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    Weekly Wrap Up (Sept. 15 - Sept. 21)

    By wildone

    First thing first, I really need anyone who is thinking to enter our yearly Anthology, please see Val's Thursday blog and if you fingers haven't started typing, get them going! As you read this, I am indisposed. Read into that what you want . But I'm up by a lake in the mountains looking at the colours change for fall.  So next week in the northern hemisphere, we flip into fall, autumn, whatever you like to call it. Down under the equator, they are about to hit spring   What is y
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jamessavik's Blog

Dabeagle's "Everything's Jake" and abusive relationships

Occasionally a story will come along that goes beyond just being good and becomes important. Dabegle's Everything's Jake is one of those stories. It rather graphically illustrates how gay teens and young adults can wake up and find themselves in abusive relationships.   No one that I've ever met just decides one day hot damn, where can I find someone to abuse me every day? Abusive relationships happen to gay and straight young people every day and none of them are looking for it.   There is
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #392 & #393

Hope everyone has had a great week so far and is looking forward to the weekend. What better way to start it off than with brand new prompts! If you've been feeling stuck, or maybe just want to do something a little different, maybe one of these prompts will jumpstart a new idea. A couple of things to remember: Prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Do to the high number of collections containing only a few "chapters" we have set a limit of five collections pe
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Prompts

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Stuff from Cia

Another real-life theme to use in medical stories!

Britain approved 3 person IVF‏.         In this process they'd remove "faulty" mitochondrial DNA from a cell and replace it with mitochondrial DNA from a donor female egg to help reduce genetic diseases before implantation. Examples of "curable" mitochondrial genetic diseases: Diabetes mellitus and deafness, blindness, multiple sclerosis-type diseases, some epilepsy, liver disease, heart disease... The mitochondrial DNA doesn't affect genetic information like hair and eye color, personality
Cia

Cia

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Gay Authors News

Ask An Author #24

It's hard to believe it's already February, but not only is it a new month, but it's also the first Wednesday of the month. That means it's time for the "Ask An Author" feature provided to us by Dark! Don't forget, PM Dark if you have a question you'd like to ask your favorite author! Ask an Author #24   Welcome back to another quirky question and answer session with your favorite authors!   In AtA #23, we had questions for authors Mark Arbour, Thomas Nealy, and Thorn Wilde.   In At
Renee Stevens

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Methodwriter85's Blog

My "Heart" Songs Playlist

These tunes are basically what I'd consider the core of my heart. They're tunes I can't ever get sick of. Check 'em out.   "Heart Songs"   1.   2.   3.   4.   5. (1997 live version)  6. "   7.   8.   9.   10.   The mass bulk of these songs are from the 1990's. Shocker. LOL   I've never come across a song that depicts youth in it's pure, beautiful form better than "1979" does. God, I can't tell you how much I love that song.
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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DynoReads' Blog

Moving forward, maybe

Yesterday was bittersweet. My sister sent me a text to write our older brother's obit. She had wanted to do it, but a crisis with her adult children interfered. It was also my younger brother's 37th birthday.   The obit was simple, we had a max of 4 lines. XXX, 51, of XXX passed away on January 24, 2015 at UPMC. He is survived by 3 sisters and one brother. Preceded in death by both parents and 1 sister.   Very sad summation of nearly 52 years.   It says nothing of the boy I remember: The b
DynoReads

DynoReads

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Fortune and Mens Eyes

Some Classic Tanka

Tanka Some translations from the Hyakku-nin Isshu, or The Issue of a Hundred People       51 by Fujiwara no Sanekata   Why so strongly red, As if I could tell of them That sad mogusa[1] Retains their own way of pain And like love, must endure it.       52 by Fujiwara no Michi-Nobu   If the morning breaks, The coming things are all there, Whitened by their length And all by the look of things, Is nothing but morning light.       53 by Udaisho Michi-Tsuna no Hana   Little by lit
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Gay Authors News

February Csr: Pierced By Jvaughn

February is a month many people focus on love. But sometimes two people have to face seemingly insurmountable obstacles and there's no guarantee having a connection can be enough. I really enjoyed this story, so I decided to feature J Vaughn's short story for this month's Can't Stop Reading Book Club. Pierced by J Vaughn   Length: 19,210   Description: Paul is a college football player and deeply in the closet until he stumbles upon a rape victim who needs his help. Kyle is out
Cia

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

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jamessavik's Blog

A story without heroes

I don't know how to approach this topic. It's ugly so be warned that it's not going anywhere nice. If you're going to freak out, change to the Disney channel.   Adult content. Violence. Very, very fucked up situations.   No parent in their right mind would want you to know that this shit happens.   ____________________________________________________________     I'm going to tell you a story about an 18 year old freshman.   He was really excited to go to college. He was going where hi
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Before we get to this week's wrap up, I'd like to look back at the poll from last week's. The winner for the next crossword topic is "Signature Authors". If you would like to send clues and answers, please feel free to PM them to Renee! Answers can consist of author names, story names, and character names. In the case of multiple clues with the same answer, I may choose to combine the clues and/or simply use one clue. Members have until March 1st to send me t
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Weekly Wrap Up

