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Song on the Sand by Ruth Sims

October 7th, 2010 by Kassa / 758 views

Title: Song on the Sand
Author: Ruth Sims
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publishing
Length:: Short Story/11 pgs
Buy the book: Publisher , Kindle

Blurb:

Tony Dalby finds himself on the wrong end of his 80s, confined to a nursing home, with his days as a dancer a thing of the past. The appearance of Drew into his life brings a welcome distraction, as well as a bit of mystery as to why Drew constantly visits the wheelchair-bound, comatose Jesse. As secrets are revealed, Dalby finds he may have a renewed purpose for living after all.

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Posted in 4.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews | 4 Comments »

The Velvet Interrogation By Stephen Kessel

April 1st, 2010 by Kassa / 781 views

Title:  The Velvet Interrogation
Author: Stephen Kessel
Publisher: Smashwords
Buy the book: Amazon, Publisher

Blurb:

U.S. diplomat Chet Bender saves young Nabil Shabili from a Palestinian refugee camp inside Lebanon, on the eve of a devastating Israeli attack. He subsequently accepts Nabil into his life, bed, and heart. Nearly twenty years later, Nabil is in the running to take the presidency of Lebanon and the forces promoting this rise are busy cleaning up any loose ends. And one of those loose ends is Chet.

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Posted in 4.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews | 6 Comments »

My Hero: A Wild Boy’s Tale by Tristram Burden

March 29th, 2010 by Kassa / 1,364 views

Title: My Hero: A Wild Boy’s Tale
Author: Tristram Burden
Publisher: Rebel Satori / Queer Mojo
Length: Novel / 276 pages
Buy the book: Publisher, Amazon

Blurb:

In a post-apocalyptic America, 17 year old Joshua My Hero lives out a humdrum existence, struggling to find truth and sense in a Christian-fundamentalist trailer park. But his psychic powers and sexual tastes leave him an outsider of his community, and forced to commit patricide in a final and desperate struggle for self-defence against his father’s rage, Joshua escapes into a wasted planet, armed only with an oracular penis, the patronage of an ancient earth spirit sent to rid the planet of all of its ills, and the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching…

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Posted in 3 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews, Urban Fantasy | 3 Comments »

The Summer Between by Andrew Binks

March 22nd, 2010 by Indigene / 1,530 views

Title: The Summer Between
Author: Andrew Binks
Publisher: Nightwood Editions (Harbour Publishing)
Length: Novel, 200 pages
Buy the book: Publisher, Amazon, Amazon Canada, Chapters-Indigo

Blurb:

Like his attempts to swim over the dark water of the river that lies between him and the object of his affections, twelve-year-old Dougaldo Montmigny struggles against oppression, homophobia and racism to realise his love for Tomahawk Clark, a thirteen-year-old Métis boy, during a summer destined to become a painful lesson on love and desire. 

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Posted in 5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Literature, Reviews, Young Adult | 3 Comments »

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