From the dark and deep corners of a shallow mind surfaced a short story from my 311 Creative Writing Class in College. I had no idea I remembered it. It shuffled out tonight, captured my fingers and improved itself. I got an A+
A story in the Dark Tales Universe
Since Carla was in High School, she knew she was a good girl. She had lots of dates, and none of them ever got too far with her. But Carla has a secret, as she had discovered her own way to keep boys happy, and still be a good girl.
A client visits a prostitute in a seedy Manchester brothel. And thousands of years in the past, the fate of a group of alien travellers hinges on the outcome of this unusual encounter.
Young Antinous, captured by the ancient Greek state Tripolis general Herotis in a battlefied defeat of the Greek state Kozani, is deflowered by the general and becomes Herotis's cup bearer, bed mate, and spy. There is a question of who Antinous really is spying for, though.
Beautiful, blond German village boy Klaus becomes eternally fourteen for hundreds of years when the perpetually thirty vampire baron in the castle above the Bavarian village decides to bed and sink his fangs into him and enslave Klaus into his perpetual service.
Lebanese-English fourteen-year-old boy, Amir, goes with his submissively gay father, Afram, on holiday in Turkish Cyprus in 1986. Amir wants to go the same way sexually as his father, but has not been taken there yet. His father hooks up with a hunky Danish UN contingent soldier, who also has the eye for Amir. A muscular Turkish fisherman sees Amir, though, and might just get there first. Amir doesn’t really care who is first as long as someone relieves him of the burden.
The story of Lucy, a young woman who moves from Texas to Hollywood in the 1940s in the hopes of becoming a star. However, she soon finds herself in a completely different career. Moving from bit player in movies to high priced call girl.