The Lizard

It was Friday evening when Luca was on his way to the Gondi-Palazzo. Sandro would arrive this evening and he needed to prepare the room. To his surprise the heavy wooden gate was already open when Luca turned the key. He crossed the yard where Sandro's motorbike was still standing under an awning, but the large palm tree had received fresh water. He went further on and entered the hall. "Hello?" he called and jumped when a man came around the corner, wiry, with sun burnt skin and a straw hat upon his head.

"You must be Luca", he said, his bushy, silvery hair poured from under the hat. "I'm Fran, the housekeeper and ardener. Alessandro told me that you would be coming sometime."

Luca stretched out his hand but the long white lily he carried was in the way. Fran shook it. "That isn't necessary", he smirked and Luca felt embarrassed. "For Alessandro?" Fran took the lily carefully and examined it. "You need to remove the yellow anthers. I hope you haven't smeared your clothes. If you have, it will stain."

Hastily Luca looked himself up and down. He couldn't dream what his mother would say if he came home with another set of tainted clothes, but he seemed to be clean.

"Come into the kitchen."

Luca followed and watched Fran slip into his gardening gloves and nipped off the anthers. "Alessandro has left money for me to fill the fridge. And I covered the furniture since the palazzo is deserted now." He turned. A dozen of wrinkles framed his eyes and the skin of his face was like leather; the result of years in the sun. "Anastasia told me about you."

"How is she?"

"Well, thanks. We enjoy the fresh air in the hills."

Luca envied him instantly but he smiled. "Please give her my greetings."

Fran nodded. "I will. Well, check the grocery if you're in need of anything else while there's still time. I'm off then."

Luca went upstairs after he had examined the fridge and opened the door leading to the loggia. Fran had left a good feeling inside him. There were people still who didn't despise him for being what he was. Fran certainly knew the story of Anastasia's son.

Luca checked the bathroom then, came back with a handful of condoms and lubricant and hid them under the bed clothes. The lily he placed upon it and grinned.

His leather suit was still waiting for him in Sandro's wardrobe and so far nobody had noticed the cross he was always wearing. The chain was long enough to hide it.

Two hours later - Luca was sitting in the kitchen where he could watch the yard - Alessandro opened the gate and drove the Ferrari in. Luca was out like lightning and draped himself over the closed car door, falling into Alessandro's arms. "I see you missed me."

"You could have called to say when you'd arrive."

" I'm here now." Alessandro looked at Luca. "What have you done with your hair?" He combed it with his fingers.

"Oh, that's a long story. I know it looks shitty."

"Certainly not. It will grow again, don't worry. But what happened?" Alessandro dropped out of the car.

"Football match, I told you I was going."

"Madonna! Did they start fireworks?"

"Sort of. I'll tell you later." Luca pulled Alessandro through the door and into the kitchen. "Are you hungry?"

"Sure I am. For you." He pulled Luca closer and unbuttoned his shirt. "I hope there are no further damages, eh?" He took the cross into his palm and smiled. Luca giggled when Alessandro unzipped his jeans and cupped his butt cheeks with his palms. He felt nothing. "Forgot your underpants? Ah, what's that?" He let Luca's trousers glide over his hips and revealed one of Alessandro's black strings. "Wow."

"I hope you don't mind", Luca said indistinctly because his lips were covered by Alessandro's. He felt Sandro's fingers massaging the shaft of his penis and it was raising in his fist within a second. He tried to free his legs from his jeans but failed due to his shoes. Alessandro felt him struggling, so he bent down and tugged at Luca's shoes. But instead of coming to his feet again he devoured Luca's cock, that filled out the front of the string, lavishing it through the fabric, up and down like licking an ice cone. Luca moaned and dug his fingers into lessandro's hair.

"You should keep it, it looks better on you than on me." Alessandro left Luca suddenly, rose and chased him upstairs where he stopped in front of the bed, looking down. "A lily? How sweet." He took it and sniffed, but it was without any scent.

"Prince of the lilies. I had some trouble because of that", Luca mumbled.

