Mark Arbour
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February 15, 1801 St. Michael’s Castle St. Petersburg, Russia Granger stood with the Stroganovs in the same reception room as he had last Sunday, and as he looked around, he could see that the same people were here in their same places. “No one moves around?” Granger asked Pavel. He shook his head with a slight smile. “You must remember that His Imperial Majesty likes military order, which means that everyone has an assigned place.” Granger pondered tha
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Thanks for your good wishes! I was diagnosed with COVID when I went into the doc because of extreme fatigue. I got lucky in that the fatigue was the only symptom I really had to deal with. It knocked me on my ass for a week, and since then I've gotten better to the point where I feel fully recovered. Time to write a chapter or two.
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I like your Star Trek analogies, but personally I'm more of a TNG guy. 🙂
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I regret not taking a side trip there when I was in Spain.
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You mentioned this...about past relationships...and I've spent the last half hour ruminating on how true that is! Thank you for those kind and encouraging words! My editors have trained me so well that I find reading the news to be incredibly annoying...not just for the content, but for the grammatical errors.
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February 8, 1801 Pavlovsk Palace St. Petersburg, Russia Granger lay in the Empress’s bed, flat on his back drenched in sweat, while the Empress lay next to him on her side with her head propped up. She smiled at Granger in what was almost a leer and stroked his pectoral muscles gently with her fingers. She was physically attractive, but Granger was having a hard time finding her attractive as a person. To her, this was just a fun physical rendezvous, something Granger was q
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January 21, 2004 Four Seasons Hotel Sydney, Australia Will “Is this everything, Mr. Schluter?” the bellman asked politely. “That’s everything,” I said. “I’ll keep my backpack with me.” “Certainly, sir,” he said. He shuffled the cart out of the room while I took a few minutes to appreciate this beautiful room. I’d spent the past two days with Connie and it had been sheer bliss, other than the various pains in my body. Hanging out with him took some endurance
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The age of consent in New South Wales is 16.
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I'm most comfortable in flip-flops too, but I attribute that to growing up in California. 🙂 You're right about Russian ship construction using pine, although with the way warships were constructed (with multiple layers of wood) the splintering probably had less of an effect than you think.
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January 17, 2004 Oxford Street Sydney, Australia Will I walked up to the club, a different one than last night, but this one was just as crowded. I’d spent the afternoon with David, touring around Sydney and having a decent time. It would have been better if I hadn’t spent most of my outing imagining how much more fun it would have been if I’d roamed around with Connie instead. David and I met up with the same group of guys I’d met the night before and went to a few ba
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February 7, 1801 Stroganov Palace St. Petersburg, Russia Granger sat in the anteroom with Pavel, enjoying a glass of wine. He’d had a very pleasant morning, which had started with sex with Pavel, followed by an excellent breakfast, and then a detailed tour of this palace. Granger was duly impressed by the edifice, which had obviously been crafted to display the incredible wealth and taste of the Stroganov family. “If you do not mind, I will excuse myself to attend to b
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Good points, although it's hard to blame any guy (young or old) for pursuing someone he's into, and for being a little aggressive as he does it.
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I actually read an interesting article (which of course I can't find now) stating that most athletes who have come out have been warmly received by their teammates, and in fact, their male teammates were more accepting of their gayness than society as a whole. That raises some interesting questions, such was why, then, there's so much fear about coming out?
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January 16, 2004 Oxford Street Sydney, Australia Will The cab pulled up to the club and I paused to pay the driver and tip him well, even though he hadn’t been all that friendly after I told him where I wanted to go. Guess homophobia was a thing here in Australia too. Chris had been right about this place, because there was a line of guys waiting to get in. I chuckled to myself when I noticed that Chris had hurried here only to get in line, and he was standing about fo
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January 14, 2004 Kahului, Maui Will “I’ll take your bags,” Kai said glumly, in a way that was incredibly unattractive. “Thanks,” I said. He took my suitcase and garment bag and shuffled off toward the garage in what seemed like a walking pout. “I think he is going to miss you,” Kiki said to me with a smile. “I’ll miss him too,” I lied. “You’re all set up now. You need anything else?” I hadn’t realized that hiring her to focus on getting this project done
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February 6, 1801 St. Michael’s Castle St. Petersburg, Russia Granger stood in one of the galleries he’d walked through on his way to call on the Tsar as he mingled for the first time with the apex of Russian society. Daventry was off in a different room, no doubt either trying to find someone to bed or trying to advance his plan, but fortunately Stroganov was close at hand. A woman who looked to be about forty years of age moved gracefully yet purposefully toward Granger, a
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January 8, 2004 Kahului, Maui Will She sighed, much as Kai and I had, as soon as she was in the Toyota. “When this is all over, then I will have time to cry.” “You’ll have lots of time to cry,” I said sadly, remembering how I’d felt. “Cry all you want, that won’t bring him back.” “He’s in a better place now,” she said, and mumbled a silent prayer. I could see why religion was so intoxicating, especially at times like these, because that meant you didn’t really
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January 7, 2004 Kahului, Maui Will I yawned, and that caused me to look at my watch. It was 10:00pm, and only now was the crowd starting to thin out. Both Kai and his mom looked exhausted, and people finally seemed to get that. What started out as a trickle of people leaving soon turned into a torrent. I stayed out of the way as people took forever to fucking say goodbye. I was so glad that my brothers and I had gotten over that habit a long time ago. “Hey,” Kai said,
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February 6, 1801 Kiryanovo Usadba St. Petersburg, Russia “I had not expected last night would be so much fun,” Stroganov said. He had shown Granger that he was just as fun as the one being penetrated as the one doing the penetrating. For Granger, plunging into Stroganov’s soft, pliable ass had been one of his more memorable sexual experiences. “I thought you said my reputation had preceded me,” Granger joked. While the sex had been good, he had felt a bond developing
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Third face, second name.
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Yeah, because that’s how Will works. 😂 The list: Yes. You may be busy.
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Thank you all for your comments! I'm excited to start on a new story too!
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Thank you so much for pointing that out. Got them fixed (I hope).
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January 7, 2004 In the air over the Pacific Will I was staring out at the Pacific, amazed by its vastness. Here I was, flying about 40,000 feet up in the air or so, and all I could see out any of the windows was ocean. I was flying on Stef’s old Falcon, although ‘old’ wasn’t a fair term to use for it. When he’d gotten his new Airbus jet, he’d decided to keep this one for other family members to use, except my father, who’d just bought a new Gulfstream. A
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It is January 2004 and the United States and its “allies” have just completed the successful invasion of Iraq and Saddam Hussein has been captured. US Presidential Elections are on the horizon. Howard Dean is the frontrunner to be the Democratic candidate to take on George W. Bush. These events weigh lightly on the mind of Will Schluter. He just graduated from high school a semester early and is looking forward to spending the next eight months in the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure and mind broadening experiences. Neither Will nor his country had any idea about the challenges that lurked ahead.
