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Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer issues. If your relationships or your gender are unconventional, you'll find useful advice and plenty of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular webcomic Kimchi Cuddles. Quirky, endearing and charmingly (and sometimes...

Dick Wolf, the celebrated creator of the Law & Order television franchise, makes his literary debut with The Intercept, a taut, driving thriller reminiscent of the classic The Day of the Jackal. Days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of One World Trade Center at Ground Zero,...

The finer strands sway in the warm, dusky air, perceptible only to the dying. No, perhaps not strands; they are more like the long, dark gossamer tendrils of a celestial man-of-war descending through ether, through the high, indiscernible stone ceiling, through scream-filled air, there to melt into...

Just another day in the life of an Amalgamated Assassin: get in, kill the baby and get out, but when the baby in question curses at him and fights back, Rocco knows this day is unlike any other. His career, and his life, on the line, Rocco sacrifices all he holds dear to finish the hit whether his wife survives it or not.Short Story.  4500 Words

Harry felt fractional: part man, part air. His flesh-and-bone part was squashed to four feet three inches by a fate and gravity too cruel to forgive, and the remaining two feet—he saw himself, his real self, as six foot three, not an inch shorter—see-through dream. Just his luck...

My life ended five years ago. An accident took away my ability to give a dominant shifter pups. Male Omegas exist to be bred. I’m broken, unfixable. Even my match making agency nearly gives up on me, until they found me Mac Rogers. Single father, lone Alpha wolf, Mac’s also a domineering...

The naked woman washed up onto the gritty sand right in front of Sam Crown’s beach house. And so begins another adventure for private eye Sam Crown, a former highly-decorated U.S. Marine and cop. “Must be my lucky day,” he grinned. But he was wrong. He gets involved with a murder trial...

When Rose Jensen’s grandfather dies, he leaves her enough money to save her parents’ failing business and get her through UCLA. The only catch – she has to marry Lee Montenegro, the infuriating half-Spanish, all-playboy transfer. Rose and Lee’s grandfathers were fast friends, and betrothed...

Officer Mike Dawson fought against the urge to take Amy just like he dreamed for the last year. When he finds her cuffed and naked on his bed, he decides to show her why she shouldn’t play games with an older man. Note: All characters in this 2.500 word story are of legal age and consent. For 18+ only.

She eased the door shut behind her. Even so, pulling it closed slowly by inches, the hinges squeaked a little and on settling the latch bolt clicked loudly into place, like a soft gunshot. At least to her ears. She stood there for a moment, very still, her ear to the cold, blue plywood door...

There are as many Gods in this universe as there are beings. And the game we play is called “Touch.” It’s a form of spiritual hugging. Easy to begin, pretty much impossible to bring to a close. How it came about: Before the beginning of the universe, before there even was a universe,...

When the rules of love were written, one of them stated: “Once you put a face to the hunger of your heart, your heart cannot let go.” Unaware of this rule, for love had never confided in me, I recently put a face to my heart’s hunger, and this was an unwise thing to do; for with the fresh...

"Ten minutes can be a long time. I guess it was even longer for Caesar than it was for me. He was the one that was to get it. Even at that, he was taking it better than I was. Everything seemed calm. Little Caesar played solitaire, back to the door. The bartender watched him as he turned the...