“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***

Sakuraba is a college student, though you'd never know it, with his short height and baby face. Certainly police officer Amazawa thought Sakuraba was a minor, and nearly booked him for being out too late after he was returning from a drinking party. But there's something oddly familiar about him, and the two strike up an odd relationship...

Kiss Me, I'm Irish is a collection of 5 short stories, each loosely attached and all taking place on St. Patrick's Day. An adorable lovestruck ginger boy will kiss his best friend for the first time. A young woman will make an incredible connection with the only friend who will ever understand her situation. Two country boys share an intimate encounter. A drunken Irish man finds himself in a funny situation after being stood up when he gets talking to a pretty woman, and a happily married couple of fifty years recount decades of fond memories. Includes: - Kiss, Me I'm Irish (original story) - Louder Than Drums - Midnight Taxi - Almost - The History Of A Bench

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. Meet the Bedwyns—six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past—only to find his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk everything to love. As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead—only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there—yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance, she must devise a scheme to regain her stolen fortune. The dashing soldier she rescued from near-death could be her savior in disguise. There is just one condition: she must pose as his wife—a masquerade that will embroil them in a sinful scandal, where a man and a woman court impropriety with each daring step...with every taboo kiss that can turn passionate strangers into the truest of lovers.

'" High schooler Hoshino Terumichi has been haunted by a recurring dream: a young man, a century earlier, dying at the hands of another man he calls “Sensei.” This dream–or curse–is about to merge with reality when a mysterious, attractive classmate named Yamada Omihiko steps into Terumichi''s life. "'

Stuart Mailing is a decent man in his 30's who lives his life quietly and with honour as he explores the inland waterways of the UK on his vintage narrow boat. Bisexual, Stuart has had affairs with both men and women, but nothing could have prepared him for this chance encounter with a rather precocious young teenage boy who was riding his bike along the canal towpath. Needless to say, both their lives were turned upside down as young Tom pulls every trick in the book to seduce Stuart, whilst Stuart;- obviously attracted to Tom, does everything in his power to resist his advances. Who will win? Who has the most willpower? Will love find a way?

Born months apart to lifelong friends, growing up Benji Hartkainen and Duncan McKerracher developed an inseparable bond as strong as any brotherhood from spending so much life together. Understanding and accepting that he was different early in his teens, Duncan has a clear picture of what he wants and needs from life; Benji. For Benji however it is a world of confusion, using a one foot in, one foot out approach to matters of the heart. Through the mixed signals Duncan’s greatest hope in landing the guy of his dreams lies in that he knows his friends heart and mind better than anyone, or so he hopes. Navigating the push and pull of peer pressure and social acceptance in everyday teenage suburban life while testing the limits of their friendship, each must find the inner strength to reconcile their own desires and fight for their dreams as they grow into themselves and discover who they really are, in order to become who they want to be In This Cruel World .

Lyncoln Ryland always saw himself as an ordinary man with an ordinary job, working maintenance in an ordinary mall. The only thing about him that isn’t ordinary are his feelings for the man who’s renovating the mall, but any kind of relationship with such a sophisticated man is highly unlikely. Adam James is the wealthy man who owns the mall. He’s secretly been yearning for Lyncoln, a man he doesn’t see as ordinary in the least. But Adam’s family has plans for him, and they don’t include a relationship with a blue-collar worker. All this is about to change when the sirens go off, signaling the possible end of the world. When the two men realize this isn’t a drill, they take shelter in the mall that isn’t quite as ordinary as everyone believes. What will the outcome be when two such disparate men must survive the apocalypse together?

Tom Weber has always been gay, and while he might be short, he’s the ultimate leather daddy who takes no guff from anyone. Jack Jackson is a big man who’s never doubted he was straight. In fact, he loves women so much, he’s married three of them. At different times, of course. However, in spite of their diverse sexual orientations, in spite of time and distance that has separated them over the years, the two men are best friends. Now, that friendship will be tested, as Tom, having become intrigued enough to want to try bottoming, makes a request of his friend, and Jack agrees to fulfill it. After Tom gets what he wants, will Jack let their relationship go back to being just friends? Or will the two decide to forge something new and go from friends to lovers?

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.