Alessandro hadn't heard him. He turned, smiled and pulled Luca into an embrace. At the same time he tried to undress himself, and finally fell with Luca between the sheets. "Ouch, what's that?" Alessandro struggled to reveal what Luca had hidden under the cover. "Ah!!! You think we'll have any use for this?" He held up the tube of lubricant and rinned devilishly. Then he crawled upon Luca's body, naked except for the string, and started one of his first class seductions.

Luca was on the brink of orgasm, but he tried not to bite into Alessandro's member that was dangling from above into his mouth. His hand stroked Sandro's bum and one finger was piercing his anus. Alessandro grunted with pleasure and Luca knew he mustn't stop now. The next minute a hot gush of semen flooded into his sucking mouth, flowing down his throat and he swallowed. How easy he got used to it, he thought briefly when a rapid series of convulsions shook his own body and he released himself into Sandro's mouth. Sandro fell aside, his face buried into Luca's abdomen,
sucking white drops from the tip of Luca's penis. "I certainly missed this."

"It's just been a week", Luca mumbled exhausted. Though he still hadn't had e ough, and his aching penis yearned for more. He had forgotten how horny he could be. Even if it had been just a week. Sandro was still sucking gently, stopping Luca's penis to shrivel. Luca copied Sandro's actions, stroking his smooth buttocks and outlining the rim of his anus. Alessandro moaned quietly, but then he said "What caused you harm at the football match then?"

"A hooligan who's unfortunately my class mate. He'd already made nasty comments about you and me."

Alessandro lifted his head. "You and me?"

Luca's penis felt cold without the caress. "Don't stop", he demanded.

"Yeah, but what did he say? What does he know...?"

"He knows nothing, he just guessed. Said I would be your lap dog who follows you everywhere."

"And called you names, right?" Alessandro turned over to face Luca. He kissed him deeply. "Can you stand up for yourself?"

"I do. I admitted nothing and since he didn't show up at lessons for thelast two days, I guess he's still in custody. He started a fire", he added.Alessandro chewed at Luca's under lip and humped slightly into Luca's abdomen. Luca responded. "Well then, the first thing you have to learn isnot to be ashamed of what you are. No matter what others say."

Luca was silent. "With the result of being beaten up on a street?"

"Sshht, let's not talk about that now." His fingers had found Luca's hole,stroked and opened it. Then his head anished between Luca's legs andstarted to lick. "Where did you put that lube?"

Sated and satisfied Luca later purred in Alessandro's arms. He had put hishead close to Sandro's and let his fingers ander over his lover's chest.

"What's the name of that hooligan?"

"Raniero .... why?"

"You said he didn't show up again? Perhaps he was expelled from school
then?"

"I certainly hope so. Though Coppo said nothing about that."

"Coppo?"

"My teacher. Professore Coppo Travisero. He's a friend of my father."

Alessandro freed himself from Luca's embrace and lay upon him. "So you already have good connections, eh?" he grinned. His hand had found Luca'smember and stroked it again to full erection. "I could do this for thewhole weekend", he whispered into Luca's ear.

"Why not?"

"I've been here before", Alessandro said, as they passed Palazzo Torrigiani and its museum La Specola.
"God, no, really?" Luca exclaimed. "You've seen those anatomic wax models
of humans?"

"Well, sure. I've seen the 'The skinned', it was a model for the lymphatic system."

Luca muttered something, taking Alessandro's hand subconsciously. "Giano was here many times, but I guess, as dottore-to-be he's interested in such things. I would had vomited."

Alessandro laughed. It was a cool day, and a welcomed change after the hot days at the start of June. After an extended brunch they had decided to take Masolino's diary with them to visit the main work of him and Masaccio: the chapel Brancacci at the Carmine church.

"You think this was the family palazzo of Torrigiani?" Luca asked.

Alessandro looked at him. "You mean THE Torrigiani? Michelangelo's classmate at the Medici-garden? I don't know. Perhaps."

"I've read he was a foe of Michelangelo and broke his nose in a fight."

