Untreed Reads's Blog Posts Tagged 'lgbt' (28)

About The Deja Dance:

The hermaphrodite dancers of Merculian expect to feel safe back on their home planet, but a series of frightening incidents rips apart the veil of calm. Then Triani’s beloved child disappears. The frantic dancer feels everything he has worked for slipping away as he relives old…

About The Sea of Light:

The Sea of Light is a wise, beautiful, and very American story of three women and their desire to excel and win – and heal one another – in the highly charged world of athletic competition.

Angelita is the hurricane that brings down a plane carrying a team of…

About Straightening Up:

For most people the holidays mean family, togetherness, and focusing on the things that matter most in life. For Greg it means taking the artwork off the walls, putting away photographs, and sleeping single, because this Christmas his partner Michael’s mother is coming to visit.…

About Christmas, Past and Present:

Gary and Don are looking forward to celebrating the holidays: party planning, tree trimming, and getting ready for a visit from their son Josh. For Gary, however, the memories of past Christmases are beginning to fade, falling casualty to a cruel twist of fate. It’s up to…

About The Abulon Dance:

While on tour to the mysterious planet Abulon, the pleasure-loving hermaphrodites of the Merculian National Dance Company are intrigued by the virile patriarchal society they discover there. The natives seem friendly enough, but when the star’s young lover is kidnapped, the…

About She Flies:

Nora is sure about only one thing in her life–that she wants it to end. The rest is chaos to her confused, hurting mind. With her sexuality in question, her marriage in shambles and her spirit breaking, Nora must make the choice between a life she desires and a life she knows–or sacrifice…

About Dennis and Dad:

During this year’s Father’s Day visit, Chris realizes his dad is aging fast. When Chris notices his father’s confusion and strange behavior, Dad’s long-term partner Dennis expresses his own concern that these are more than just “senior moments.” Chris’s dad refuses to see a doctor, but…

About Periphery:

Periphery is as much about the female perspective of the future as it is an exploration of individual identity in a world increasingly dominated by technology.

How do we define our humanity, if not by the way we connect to others? Yet, even in the realm of the physical and…

About The Gift of the Snow:

When Andi moves into her new house, she knows from the outset that it’s different. One autumn night, she discovers how different it is when she wakes to find that her past, and the woman she left behind so long ago, aren’t quite so far away after all. Will she succumb to her own…

About Dante’s Awakening:

Dante Sonnier is a successful Hollywood agent. She is also a friend to the secret community of vampires living in Los Angeles, and occasionally she assists them when they have a problem that requires a human to handle it. The vampires are led by Voshki Kevorkian, a gorgeous, sexy…

About The Danger Dance (Merculians, #1):

Life and death action and intrigue aboard a military space vessel!

A startling command from the dreaded Praetan brings chaos into the tranquil lives of hermaphrodites Eulio and his lover Orosin. Using the tour of the Merculian National Dance Company where…

About Clouds:

Is love a constant? Familiar, ever there, ever recognizable? Or is it like the pictures in the clouds, ever changing. A flower one moment, and the next, morphing into something else, a face perhaps, or maybe just a fluff of clouds? Drifting away, so subtly, so slowly, that you can’t even say…

About Times Change:

A creature of myth, a myth of horrific legend, a legend of violation.

Throughout history, women have been enthralled, unable to resist their desire upon laying eyes upon this perfect example of man. Caitlyn is one such woman. She’s always been looking for the perfect man, and when…

About Water Dancer:

Nominated for the PEN/Hemingway award, Water Dancer is now available for the first time in ebook format.

Water Dancer tells the story of Dorey Thomas, a marathon swimmer training to cross the cold, brutal waters of the San Antonio Strait. It is a feat no other athlete has…

About Quicksilver in the Hand:

Julian and Tony meet in line at a David Sedaris book signing. “Promise me sixty blissful moments and I’ll pass my whole life with you,” Tony tells Julian. And, although the line is really little more than a charming pick-up line, a relationship does develop, told moment by moment from…

About Minus One: A Twelve-Step Journey:

On the run from “broken promises, cocaine and gin, wounds inflicted,” Terry Manescu turns to Alcoholics Anonymous for help. Abstinence alone fails to reform her, though; she resents the meetings, makes every effort to antagonize other AA members, and continues to chase the buzz…

About Squalling Brats:

When Tom and Fiona Garner visit their father on his fiftieth birthday, they find that his new girlfriend is a lot more than they bargained for. Squalling Brats is a story about prejudice, parental relationships and the difficulty in washing up sieves.

A short story from our Nibs…

About Night of a Thousand Jeters:

Will immersion in sports help two adopted Cambodian boys with special needs navigate their way towards a beautiful American manhood?

Will the author―queer, white, far from rich―survive the difficulties, mistakes, stupidities, flaws, longings and pitfalls of…

About Nobody Gets Lucky:

When Justine brings Lucky home for Christmas, the family isn’t shy in expressing their dislike of the quirky, single mother. Even Grandma’s taking pot shots at Lucky all through dinner! Sure, Lucky’s tattoos and tight clothes make her an easy target in Mother’s prim and proper dining room, but…