The shadow by the stairway to the Helios deck of the MS River God drew back and sheathed the blade that had been held at the ready lest a moonbeam cast its damning light on dark intent. Just moments to a death now. The increased intensity of the groaning and moaning from the only occupied lounger on the rooftop deck of Rhine River luxury cruiser told of th...
My friendship with Vince went back quite a ways. The events I reveal here happened over twenty years ago. He was around sixty-three. I was approaching sixty. He often came over to my apartment. Neither of us were married at the time and we spent many a night drinking Chianti talking and solving the serious problems of the world. At that time, I owned a few...
It had all been going so well for Captain Asante and his team, locating this planet called BL9 in the middle of a black hole somewhere, nobody really knew where, but his navigasearchers had managed it. And they had landed and met with no hostility. In fact they had been welcomed into the Presidential Palace, which was where they were now. Then, after some p...
This is a continuation of my previous story. I was at the dentist and a previous lover was in the waiting room, it had been an intense relationship. I was married but gay and he was divorced and bisexual. We had regular contact in the workplace although we were not always at the same location. He was in charge of a group of sub-contractors implementing wor...
I heard the chimes quite clearly. Even in self-induced narcolepsy something nagged away annoyingly enough to risk a slight opening of my eyes. Gladly the room was familiar. Austere enough certainly, very little to appeal to any but the most disengaged esthetically, in every sense my perfect room. The air was cold. The little flesh on my bones tended to offer...
My friend had invited me to join him in the baths. I knew this was a custom of his people and that everyone, men and women, went to the public baths to bathe and talk. And I well knew that much of the mens talk was business. As I wished to do business with his people I accepted his invitation. But I accepted it with some nervousness as I had heard stories of...
Life's been much easier since deciding to pursue my attraction to men. I'm still attracted to women but since deciding to act on my impulses I have found myself appraising men for their sexual potential more and more. For instance, I was down in Cornwall a few weeks ago dawdling away a morning on the surfing beach at Polzeath: I'm nearly thirty now and hav...
The Greek domestic slaves, Demonethes the scriba and Ganethes the curator were charged by their master Agricollus Antonius to organise the food and entertainment for the celebration of the annual Feast of Saturnalia. Whilst affecting to despise these revels, which both their inferiors and betters enjoyed, they non-the-less diligently discharged their duty....
I used to travel for business quite a bit. It was usually a whirlwind of activity -one town, then a few hours later, another. I know I had a hectic life and it never seemed to slow down. But sometimes, things happen that kinda make you pause and rethink your situation. I was in this good-sized town called Cedar Creek. I had only stopped because I was just t...
I had been on this particular gay dating site a few months and had had a couple of nice little meets, but one guy I didn't fancy kept coming up. His name was Rob and he seemed to think he was the world's leading expert on fucking men. I wasn't interested in him, and told him so, but he kept popping up with friendly chat that would inevitably end with a reque...