"That's right, gioia. Right here in the Brancacci-chapel where they made sketches to learn about perspective. Michelangelo laughed at Torrigiani's sketches and they started to fight. He was burnt by the Spanish inquisition later. I think the free Florentine spirit didn't go well with the pious Spanish Catholicism." Alessandro avoided the area of Santo Spirito because this was the hang out of his buddies, so they made a detour through shady alleys and winding yards. Near the Carmine church he stopped and pressed Luca's back against a house wall, next to hanging, blue loxinias.

"Have I told you that I'm coming with Giano and mother to Pisa next week ?" Luca started, but Alessandro pressed his body to his own and started to snog with him. Luca gasped but submitted. It was at that moment when a boy and a girl stepped out of the archway two houses away. The boy stopped in his tracks and squinted his eyes. He saw two lads kissing each other and he clutched the hand of his girlfriend tightly. "What's the matter, Tris?" she said.

Tristano stood rooted to the spot and couldn't believe it. It was certainly Luca who had his hands around the waist of the other guy who could only be Alessandro di Gondi-Lucertola. His heart beat fast.

"Gays, does it bother you?" Carolina said, pulling Tristano away. "Do you think your granny liked the chocolate?" Tristano said nothing, he was too perplexed and all of a sudden the day was hot like in August. His face flushed and he felt the presence of his girlfriend annoying. He wished he was alone.

But then, Caro grabbed his hand and drew him away.

"Great", Alessandro mumbled, not releasing Luca's lips. "I take it you'll stay overnight then?"

"If I can?"

"You have to. We'll find a place." He humped his abdomen into Luca's and Luca knew that Sandro was still horny, despite their activities during the night and in the early morning. Both hadn't noticed that they had been watched.


The Carmine Church raised high and unadorned in front of them. It was a plain Carmelite church, rejecting with its brown pietra forte stone. The famous chapel had to be entered from outside and a group of tourists already waited in front of it. "Crap, always those tourists. We never have Florence for our own", Alessandro said.

"Let's wait then until they have gone", Luca suggested, pointing to a street cafe. They ordered two waters and two cappuccini and Luca opened Masolino's diary. He had protected it with a plastic cover. "Did you know that the church had burnt down in 1771? Only the two opposite chapels survived, one of them was the Brancacci-chapel. Well, there was damage, the big wooden frames between the frescoes had burnt and the paintings were discoloured at the rims. Then they wanted to tear it down, but the German painter Menzel who was here in Florence begged the government not to do so, because it was something that was irrecoverable."

Alessandro nodded, sipping at his coffee. "I know. The government of those times must have been idiots. Well, at least they relented and started to renovate the frescoes. Have you been here since the last renovation?"

Luca shook his head. They had lasted for many years, and he had heard that it was a miracle. The colours were fresh as the day when Masolino and Masaccio had painted them.

After twenty minutes they decided to have another try. Alessandro knew that the amount of people who were allowed to enter the chapel, was limited due to the humidity. When they had paid their entrance fee, the tourist group was still standing in front of the chapel, but were about to leave.

"It is because of their narrative density and the perspective depiction that this cycle has such a high rating in the history of painting", Luca heard the tourist guide explain in a Neapolitan dialect. "Masaccio was never carried away by the graceful classical vein. The faces of his apostles are rough and powerful. Adam and Eve of his hand built a concrete opposite to the same pair painted by Masolino, who had never painted a more expressive Eve."

Alessandro watched the tourists, standing a little aside, saw they were leafing through booklets, examining cards, fumbling with their cameras, although it was strictly forbidden to take photos, chattering low and looked as if they would like to be somewhere else. He sighed inwardly. The tourist guide wasn't at all what he hoped for himself to become. If you liked full attention you don't have to simply recount the facts.

"From Brunelleschi Masaccio acquired a knowledge of mathematical proportion. From Donatello he imbibed a knowledge of classical art that led him away from the prevailing Gothic style. He inaugurated a new naturalistic approach to painting that was concerned less with details and ornamentation, more with simplicity and unity, less with flat urfaces more with the illusion of three dimensionality. Together with Brunelleschi and Donatello he was a founder of the Renaissance." Involuntarily Luca peered at the walls, to see if she was right. Of course she was right, he thought. He pulled out the diary. If the guide knew what he held in his hands she would jump for joy. The original diary of Masolino da Panicale.... the painter of this chapel they were standing in... six hundred and twenty two years ago.

Palestinians Encounter

hi i am 25 years old, originally greek, i work for a diplomatic mission in Israel, and has been living there for the past 2 years. One thing i loved about being in the middle east is how guys have the complete freedom to hang out together without the need for having girls around them, and The palestenians are no exception to that. Being gay i felt horny every time i saw an arab guy walking round, but never dared to make a move, i always feared that i would be beaten once manhood is sth u cant insult in for arabs.. very little i knew that An arab never considers himself as GAY if he is top... being top means you are a MAN... As a part of the work i did, i had to spend a few nights every month in Refugee camps, and i areas where the conflict was high, and of course since these areas were so poor, my work arranged for me to stay at some of the local families houses. These houses were usually small, and i some cases the whole family slept in a one room apartment.. It was a Friday night when i arrived at the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza, after i crossed the border between israel and palestine, i was supposed to me welcomed by NASER (Victor in english) a 28 yrs old guy... and indeed he was there,,, the moment i saw him, i got an erection, he was the arabian prince of my dreams, a real hunk, i couldent help not looking at his huge cock hidden under the tight jeans,, he had goatee which was also a huge turn on for
me,,, Naser greeted me and said that for the next 2 daysw i will be sharing his room at their house. he took my bag and we started talking, he told me how hard life was for him there, how his family suffers ,,, of course i was there to help as much as i could, but one thing i wanted more was to be on my kneees licking his balls and sucking his cock, but i was so scared , How can i start sth like that?? They would kill me if i even dared to do sth!!! I met his family and we talked
over a very simple dinner.. at 22.00 pm Naser told me that i had 2 options .. one was that we could stay home watch some tv, and play cards, or second we could go to the local coffee house, smoke NARGILA ,and meet with his friends, i of course chose the second option,, i couldent resist the idea of being round so many arab hunks...Anyway, we entered the coffee place which was filled with men, from all ages.. Naser introduced me to AYMAN and AHMAD who didnt speak a word of english, they said sth the moment they saw me, and then they commented on how soft my hands were... we drank tea, and smoked nargilla, and out of the blue, Naser
said that his friend ahmad wants to know if i ever had sex ,,, and of course i said yes and that i had it many times ... they were so excited and wanted to know details.. i managed to get them horny with my stories, i could see the result under their pants. they were trying hard to hide it.. and then i started my side of the game, and i asked if they had any sexual experience with girls, and they all said NO, Ahmad said that its forbidden to have sex before marriage, and at the time being they cant afford getting married since they hardly earn money to feed themselves.. I dont know where i got the courage from and i said " well its hard to find girls everywhere, but in europe, u can easily find beautiful guys to suck you and even u can fuck them,!finding men is easier than girls, and ts more hot! too bad you dont have that here... NASER laughed and felt shy, he explained what i said to his friends, who were all shocked, Ayman said this is HARAM (against religion) .. and NASER replied :the life we live in is haram, iam 28 years old, and i still do it with my hand..I was so happy inside, i knew sth was turning inside of the 2 guys (ayman didnt
seem intrested after 10 minuts he excused himself and left) but the other guys wanted to know how it feels being sucked and how does it feel fucking hot ass... of course i was happy telling them, . Suddenly Ahmad said sth to NASER and the two seemd to argue about sth (later i knew that AHMAD told NASER to ask me if i ever sucked cock) .. since NASER refused to ask me, AHMAD did it using his hands, i was walking on 7th cloud then.. i quickly said well only once (of course i lied) i was watching their huge cocks swelling all the time... I sure knew what the guys
