American opera set designer Clay hasn't messed around with fourteen-year-old boys since his Oxford days with friend, Italian opera impresario Lorenzo. A pandemic closes down Clay's work but Italy is up again and Lorenzo invites Clay to Naples to work with him. Lorenzo has a seventeen-year-old boy toy and two fourteen-year-old houseboys on offer.
A story in the Tapestry Universe
We begin this chapter on John's 19th birthday. He has just made the worst mistake of his life and he'll feel the consequences of it. From his lowest point with gravity bearing down upon him can even the wind hold him up? Can he live with his own guilt and grief? How does he keep from breaking when he can't find the cold to deaden his emotions?
The ponyboy fetish becomes popular in an international gay men's enclave on the resort coast of Honduras. Older Englishman Martin and his younger black bull Jamaican lover, Felix, have made a ponyboy out of fourteen-year-old Cesar, who they have taken from a Honduras slum. Cesar rebels and flees, only to be taken as a ponyboy by an old Austrian man, Reinhard, who heads up the Jockey Club, whose members all have the ponyboy fetish.
A mid-twenties former male model American is sent by a New York/Milan fashion house to Hanoi, Vietnam, to open a factory producing fabrics to pass off as expensive material for fashion house designs. He's frustrated by the bureaucratic runaround he gets in the old, Asian city he hates until he connects with a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys he'd enjoyed in Milan.
Jack has been married to Kelly for almost two years, and thought things were going great. Then he discovered after picking up the phone that his wife is working at a local porn studio. Some codes left off for reasons that will be clear at the end.
Halloween 2024
James and Erica thought they'd left their adventurous lifestyle behind after a party three years ago nearly destroyed their marriage. But when they receive an invitation to a Halloween party from old friends, they decide to take the risk - older, wiser, and more in love than ever. What starts as a playful game of Hide and Seek turns into much more. Sometimes the biggest surprises come from the most unlikely places, and sometimes letting go of control means finding exactly what you need.