Tim invites some friends over to play poker. One of his five wives decides to play hostess for the game. The game gets intriguing after Tim runs out of chips and his wife offers to help.
A former security enforcement officer heads to a barren world seeking revenge and finds a lot more. After killing the men responsible for his great uncles death he ends up with three women. His uncle's mine does more then earn him credits.
When a twenty-eight-year-old Air Force mechanic serving at Kadena Airbase in Okinawa in the early 1970s wakes up after a drunken binge in a Koza City bar to find himself being serviced by a fourteen-year-old boy while the boy's permissive B-girl mother is having sex nearby with the airman's buddy, he starts on a journey of realizing his appetite is for fourteen-year-old boys.
Jules Kincaid is a child writing prodigy of only fourteen when the novelist Arthur Brolin takes him from the slums of Chicago to a primitive, free lifestyle beach village in Indonesia late in WWI on a one-year writing sabbatical. Brolin says Jules has the necessary talent, but his writing does not yet have passion in it. Brolin isn't the only one who helps Jules to experiences that feed his passion and hone his writing.