What you get inside.
Steer what's next
Vote on the open stories. The one patrons pick is the one I go back to.
Get written in
Your name collared into the pages. Hand me a line and hear it said over someone, or over you.
Be heard
I answer every comment. Name what breaks him, argue the prose, and it moves the work.
The Bench
What's on my desk, and the ones I tore down for parts.
All still in my hands, finished or not. Vote on which one I go back to.
The Education of Roman's Fresh Meat
Two athletic acquisitions arrive at Roman Wolfe's training facility. Stripped, inspected, and made into studs for the ranch.
Abu Faisal's Niggers and One Whitey
A Ranger sergeant is sold into a Gulf household, graded lowest of the eleven men he arrives chained to, and handed the shade for it.
Good Match
A captured northerner is kept as a breeding stud on a Roman estate, made to perform before a watching table, and broken not with the whip but with the plenty.
Between the Shafts
A young owner drives his rickshaw pony across town to a dinner, fond of him the whole way and never once curious. Between the shafts, the pony has held his piss all day for one shot at him.
Heavy Horses
A retired builder with money to place is shown round a unit on an industrial estate, where the air in a cinema and a slowed-down voice turn tradesmen into heavy horses. At the door, he has one more thing to ask.
The Correction
An indentured servant with ninety-one days left on his bond answers back at his master's table and is sent to correction, where the days stop counting and a calm instructor decides when he leaves.
Rutting Stock
A field slave of thirty, the owner's fuckboy once, hauls stone for a herd he calls livestock, and on the day the owner comes down to inspect it, finds out which animal he is.
It Will Keep
A soldier sold for refusing one order is laid face down on his Master's carpet for a dealer to handle and price, the pattern for a matched pair the house means to buy.
My Father's Ranch: Field Picnic
The morning after rain, a city guest walks his college friend's slave ranch. Thirty field stock kneel in the ditch mud at his host's shadow, and the one who knelt late is about to be offered a beer.
Safe Here
A young owner walks his stable to look over the fresh intake and finds a man he went to college with. He is delighted, and he spends the rest of the day being kind to him.
Years Left
A dealer buys the men nobody bid on at four in the afternoon, feeds them for nine months, strips every fitting off them and puts new steel back in, and sells the gratitude the restoration produces.
Of Age
A runner kept back from the yard for four years is opened at last on his eighteenth spring, by the estate's ruined stud, while the Master holds his head and the whole stable watches. That night he climbs the Master's own stair.
I'll Call You Colt
An estate owner's son stops a gelding in a dealer's yard to buy the jock who called him a faggot at a church picnic seven years ago. He says it isn't revenge, and he gives the man a horse's name.
Bought Raw: Before the Block
AI bara comicThe army sold one. His family sold the other. One day of slave school before the block.
