The Room Only Lovers Can Exit (Short Story, Boys Love, Yaoi, English)


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Category Fiction > Yaoi Fiction > Short Story Fiction > Korean Fiction (Web Novel) Summary JinSoo's secret love for his peer, WoonEui, is a burden too heavy to bear. Athletic WoonEui's every breath, every drop of sweat, sends JinSoo's heart aflutter. Yet, feeling insignificant beside the immensely popular WoonEui, JinSoo hides his feelings. Until one day, he shares his secret wish with a homeless man over a drink. This is an Asian love story that explores a secret and forbidden Romance between two young men. As part of the New adult romance genre, it captures the purity, passion, and complexity of youth. JinSoo's Secret Love for WoonEui becomes an inescapable force, drawing readers into their emotional journey. Fans of boys love or yaoi will find this work particularly appealing, and those in search of Steamy romantic books will also be touched by the story's intensity. This romantic love story brings to life vivid characters and happy coincidences, weaving magic that will keep a smile on the reader's face. This Boys love novel will resonate deeply with readers, leaving a lasting impression as it explores the beauty and truths of life through love. Explore Jinsoo and WooEnui's world and find yourself entranced by their unique love story. #modern #fantasy #supernatural #oneNightStand #cuteGong #childishGong #uprightSoo #comedy #sweetAndLovely * This short story of yaoi/BL is translated from from the original Korean short web-novel (text-only, no illustrations) Tables Of Contents Title Page Body Content Copyright (37 pages in approx. print length) Preview Kim, JinSoo didn't like to say that a man was a throw-a-ball kind of guy. Sure, he'd show up to his country's World Cup games, with a beer mug in hand, screaming South Korea at the top of his lungs, but he was basically a man's man. He had no use for the camaraderie of a hot, sweaty, dusty field, and he wondered why he couldn't look away from him now. "WoonEui, pass, pass, pass!" WoonEui's opponent tried to take advantage of his momentary hesitation, but it was his feint. With a teasing flick of his foot, WoonEui slipped past his opponent and drove straight to the left wing. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that his opponent's defensive position was empty. "Yes, WoonEui. That's it. You're there. Just go for it," JinSoo whispered to himself. His throat burned as a dry sob escaped him. WoonEui's foot lurched forward, and he kicked the ball hard, drawing everyone's eyes to the ball's clean trajectory. "...... is in!" "We can't believe this. WoonEui has done it again!" "Aaaah, free booze!" His teammates on the field hugged him and cheered him on, and it was time for JinSoo to see if he could try to talk to him. "WoonEui, here, here! Look here!" JinSoo was startled awake by a muffled shout coming from the seat next to him. He saw a group of girls with short, bobbed hair that looked like they could break if you slapped them, shouting WoonEui's name in excitement. WoonEui glanced over, and for a moment, JinSoo thought his intense gaze was on him, but he was mistaken. There was no way WoonEui was paying attention to someone like him when all those lovely girls were giggling right next to him. "....." He had a bad taste in his mouth. He wanted to drink. *** "Hehe, I'm here to get drunk again." "Are you back again?" JinSoo asked, eyeing the man suspiciously. "I had given you one last chance. I don't want to waste my rice wine on someone who can't control their eating habits. You said you were sorry and promised not to come back again." As the shop bell jingled, someone walked in, but there was no one to greet the visitor. The clerk, JinSoo seemed too busy dealing with a middle-aged homeless man, leaving the visitor unnoticed. Nevertheless, JinSoo managed to navigate through the chaotic store and grab a pack of soju and some snacks. "Give me one more time, oh give me one more time." "I'll call the cops. You better leave while you still can. And, by the way, you're hurting my business!" "Shit, " he said. "I have no money, but I have self-esteem. This young man, you should not live like this. You would be more like me." He then said to the young man. "Respect your elders, you disrespectful brat!'" "I felt sorry for you, asshole. I felt sorry for you once, and then you came back and said these bullshit ...... What an asshole!" Out of nowhere, a convenience store clerk shoved the homeless man out of the way. "Oh, no, this guy is going to run over people, " the homeless man whined, but the clerk snorted hard, as if he'd done that act a time or two before. JinSoo scratched his head at the deepening mess. "Well, how much is his stuff, The Love Of VR (By Nimdorusin) / Yaoi The Summer In The Hut (By Epillia) / Yaoi Your Personal Shopper (By Goddess Somi) / Yaoi What You Do With A Possessed Body (By Cypress) / Romance The Pill Of Regret And Fall (By Jjabjaljjab) / GL




