Farming Stories

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.

The small-farm valley in Idaho on the western slope of the Grand Tetons was devoid of fit men in 1943. They were all off fighting the war. The job of getting in the harvest and taking care of business was left to the women and older men and boys too young for the war, like 14-year-old Jimmy and Sam. Sam is being covered by the town lawyer who would also like to cover Jimmy. A disabled veteran, Jack Fox, is added into the mix. He is quite able for the women and for Jimmy too.

The setting is Zimbabwe in the mid 1980s, when the whites are being pushed out by a new black ruling class and the land is still lawless, the police more lawless than the rest. A Shona tribe police chief in central Zimbabwe wants fourteen-year-old European boys. The Whitfelds, trying to hold onto their dairy outside Gweru, have a fourteen-year-old blond foster boy, one who already is tasting sex from black men and craves more. The Whitfelds's answer to being able to stay on is an obvious one.

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.

Imagine a scenario: You accidentally ingest a wine containing dog testicles. The following day, you discover a third testicle [third ball] has grown in your groin, and your pet dog begins to speak to you with human clarity. What would be your reaction?

Dorset, 1922. Farrier Eric Gange has survived the Great War and returned home determined to make his beloved wife Ada happy. But Ada's heart belongs to adventure stories, silent-film heroes and impossible romances. When "Sheik Mania" sweeps the country, Eric devises an extraordinary plan to turn fantasy into reality—with consequences far beyond anything either of them imagined.