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.
The sexuality of a fourteen-year-old golden-haired squire with a gift for pleasing men is used in a ruse by a Crusader warrior chief in a fortress besieged by Saracens in the twelfth-century Levant to scheme his men's way through the Saracen lines and escape to the Mediterranean Sea.
A Rachael of Emarukistan Story (3) Rachael's slave training business is doing well. She agrees to train a young female slave on behalf of the Grey Monks, a quasi-religious order with an unsavoury reputation. When Rachael gets to know her trainee's background she is unwillingly drawn into the murky politics of the Grey Monks. A betrayal puts Rachael's own freedom from slavery at risk.
Fourteen-year-old 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.