Talo Segura

How long can you keep people locked up before they rebel? Police break up dancing on the streets of Paris.

In Gay Authors there are two buttons A+ and A- they are in a bar at the top of each chapter. A+ increases the text size. The other buttons allow toggling between light and dark background and adding paragraph indents. If the text is tiny you probably have it set to A- so just hit A+ several times until it is big enough.

To add to your stories list, he has another book I really enjoyed: https://gayauthors.org/story/richie-tennyson/self-portraits/ which I recommend, because it's a gay boy struggling about being gay, nothing new of course, except it is new, the story is different.

Thanks for the recommendation, I went there and read it. Wow! A great short story, so full of love it almost made me cry. I'm such a sucker for romance and that was very romantic! He's a great writer (I wrote and told him so). After writing above comment and getting his account info/story list on Nifty, I randomly checked out another short story (I think possibly he only writes short stories, there are so many). Anyhow I read Beggars and Angels, it is (apart from changing countries and scenario) the same story, but much shorter. I'm guessing this story, Tuscany, either has its roots in Beggars and Angels (posted January 2019) or it's a recurring theme.

The last update of CodeysWorld is dated 4 February. I wrote to Colin, got no reply. Does anyone have any news?

Your kids have a sense of humour

It is one of those myths lost in Ancient Greece, the twelve labours of Hercules. The wrestling match between Hercules and Diomedes. Their fight is easily explained because Hercules wants to kill Diomedes, to turn the tables on theThracian King who would feed him and his friends to his horses. In some versions of the story Diomedes has murdered Abderus, Hercules' young lover, and his death is in revenge. What is unexplained is why Diomedes, whilst held upside down in a tight grip by Hercules, is reaching out and grabbing Hercules penis and testicles? Perhaps it is simply a last chance to make the stronger man drop him? Whatever the reason, the statue located next to the Genius of Victory by Michelangelo and Florence triumphant over Pisa by Giambologna—belongs to a series of statues representing The Labours of Hercules. Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned twelve statues to sculptor Vincenzo de’ Rossi in 1560, but he managed to complete only seven of them. In the original project, this series of sculptures was supposed to decorate a fountain in the Boboli Gardens. Since 1592, these statues have been located in the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the Five Hundred), with the exception of a brief period when Florence was capital, when they were moved to the Bargello Palace.

Prince Charming goes missing from the pages of Cinderella, resulting in chaos in the offices of Happily Ever After, Ltd. The manager of the Cinderella division, Dorothy Weaver, has to try to salvage a happy ending. She temporarily replaces Prince Charming with nineteen-year-old Ryan Hooper, without realising he’s gay. Inside the fairytale, Ryan tries his best to find a happy ending … I am reading this wonderful surrealist story over at https://gayauthors.org/story/richie-tennyson/happily-ever-after-ltd/ it's being published a chapter a day. If you are looking for entertainment and a well constructed tale, don't miss this!

I was looking around at writing sites and always check out the forums, which is where (on another site) I read this question and answer: Member One (author): What do you think about adventure stories with a bisexual main character? Member Two (reader): Every hole is a refuge in times of war!

I'm not sure what to make of this story, I guess it is a fictional biography. Not the whole of someone's life, but an episode in their life, which ends tragically. It perhaps misses a dedication, seeing how it's a tribute to Ryan.

UPDATE: The Gay Fiction Library is now hosting The Words Unsaid by Nigel Gordon, so check it out for your free ebook!

From this and a little further research I take it to be the set of prayers, psalms and hymns, etc. to be chanted every hour throughout the day in Christianity, the canonical hours. The best reference to explain this being here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_the_Hours But in brief - it's a book with everything in it, condensed if it's to be carried around.

Would you be able to enlighten me? I only found this when searching: Potiphar or Potifar is a person in the Book of Genesis's account of Joseph. Potiphar is said to be the captain of the palace guard and is referred to without name in the Quran. Joseph, sold into slavery by his brothers, is taken to Egypt where he is sold to Potipharas a household slave.

The Gay Fiction Library has a new book on the shelves for you to download free. A first book by a new author. Inkerman Street by Arapiles. It's not so often that you stumble onto a really good author and this is a first book! The writing is a pleasure to read, the style is nicely polished, the use of language and narrative reflections on life, the descriptions of people and situations, excellent! The little clues and the way eveything, all the details came together, is beautifully done. It is a wonderful and whistful tale full of emotion. Like a clever jigsaw puzzle which lends a certain satisfaction as each piece slots together and which in the end, when complete, reveals a picture.

