Monday's are a great day, not so much as they are the start of a new week but because it's the day we look at one of the stories here at Gay Authors. Maybe you have been looking for a new story to read? If so, why not read the following review provided by andy021278 of Eliotmoore's story Turbulence. After reading about the story, you can decide whether or not it's one you want to take a look at! Enjoy!

Reviewer: andy021278
Status: Complete
Word Count: 312,229

The end of middle school is probably a time of fear and excitement for everyone, but as the fourteen year olds who are looking forward to starting Riverview High School after the summer holidays are about to find out, high school is even more terrifying than they could ever have imagined.

Riverview High has a mentorship program in place. Each of the soon to be ninth graders are paired up with a twelfth grade senior who is supposed to help them become acclimated to high school, and be there to help with any problems they may have.

The “freshies”, as the incoming ninth graders are called, quickly discover however, that the mentorship program is actually a benign face, which hides a world of bullying, sadism, and perversion that would make even the Marquis de Sade blush.

There are only three simple rules the freshies have to follow at all times: “do whatever you are told to do”, “don’t do anything you haven’t been told to do” and “always respect the seniors”. Break any rule, and the freshie faces swift and harsh punishment. Quite what punishment they face depends upon the depths of depravity their senior sinks to; just don’t forget to thank your senior after being corrected.

As a freshie, there is more fun, parties, alcohol, and sex than they can shake a stick at; but the pleasure of the rewards of being a freshie pale into insignificance when it comes to the pain of the punishments for breaking the rules or the humiliations of simply being a freshie.

Everybody in town, from the kids’ parents to the police, knows everything that happens behind the face of the mentorship program, after all, they were all ninth graders once themselves; but nobody talks about it, and nobody tries to change it. Every ninth grader who was ever humiliated, beaten, punished and tortured knows that they will one day be a twelfth grader; a twelfth grader with a freshie of their very own.

There are a few seniors who try to shield their freshie from the full horrors of what they are facing, but if they hide their freshie from everything then the nightmare only becomes ten times worse. Denver Hawk is one such senior playing this dangerous juggling act with the fate of freshie Daniel Murrell. Just how much can he protect Daniel? Just how much will Daniel be forced to endure? Will Daniel be the same loveable and friendly fourteen-year-old at the end of freshie year?

A word of caution: Even though there are light-hearted moments scattered through the story (such as a couple of weeks at summer camp and a game of strip poker with an interesting twist) this is not a tale for the faint of heart.