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1) Dumb Supper
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When heartbroken Lyle and his best (and very pregnant) friend Delia hang out one afternoon, Lyle realizes he's not fully himself. Sure, he's still hurting over his boyfriend's Chris abandonment, and from the non-stop chubby jokes he's grown up with, but there is something more to his sudden chest pain, his random forgetfulness, and his sudden cravings for all things marshmallow. He's not Lyle at all, but Cassandra, the ghost of a teenage girl who...
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Richard, Kyle, and Devon are roommates through circumstance, not necessarily by choice, but Richard figures he's lucked out, especially with Kyle. They're good friends, like the same books, and don't mind sharing a movie and a joint every now and then.
Everything changes one New Year's party when Richard and Kyle go beyond the bounds of friendship. Richard isn't gay, though Kyle is, and the two move past the incident rather quickly, and move on with...
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Danny doesn't think much of working nights at the local convenience store. It's just a job and a paycheck as he figures out what to do with the rest of his life.
Then Brad comes in. A shy, awkward man who buys a box of condoms and then bolts out again, Danny is pretty sure he'll never see Brad again.
When Brad returns with a full box of condoms and a sad story of being stood up, Danny is pretty sure he knows how to make the night go right again....
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Derek Smith has been working as a super since the New Year, but still can't quite get the hang of it. He can clean, he can deliver notices, and he can even evict people without too much fuss -- but fixing toilet tanks? No, thank you.
Yet that is what he is tasked with doing when an order comes down from the higher up bosses. Since this job is pretty cushy so far, he tries it out. And soon learns from a very impressive expert called Mr. Fix It online.
Derek...
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On Thanksgiving weekend, Beatrix "Trixie" Fairchild expects her three grown children to meet her in Niagara Falls. For what, she won't say- but her cryptic invitation spark a certain kind of magick and makes it so each one of her adult children returns to their hometown with hope, and only a small amount of resentment, in their hearts.
Whether it's Ivy, the oldest, who fears following in her mother's witchy footsteps; or Hazel, the middle child with...
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Markus and Joel have been together for years. Yet each holiday brings with it new challenges they must navigate.
This year, they should have left long before traffic and a winter storm makes it impossible to get anywhere before midnight. But Markus had work to do, still had to wrap presents, and didn't even manage to find Joel a gift before they left.
Now Joel's angry and cranky in the driver's seat, and there seems to be only one way to cheer him...
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When Sheriff Paul Plowman wakes to find dozens of escaped mythological creatures roaming through the intergalactic city of Fabula Rasa, he is forced into action on his day off. He's able to stop the invasion -- but at a cost. His neighbour, Maurice, is dead and Paul has been forced to kill a unicorn, which is against the honour code of his family.
In the aftermath, Paul is tasked with solving where all of these animals came from. He soon meets Daniel...
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After Shawn Connors returns from the war, he's facing life with an injured leg and a changed perspective on what it really means to be a solider and to fall in love.
Shawn Connors had no illusions about the war. But after injuring his leg in a blast, he goes home to his sister's in Maine and isn't prepared for the reality of his return. As everyone around him gets married, promoted, or moves on with their lives, Shawn is left drinking alone at a...
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Rory Murphy is so close to being a professor, he can't sit still. As the last summer of his student career begins, he lands an interview with a prestigious school overseas -- only to bomb it with a silly mistake. His successful ex won't talk to him anymore. And his childhood lisp, the one that he did grueling hours of speech therapy to remove, now seems to come back at the most inopportune moments, like a fun game of trivia where he can't even say...
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Michael O'Rooke goes out for Halloween one night and has a life-altering experience. He dies.
And then he comes back to life.
Over the next couple decades, this happens again and again. Why, he isn't really sure, but it allows him to live the way he's always wanted to, out and proud and free. He just hopes he's able to find love before he dies for good.
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Jesse Potter returns home to his parents' neighborhood to housesit for one week. He expects to get some school work done, maybe watch some movies, but nothing else too extreme. Even when the cute neighbor named Patrick catches his eye, he knows he's out of reach. Not only is Patrick married, but Jesse's not sticking around.
Then there's the clown to consider.
Patrick's lawn is filled with Halloween decorations, all of which are terrible to the Halloween-hating...
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Jeremy smells cigarettes in the stairwell of his apartment complex. At first, he's annoyed and upset about the disturbance.
But when he realizes the smoker is an attractive man grieving a bad relationship, he allows his attraction to flourish into something more than a bad habit, and something he hopes he can keep a lot longer than fifteen minutes.
13) A Good Marriage
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Adam North has never seen a good marriage. His friends and past boyfriends are commitment-phobic and his parents were not together long at all. After spending years jumping from job to job, he settles in NYC where he meets Jack one night at a New Years' party.
Jack and Adam soon fall in love, but their relationship is far from perfect. After three years, the inevitable happens: he and Jack split -- but so do Jack's parents, David and Linda. While...
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When Natasha "Tasha" Joon accepts an invitation to read from her gender memoir to a feminist bookstore, she thinks it's one of her many stops on her publicity tour organized by her best friend and secret-crush Lydia. As it turns out, the audience that awaits her is far more sinister than she ever thought possible, and Tasha is soon cursed.
Instead of falling into despair, she and Lydia fall in love. Later on, Tasha realizes she has a tumour in her...
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When Nelson gets a night job at the Sleep Eaze Motel, it's not long before he's pretty sure he's seen it all: junkies, criminals, and of course, the suicides. But when a group of professors travelling for a conference all die in their rooms -- seemingly by their own hands -- he's not too sure what's going on. Only that something's not right.
So when the nephew of one of the victims -- a deaf man named Jeremy -- comes to stay at the motel, Nelson...
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Chris is not having a good day. His night shift job ends in a bloody nose (for someone else), it's freezing cold in Chicago, and his best friend of almost twenty years won't return his phone calls. When he heads to the park for some release in the cruising area, he's not expecting to find Lorne: an attractive older investment banker with a unique perspective on the New Year's.
How we spend New Year's Day is how we spend the rest of the year, according...
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Coach Andrew Grady's life has become rather trivial, mostly centered on leading high school gym classes and completing paperwork. He's in his forties, and though he still runs every morning, time has not been kind to him. He's slowly given up the idea of finding love, ever since his ex-husband dumped him in the school parking lot years before.
Everything changes when Jamal Knight, basketball star extraordinaire, returns to his high school to give...
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Three dozen missing people. New gods vs. old gods. A battle as old as time ...
The Winterlands is a place of desperation and misery when David, a former spiritual soldier, shows up at a local inn. When he is refused a room, he makes fast friends with a scared priest named Garrison who is on a mission to expose a rival spiritual leader, named The Mountain Man by the locals. Though David does not believe in a single thing -- and refuses to give his...
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Mike's brother Zach has always been a little weird. He spends most of his nights sneaking out to hunt for ghosts, and then reading fan fiction for his favorite TV show Paranormal whenever he has free time. But when Zach comes out as gay, and is subsequently bullied at school, Mike realizes his brother needs an ally more than anything. Though Mike knows he's also pretty strange, they form a pack with other outcasts at the school to make their time...
20) A Thousand Cuts
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When PI Luca Nolan accepts a case from a man looking for his lost cousin, he doesn't expect to find artist Daniel Merriweather so quickly -- and so attractive. As he surveys Daniel in gay-friendly Provincetown, Luca finds more of himself in Daniel than he does for his client, leading him into questionable gray areas in terms of his personal life and his private practice.
When Daniel discovers he's being watched, and Luca's put in a bad place that...
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