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A peasant on his deathbed is given immortality by a less-than-trustworthy Mahjong sharp. Together, they travel around ancient China, learning its secrets, discovering new methods of extracting coins from people, and even meet with the first Emperor of China in his mysterious subterranean palace, complete with rivers of mercury.

Joseph Asten, a handsome, 23-year-old farmer living in the Allegheny River Valley shortly after the Civil War, secretly longed for intimacy and love with other men. He devised a misguided plan to marry a woman who knew of his "dual nature," then his life took some unexpected, fateful turns.

A retired Secret Service agent, with a secret of his own, is called into action for one last mission: find the lost child of John and Jackie Kennedy he adopted out unknowingly under orders of his power-hungry boss.

In 1906, Mikhail Kuzmin published Wings, the first book in Russian to discuss same-sex relationships in a positive light. With Vanya Says, Go!, Wayne Goodman retells the story from the perspective of the young man at the heart of the tale. The original work contained only three sections, but a fourth has been added to round out the story and provide some closure.

All the Right Places is a collection of short stories, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship.

Join non-identical twins Timothy (Tim) and Tamara (Tam) on their adventures aboard the intergalactic, interdimensional pirate ship Richard the Fourth. Meet strange aliens, travel to places no human has ever gone, and be home in time for dinner.

Queer Words is a podcast of conversations with queer-identified authors about their works and lives hosted by Wayne Goodman

Would you alter the course of history if you had foreknowledge of a catastrophic event? Lazarus wrestles with this dilemma as he carries on his business as a healer in 1879 St. Petersburg. Accustomed to working with the talented and prominent, his charmed life gets upended with the introduction of a peculiar boy apprentice who might be the malevolent instrument of fate.