American Gigolo

"A sharp, funny Cold War era erotic tale of a savvy Southern belle in a German brothel schooling a cocky GI, where fantasy, power, and laughter collide."

Room 2 felt like a small corner of Dixie dropped into the Rhineland mist. Lace doilies covered every surface, heavy and drooping like Spanish moss. A Confederate-flag patch had been sewn, Becky insisted it was pure irony, onto a throw...

The Swedish Model

"A 1980s West German brothel, Liv transforms sex into cinematic performance, chasing artistic recognition until a client’s confession collapses the fantasy she needs to survive."

The brothel on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern was never meant to be a theater. Yet Liv Andersson had turned Room 5 into something perilously close. A battered wooden easel stood in the corner, nearly always holding a half-finished charcoal nude...

The Western Front

"In the shadow of Cold War jets and a Rhineland brothel, a homesick airman gifts a desperate dreamer a ticket to Hollywood she can never use,"

The Western FrontThe brothel hunkered on the edge of Kaiserslautern like a forgotten relic, its faded yellow stucco blending into the misty hills of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was February 82, Germany felt like a pressure cooker, Cold War tensions simmering, Jets...

The Splintered Vow

"A brothel worker who survives by controlling desire is shaken when a punk offers her a sexless marriage of convenience, only to vanish before the choice can harden into escape."

The Splintered VowThe winter of 1983 bit harder than usual in Kaiserslautern. January winds swept down from the Pfalz forest, rattling the windows of the brothel and carrying rumors of fresh protests in Bonn against NATO’s planned deployment of Pershing...

The Echo Of The Wall

"In Cold War shadows near Ramstein Air Base, a defected East German sex worker finds fleeting echoes of lost love in the arms of a homesick American soldier."

The brothel sat on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern, a squat two-story building with faded yellow stucco that blended into the misty Rhineland-Palatinate landscape. It was 1982, and the Cold War hung like a perpetual fog over everything—the American jets roaring...

Mirrors of Infinity

"Glimpse infinity when you place/ A pair of mirrors face to face."

The Mercury Gallery, New York, is proud to announce a forthcoming solo exhibition and sale of recent paintings by Leo Kauffmann. November 1st-30th.- The New York Herald Tribune, Thursday, October 28th, 1965.~~~~~~When Leo’s studio loft apartment doorbell rang at 7:30...

Pitch Perfect

"Seeing a former sexual partner at play..."

Those bronzed, muscular thighs emerging from those silken red shorts? I've seen them spread wide, trembling as she held them in the air as I pumped.That curvy bottom, stained by grass stains and bent tight as she prepares to deliver...

Do You Know Who I Am?

"A screen star meets her match"

"Come in, why don't you?"Unsure what reaction to expect, Charlie tentatively enters the luxurious dressing room on wheels - its occupant's waspish reputation precedes her."Something needs fixing?""Took your time. Dam electrics have gone south.""Thought it was a little dark," Charlie...