The company I worked for had several factories dotted all over the place. After ten months, however, I had never been sent to the smallest of our tool producing plants. There was an ongoing joke at the company about visits to this godforsaken plant in the middle of ‘hick-land.’ Unsurprisingly, I eventually got sent to this small town on a three-day, two-night visit. I worked in the computer division of the company, and se...

I bought an apartment in a Bohemian part of the city, which had three gay bars, a gay club, and a sauna, in very close proximity to one another, but apart from other gay establishments that were slightly further afield. Being within walking distance, however, I mainly stuck to the venues closest to me. The first gay bar in the area predominantly attracted a lesbian crowd and therefore wasn’t on my radar. I did, neverthele...

I had never been squeamish. At school, I had a friend who had lost his left eye in an accident as a child and had a prosthetic eye. Spooky as this was to some kids, it didn’t bother me. Another story I can relate to concerns the life-partner of a friend of mine. He had lost his right hand in his youth when it got amputated after a snakebite. The missing hand also never fazed me. People with missing fingers and other unfor...

Alberto lived in an apartment on a smallholding. The elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas, who owned the property had an agreement with Alberto who was their gardener, for him to live rent-free, in exchange for his services on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. In addition to this arrangement, Alberto received an evening meal from Monday to Saturday, and a lunch on Sundays, when Alberto happened to be home. On Tuesdays, Th...

Norbert and Felicity got married the year before they moved to a small village adjoining a bustling small town. The reason they did so was that Norbert got employed by a chain store concern, which had a multitude of branches all over the place. As an up and coming young employee, Norbert was very proud when he got seconded to the town as a manager. Being one of the youngest staff members ever at the company to be afforded...

After the evacuation of the Vietnam war, my grandparents arrived in America as refugees. Several years later, my mother was born and grew up in the states. She received a good education and would become a successful architect. My mother then met a white American boy, my dad, and got happily married. Sadly, I remember little of my father, who tragically died in a motor vehicle accident when I was seven-years-old. Although...

Alfred, or Alfie, as he had always called, was pleased with his new job at an engineering company. It was a well-run and successful concern, and Alfie got a job in their computer division. He got highly recommended by a friend of the owner of the company. Although the owner had initially been skeptical about employing him when he was told that Alfie was gay, upon meeting Alfie for his interview, the owner was pleased that...

I am not a student of psychology and have no affectations of being knowledgeable on this subject. Everything I am about to tell you based on my subjectivity. Hopefully, therefore, I do not piss off readers who are well versed in this topic. To me, one of the most guarded subjects in the world is male homosexuality activity. With the biblical abhorrence to this phenomenon that we were all raised on, I suppose this comes ex...

On Saturdays, I had a regular breakfast gathering with two of my longest-standing buddies. We were all in our mid-twenties and had known one another for over five years. The place we frequented made the most incredible three duck egg omelette. Comparing a duck egg to a chicken egg, if you will forgive my ridiculous comparison, is like comparing Swiss chocolate to homemade fudge. One Saturday morning, as we gathered for ou...

Francois’ family were well-to-do. Apart from the large farm they owned, they had numerous properties and businesses in the community where they lived. His family well-respected and the envy of many people in the area. Francois was slightly odd in his family, because his dad and mom, as well as his younger brother Dougie, were always neatly attired and respectable-looking. Francois was a bit of a slob and generally looked...

If one wanted to observe the embodiment of the term; ‘built like a brick shithouse,’ then Ratchet would be the perfect example. Six- foot-four-tall, he was broad in every aspect of his physique and facial features. Ratchet’s real name was Richard, and he was a diesel mechanic. He got the nickname as a result of a malapropism at technical college when one of his fellow students referred to him in error as Ratchet. Everyone...

Terry and I were great friends and had grown up together. When puberty struck, we both realized that we were attracted to other guys and were able to rely on each other’s support as our sexual orientation began to develop and flourish. Although we did fool around, we soon recognized that we were not really into one another and were attracted to the same kind of butch guys. As time passed, we both got lucky from time to ti...

If I had been told on my sixteenth birthday, that I would end up working as a houseboy, I would’ve advised the forecaster of that statement to sign up for some psychological evaluation. That, however, is exactly what happened by the time I had turned seventeen-years-old. To fully explain how this came about, I am afraid that I now have to embark on a two-part history lesson: Firstly, after my mother had left my dad and me...

I grew up in a trailer park and so any class discussion would be irrelevant. We had a roof over our heads and fortunately never starved, but my parents worked their arses off in menial jobs to give my brother and me a reasonable education and stability in our daily existence. At the time of my story, my brother was in his final school year, one he enjoyed so much that he was compelled to do it twice. Although Nate was two...

There is a belief that if you want to know what a guy or girl will eventually look like, then you must meet their father or mother because according to the old adage, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. When my boyfriend and I started living together, I knew that this eventuality would soon arise. My boyfriend Cal, short for Calvin, as named after his father, had grown up on a farm and was a real farm boy at heart....