Love in Dark Settings ¶ Fiction by Dusk Peterson's Interests
General
Writing.
Indie publishing.
Self-publishing.
Blindness.
Braille.
Victorian and Edwardian history.
History of friendship and romantic friendship.
Gay history / GLBT history.
Gay leather history and leathermen.
Religion and ethics.
Fantasy.
Historical fantasy.
Friendship fiction.
Heterosexual romance (occasionally).
Darkfic (original gen, original het, and original slash).
Gay fiction.
Gay erotic love stories.
Gay leather erotica.
Far too many nonfiction genres to list.
A few relevant essays:
* What is Darkfic? An essay on the various ways in which the term "dark fiction" is used.
Dusk Peterson writes fantasy stories on friendship, gay historical fantasy tales, and contemporary gay fiction. Occasionally, a heterosexual love story will appear as well. Suspense plays an important role in many of the tales; the conflict in those tales is both external and internal. Peterson's stories are often placed in dark settings, such as prisons or wartime locations. The mood of the stories, however, is not one of unrelieved gloominess. Romance and friendship, especially male friendship, are recurring themes.
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Separated in time and place, a young woman and two young men are united
in their goal: to protect those they care for from the destruction of battle.
The odds are against them.
Darkling Plain, fantasy tales about young people in times of
conflict.
In a world where war has lasted for generations, in which only the pitiless
nobles who wage war hold power, and those who cannot fight must suffer
or seek slow death . . . What would you do if you were a noble, and you
lost
the ability to fight?
Princeling, fantasy wartime novels on friendship, love, and sacrifice.
A cycle of historical fantasy novels about disreputable men on the margins
of society, and the men and women who love them. The novels are set in
a world based on the late Victorian and Edwardian Eras.
The cycle consists of the following series:
The Eternal Dungeon,
Life
Prison, and Michael's House.
In a cool, dark cavern, guarded by men and by oaths, lies a dungeon
in which prisoners fearfully await the inevitable. The inevitable will
be replaced by the unexpected.
The Eternal Dungeon, a historical fantasy series set in a land
where the psychologists wield whips.
They are imprisoned until death, and their lives cannot get worse .
. . or so they think. But when an unlikely alliance forms against their
captors, the reformers risk losing what little comforts they possess.
Life Prison, a historical fantasy series about male desire and
determination in Victorian prisons.
In a world where temples are dying and sacred
theaters have been replaced by brothels, what will happen when a hard-headed
businessman joins forces with an idealist?
Michael's House, a historical fantasy series
set in an Edwardian slum.
This series collects assorted stories by Dusk Peterson: fantasy, historical
fantasy, contemporary fiction, and science fiction about friendship or
erotic attraction, usually male/male but occasionally male/female. The
stories are set in bleak locations such as a Renaissance prison and futuristic
slave-quarters. The characters must undergo hardship and sometimes transformation
before they are able to struggle their way out of the darkness.
Leather is a world of rich pleasure palaces and endless sensual delights,
where dreams can be pursued without limit, provided that a man has the
strength to stand the test. . . . But in the rural town of Mayhill, population
32,000, leather life is a little different.
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