Historical Stories

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.

Argos Flavius, master painter of panels in sexual pleasure chambers for elite ancient Greek men enjoying boys, is living temporarily in Rhodes to paint panels for the Baths of Dionysus, where he sees and is drawn to a fourteen-year-old blond Greek boy slave. He loses the connection but later sees the boy on a balcony of what must be a male brothel across the skyline of Rhodes from Argos's own balcony. Argos goes in pursuit of the boy, both to paint and to possess him.

Beautiful, blond German village boy Klaus becomes eternally fourteen for hundreds of years when the perpetually thirty vampire baron in the castle above the Bavarian village decides to bed and sink his fangs into him and enslave Klaus into his perpetual service.

Some childhood stories do have a kernel of truth and some more than just a kernel.

After being fired for his bosses mistake a young man stops at a bar.

A woman relates to her husband how she lost her virginity and discovered a liking for sex with black men. The story takes place during the summer of 1967 in San Francisco, the Summer of Love. Free love was the rule, but sex wasn't always consensual.

A haunting story of a German officer who discovers a wounded Russian woman in a ruined village. As compassion replaces hostility, an impossible bond forms between enemies — until a devastating truth shatters it. A gripping tale of war, humanity, and the cruel ironies of fate.

A "Delights" novel
Part of the Kobekistan universe
The Emir plays with the minds and the bodies of some of his subjects. The husband of one of the slaves, a kidnapped Sicilian woman, tries to rescue her, and feels the full force of the Emir's wrath. A prostitute in a cheap brothel discovers his gratitude. A would-be rapist picks the wrong target and suffers for it. The Emir explores more of his magnificent Palace complex and discovers some very interesting rooms indeed. This is the author’s least favourite novel in the Delights series.

From the dark and deep corners of a shallow mind surfaced a short story from my 311 Creative Writing Class in College. I had no idea I remembered it. It shuffled out tonight, captured my fingers and improved itself. I got an A+