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  • Valkyrie

    2025 Anthology - Creature Feature - Guidelines

    By Valkyrie

    I'm super excited about this year's theme!  There are so many possibilities.... Do I go with a cute fluffy kitty?  Or maybe a fire-breathing dragon?  Or an army of Norse penguins fighting Canadian otters?   It's a good thing there's a lot of time before the deadline, although with my prowess at procrastinating, I probably won't start till the week it's due   The guidelines for this year's anthology are posted below.  So now that we know the theme and the parameters... start writing!  
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  • Valkyrie

    Prompts Featuring Creatures

    By Valkyrie

    In honor of our Anthology theme, I thought it would be fun to do some warm-up exercises. Maybe these will even turn into a complete Anthology story.  So let's go creature hunting!    PT Prompt #263 First line: "It's behind me, isn't it." PT Prompt#264 You buy a new pet and surprise your partner with it, only to find out they are deathly afraid of it.  What is it and how do you deal with the aftermath?    Please include the prompt number either in your sto
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Fortune and Mens Eyes

Gay Song Two …oh Daddy…

Gay Song Two …oh daddy…   Note: for this series of postings, the term 'Gay Song' refers to music written to/for/by or about Gay men or women. A second category also deals with music identified as Gay because it speaks to the heart of the Gay Experience.   So to make this easier, I will call them Gay in the 1st Degree (to/for/by/about), or Gay in the 2nd Degree (like Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow).   --- Ed Sheeran's phenomenal live performa
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Gay Authors News

C S R Discussion Day: The Holly And The Ivy By Aditus

Well it's the once in a four year event, Leap Day! For this special day, we have a special story a lot of readers on GA really like! Today we're featuring Aditus' story, The Holly and the Ivy. I hope you enjoyed reading it this month, and you're ready to share your thoughts and questions with Aditus. First, though, I'll share the interview questions I asked him.   If you were an animal, what would you be? I’d like to be a large dog: cuddly, empathic, protective, and a great companion. But I as
Cia

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Is This The End?

I knew I was jeopardizing my creative abilities by increasing the amount of Depakote I take to stabilize my mental state and, happily, I am now stabilized and do not fear having a misstep leading to a fatal plunge into nothingness. Not being suicidal is much more important than writing.   But, that does little to assure me that there will ever be anything more coming out of the creative vault.   Remembering Tim has two final chapters to publish. I wrote an epilogue to finish the work because
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

I can't believe that February is already over. The spring anthology deadline has passed and we're working on getting the stories ready to go. A quick reminder that tomorrow is the CSR Discussion Day for The Holly and the Ivy, so make sure to stop by and see what everyone has to say. Now, with that said, let's see what happened this week in the blog.   We started the week with a review of Team Building that was supplied to us by Timothy M. It's always great to see what stories are on site, so m
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Weekly Wrap Up

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Talia Jane- Entitled Millennial Or A Martyr For Today's Economy?

So, this Yelp employee named Talia Jane complained about her salary on a blog post. Then she got fired. Stefanie Williams, a writer and fellow Millennial with about 5 extra years of life experience, ripped into her with this invective.   To add on to this dogpile, a Gen Xer with 7 years of extra life experience ripped on Stefanie Williams for her own sense of entitlement and jumping to conclusions about someone's life. Here it is:   36-year Old Gen Xer DESTROYS 29-Year Old Millennial Who "Ri
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Writing World

Prompt Me! #480 & #481

Who's ready for a couple of new prompts? Don't forget the deadline to get your stories to the Anthology Proof Team is today! This month has just flown by it seems like. Remember, if your prompt response is less than 1,000 words, it can be posted in GA Stories as long as it's part of a collection. Now, let's see what comicfan has for you.   Prompt 480 – Creative Tag – First Line “I just have a simple question. Who the hell is asleep in your bed?”   Prompt 481 – Creative Tag – The Dance You bo
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Prompts

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Gay Authors News

Ga's Newest Signature Author: Cynus

Please join the Author Promotion Team in congratulating Cynus on becoming GA's newest Signature Author! Cynus joined our site in February 2015, and has already posted 28 stories. Cynus's fans never have to wait long for a new story or update as he always seems to have a new posting in the recent story updates list. If you haven't checked out his work, try fan favorite, The Navigator, or his ongoing serial story, From the Cup of the Worthless. We look forward to seeing what Cynus has in store for
A.J.

