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Twenty short stories written all by me. Sixteen were ideas totally original by me, three longer stories were for PGG who's a fan who pays me to write him stories of one boy and multiple men on commission and one was for a proofreader of mine, XPR. While I write fan commission stories using their ideas, I do my best on the commission jobs, trying to make the stories as original and exciting as I can, so you might have some trouble telling the difference even though I label those stories here.
The stories in this book are:
Upside Down in the City--When young Henry and his family moved from their farm to the city so his father can find work in a factory, it's a huge change for the boy, and he feels very disoriented, living in a world so different from his own, especially moving from a house to an apartment building. He goes out on the fire escape, to find that it is shared with the next-door neighbors, and three men who "hot bed" a single apartment. Life in the city is upside down for Henry, but he finds that living life upside down has some advantages as he gets to know his neighbors very well.
The Heartbreak Kid--Roy's older brother Todd's girlfriend has broken up with him and Todd is heartbroken to the point of moaning loud and long. Our hero can't bear to hear his older brother in pain so when he investigates and find his old brother asleep with a wet dream about his lost love and an erection, he takes matters into his own hand (mouth) to end his brother's agony. Nothing like a little hot loving to get rid of the love-lorn blues, as it turns out.
A Game of Chance--Behind the scenes of a jousting tournament, two knights are busy at gambling and when one of them has a good hand but low on funds, he offers his squire's body for more chips, if he can't redeem those chips by midnight, the squire is the sexual plaything of the other knight. The squire falls asleep and wakes up with the other knight in his bed and, well....
Dumped in Public--Gino's mother gets a job at a restaurant and Gino ends up spending his after-school time hanging out in the restaurant waiting for her to finish her shift and people-watching. One evening he watches a guy get publicly humiliated by his girlfriend who dumps him for another, wealthier man and as he sees the guy sitting alone and forlorn, he decides to offer a litle under-the-table consolation.
In Service to the King--Young Bentley is the King's favorite pageboy and personal assistant and as the still-young King wearily finishes a day of court, he goes to his private chambers where Bentley serves him by helping him undress, bathe, and then perform those other helpful services that can destress a monarch who doesn't want to be King!
A Firehouse Thanksgiving--When our hero's grandmother falls ill, their traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal at her home is lost, and it looks bad for our hero, but his firefighter father has a plan, he sets up a big Thanksgiving Day meal at the firehouse station for the firefighters who have to be on duty, and these men keep our hero busy the rest of the time as they wait for the meal to arrive and the feast to begin. A PGG story commission.
A Serious Student--When Wayne's father deserts him and his mother, she has to make ends meet somehow, and one way is to bring in a boarder, a student from the nearby college. She doesn't want a party animal, but a serious student in the college, who will stay at the house when not in school not make trouble. But nothing is said about what the boarder and Wayne get into in that deal!
The Peeping Tom--Gary's Mom is worried about stories of a man creeping around the neighborhood staring in the windows and requires Gary to lock his window at night. But when a young man taps on his window, claiming to be stranded until the next morning and asks to be let in, he sees no harm in letting the guy crash with him until morning...only to find the guy is a very good match for Gary for having fun in bed!
The Captive Captain--A small schooner crewed by a single man is taken over by two passengers/pirates who commandeer his vessel, but the bound man is at the mercy of a young boy who must minister to his every need as this captain is tied to his bunk. It's a bad lookout for this captain...unless the boy can be befriended enough to be convinced to help him.
Advanced Lessons--13-year-old Dexter was so smart, he was already in high school, which the older 11th graders didn't appreciate. Four bullies in his grade took it on themselves to torment him regularly, until he took refuge in the janitor's closet, to find the janitor had a price to let our young hero hide out there, and the janitor had no interest in Dexter's brain power. But Dexter had other talents, as it turned out.... An XPR fan commission story.
In The Neighbor's House--Two men in neighboring houses each have a young son, and on this morning, the father of one house has an important meeting, which lets his son call on the neighboring father to come over for fun and games. Little do either of them know that father's important meeting is with the neighbor's own son for a similar fun of bedtime fun.
Marines' NJP--When three hunky Marines are in trouble, their Colonel decides the best thing for them is an NJP (non-judicial punishment), and his choice is to force them to take his young son out for a long weekend fishing trip, where they are to keep the boy happily fishing and make sure he enjoys his time with them. Well, the boy has his own ideas of how to have fun with three Marines who have to make him happy! A PGG fan commission story.
Lost at the Carnival--When his mother turns her family loose at the carnival with money and tickets for the rides, eight-year-old Bobby finds the lights and crowds and noise giving him a panic attack, exacerbated when some older boys rob him of his tickets for the rides. Bobby seeks a quiet place in an alley between the games, where he is found by one of the carnival attendants, who takes him to his tent to recover, and as it turns out, some special ride of his own, and Bobby has lots of fun without using tickets.
A Way to Spend Eternity--Captain Mander's ship, destroyed in an interstellar battle, has himself and a small number of his crew rescued by an alien, extra-dimensional species, who cannot return them to their own dimension, but does offer to make them comfortable for what is going to be an eternity with growing old. The aliens can give the Captain his own "universe" to his liking in which to live, he only has to decide what that should be. But how do you decide what to pick, when you can live any life you want...forever?
Retribution--Caleb, a young teenager who was bad at sports, suffered being bullied at his school and so sought the solitary hobby of rock-collecting. While doing so, he found a meteorite set of rocks which when he touched them, gave him odd powers, to make time and people stand still, conscious but unable to move about, until he turned off the power. This gives him the ability to visit on his bullies a very special form of retribution for the way they have treated him for so long.
The Three Riddles--Prince Kasen was riding in the woods when, seeking shelter from a storm, he ventures upon an odd enchanted castle where the people were frozen in their place by a spell. He is visited by a suddenly-active young prince who explains that only Prince Kasen can break the curse placed on this castle, and him and his two older brothers, by solving each morning a riddle he and his brothers will each in turn pose to him the night before. Only if he solves the first riddle the following morning will he be given the second and so on. And each brother offers him an unusual hint to the answer by taking him to bed during the night after he is given the riddle!
Cimarron--A lone rider comes to the ranch owned by our hero's father, and asks to be allowed to stay a while, for pay. This lone rider has a charm the hero cannot understand and he watches the man and begins to understand slowly as he observes the reason the man is a lone wanderer. Note: "Cimarron" means "untamed."
Three Men in Midlife Crisis Mode--A collection of three small vignettes of three men who are experiencing a mid-life crisis, only to find a bit of the answer in the arms of a willing younger partner. We follow an attorney who has money but not fulfillment, a teacher who feels he is in a rut, and a father who is about to leave a boy's mother. A PGG fan commission story.
Them City Folks is Peculiar--The train rarely brought a passenger to the small town, so when a small boy from Boston and is named Boston emerges bearing a letter asking for an aunt and uncle to care for him (but the couple are unknown to the town), the people set out to help the boy find his relatives. The boy ends up sharing the bed of the mayor's teenaged son, Douglas, and the boy shows Douglas some fun like Douglas had never known before. The boy makes other friends and has fun with them in the town. But then the unexpected happens.
We Humans Have to Stick Together--Prakex had been a slave of the alien Velvex aboard their spaceship ever since his parents sold him into slavery some time before and had adapted to the life to where he no longer questioned it. But when a "wild human" is brought aboard and kept tied up, and Prakex is given the job of caring for the wild man and performing every care for him, Prakex find the man speaks only the "language of slaves" and convinces him that a better life exists for him outside the ship, a universe that he has not even imagined existed before, and a planet called Earth.
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