Another year's worth of gay powerfic (2009-10)

Here's a full list of gay stories and friendship stories that I've posted online or published as e-books in the past year. They're original works of fantasy, historical fantasy, and contemporary fiction, which feature liegemen, servants, slaves, sailors, prisoners, bottoms, and/or 18-year-old students. As the boilerplate warning for all my stories puts it, "All of the stories feature love or respect, though sometimes it takes a while to get there."

The list below shows both my online fiction and my e-books. If you'd like to buy an HTML e-book containing all of my writings as of July 2010 (over a million words of fiction and 30 collections of fiction recommendations and nonfiction), visit Love in Dark Settings Omnibus. If there are any topics you prefer not to read about, be sure to read the warnings I link to.

If you prefer to browse by series or story cover, you can visit my home page. If you want to, you can Friend my blog or sign up for my updates e-mail list. ( The list of this year's storiesCollapse )

The synthetic dream foundation
THE SYNTHETIC DREAM FOUNDATION "they who breathe darkness"

10/11: Capitol Punishment II - The Washington, DC Fetish Ball returns!



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10/11: Capitol Punishment II - The Washington, DC Fetish Ball returns!
Capitol Punishment II: Re-Election is Sunday, Oct 11 2009 at Ultrabar!

Ultrabar
911 F St NW
Washington, DC 20004

Doors open at 8:30 PM
$15 advance tickets available HERE!
$20 at the door.
21+

Please join us for DC's Ultimate Underground Fetish Ball, produced and hosted by fetish model Nicotine + NYC fetish event producer and DJ Xris SMack! (SMack!, Stimulate).

This year's event features performances by fetish supermodels Angela Ryan and Idelsy of LoveandDeathProject.com! Bringing together some of the area's best alternative DJ's, latex fashion shows by Dawna Matrix Designs and Collective Chaos Designs (featuring fetish models Jade Vixen, Kerri Taylor, and more!), and a well equipped play-space provided by DXS, this is a night you won't want to miss.

Last year was an incredible affair of opulence, elegance, & sheer extravagance. This year is shaping up to be even better than before. So join us for a night of endless possibilities & let your fantasies run wild…

Dress code: Fetish, latex, leather, uniforms, black tie, kinky patriotic, sexy Uncle Sam, slutty Lady Liberty...Make an effort! Dress to impress!

VIP After Party follows the main show. Presented by British Lucky Paul & The Metro Underground.

Promotional assistance provided by: Richard A.D. & The Metro Underground: your gateway to the entire spectrum of the alternative, adult, & underground scene for DC & the Mid-Atlantic Region.

Add us on twitter: @DCFetishBall

Also, join our Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=131545809506&ref=nf

More details coming soon at CapitolPunishment.net!

Flyer code = http://capitolpunishment.net/parties/CP2009/images/CapitolPunishment_2009.jpg

Re-creation (fantasy novelette; holiday story)


What can you give a slave who, by law, can own nothing?

He could not leave this room without his father's permission. And he could not imagine going to his father and saying, "Please let me go gather moss so that my slave can have a proper New Year for once."

Mythical records ---- Odyssey of rapture



Mythical records, is now taking pre-orders for their new compilation "Odyssey of Rapture" vol. 1. The album includes dark ambient and gothic neo-classical compositions by Abandoned Toys, Library Tapes, The synthetic dream foundation, Hannah Fury, Samantha Bouquin, and many more great composers/artists. The official release date is Dec. 10th 2008. The full track list includes:



1. David Reyes "The magic woods"
2. Library Tapes "The rivers turned to cobblestone"
3. Abandoned Toys "An expanding tremble"
4. Ephemeral Mists "A pale slumber"
5. Phanatos "Voyage (quest for the shores of aphrodite)"
6. Aranis "Vala"
7. The new pollutants "Kidnap theme"
8. Hana (Jeff Greinke & Anisa Romero) "Hide"
9. Michel Avannier "La rencontre"
10. The synthetic dream foundation w/ Hannah Fury "Trapeze"
11. MePhI "Crystal night"
12. Aonua "Spirit of the deep"
13. Fiona Joy Hawkins "Contemplating"
14. Samantha Bouquin "Tale for a sunken moon"
15. Scythelence "Transparent eyelids"
16. Enigma de Ultratumba "To my unrest"
17. Samanta Ray & Pete Ardron "Interuterion 3"

One year's worth of gay darkfic


Here's a full list of the gay and male friendship stories I've posted/reposted in the past year that deal with BDSM/leather, have dark settings (imprisonment, slavery, war, or prostitution), or feature servants, liegemen, apprentices, or mentors. As the boilerplate warning for my stories puts it, "All of the stories feature love or respect, though sometimes it takes a while to get there."

