Thalia’s Musings is a series of original novels written by Amethyst Marie. It’s narrated by Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, as she observes the comedy, drama, and tragedy of the ancient Greek pantheon. But when Thalia becomes more than an observer, the Fates take notice. Are Thalia’s powers limited to helping mortal playwrights hack out a comedy sketch, or can . . .
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Joel was just a regular ol’ park ranger, minding his own business when Yukihiro, a recently retired assassin for a Tokyo yakuza family, burst through a window and into his life. Now, he’s trapped quite figuratively in a web of deceit and danger that goes beyond the usual ‘hilarious misunderstanding’ and driven straight to ‘running away for dear life’. . . .
The global community reels with the discovery of impending apocalypse – but even the sky falling can’t keep a good storyteller down. This is a future Australia where waiting for the end of the world has become a bit of a bore. Set in Kalgoorlie’s SuperPit, grunt-level miner Katashi meets Arunta, the long-legged ruck rover of his dreams. Happily . . .
From the same universe as Dead Boyfriend, Howl is the story of hunter Eric St. John, a straight guy who suddenly finds himself with an unexpected, yet undeniable attraction to a mysterious man named Adam. Eric can’t explain why it seems impossible to resist his body’s impulse to submit so completely to the other man. But he’s beginning to . . .
A western themed fantasy, following the story of a low-level political discontent beginning with his imprisonment in a decidedly high security prison. . . .
A series of short stories loosely connected by the themes of Fantasy, Equality, Intelligence, Angst, and Idealism. Characters (particularly a small, black-haired young woman) and settings (particularly a place not unlike present-day Earth) may be shared. Plotlines may be continued. Morals may be made. For sure, they are all written by the same author. . . .
What is genius . . . and to what extent does it define the lives of those who have it—or don’t? Twenty-year-old Shane Fetters doesn’t just live on the edge. He hangs precariously in the chasm where he’s certain there ought to be some middle ground, struggling to assert himself as a middle person—not quite male or female, neither pure genius nor utter . . .
Regan St. James is just your typical eighteen-year-old vampire hunter. He enjoys sharp objects and random hook-ups. But one night, in a quiet little mountain college town, he meets a guy named Ira who just might change his life. If he can survive Ira’s relatives, of course. . . .
In an era of storm and chaos, One will be born who will command the Power, but the ancient magic that flows in his veins like blood is his curse as well as his gift. In this time of cataclysm and ordeal, the upstart Empire of Vayal has placed a bounty on the heads of all scions of the . . .
In the Company of Shadows is a series about two people who are thrown together as partners in a secret agency; their mission is to disband rebels who have propagated in a post-war future, but they have to deal with everything that comes with an unlikely partnership as well. Miscommunication, periods of distance, fleeting smiles and learning to trust . . .
At the House of Cats, those felines who are cursed to become humans when the moon enters Leo find a safe haven between two worlds. But the House has fallen into disrepair; the cat who should be leading them has run away. She dreams of being a chef, of living as a human all the time (or at least six . . .
Eighteen disparate individuals come together by coincidence at a particular Church at a particular time of day – and their lives are irrevocably plunged into the depths of the mysterious and unknown. When in the blink of an eye the Church transports them from the city to the peak of a mountain which nobody can recognize, under stars that none . . .
Strangers & Neighbors is set in New York City. Surrounded by wacky neighbors in a city of strangers, life is about to get a lot more complicated. . . .
If you read comics, the title of Wonder City Stories gets your attention by itself. That’s largely because there’s a comic by Kurt Busiek called "Astro City."
What Busiek does there is focus on normal people living in a superpowered world and sometimes on how superpowers impact the ordinary lives of [more . . .]
I cried while i rushed over the words that spilled unto the pages of this story. I hardly ever cry over a story – actually, i have never cried over a story. This story swallowed me and turned me inside out with emotion and interest. Interest i have never experienced since i read my first science-themed novel in the tenth [more . . .]