They are extraordinary characters living outside the bounds of reality. But you will recognize them... It's about being gay, being straight, falling in love, sorrowful partings, death, and fantastic circumstances. "Bending the Landscape" stretches the standard fantasy genre. In the groundbreaking anthology, queer writers write fantasy for the first time, and genre writers explore queer characters. But don't expect the usual fantasy backdrops-these stories will give you a frisson, a thrill, as they fizz off the page.

When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he’ll stop at nothing to stay free. He’ll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he’ll murder in the stacks, and he’ll bleed into every inch of Tess’s life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap the devil before he kills everyone they know and love, including, increasingly, each other. And compared to what the devil has in store for them, school stress suddenly doesn’t seem so bad after all.

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A hiking and exploring guidebook to the areas that surround Bend, Oregon. Features hikes, hot springs, canyons, caves, waterfalls, lakes, and lavalands.

Civil Bend, scenic landscape of the Missouri river destined for shackling, is history spiced with legend for better or worse. The scenic rendezvous features reliant, resilient, resolute ancestors and descendents of aboriginal heirs, white immigrant settlers, free black homesteaders, escaping black slaves who witnessed and experienced manifest destiny's conquest, an abolitionist hole of the underground railroad, the civil war, the emancipation of slaves, the refinement of community, the emergence of a new century, the first world war, the woman suffrage movement, the prohibition of alcohol, the great depression, the dust bowl, the real life occurances of birth, development, maturity, marriage, parenting, labor, service, disease, illness, injury, deluge, tornado, flood, drought, depravity, dissent, reconciliation, aging, death before the closing of an incredible era.