First Stories

My wife and I let our friend Lucy live at our place while she got settled in town. A stray comment leads us into a great threesome.

Fayard knows he’s young, too young to have all the answers, but he reckons life has already taught him a thing or two. Having returned from boarding school, he intends to while away many long, leisurely days in his hometown before setting off for university. He certainly doesn’t foresee any drastic upheavals looming on the horizon. However, life has other plans in store, with new stories to tell and secrets to share, starting with those he believes he knows best.

Told in the style of the Decameron, but featuring Sister Bertrille, a young nun in the '60s. She alights before an old man who takes advantage of her naivete -- several times. A short, quirky story. (Celeste's score: 10, 10, 10: "This is an excellent story.")

The story of Steve, a young man who encounters a mysterious virus that gives him the power to make others feel sensations that aren't really there.

A young teen comes of age with the help of her family, all of them

This is the story of a young man who joins the Navy in order to escape a bad situation at home.

(For a young temptress named Emily) A girl earns her way as an archer in a mercenary company. Along the way she learns about sex. She takes a lover and acquires a protégé, a surf and a mistress.