Ten erotica short stories by Wendy Rathbone - former winner of the prestigious WRITERS OF THE FUTURE contest Leda has not one beautiful man, but two. Kale enters a secret world in a wealthy man's basement. Noah is in love with a man who hates sex. Dina lives next door to a famous Hollywood director she secretly loves. Dorian has a sixteen year old female student coming onto him. Tara is haunted by an erotic ghost. Young Dimitri is kidnapped by lecherous men. And more. _____________________ Author's Preface When I wrote these stories, I deliberately set out to gently break down certain...

Cobalt is a created human, vat grown and born adult, with no human rights and indentured to serve others for the duration of his life. Liyan is a young man with wanderlust in his eyes, embarking on a career that takes him to the furthest regions of space. The two become unlikely friends and create a memorable long-distance correspondence. Through Liyan, Cobalt gets to explore the universe, living vicariously through his friend's wave transmissions. A strong bond develops between them that not even the stars can put asunder.

A collection of short stories by award-winning author, Wendy Rathbone

A young man meets two mer-people from the sea; through future nuclear destruction, two pucks make their way home to elfland; a young girl at the end of the world waits for new spring; a trapped jinn writes an open letter online; while care-taking a crippled "thing" a young man finds his heart; two men stumble into another dimension; in a future where everyone is beautiful, the one guy who is ugly tells his story; space exploration has become a scripted soap opera until someone tampers with the script...

In a post-holocaust world, a young woman and her robot partner leave their nomadic gang to take a long trek on foot to the city of Moltenrose to seek their fortune. Green Forever is a coming of age novella about love, death and making your own luck. In the story Moltenrose, a deformed man whose nickname is 'Ugly' lives in the shadowed ruins of the barely-alive city and works in a sideshow at the tourist-trap carnival at the edge of town. His story involves several 'firsts' including a lesson about beauty.

Antares is a willing sex slave, trained in the harems of Anada since the age of 18, and owned by a wealthy master who spoils his slaves. But all that changes when Empire soldiers invade Antares' world and he is taken away from the only life he's ever known. In a colonized galaxy where starships are as common as houseflies, and a dark Empire seeks to control thousands of civilized worlds, there are those who fall through the cracks and refuse to be conquered, including the pirate, Slate, and his crew. Out in the darkness of the unknown, among Empire soldiers and scoundrels, will bad fates...

Lace is a being from another dimension on Earth. He cannot die and humans call his kind "vampire" and declare war on them. Firi is a human military soldier, a trained guard, who has met Lace twice in his young life and formed a bond with him. In a world where humans and vampires are arch enemies, where vampires are eradicated in horrible ways, where being a vampire-lover means a death sentence, can Firi and Lace ever find each other again and explore the feelings they have for each other? Will Lace be able escape his government prison, and the amnesia that keeps him from accessing his true...

Visit realms of diamond rain, dust-folk lands and valleys of curses and shame. Reside in the burning moonships of the dream, the silt of stars, the asphyxiation of the waking day. Meet the golden android who hosts your soul. Journey through tatters of stardust down roads of sorrow. Find hope in planets of candles and crazy-eyed mermen. There you will meet November in these rich and evocative poems by Wendy Rathbone. Since the mid-1980s, Wendy Rathbone has had over 500 poems published in both mainstream and genre. This is her eighth professional chapbook.

Tahir is an empath and a healer. He has lived his whole life at the Onyx Temple. When the king from the Realm of the September Stars seeks his help, Tahir leaves his own world behind to answer the plea.
Arulu is the crown prince of the September Stars, but he cannot serve. For twenty years he has suffered crippling pain, the side-effect of a splinter-bomb attack from unknown origins that destroyed the Realm's home world, Lyric Prime.
For two decades no one has been able to ease the prince's suffering, until Tahir arrives. But nothing is ever easy. Haunted by ghosts and riddled with...

LOVE IS LOVE Poetry Anthology A collection of poems written by over fifty authors in aid of the victims and survivors of the Orlando Pulse Attack. On June 12, 2016, the most horrendous mass shooting in US history and an unfathomable act of hate was directed at the LGBT community in Orlando. The horror of this tragedy reverberated around the world, leaving millions shocked and appalled at the senseless violence that destroyed so many innocent lives. In a display of solidarity with the victims and survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, a group of LGBTQ+ and straight allies, from all across...