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This collection of tales is a tribute to the unique bond of the woman-woman relationship called girlfriends. Often the most valuable relationships in women's' lives, girlfriends make each other laugh, always lend a supportive shoulder, and sometimes know each other better than they know themselves. The inspiring and revealing tales told here explore the values these relationships are built upon - acceptance, forgiveness, loyalty, honesty, and much more.

After fleeing his hometown to avoid going to prison for defending his little sister, twenty-one year old Carter Reed lives a lonely life making subs for college kids. Yet when Allison stumbles into his shop while fleeing men in black, he helps her escape... and meets the girl of his dreams. Yet Allison isn’t just Carter’s perfect woman. She’s also a fugitive from another planet, and other aliens are hunting her. Despite the danger, Carter can’t bear to let her run alone, and soon learns Allison is as eager to be with him as he is to be with her. He is, in her words, her ideal partner.

Nick Antosca's The Girlfriend Game is a tumble through the looking glass into a vortex of violence and desire. The 12 stories in the newest collection by the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author are brutal, urgent and unforgettable. In "Predator Bait", a decoy in a sex-sting news show questions her job and the man who shares her bed. An undependable son watches his mother become a creature he hardly recognizes in "Amphibian". A young man plots the death of his girlfriend's killer in "Winter Was Hard".

A collection of short stories by Vinayak Sharma.

In the confession, What Are Girlfriends For?, it's Layla Mill's birthday, but her boyfriend Jonathan Carr seems to have forgotten. But when her best friend/co-worker Shauna Summer offers to take her out to celebrate, it's a night Layla will remember for the rest of her life.

Why can't he keep his mind off of him? Sure, Dane is a blond Adonis, charming as all get-out with a deep Southern drawl that makes Kevin want to mount him here and now. Sure, they have a connection that is undeniable, but there's also one little problem. Dane is his best friend, Cecily's boyfriend and even if Kevin's gaydar is accurate, and Dane does feel the same way that he does, Kevin just can't go there. Or can he?