Reviewed:
The story celebrates courage, love, and tolerance, although there is explicit sex. As to the tolerance, start with his making prayer at meals a private thing. I don't personally pray, but that's something that gives everyone a chance.
Most significantly, the story deals successfully with something for which I wish we had codes. "Ma/Ma" applies, but that code tends to suggest pure male homosexuality. "Bisexual" also encompasses FF.
What this uses is the idea that a man, primarily attracted to women, could also enjoy play with a man while retaining a principally heterosexual outlook. Still, from a readership standpoint, that does trigger homophobia.
I'm reminded of a real swinging experience, in which an incredibly sexy woman pointed out that I thoroughly enjoyed watching her with other women. "Is it fair for me to ask you to let me watch you with an occasional man?" I couldn't say no.
Reviewed:
War is a terrible thing. No one wins; everyone has hate, rage, fear, as constant associates during and after the conflict; and it is disgusting to realize that "God is on our side," is the rallying call to both sides of a conflict.
So look closely upon our Hero; Glen has had tragedy thrust upon him, and he is well on his way to becoming a life member in the Be Grumpy society. He lives alone in a small log cabin he is building way out in the Boondocks. He stops the murder and rape, and torture of three youngsters by an obvious paranoid schizo.
Well to make this Review a little bit shorter, the psycho makes three attempts to kill the two girls and their older brother who have been placed with Glen until Glen finally has to kill him in defence of the family.
Slowly but surely he falls in love with the girls and their brother, and is totally involved with all three sexually.
They raise the ire of a religious group, and again Glen comes to the rescue and with the help of the town's people they are all killed, and finally Glen's two wives and himself find peace and security under an assumed name in another part of the States. Now unfortunately sometimes the Text Mark-up Language does funny things with the script and suddenly big O's with Umlauts appear when all Lazlo wanted was to have "..." indicating that another person was involved with the dialogue.
Hey, it happens! But all the same enjoy as I do all of Lazlo's stories which are thought out well in advance of publishing them.