esquire submissions

A lawyer accused of rape commits suicide and is transported to another world.

WE ALL KNOW TOBY ESQUIRE, EITHER BY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OR BU STARING AT HIM IN THE HALLWAYS, HE'S KINDA GOOD AT CATCHING PEOPLE'S ATTENTION, ALMOST AS GOOD AS HE IS AT BEING AN ASSHOLE. HE'S RUDE, LOUSY, OBNOXIOUS, SELFISH AND JUST PLAIN HORRIBLE, MAYBE HIS DEATH IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING. BUT, WE STILL NEED TO KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. * * * THE LIVES OF 8 STUDENTS ARE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN WHEN THEY ARE ALL IDENTIFIED AS SUSPECTS IN THE MURDER OF ONE OF THEIR CLASSMATES.

Ellis Potter is a squib, just not in the regular sense. Like any, good old squib, he can’t use normal magic like the rest of the wizarding world. But he can use an entirely different kind of magic. One that’s completely new and unpredictable. All Ellis wanted to do was to keep his brother, Harry, safe and sound. Maybe it would have been easier to have been born a regular squib...

Athena loves her wife. She loves Maria’s smile and sculptor’s hands and tender dominance. She loves being Maria’s model, posing for the creation of art. She’s happy to stay right where Maria’s arranged her, taking pride and pleasure in remaining just so. And as she stays so perfectly still, her submission becomes more and more pleasurable -- and distracting.<br><br>But if Athena can wait without moving, she’ll earn her reward ... and find the sweetness of release in the art of surrender.

We take photographs as Return Tickets to moments otherwise gone. As Pat regains his shutter touch, Jane arrives in his borderline-okay life, which will make unimaginable differences.

First work , trying out the atmosphere.

This was my first ever realistic book about what I imagine the gay life would be like.

Thirty-eight years ago, the world went to war. A totalitarian military government ruled the central continent with absolute power. Cities were controlled, people were oppressed, and any resistance was crushed. Then something impossible happened. Nations, clans, and legendary warriors united against the regime. The war lasted for decades. Mountains were destroyed. Cities vanished. Entire families were erased from history. When it was finally over… The people won. The old government fell, and the central continent was divided into four great regions. Each territory came to be ruled by one of the great leaders of the revolution — men and women who became kings after the victory. But to prevent the new kingdoms from turning against each other, a decision was made. At the center of the continent, a neutral territory was created, controlled by what remained of the government. A region shaped like an X. A point that separates the four kingdoms. A place that watches them all. Decades later, the peace begins to crack. Secrets buried within the war begin to surface. Truths that were never meant to be discovered. And then… Amid all this chaos… An impossible child is born. Something that should never have existed. As if destiny itself had failed. Or as if the world had made a mistake. His name is Ryo.

In her past life, Tang Mo accidentally lost her own Space Jade Pendant when the apocalypse began, losing her biggest golden finger. Afterwards, her superpower training went awry, she lost her loved ones, suffered from ostracization, and utterly ruined the good hand she was dealt, ultimately dying at the mouths of mutant beasts. Opening her eyes again, Tang Mo was reborn one week before the start of the apocalypse. None of the tragedies has happened yet! How will she seize the opportunity and walk her own path to becoming a powerful figure in the apocalypse?

Married to Mason Crawford for two years, Summer Thorne became the city's notorious jinx. As the legitimate Mrs. Crawford, she could only watch helplessly as her own family went bankrupt and her father was convicted, with no one willing to lend a hand. Mason Crawford looked at her coldly: "Summer Thorne, do you think anyone in Valois would dare to help you if I didn't give the word?" Everyone watched her hit dead ends everywhere, bruised and battered, standing by with cold indifference. Until that snowy night in the deep mountains, she was tricked by others and left to walk alone in the snow, when a man on horseback galloped over, pulled her onto his steed, and wrapped her in his embrace. * The first time they met, she lit a cigarette for him; The next time they met, he said, "Miss Thorne, how much are you planning to spend to buy me?" Timothy York, a gentleman from a prestigious family—upright, dignified, aloof, and noble, a man who had never made a single misstep, praised by everyone in Valois. Yet, on that one day, Summer Thorne was photographed leaving Timothy York's residence early in the morning. The entire city was in an uproar. The most unattainable flower of Valois had actually stolen another man's wife! * Everyone said Summer Thorne was a master of seduction, but they received Timothy York's four-word reply— "I initiated it." The wind rose in Sombren Forest, and snow fell into his arms. From the very beginning, it was he who initiated it.