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Everyone calls her a fag hag. But Gay Pride Day has arrived, and her best friend is about to give her a new name.
"'Tell me you're gay!' Gary nearly knocked her to the floor as he scrambled over her. 'Please tell me you're gay!'"
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- Part 4 of Loren's Lashes
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"He could not leave this room without his father's permission. And he could not imagine going to his father and saying, 'Please let me go gather moss so that my slave can have a proper New Year for once.'"
What can you give a slave who, by law, can own nothing? That is the question faced by Peter, the teenage heir to the throne of an empire. Despite his father's desire that the imperial heir maintain a formal distance from servants, Peter finds himself drawn in friendship to the younger boy who serves as his slave.
But a shocking revelation on the eve of the New Year forces Peter to confront his own motives for keeping the slave close by. And that in turn will help him understand the deeper meaning of the gift-giving festival.
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- Part 10 of The Three Lands
- Part 3 of The Three Lands: side stories to Blood Vow and Law of Vengeance
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"Depositing money in the bank was always the worst problem."
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- Part 13 of Waterman
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Two guards. Two prisoners. A multitude of problems.
"He knew what his prisoner's expression would be before he saw it: a mixture of apprehension, wary hope, and the expression he had come to fear most of all – determination."
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- Part 11 of Life Prison
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The Breaking (Rebirth #1) by Dusk Peterson (duskpeterson) for lemurjoe
Fandoms: Original Work
25 Feb 2012
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The prisoner knew that the Eternal Dungeon was a place where suspected criminals were broken by torture, and he was prepared to hold out against any methods used against him – except the method he could not anticipate.
"'Do you have any questions?' the Seeker asked. 'About the routine of the dungeon? The times you will be fed? The questions you will be asked? The instruments of torture I use?'"
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- Part 1 of The Eternal Dungeon
- Part 1 of The Eternal Dungeon, Volume 1: Rebirth
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The Unanswered Question by Dusk Peterson (duskpeterson) for shadowsonthesun, telepwen, hpfan12
Fandoms: Original Work
27 Feb 2012
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"He was weaponless. Or rather, not quite weaponless, for he knew what he was capable of doing with his body, but he bore no blade, nor any whip, nor any lead pipe with which to stun his victim, nor any rope with which to strangle the victim . . . The number of potential weapons he had deliberately laid aside was frighteningly high."
No weapons, no allies, and no guarantees that he will survive the test.
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- Part 7 of The Eternal Dungeon
- Part 1 of The Eternal Dungeon, Volume 1: side stories to Rebirth
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All in all, he held a satisfactory position, one where his talents were properly appreciated. But the Record-keeper, rubbing his bleary eyes as he began his shift, could not help but wish that his employer had chosen a love-mate who was less loud.
The Record-keeper of the Eternal Dungeon goes in search of a very special supply.
This is a side story in the series, but you can read it without having read the rest of the series.
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- Part 29 of The Eternal Dungeon
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Broken by Dusk Peterson (duskpeterson) for HopeofDawn, Caethes Faron
Fandoms: Original Work
27 Feb 2012
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Layle Smith is not always the ideal man for the job.
"Layle put his fingers over his eyes. Mercy help him. Let it not be about the computer."
This is a side story in the series, but you can read it without having read the rest of the series.
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- Part 40 of The Eternal Dungeon
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"'Oh,' said the representative. 'Well. If he turns violent, I suppose you can take care of him yourself. I mean, if the stories about you are true . . .'"
The High Seeker of the Eternal Dungeon visits a foreign prison.
This is a side story in the series, but you can read it without having read the rest of the series.
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- Part 39 of The Eternal Dungeon
- Part 4 of Life Prison
- Part 2 of Life Prison, Volume 1: side stories to Mercy's Prisoner
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Some hungers can only be satisfied by reaching out. As a prisoner struggles to find the right path, a foul-mouthed guard and an uncommon torturer will open a door . . . but stepping through a doorway with blackness beyond requires courage.
This is a 2012 holiday gift story for my readers. It's a side story in the series, but you can read it without having read the rest of the series.
"By now, the hunger pangs had subsided, leaving him feeling as though he were floating effortlessly through the cycle of death, transformation, and rebirth. He wondered whether this was what it would be like, when he reached the end of his fast."
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- Part 24 of The Eternal Dungeon
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"Sweet blood, Tom, sometimes I wonder at your innocence. Why do you think that your prisoners were sent to prison? It wasn't for lacing daisy chains."
One of them rapes prisoners. The other wants to help prisoners. So why are they talking to each other?
As guards send each other telegraph messages through their prisons' coding offices, strange developments occur in the life prisons of the Magisterial Republic of Mip: hardened prisoners become reformers, idealists dally with danger, and the prison keepers struggle to keep control. The strangeness will only become odder when two guards, who hold very different views on the proper handling of prisoners, strive to find common ground.
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- Part 5 of Life Prison
- Part 4 of Life Prison, Volume 1: side stories to Mercy's Prisoner
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"Ira had never beaten him, even though their pack-leader clearly found his constant suggestions to be annoying. That showed good sense."
Five boys. Five rainy days. Five opportunities for trouble.
This mini-cycle of five stories is written as part of the 50 Darkfics challenge and as a 2014 holiday gift for my readers.
