Author's Introduction.
This is the first book in the chronicles of the life and loves of Anthony Madison. This is my first attempt at crafting a multivolume novel and I hope that I will somehow find the time to complete these chronicles with additional books. However, I believe this book stands alone as a complete story even though there will be a few lingering questions to entice the reader to anticipate future volumes.
All sexual scenes depicted are between consenting adults at least 18 years old. The use of words such as kid, boy and girl is not intended to imply that any of the characters are underage. These are common terms that college age young adults use in referring to their peers. To artificially eliminate such terms would diminish the realism of the characters in the story.
Readers should know that a myriad of sexual situations are portrayed as the story progresses. Scenes including incest, S&M, bondage, bisexuality and homosexuality of both men and women are portrayed. If any of these are offensive to you or illegal in your jurisdiction please do not read further.
Finally this is a work of fiction. The characters in this story are part of a fantasy. Therefore, they do not have any concerns about diseases and unwanted pregnancies to deal with. There is no discussion of birth control, condoms or safe sex issues. Bad things do not happen in fantasy worlds. I in no way intend for my writing to advocate promiscuous or reckless sexual lifestyles. Please be as safe as possible in your real world sex lives.
Prologue
Ballmon College is one of the last vestiges of a once common tradition in American education. The small rural college of just over 2500 students admits only males. Even loss of federal funding could not persuade the trusties to change the over hundred-year long policy of not admitting females. The alumni are generous in their support of the school and the policy most of them heartily believe should continue. The bucolic campus is located in a remote rural area over a hundred miles from the nearest large population center. The nearest interstate highway interchange is almost 50 miles east of town.
The town of Endeavor grew up next to the college and provides for the needs of the faculty, staff and students. Nearly the entire population of 8000 is associated with Ballmon. The faculty and staff live there. The businesses get much of their revenue from the college and its students. The town's older population tends to be living on retirement incomes directly or indirectly related to the college. In general the college and the town enjoy a symbiotic relationship inside a cocoon-like existence.
Few outsiders have reason to visit Endeavor. It is far from the beaten track and few tourists or vacationers find their way to the town that seemingly has been forgotten by time. The one hotel's primary purpose is offering housing to visiting parents. The place is generally sparsely filled outside of move-in, move-out and visit days. Even then most parents opt for the more modern facilities of the highway side motels northeast of Endeavor. An occasional lost soul enjoys a night's stay in one of the old hotel's large antique filled Victorian style rooms. Those guests are mostly folks who get off the highway to enjoy a scenic country drive and find themselves lost. The charming town has a way of luring such visitors to turn happenstance into a pleasant evening in the type of town most only see in old movies.
Endeavor is a typical small-town with a broad tree-lined avenue at its center. The north half of the town's central artery is simply known as Main Street. The piece to the south of Elm Street is called College Boulevard. The road ends at the impressive main gate of Ballmon, which forms the entire southern boundary of the town. The remaining roads appear as a small grid-work placed amidst the patch quilt fields of the surrounding farms when viewed from above. Along College Boulevard and the south side of Ballmon Avenue across from the college's iron and brick fence are rows of large impressive homes mostly occupied by college professors and administrators. A block off of College Boulevard is the aptly named Fraternity Way. The eight houses there are no less impressive than the more visible homes of the main street.
North of Elm is the central business district of Endeavor. The hotel is there along with the majority of other small businesses that serve the town and college. Over the years the business area has spread off the four blocks of main it originally occupied and now includes several side streets. Hungry students and townsfolk keep a large number of small cafes and restaurants in business as well as more mundane places like the general store and Sam's Hardware. McDonald's and its kin have yet to find Endeavor and if the town council has its way they never will. The town's loan gas station does a big business as students tend to do a lot of driving to seek more exciting times at the joints over by the highway. While the town's bars are cheap and not overly picky about ID's they tend to be quite places. Even those that have juke boxes offer little opportunity for dance partners.
One problem of having over 2500 young men at a college on the edge of a small town is the lack of young women in town. There are never more than a couple hundred unmarried women and the college boys have to compete with local guys for their attention. The joints out by the highway offer only a slightly better opportunity for opposite sex companionship. An option for those students that aren't lucky enough to connect with a local and don't want to settle for dates with their right hands is the town's not so well kept secret, the red light area. On the east side of main is a small street called Prospect Lane. The six houses built around the turn of the twentieth century, were once owned by the town's wealthiest citizens. That was before the college grew and brought so many testosterone laden young men to town. For a price a horny young man can get his needs taken care of in the bedrooms of the six brothels. Though prostitution is illegal, no arrests have ever been made.
The town's two police officers as well as the citizens look upon the prostitution as a public service. People want their daughter's to be safe and feel having so many randy young men can only lead to trouble. The houses are clean and safe. The whores' health is assured by regular visits to the town's small medical clinic. The town's police as well as the campus police who really do most of the law enforcement in town only go to Prospect Lane if they are called to handle an unruly customer of which there are few. There is little crime in town. The students are under a strict behavior policy which is vigorously enforced. Violations result in heavy fines for students, which even the richest of parents are loathed to pay and expulsions are handed out liberally in the few cases that require such action. The townspeople tend to be law abiding and for those who stray the local codes are as strict as the college's rules. The town's small jail seldom has customers, but for those who do find themselves on the wrong side of the law there is a long stay awaiting an appearance before the town magistrate. There is no bail and few creature comforts in Endeavor's jail.
There is another not so well kept secret inside the cocoon of the small town and college. There are other ways that young men find to relieve sexual tensions. There is a large amount of same sex experimentation amongst the students of Ballmon College. Most believe it to be a natural part of growth and give it little concern except when the occasional student is caught with a cock in his mouth in some semi-public area. That is rare though as the remoteness of the area provides plenty of places to find privacy for almost any activity.