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.

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.

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.

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?

Ava is an exhibitionist who ends up getting caught while filming a video. The man who catches her seems nice and her defences quickly fall. He invites her to his cow ranch and she sees it as an opportunity to make more content for her fans.