I have created a small (very small) website, the aim of which is to offer free (gay themed) ebooks available to download. The site will host any quality books that authors care to make available to readers. Whilst I started the site to make my own book available, it was because I could find no existing sites offering this possibility. There are the commercial sites, but this new site intends to offer books for free, hence the name The Gay Fiction Library Don't expect too much, there are currently three books available (Milo by Talo Segura, Dancing Bare by Rigby Taylor, Mortaumal by Rigby Taylor) from two authors (including myself), but it may grow, certainly I shall be adding stories, as and when I can. If an author would like to create an ebook for the library, then I may be able to do this. It is however a library, the books are available free. There is no requirement to join, you go there and pick up the book you want. For Kindle and epub formats.

A mandate from whom? The Queen is the head of the Church of England and she already said yes when she signed the law on same sex marriage in the UK some six years ago. Or does he need to ask the bishops, or the dimishing congregations, or perhaps hold a referendum, but wait a minute there was already one of those on another subject which left three years of havoc in its wake!

I love story recommendations, the good ones. So I picked A Scholar's Tale off the library shelf and started reading the first chapter and didn't stop until I reached the end (now I'm reading two books). This story has all the ingredients I enjoy, set not too long ago, but still it is a world apart from today, a different epoch, with different values and a very British polite and restrained life. Furthermore, it revolves around the scholarly world of Oxford and Cambridge. It's a wonderful novel that evokes a different life and is so very engaging. It makes me think of Alan Turin and The Imitation Game along with Inspector Morse. Thanks for prompting me to open this very gentle story full of restrained yet highly charged emotion.

If I am correct, IOMFATS has been running since 2008/2009, The Heart of Oskar Prinz was published in 2005 on Nifty. This got me thinking: in 1998 we got our first computer, super at the time, Windows 98, only problem we had dialup internet at 25Kb that's Kb not Gb... lol! There was a time limit on access and only certain times of the day, it was not unlimited, you couldn't really stay online reading a book. Downloading was also kind of slow.

I know this is off topic, but having started talking about The Heart of Oskar Prinz here, it seems only proper to add my comments having finished reading the book. You might view this book from two different angles; the first half is dedicated to porn, not surprisingly, given that is the storyline and plot; the second half is about the untangling of the truth and relationships. On reflection, it would be much too harsh to criticise the constructs used to develop the story. Too much work has gone into the jigsaw puzzle and making all the pieces slot into place, one after the other. There is a lot to learn about how to write a book here, and some scope to improve. I am still of the opinion that a little less graphic sex would have been preferred. The multiple ejaculations are as unbelievable as the rich benefactor. The former is the formulaic (Nifty) sex story, albeit well done, and the latter, is an overused, all too easy story device. That said, you should always give credit, where credit is due. Mr Arram peppers his story with similar well worn phrases. There are glimpses in the novel of descriptive narrative which add a lot: ‘Melancholy, like a winter mist, chilled the places where he had been... ‘You won’t find him at Terlenehem, you know. ‘What?’ Will responded, his face wiped blank. The significance of the remark sank in like a lead bar on a paper boat. It is those descriptions that bring alive a novel, not just this story, but any story, hence the lesson to take away on how to improve and author a great book. The setting in Prague and the Czech Republic, transformed into Rothenia, is described with all the place names that you could probably discover looking at Google Earth. Likewise, Highgate, Camden Town, and the surrounds in North London, but the place names whilst adding authenticity, are not evoked with much description. Overall this is a very well constructed and well written story which is pleasurable to read. My remarks and criticisms are my own and others will have different views. I would recommend the book as a good, enjoyable, story to read, by an accomplished author. As a foot note, I read this a long time ago, and not here on AwesomeDude and neither do I think on Nifty, not as far as I can recall, because it was way back when, before I ever found these sites. I wonder where Michael Arram first published?

It's not so often that you stumble onto a really good author and this is a first book! The writing is a pleasure to read, the style is nicely polished, the use of language and narrative reflections on life, the descriptions of people and situations, excellent! What I really appreciated about this story was the time the author must have spent planning it out. The little clues and the way eveything, all the details came together, is beautifully done. It is a wonderful and whistful tale full of emotion. Like a clever jigsaw puzzle which lends a certain satisfaction as each piece slots together and which in the end, when complete, reveals a picture. The story is in three chapters (complete), the theme revolves around a teenage adult relationship and contains some graphic sex scenes. It first appeared on Nifty, but IOMFATS picked it up because Tim obviously believed it had some literary merit, and so do I. Read and decide for yourself and let's us know what you think. http://iomfats.org/storyshelf/hosted/arapiles/