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Wayne's Updates

Writing again

Shh. Don't tell anyone but I started to do that thing called writing again. I am doing multiple things at once so unsure how it is going.   Chapter 16 of Jonas is with the editor and beta.   Finishing three stories to be sent for possible publication.   Working on the final chapter of Seeon. (Anyone even remember that one?)   Have a new prompt piece I'll be putting up later.   All of this and a terrible cold on top of it. Who knows, might actually finish another story then try to find
comicfan

comicfan

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Billy Martin's Blog

The Field of Love

I've started a new story, 'The Field of Love'. My plan is to post a new chapter once a week. It's a story about a fifteen year old boy finding acceptance and love on a baseball field. I've started a forum for the story and I hope you will leave a review on the story so I can learn from you, the reader. It's my intention to give you the best story I can.   Below is the links to the proper forum.   The Field of Love   Forum for The Field of Love
Billy Martin

Billy Martin

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Random Thought's

Work or something like it

The last two weeks have been hectic.   Last week I spend 2 days in Iowa City for work getting a Federal agency set-up on their new phone. I love working with customers and taking care of the issues that come up during the deployments.   This week I was at a federal agency here in Des Moines doing the same thing. I got to spend time with a federal account rep that is from Kansas and found out she wants to kidnap me since I am very efficient and very helpful.   The bomb was dropped on me yes
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #390 & #391

Happy Friday! I hope everybody is ready for a couple of new prompts!!! For those that don't already know, Comicfan supplies us with a couple of prompts every week to hopefully inspire ideas and simply get people writing. If one of the prompts catches your attention, write it and post it in GA Stories. To have your prompt response considered for the featured prompt response, don't forget to post a link in the thread for the prompt. A couple of things to remember: Prompt responses under 1,000 word
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Prompts

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Wolf At The Keyboard

Writing To Reach You

First off, this entry took forever to write because of all the typos. If any make it through, do forgive me.   I write, it's what I do. And because I spend so long doing it, I am very aware of how I type, the motions I make, and the relationship I have with a keyboard. For a long time now it has shocked and appalled me that most people never think twice about their keyboard. They want a machine with all the fancy specs, but they don't care, or know, anything about the main interface they are g
Sasha Distan

Sasha Distan

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jamessavik's Blog

When to OUT People: a Guide for Nuking Hypocrites

"Outing" people is, under most circumstances, traumatic and potentially destructive.   It can even be dangerous to people.   It should only be done only under certain exceptional circumstances. Examples follow and then guidelines.   Reverend Ted Haggard, millionaire leader of a mega-church, was a highly influential, outspoken critic of gay people and gay rights. He counseled parents to send their gay kids to pray-the-gay-away camp. He was caught with a hustler and crystal meth.   Mor
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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drak's sekrits

Laying a Trap

Click "Read Full Entry" in order to see the picture, above. This is my best recent blitz game. I played Black against a higher-rated player with a time control of ten minutes. With Black to play, what is the best move? White resigned two moves later. The entire game is below. Decide what you would move as Black and then compare your answer against mine. The chessboard displays move #21. Do you agree with my choice or do you find a better move? The algebraic notation used below
Drak

Drak

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Gay Authors News

Csr Discussion Day: Joe The Welder By Robert Rex

Today's CSR discussion is all about Robert Rex's story, Joe the Welder. A very popular story from one of our newer authors, I thought this would be a great start for CSR's 2015! Did you guys like the contemporary romance? Make sure you share your comments below, as well as questions for Robert. He'll be here 'live' to talk with readers from 7 to 9 PM, CST, if you can make it. If not, remember, just leave your comments below and Robert will answer!   Who do you like best, Jerry or Tom? Hm....S
Cia

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

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jamessavik's Blog

This will drive the rednecks bat shit crazy

This might be a bad idea. Probably- I've had them before.   I think that it reminds me of the controversy over the word queer.   To those of us in the South there's no word quite so hateful. Wrapping my mind around the concept of taking that word back took a lot of getting used to.   Those of us that are either from the South or live here know a lot about hate. Just today in the local paper there was a whole editorial page dripping with it.   They call us unstable- after tormenting us fr
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

I hope everybody had a great weekend. I can't believe it's Sunday already, which means it's time to look over the week and recap what was posted in the GA News Blog as well as what our promoted authors were up to. Before I get to that, I'd appreciate it if everyone would take just a minute to answer the poll questions. Also, don't forget tomorrow is the discussion day for the CSR book club!   For our Featured Story, Timothy M. provided us with a review of JWolf's story "The English Year".  
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Weekly Wrap Up

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drak's sekrits

I'm No Pal to Palladium

While shopping for wedding rings for my husband and myself, palladium made my short list, but in the end, something stuck in my craw. I'm the type of geek that likes to learn the gory details, for better or worse, and just had to read the Wikipedia entry for this metal I had seldom heard of save in the commodities page.   Turns out palladium is mined heavily in Russia, where the politicians manipulate the price on the world market to benefit Russia. The same can be said of platinum, by the way
Drak

Drak

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DynoReads' Blog

Grief is weird

My brother died this morning after a two week battle with the complications from flu.   I've lost others before, both my parents, a couple close friends even a coworker. So I thought I knew what to expect from grief.   Only I have this overwhelming sense of rage. At my brother whose drinking weakened his body so much that it couldn't fight off the flu. At his medical proxy and caretaker, both family members, who waited to get him to a doctor. At my sister who wasn't ready to let him go last
DynoReads

DynoReads

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