Life Prison [Kindle Edition]

Dusk Peterson (Author)

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Product Description

In the unmerciful world of Mercy Prison, there is no rule but unending pain. For Merrick, the arrival of his new guard provides hope that he may break beyond the boundaries of his life prison. But appearances can be deceptive, and Merrick does not yet recognize the danger this guard poses to his future.

The novella "Life Prison" is the first story in the first volume of the Life Prison series. Friendship, erotic desire between men, and the costs of corruption and integrity are examined in this multicultural historical fantasy series, which is based on late Victorian prison life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Formerly director of the Erotic Authors Association, Dusk Peterson is the editor of "True Tales: An Erotic E-zine of Masculinity and Power" and is a runner-up for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for Erotic Fiction. Peterson is the author of a number of gay stories that are available in Kindle editions.

READER REVIEWS

"I like the psychological dimension you bring to your stories, exploring the character of a man rather than just a recital of physical acts."

"I'm still stunned by the power and beauty and evil and darkness of the story."

"I love first person unself-aware point of view when it's done with such a subtle touch. No bats or hammers in your story, no sir, just razor sharp flicks of a very slim blade and maybe you don't know you're bleeding until you feel the blood warm on your skin. . . ."

"Intense is probably an inadequate word for that work of art."

"Liveprison. Der Name sagt alles. Sehr düster, non-con. Ein Mörder im Gefängnis, der darauf hofft, dass sein neuer Wärter ihn umbringt, weil er anders nicht aus dem Gefängnis 'entkommen' kann."

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 117 KB
• Print Length: 100 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Love in Dark Settings Press; 1 edition (September 28, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001GS7XYG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,777 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Dusk Peterson writes fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. 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: friendship, heterosexual love, gay love, and faithful service are recurring themes.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Prison (Mercy's Prisoner 1) by Dusk Peterson, October 23, 2008

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Elisa (Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life Prison (Kindle Edition)

Life Prison is a tale on the Mercy's Prisoner series; it's setting in a fantasy world which resembles the Victorian period. In this world, life in prison is regulated as in the Dante's Inferno, every circles (prison's level) hides an atrocity for the prisoners who deserve to be there. Mind this last point: the prisoners are not innocents hold in captivity for some unbelievable injustice, they are guilty and sometime of an atrocity maybe even worst of what they now suffer in prison.

Merrick is a murder of the worst type: he consciously killed his three years old niece. He didn't act on the spur of the moment, he planned the kill; and now he replies it in his memory as the best moment of his life. In prison Merrick is not thinking at freedom, he is thinking at death; he wants to die but the only rule the guards have is to not kill the prisoners, or to not help them to kill themself. Other than, guards can do whatever they want, and they have no problem at follow this rule. Prisoners are no more than free whores for the guard who have them in hold.

To Merrick is assigned a new guard, Thomas. Thomas is young and idealist and the truly thinks that life in prison, even if a forever captivity, could be dignified for the prisoners. The initial incredulity of Merrick turns at first in opportunity: maybe Merrick can manipulate this man, maybe he can reach his purpose. But Thomas, for how young he is, it's not so naivee as he seems. Merrick will learn that a firm hold can be more tight than a strong one.

It's not a romance what happens between Merrick and Thomas, but it's a relationship. They build something together, even if it's not love. Reading the play of minds is almost as good as reading the sexual interaction between the two.

Life Prison is the tale of what the title tells right: the life in prison; it's not a journey toward freedom, or better it's not a journey toward the freedom outside the prison, but it's the journey of a man who learns to "live" in prison. Till he meets Thomas, Merrick is not living, he is waiting to die. Merrick is not a man who can live outside: he finds in prison, and in the confinement of prison, a suitable environment for him; outside he would be a criminal, a reject of the society; inside he is a man.