“In my years, decades of writing, I have tried to bring out in my work a wider experience of gay men, often both emasculated and over-sexualized within popular culture and their own community. I toil to include a realness in my poetry that is recognized by a wide audience as not just the experience of gay men, but of the human condition in general. Yet these poems, prose and verse alike, are easily identifiable by fellow gays as stories that are important in their laying bare of understanding and connection. "Renting Superman" will allow you to explore this world and the threads that connect us all.” – Robert A. Geise, author of "Renting Superman".

Renting Superman

Literature & Fiction

Geise, Robert A

Poetry

Blue Jade Press LLC

In his second English language book, Mark Schardine finds inspiration in the Haiku and Senryu forms of poetry. Mark experiments with these forms in poems that reflect nature, fantasy, and real life.

As if in a Distant Dream

Schardine, Mark

In Nylons for Parachutes, Torres continues to give his readers poetry through the lens of an intense observer of life. Mixed with his iconic dark humor and brutal honesty, he makes us chuckle, question, judge, and mourn. From the simple tasks that we all have to do from day to day, to incidents in his own life that readers may be able to identify with, Torres is able to make one thing clear: we are all strange travelers through an even stranger journey called life.

Nylons For Parachutes

Torres, Ryan J.

A psychological and poignant novel of those wounds of the heart. In the Deep South. What we do to one another.A prominent Alabama family caught up in the torn fabric of contemporary American life, whose world comes crashing down around them. Most things could be explained and understood while others will go unnamed and inexplicable to all who suffered them. Perhaps what really happened was rather tragic, however, no one quite knows.In the South of fading memories and the sweetest scent of late night Confederate jasmine in the Mobile breeze, everything seemed to surround a dark-haired young woman and her family, though it's hard to clearly remember all those years, and of course, the reasons why.Hers was a family that never seemed to open their hearts to anyone, and the marriage he entered would be as treacherous as their own desperate lives. It seemed doomed from the very beginning, and nothing could or would change that, certainly not these people.It was a flowering garden abloom with unfortunate intention.Colbert writes with beauty, precision, and authority. Mobile Was a Catholic Town unfolds with unforgettable characters in a setting that grounds the reader with its detail and sense of three dimensional power. A gorgeous, sophisticated book.--Taylor Larsen, author of Stranger, Father, Beloved

Mobile Was a Catholic Town

Colbert, Bruce

Genre Fiction

The Clearing Barrel is a full length volume of poetry that is a combination of memoir, prayer, history, and war. Through words and rhythm the reader encounters a myriad of emotions, concluding in an uncertain triumph.

The Clearing Barrel

Roberts, Anthony

Here there be Lunatiques in this city made of steel and bones, who wander the streets of New York City with their skins so boiling hot they could slip them off and keep on walking. This debut collection offers classic old-world storytelling paired with a touch of magical realism and surrealism of the modern city.In the title story a moon daydreams about slipping on a smaller size to wander the streets on a hot day in June. A mysterious stranger hosts a party where the discarded live again on a moon made from the trash of the city. Death isn't all so gloomy in a New York City where the dead celebrate life in a mad cap journey to the world of the dead and discarded. A mysterious estate on the Hudson haunts a young writer as she confronts the trauma of her past with the perilousness of her present. Drink in the stories of the dead from the grapes that grow above their graves.

Lunatiques

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kirby, S N

Fantasy

Whispers From Beyond The Void

Andrejco, Carla

Canary in the Dark

It is 1969 and over the next four years we follow Benjamin Kissel as he is about to graduate from high school, through his college years, his first job at an advertising agency and his fist experiences with racism. It is a humorous, sexy, and, at times, emotionally wrenching journey as he makes his way on the path towards maturity. Aside from a business trip to Los Angeles where he has to work with a famous comedian and attend a celebrity drug fueled party, its setting is New York City and surrounding suburbs. Just when he things he may be navigating his way through the emotional complexities of life successfully, a death and dark twisted family secret force him to respond to and live in an altogether new reality.

Taking On Secrets

Pilkington, Kevin

From “THE PUGILIST IN TWELVE ROUNDS” 
When I was eight years old, my father taught me 
how to box and I have been sparring my way 
into and out of his corners ever since. In one 
of the hundreds of boxing articles he imposed 
on my memory, I once read boxing was like math, 
calculating angles. I was destined to fail his beloved 
Geometry because I had it all backwards, he said. 
I believed in metaphor and meter the way a boxer 
believes in footwork and timing. Boxing, angles, tennis 
dodged my southpaw. Forty-Love. The pugilist 
is winning. I don’t know how to break his serve. 
What comprises home? How do we reconcile our past? When do we forgive? With precision and insight, Judith Antelmanlooks back at the labyrinth that was her childhood. Through poetic forms, The Pugilist’s Daughter harnesses exhilaration and loss. Part celebration, part lament. Travel on this journey that begins in Judith’s hometown, and shifts landscapes as far as the west coast, Central Europe, and home again.

The Pugilist's Daughter

Antelman, Judith Lynn

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