Do you love queer tales? Adore monsters? Delight in reading erotic monsterloving stories? Then Duck Prints Press proudly presents Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling! Our authors have created titillating tales featuring unusual creatures (often with unconventional genitalia!) facing similar challenges: how to court the partner(s) of their choice (human or otherwise!). From aliens to undersea hybrids, from winged beings to myths come to life, from insectoid aliens...

One day Memento Mori realises that he is a character in a book who has the power to travel from one book to another. He decides to strike against evil writers who sentence their characters to death. He persuades Romeo and Juliet that suicide is not the best solution and that when they are adults they will remember these days with laughter. To save many others from an untimely death he travels to the Reichenbach Falls to push Professor Moriarty to his death. Memento Mori's efforts to save m...

Pierre Sonage is an unpopular French writer. Only twelve people attended the presentation of his latest novel. So he decides that the only way to become popular is to die, he commits suicide for PR reasons and then goes to hell. But hell is not the place we think it might be. It's a literary hell, where famous and unknown writers are tortured in the same way as their books used to torture readers: James Joyce writes footnotes of his own footnotes, Jack Kerouac can't stop walking, Samuel Be...

An uplifting collection of conversations with creative, entrepreneurial, diverse people across Canada.Bloom Across Canada is a fascinating collection of fifty interviews and portraits that celebrate diversity, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. The women and non-binary people featured in this book represent different backgrounds, creative journeys, and walks of life. They come from every province and territory in Canada, though many have roots i...

Farrah, a successful corporate executive, leaves her high-powered job to chase her lifelong dream of becoming a writer.Battling crippling self-doubt and anxiety, she embarks on an ambitious project: telling the life story of her best friend, Corrina.Corrina, a striking biracial woman, was given up for adoption and raised in the conservative South.As Farrah delves deeper, she uncovers layers of multi-generational trauma and the extraordinary bravery of three women wh...

Do you love queer tales? Adore monsters? Delight in reading erotic monsterloving stories? Then Duck Prints Press proudly presents Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling! Our authors have created titillating tales featuring unusual creatures (often with unconventional genitalia!) facing similar challenges: how to court the partner(s) of their choice (human or otherwise!). From aliens to undersea hybrids, from winged beings to myths come to life, from insectoid aliens...

Monsters. They are not always easily spotted, and often easily misunderstood. Sometimes, the monsters must be slain—and sometimes, they must be saved . . .In this collection of ten folkloric fantasy and science fiction stories, you will find a motley crew of characters facing off against monsters or accepting the monstrous within themselves, including:~a ruthless mermaid who must make a deadly choice to free her little sister from a dangerous mistake;~a gal...

Death takes the lead in this collection of eight disparate tales, exploring how the loss of loved ones affects us, how surviving close calls with death shape us, how the fear of death motivates us, and how we can be either lifted up or let down by our communities in dealing with lingering grief. The genres vary between stories, including science fiction, magical realism, and suspense.My Life with Death: A child becomes friends with Death and later serves a...

When eighteen-year-old Daniella "Danny" Rose Davis finds her grandmother murdered, she becomes the prime suspect-blood on her nightgown, lies on her lips, and no one left to trust.But Danny's story runs deeper than a single night. Raised in rural Florida by a hard, secretive grandmother, she grew up surviving on scraps of affection and carefully spun lies. Now, as Detective Tim Harris digs into the case, long-buried family secrets surface-revealing that truth can be as dangerous as...

Released from a Maryland prison after nearly twenty years served for a crime he committed during high school, Matt is reunited with his younger sister, Jenny. Matt has to prove to his parole officer, his family, and himself, that he can survive as a free man for the first time in his adult life, while facing the challenges of re-entry into a world that drastically changed during his sentence.Knowing that reaching the first year without retuning to prison is critical to Matt's long-...

"Who are you, Sam?" Unfortunately for Sam, the answer is: a lonely, single, closeted, mid-thirties woman with no close friends and no romantic prospects who feels stalled in her own life. Entirely convinced that she is unworthy of love or happiness after surviving decades of emotional neglect and bullying, Sam knows she needs to make changes, but is held hostage by her own history, which complicates her attempts to take control and start her second act.For most people it's...

In a steampunk world where humans live surrounded by robot servants, young Isea prefers to take refuge in Cyrano de Bergerac, a movie recommended to her by her only friend, Tal, whom Isea has only ever met via video chat. But the day that Debree, her beloved nanny robot, is unfairly dismissed by her mother, Isea's fragile equilibrium collapses. Isea then decides to leave and rejoin the only being who has ever given her love, at whatever the cost—even if that being is a robot...