Historical Stories

A Story in the Laresa World Universe
(Follow-up to "Deified", completing Nathifa's tale) Laresa and Nathifa are living a quiet, simple life among their newly adopted people, but Laresa is troubled. Recent events have eroded her ability to brush off that she is Djinn, and thus a slave. Being so close to Nathifa, only recently freed from the bonds of the Djinn herself, is a source of turmoil for Laresa as well. The village also faces danger as "Those who live outside the light" stalk the peaceful community.

A Story in the Wendy's Worlds Universe
She rescued a starving seagull and found a watch.

I stand on the temple steps in the sunlight, a harmitu of Inanna waiting for someone to purchase my first time with a man. Waiting to begin the sacred rite—mirroring the mating of sacred king and high priestess, of god and goddess—that will make me a woman.

A Glass Balls Story
The sequel to "The Glass Balls" (which you should read first) describes Dom's new career as lover-in-residence in Renaissance Florence, and narrator Olivia Wright's emergence as a sexually fulfilled woman.

A Spirit of the West Story
Great evil is about to strike the old West of 1868! Bobby Thornton, a 12-year-old orphan is being groomed to be the champion for good. Join him as he learns how to be a superhero. His mentor, Storm Who Walks, an Indian spirit over 1000 years old, guides him on his way. DAPorter originated the plot and I am just fleshing it out. Any credit is his, any blame is mine.

For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a young man for his permanent service on All Hallows' Eve from one of the towns, in succession, in his nineteenth-century Russian princedom. Prince Melikov has received this privilege for centuries. The young, to-the-manor-born Alexei is this year's offering and Prince Melikov has come to take delivery.