Hot to Trotsky

Leon Trotsky, the featured radical on this week's Time Mag objet d'eBay, was a revolutionary father who couldn't keep sons Lev or Sergei safe from Stalin's harm.

Among other sons he inspired is David Tierney, son of Canadian film producer Kevin T. The inspiration is The Trotsky, a story written by the young Tierney about a boy who decides his biological father has been used by fate only to provide the sperm that allows him to live as a reincarnated Leon.