TOWER Vol 2: HOLE, a magazine which describes itself as “a digital magazine about sudden upheaval, abrupt endings, chaos and disaster,” includes a number of very good stories including mine, “In the Shape of the Emperor.” The emperor has a harem of six hundred concubines. So too did each emperor before him, for all of our thousand years of history. With the exception of his favorites, those concubines will employ their skills on the emperor at most once a year, at which point they must be capable of delivering the most intense pleasures any living thing has ever known. To that end, a practice man is retained, chosen to match the emperor’s height, weight, and genital dimensions. Before me, the longest such a man ever served was six months before an emperor’s jealousy cut him down. I was chosen on the day of the emperor’s eighteenth birthday. I have served him for twenty years.
In The Shape of the Emperor in TOWER
In The Shape of the Emperor in TOWER
In The Shape of the Emperor in TOWER
TOWER Vol 2: HOLE, a magazine which describes itself as “a digital magazine about sudden upheaval, abrupt endings, chaos and disaster,” includes a number of very good stories including mine, “In the Shape of the Emperor.” The emperor has a harem of six hundred concubines. So too did each emperor before him, for all of our thousand years of history. With the exception of his favorites, those concubines will employ their skills on the emperor at most once a year, at which point they must be capable of delivering the most intense pleasures any living thing has ever known. To that end, a practice man is retained, chosen to match the emperor’s height, weight, and genital dimensions. Before me, the longest such a man ever served was six months before an emperor’s jealousy cut him down. I was chosen on the day of the emperor’s eighteenth birthday. I have served him for twenty years.