I just put this story up, and gave it a quick read.

https://eunuchworld.co/s13848

It was a surprising little story, and I feel as though the author has more story to tell.

Atreyu88 writes with a very kind, and straight-forward style. At no point do you feel anything sinister, or uncomfortable with the story. I feel that Atreyu88 is lamenting a time where a young boy could befriend and adult, without there being any sort of accusation of impropriety.

Nowadays people immediately jump to unfounded conclusions if a full grown man befriends a child. People see pedophiles in ever dark corner. The story reminds me of a time when a child could be trusted with the man next door. Where a community wasn't constantly on the lookout for monsters. When trust was easy.

The friendship between the boy, Damien, and the unnamed main character, is an innocent relationship. They share a love of astronomy, and an inability to sleep through the night. They share their company with no more expectation than that.

Yet...

Also in the story is an adult fear of sex and sexuality. It comes out in the telling of the story of another boy, Joe Roberts. Joe is becoming sexually mature, much to the shock and horror of his mother. Her decision, and the fact this world apparently approves of such things, is to remove the source of the problem, and keep poor Joe as an innocent sexless being.

That notion also reminds me of a time in the past, when sexuality itself was demonized. Where children were expected to be ignorant of all things below their belly button, and higher than their knees. It is an unrealistic expectation, but one that seems to continue to this day. We expect children to behave like adults far before they are ready, yet we also expect them to not be the people they were born to be. As though being sexual is something that only miraculously comes into being at age 21, and it appears fully formed, with all the tools an adult needs to handle it.

Perhaps the story is saying that the world really expects us all to be eunuchs. Only if we function as eunuchs can we be trusted to live around other people.

The conflict between Damien and the main character comes when Damien realizes the main character has something to do with Joe's fate. The unnamed main character is in on it with the other adults. It is something that threatens the relationship. Damien perhaps thought that the main character was above such concerns. He realized that perhaps he wasn't as safe with the main character as he thought he was. The main character is complicit in the expectations of the adults. Continuously expecting a child to be what he is not.

The story is short, yet meaningful to me. I hope Atreyu88 returns to tell more of this story. I feel there is much more to tell.

Perhaps I am reading too much into a little story meant for the EA. Only Atreyu88 can tell me for sure.

Thank-you, Atreyu, for an engaging little tale. Please write more soon.

I heartily agree. This is a very good story. I also want to read more about Joe Roberts and Damien. I would also like to read about other patients of the protagonist.

Hi Cainanite

I'm really glad you liked the story. Thank you for the wonderful review. Isaac Asimov always said that in fiction the option, and the analysis, of the reader (any reader) was more valid and insightful than that that of the writer. He would say that you were the one to state what the story was about and not me.

There was a good deal more I wanted to say in The Secret but I left it out as I was trying to keep the story just as short as possible. Sometimes it's interesting to see what's the most you can do with the fewest number of words. In any case there are more stories I'm eager to write

Atreyu

P.S. Thank you Curious Guy. I promise to write more.

This is indeed a very evocative short story that says a lot in very few words.

It's an excellent piece, and captures the rougher parts of the man/boy relationship in the adult friend genre.

Having grown up with such an adult friend, who was for all intents and purposes "my father", I can fully relate to the emotions conveyed in this piece. Even though it is brief, we do get the feeling that man and boy have grown quite close.

It's shattering to find fault in your male role model, especially at a young age. (No, I never did, not until after I was in college.)

I am, however, not sure that a sequel of chapter 2 can be added to this without diminishing it in some way?

I want to know what the protagonist would do if a woman wanted her son penectomized because of excessive masturbation but he knows (or strongly suspects) that the boy was not masturbating excessively.

Would he do it because she wanted it?

Would he do it because if he did not, she would have it done somewhere else?

Would he refuse to do it? If he refused, could she have it done somewhere else?

What would he do if a woman wanted her son penectomized because she just didn't like penises (she did not even pretend that he was masturbating excessively)?

I hope that if the protagonist removes a boy's prostate, he does it in such a way that does not cause bladder control problems.

Thank you for all these wonderful stories! Not too short, either, imo. What do find short sometimes is the length of text describing the surgery, it was neat and nice in this one, just the way I like it. I am very intrigued by anatomy, and psychology, how it feels like. I'm also fascinated by the humiliations and embarassments our heroes go through. I identify very much with their fears and anxieties, their ordeals.. It often seems to be like.. If you got a soft, little prick then you're up for surgery, no problemo. BUT.. if you suddenly got a hardon, the poor surgeons and doctors and nurses become helpless and belittled by your huge manhood, and it's almost like you can feel their own embarassments in realizing that they have actually strapped down a (potential) fruitful, big MAN.. and now, how wicked isn't that, huh? I can't help it, I always feel with the victims, both in fiction and in reality.

curious_guy (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:59 am I want to know what the protagonist would do if a woman wanted her son penectomized because of excessive masturbation but he knows (or strongly suspects) that the boy was not masturbating excessively.

Would he do it because she wanted it?

Would he do it because if he did not, she would have it done somewhere else?

Would he refuse to do it? If he refused, could she have it done somewhere else?

What would he do if a woman wanted her son penectomized because she just didn't like penises (she did not even pretend that he was masturbating excessively)?

Those are all good questions Curious Guy. Looking back on it I suppose the reason why I never named the main character is so that the reader can fill his own name in. If it was me I certainly hope I'd put the welfare of the boy first. But that's the problem. The mother would be able to take the kid to someone else and that someone else might not be so nice. It's a dilemma I'm glad I'll never have to face in real life. Thank goodness this is all just fantasy!

It took a little while (well 6 years actually) but I just submitted Part 2 under my pen name of "Atreyu88."

I hope it was worth the wait and that you like it.

Atreyu88

it is here

https://eunuchworld.co/s14914