ChrisCross: Stories

As winter is setting in in northern Virginia, fourteen-year-old runaway Kenny is lured away from under a highway underpass by a money-for-sex offer into the truck of a gardening center crew leader who is missing the servicing of his fourteen-year-old stepson. Short men on his crew, the man gives Kenny a job handling a leaf-blower and introduces him to an interested client. Is this the answer to Kenny’s need to stay out of the winter cold?

Saddled with the wants and desires of Roman emperors of old-to love a young teenage boy-an American expatriate drives down the Italian west coast looking for isolation and an opportunity to exercise his fetish. In a small, remote harbor village he finds the ripe and willing fourteen-year-old Luigi.

Life was tough in the scratch-earth mountain valleys of the Colorado Rockies in the years following the Civil War. They were unbearable when the father of a small family had died—and even more so when the wife is Lakota and the son a half-breed. But the fourteen-year-old son, Cigala—Little One—is beautiful and sexually desirable to men. Where there is such an opportunity, there is always a way.

Udo, a fourteen-year-old German boy, is taken in by his aunt and uncle when his parents die in an airplane accident early in the summer. It is a house where his uncle is dying and his aunt is absorbed in that. It is too late in the summer for Udo to enroll in summer activities in Munich, and his aunt and uncle have no children of their own. Udo, lonely, turns to Herr Klein, suffering a loneliness of his own, who Udo has met in the park, and the summer unfolds from there.

Fourteen-year-old Serrah is sold as a slave in 1773 by the father of the son Serrah was lying down for in Sierra Leone, Africa, because the father wants perfectly formed Serrah for himself. The boy is manhandled by the British slavers and sailors on the Middle Passage voyage that lands him in South Carolina Colony to survive or not on his back on Daufuskie and Hilton Head Islands until his talent and perseverance get him to the brothels of Savannah and control of his own destiny.

Movie agent Brad Boynton has totally created leading man heartthrob Ron Fitzhugh into a major movie star. All Ron had to do was give Brad everything. Fourteen-year-old movie extra Jared is smitten with Fitzhugh on a movie set. Jared too wants to be made into a major movie star.

Fourteen-year-old Paulo, already pulling tricks from older men and being covered by his mother's boyfriend, Jorge, in Malaga, Spain, takes off on his own for an adventure of his own choosing. He falls in with filmmaker Sergio, who produces films for a specialized audience.

Orphaned 14-year-old Daniel Crawley, already initiated by his school headmaster, taking advantage of the boy's orphan status, is shipped from England to Malaya to inherit and live at his father's rubber plantation in the early 1900s with the understanding a guardian will be provided. However, the plantation overseer, Russell Singleton, and the Malay major domo, Junada, compete for control over the plantation and Daniel, and the solicitor charged with finding a guardian is under their sway.

In Merrie Olde England, a landed knight marries a young woman to get at her fourteen-year-old brother, but he doesn't leave her without comfort.

A 1956 royal visit to Kenya gives British colonists a chance to party in Nairobi and a 14-year-old colonist son a chance to get it on with an overseer, but it also gives Mau Mau rebels an opportunity to attack.