I was going to wait until I had finished the story before commenting, but seeing how the discussion has seen several readers comment, my own comments, good and bad. The Heart of Oskar Prinz was first published over fourteen years ago on Nifty in September 2005. There is no date of publication here on AwesomeDude, but interestingly the cover image shows Josh Elliot a well known (and sexy) porn star. Whilst the version on here (I haven't read the Nifty original) is polished and well written, it is nonetheless dated. From the moment I picked up the book and started reading, I said to myself, this was written by an old guy. Michael Arram gives his age as 65 on Gay Authors, so he wrote this in his fifties. Perhaps, it having been written fourteen years ago for Nifty is more responsible for the old fashioned feel rather than the age of the author. I don't know, I would need to read something more recent to decided. Without a doubt it follows the Nifty formula, if somewhat less pornographic than the majority of stories on that site. Although pornographic is a charged word you cannot deny (the author says himself) the story has several graphic sex scenes. Are they necessary and intrinsic to the story? Probably not. That is the Nifty formula, graphic sex in every or every other chapter. This story was written in the same epoch and it shows. The author recreates a sort of alternative world which is really a renaming and twist to post cold war eastern Europe. Josh Elliot is from Czechoslovakia (The Czeck Republic post Balkan war) and the story is firmly set in the same (imagined) country, at least in part. The theme of poor boy from Eastern Europe turns to prostitution as an escape, is very much there, but nicely turned around with a hidden royal heritage. There's no doubting that Mr Arram is an accomplished author and tells a good tale which continues through a series of books, no small achievement. I wouldn't criticise a book for being of its period and age, I do find that mode of the period to write unnecessary graphic sex detracts from the respect the novel might otherwise deserve. It's a shame, and I'm not opposed to graphic sex. One could have a modern book full of sex if the story demanded, but here it's formulaic and repetitive. Is this a great book? No. It is, as I said well written, a nice story, a detailed creation of a world, (sometimes too detailed), and a story interesting enough to keep you reading, but not enough to be one of those books you simply can't put down. I think perhaps if you'd read it back in 2005 it would have shone out from the quagmire of trash, but that is not quite the same environment today where one must compare against the broad gamut of quality gay writing. At the end of the day, you will have to read the book for yourself and form your own judgement. Perhaps the best compliment one might pay the author of this book is to appreciate the quality and effort that went into creating this story, which without a doubt contributed to moving gay online fiction from porn to serious, quality, writing. Without books like this we probably would not be where we are today.

I like that you made a recommendation, you could have said a bit more, but it's a short story. Did I like it? Not too much. I found it wishy-washy, not sure if that is the right term. A bit watery, superficial. The story looks at an adult teenage relationship without going into any depth. Sure, it's a short story, but entirely a dream, completely unrealistic, a veritable fairy story. It was was well written, but I've read a better story by the same author (can't remember the title), this story was very much in the niche where it belongs, on Nifty (several graphic scenes).

You also said that (above) and I went to Michael Arram - Peacher series and picked up the first book in the series The Heart of Oskar Prinz. It's true you didn't mention that book specifically, but it's listed first and I like to start at the beginning- LOL! Of course, it's almost picking at random because there is just a list and I'd already started before you gave me the the reading order, maybe they should be in a numbered list? Anyhow, I'm halfway through, I've got my thoughts about it, but I'll wait until the end.

That's very interesting. We're getting a bit off topic, but have probably flogged genre labels to death, unless it's going to be implemented, then it can be revisited to define a list. I'm like you, in part at least, I pick up new stories and read if I like what I'm reading. If the writer's style is good I will definitely keep reading and the type or genre of story is less important than how it's written. Often though, stories are not terribly well written, but I still read them if the subject is interesting, the plot, or characters. I pay particular attention to reading new authors. Otherwise, I read by recommendation. I'm reading The Heart of Oskar Prinz because I was told I should by you guys, well by Camy. I like recommendations just as I like Mike's summary in the coming attractions for new stories. I love reading book reviews, but they are much less common. And, of course, I like discussing books. There are a lot of different dynamics going on right now in the online world of gay fiction. The movement of authors to publish and sell their books (good luck with that) is one trend. There is, not exactly a division, but break with older authors and younger ones, a move towards writing using the present tense. Something boosted perhaps by modern living, online gaming and fantasy worlds, best selling series like The Hunger Games. For many readers in their twenties, present tense is the norm. There is a whole fascinating history to online stories and online gay fiction. I guess it all started with porn when loading images took ages, but words were much quicker to display. Even in the nineties the internet was accessed using dial up, reminiscent of watching paint dry. I digress, but it's your comments that keep things moving on.

That means you read your favourite authors, but will look for something new when you run out of stories to read. Adding a story genre helps readers choose a story they might like to read. I'm not at all sure what you're comments are saying? You don't like the idea of a genre label, or you personally would pay it no attention so don't see the point?