In 1956 Germany, American colonel, Armstrong, takes his wife, Betsy, and fourteen-year-old son, David, on a vacation to see Mad King Ludwig’s Bavarian castles. They engage a down-on-his-luck count to be their guide. David and the count become very good friends.
Diana is a prostitute in the temple of Aphrodite and sincerely believes in the value of her service to the goddess. But when her friend Andromeda adopts the new religion of Christianity, Diana's faith is also shaken.
A very short story with no sex. Carol is a woman who catches her husband cheating and devises a plan to end their marriage. As things sometimes happen, plans go awry and in the end everything works out for Carol.
A Story in the Kobekistan Universe
Hiring a teacher is simple - even if it is for one to work in the harem of the Golden Palace. This is just a silly incident which might make you smile.
Guido Sarto-Reutter is a fourteen-year old son of a Venetian-Austrian aristocratic family, that, in 1920, is both in poverty and riddled by scandal because both Guido's father and grandfather have, for years, been bedded by a Vienna baron in his castle. Guido is in a Venetian charity school for sons of families in straits like his run by a count who is pimping the boys. Guido has no trouble falling in with this demand, and the count has found a possible buyer for the boy.
At 14, Danny should have aged out to a work program in the 1870s from Eli Phillips's Iowa farm orphanage, but Eli takes too much sexual pleasure from the boy. While Eli is absent, his wife, Sarah, sells Danny to male brothel suppliers Meachem and Grant to take Danny west. Danny's goal is California, so he willingly goes with them and serves the men they sell his body to. Landing in Colorado, he's short of his goal, wanting to go to the coast and a man who will love and protect him.