Historical Stories

In July 1941, journalist (but really military intelligence agent) half English-half Burmese Gordon is dispatched to Burma to convince the artist who deflowered him at age fourteen and set him into having the fetish too to return to England to work on the war effort. The artist is in Burma because there are easy boys there and he tries to convince Gordon to stay. Gordon indulges in his old fetish and is also pursued by a Japanese sadist.

The new king must father many children, but he is a gay man with no interest in women. His solution is to donate one of his testicles to each of two men, whose lives are then devoted to fathering as many of the king's children as they can. One of them also delights in a life partner.

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.

Ernst has the looks and voice of an angel in early nineteenth-century Austria. These attributes mark him inevitably to be the catamite of a rich sponsor. He is resolved to this, and is initiated by Baron Otto von Lauffen. When the boy’s voice changes, the baron transfers Ernst to an older boys’ choir and new voracious choir master. Ernst wants to be a painter, though, and meets one younger and more desirable than the baron or the choir master.

This story was written for a story-writing competition, which it didn't win. It is the morning of the day before the wedding of a young girl in a country village in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. (A 'verst' is half a mile, and YES, it CAN be done!)

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.

There are all sorts of inheritances. Money, property... The one left by Sir Arthur Saxby was truly extraordinary...

A group of Irish conscripts trying to make their way home through a hostile countryside.