Shayla Gainrad is a young woman raised in a splinter community of reactionary would-be settlers who abandon interplanetary society for newly discovered planets.Shayla has achieved the settler dream-a home on the frontier world Erde, surrounded by rich and fertile lands-but she is increasingly lonely, homesick, and alienated from her husband.Although Shayla has told herself to endure, events on Erde begin to push her new life into disarray. The arrival of spacers from outsid...

Do you often question what happens when we die, where do we go, is there life beyond this world? With my acquired knowledge and true stories, I would like to open your heart and your mind to the spiritual world, giving you a true understanding of Angels, Ghosts and Spirits, and how you can be just like me. Yes, I said it – how you can become a medium and connect to life after death!

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialismIn the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded in material ways, through the ink they applied to paper or the artifacts they created with muslin, silk threads, feathers, and shells. Handiwork, such as sewing, knitting, embroidery, and other crafts, formed a familiar pres...

Poems from a queer, black woman during the first 4 years of the 2020's. Started writing while in lock down and kept on going. Using the pen as a form of protest of the changes that have occured during the years of 2020 through 2024.

This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's transformative potential, it charts the novel's vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies, and paper was made of rags, the novel, by contrast, resisted the rhet...

A young girl seeks answers from an itinerant augur. A carnival menagerie introduces the oddities of the world to a rural Siberian town, and to an eccentric lovelorn man. An Armenian soviet bureaucrat has a brush with the afterlife.Stories by Sergey Gerasimov, Chloe Smith, and Jan Weiss. Translation by Julie Nováková. This issue illustrated by Sophie Derevianchuk.Welkin is magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure and the outré, to narrowing the gap ...

Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking ...

Harmony Ink Press is delighted and honored to showcase the short fiction of some of the best up-and-coming authors working in the LGBT genre. The stories in this third volume of Harmonious Hearts represent the winners of our Young Author Challenge—a group of talented writers between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.The stories in this anthology are as diverse as their creators and range from the speculative to snapshots of everyday life for people growing up in a society in flux...

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker.Let’s call her Eve.Eve is someone’s daughter. Someone’s partner.Eve has worked across the sex industry for twenty years: in a brothel, as an escort, in a strip club, online and as a dominatrix. In this candid memoir she reveals all: the good stuff, the bad, and the downright ugly too.We’re with her poolside as she sips Champagne at a wealthy client’s Caribbean villa. We scurry with her from a gated man...

My one night stand? He’s sitting behind the headmaster’s desk.We met at a truck stop. The chemistry was immediate, and we both do something out of character: one night, no explanations. The next day, I arrive at my new private school. Now I’m the off-limits forbidden temptation Sebastian Craig can’t forget, and we both try our best to behave. It works for a few weeks… until our secret cravings come tumbling out in the library after hours. How will we keep our priva...

The electric feeling of an older crush looking at you, returning your secret feelings... These are Chloe Maine's first five small town romance books, collected here in the complete Conception Ridge collection of age gap instalove novellas!Before He Was Her Headmaster (teacher/student, one night stand before she arrives at her new school where he's the principal)Above the Shop (mom's ex-boyfriend, roommates for the summer)Santa's Baby (dad's ...

I have seventeen dollars to my name and a one-way bus ticket to my new college town—two months early. Oh, and the name of a man I’ve never met scrawled on a piece of paper. Henry Wilde, my mom's long-ago high school boyfriend. But when I show up on his doorstep, he has no idea that my mom said I could stay with him. And he only has one bed.It’s eight weeks until I can move onto campus, eight weeks of living with him above his barbershop. So I’m going to make myself useful. Help him...