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...

Sexual Advent Calendar

"They took the idea of Advent and used it help rationalize their true desires."

They were co-workers and had been for ten years or so. They were both married. They had even been to each other's homes and knew each other's spouses. There had never been an attraction of a sexual nature before, but...

Heavenly Peace

"A refugee is integrating with the locals!"

December 20th.Dear Diary,Only six sleeps until Christmas! It’s been a fucking awful year, God knows. Obviously, leaving Kyiv was the main event. I can’t even watch the news anymore, it’s so scary and depressing. Ivan still messages me every day,...