Tag: Theme: Immigrants & Immigration
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Peace in the New World
Rating: T, Setting: 1800s | 19th Century, Setting: New York City, Setting: USA, Theme: Calligraphy, Theme: Found Family, Theme: Generational Trauma, Theme: Immigrants & Immigration, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jews & Judaism, Theme: Philosophy, Theme: Poverty, Theme: Study & Academia, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery
Short fiction. Moshe and Yosl discuss life after work. 2k, rated T. Two Jews talking over tea in late 19th century USA. Bonding over poverty, philosophy, old trauma, that sort of thing. CW for mentions of past abuse, although oblique. Adapted from a TweetFic. Yosl worked these days down by the docks — he was a very big…
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Cold Comfort
Category: M/M, Kink: Knifeplay, Setting: 1920s, Setting: New Jersey, Setting: USA, Theme: Antisemitism, Theme: Class & Caste Differences, Theme: Crime & Criminals, Theme: Crises of Faith & Belief, Theme: Faith & Religion, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Immigrants & Immigration, Theme: Incarceration & Imprisonment, Theme: Intersex People & Intersex Bodies, Theme: Jewish Faith & Identity, Theme: Jewish Religion & Mythology, Theme: Mental Illness, Theme: Organised Crime & The Mob, Theme: Power Struggles, Theme: Queer Community, Theme: Servants & Service, Theme: Sex & Sexuality, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Violence & Killing, World: Magic Beholden
Queer fiction. A mob boss takes in a rival’s hostage, and tries to keep him from suicide. Photo by cottonbro studio via Pexels. 14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent. Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham,…