I have a secret—something that’s consuming my life. Strength…it’s what matters most in the military. If you’re skinny and weak like me, then you need allies. You need to prove your worth. You go into the woods with more powerful men. You open your mouth and thank them while they use you. Then you go back to camp and cook their food. You make their beds. You fall to your knees and beg to do it all again tomorrow. That’s how life is for boys like us. We’re born to be controlled. It’s natural. Format: Short story Length: ~11,500 words ***CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT***

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.

Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge.

Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable

Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer