Showing results for "Morgan" in Coming of Age

Keane Morgan wouldn’t return any of my calls or texts, and I was pissed as hell about it. I didn’t want to drive from Seattle to L.A. with the guy any more than he wanted to drive with me, but I had no frickin’ choice in the matter—at least, not if I wanted to use his brother Dax’s coveted parking spot at UCLA. Okay, so it turned out Keane was objectively gorgeous, and, fine, pretty funny, too. But did he have to be so damned in love with himself? I mean, jeez, the cocky way he flashed those dimples was just so orchestrated.

“I’m hiring you to do more than guard her, Zander,” my new boss explained. “You’re gonna be her rock. Her human Valium. Her trusted friend. And she’s gonna be your mission from God.” “So I’m her babysitter?” “Her babysitter, her bodyguard, her f--king service doggie. Whatever she needs or wants, that’s what you’ll be. Anything except her booty call.” The vein in my new boss’s neck bulged. “Touch her and I’ll do more than fire your ass, Zander. I’ll rip off your balls.” My buddies laughed when I told them about my ridiculous new job.

It had been many years since Jemima Barlow entered into the front doors of her primary school. Her heart leapt when she spotted a portrait of her first grade teacher, Miss Kravitz, hanging on the wall beside the school's namesake, Sarah Swain. Her shifty eyes and sinister smile seemed to taunt Jemima, awakening a nightmare from long ago...but then, the lovely Miss Granizo came to mind...

The small town of Morgan Hill, Tennessee, is turned upside down in 1947 when the Turners become the only black family ever to move into the area. Nine-year-old Jane Gable first lays eyes on young Milo Turner the day that her trouble-making, alcoholic father is buried in the Morgan Falls cemetery...

Transgender, Cisgender, boy, girl, all words of a distant and archaic past. Enter a world where gender is suppressed before birth, only to be revealed on one's Choosing Day. But, beneath the pristine facade of structure and order lies the dark and sinister secrets that those in power will do anything to conceal. Tested, tried and true, the system works, but what if someone born sexless begins to identify with something it has never been? Can decades of scientific intervention triumph or will nature began to reassert itself?

COUNTERPUNCH – Maryl Morgan Marks jumps into the gritty pounding city of Philadelphia after a chance meeting leads her to a booming high-tech startup job far from her sleepy Seattle suburb. There she is shocked into the reality of power, greed, and start-up speed in the high-stakes world of the 1980s. Grappling with an inherited friend group, dubious business ethics, and the new definition of corporate success, her journey is a tug-of-war between her higher self and wanting retribution for the misogyny and narcissism engulfing her.