Military Stories

A Tales from an Ex-Brat Story
This is not the Fantasy Island of TV fame. There are no vertically challenged characters, or enigmatic gentlemen in white linen suits, although there are planes. This Fantasy Island is merely another excerpt from not so much Tom Brown's Schooldays but rather Jack Green's Fooldays. The events take place after my graduation from RAF Halton, when I joined the Real Air Force in Germany. Nothing was ever the same again; for the RAF, for Germany, but especially for me.

A true story of a Marine Corps recruit who helps another.

A newly arrived fourteen-year-old military academy cadet meets a randy redneck night fisherman in a truck by a lake where the cadet has been dumped, nearly naked, in a hazing ritual.

A haunting story of a German officer who discovers a wounded Russian woman in a ruined village. As compassion replaces hostility, an impossible bond forms between enemies — until a devastating truth shatters it. A gripping tale of war, humanity, and the cruel ironies of fate.

The summer after Stalingrad is frozen in time. Germany is on pause waiting for the sword of justice to fall on the fatherland. Horst is on his way back to the Eastern Front and is doubtful he will be making a return trip back to his beloved Bavaria.

Lebanese-English fourteen-year-old boy, Amir, goes with his submissively gay father, Afram, on holiday in Turkish Cyprus in 1986. Amir wants to go the same way sexually as his father, but has not been taken there yet. His father hooks up with a hunky Danish UN contingent soldier, who also has the eye for Amir. A muscular Turkish fisherman sees Amir, though, and might just get there first. Amir doesn’t really care who is first as long as someone relieves him of the burden.

A chatroom meeting results in a real-world hookup between a civilian on an out-of-town assignment and a young naval officer looking for some man-to-man fun.

To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.

Male-perspective bisexual: In this raw and rough reality look at one man's ordeal in simultaneously facing the destruction of his way of life and the agony of decisions in his sexuality, hell is up and heaven is down in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon.