit, glass in hand, either staring at the table in front of them, or at some distant point on the horizon.” … so says the narrator of Our Beautiful Child. And he’s been around long enough to know. People end up in this town almost by accident. Ella is running away from her nightmares, Sally is running away from the memories of previous boyfriends and Rona is running away from university. Each of them seek sanctuary in the 18th century pub, The Boathouse; but in fact, that’s where their troubles begin. Ella finds love, a moment too late; Rona discovers a beautiful ability which needs refining before she gets hurt; and Sally meets the captivating Murray, who threatens to ruin everything. Three women. Three stories. One pub.

Download or read book The Priestess of Camelot written by Jacqueline Church Simonds and published by Strange Fictions Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anya, a pagan priestess of the Nordic Rus tribes, leaves her home country and arrives in Britain. There, she joins the sisterhood of Avalon, headed by the scheming Morgaine. When Anya runs afoul of the Avalonian high priestess she is sent to Camelot to spy on the court while acting as healer. But there, she falls in love with the High Druid, Merlin, and King Arthur, bearing sons to both of the great men of her time. After losing both of the men she loves to Morgaine's treachery, she embarks on a plan that unfolds over the next 1,500 years to return Goddess worship to the island nation and save it from a danger Anya can see but cannot understand. The Priestess of Camelot is the prelude to the Heirs to Camelot series, and sure to thrill fans of Arthurian lore."Drawing on the rich panoply of British history, myths and legends, The Priestess of Camelot weaves its tapestry from threads of traditional tales and imaginative fiction. [The book blends] Celtic mystery, magic, romance, and spiritual growth, with dark-age dangers, intrigue, and lust for revenge. A unique and refreshing take on the Arthurian story. Follow it with your heart."~ E.M. Swift-Hook, co-author of the Dai and Julia alternate history mysteries.