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1) Bended Knee
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When restaurateur Hugh Neumann rebukes Oliver Nicholas's very public proposal to his boyfriend during a Valentine's Day dinner, the diverted Cupid's arrow strikes Hugh not in the heart, but in the ass.
After a media storm of commentary, ironically pro and con, gains national steam, what Hugh begins to refer to as his personal "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" begins to affect home life with his partner, Dominick Brodie.
Was Hugh's overreaction pandering...
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A winter storm warning blanketed the local news stations before the blizzard itself. This blustery Saturday was going to be sweatpants, banana bread, and a Golden Girls binge for Renata Todd. But at her farmhouse door, already flocked with fresh snow, comes an unexpected knock: Albin Lawrence, an old man who grew up in the house in the 40s and 50s.
Renata's caution yields to common sense as she welcomes him in for a tour. What danger could a shaky...
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From the award-winning author of 'The Cool Part of His Pillow'...Tara Atwater holds the right combination of numbers to the record-breaking Ohio state lottery. But what to do about the man, stabbed to death, on the kitchen floor? It was, after all, his ticket. A diversionary fire might be the answer. Left in her grandparents' care as her reckless mother worked the carnival circuit, Tara learned about sleight-of-hand flame, purposely created to distract...
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At his older sister Didi's request, Pete Garhart makes a reluctant trip from Miami to small-town Ohio for his father's funeral. Beyond the sun, he leaves little else behind. Alcohol has drained any momentum from his culinary career as a chef, and he's been reduced to line cook at Applebee's. His string of failed relationships have begun to resemble a line-up of wooden soldiers, all with great guns and the same fade haircut. And, now in his late 40's,...
5) Otis
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It's Christmas Eve and it's snowing, but at least one creature is still stirring: a tabby cat with white paws named Otis. He's protesting from his carrier in the backseat of a rented Kia, en route to a veterinarian clink. Otis is neither ill nor in need of vaccination; Jaston Calderone has come out from assisted living to tie what few loose ends his gay son Mitchell's suicide left behind, and one of them is Otis.
As the wind whips up bluish columns...
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The mid-40s are that time in a gay man's life when his major paradigm shifts from sexy to Sansabelts. But when Barry Grooms's partner of twenty years is killed on Barry's forty-fifth birthday, his world doesn't so much evolve as it does explode.
After navigating through the surreal conveyor belt of friends and family, he can't eat another casserole or swallow much more advice on what constitutes grief. Still numb, he leaves his home store and design...