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Gun Nuttery

I have learned that there is a significant difference in culture between the cities and the country. In the country, we are raised around guns. We grow up hunting. A great many of us are veterans. Guns aren't an object of fear. They are simply another tool. Locally there are two serious nuisance pests: wild hogs (wildpiginfo.msstate.edu) and nutria rat (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coypu). Wild hogs are dangerous and cause huge amounts of crop damage and kill and eat everything in the woods. Nu

January 12, 2013

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Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

This week has been a great week of announcements. For starters, if you will be in the DC area two weeks from now on Saturday, January 26 around lunchtime and would like to meet some others from GA, including Dan and myself, we're having a GA GetTogether. Check this topic for more info! We also have launched our GA book club, called the "Can't Stop Reading" (or CSR) Book Club, the format is that we'll announce a story to read at the beginning of each month, and then have a discussion on the s

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January 12, 2013

Writing World

Prompts Writing Prompts #200 & #201

Once again it is time for our weekly prompts thanks to the hard work of Comicfan. Best way to show your appreciation? Try one of these out, and please share it with the rest of the community in our Writing Prompts forum! Prompt 200 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following words in a story: strawberry, tea rag, bottle of soda, brownies, and cat. Prompt 201 – Creative Tag – The Cat Your cat has been bringing you presents. They aren’t the usual – no mice, birds, or anything li

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January 11, 2013

The Yettie's Blog

Greed Will be the Death of Us

I am lucky enough to have grown up in a place where I was able to be close to nature and bare witness to some of the most remarkable animals on our planet. I consider myself honoured to have been close to elephants, been charged by a rhino, stood eye to eye with a water buffalo, watched a pride of lions devour its kill. I've stroked a cheetah, albeit a baby one. I have listened to the hyena giggling outside our tent in the dead of night. I've taken pictures of the cutest jackal (i never

Yettie One

January 11, 2013

The Yettie's Blog

Where did it all Begin

So when did you figure out your sexuality either one way or the other? You know what I got to thinking about it today, and got curious. When was it in my own life that I became aware that gay was the way I was hardwired? Right so I guess I became sexually aware of what sexuality was all about around 10 or 11. I mean as a kid growing up, the difference between girls and boys was obvious and something I explored a bit as a kid, but it was only when I moved to a special Christian college th

Yettie One

January 10, 2013

I want this

It's not that I don't want to be with you. It's just that... We met at the wrong time. That's what I keep telling myself anyways. I wish this could be easier. Maybe one day, years from now, we'll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somwehere & we could give it another shot.

MidnightSecret

January 10, 2013

Andy's Blog

May you live in interesting times

Apparently an old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times"; well I now in very interesting times thank you very much. My cousin (Nancy) and her boyfriend (David) split towards the end of November, and a few weeks back I found out that David is now going out with another cousin of mine (Sarah). A very bizarre quirk of fate, as neither of my cousins even knew each other until this happened; Nancy is a cousin on my Mum's side and Sarah is a cousin on my Dad's side. My Mum's fam

Andy78

January 9, 2013

The Yettie's Blog

2013 is Making a Reader Out of Me

Well, I've taken some time out from the regular daily grind over Christmas to spend some time focusing on reading that I've been wanting to do for ages. I also used the break to dedicate some really much needed time to writing, and chapters for my latest adventure continue to take form and roll off the press as it were, something I'm really chuft about, as I've been waiting to get this one of the ground for ages. I got to do a full rewrite on my anthology entry, which I've been told by

Yettie One

January 8, 2013

Hammerhead preview

Aramus Depot Irulan 350 System The Aramus Depot orbited the third planet of the Irulan 350 star system. Like so many Alliance military facilities, it was an abandoned commercial concern. The big space station was originally a refinery and trans-shipment point for the minerals mined in this and the surrounding systems. When the mines were no longer commercially viable, the company had abandoned it. The Alliance Fleet took over the station when the war broke out. Now it was the graveyard of h

