This is a variation of my short story Born in David's Basement. It concerns Michael and David and their frustrating relationship, where David is hopelessly anti-gay and Michael is hopelessly confused. Enter Michelle, his alt-universe alter ego who saves the day. Read my note to the reader at the beginning of the story before reading.
Fascinated by the playwright, Tennessee Williams, and determined to follow in his footsteps, fourteen-year-old Hollywood actor Joey Harris wins the role of Tom in a Christmas of 1954 Pasadena Theatre children's production of "The Glass Menagerie." To get the role Joey has to lay down for his agent and for the production's director, who claims he can nurture Joey as much as he did Tennessee Williams. Joey recognizes what is needed to make it in Hollywood.
The continuing cycle of fourteen-year-old boys and men in the business of photographing nude and sex scenes for various levels of publishing and special subscription audiences plays out in Europe in the first twenty years of the century.
Christina Moore didn't think much of it when a dog bit her sweet, eighteen-year-old son. But then the changes started. His behavior turned feral overnight. Is it drugs, or is it the curse of Kumokum?
Desi -my old-man's self- in his far-away-house takes up a friend of his niece when she needs a secret hideaway. The build-up of sexual tension between old man and visitor begins to show. Indeed not the intention?
Tawnya likes her sex hot, dirty, and hard. She recently discovered BDSM and is thrilled with the idea of being used and abused by a Master dominating her. She places an ad in a fetish paper and finds her dream Master. Now, can she serve him the way he (and she) wants...
A college graduate couldn't find a job in his field so he had to take a dishwasher job at a local restaurant. It helped, but money was still tight until he took a job moonlighting as a pool cleaner. One day his moonlighting job paid BIG dividends!