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A Certain Pressure in the Pipes
Conrad Lloyd's father, Governor of an old west town, wishes his son wasn't so interested in inventing, or men for that matter. It isn't until Conrad meets Ezhno, a Native American inventor, that Conrad thinks he can find sexual and intellectual fulfillment all in one man. Will they find their way together despite the societal and familial divide that threatens to keep them apart? Or will Conrad have to satisfy himself with his steam-powered Pleasuring Machine?
39 pages, Nook
First published June 28, 2010
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Clancy Nacht
56 books147 followersClancy Nacht is a bisexual genderqueer person who lives in Austin with a husband, and three feral rescue cats. Clancy has published several ARe bestselling contemporary romantic thriller m/m and m/f stories. Three of her books have been honored with Rainbow Awards; Le Jazz Hot won for #1 Best Bisexual/Transgender Romance & Erotic Romance. In 2013, Black Gold: Double Black was a runner up for a Rainbow Award and in 2015, Gemini won an Honorable Mention for Gay Erotic Romance at the Rainbow Awards. Her books have been nominated for several Goodreads M/M Readers Choice Awards.
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August 19, 2010
3.5 stars
This is a cute, funny, and entertaining short story that’s perfect as an easy read. It’s light fluff but humorous with some good steam punk detail thrown in. Conrad is the irrepressible son of the Governor and only interested in two things – inventing and buggery. When the two passions coincide within Ezhno, Conrad is immediately smitten. However he must convince his loving but politically concerned father to let him have his way.
The story is pretty short (only 40 pages double spaced) so it’s an introduction to the main players, some hot sex, then a nicely wrapped up happy ending. The steam punk detail comes through with the gears and gadgets the men love. It’s nothing especially original but that’s ok since it fits the genre well. There is a constant feeling of combining the old west with the advanced bits and bobs used so it makes for a good backdrop for the main characters and their relationship.
Conrad is totally spoiled and irritating as he purposefully sets out to annoy his politican father and thinks only of getting his way. Thankfully his charm and charisma carry him so he ends up likable and entertaining despite his spoiled nature. I honestly laughed out loud when I read the blurb about the pleasuring machine and when introduced in the story, the scene is not only hot but very enjoyable. It’s funny, tongue in cheek (both cheeks!) and sets up some great lines between the men. Conrad’s sense of the absurd really makes the story fun to read.
Not to mention the steam punk details afforded are interesting. Fans of the genre will enjoy the frequent inclusions of this mechanism or that, this invention and that one that makes up the other passion of the two men. Not to be out done is the sex scene which makes great use of the pleasuring machine with a nicely paced scene.
Ezhno is decently characterized though he’s more of the enigma of the two. He falls in love with Conrad and vice versa almost instantly but they have good chemistry and their interaction is light, fun, and hot. The additional dialogue between Conrad’s parents adds to the humor of the situation and while this may not be the weightiest story, it’s entertaining.
I’d easily recommend this for a light, engaging read that’s quick and easy. It should make you laugh a bit so if nothing else, that’ll pass the 40 pages in a blink. Fans of steam punk or those looking to dip a toe into the genre should enjoy this.
This is a cute, funny, and entertaining short story that’s perfect as an easy read. It’s light fluff but humorous with some good steam punk detail thrown in. Conrad is the irrepressible son of the Governor and only interested in two things – inventing and buggery. When the two passions coincide within Ezhno, Conrad is immediately smitten. However he must convince his loving but politically concerned father to let him have his way.
The story is pretty short (only 40 pages double spaced) so it’s an introduction to the main players, some hot sex, then a nicely wrapped up happy ending. The steam punk detail comes through with the gears and gadgets the men love. It’s nothing especially original but that’s ok since it fits the genre well. There is a constant feeling of combining the old west with the advanced bits and bobs used so it makes for a good backdrop for the main characters and their relationship.
