A weary ex-military butler endures the Dowager Lady Margaret's probing humiliations and fantasizes about defiling her in revenge.
Historical
297 stories · Pre-1950s settings — Victorian, medieval, ancient worlds..
A Dracula actor meets an Ingrid Pitt lookalike after a Halloween performance and shares a charged moment with her backstage.
A Victorian-era rake is forced to marry a lesbian for her half-million-pound inheritance, leading to an arrangement of mutual convenience.
A young Roman man in Pompeii spares a slave girl at a brothel, setting the stage for a tender love story in the shadow of Vesuvius.
A woman repeatedly waits at a bus station with a suitcase, prompting local shopkeepers to try to coax her inside while her father is contacted.
A tall, imposing woman named Porphyria arrives at a remote cliffside cottage at sundown to bargain with the small, fine-featured Hester, offering a priceless heirloom in exchange for services that no one else in England—or on the continent—can provide.
A woman recovers from her traumatic past in a brothel and prepares for a pivotal dinner to outmaneuver her manipulative former captor.
A frontier settler narrates the Comanche wedding ceremony of Running Wolf and Bright Moon, surrounded by visiting friends and family.
A frontier settler earns his Indian name 'White Eagle' and is made sub-chief, standing his ground against the U.S. Army to protect his adopted village of peaceful natives.
In 1957, a young woman explores her sexuality with her boyfriend and his friends during the summer after high school graduation.
A 1970s-set coming-of-age tale where the new boy in town shares his first intimate evening with a girl after high school.
A Comanche brave embarks on his medicine walk to find his spiritual totem and prove himself as a hunter.
Running Wolf, a Comanche warrior, steals horses from a neighboring tribe in order to buy his beloved Bright Moon as his bride.
An autobiographical-tinged tale of a young man nicknamed "Freak" in 1960s small-town America as he meets and courts his last girlfriend before marrying the love of his life.
A 1813 nobleman who married a wealthy lowborn woman for her money struggles to thaw her icy resistance as she pines for another.
A Victorian-era governess confesses an inappropriate attraction to her young male charge to his widowed father, leading to a shameful encounter.
A nostalgic autobiographical tale set in the declining South Wales coalfield towns, introducing a character reflecting on heritage and circumstance as he begins a new chapter of his life.
A blunt Yorkshire sea captain newly rich from the Americas returns to Liverpool and seeks a wife from an impecunious noble family.
A young footman and the daughter of the house carry on a passionate secret affair in an English country estate, complicated by an impending arranged marriage and an old lord's medieval prerogative.
A college visit in 1978 reunites Chili with his old roommate Benny and his former crush Grace, now Benny's fiancée, leading to an intimate encounter.