Queer Writing for a Queer World
//Kerr will soon make his debut in my new Cockaigne Chronicles story about the Ashworth family. Kerr is twenty-two years old and is Ross’ older brother. He is Ross’ primary and only carer since their mother died and their father couldn’t look after him. Kerr moved him and his brother to Cockaigne for a better life.
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Billy is uncharacteristically caring as Eric copes with his bruised buttocks. Billy rubs cream on his brother’s arse, but Eric can’t go to school. He fakes an upset stomach and has the day to himself – home alone. Because he is caged, he can’t pass the time by masturbating, so he mainly sleeps, but he does look at Billy’s tablet and finds some pictures he shouldn’t have seen.
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While Eric and his father drive to the next swimming lesson, Eric tells him what happened in the pool last week. His father is shocked and disappointed in his youngest son. Unfortunately for Eric, his father is obliged to tell the teacher. Mr Anderson has no alternative but to punish him. At the end of the lesson, the two friends receive their punishment.
//Lars is Morgan’s younger brother; he’s sixteen years old and training to be a lifeguard while Eric is learning to swim. Lars is boisterous and playful and inadvertently causes trouble for Eric.
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Eric loves his swimming lessons and what his new friend, Ross, teaches him while they are in the group shower afterwards. In this lesson, the teacher shows the boys how to stay afloat in the water. While floating, the friends have some fun playing with their bodies under the water.
//At his first swimming lesson, Eric comes face to face with a man he calls The Gorilla. He didn’t catch his name so gave him the nickname. The Gorilla is teaching the older boys to be lifeguards. He is gruff and hairy. As we learn towrds the end of the story, he is called Hermann Straub and is originally from Germany. For those wonder where I get my names from, Straub is a Germanic surname that literally means “one with bushy or bristly hair”.
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I am pleased to introduce you to a new family and their experiences in Cockaigne. The Ashworths have two sons, Billy and Eric. Billy is sixteen, and Eric is fourteen. While Billy learnt to swim at age twelve, Eric still needs to learn. The family have saved up for his lessons at The Cockaigne Young Men’s Association, CYMA. Eric is excited and reluctantly accepts that he has to be naked in the pool. While there, he makes a new friend, Ross.
//You may recognise the name because Morgan has appeared as a minor character in my first story set in Cockaigne about the Walker family. Morgan is a PE teacher at Cockaigne Academy and volunteers at the CYMA some evenings. He is Eric’s swimming teacher; like all the boys, Morgan must be naked poolside.
//Ross is fourteen years old and is the other boy at the beginners’ swimming lessons, the same age as Eric Ashworth. Naturally, they gravitate to each other and become friends. Ross shows Eric some of the advantages of living in Cockaigne.
//I know that there has been nothing new from me since mid-December, but I have been busy editing ‘Three Tears’ (still not finished) and re-publishing it on Screeve. I have also been busy in writing a new series. And now I’m preparing to publish it. “The Chronicles of the Ashworth Family’ is a ten-part series that centres on a family living outside Cockaigne in Suddene.
Eric Ashworth
Eric is the main protagonist of the story. He is fourteen years old and still can’t swim. His father has finally saved enough to take him to learn at “The Cockaigne Young Men’s Association”, or CYMA. The first rule of the CYMA is that everybody swims naked. Eric is learning with a lot of other young boys. But there is one other boy his age learning with him.
Billy Ashworth
Billy is Eric’s sixteen-year-old brother. He learnt to swim at a much younger age and had no problem learning at the CYMA, but he wasn’t going through puberty at the time. Now he is older, he is very body-conscious and unwilling to let anyone see him naked.
Ken Ashworth
Ken is Billy and Eric’s father. He takes Eric to Cockaigne each week for his swimming lesson. Eric wants him to watch, but that means Ken must be naked once he’s poolside. Father and son spend every Monday evening naked together.
I shall be introducing more characters in the story in the coming days. I hope you enjoy these tantalising glimpses into the forthcoming story and the new AI videos of the characters I have created.