“The more time you spend around me, the deeper you’ll sink. I know you can already feel it. You’re becoming loyal.” I was at the gym when it first happened. Ty started flexing his muscles, and it was like my brain completely switched off. He made me feel his biceps. He made me smell his body. I started to feel so weak… Now, I’m bound atop his bed. His sapphire-blue eyes glitter as he places his powerful hands on my tiny frame. I spent all day doing his homework for him, and this is my reward for being an obedient boy. “It’s time for your first milking session. You’ll like it—I promise.” My eyes glaze over as he speaks. I’m ready. Format: Short story Length: ~10,500 words ***CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT***

More protein…I need to get bigger. Can’t…stop. He’s the sales team stud. He offered to teach me strength and confidence. The training though…it’s extreme. I dropped my pants, allowing him to insert the hormonal syringe. A cycle of steroids…it’ll make me perfect. I struggle to focus. I’m making so many mistakes at work…but the muscle growth is off the charts. When we’re alone, he makes me get naked. He takes photos and video—says he’s “documenting the transformation”. He’s selling the content online. He’s posting sick, shameful things. The gym…all I can think about is the gym. What’s happening to me…? Format: Short story Length: ~11,000 words ***CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT***

Spinning out of the dramatic events of the Cute Mutants series, a new story in the same universe. Somewhere, a woman is attempting to bring her dead lover back from the past-not caring that this could break the world. Six mutants, scattered across time and space, their stories coming together with one figure at the center. Tentacle Princess. Goat Bitch. Evaporate. Penance. Hench. And Twinkle Lights. Sometimes, all you need is a himbo. "An extremely hilarious punchy sci-fantasy that grabs you from the first line and never lets go, SJ Whitby and their Cute Mutants series, is the fresh voice we've all been waiting for." - K. Ancrum, author of Darling "A delightfully chaotic and queer spin on the awkward teen superhero experience" - Xiran Jay Zhao, author of Iron Widow "Equally heartwarming and hilarious, Cute Mutants has it all: breathless action, complex queer characters, swoon-worthy romance, and a chaotic ride-or-die superhero squad that will capture your heart. A must read!" - Alicia Jasinska, author of The Midnight Girls "An irreverent, ultra-nerdy, and unapologetically queer exploration of found family, self-discovery, and smashing the patriarchy-all unfolding via a sharp character voice." - Claire Winn, author of A City of Shattered Light "Move over, Marvel, Cute Mutants is my new obsession. Hilarious and heartwarming, this pageturner delivers snark, action, and a queer found family you can't help but root for. SJ Whitby is a rare talent, and I'll read anything they write." - Rosiee Thor, author of Fire Become Her "Cute Mutants refuses to settle for anything less than gloriously flawed characters going hard in all their messy, big-hearted queer teen glory, as they navigate a wild ride of newfound powers, responsibility to themselves and others, and shifting relationships in a fantastically screwball world of unlikely superpowers. Deeply loveable in its relatability, I'm burning through this series a supersonic speeds." - Ash van Otterloo, author of A Touch of Ruckus

The sizzling second book in New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter’s Otherworld Assassin paranormal romance series. New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter’s pulse-pounding paranormal series continues with an electrifying story about the ultimate warrior and his prize: a beautiful woman he will do anything to possess. HE IS EVERY WOMAN’S FANTASY . . . Corbin Blue is a man of many talents. One of the most powerful otherworlders ever born, he is wealthy, a professional football star, and a legend in the bedroom. But only a select few know he is also a black ops agent . . . and there is no better killer. When he and his crew are attacked and separated, he’s forced to turn to his boss’s daughter for help—a woman with even more secrets than Blue. SHE BECOMES HIS ONLY OBSESSION . . . Evangeline Black has always been wary, guarded. No man has ever breached her walls. Until Blue. He has never been denied something he wants, and now he’s decided he wants her. As he sweeps her into his double life of seduction, intrigue, and danger, he helps her see beyond the darkness of her past. But as an enemy closes in, Blue will have to let Evie go to keep her safe—even though he’d rather die than live without her. . . .

An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood,Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Karen Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have. .

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"Then understand this. I want to shoulder that burden for others. I want Quietus to break against me, to shatter. When I killed Abigail Tanner, I knew it would make me a target. I want that. It was on purpose. I'm not some reckless teenager who knows nothing. I'm a reckless teenager who knows exactly what I'm doing." We've finally found a safe place for mutants, but it may not stay that way for long. There's no shortage of battles to fight, and I'm itching to take the war to our enemies, even if not everyone agrees. Eli Crane has a lot of money, guns, and hate-and he's only the first name on my list. Because Crane's not our only problem: a terrifying mystery lies in our past waiting to be unveiled, and we've got a dark vision of the future swinging at us like a fist. A lot of people are gunning for mutants, and we have to keep ahead of all of them. We're not schoolkids anymore. We'll have to be revolutionaries, politicians, and criminals to make it through. Surviving the experience isn't guaranteed.

Make music and magic with this enchanting collection of Ukulele Spells. In this spellbook, you'll learn everything from basic chords and techniques to instrument care to songwriting to help you tame the elements or cast a spell to uncover your missing keys. Become a full-fledged ukulele witch by mastering these ten simple lessons and filling your life with charming melodies

When she finds her client, crotchety former teacher Miss Helen "Hellfire" Henley, dead under a pile of debris, professional organizer Charlotte Adams, on the top of the list of suspects, must clean up this mess. Original.