In the years after the Final War, the Council of Women decide to secede from men. They create a world of their own away from men, where they can raise their children without fear. Once a year men may visit briefly to procreate. Boys are sent to the Land of Men when they reach puberty. At eleven, Bergman was sent across the sea and placed with his fathers, Spencer and Harris. Years later, he meets Hastings at the Beach Festival, an annual event for young men. It’s love at first sight for Bergman. But the course of true love never runs smoothly. In time Hastings desires a son, a subject Bergman paid little thought to. Yet their son Taylor brings great joy to their lives. Life is further complicated when Hastings is chosen to travel to the Land of Women to father children. He wants to accept, but Bergman can’t understand why he would consider going. Isn’t he happy with what he already has? If he goes, what will that do to their relationship? To their future? Is this a betrayal, or is it something else?

In the Land of Men

He continued down, at first bypassing my cock to kiss a line down my thigh to my knee and then down the length of my shin. Only after he had planted a single kiss on each of my feet did he take my erection between his lips and into his mouth.


I reached down and held his head steady as my hips gently thrust into him and after I ejaculated, which didn’t take long, he stood and kissed my lips.


When he’d finished kissing me, he began to nuzzle my ear, gently blowing in it and making me quiver.


“I’m glad I met you, Bergman,” he whispered.


I wanted to say “Me, too,” but his attentions had left me incapable of speech. I pulled him closer, hugged him tighter. I think he understood I felt the same way. I realised then he’d been doing all the work. He’d been pleasuring me and I’d been leaning back enjoying his every touch.


Chapter 8