Lord and Servant (original gen/slash)

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Title: Lord and Servant.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, e-mail list, DW, AO3, Patreon, Goodreads.
Setting: An imaginary version of a Western Maryland prison, 1890s.
Categories: Original gen with slash references, alternate universe / alternate history, male friendship, guards and prisoners, masters and servants, lords, ethical issues.
Series: Life Prison, an alternate history series on friendship, romance, and rebellion in nineteenth-century prisons.
Length: Novelette.
Feedback: Yes, please.
Rating: T.
Warnings: Boilerplate warning for all my stories + my rating system.
Story summary:

When you're a long way from home, you find companions where you can.

A tramp and a lord may seem to make an odd pair. But Compassion Life Prison is an odd place to start with, and the tramp has his own perspective on life there. Will the lord listen?

For goodness' sake, what was Starke to do with a servant like this? Criminal background, no service training during his apprentice years, idling his time among tramps on the railroads . . . Starke suppressed a sigh.

Master's Piece (original gen)

[duskpeterson]

Title: Master's Piece.
Author: Dusk Peterson.
Where to find me: Website, e-mail list, DW, AO3, Patreon, Goodreads.
Setting: An imaginary, 16th-century version of a castle in Southern Maryland, next to the Chesapeake Bay.
Categories: Original gen, alternate universe / alternate history, male friendship, masters and slaves, lords, sculptors, ethical issues.
Series: Waterman, an award-winning speculative fiction series of love in an alternative version of the Chesapeake Bay region during the 1910s and during the future as it was envisioned in the 1960s. This story looks back to an earlier period.
Length: Short story.
Feedback: Yes, please.
Rating: T.
Warnings: None.
Story summary:

He was his master's piece: the model for his master's sculptures. But his master was different.

As Pip longs for the unobtainable, his master finds that he is beginning to have doubts about a longstanding custom in his nation. Yet how can he risk giving up what he values most?

He had watched his master try to sculpt smiles – had followed his master's orders to smile – but the smile was never quite right.