MASTER/OTHER: Love in Dark Settings

This series collects assorted stories by Dusk Peterson: fantasy, historical fantasy, contemporary fiction, and science fiction about friendship or erotic attraction, usually male/male but occasionally male/female. The stories are set in bleak locations such as a Renaissance prison and futuristic slave-quarters. The characters must undergo hardship and sometimes transformation before they are able to struggle their way out of the darkness.

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Sections below: Resources | Novel series | O Most Unthankful | Eternally Divided | The True Master | The Fool | Debt Price | Puppets | What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets | The Slavefic Plot Creator | A Sexual Minority Speaks Out | Pleasure | Twenty Thousand Gold Stars.

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What is Historical Fantasy? | What is Homoerotic Fiction? | What is Original Gen, Original Het, and Original Slash? | What is Darkfic? Genres that a number of the stories in this collection fall into.

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Novel series

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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.

Series information: Master/Other > O Most Unthankful | Publication history: January 2002 (composition and list edition) and May 2002 (Web edition) | Length: 12,000 words | Genre: Historical fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – O Most Unthankful.

RESOURCES – Historical note to "O Most Unthankful".

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?

Series information: Master/Other > Eternally Divided | Publication history:  May 2002 (composition and list edition) and June 2003 (Web edition) | Length: 2,000 words | Genre: Historical fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – Eternally Divided.

RESOURCES – Historical Note to "Eternally Divided" | See also the novel From Hell to the Stars.

The True Master

In a society where the rank of master or slave defines every aspect of a person's being, what do you do when you're a master and you envy your slaves?

Series information: Master/Other > The True Master | Publication history: February 2002 (composition, arising from an earlier story idea), April 2002 (list edition), and May 2002 (Web edition) | Length: 23,000 words | Genre: Fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – The True Master.

The Fool

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

Series information: Master/Other > The Fool | Publication history: February 2002 (composition), April 2002 (list edition), and September 2003 (Web edition) | Length: 5,000 words | Genre: Fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – The Fool.

Cover for Debt PriceDebt 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.

Series information: Master/Other > Debt Price | Publication history: July to September 2002 (composition, arising from an earlier story idea), October 2002 (publication in MAS-Zine), and October 2003 (Web edition) | Length:  36,000 words | Genre: Historical fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this story (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.

Puppets

A reporter is assigned to cover what sounds like the perfect feel-good story: the victim of a crime will forgive her offender. The only problem is that the criminal and the victim are refusing to cooperate.

Series information: Master/Other > Puppets | Publication history: June 2003 (composition) and September 2004 (Web edition) | Length: 10,000 words | Genre: Contemporary fiction | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – Puppets.

Cover for What Slaves DoWhat 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.

Series information: Master/Other > What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets | Publication history: April 2005 (composition and Web edition) and October 2008 (e-book edition) | Length: 1,000 words | Genre: Leather fiction (satire) | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

KINDLE E-BOOK EDITION – What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets (Kindle).

ONLINE EDITION – What Slaves Do When They Aren't Cleaning Toilets.

The Slavefic Plot Creator

When fan fiction writers have had way too much caffeine.

Series information: Master/Other > The Slavefic Plot Creator | Publication history: July 2002 (composition), August 2003 (list edition), and April 2008 (Web edition) | Length: 800 words | Genre: Contemporary fiction (satire) | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION – The Slavefic Plot Creator.

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 . . ."

Series information: Master/Other > A Sexual Minority Speaks Out | Publication history: March 2002 (composition), April 2002 (list edition), and June 2006 (Web edition) | Length: 3,000 words | Genre: Science fiction (satire) | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

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

Cover for PleasurePleasure

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.

Series information: Master/Other > Pleasure | Publication history: December 2002 (composition) and February 2003 (list edition and Web edition; currently withdrawn for re-editing and expansion) | Length: 25,000 words | Genre: Science fiction | Reviews.

EXCERPT – Pleasure: Excerpt.

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars

White Rose has lived a double life for too long. For too many years, he has struggled alone to determine how he should handle an ethical dilemma he never wanted to face. Now, finally, he has found help online. But is it the right help?

Series information: Master/Other > Twenty Thousand Gold Stars | Publication history: April 2001 (composition) and May 2007 (list edition and Web edition) | Length: 70,000 words | Genre: Contemporary fiction | Detailed genre tags for this story (with minor spoilers) | Site content label | Reviews.

ONLINE EDITION

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars (divided by chapter).

Twenty Thousand Gold Stars (full novel) (400 KB).

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