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- Part 8 of The Eternal Dungeon
- Part 9 of Life Prison
- Part 4 of Michael's House
- Part 8 of Waterman
- Part 2 of The Eternal Dungeon, Volume 1: side stories to Rebirth
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"He kept his gaze cast below the belt. In the chill cell, sweat was beginning to form now on his neck, running down his back and between his bound wrists. 'Lord,' he said softly, 'I would be glad to pay to you my debt in any way I can.'"
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.
Convicted of helping to wage a campaign of terror against the lords who oppress the commoners, the prisoner comes to realize the full implications of what he has done. All of his attempts to mend what he has broken will fail until he meets a young lord whose own struggles have just begun.
Set in an imaginary world based on Renaissance Europe, "Debt Price" takes the reader from the gritty punishments of prison life to the delicately balanced world of a farming estate, showing the slow healing of a prisoner who knows both what it means to be abused, and what it means to be the abuser.
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- Part 4 of Master/Other
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Tripp has two friends in high school: a rebel without a cause, and a girl fighting the social restraints upon her. But only one human being has any real hope of understanding Tripp, and he isn't human at all.
"Tripp leaned back against the leather. Leather reminded him of Jack, roughly masculine. That wasn't quite Tripp either. 'Al, what material are you?' he asked finally, closing his eyes.
"There was a pause before Al said, 'Ferrite, mainly.'"
Warning: The story tags include major spoilers. If you want to skip the tags, the important information is that this story is original slash (with original gen and original het subplots), set in an alternate-universe, retrofuturistic 1960s.
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- Part 11 of Waterman
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After ten years as apprentice to a Peacesteward, the one thing Erastus is sure of is that he's ill-prepared to become a master. Unfortunately, he's about to discover just how ill-prepared he is.
When he and his master stray into forbidden territory, Erastus is thrust alone into a community that is on the brink of war. His only hope for bringing peace is to ally himself with a young boy . . . a boy who has stolen what Erastus values most.
"I tell you all this, Erastus, so that you will understand. I owe a debt to my master, and a debt like that cannot go unpaid."
Boilerplate warning for all my stories.
All the stories in this series are stand-alones; you don't need to read the others to understand this one.
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- Part 1 of Darkling Plain
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A prince who could see beyond his borders but not see the people around him. . . . An enemy who would take any measure to get what he wanted. . . . And now a stranger has brought news to the prince of an approaching danger.
Young though he is, Farsight has inherited a powerful gift from his father that allows him to protect his realm. But when a conniving king in a neighboring country sets his sights on Farsight's mountain of gold, the prince will need help to protect himself against an assassin's knife. Will a newfound companion-in-arms be enough to save Farsight, once the Night Shadow crosses the border?
"'That will be your death.'"
Boilerplate warning for all my stories. All the stories in this series are stand-alones; you don't need to read the others to understand this one.
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- Part 3 of Darkling Plain
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"Having a servant-boy accompany them on this trip was annoying, Kit thought. But there was no way around it; Honey's parents would never have allowed Honey to visit Yclau without her young bodyguard."
Kit has reached her apprenticeship birthday and is on a path to inherit power. But what sort of power will she wield?
A journey from the First Landstead to the neighboring Queendom of Yclau seems an easy enough day-trip for two young women and a faithful young servant. Kit and Honey will simply catch a monorail to the queendom's capital and enjoy their first sight of a foreign nation.
But Yclau is not the First Landstead. It is a land of robots, memories of the Bomb, and a lingering fear of what might occur next.
Kit is determined to have her birthday the way she wanted. But she will need allies for her fight, and one of them is an ally she did not expect.
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- Part 9 of Waterman
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"'Yet every nation of the Three Lands possesses treasures that ought to be shared with the other two nations,' replied the bard, reaching for the key with which to tune his harp. 'Half-men know that.'"
Daxis is the land of bards and of truths too painful to be faced.
When a man in the guise of a Koretian trader visits Daxis for his own purposes, he is confronted with memories of a battle from the past, as well as a challenge for his future.
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- Part 13 of The Three Lands
- Part 6 of The Three Lands: side stories to Blood Vow and Law of Vengeance
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"When she was hired as a maid, no one told her that she'd hold the future of the Dozen Landsteads in her bosom."
It's sweeping day again, and her task seems straightforward: clean the dirt in her master's study and leave.
But Sally's master is no ordinary master, and Sally's sweeping could be the trigger for war. Finding herself in a dangerous trap, Sally must draw upon the wisdom of her allies in the servants' kitchen before disaster strikes.
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- Part 12 of Waterman
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"He came down the mountain one early summer afternoon, toward the end of what had not yet been dubbed the Hydrogen War. He was just in time to catch the climax of the war."
He knew he wasn't normal. Now he must save others who have been left behind.
For two years, since his parents left for the west coast of the continent, Phillip Schafer has lived in a mountain home, as far as he can get from society. But when the loss of his beloved companion forces him out of his refuge, he finds that the world is on the cusp of change. And he may be one of the few people left who is able to outrace that change.
Accompanied by two unusual allies, Phillip must escape from his nation before disaster strikes. But with no jet-car, he must somehow reach the skyport before the last rocket blasts off. . . .
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- Part 7 of Waterman