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The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins. Which means that your heart is like a miniature ocean within your chest. Chaz Brenchley has not only been awarded the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award but knows all too well the storms and dangers of the heart: the lofty desires, the grieving nadirs, the tempest of love. In Bitter Watters, his first short story collection devoted to gay readers, Brenchley offers men fantastical instances to effleurer, to break for taller timber, to drown in emotions. And while not every tale in this breathtaking collection involves the sea, tears and bloodshed still need to be navigated.

The two cities of Maras-Sund are bound by an otherworldly bridge the Marasi used to conquer the Sundain. With their own magic over the water diminished, the Sundain's only hope for liberation lies with a man of limitless but untested power. Possessing an affinity for water unparalleled by any of his people, Issel has led a small band of resistance fighters across the river from Sund to Maras in an attempt to break the magic binding the lands. But after taking refuge in the cistern network beneath the city, Issel finds his abilities overwhelmed in the presence of so much water—and threatening to tear him apart. The rebels find an ally in Jendre, the daughter of a general in Maras's army, who has her own vendetta against the regime. Her sister is held captive, along with others whose life essences power the magical bridge between her land and Sund. Under other circumstances they would have been enemies. But in these extreme times,...

Rotten Row is the worst place we've made.Humankind can travel to the stars - but only those content to be flung as a datastream through space, flitting from male to female, dark to fair, one random discard body to the next. Those who go are the Upshot, rare individuals subject to their own rigid laws.And then there's Rotten Row.Outcasts in breach of all codes, in Rotten Row people design their own bodies and sell them on for re-use after. Outlandish bodies: furred and feathered, winged and hooved and worse.duLaine is an artist, but all art is about identity. Where one blurs into the other beyond physical limits and legal restraint, what is art worth and how can anyone be certain who they are?

They call it Paradise: an inner-city danger zone, starved of resources and starved of hope. Run-down housing, run-down lives.Then comes a miracle. Literally a miracle, a dying boy made well, healed by the touch of a charismatic young man. And that's only the beginning. Richard brings light into the darkest places; his inspiration and leadership breathe new life into a sick community.But where there are powers of light, there are also powers of darkness. What starts as a revolution soon becomes a war. A war fought for the heart and soul of Paradise...

SUMMARY: In the fifth book of Outremer, a heretic people threaten the fragile peace-and a renegade state becomes the battleground.

What would you do if you woke up in hospital and your last memory was dated January, but the calendar said April? If they said you'd crashed a car, and you not only didn't remember the crash, you didn't remember the car either? If you were a solicitor and rigidly honest, and the biggest bunch of flowers in your room came from the biggest crook in town? If there were no flowers or visits from your girlfriend, but the total stranger at your bedside claimed to be your wife - and proved it? If someone drove a blazing truck through the window in an obvious attempt to kill somebody, and very possibly you?When all this happened to Jonty Marks, he ran for sanctuary. To the mountain garden of a fallen angel. Where else...?

In this Martian city, each stop along the monorail has a purpose behind it's namesake. However, none are quite like the Station of the Twelfth, and if you decide to visit, you'll be sure to learn why.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Issue #191 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chaz Brenchley and D.K. Thompson.

When Benedict left home, it was maybe the first time he'd stood up to his family. It was also meant to be the last. No contact, he said, I'm disinvesting.In all honesty, they weren't sorry to see him go. Ben had never had their talent, never had the family spark. When you run a city - especially the way the Macallans ran theirs - the last thing you need is a reluctant passenger.But suddenly Ben's learning a lot, far more than his university course could ever teach him. And as his family starts to die one by one - vicious, gruesome, horrible deaths - the chief lesson is that you can't turn your back on blood. There's someone in the city with as much talent as the Macallans, and Ben's connected after all. It's there in his body, it's in his veins; and be it thick or thin, be it still pumping or leaking out, blood is very much darker than water...Northern Lights Book 1

British Fantasy Award winner Chaz Brenchley has crafted a deeply personal ghost story of dead twins and mad mothers, of Moleskine notebooks and teen friendships, of AIDS care-givers and more. “... a powerful, moving book that will haunt me a long, long time.” —JAIME LEE MOYER, award-winning author of Delia’s Shadow.Michael’s shadow twin – Small – was his fetus in fetu before being removed and preserved in a specimen jar at the medical school. Michael and his single mother keep the rest of the world at bay while they hold the spirit of Small close – she homeschools Michael, moves house every six months, and at restaurants she asks for a table for three, “but there’ll only be the two of us eating.”When Michael turns sixteen, he meets a household of men caring for Quin, dying of AIDS. Michael is drawn ever more deeply out of his lifelong conversation with his mother and Small and into the far more tangible world he finds at the house down the street with Quin, Kit, Gerard, and the others ... ... and discovers some unexpected things about himself in the process.

A haunting tale of terror from a master of the genre.When she is offered an undercover assignment by newspaper editor (and her former lover) Tony Fledgwood, professional party girl Grace Harley jumps at the chance to disappear from London and escape the scandal that threatens to engulf her. Her mission at the great house formerly known as D'Esperance is find out what goes on within this so-called commune and what happened to the journalist originally sent to investigate, who has disappeared without trace. But it's not long before Grace experiences a series of strange and increasingly menacing incidents...

Ben's back - and this time he means business. Family business... Benedict Macallan, wonder-worker malgré lui, has travelled the length and breadth of Europe since the events of Dead of Light, and still discovered no family like his own. Maybe Macallan blood really is a biological sport, a freak of evolution.Northern Lights Book 2