erastes

While browsing the other covers by Larry Rostant I found "Flint and Silver" by John Drake. I nearly drooled myself out of my chair because I think that I was slashing these two even as a child reading Treasure Island. Not that I knew what slash was, but many of my plays involved me as Silver and my best friend Martin as Flint and we were insperable bad guys, plundering the Spanish Main.

Then I had a look at the blurb for Flint and Silver and read this:

Silver's promising career in the merchant navy looks set to come to an end! until the pirate captain makes him an offer he can't refuse. On the other side of the world Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. Strikingly handsome, brilliant, but prey to sadistic tendencies, the path Flint has chosen will ultimately lead him to Silver. Together these gentlemen of fortune forge a deadly and unstoppable partnership

And I was even more hopeful! But sadly, a woman intervenes and that's what split up their beautiful friendship.

I would not have written it that way. After all, Silver was mightily interested in Jim.

Erastes: destroying your childhood memories, one at a time.