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  Flashes

  K.L. Noone

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  From holiday decorating at a historic castle to werewolf FBI agents, from nightmares aboard a starship to a book-thief encountering a king's brother in a fantastical library, from hurt and comfort and cinnamon pancakes to a cozy afternoon full of wedding planning, these collected stories bring together K.L. Noone's flash and short fiction for the first time!
  Some familiar characters make an appearance -- Jason and Colby from the Character Bleed trilogy and Wes and Finn from the Seasonal Stories -- and brand-new characters and stories await, including Ember the royal librarian, detective-fiction novelist Patrick, and interior decorator Rory. 
  Find all their happy endings, and more, in the sparkling short stories of Flashes!

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  Wound from the Mouth of a Wound...

  torrin a. greathouse

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  A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry 
  A CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry 
  “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. 
  These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” 
  Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.

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  The Set Piece

  Catherine Lane

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  Smart and athletic, Amy Kimball should have it all, but her life's in a tailspin. She's working two menial jobs to make ends meet, barely a paycheck away from financial disaster, and women aren't exactly lining up at her door. 
   
   
   
  Enter soccer star Diego Torres, who's keeping a big secret: he's gay. His manager fears that if he's found out, his endorsements and his chance to play for the national team will evaporate into the wind. 
   
   
   
  Amy jumps at the chance to act as Diego's fake fiancée, even though it means signing her life away in a non-disclosure agreement. On the surface, the job couldn't be better: the money's great; the living accommodations are luxurious, and she gets to watch her favorite soccer team from the players' box at the stadium. 
   
   
   
  But she soon realizes that this new life is even harder to navigate than her old one. Diego's manager is as sleazy as they come, and this easy job soon turns complicated, possibly even dangerous. More important, all the lies Amy is forced to tell are starting to eat away at her soul, especially when she finds herself attracted to Casey Palmer, Diego's pretty assistant. 
   
   
   
  Will Amy find the courage to get back into the game? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Too Hostile

  Nicole Dykes

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  Fletcher 
  I’m a total nerd, but I look like a jock. I had a perfect GPA in high school, and my GPA in college is perfect too. I smile when I’m supposed to smile. I have two loving parents and a brother and sister who are always by my side. I’m the perfect all-American guy. 
  But the only thing that actually defines me is the before. The things I keep hidden deep inside because I’m too afraid of losing what I have now. 
  The past lives deep inside me as I force the plastic smile on my face. And no one sees through it because I’m just that good. 
  No one except . . . him. 
  Ronan 
  Every day is like a dream. A dream I live, not knowing when I’ll wake and find I’m still living in a nightmare. 
  I never made it out, and these past few years have all been fake. 
  Then he walks into my classroom . . . with that cocky smile in place. Not a care in the world. I doubt he’s ever had to worry about a thing in his entire life. 
  He's exactly like all of the entitled, spoiled brats I teach every day in my part of the college campus, but something about Fletcher Moore really rubs me the wrong way. 
  I shouldn’t let him get to me, but something about him makes me too angry. Too annoyed. 
  Just too damn . . . hostile.

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  True

  Timothy Warren

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  Most people would love Alec's life: great job, hot boyfriend, and a beautiful brownstone in DC;s gay mecca, Dupont Circle. But within a single night, things change . . . 
   
   
   
  His best friend, Demarco, supports Alec's bold decision of seeking a new perspective . . . a change that begins across the country, in a cabin atop Beulah Mountain. 
   
   
   
  Alec was not looking for a man . . . wanted nothing of the sort. But a strong-willed cowboy named Tyler enters his life as spontaneous as the snow of Montana's winter. 
   
   
   
  Unpredictable as a mountain storm, Alec and Tyler soon find themselves entwined in a fierce love affair . . . raw, real, and unlike any other Alec has ever had. 
   
   
   
  But Tyler belongs to Montana. 
   
   
   
  Will their passion be enough to keep them together? Will Alec learn to forgive his past missteps and accept that he deserves the happiness that can only come from a man so genuine . . . so giving . . . and so TRUE? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  It's a Wonderful Knife

  S.C. Wynne

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  It's beginning to look a lot like murder. 
  Chopping down a Christmas tree has never been something Dr. Maxwell Thornton aspired to. But his boyfriend, Sheriff Royce Callum, has a tradition of visiting Giggly Elves Tree Farm every Christmas to do just that. 
  Trying to prove he’s a team player, Maxwell agrees to accompany Royce on his week-long tree-felling adventure. It’s a chance to spend some quality time with Royce, and also get a break from Rainy Dale. 
  All guests are required to turn in their cell phones upon arrival because Giggly Elves Farm is for people who yearn to escape modern-day stresses. Maxwell endures a lumpy mattress and high sodium meals of bacon, beans, and more bacon, with a fairly good attitude. But when a freak storm washes out the road back home, Maxwell begins to feel the strain. 
  Things turn downright terrifying when a guest is found stabbed to death in the reindeer barn, and all of the cell phones are found destroyed. It seems there’s a murderer on the loose, and he or she has a very different interpretation of how to bring out the holiday spirit in others.

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