A.J. in Author Interviews

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Fortune and Mens Eyes

Gay Song One – Quelle Tragédie, Lol

Gay Song One – quelle tragédie   Note: for this series of postings, the term 'Gay Song' refers to music written to/for/by or about Gay men or women. A second category also deals with music identified as Gay because it speaks to the heart of the Gay Experience.   So to make this easier, I will call them Gay in the 1st Degree (to/for/by/about), or Gay in the 2nd Degree (like Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow).   ---   My first selection is definitely Gay in the 1st Degree! We
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Pretty In Pink 30Th Anniversary

The classic John Hughes film Pretty in Pink is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, and I got to see a revival of it on the big screen last week. It's not as good as The Breakfast Club, but the soundtrack just can't be denied. Anyway, some of my favorite tunes from that film:       "Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" by the Smiths   As for my personal thoughts on the movie...it's weird, but I actually feel like I got more out of it when I re-watched it. I think the char
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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General Silliness

Dayne Vs Fitbit Or, A Conversation With My Glorified Pedometer

Today was my first day wearing the Fitbit. For some reason, I see myself having this discussion somewhere down the line.   Fitbit: Dude, Dayne. How are you still gaining weight?   Me: I dunno.   Fitbit: I mean, you've been doing so well lately. Been meeting your daily step goals, staying on the right side of your calories in/calories out, and getting plenty of sleep.   Me: Yeah...   Fitbit: ...but you're still a fatass.   Me: **frowns**   Fitbit: Seriously, what the fuck have
Dayne Mora

Dayne Mora

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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Team Building

It's the start of a new week, which means it's time to take a look at another story that can be found on the site. This week, we're taking a look at Team Building by EBWilson. Thank you to Timothy for this review. If you'd like to review one of your favorite stories on site, then send me a PM!   Team Building by EBWilson   Reviewed By: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 241,035   You know those good-looking, conceited, clever, shallow yuppies we all l
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Featured Stories

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone has had a great week and an even better weekend. Before we get into this week's wrap up, I'd just like to do a quick reminder that Spring Anthology entries are do to the proof team in only 5 days!!! Hopefully we'll have a few more come in before the deadline, otherwise I might have to try and write one and we don't want that!!! LOL. Now, lets take a look at what happened in the GA News Blogs this week!   For our Monday Featured Story, Timothy M provided us with a review for Tr
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Weekly Wrap Up

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Hunter Thomson's Blog

Potential Anthology Idea

Many of you will probably know that outside of my writing here and the small pile of pseudo-educational jobs I do, I'm also a political activist and one-time candidate. This is not a blog post to go on and on about my politics, but simply to set the context for everything else. Five years ago I helped pass an anti-homophobia and anti-transphobia school board policy, and since then I've had the distinct pleasure of watching people become less worried about anti-LGBTQ discrimination in my hometown
Hunter Thomson

Hunter Thomson

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Writing World

Prompt Me!

Who's missed the weekly prompts? It's been a few weeks since we posted some new prompts to help spark some ideas, but they're back. Not only do we have two new prompts for you, but for those that missed it, we also have the new poetry prompt for you! Don't forget that anything under 1000 words needs to be in a collection and that authors are allowed 5 different collections without Admin approval.   Prompt 478 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following words in a story – roses, bacon, a f
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Prompts

