When Idols Die and Other Stories

Publisher Marketing: FOUR STORIES: "When Idols Die" -- Hawaii, 1820. Kamehameha the Great died a year ago & his heir, Liholiho, abolished the taboos & overturned the Gods, and then the new God came with the white man. Not everyone in Hawaii liked that. Melani didn't. She was trying to learn how to live in this new world. "Beggar's Luck." Jazimeer was a lame homeless beggar in a mythical land who does whatever he must to life. One day he finds a corpse and robs it, but this corpse was an imperial courier making a secret delivery to a magician. The magician wants what Jazimeer took & will stop at nothing to get it. How does the beggar deal with this? "Fairy Treasure" --Ulla is a poor old widow with little future, but one day she catches a fairy, something she's been trying to do since she was a little girl, and demands this fairy lead her to a hidden treasure, which everyone knows fairies can do. But Panella (the fairy) has no intension of doing that. Whose will is stronger? "Sarge" -- a middle-aged man arrives at the hospital minutes after his father dies. His father was a career soldier and he was a Viet Nam War protester who went to Canada when he was called up for the draft. The son reflects on his youth and his father and how it turned out, and in the end does what he feels he must do. Contributor Bio:  Dorotez, Raji Raji Dorotez, born in Virginia in 1947, was an Army brat from the moment of his birth. He spent most of his youth overseas in Europe, the Orient, and Hawaii shortly after it became a state. When he returned to the Mainland for the final time he was 17 and it felt like he was coming to an unknown country. His country moved to the Deep South just in time for the Civil Rights Movement, which affected him greatly. He spent one year at a Southern college before giving academia up to flee to the North where he got swept up in the Youth Movement of the 60s. He came to California in 1969 and has made it his home since. He is a long-time Gay and Pagan activist, but everything he writes is not Gay. He is the author of THE SCARLET WAND, Sex Magic For Gay Males; THE SCARLET PENTAGRAM, Rituals For Gay Males; the novel SPIRIT-WALK, about a shaman on another world who goes on a "spirit-walk" and visits this world five centuries from now and learns tolerance and understanding from his journey; and the BULLDOG series, about a biker who is killed by his old lady, but is too full of life to die and comes back as a ghost, wanting all the things he wanted when he was still alive. One is published now, but there will be at least eight in the series. This series, unlike his other books, is not for the faint of heart. Sex scenes are described graphically in the early books, but in the later ones, Bulldog begins to transcend and the books become more spiritual. Dorotez has created a web site for his books: www.rajidorotezpress.com. Check it out for free sample stories, new books he's writing, and old books he's digging out of boxes that he forgot about which he's willing to sell. Many of his earlier books, for example, THE SCARLET PENTAGRAM and RENEWAL CEREMONY are selling on-line by their current owners for much more than he originally sold them for. Enthusiastic fans have posted some of his earlier stuff on-line for free. As he was out of the loop for fifteen years while he lived off-the-grid on a remote hill in the Sierra Foothills, with no electricity, internet, nor flush toilet, many fans thought he was dead. But he isn't. He's very much alive and tells people he wasn't inactive during those fifteen years. He was writing story after story, novel after novel, and tucking them aside and going on with the next. Having discovered the internet, he is now busily editing and publishing all those things he wrote during his hermitage, and finding that they spurn more.