January 8, 2013

My kingdom by the sea

doowylloh

i dislike cutting throats to get noticed in this town. step over the next bloody corpse. moving up that line. it feels strange, trying to out-do. but nobody says it but if it gets me somewhere, it must be okay. its hard to create something without thinking of the consumer. to appease someone i don't even know. fuck i think different is secretly accepted. which is good, good for me, good for you, good for us. but i still don't understand why its such a killing field. many a rapist is

thatboyChase

January 8, 2013

Comments, Musings, Ponderings, Thoughts, 'N' Thangs

Site News Ga's Csr Book Club

Book clubs have had a long and storied history - providing both social interaction for the members as well as providing a forum for discussion of books/stories that might otherwise have not received as much attention. Cia recently came up with the idea for a GA Book Club and the rest of us here at the GayAuthors.org News Blog thought it was a fantastic idea. Here's an initial idea of how this would work, as well as the focus for our first month's choice - Nephylim's Memories of Forgotten Lov

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January 7, 2013

Reset, Reload, Redo

What a month [or two]

Lately I've been doing most of my blogging on my website/blog, but since this is geared more toward my friends and acquaintances on GA, I figured I'd put this up here. Normally holidays are hectic. I'm learning they are more hectic when you have a toddler. This year was particularly bad. First I had to work Christmas day - 'had to' is a relative term. i volunteered to do it this year because my 'turn' was coming around and this is probably the last year 'lil q won't remember the day or und

Andrew Q Gordon

January 7, 2013

New Year's Resolutions: To Blab or Not To Blab?

Maybe it's just me...but it seems like New Year's Resolutions are a lot like wishes. They're alike in the sense that whenever you go telling everyone about the New Year's resolution that you've set for yourself for the coming year...that's it, your resolution is now doomed to fail! What do you think - am I blowing smoke on this one, or is there perhaps some truth to it? Discuss. Mike (Who is NOT revealing his New Year's Resolution for 2013 to anyone - just in case. )

MJ85

January 6, 2013

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Great week here and hope yours has been the same. We started with a look at Hosted Author Shadowgod's story Vegas Sun - with a fantastic review from comicfan. For our Wacky Wednesday, we saw the latest installment of Yettie One's The Pulse Behind the GA Crowd - his series of interviews with this one with TetRefine. Finally we had our two new GA Writing Prompts and looked back to a year ago, with a prompt response from Cia. So - how was your week? Anthology Announcements: Spri

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January 5, 2013

catty-wampus

January 5, 2013

My kingdom by the sea

temperate keys

does time shift when you listen to this? http://soundcloud.com/hecq/ben-lukas-boysen-untitled

thatboyChase

January 4, 2013

Writing World

Prompts Writing Prompts #198 & #199

For some of us, it's been a short work week, but Friday's are still a day to look forward to. We always look forward to Friday's here as that means two new writing prompts, thanks to Comicfan, our writing prompt's guru. These writing prompts are a great way to stretch the writing muscles - but when you do, share your efforts with the community in our Writing Prompts forum. Prompt 198 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following in a story – dish rag, a new shirt, a box of chocolates, a b

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January 4, 2013

Rage!

Anybody want a Hammerhead preview?

January 4, 2013

Life is worth an entry

Giv'em hell Christie, I can't believe he went all out

Just my two cents in support of Christie's short speech and press conference: I have to make a political comment on this, because it is so rare and something that needs a round of applause from everyone. It was unapologetic, strong, and aggressively real. Things that the Republican party of the 21st century seems to lack. It also did something I was hoping to see more from Northern Republicans, be blunt about the Hypocrisy of Southern Red States and the federal aid that goes there. I never e

W_L

January 3, 2013

Interview Wacky Wednesday - Tetrefine Chat

Continuing in our monthly feature Interviews by Yettie One, here is December's interview with member TetRefine (ya, two days late - but the week started in December so....) Enjoy! The Pulse Behind the GA Crowd by Yettie One I was really genuinely excited to be able to interview this months member. As a new comer to GA, one of the people that I noticed played an active role in the community here is none other than TetRefine, a young and vibrant 20 year old guy who

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January 2, 2013