Historical Stories

This file contains the first five chapters of the completely re-written story of "Rowena of Locksley". The next five chapters will be added later today. The final two chapters of part one will be added this weekend. Part two will be added in July 2017 and Part three in October 2017.

Random recollections of a recent trip to Vietnam

"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'.

"Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo?" "No ma'am. It's the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe El Capitan." All aboard!

In 1630s Dorset, rich and powerful Lord John possesses a beautiful, charitable wife who is the model of grace and virtue by day. When he spies Lady Mary committing a shockingly indecent act through his new telescope, their marriage ignites. The devoted couple embarks on ever-riskier adventures: she craves the thrill of losing all control to strangers, while he revels in secretly watching her delicious debauchery. A loving, wicked partnership is born.

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 rather calm but sex filled episode of Rebel Spy

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.