Imageoutwrite Volume 5

ImageOut, New York's longest running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2016 issue of ImageOutWrite! ImageOutWrite captures the modern LGBTQ experience in prose and poetry. Volume Five presents a broad array of LGBTQ and allied voices to enrich and entertain you-while preserving the narrative of those lives. From the crab apple trials of youth-through the back-stage tribulations in Camelot-to the conditional triumphs of unconditional love-and much more-this collection will remain with you long after the last page is read.

ImageOut, New YorkÕs longest running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2017 issue of ImageOutWrite! ImageOutWrite, Volume Six, captures the modern LGBTQ experience in prose and poetry. Volume Six presents a broad array of LGBTQ and allied voices to enrich and entertain youÑwhile preserving the narrative of those lives. Crack the cover and lose yourself in a world where words blur the lines between feminine and masculine, where cappuccino enables the erotic, where love defies the wicked, and where beauty reveals itself in the mundane hours.

ImageOut, New York's longest-running LGBTQ film festival, is proud to celebrate our 2018 issue of ImageOutWrite! The prose and poetry comprising ImageOutWrite, Volume Seven, will transport you through LGBTQ perspectives that span the past, present, and future, as well as the realm of pure fantasy. It also provides vivid glimpses of the trans experience through the eyes of parents, spouses, those who transition, and those who dream of doing so. As varied and vibrant as the LGBTQ community itself, this volume reverberates with shared humanity. Whether you're out and proud, exploring your identity, or newly allied, this collection will leave you feeling unequivocally that you're not alone.

Gay Zoo Day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery is an anthology about gay and lesbian travelers seeking more than what life has handed them. Eight tales - three short stories and five novelettes - explore themes of love and alienation, race and gender, classism and privilege, using a variety of genres from the humorous to the horrific. They connect the heart of the seeker to the heart of the lover, the warrior, the avenger, the lonely, the lost, and the lucky.Gay Zoo Day used the map of the word to explore the map of the heart. Settings include a wealthy enclave in South Africa; a gay-themed fundraiser in a London zoo; an embattle embassy in Yemen; a haunted estate in New York's wine country; British colonial Kenya in the early 1900?s; a mission to the International Space Station in the new future; a Prohibition-era dive in Panama; and a luxury apartment ?at the tippity-top? of Hong Kong Island.The characters trace their paths through landscapes of love, death, violence, ambition, and sex. Some seek deliberately, some stumble blindly, but all find more than what they were looking for.

Rare goods trader, Orenda Silverstone leads a happy life with her wife and friends. She's an Elu-a race whose crafting is centered on protection-but her power is broken. Now, her sword is her strength. When her wife gets kidnapped and Orenda has to use her trading skills to complete some nearly impossible tasks to get her back, a good sword arm won't be enough. Orenda's time is rapidly coming to a close. She needs help.But she's been forced into silence. Two sun goddess worshippers, twins Lan and Lyra, decide to join Orenda's quest in order to guard one of the rarer items to its destination. Orenda's not sure she can turn her back on either one, but with no other options, she competes against the sunrises to complete her tasks before her wife is killed.Then, the unthinkable happens. Orenda's best friend, Jax, tries to kill her.Between racing against the coming dawns and battles at every turn, Orenda's list now seems insurmountable. No longer certain of who is friend or foe, she must come up with a plan to save them all before the sun rises on her wife's final day.

This book is an amazing collection of poems written by members of the nerdfighter community, because poetry increases awesome. Profits of this book go to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. The nerdfighter community is a community that has sprung up around the vlogbrothers youtube channel. The community aims to increase the amount of awesome in the world and decrease the amount of suck. The foundation to decrease world suck, was created by the vlogbrothers- Hank Green and John Green. Each year in December, during the project for awesome, Hank, John and the nerdfighter community choose charities that will receive money from the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. These are always worthy causes. To find out more about the Foundation please visit www.fightworldsuck.org

The stories crammed into Squeeze Pants promise a wild ride from beginning to end. Dario Dalla Lasta brings you six lively, inventive, and daring tales about men desiring other men. From a sexy, dark-eyed nurse who would do anything to help his patient heal, to a skinhead who pushes his admirer to show him what he's got, to a sweaty and kinky encounter under campus bleachers, to an office hookup destined to happen, to a haunted threesome, and, finally, to a dark, violent night with an unexpected twist that will stay with you forever, each of the linked stories in Squeeze Pants offers queer, erotic literary fiction at its finest. The worlds built and characters created-think big, think dark, and think thirsty for wild, pulsing romps-are tangible, distinct, and ready to spark your imagination

Somber poems deal with the end of summer, winter dawn, travel, mortality, childhood, education, nature and the spiritual aspects of life.