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Have you ever had a dream which was so vivid and intense that you felt it simply had to be real? Were you really able to fully distinguish the dream from the real world? If so… which one did you prefer? Claire is a young woman who only accepted her sexuality after an enlightening trip to India. Soon after, she falls head over heels in love with a gorgeous girl, Lana, a woman she meets only by pure chance during a captivating encounter at Vienna’s Airport terminal between flights. This love seems far from being reciprocated and rather hopeless. Or is it? Lana meets Claire whilst going ...

My name is Jasper, and I am married to Tex Hardman, but I want to tell a bit about the romances I had long before I met him… From a young age, I always felt a little different, a little out of place in the small town where I grew up. While the other boys were chasing after the local girls, my gaze would often wander to the ranch hands - their sun-kissed skin, their strong, calloused hands, the way their muscles ripened beneath their shirts. One hot summer afternoon, as I was helping pitch hay in the old barn, my eyes kept drifting towards the ranch hand named Lucky Smith. He was a quiet, ...

Año 2015 “Otro domingo más siguiendo el mismo recorrido que solíamos compartir juntos, y que hoy no tengo más remedio que realizar en soledad. Cinco tristes años han pasado desde tu partida, en los cuales ni un solo día he dejado de pensar en ti. Nada ni nadie han logrado distraerme, te sigo amando de la misma forma que durante nuestra corta pero intensa relación. Sí, porque apenas te descubrí en aquel amplio salón rodeado de esos niños que tanto quisiste y que tanto te quisieron comprendí que nunca habría otra persona para mí. Prometiste que con el tiempo sería más fácil...

Podría decirse que el cardiólogo Aníbal León tenía una vida relativamente común y corriente al igual que la mayoría de sus colegas. Padre de dos hijos adolescentes fruto de su primer y único matrimonio con Malena Maceratino, solía transcurrir su rutinaria existencia entre reuniones familiares y el trabajo que tanto amaba. Todo parecía estar en orden, hasta aquella tormentosa madrugada, en la cual Aníbal se despertó sorpresivamente como consecuencia de una fuerte opresión en el pecho. -“Me estoy quedando sin aire, debo estar sufriendo un ataque al corazón” -exclamó ...

Dear listener, I bare you my heart like an olive tree bares its fruit in the Levant sun. Written in both North Levantine Arabic and English, this is a poetry book on love as I have experienced it. I wrote it with a vision, an image of myself being back on the olive field where my late grandfather used to harvest ripe olives whilst I sat between the rocks and the olive trees.

Transcurría la década de los ochenta cuando el infectólogo argentino Ariel Gold logró obtener una beca para continuar sus estudios sobre el terrible flagelo que azotaba despiadadamente a la humanidad, y que los eruditos habían denominado SIDA.( Síndrome De Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida) -“Siempre hay que buscar un chivo expiatorio, y esta vez nos tocó a los homosexuales. Con seguridad, esta pandemia servirá para estigmatizar aún más, a una Colectividad que ya ha sido suficientemente castigada por los prejuicios y la discriminación. Es hora de que la gente comprenda que no somos ...

Mirrors. Mirrors always staring. He was only nine years old when he survived an unspeakable crime, a crime so horrific it left him with no memory of what happened. All he was sure of was that his mother was missing and he was forced to live with a stranger. Growing up in his new surroundings he pretends that his life is normal, but it isn’t. He’s different because of what happened to him, only he doesn’t know why and he doesn’t know how. Strange dreams haunt his sleep. Flashes of memories appear seemingly from nowhere, warning him of a monster growing inside him, offering him no ...

There’s nothing like the feeling of coming home on a Friday afternoon after a hard week of work. To Evan weekends are when life really begins, spending quiet Friday nights at home with Jacob; sleeping in on Saturday mornings; shopping in Market Square downtown; going to the movies after Sunday brunch with friends. It has defined his life with Jacob for twenty happy years. Then, one Friday he comes home and his whole world is shattered. Determined to help Evan through his sorrow his best friends, Curt and Donna, decide to keep him distracted by taking him to Curt’s favorite hangout. It ...

The phone rings. Will is glad he didn't go straight to bed after his shift. The call is probably Derek. After a night of bar hopping he’s probably too drunk to drive and needs a ride home. At such a late hour Reverend Wallace wonders which elderly member of his congregation has died. Nearly asleep Laura knows she shouldn't answer the phone in the middle of the night, but it could be her husband who is out of town. They are wrong. In the wake of a senseless and horrific crime a city is torn apart and a nation is in shock. As investigators delve into the lives of the suspect and the victims...

Cuando Mariela Scarón se acercó al Hospital Central a preguntar por su hermano supuestamente internado allí, el enfermero Teo Marichal comenzó a preocuparse. El registro del joven no aparecía, sumándose a varios casos en condiciones parecidas. Decidido a tomar cartas en el asunto, recurre a su superior, el Doctor Clark Souto, quien recientemente ha comenzado a dirigir el pabellón de Urgencias. Este, no solo se niega revisar el caso, sino que amenaza con echarlo si sigue inventando supuestos disparates que podrían crear el caos en el mencionado Sanatorio. Semanas después , el ...

