5 Ergebnisse.

You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn't without danger.Years later, Paul is struggling with ...

Love. A four letter word describing a feeling that most children grow up surrounded by. I didn't. Until Asher Gray. The guy always up for a good time. The friend I could always rely on. The man who also happened to be my brother's best friend. He made me feel more cherished than anyone else ever had. I'd gotten used to our friendship, regardless of how attracted to him I was. I never thought we could be anything more. Until the loo...

People Always Leave. They've proved it time and time again for as long as I can remember. You'd figure I'd be used to it, but that feeling, the one of losing someone you love, it can be unbearable. That's why it's easiest to never let people too far in to begin with. It's the cardinal rule that I broke with one look into his deep blue eyes. I let him in. All of him. His touch, his love, his secrets, his lies. I thought it was the fairyta...

In Just Pervs, Jess Taylor's sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted and complicated -- no longer are women figures to be acted upon my men, here they have agency over their desires and their bodies. Through the characters in these stories we discover how sex can be many things: it can be gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden, or open, but it is always complicated. Just Pervs explores the strange oppres...

Fiction. PAULS, the debut short-story collection by the exciting young writer Jess Taylor, is about people: the things that remain unseen to them, how they cope with their unforgettable pasts, the different roles they take in each other's lives, how they hurt each other, how they try to heal each other, the things they want to learn, and the things they'll never discover. At the same time, PAULS is a portrayal of the world as these people see ...