Master/Other ¶ Love in Dark Settings

Masters come in many forms. Some don't even know they're masters.

Master/Other, gay historical fantasy and science fiction about prisoners, slaves, liegemen, and love.

This series also contains Leather in Lawnville, the adventures of a suburban leatherman, and Leathermen, Plain Vanilla Straights, and Other Rebels, humor and satire about transgressive sexuality in the twenty-first century.

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CONTENTS

Resources.

Master/Other.

Pleasure.
Debt Price.
The Fool.
Two Masters.
Eternally Divided.
O Most Unthankful.

Leather in Lawnville.

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers.
Short Sharp Shock.

Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels.

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets.
The Slavefic Plot Creator.
If Dante Had a Beta Reader.
A Sexual Minority Speaks Out.

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RESOURCES

What is Darkfic? | What is Historical Fantasy? | What is Homoerotic Fiction? | What is Original Gen, Original Het, and Original Slash? Genres that stories in the Master/Other collection fall into.

Webrings.

Master/Other

Romantic and poignant, Master/Other offers stories exploring the dangers and sweet bonds of power.

E-BOOK EDITION

Included in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus (HTML e-book).

Pleasure

Egon had a position that won him respect, friends who raised his spirits, and lovers who gave him pleasure. Then a man came into his life who would take all that away from him. If Egon was lucky.

¶ Novella: 25,000 words | Science fiction | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – Pleasure.

Debt Price

No one would pay his debt price to gain him release from prison. So he sought to pay it himself by offering the only thing he could, his body. But one man would require more.

¶ Novella: 36,000 words | Historical fantasy | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – Debt Price 1: Fallow | Debt Price 2: Harvest | Debt Price 3: Winter Master.

RESOURCES – Historical note to "Debt Price" | Illustration for "Debt Price" by H. Rose Melenche. With a text description.

The Fool

He'd abducted him, bedded him, and taught him every position he knew. So why wasn't the fool grateful?

¶ Short story: 5,000 words | Fantasy | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – The Fool.

Two Masters

Two masters with one dilemma: how to choose between love and force.

¶ Novelette: 12,000 words | Historical fantasy and contemporary leather fiction.

EXCERPT – Two Masters: Excerpt.

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Eternally Divided: A Missing Canto from Dante's Inferno

If you fall in love with one of the damned, should you join him in his damnation?

¶ Short story: 2,000 words | Historical fantasy (medieval science fiction) | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – Eternally Divided.

RESOURCES – Historical Note to "Eternally Divided".

O Most Unthankful

An Arthurian tale. A simple Greek lesson reaches deep when a tutor seeks to teach a prince what can happen when love and duty clash.

¶ Novelette: 12,000 words | Historical fantasy | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – O Most Unthankful.

RESOURCES – Historical note to "O Most Unthankful".

Leather in Lawnville

The adventures of a suburban leatherman.

E-BOOK EDITION

Included in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus (HTML e-book).

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers takes leathersex out of its usual bars and back alleys, setting it in unexpected locations: A 5&10. A potluck. A hamburger joint. A waltz party. Even when the leatherman who narrates these stories returns to the Eagle bar, things don't go quite the way he expected. . . .

For adults only.

¶ Short story collection: 22,000 words | Leather fiction | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews and award.

RESOURCES

Leather writings at this domain.

E-BOOK EDITIONS

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers (Kindle e-book).

Included in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus (HTML e-book).

BOOKTRAILER

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AUDIO BOOK EDITION (MP3)

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers (free MP3 audio book).

ONLINE EDITION

Each part of Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers can be read on its own, as a stand-alone story.

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers 1: Clothesline. An encounter with clothesline at the Lawnville 5&10 leads the narrator to discover his neighbor's secret fantasy.

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers 2: Spontaneous. Can an Old Guard top survive in a world with safe words? (This story was runner-up for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction.)

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers 3: Bad Habit. The narrator shows off his leatherboy to a skeptic.

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers 4: Leatherdar. The narrator goes on the hunt at a college ballroom dance.

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers 5: Pinned. A rude top and an interfering family member prove to be an explosive combination at the Eagle bar.

Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers: Back Matter. Credits, publication history, etc.

Short Sharp Shock

His life seems secure enough: an endless round of leathersex and fun. The trouble with gay leather, though, is that you never know when it will take a turn for the unexpected. Now a top finds himself questioning who he is, and just what it is that he wants.

¶ Short story collection | Leather fiction.

EXCERPT – Short Sharp Shock: Excerpt.

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Leathermen, Fan Fiction Writers, and Other Rebels

Humor and satire about transgressive sexuality in the twenty-first century.

E-BOOK EDITION

Included in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus (HTML e-book).

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets: A Tale of Web Accessibility in the Cybersex Era

The first e-book in the world that presents Web accessibility information for the disabled in the form of a leather porn story.

¶ Flash fiction: 1,000 words | Leather fiction (satire) | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

E-BOOK EDITIONS

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets: A Tale of Web Accessibility in the Cybersex Era (Kindle e-book).

Included in Love in Dark Settings Omnibus (HTML e-book).

ONLINE EDITION

What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets.

RESOURCES

Leather writings at this domain.

The Slavefic Plot Creator

When fan fiction writers have had way too much caffeine.

¶ Flash fiction: 800 words | Contemporary fiction (satire) | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – The Slavefic Plot Creator.

If Dante Had a Beta Reader

Who needs the Muses for inspiration when you have a beta reader to tell you what to do?

¶ Short story: 2,000 words | Contemporary fiction (satire).

EXCERPT – If Dante Had a Beta Reader: Excerpt.

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A Sexual Minority Speaks Out

"I am an adult male belonging to a rare minority group that is called, in layman's language, Plain Vanilla Straight. I have had these sexual desires for as long as I can remember . . ."

¶ Short story: 3,000 words | Science fiction (satire) | Genre tags (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – A Sexual Minority Speaks Out | Response to "A Sexual Minority Speaks Out" by Ruthless.

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