The Ugly One

Big Ed Magusson

The First Book in the Compassionate Courtesan Universe Some anthropologists once did a comprehensive survey of what human cultures considered beautiful. There was one consistent trait-symmetry. Every human culture in existence said that the person with symmetric physical features was the beautiful one. I'm the ugly one. This is my story of how I met a beautiful courtesan and what happened after.

   

A Mall Tale

Big Ed Magusson

Who says there aren’t surprising things to see at the mall?
3600 words.

 

A Babe In The Night

Big Ed Magusson

I never intended to be a voyeur, and if the baby hadn’t been colicky, I wouldn’t have been. But now… now I don’t know what to think.
About 3000 words

 

One-Eyed Dick, Nellie the Whore, and the Spring of Perpetual Wood

Big Ed Magusson

This here’s a story about One-Eyed Dick, the legend of the Mountain West. What, ya never heard of One-Eyed Dick? Why, you’ve heard of Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill, haven’t ya? But I’m not surprised ya haven’t heard of Dick, not really. His stories are not the ones ya tell to children, if ya get my drift.
About 7400 words

 

I Won A Spaceship

Harrision Park

I was astounded to discover I’d won a spaceship in the Grand Galactic Lottery. I don’t do lotteries. Of course, nothing is easy but I didn’t realise how complicated it would be until I arrived on Geretimal, the capital of the Capellan Theocracy. There I encountered corruption, greed and personal danger. I also found love, friendship… and tragedy. Was a spaceship really worth it?

   

I Met My Old Lover...

J Strickland

Reissue of Sold Out Hit!
Everybody has someone in their past. Whether it’s an old love or an old friend, it’s that person you find yourself wondering from time to time whatever happened to them. One day Bill ran into that special someone from his past. Fate gave him a second chance with Allison.
Foreword by Nick Scipio

   

Secrets Revealed

J Strickland

Seeing an old highway sign for the summer camp where he worked years ago as a college student, Tim stops to see the place from his past. He shows his wife around as he relives secret memories of his history there, about one special summer and a special girlfriend he had never revealed to her.
Full unabridged version.

   

Havana Club

J Strickland

Christopher was offered a big promotion if he would travel to Cuba to investigate business opportunities. He went in knowing he was risking his freedom. He never expected to lose his heart. Then he met Felicita. They were two lovers from different worlds but the week they spent together would leave them forever changed. Love blossoms in an exotic land surrounded by the reality of forces that try to keep them apart. Can love conquer all?
Co-Recipient of the June 2004 Silver Clitorides Award
Second Place Winner of the 2004 Golden Clitorides Award for Best Romantic Story

 

Dark World: Eden's Rise

Zacharias Lee

Eden’s Rise tells the story of the titular character, Eden and Razier, and their initial meeting told through short stories and poems from both Razier and Eden’s point of view, with fragments of the overall story within each self-contained piece.