¿Cómo podría narrar la historia de mi vida y convencerlos de que no es solo el invento de un escritor en busca de su consagración definitiva? ¿Acaso alguno de mis lectores podrá creer que este conocido columnista fue en sus comienzos un humilde sacerdote? ¿O un prisionero de una clínica de reconversión Gay? Por momentos llegué a pensar que jamás lograría estar frente a la computadora de uno de los principales periódicos del país narrando los extraños sucesos que han transcurrido a lo largo de mi existencia. Circunstancias tan difíciles que, agobiado por los disgustos, pensé...

È in una fredda mattina londinese che Thomas Reed, un giornalista con il sogno di diventare scrittore, fa l'incontro che gli cambia la vita: in uno Starbucks di Soho, conosce Jackson James Turner, un fotografo di fama mondiale che non ha mai rivelato la sua identità al mondo. Basta un attimo e tra i due scocca una scintilla che ben presto divampa in un incendio.

Als Tochter eines Senators hat Maya Faith Jordan es nicht leicht, erst recht nicht, weil sie von Geburt an stumm ist. Obwohl sie allein zurechtkommt, wohnt sie wieder bei ihrem Vater, in der Hoffnung, dass dieser sein arbeitsreiches Leben ruhiger gestalten würde. Ihre Zuversicht zerschlägt sich, als er nach einem morgendlichen Streit nicht wieder zurückkehrt. Maya beschließt, Washington D.C. endgültig den Rücken zu kehren und in Kalifornien bei ihrem besten Freund einen neuen Lebensabschnitt zu beginnen.

El Senador Alain Morón había trabajado muy duro durante toda la vida para lograr su objetivo más preciado: Llegar a la Presidencia de su país. Cuando el simpático periodista Bobby Clever logra contactarlo para una entrevista, todo aquello por lo que había luchado comienza a tambalearse como una torre de naipes. A partir de ahora, tenía dos caminos diferentes que parecían estar muy alejados entre sí: el amor que comenzaba a sentir hacia el atrevido joven,o la meta que había perseguido desde que tenía uso de razón.Solamente una opción era válida…¿O no?

What happens when you save a dragon's life? Three years ago, Aiden Bran saved the young dragon Zilarra. Now, marked by that blood-debt, his dreams are filled with the growing dragon's life. When his comfortable world is torn apart, Aiden is set adrift and finds himself searching for the meaning of this strange bond. How can he free himself from the dragon's debt and make his life his own again? Aiden's quest for answers leads him across frozen wastelands into the ravages of a budding war, where his unwanted connection with dragons may be the only thing that can prevent bloodshed, and even ...

Nate jamás pensó enamorarse de su captor, pero la mayoría de las veces las cosas son como son, y no como nosotros queremos que sean. Así, cuando este finalmente decide liberarlo, el joven aducirá toda clase de excusas para no marchar... -Vete de aquí, antes de que me arrepienta. Sabes que no soy trigo limpio-acotó Giácomo Tarantini encendiendo su acostumbrado cigarrillo mientras dirigía su mirada hacia la solitaria calle. -Sabes que no me iré, ¿te cuesta tanto comprender que te amo? -¿Y a ti te cuesta tanto entender que la diversión terminó y debes continuar con tu vida?-...

Chris is sixteen. For at least nine years of his short life, he has suffered from a mouldering discontent without actually identifying why he is so unhappy. The youngest by far of three children, he would be the last to leave home. His father’s death and his exam results decide him to find employment rather than further education. Working with the fun girls of the Returns Section, triggers his salvation from a life of despair.

Ten years ago, Elias Hart and River Quinn were the kind of boys who believed love could rewrite the stars. Best friends turned high school sweethearts, they made a secret vow beneath the full moon on the cliffs of their sleepy coastal hometown: no matter what, we find our way back to each other. Then River left. No goodbye. No explanation. Just a shattered promise and silence. Now Elias is back in Tidesway Bay, caring for his ailing father and trying to outrun the ghosts of a past that won’t let go. The last person he expects to see? River—older, quieter, and still heartbreakingly ...

Clairolfaction - the ability of psychic smelling, such as diseases, hunger, or the smell of someone dying days, weeks or even months before they do. Blue and Vince are just average teenage boys, going to school, hanging out with friends at the mall, playing games at the arcade. It’s a Saturday like every other Saturday until Blue sniffs a strange scent unlike anything he’s ever smelled before. Coming from a girl standing nearby, it’s a scent that makes him sick. And then the girl falls dead. Blue’s father tries to convince him that he has a gift. He can warn people before they die. ...

Michael's obsession with his art is about to change his whole life ... Michael Jones, a young gay artist and part-time hooker, will do anything to stage his first exhibition. When he falls in love with rich financier Jack Hutchinson, he seems set to achieve his goal. But as Michael becomes caught between the unforgiving territory of smoky-bar Hackney and the green-garden luxury of upper class London, the consequences of his uncompromising pursuit leave him having to fight for all he holds dear, and in the only way he knows how. Perfect for lovers of dark psychological fiction. Reviews: “A...