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I am a shadow. I live in the dark recesses of the darkest places in the tunnels of Grand Central Station, but I do not stay put there; I am free to pass into the light. I wander among the vast marble passages. Sometimes, I make myself as noticeable as possible. I have prevented muggings by casting an ominous shadow in front of the intended victims to warn them. I like to think of myself as an angel; a shadow angel.

After a blizzard in New York City, a huge snowman appears mysteriously outside of Grand Central Station and everyday seems to grow larger while also appearing at another door. What at first was funny becomes more and more menacing. Elsewhere in Grand Central, a man with an icy soul named Clinton Rudge fumes with anger at the cheerful holidaymakers filling the station. After making an evil wish, he vanishes....

Tom is a gay young artist struggling to find success in New York City. For Tom, a love life seems an impossibility. One day, his hope in romance revives when he encounters Cal - a charming stranger, but...it might be a problem that Cal was killed in the First World War - 100 years ago! Then again, death might be just the beginning - the beginning of romance!

Visionary poetry of gay romance and the supernatural filled with vivid colorful images of imagined and remembered past times. Drawing impressionistic word paintings, this collection of evocative and provocative poetry is haunting and moving. Guy Veryzer's rich word images and fantasy spill over from his internationally collected artworks, his trio of poems on the romance of French Decadent poet Rimbaud and Verlaine is almost a small play. Some of these works caused controversy when first published.

Stranded in the center of Grand Central Station, a pretentious nightmare of a woman who makes everyone else's life hell finds she has a first class compartment on a very special train....

Interwoven with the dual themes of ghosts and the Grand Central Station Terminal. The stories vary in time period from the 1800's to the present, from pure imagination to historically based fiction. Some of the stories are humorous, some thought provoking, and some are frightening. Generally the stories are short in length, with the thought being that one might listen to this audiobook on a train, and that in transit concentration and time may be limited.

Two handsome young guys pick each other up over coffee one Saturday morning and begin playing a game of pretending each other is the perfect fun Mr. Wonderful...as they explore Central Park and the Met Museum and each other’s fantasies of romance.

Hotrod & Little Cowboy introduced best friends Ken and Brad as they discovered they are both into hot guys and each other. In this second story, Brad reveals hidden talents creating his sexy comic book heros WonderGuy and QuestionBoy, inspired by he and his lover. But the secret lovers have challenges in their relationship as Ken wants the two of them to live together! Ken wants to use his outgoing nature to help Brad's career grow. Brad worries about their hidden sexuality being discovered, but he can't live without their passion.

My first trip to Europe: Italy! I'm roommates with the hottest guy in school - Rob, with whom I'm in love. And he's gay! On this collage-art tour, we have studios to paint in: Siena, Rome, Florence, and Venice! Perfect! What could possibly go wrong? Except Rob isn't in love with me...and our third roommate is a straight queer-basher!

Drew, a very handsome young busboy from the wrong side of the tracks, is working away in an expensive resturant. He dreams of being a modern-day Cinderella. One night, his Prince Charming comes along in the form of a sexy blonde customer.

Two friends meet for coffee, conversation, and boy watching. But before long, one irresistible piece of eye candy becomes a distraction, a challenge, and perhaps, maybe Prince Charming? Or maybe one eternally optimistic friend is just in love with being in love and comes unzipped all too easily.

It was a hot sunny suburban afternoon in the spring of 1956. Gay still meant jolly and boys could be buddies and fool around without ever having heard the word homosexual. Fun was fun, and there was no guilt as long as no one knew.... Brad was hot, sweet and sexually inexperienced, Ken was very experienced and ready to teach his best friend about it all. Together they have the best night of their young lives.

An eccentric painter in a a small New England village rescues a handsome young stranger who insists he has fallen from the stars. The young man inspires both the artist's art and his heart.

Just outside Grand Central Station, a remarkable young shoeshine man finds his destiny and his dream: He was not afraid of the unfamiliar beast of winter. Jamal was often unafraid. For example, he leapt in front of a truck to save a baby in its stroller, and he even jumped down onto the cross-town shuttle train tracks to save a woman who had fallen down....

Little did he know his lovely misty city Saturday morning, was about to become a nightmare.... The young man dashed to the hall leading out to 42nd street, then cut a sharp right and jogged down and up the ramp past the Oyster Bar...the mist swirled after him, going over the bridge overpass, misting walkers in its path, those who had umbrellas opened them...it followed him as he pushed through the heaver doors to gain access to the marble stairs up to the offices on floors above. The thing swirled up the stairs after him like an amorphous polar bear...

A ghosty romance of a heart broken young musician and a spirit poetess, and his goofy fun gay best friend and the haunting spirit of a photographer all overlapping in relations in a huge old mansion in northern Michigan. "The boys are are lovely, dead and alive!" said O. Wilde. "And the girl is nice too, I suppose."

Trapped between his real life and his dreams of being a creative writer Adam lives in quiet desperation, only on his daily commute on the train to Grand Central does he find he is able to escape in private world writing and imagination. His life as an accountant is an endless grey reality -- until one day as the train moves into the darkness of the tunnel.

A hauntingly handsome young British man, aspiring to model stardom, finds an escape from romantic and financial problems when a train conductor at Grand Central shares a hidden secret with him. What at first seems an amazing underground palace of mystery leads him to unexpected consequences. Later in the story, ghostly cocktails are toasted in the Campbell Apartment (another Grand Central secret).

In the mode of a story like the classic Twilight Zone television series: A young woman loses herself in the rush of Grand Central Station, waking up in a mysterious place with a bizarre history....

A young girl in the 1930s traveling across from L.A. to New York on the 20th Century Limited train to Grand Central Station is abandoned by her drunken father, makes friends with a kindly porter, and then the train has a fateful accident.