"Island Summer" is another summer idle. It is a bit longer and moves somewhat slowly. It is set in the early part of the 20th Century and is total 'Romantica'.
A Tom Fisher Tales Story Lady Isabelle Astley employs a frenchwoman, Arielle, as her Dresser. It isn't long before she discovers Tom Fisher's particular asset being used to good effect on housemaid Emily, and wants to try it on for size herself. Eighth of the Tom Fisher Tales.
The things you see when you have a gun. This is a little different to my previous stories. It is set in Northern Ireland, and tells the story of a locally recruited soldier. His marriage is in confusion. Then, while looking through the sights of his machinegun, things get more confused.
Comely and perfectly formed Cotta Antullius, third son of an armaments fabricator for the Roman gladiator school in the hedonist reign of Emperor Caligula, is in training in various possible careers of serving men when a visit to the gladiator waiting cells under the colosseum stands accelerates his experience and family misfortune forces him to be sold into slavery to an old general using him for his own ambitions.
A half-drowned stranger suffering from exposure and speaking a foreign tongue is brought to shore in an isolated fishing city at the height of the Cold War and mistaken for a Russian spy. Meanwhile, his girl mourns for him.
Celadus, a Roman gladiator, is called to the Coliseum to fight for his Governor's amusement. There he meets and defends a young slave woman against the Coliseum's wild beasts. Afterward, he claims her as his prize...
A Story in the The Haliseon Factor Universe
A man is plucked from the the planet of his birth by an advanced race and genetically altered to such a degree he no longer considers himself to be a member of the human race.
Over a hundred years after his abduction he is returned to the planet just after the American Revolution. What has he become? What task did the aliens give him? What will it mean to humanity?