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New online magazine now accepting writing/art submissions!
(moderators: if this isn't allowed, please delete with my apologies)

Introducing

an online magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy with a twist

Crossed Genres is a new online magazine inspired by an altered version of the Genre Challenge (genrechallenge).

Every month, Crossed Genres posts a new genre. Writers and artists have one month to submit stories and art that combine the chosen genre with some aspect of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy. All submissions are considered for publication (read the submission guidelines.) Crossed Genres will also contain interviews, and articles about the current genre, SF/F in general and the craft and business of writing. The Magazine is free! Please sign up to get the mailing list!

We also have a growing list of writer-related links (suggest a new one!), forums discussing all aspects of writing, and more!

So please visit the website, and sign up for the mailing list! The first genre has been posted and is accepting submissions for Issue #1, to be released December 1. Please consider making a submission!

New stories: war, prison, slavery, lord/liegeman, & leather (friendship tales & gay stories)
—"Do you have any questions about the instruments of torture I use?" ¶ Fantasy novellas on war, imprisonment, and slavery are reposted at Darkling Plain, Main Stream, The Eternal Dungeon, and Master/Other.
—"They should be shot. Every one of them. Will, if I discover who they are." ¶ Online excerpts are now available for upcoming installments of The Eternal Dungeon and Life Prison, and for the upcoming medieval science fiction novel From Hell to the Stars.
—"I don't believe I have ever spoken to you of my first master." ¶ A new booktrailer for the master/apprentice fantasy novella Crossing the Cliff is released.
—"I did not say that I would serve you only on condition that you not give me any hard tasks to do." ¶ The lord/liegeman fantasy novel Blood Vow continues to be serialized at The Three Lands.
—"Honest to God, Lawnville College's Fall Cotillion isn't my usual hunting ground." ¶ The next story installment of Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers is posted at Leather in Lawnville.

The details, with links to the stories.

duskpeterson.com updated with stories: lord/liegeman, slaves, prisoners, leather
He vowed himself to his god. Now the god is growing impatient . . . Blood Vow, a new fantasy novel about friendship, romance, and betrayal, has been posted at The Three Lands with an accompanying booktrailer video.
¶ m/m platonic feelings, m/f platonic feelings (subplot), m/f erotic attraction (subplot).

They are imprisoned until death, and their lives cannot get worse – or so they think. . . . The first two stories in a historical fantasy novel, Mercy's Prisoner, have been reposted at Life Prison.
¶ Parental supervision strongly suggested, m/m erotic attraction, m/m platonic feelings.

In a society where the rank of master or slave defines every aspect of a person's being, what do you do when you're a master and you envy your slaves? . . . A slavefic fantasy novella, The True Master, has been reposted at Master/Other.
¶ Parental supervision strongly suggested, m/m erotic attraction, m/m platonic feelings (subplot).

A potluck. A hamburger joint. A college waltz party. Perfect places for leathersex. . . . The next story installment is posted at Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers.
¶ Adults only, m/m erotic attraction.

A grand master dies. . . . True Tales e-zine plays tribute to a major leather author, Larry Townsend, upon his death.
¶ Adults only, m/m erotic attraction.

Subscribe to my updates lists or blogs. Click the link below for longer story summaries:

"I had come to tell him, in the cheerful manner boys have, that our world was about to be destroyed."

Attention all writers
Please forgive me if you do not approve of this. and feel free to get rid

I am the editor of a bran new magazine Obscurum Magazine - specialising in all things morbid. Features, fiction, poetry, art, photography.

If anyone is interested in writing for the magazine then please get in touch. obscurummagazine@hotmail.co.uk

Join us on myspace for more information http://www.myspace.com/obscurummagazine

Story and video: "Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers"
Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers takes leathersex out of its usual bars and back alleys, setting it in unexpected locations: A 5&10. A potluck. A hamburger joint. A college waltz party. Even when the leatherman who narrates these stories returns to the Eagle bar, things don't go quite the way he expected. . . .

