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The circle is always closing. In crazy times, this essential selection of the fiction and poetry of Jeannelle M. Ferreira holds out a branch of lights kindled from chosen futures and pasts always close behind, where history never confines itself to one familiar face and selkies and demons offer as much inheritance as memories, bodies, or ghosts. Intimately Jewish, integrally queer, these are tales for holding on to. They know how to remember and to change.

Lies can tear people apart but can this one bring a pair of rabbit lovers together in a fur-ever kind of love? Listen to the complete Fur-ever series now.

Due racconti intensi e struggenti, due storie di amore, amcizia e morte, due grandi prove con cui Marco Mancassola si conferma uno dei talenti letterari più brillanti delle ultime generazioni. Il primo racconto, che dà il titolo alla raccolta, è un microromanzo di formazione in cui il protagonista ripercorre il periodo della sua adolescenza (gli anni Ottanta): un’educazione etica e sentimentale segnata dalla scomparsa del fratello maggiore stroncato dall’Aids.

Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience of queer Nigerian men. These stirring stories cut across age, class, religion, ethnicity, family and relationships, offering a glimpse into what it means to survive as a queer man in Nigeria.

Brighton Stanley lived under the control of his strict parents until he finished college. After toughing it out another year and saving every dime he made, he was all too happy to be in his first apartment away from their meddling. But that didn’t matter to them, and they kept his room just as he’d left it, awaiting his return. But Brighton knew there was nothing that would make him ever go back.

Orion Landry may have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but when his father died his stepmother no longer had any use for him. Having a stepson that was prettier than her just wasn’t acceptable. She was her plastic surgeon’s favorite patient and had spent more money than she’d ever admit to remedy that. But still it wasn’t enough to relieve her jealousy of Orion. While Orion missed his father dearly, it was a different kind of daddy he craved. One who would take the time to learn everything he could about Orion, and one whom he would trust enough to share his deepest secret with.

Jacob hoped there was more to life than money and was about to find out the hard way. Richard Worthington longs for a boy of his own. One to nurture and care for, pamper and spoil. His friends in the lifestyle found their forever partners, so why’s it so difficult for him to find the same? Sugar baby after sugar baby leaves Richard wondering if it’s worth it. Their paths cross in a chance meeting, though it’s a life-or-death decision that ultimately brings them together.

Luka trades the short-term approval of his lover by helping with a home robbery for the gilded cage of Captain Clarke's cruise ship. A year of servitude, a court-mandated reprieve from prison, all thanks to his influential fathers deal. Sadly, Lukas immediate future includes scrubbing the decks and hauling suitcases, a stark contrast to the prison sentence he could have faced alongside his lover, Maleko. Haunted by the ghost of his lovers absence and his own guilt, Luka grapples with newfound tenderness coming from the least expected person.

Colin Campbell had been a champion all his life. Nothing had ever beaten him, not even a drug lord's bullet. And he approached law school the same way he approached everything in life, with cocky confidence fizzing through his veins like ginger ale. He had it all. He had the looks, the brains, the experience, the know-how, and he also had the love of his life at his side. He couldn't be defeated...he thought.

The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life—whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century—Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.

In a series of intimate and humorous dispatches, McOuat examines her identity as a queer woman, and as a mother, through the lens of the pop culture moments in the '80s and '90s that molded her identity. McOuat stirs the ingredients required to conjure an unsettled spirit: the horrors of pregnancy and motherhood, love and loss, the supernatural, kaleidoscopic sexuality, near-miss experiences, and the unexplained moments in life that leave you haunted.

Un chiquillo muestra el camino que conduce al Altísimo por la senda de la desviación, el dueño de un perro difunto necesita a un taxidermista que lo inmortalice, dos comadres dictan sentencia sobre las impudicias del prójimo, un mariquita chismoso despelleja a un mariquita indeciso, un buscón arduamente casado se topa con el crimen y cae en él, un hombre abraza a su amado moribundo, dos figurines contemplan el fin de su propia exquisitez: no pueden soportar la indiferencia. La crueldad del mundo es un gozoso dolor que Luis Negrón plasma en todos los registros del alma y del habla.

Max has never been in love. She knows exactly what it looks like–she’s spent years studying the phenomenon in other people, but her Asperger syndrome makes it too anxiety-provoking to attempt such a thing in her own life. That is, until she meets Ruby, who makes Max want to give love one more shot.