wanted and i wasnt gonna loose a chance like this... so i said to NASER. tell Ahmad i can do him a favour nd show him how it happens if he promises not to tell anyone... Naser turned red, and he said in a low voice,, will u show me too? Oh My GOD,,,i couldent believe what was happening to me, here i was infront of 2 hot , fucking sexy arab studs, and they wanted me to suck them,, Soon all 3 of us were fucking horny,, and we needed to find a place where i would show them my experiment.Then Naser said, that we can all go back to his room, tell his parents that we will play cards, and that after playing cards, i will do some work, in which Ahmad and Naser will help with (he told his parents that Ahmad and him will telll me their stories with the israeli occupation and that i will write these storie in a newspapare in europe)Nasers parents were a very nice couple in their late 50's , time was almost midnight, so the said goodnight.. and we went into Nasers rooom.. Both guys were so shy, they sat at the side of the bed ( a very small bed) . Ibroke the silence and said, well have u changed your mind?? NO of course no, said Ahmad, but what are we supposed to do. I told them well, if we were at my place , i would say take off ur clothes, but since we dont want to risk, i would stay stand with ur backs to the wall, unzip and let me take control of the rest, if u dont like what i will do to u, just tell me to stop..
with that we agreed, they both stood up, Naser said that he wanted a dim light.so he turned on the lights and opened the small lamp on his desk. He was so tense. i went down on my knees, touched their behinds, and i said that they had wonderful behinds, they had their pants unzipped, i could see the cocks, struggeling to get out of their underwear,, i didnt keep them waiting, i took out my tongue and started licking their cocks from above the fabric of their underwear.. AHMAD moaned and i started seeing a wet spot on his underwear,,, ididnt want to loose anything coming out from those 2 hot suasages, i quickly removed the undewear and took his cock in my mouth,, soon Ahmad was moaning, he tried as much as he could to keep it low, Naser was playing with his cock, and he said,, please do me now, of course i gladly did..i sucked them so well, that it didnt take them more than a minute to shoot, i swallowed with so much passion, they were both shocked, happy and horny for more, it was a minute later that i had both their cocks in my mouth again, licking their balls, sliding my hands down their undewear, playing with their buttocks..i wa in heaven and so were they.. I told them to take of their panst, i wanted to get more, i wanted to eat their arses. i slid my tongue up Nasers hole, he moaned and moaned, and then did the same to Ahmad, they wanted to cum again. and of course my mouth was ready to recieve all... I loved so much what we did, i kept on doing what we did, till 3 am. i sucked them 5 times , licked their arses, their balls, their nipples, kissed their hairy chests, and got rewarded with their hot arab man juice. I was really in heaven,,, Ahmad had to leave unfortunatly. but i still had NASER (my real hunk) Naser said i would use the bed, and that he will sleep on the floor. I felt so bad, I really realized how genorous arab men are, i went to shower, and when i got back in the room, Naser was already asleep, i climed on the small bed, and smiled, that i achieved one of my dreams, i looked at NASER and i felt so emotional, there he was a sexy beautiful man, 28 years old, living in hell, while we europeans are never satisfied with what we have... i felt a huge urgo to kiss that guy, si i knelt down, and gave him a soft kiss on his cheek as he slept. He felt the kiss, and soon the kiss on the cheek turned into apassionate french kiss, i almost swallowed his tongue, i felt his spit in my mouth, and a minute later, i was sucking him again. I wanted Naser to FUCK me hard, i went up to his ear, licked it, and told him, NASER i want u to fuck me, he said i dont know how, i am not sure i will be good? i told him not to worry, that all he has to do, is lay down, and let me take control... i got a condom and some hand cream from my handbag ( that was the only lubricant i had) i sat on top of him, slowly sliding his cock into my ass, i was in heaven, he was in heaven, his cock was not the biggest dick i saw, but for sure a very thick cock, it took me some time to get used to it being in me.. i rode him like it was my last ride, he was moaning, slow horny moans, ... he came while grabing my buttocks,,, it felt so good.. after that we went to sleep .. the nest morning i went to where i was suppose to do my work, Gaza got bombed on that afternoon. i was forced to leave Gaza at once by the UN forces.. i didnt have a chance to say goodbye to my hunk... to my prince, to my man... i still miss that guy.. he was my first arab.. but for sure not my last arab.... sometimes when i close my eyes, i see Nasers face moaning as i rod him...