A Little Life


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.




Marriage of Unconvenience


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Lauren "Lo" Bowman is in a bit of a pickle. She needs money, like ASAP. She lost her job, the rent is due, and her car needs repairs. Problem is, the inheritance left to her by her old-fashioned Granny has one stipulation before she can collect: she has to be married. Let's just say suitors (of any gender) are not knocking down her door. And then Cara Simms, her best friend from childhood that she's recently reconnected with, pours her heart out and confesses that she needs money to pay for grad school. Lo has a completely brilliant idea: they should get hitched. Not married married. Like, fake married. All they have to do is play the part for the lawyers, get the money, and then get the marriage annulled. Easy as hell. Well, it starts out that way, but being fake married feels a lot like being real married, and Lo is flipping out. She cannot be falling for her best friend. Can she?




Missunderstanding- Fate Looked Back


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In the male talent agency run by two women, Hana Fukuhara and Megumi Shimada, many strict rules have to be obeyed. Some of them are hard to follow. No relationships. No sexual activities. Not even self-stimulation. But things happen... Kenta Yamamura is somehow always dragged into forbidden encounters with other boys. His inability to say no causes him a lot of troubles. He does want to be faithful because he has a partner he loves more than anything in the world. His partner is Hana Fukuhara. This is a secret. But... Kenta has more secrets. One of them is... Kenta and Yuta have a special connection… what is it? Find out in this Fate Looked Back. Part of a controversial boys love novel Missunderstanding- My Thread.




Boys Love Manga and Beyond


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Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.




Blindsight


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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




Giovanni's Room


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"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart. Introduction by Colm Toibin"--




False Start


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Football, a kitten, and 14 dates. Zhanna Hale THEN My father is a legend. Some call me football royalty, and in my hometown of Louisiana, I suppose I am. His legacy didn't prepare me for Bryant Hudson. The quarterback. I swore I'd never date football players. Permanently. Yet Bryant had other plans.Three dates and a handful of conversations, I handed him my heart without realizing it. But, Bryant shatters my soul. I'm left picking up the pieces. If only erasing him from my heart was as easy. Bryant Hudson NOW I lost at the only game that matters. And it wasn't even a game. It was and is my forever with Zhanna. I am the best quarterback out there. That should be enough, right? Achieving my dreams. But none of that matters without my woman beside me. When she left, she took my heart with her.Now I'm back. To remind her of what we had. To see me-the man whose heart she owns, not the quarterback.Our love is fate. Our lives are forever intertwined. I refuse to let a false start signal our end. I'm ready to repeat the play and show Zhanna she is my everything.




The Class Prince


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Desmond Mellow, a seventeen-year-old teenager transfers to an all-boys high school after causing trouble in his previous school. Known to have behavioral issues and a little too much sass, he is looked down upon by adults and is shadowed by his older brother's achievements. When he arrives at Ivory High, he sits beside Ivan Moonrich, the Class Prince. His entire world shifts the second he lays eyes upon the boy with mahogany curls and beautiful grey eyes. A cascade of events unravels: new friends, new enemies, a new crush... And so begins an adventure of friendships, love, mistakes, and a teenager's struggle to find his place in the world. "We break the rules to exist as individuals and not as people."