ChrisCross: Stories

When Portuguese priest, Padre João, headmaster of a Macau Catholic school in 1934 discovers that a handsome, blond student, Clayton Bryant, whose parents work far away, is interested in a life of being covered by men, the priest doesn't condemn him, he helps him do what he wishes. After selling his virginity to a Chinese Macau Triad chieftain and then helping himself, Padre João gives Clayton over to be taken to serve men in the Bitten Peach male brothel.

Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for young men. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.

Ricky does movies and is booked to fly from L.A. to New York for an audition. At the last minute, the agent can’t make the trip and a guy in an airline uniform agrees to watch out for Ricky until he gets on the plane to New York from a Chicago connection. Chicago is socked in by a blizzard when they land there, though, with Ricky needing and getting more help than had been anticipated.

For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a young man for his permanent service on All Hallows' Eve from one of the towns, in succession, in his nineteenth-century Russian princedom. Prince Melikov has received this privilege for centuries. The young, to-the-manor-born Alexei is this year's offering and Prince Melikov has come to take delivery.

Nate, living with his inattentive American parents in Tokyo in the 1920s, is years ahead of himself in curiosity and has an interest in being taught exotic and exhausting sex by men. His music teacher, the German, Hans Bender, has just the opportunities to offer Nate in this vein.

American rent-boy, Heath, is a busy boy servicing men out of a Caribbean coast resort hotel in Honduras. He is doing it so blatantly that one would think he wants to be caught by the local police for male prostitution.

A young English gentleman takes his valet and bedmate to sea with him as personal cabin boy during the Seven Year's War between England and France. Their ship, the "Essex," sinks in the battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. The gentleman is lost and the boy takes shrapnel to the head, causing amnesia, but is saved and sent back for surgery and recuperation at Longford Castle. Here, various men discover the boy's talents in bed and use him as the boy slowly regains his memory.

Promiscuous Jamie Hopewell, banished West because of men-on-boy scandals he was causing in Philadelphia in 1881, finds himself riding into an Apache uprising in the New Mexico Territory as Jamie is going to become the ward of the commander of Fort Cummings, who is willing to take the boy because he has a fetish for younger men. An Apache band of renegades has other plans for Jamie, though.

Having delved into his gay uncle's stash of videos and magazines, Jeff Douglas was convinced that he wanted to go with men. A man ogling him at a public pool and subsequently following him into a park helps Jeff answer that question.

Ernst has the looks and voice of an angel in early nineteenth-century Austria. These attributes mark him inevitably to be the catamite of a rich sponsor. He is resolved to this, and is initiated by Baron Otto von Lauffen. When the boy’s voice changes, the baron transfers Ernst to an older boys’ choir and new voracious choir master. Ernst wants to be a painter, though, and meets one younger and more desirable than the baron or the choir master.