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Sine Cosine Tangent

This morning I read Don DeLillo's short story, "Sine Cosine Tangent", in newyorker.com. As surprising as it may be, I have never read any of DeLillo’s fiction, but this story intrigued me as it is about a teenager coming to grips with his parents' divorce.   The story takes place in New York City and covers the boy from age thirteen, when his parents divorced—in a very telling scene as he is doing his math homework, his father informs him of the fact—until the boy grows into adulthood. Therefo
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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jamessavik's Blog

In Your Facebook

I have the good fortune of being friends with a delightful young couple from Florida. We'll just call them Luke & Carter.   We love classic rock and seafood and being blessed by living where we do. There's really not anywhere like the Gulf Coast. Sure- it gets blown away every 40 years and we have to rebuild it but what the heck. It's worth it.   We have a long on going conversation thread where we talk about life, music, art and other assorted stuff that's shiny.   Here's a snip that
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Craftingmom's Blog

Sorry For The Delay...

Sorry about missing a posting last week for Falling Apart. I hope you will understand that it was a very trying week last week as my brother-in-law (my husband's younger brother) died of a heartattack. It was sudden and very unexpected and left us all reeling. I was in GA (as some of you might already know from my status update) for most of last week for the funeral. Then I was sick when we got back and slept most of the weekend (except for another trip up to PA for a gymnastics meet on Val
craftingmom

craftingmom

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Writing World

Grammar Rodeo #8

Ever wonder what the correct word to use is? Cia has written a blog entry to help show which word should be used in different instances. It's been a while since we had a Grammar Rodeo, but I find these posts to be rather informative and we hope you do too.   Commonly Misused Words   When writing, most authors know there are homophones to watch out for, and we all know the big ones like your/you’re/yore and there/their/they’re. But there are a lot of words that are harder to figure ou
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Writing Tips

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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Trouble Plus Trouble

Time to take a look at another story that can be found in GA Stories. This week, we're taking a look at Trouble Plus Trouble by Palantir. Thank you Timothy for the review. Don't forget, if you've read a story that you'd like to see featured, contact Renee Stevens.   Trouble Plus Trouble by Palantir   Reviewer: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 170,574   Trouble Plus Trouble was quite a challenge the first time I read it. I could see myself in Peter, a serious,
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Featured Stories

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Dabeagle's Blog

Brought Me To A Stop

I was on my Facebook page and got a friend request from some person my husband might know—our 'friends' in common are people my husband knows. I usually put these folks right on 'acquaintance' because, frankly, we usually have nothing in common and if their crap comes up in my feed, I comment. That usually does it.   I noticed someone else in my feed, non-relation, but I clicked on them and looked at one of their photos. Then, I noticed someone who commented looked like a cute kid and, since I
Dabeagle

Dabeagle

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

It's been a rather busy week here at Gay Authors. I think we'll get right to it.   Monday started the February Signature Author feature for Bill W of his story Butterflies Fly Free. You can see some of the reviews from the story and if it sounds good to you, then you can check out the excerpt that was posted on Wednesday!   Voting for the Secret Admirer Short Story contest ended on Thursday and we started the Secret Admirer Guess Who game prior to the Secret Admirer Winners & Reveal on F
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Weekly Wrap Up

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Life is worth an entry

Why I Wrote Last Run To Mosul?

I am post timing this blog entry to coincide with Secret Admirer contest, I don't expect to win, but if I did I am really grateful to all the readers that chose my story, despite how different it is from my writing style.   So the big question for all the readers, why did I write a story like this? It's so tragic, so detailed and impact with a subject matter that is definitely Left of even Bernie Sanders , and holds a lot of questions about the nature of national principles versus geopolitica
W_L

W_L

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jamessavik's Blog

First Light

Cape Verde, Oregon 2019 July 04 1300 PST   What had once been on old barn was completely unrecognizable. Scientific instruments of all descriptions surrounded a concrete vault called the pit.   The pit contained the equipment to make the experiment work. It also protected the human participants in the experiment with a foot of lead and six feet of hardened concrete. Once it was sealed, it could only be viewed by remote cameras in the control room above.   The vapor of condensation washed o
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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