Farming Stories

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?

Sometimes one bad decision ruins a person's whole life.

Rajeev lives in Gujarat with his mother and lovely sister Nehal. One fine day Nehal becomes unruly and bratty and his mother must discipline her on their rural farm. This story is told from the perspective of someone who is not a native English Speaker.

Trying to forget and to deny his Revolutionary War coupling with the fourteen-year-old soldier Andrew, newly minted and married lawyer, Ben Smithson, resettles at the Virginia frontier in 1790 to start a new, clean-slate, life as the community's lawyer. When his wife dies, however, he becomes ensnared in the desire for two fourteen-year-old boys, the gypsy boy Liam and the miller's son, Tad, an interest that is reciprocated and enflamed.

The deflowering of the virginity to being mounted by men of a fourteen-year-old boy as beautiful as the Italian vineyard worker Paulo is so precious that, with care and lack of scruples, it can be sold more than once.

A brother and sister were caught in a storm on the mountain.