ChrisCross: Stories

Already at fourteen, Elan, son of renowned Santa Fe artists in 1915, knows that he wants to have full-blown sex with his father's best friend, Western novelist Carson Crane. Crane is cultivating the boy and they have lain together without anal sex. Crane has a secret why they haven't gone all the way yet. The novelist's obsession with having Elan prompts him to take the boy to a ranch in the Tetons where men train boys from Elan's age in full sex.

Fourteen-year-old Jamie serves at table in Murphy’s Roadhouse outside Harper’s Ferry downstairs and services men upstairs. It’s not until Abe, a former circus acrobat, goes upstairs with him that Jamie learns the full pleasure of what can be done with a man.

Comely and perfectly formed Cotta Antullius, third son of an armaments fabricator for the Roman gladiator school in the hedonist reign of Emperor Caligula, is in training in various possible careers of serving men when a visit to the gladiator waiting cells under the colosseum stands accelerates his experience and family misfortune forces him to be sold into slavery to an old general using him for his own ambitions.

During an emergency two-day air flight layover in Rome, fourteen-year-old Benjamin, flying alone from Tel Aviv to London and desperate to be initiated by men, gets his wish from a fellow passenger businessman and goes on to learning to ride to the beat and dynamics of classical music from an accomplished Italian count.

Count Rostovov’s obsession with fourteen-year-old boys in the lead-up to the Russian Revolution may be his undoing unless he changes his attitude toward his prey.

Neglected and randy fourteen-year-old Harry meets older man Jake at the gym, goes under him, and lets Jake pimp him to sailors returning from sea duty to the Norfolk Naval Station. Harry goes with his first long-lasting black bull.

Fourteen-year-old Jim Caldwell's father apprenticed his second son to go to sea as cabin boy to the HMS Royal Sovereign's captain, Sir Edmund Doman, with the best intentions of giving his son a future in the British Navy in the waning years of the eighteenth century. Little did he or Jim know what a "sailors' poke" was and how that would apply to Jim.

The lighthouse keeper wants the fourteen-year-old military school students who climb up to the cliffs to contemplate stepping off as much as the older students and the headmaster of the military school want them and pester them to get what they want. The lighthouse keeper just knows how best to get it while strengthening the boys in the process.

The setting is Zimbabwe in the mid 1980s, when the whites are being pushed out by a new black ruling class and the land is still lawless, the police more lawless than the rest. A Shona tribe police chief in central Zimbabwe wants fourteen-year-old European boys. The Whitfelds, trying to hold onto their dairy outside Gweru, have a fourteen-year-old blond foster boy, one who already is tasting sex from black men and craves more. The Whitfelds's answer to being able to stay on is an obvious one.

Newly discovered sexual curiosity and willingness, the Arabian Nights, the "Scheherazade" Symphony, neglect of an art dealer father, and the lusts of a charismatic symphony conductor all come together for fourteen-year-old American Evan in the back of a limousine in a Nice, France, seaside park.