The Lovers
R.E. Blakeslee
The Lovers: A tale of the Ain Sakhri figurine
In the year 15,500 BCE, the Huwai people prepare for the Saba Festival to celebrate the Spring Equinox. This is a time of Blooming. Ziva and Afra, newly made men of the Huwai clan, must make an offering to the tribe's ancestors and spirits. If the spirits accept their offering, Ziva and Afra will enjoy a ceremonious union and be mated forever. Unfortunately, the spirits are capricious, and the wilds of the Levant contain much more than just gazelles and einkorn wheat. Hyenas, wolves, lions, and demons lurk with ravenous hunger on the savannah...
COMING SPRING 2012
A Violins Cry
R.E. Blakeslee writing as Joseph Cox
A Violin's Cry
Three days before the anniversary of Julian Banner's lover's suicide, a terrifying sound rips him from his sleep. Someone broke into Julian's home to steal a single string from his dead boyfriend's violin. After an unpredicted dinner out, Julian is lonelier than ever. That night when Julian wakes in a dream of smoke and fog whispers, visions and a truth he was never supposed to realize become clear in the haze.
Origination
R.E. Blakeslee
ORIGINATION
"Confidently we send the Seed with The Betylos encapsulated. He will be reborn on the blue planet and remind the men their women are cunning, lustful creatures. Let them embrace The Philosophy as we have..."
On a rainy night, naïve, eighteen-year-old Eran Aeggle flees his childhood home, stumbling across an extraordinary stone. He picks it up, and with a bright flash of light, he falls unconscious. When Eran wakes he is unable to explain what happened or why he's so fascinated by the peculiar rock. Did it cause the two tattoos of an unknown origin on his shoulders?
Buffalo, New York - 2075
As Eran's need to attend The Alluvium Institute and become a botanist matures, so does his attraction to Simon Duncan, a handsome artist. It seems as if fate has brought them together. However, life is not meant to be an ever-blooming garden... Will Eran nurture their growing love or let it wither from uncertainty? How can Eran accept the destiny aliens set out for him if he doesn't believe? Will he let his turbulent past drag him into darkness?
As wide-eyed citizens of the City of Light live unknowing, a sadomasochistic killer stalks the night. But there is hope - in the moonlight a reluctant hero soars on wings of mysterious illumination. If only Eran could find the courage to realize...
The Body Servant of Aleops
R.E. Blakeslee writing as Ellen Lett
The Body Servant of Aleops
Jack Stevenson caught his lover in bed with another man, and now he's lost his job.
He's got nothing to lose. Maybe that's why Jack put his name into the lottery.
The prize is out of this world!
