Category: Free to Read
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Natural Recovery: Part Six
Category: M/M, Character: Abraham Smith, Character: Yuri Jentis, Kink: Age Gap / Age Difference, Kink: Anal Sex, Kink: Dirty Talk, Kink: Frottage, Kink: Size Difference, Rating: E, Serial: Natural Recovery, Setting: Modern Day | 2020s, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Cats, Theme: Community, Theme: Disability, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, World: Magic Beholden
Romance. Yuri and Avi are settling into a routine. Yuri Jentis, retired from paramedicine with a back injury, teaches IT and other skills in a town community centre. When Abraham Smith joins the attached library as an assistant, a painfully shy young man recently off a long-term hospital stay, Yuri finds himself quite attracted to…
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Godfrey Digbett III and the Silent Caverns: Chapter Five
Fantasy serial. The silence reaches the team. Godfrey Digbett III, to his anxiety and chagrin, is drafted into a crew of adventurers delving into an ancient elvish catacomb, which is not so silent, nor so dead, as it appears from the outside. Cleric to the minor god Halloran, he stands most of all for servants…
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The Witch’s Cats: Chapter One
Category: Gen, Rating: T, Serial: The Witch’s Cats, Setting: Medieval Norway, Setting: Norway, Theme: Animal Rescue & Fostering, Theme: Cats, Theme: Christian Religion & Mythology, Theme: Cultural Differences, Theme: Fostering & Foundling Children, Theme: Found Family, Theme: Mages & Sorcerers & Witches, Theme: Magic & Powers, Theme: Mentorship, Theme: Norse Religion & Mythology, Theme: Vikings, World: Magic BeholdenFantasy. A healer takes in a new apprentice: an orphan girl kidnapped by slavers from Mercia. Rated T, Gen. Diot, a ten-year-old girl, is taken by Vikings to sell amongst some other Mercian slaves, but when she escapes their clutches and flees into the nearby woods, she is rescued by the healer who lives there.…
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Heart of Stone: Chapter One
Category: M/M, Character: Henry Coffey, Character: Theophilus Essex, Kink: Vampire Bites, Rating: M, Serial: Heart of Stone, Setting: 1700s | 18th Century, Setting: Birmingham, Setting: England, Theme: Banter & Flirtation, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Greece & the Greeks, Theme: Immortality, Theme: Secretaries & Personal Assistants, Theme: Servants & Service, Theme: Vampires & Vampirism, World: Magic BeholdenRomance. Henry Coffey meets his new secretary. You may well have read this one before – Heart of Stone was my first significant serial, and I published it as a novel in 2020. When I initially published I was under the impression I had to take down the online serial in order to publish it…
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Lashton Sounds: Chapter Three
Dai Laithe makes collections for the family. Gellert Osgodby is beginning to settle into his position as Lucien Pike’s secretary, but nothing in Lashton ever stays the same for long. Chapter One / / Chapter Two / / Chapter Three It looked as if it was raining blood, and Dai stood in the balcony doorway…
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Rescue Dogs: Chapter Twenty-Six
Final chapter! Cecil and Valorous go to dinner with Noble and Jack. Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker. A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous…
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Domesticating A Pig: Part VI
Category: M/M, Character: Adrian Gillespie, Character: DI Phil Hutchinson, Character: Hanzalah Biswas, Character: Laborious King, Kink: Age Gap / Age Difference, Kink: Massage Kink, Serial: Domesticating A Pig, Setting: Modern Day | 2020s, Theme: Chronic Illness, Theme: Chronic Pain, Theme: Disability, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Spooning & Cuddling, Theme: Trans Male Characters, World: Magic BeholdenPhil’s not had a hard day, but Adrian has. Continuing on from A Clean Pig. Phil Hutchinson, a detective inspector, has stumbled into being the kept pig of the beautiful young Adrian Gillespie – half his age, devastatingly attractive, and sick. Uses a wheelchair, takes a bunch of meds, is weak and ill and has…
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Daniel Kahn’s Der Zinger fun Noyt from Word Beggar (2021): Yiddish Lyrics & Vocabulary
Something a bit different – just some lyrics in transliteration and in Yiddish side by side, I’m going to be doing a series of these throughout Daniel Kahn’s discography and possibly a few other Yiddish artists as part of an aid with my Yiddish studies. Even if you have no interest in Yiddish, you might…