What would make a sophisticated, well-educated American man in his early thirties take a job running coffee and cinnamon plantations in rural East Timor for a Portuguese export house? It couldn't be because the age of consent for teenage boys there is fourteen, could it?
When 14-year-old Tom's family immigrates to Boston from England in 1804, Tom goes to a merchant ship as an apprentice sailor. A British frigate impresses sailors from the ship, however, making the small, young, blond, handsome Tom a cabin boy on the brig HMS "Raven," the duties of which include opening his thighs for the ship's officers and sailors. They change his name to Jamie and sail to the Barbary Coast, where Jamie, going on shore leave in Tripoli is taken into a male brothel
She was a hermaphrodite. A thirty-year-old former 'Stripper' with vibrant burgundy-colored hair, who'd caused a sensation and joined the Victoria Police - desperate to carve out a niche for herself as a Policewoman, ‘Trainee’ Constable Sonya Campbell had found herself persona non grata at the Glenbervie Police Station in Melbourne leafy north-western suburbs. Sonya Rebecca Campbell had fallen foul of 'The Sisterhood' - the select cadre of lesbian and Bi policewomen at Glenbervie.
"Its power alone has sustained me for a number of years now," my Grandfather said, "but even that can't hold back my end. Now son, I have written some instructions, you'll find them in the box ok. Use its powers sparingly, don't attract any attention to yourself, ok, then the orb will reward you with a good life.