1978. Dorset is gripped by Country & Western fever, illegal CB radios and cowboy dreams. Respectable couple Norman and Veronica Chant discover that a little harmless flirting over the airwaves can lead to very real consequences. What begins as an innocent game soon spirals into blackmail, unexpected desire and outrageous adventures, proving that in rural Dorset, the Wild West is closer than anyone imagines.
It is time for Cavanaugh to find other employment than as a lawman. Things are getting a mite to hot in the old west. It is not just the bad guys but the constant demand on his reproductive services by needy females.
The roads of the Weird Wild West are not for everyone. Where death lurks around every bend, there is no room for the weak. Where the dead rise from their graves and the nights are flooded with the light of a blood-red moon, only those who learn fast can survive. Only those capable of taking responsibility and leading others. Cut off from anyone who could come to her rescue, Rose must learn these harsh lessons—or remain forever in one of the nameless graves that litter these harsh lands.
At 14, Danny should have aged out to a work program in the 1870s from Eli Phillips's Iowa farm orphanage, but Eli takes too much sexual pleasure from the boy. While Eli is absent, his wife, Sarah, sells Danny to male brothel suppliers Meachem and Grant to take Danny west. Danny's goal is California, so he willingly goes with them and serves the men they sell his body to. Landing in Colorado, he's short of his goal, wanting to go to the coast and a man who will love and protect him.
In the unforgiving frontier town of Dustwater Creek, life is harsh and danger waits around every corner. Young and clever, Lysandra Bale must navigate a world ruled by strength, cunning, and courage. Fierce-willed and unyielding, she faces the trials of the West with intelligence and determination, shaping the people around her and turning even the most difficult circumstances into opportunities to survive and thrive.
Life was tough in the scratch-earth mountain valleys of the Colorado Rockies in the years following the Civil War. They were unbearable when the father of a small family had died—and even more so when the wife is Lakota and the son a half-breed. But the fourteen-year-old son, Cigala—Little One—is beautiful and sexually desirable to men. Where there is such an opportunity, there is always a way.
Dex, the fourteen-year-old mulatto slave boy a New Orleans gambler wins and uses for sex starts out for California with the gambler in the gold rush era. When Indians attack their stage coach outside Laramie, Wyoming, Dex is thrown off the stage and is gang banged by the Indians before being saved by a hunky French fur trapper with an appetite for fourteen-year-old boys.
The small-farm valley in Idaho on the western slope of the Grand Tetons was devoid of fit men in 1943. They were all off fighting the war. The job of getting in the harvest and taking care of business was left to the women and older men and boys too young for the war, like 14-year-old Jimmy and Sam. Sam is being covered by the town lawyer who would also like to cover Jimmy. A disabled veteran, Jack Fox, is added into the mix. He is quite able for the women and for Jimmy too.
From the dark and deep corners of a shallow mind surfaced a short story from my 311 Creative Writing Class in College. I had no idea I remembered it. It shuffled out tonight, captured my fingers and improved itself. I got an A+
Clementine never thought she would get caught up in the lust for gold that all the silly miners seemed under the spell of. Still, there were a lot more ways of gathering the yellow stuff than digging for it.