Conrad is totally spoiled and irritating as he purposefully sets out to annoy his politican father and thinks only of getting his way. Thankfully his charm and charisma carry him so he ends up likable and entertaining despite his spoiled nature. I honestly laughed out loud when I read the blurb about the pleasuring machine and when introduced in the story, the scene is not only hot but very enjoyable. It’s funny, tongue in cheek (both cheeks!) and sets up some great lines between the men. Conrad’s sense of the absurd really makes the story fun to read.
Not to mention the steam punk details afforded are interesting. Fans of the genre will enjoy the frequent inclusions of this mechanism or that, this invention and that one that makes up the other passion of the two men. Not to be out done is the sex scene which makes great use of the pleasuring machine with a nicely paced scene.
Ezhno is decently characterized though he’s more of the enigma of the two. He falls in love with Conrad and vice versa almost instantly but they have good chemistry and their interaction is light, fun, and hot. The additional dialogue between Conrad’s parents adds to the humor of the situation and while this may not be the weightiest story, it’s entertaining.
I’d easily recommend this for a light, engaging read that’s quick and easy. It should make you laugh a bit so if nothing else, that’ll pass the 40 pages in a blink. Fans of steam punk or those looking to dip a toe into the genre should enjoy this.
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October 17, 2010This is probably the first example I read on a subgenre that is becoming quite popular, the “steampunk”. In an undefined Far West, probably end of the XIX century, beginning of the XX, Conrad is the spoiled son of a Governor; his father name and money always save him from the law: one day yes, and the other also, Conrad is in prison for buggery. Conrad’s great passion, other than men, is science, and in particular mechanics: he loves to inventing things that help him in finding pleasure, both physical than mental. Another thing that turns him away from women, other than not finding them attractive on a physical level, is that he doesn’t find them interesting on a mental level.
While in prison for yet another sexual escapade, Conrad meets Ezhno, a lonely Native American with a penchant for little invention: a body to die for with a mind that allows him to understand Conrad’s passion is a package the young man doesn’t want to lose, and so he convinces, or better forces his father to bring Ezhno home with them, like the actual spoiled brat he is; to Conrad Ezhno is yet another unusual pet, something that will distract him from his innate boredom.
Ezhno is not really attracted by the idea of living in a golden cage, but he likes Conrad; even if the young man thinks to be very clever, and to being able to manipulate his father, so is not for Ezhno. He follows Conrad since he wants the young man, and if in the meantime he is able to protect him from the bad world, and sometime also from himself, then he will kill two birds with one shot.
Sincerely there is nothing really realistic in this novella, even if it’s classified as historical; it’s more a fantasy tale in an historical setting; there is no reason why Ezhno is a Native American or why he is cultured and well-mannered, I suppose the choice to have him a “savage” was only since it’s sexier. And even if Conrad is wealthy and from an important family, in a real world he would not be able to escape from the law so easily. So if you want to enjoy this story, and indeed it’s naughty and enjoyable, you have to read it without precoceptions, and without searching to raise it above its nature: this is indeed a naughty romp about two men in fancy dress, with the help of unlikely sex machines.
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While in prison for yet another sexual escapade, Conrad meets Ezhno, a lonely Native American with a penchant for little invention: a body to die for with a mind that allows him to understand Conrad’s passion is a package the young man doesn’t want to lose, and so he convinces, or better forces his father to bring Ezhno home with them, like the actual spoiled brat he is; to Conrad Ezhno is yet another unusual pet, something that will distract him from his innate boredom.
Ezhno is not really attracted by the idea of living in a golden cage, but he likes Conrad; even if the young man thinks to be very clever, and to being able to manipulate his father, so is not for Ezhno. He follows Conrad since he wants the young man, and if in the meantime he is able to protect him from the bad world, and sometime also from himself, then he will kill two birds with one shot.
Sincerely there is nothing really realistic in this novella, even if it’s classified as historical; it’s more a fantasy tale in an historical setting; there is no reason why Ezhno is a Native American or why he is cultured and well-mannered, I suppose the choice to have him a “savage” was only since it’s sexier. And even if Conrad is wealthy and from an important family, in a real world he would not be able to escape from the law so easily. So if you want to enjoy this story, and indeed it’s naughty and enjoyable, you have to read it without precoceptions, and without searching to raise it above its nature: this is indeed a naughty romp about two men in fancy dress, with the help of unlikely sex machines.
