LOVE IN DARK SETTINGS ¶ Suspenseful historical
fantasy, friendship fiction, and gay fiction ¶ By Dusk Peterson
Dusk
Peterson writes fantasy stories on friendship, gay historical fantasy tales,
and contemporary gay fiction. Occasionally, a heterosexual love story will
appear as well. Suspense plays an important role in many of the tales;
the conflict in those tales is both external and internal. Peterson's stories
are often placed in dark settings, such as prisons or wartime locations.
The mood of the stories, however, is not one of unrelieved gloominess.
Romance and friendship, especially male friendship, are recurring themes.
Genres: Suspenseful fantasy, historical fantasy, historical fiction,
science fiction, contemporary fiction, friendship fiction, romantic friendship
fiction, heterosexual love stories, sweet romance, original gen, original
het, original slash, alternate universe fiction, hurt/comfort, darkfic,
m/m fiction, gay fiction, gay love stories, gay erotic romance, gay erotica,
leather fiction, fiction recommendations, and nonfiction.
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Main Bookshelf
Friendship fiction and heterosexual fiction.
He vowed himself to his god. Now the god is growing impatient . . .
The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and
betrayal in times of war and peace.
Separated in time and place, a young woman and two young men are united
in their goal: to protect those they care for from the destruction of battle.
The odds are against them.
Darkling Plain, fantasy tales about young people in times of
conflict.
This series also contains Princeling, a fantasy novel set in
a world where war has lasted for generations, From Hell to the Stars,
a
loose translation of a medieval science fiction classic, and Main Stream,
a sampling of suspenseful historical fantasy stories.
Articles and Web directories on a variety of topics. (Index located off-site.)
High Bookshelf
Gay fiction and friendship fiction. Parental supervision is strongly
suggested for this section.
A cycle of historical fantasy novels about disreputable men on the margins
of society, and the men and women who love them. The novels are set in
a world based on the late Victorian and Edwardian Eras.
The cycle consists of the following series:
The Eternal Dungeon,
Life Prison, Michael's House, and Prison City.
In a cool, dark cavern, guarded by men and by oaths, lies a dungeon
in which prisoners fearfully await the inevitable. The inevitable will
be replaced by the unexpected.
The Eternal Dungeon, a historical fantasy series set in a land
where the psychologists wield whips.
They are imprisoned until death, and their lives cannot get worse .
. . or so they think. But when an unlikely alliance forms against their
captors, the reformers risk losing what little comforts they possess.
Life Prison, a historical fantasy series about male desire and
determination in Victorian prisons.
In a world where temples are dying and sacred
theaters have been replaced by brothels, what will happen when a hard-headed
businessman joins forces with an idealist?
Michael's House,
a historical fantasy series set in an Edwardian slum.
How can a youth from a bay island boarding school
survive when he is sent to a futuristic prison?
Prison City,
a historical fantasy and retrofuture series based on the Chesapeake Bay
oyster wars, homoeroticism in British public schools in the 1910s, and
1960s visions of things to come.
Masters come in many forms. Some don't even know they're masters.
Master/Other, gay fantasy and science fiction about prisoners,
slaves, liegemen, and love.
This series also contains Leather in Lawnville, the adventures
of a suburban leatherman, Leathermen, Plain Vanilla Straights, and Other
Rebels, humor and satire about transgressive sexuality in the twenty-first
century, and Unmasked, contemporary fiction about people who hide
behind masks.
Leather is a world of rich pleasure palaces and endless sensual delights,
where dreams can be pursued without limit, provided that a man has the
strength to stand the test. . . . But in the rural town of Mayhill, population
32,000, leather life is a little different.
Loren's Lashes, a retro series about a Midwestern community of
closeted leathermen.
Rare litfic: gen, het, and slash.
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If you send me pretty compliments, I will print your letter out and frame
it above my computer. (This isn't much of an exaggeration.) If, on the
other hand, you send me a letter that begins, "What kind of nit-witted
writer are you? You gave your character blue eyes in scene one and green
eyes in scene two!" then I will raise up a shrine in your honor and burn
candles upon your altar.
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