This is a revised edition of The Atonement which is already posted here. I am the original author of "The Atonement" under the pen name "Racecar." There are two additional chapters added by other authors that are not edited, in addition to another new chapter written in the 1990s that I never posted.
Kraken. An ancient deity that everyone fears. And what does he himself think about this. Maybe his tentacles want to bring everyone's good to this world?
After a surprise encounter at work, a wife is invited to spend a naked weekend at the new friend's home. She doesn't explain anything to her husband, and they are both surprised in the liberal, free spirited home.
14-year-old English cabin boy Nathan is shipwrecked off the coast of Aden in 1881 and makes his way to the city. His choices are to starve and be taken in the streets of the city and done to death as handsome European boys are roughly used in Aden or to at least use his body to make money for passage home. He consigns himself to a male brothel, hoping that Arab clients will not use him up before he can return home. It's an Englishman who uses him the most cruelly, though.
He decides to find out if his fantasy of being watched masturbating is as exciting in real life as it is in his mind and solicits the help of a very dear close friend. She is hesitant as she is worried it is cheating on her husband, but decides just watching is ok. What transpires is more than either had imagined.
A Depressed hard working young man who just broke up with the love of his life is being set up by friends on a Blind Date. Things seem to be boring at first, loss of words insecurity and memories of is old high school love still lingering on but then the restaurant waitress decides to help fate a bit and things develop rapidly. Love develops, romance and lots of 'wet' moments. Discovering international foods, culture and sex.