Belletristik

If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison.Life's not perfect, but with a fly ....

Wenn zwei Papageien sich in die Lüfte schwingen, von da nach dort flattern, hier und dort ein wenig schauen, dem bunten Treiben unter sich zusehen, dann das Strandleben, die Bars, die Strasse ins Visier nehmen, kurz, das Leben auf Erden beobachten, sich dann niederlassen, die Federn ordnen, sich anblicken, vielleicht ganz kurz den Kopf ....

Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General ... ....

The sequel to the groundbreaking novel, Margins and Murmurations, transfeminist speculative fiction. This standalone title introduces us to a post-revolutionary state with new contradictions and problems.Time has moved on and the City is no longer a place where queer folk live in fear or face expulsion. The forest, once burned to ....

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of ....

This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for whom the actual gong - and with it the prize money - remains tantalizingly out of reach.Neon beige, with UFO-like qualities, the elusive trophy leads Corey, with partner Drew and surprise eight-legged companion Bambi ....

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch ....

Welcome to a mosaic of (inner) visions, fractals of (outer) perceptions! Waking up in a dream, you open your eyes and see pages from parallel realities, experience facets of different dimensions, of fantastic worlds, of horrendous scenes. Not a single story but a multitude of intraconnected, cosmically crystalline dreams. Miriam ....

Something evil is buried deep in the desert.It wants your body.It wears your skin.In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived—but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person.Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken ....

Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bike enjoying the little things about everyday life, while also dealing with loss, trauma and fear. Contributions range from the lyrical to the profane, the deeply personal to the keenly analytical. Includes essays, art and ....

Wenn ich mich für einen Daddy zurechtmache, rechne ich dafür ein paar Stunden ein. Aber als Good Girl nehme ich mir gerne die Zeit, um für Daddy perfekt auszusehen.

Leopoldine Beranek geht auf die Hundert zu. Ihr Leben ist begrenzt auf die alte Wohnung und ihre Erinnerungen. Vor ihr liegt noch eine große Aufgabe, das Sterben. Sie teilt das Schicksal tausender alter Frauen. Unsichtbar, einsam, vergessen, angewiesen auf Hilfe von außen. Die Zeit wird lang und löst sich mehr und mehr auf. Was passiert ....