Written by the former director of the Erotic Authors Association, who is also editor of True Tales: An Erotic E-zine of Masculinity and Power, this five-tale gay erotica collection includes the story "Spontaneous," runner-up for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for Erotic Fiction.

Note: This is an adults-only BDSM e-book that I'm serializing on the Web. The first story is online now, and you can also watch the booktrailer video. Click on the link at the bottom of this post and scroll down a bit for the online edition. If you want to receive notices of when the next story is posted, please Friend my blog or join one of my e-mail lists: duskpetersonupdate (with plain-text posts of my fiction) or duskpetersonbooks (announcements only).

Thinking about it, I've decided that bringing Jell-O to a gathering of leathermen wasn't my big mistake. My big mistake was bringing it on the night that Master Trent was attending.

The synthetic dream foundation -- "Behind the gates of horn and ivory"
The synthetic dream foundation has a new album, entitled "Behind the gates of horn and ivory" coming out at the end of this month. The sound clips on their site sound phenomenal. Anyone else had a chance to listen to the sample mp3s yet? I think this is going to be the best TSDF album yet.

The synthetic dream foundation!!!!!


The synthetic dream foundation has a track on their myspace page, called "Mordor". Does anyone know an album I can find this track on? thanks.

Bard of Pain (fantasy novella) - Chapters 6 and 7 (final chapters)
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

Available formats: Free: HTML (online; click on the link and scroll down a bit). For sale: DOC, LIT, PRC, RTF, TXT, and MP3 (audio book).

Note: As a holiday present, I'm posting the final two chapters of Bard of Pain today, so that those of you who have spare time during the holidays can read them.

"Now that they have me in their hands, they won't bother you. They know that I have all the answers they need." His voice grew lower. "I have been trying to prepare myself for that."

( Post comments on this chapter at my blog. )

Bard of Pain (fantasy novella) - Chapter 5 of 7
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

Available formats: Free: HTML (online; click on the link and scroll down a bit). For sale: DOC, LIT, PRC, RTF, TXT, and MP3 (audio book).

He had always feared fire the most.

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Bard of Pain (fantasy novella) - Chapter 4 of 7
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

Available formats: Free: HTML (online; click on the link and scroll down a bit). For sale: DOC, LIT, PRC, RTF, TXT, and MP3 (audio book).

He waited until his prisoner had subsided to shuddering gasps, and then leaned forward to wipe the blade once more. "We're bards of pain," he said, "and of all the bards in the world, you are the greatest."

( Post comments on this chapter at my blog. )

Bard of Pain (fantasy novella) - Chapter 3 of 7
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

Note: Not a work-in-progress; the story is finished and is being serialized weekly. I announced this novella last year in some places, but I'm reserializing it online in honor of the publication of the booktrailer, the e-book editions, and the audio edition. Click on the next link for all of these.

"Gasps, and then moans, followed by tears, sobs, curses, screams, pleas for the questioning to stop, more screams, protests that one doesn't know the information – and then the breaking."

( Post comments on this chapter at my blog. )

Bard of Pain (fantasy novella) - Chapter 2 of 7
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

Note: Not a work-in-progress; the story is finished and is being serialized weekly. I announced this novella last year in some places, but I'm reserializing it online in honor of the publication of the booktrailer, the e-book editions, and the audio edition. Click on the next link for all of these. (And, um, I fixed the broken links.)

The instruments on the wall, the tools on the table – they were as familiar to him as the toys of his childhood. He wondered, dimly, why his heart pounded in his chest, as though he were in a strange place.

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Bard of Pain (fantasy novella) - Chapter 1 of 7
In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

As the world's most skilled torturer struggles with his change of fortune, he finds that his fate is intertwined with the destinies of an idealistic army commander, an affectionate prisoner, and a protégé who reveres the Lieutenant's art. . . but is on the wrong side of the conflict.

Note: Not a work-in-progress; the story is finished and is being serialized weekly. I announced this novella last year in some places, but I'm reserializing it online in honor of the publication of the booktrailer, the e-book editions, and the audio edition. Click on the next link for all of these.

The beginning of the end for him (or so it seemed at the time) came in the moment that he stepped into the shadow of Capitol Mountain and was assaulted by a stranger.

(Post comments on this chapter or the booktrailer at my blog.)