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  Equality at Sea (Unabridged)

  Frederick Marryat

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  Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 - 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code.
  EQUALITY AT SEA: The next morning Jack Easy would have forgotten all about his engagement with the captain, had it not been for the waiter, who thought that after the reception which our hero had given the first lieutenant, it would be just as well that he should not be disrespectful to the captain.

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  The Consequences - Stories

  Manuel Muñoz

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  "Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. 
   
   
   
  These exquisite stories are set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra, as well as the quotidian struggles and immense challenges faced by their families. The messy and sometimes violent realities navigated by his characters—straight and gay, immigrant and American-born, young and old—are tempered by moments of surprising, tender care: Two young women meet on a bus to Los Angeles to retrieve husbands who must find their way back from the border after being deported; a gay couple plans a housewarming party that reveals buried class tensions; a teenage mother slips out to a carnival where she encounters the father of her child; the foreman of a crew of fruit pickers finds a dead body and is subsequently—perhaps literally—haunted. 
   
   
   
  In The Consequences, obligation can shape, support, and sometimes derail us. It's a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers.

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  Benediction - From their pens to...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack.

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  In the Walls of Eryx

  H. P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling

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  "In the Walls of Eryx" is a science fiction story by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling, first appearing in the October 1939 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. 
  Set on the sweltering, jungle-covered surface of Venus, In the Walls of Eryx follows a seasoned Earth explorer working for a commercial crystal-harvesting operation. While searching for energy-rich crystals, he becomes trapped inside an invisible, maze-like structure of unknown origin—constructed by the native lizard-like Venusians. As he struggles to escape the alien trap, his supplies dwindle and his thoughts turn increasingly inward, confronting not only his own mortality but the ethics of humanity’s exploitative presence on the planet.

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  Brain gain

  Gerald M. Kilby

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  From the chart-topping author of "Colony One Mars” and “Moon Base Delta” comes a new, edge-of-your-seat, high-stakes technothriller. 
  One brain. Two minds. No where to run… 
  Dawn Harrison wakes up in a research lab with no memories and an AI implanted in her brain. She escapes into a world she no longer recognizes only to quickly become the most sought-after person on the planet. 
  Pursued by shadowy agencies desperate to reclaim the technology in her brain, Dawn races against time to uncover both the truth of her past and secrets in her head. 
  But in this high-stakes thriller, even a single thought can be deadly.

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  The Smutty Little Audiobook of...

  Ruan Willow

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  Get the bundle of eight ultra hot smutty erotica audio stories! Tasty sexy birthday treats for the birthday girl,  an intense and surprising coming home power exchange reclamation, a rendezvous in the shower that's both unexpected and impulsive, hot and steamy coffee shop exhibitionistic mutual self pleasuring fun, a delicious submission surrendering to passion in the sunlight, presenting herself to her lover, her surrender to him which she both desires and secures, and an age gap older woman younger male encounter that starts as a simple bumping into each other. Whatever the sexy spicy situation these characters find themselves in, one thing is for sure, they each reach their delicious explosive peaks in short order.  
  The eight short stories: 
  Told in second person POV, immerse yourself in Eat Me on my Birthday. 
  Coming home after a trip makes homecoming sex the best when he can start the seduction simply from his phone, but finish it at home in The Coming Home Reclamation. 
  When a simple shower turns into an unexpected seduction, that might just lead to more than just sex in Shower Sex with her Best Friend's Brother. 
  A coffee shop date that brings much needed satiation for a couple, but when their adventures take them to exhibitionism within a coffee shop, they do things they didn't expect in Steamy Coffee Shop Date. 
  Morning intimacy is most delicious when naked in the sunshine in Sex in the Morning Sun with a dominant man, so simple yet so sensual! 
  Sexy scenes are delicious all by themselves, the allure is in its simplicity in Presenting Myself. 
  Surrendering to passion gets extra juicy when power exchange is the mutually chosen ruling code in Her Surrender.  
  A middle aged woman innocently bumps into her friend's college aged son in the bathroom, but what happens next is anything but in Felicia's Cabin Fun. 
  These stories originated on the author's podcast: Oh F*ck Yeah with Ruan Willow. Want more stories like these? Visit podcast apps today!

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