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May 11, 2017
Dang, this was just too cute for words! And, really? I always wondered how and when certain things were invented... now we know! hehehe
August 4, 2011
I don't know how to rate this... I was expecting something else. I think it's probably because the steampunk books I've read so far were more complex and tortured, so I was sort of expecting something darker.
Conrad, the main character, was a brat and it was fun reading about him, because I liked that he wasn't trying to hide his attraction to men, even if same-sex intercourse is against the law in that world. Being the Governor's son, it seems he is excused from a more approriate behavior and that sounded a bit odd. I think I would have liked him more if his brass attitude had been coupled with a more independent personality. He was a bit too childish to be believable. After a few pages I found that his cuteness was detracting from his personality.
Ezhno, the Native American other half of the couple, with his elegant suit and golden eye-glasses, could have been much more interesting, but he was reduced to his physical appearance and strength and his smart mind, but he didn't show any deep feeling and Conrad had him wrapped around his finger in no time.
It's a sexy and naughty and wicked short story, which - in my opinion and for me - doesn't really deliver.
Conrad, the main character, was a brat and it was fun reading about him, because I liked that he wasn't trying to hide his attraction to men, even if same-sex intercourse is against the law in that world. Being the Governor's son, it seems he is excused from a more approriate behavior and that sounded a bit odd. I think I would have liked him more if his brass attitude had been coupled with a more independent personality. He was a bit too childish to be believable. After a few pages I found that his cuteness was detracting from his personality.
Ezhno, the Native American other half of the couple, with his elegant suit and golden eye-glasses, could have been much more interesting, but he was reduced to his physical appearance and strength and his smart mind, but he didn't show any deep feeling and Conrad had him wrapped around his finger in no time.
It's a sexy and naughty and wicked short story, which - in my opinion and for me - doesn't really deliver.
May 7, 2015
This was very different...and interesting. It did have a low start but the last half of the book made up for it. The whole political slant between "savages" (American Indians) and "gentleman" (the puritan settlers, or true savages) was unexpected. Throw in hot gay sex between an inter-racial pair of young men with a passion for inventing weapons and sex machines, and I can honestly say that I've never read anything like this!
Definitely worth the read for the strange sexy journey alone.
Definitely worth the read for the strange sexy journey alone.
August 13, 2016
** 3.75 Stars **
Light, humorous and entertaining short story that made me laugh more than once. The Steampunk part is very well done!
Light, humorous and entertaining short story that made me laugh more than once. The Steampunk part is very well done!
October 4, 2014
Questionable ideology in this amusing little steampunk. The Native American MC was embarrassingly underdeveloped. For a book that protests the past treatment of Native Americas as "Savages", it was ironic that his only purpose in the story was to be a caricature of the exotic.
May 24, 2011
silly but entertaining
April 1, 2012
3,5 stars!
Steampunk is usually not my thing but this one was mostly fun and light story, so I enjoed it a lot more than I expected.
Steampunk is usually not my thing but this one was mostly fun and light story, so I enjoed it a lot more than I expected.
January 16, 2016
I very much enjoyed this! Hot, romantic, sweet... all very lovely!
March 30, 2017
Okay, so, fair warning, Victorian era casual assholery.
On the other hand, THE SASS! XDDD And I love how excited Conrad is about male bodies, but I also love that 'his interested in inventing' isn't just mentioned in passing, but also used and expanded upon and his an actual part of the story, with examples of what he made.
Overall, a good read, nice and fun and sort of uncomplicated. Don't read for the realism and don't expect anything less than gay Harlequin, and you're set.
On the other hand, THE SASS! XDDD And I love how excited Conrad is about male bodies, but I also love that 'his interested in inventing' isn't just mentioned in passing, but also used and expanded upon and his an actual part of the story, with examples of what he made.
Overall, a good read, nice and fun and sort of uncomplicated. Don't read for the realism and don't expect anything less than gay Harlequin, and you're set.
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