Beastiality, a topic I find reprehensible, reared it's ugly head just recently. Had I not received the email I did from a certain young lady on another continent, this would never have been written.
A "Delights" novel (1) Part of the Kobekistan universe
The first of 12 books about life in a 21st century Arab country where the old laws of concubinage and slavery still apply. David Ransome has lived in England since he was four, and is a post-graduate student at Oxford University when his grandfather and uncle die, and he inherits the throne of the Emirate of Kobekistan. Read how an easy-going ordinary English young man is transformed by power into a cruel autocratic Emir who is capable of having an annoying concubine strangled.
James, a neighbor has a crush on his best friend's mother. While his friend is out of town working, James gets his chance at the woman of his dreams...
A young girl teases a couple of rough construction workers doing a renovation project on her parents' house. She gets more than she planned for when she takes the teasing too far.
A man discovers an antique Cheval mirror among his deceased aunt's possessions. He has one identical to it at home that once belonged to his mother. He takes it home, and places the two side by side. When he cleans the glass, he notices concentric circles starting in the center of the glass and moving outward, as if a stone had been tossed into a serene pond. He soon discovers many other anomalies that, bend the rules of science and nature.