From the bizarre phase of Uncle Mike's writings. The mother of a Down's syndrome teen-ager fears that he could prey on little girls, so she finds something to take his mind off it. Not for the squeamish. You've been warned.
The customs of all cultures seem strange and for little purpose when viewed from outside their context. Ceremonies and rites of passage matter tremendously to those inside, but to the rest of us, we just starch our heads. This is a short story of one such custom as seen through the eyes of the principal involved. Sure we can wonder why, but in this case I say, Why not?
In a kingdom of magic and myth, there were two twins - Adrin and Lyrian - who excelled in the arts of sword and sorcery respectively. Their younger sister, Miryan, grew into a beautiful woman and caught a covetous eye. Unfortunately, the eye rested in the skull of a terrible dragon, who captured Miryan from her home and flew to the far mountains. Now, with the kingdom in uproar, Adrin and Lyrian must quest to save their sister But one must remember the old adage about those who fight dragons...
James is 12 when his father abandons him and his mother Ellen. She asked James to brush her hair and it becomes a nightly bedroom ritual but then he grows older and at 15 he is having thoughts about his mother that he shouldn't have. What to do, what to do?
Jake is a growing young boy trying to make himself a cowhand at his parent's ranch. When his father makes a fuckup and lets a bull gore his horse and then get him on the ground for more of the same what is Jake to do. What the hell, he always admired his mother's looks from the start.