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    Secret Author Story-Author Reveal & Match Up!

    By Cia

    Woohoo! It's what all of you have been waiting for! That's right, the grand reveal of... just the author's names. That's right, we have another game because where's the fun in just TELLING you who wrote your favorite story? Right now there is a 3 way tie between who used the theme in readers' favorite way, but with just 3 votes each, we can do better! Vote here on your favorite use of the Forbidden Knowledge theme. Now, for your match up fun! I've listed in numerical order, all the a
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Reset, Reload, Redo

Best Intentions

Friday was the surrogate's birthday - and we weren't sure what to do about it. Of course we were going to acknowledge it, but we weren't sure about the gift thing. On the one hand, we wanted to send her something, because - well it is a pretty amazing thing she is doing - but on the other hand, we're still a bit concerned about the whole 'I'll be your nanny' comment. We are walking this fine line between being friendly and calling, etc and keeping things a business transaction.   We decid
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Fixing My Destiny

My First Story

So Frosty sent me a review of my first chapter of my new story I'm writing. I have to say in some respects I'm a bit garbled with what I want to present, when I want to present it, and how I should do it - well.   I'm not trying to put down any of the authors I've had immense pleasure of reading through their works. However, I believe I like to keep my stories a bit more grounded, a little less extraordinary, with a bit more real-life scenarios - where not only lives are at stake, but money,
J.T.

J.T.

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old bob's Blog

To live with concern for death

Going back to Neph’s blog about death (24.01.2011), I see now that her point of view concerned more the feelings of the accompanying people then these of the main person, the dying one, while my blog concern more what I will myself feeling at my last moments. In one phrase : the most important is what happens when you are with someone dying, helping him or her to cross the border between life and death, not what will happen with the body afterwards.   The chance I have to have lived till now
old bob

old bob

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James Hiwatari's Blog

Damn virus

I might not be able to use my computer until Monday...   And right when I was inspired to write the next chapter of Be Myself!.   At least it means I get to study during the weekend (yaaaaaaay... ). Or draw...
James Hiwatari

James Hiwatari

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Fixing My Destiny

The Script by Carl DaVinci

I need to stop lying to myself. I think I started to enjoy Carl DaVinci's short stories that I decided to give it another go.   Instead of writing I read The Script between last night and this morning, and I loved the story. I think it is wonderful how people can meet in all sorts of circumstances, however unlikely, and come together despite their respective hardships and impasses.   Carl DaVinci's The Script is a Hollywood-based drama when a teen star takes a starring role in an upcoming
J.T.

J.T.

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Eric's Blog

Bit of an update...

Where to start? Oh yea... my cars a hunk of junk and I got iced in last night... woo...   I'm just about moved in now, all I have left is to transfer my car insurance and the rest of my clothes, books and files and I'm all set. Last night I went out and bought the last thing I wanted for my move, which is fun. I got myself the new MacBook Air (128gb HD). I've been loving every minute with it and now I'm working over to switching to entirely MobileMe and leaving google for the most part. It's n
Phantom

Phantom

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Reset, Reload, Redo

Rethinking this whole thing

Not really, but maybe I should.   I sort of mentioned this in chat tonight, but we 'had' to call the surrogate tonight. Had to in the sense she sent me a text and an email saying how she missed us and she hadn't talk to us in a while. My general feeling was - so??? Which has me thinking maybe I am not cut out to be a dad because I am such a jerk. Okay those of you thinking 'maybe? There's no maybe about it.' just stop. Point noted.   Seriously, maybe I am too damn grumpy because when
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Fixing My Destiny

You and Me by Carl DaVinci

I lied, in an effort to sneak myself a preview of what Frosty recommended to me, I decided to read the first chapter of You and Me by Carl DaVinci and then by the time 6AM rolled around I had finished the last chapter and I saw the sun peaking out as it started to burn off the overcast and fog from overnight. As I sit here typing, I feel groggy, yet comforted at yet another author surprises me with a super short but super powerful story.   to Frosty for recommending yet another amazing story
J.T.

J.T.

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James Hiwatari's Blog

Inspiration is back!

I got three reviews for my first story! Yay!   This is helping my inspiration a lot. I finally know what to do with the next chapter! (Because I have bullet points for all chapters up to chapter 31, but writing down the scenes is something else entirely...)   So I'll probably work on it once I have some lunch and my brain cells have received their fair share of glucose.             So far I was right. Posting a story here is doing wonders to my motivation!
James Hiwatari

James Hiwatari

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Wry Wrambling of a Rebellious Rimbaud

17) A Day in the Life...well a day in a person with no life

5:00AM...M wakes me up by straddling my back and whispering in my ear that he wants me to go running with him   5:15AM...M and I walk out the front door to freezing wet air and head off toward the upcoming sunrise   6:15AM...We walk back inside the house and head toward the shower, we don't make it   6:17AM...M rewards me for running with him   7:04AM...We get in the shower and I thank him for rewarding me   7:43AM...We sit down for breakfast. M gets 2 eggs over easy with coffee and I
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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Fixing My Destiny

Working It Out - Book 3 by Don Hanratty

So, I finally got a chance to finish the entire Working It Out saga. I really enjoy the last novel, as a shift from the main characters began to occur starting from Book 2, and extended even more so in Book 3. A lot more emphasis was placed on the extended family members, even pursuing the majority of some of the chapters on these side characters instead of just focusing on Mike and Matt. This was an interesting approach since I've always commented on some of the other works I've read here on
J.T.

J.T.

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Douw's Blog

How things stand...

How things stand right now i see a lot of problems I need to fix or work on...   First is my family how seem to think that i was born to serve them hand and foot... Needs to change now... Job is weary important to me for obvious reasons... To get out of wear i am i need to work... Drivers license also important to fix my problem of being stuck at the house... So to fix that or to free my self that need to re read the book and go stand in the q for 6h a gene and hope this time the wont fail
Douw

Douw

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The River Song

I tried to start writing..... honest

WARNING - THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO POINT TO THIS POST   I woke up at 4am this morning. I just couldnt sleep....   So i started writing...... creating character profiles..... and then i thought (being an IT Geek) - wouldn't it be great to have a place to store all my story notes..... so by 9am I had a database structure in place. I know there are already programs out there, but they are inferior to me simply because   (1) I didn't design those ones   (2) I can get to be my own Database A
Westie

Westie

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Life is worth an entry

Where do you go from here?

......   In life as there is in fiction, we have blocks in our way. Mine right now is two pronged: 1. What do I do with my career as it is? 2. What should I do about my romantic life?   I've been working and volunteering my time, but I realized now that I was just pushing my mind off those issues. Yes, I am reasonably successful with a good job, but I can see the clouds forming, Health centers even those managed through private firms like mine without a change in their business models will d
W_L

W_L

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Reset, Reload, Redo

Life changing day

Amidst the snow and ice coming down on Wednesday, Mike and I got an email, followed quickly by a call from us to the clinic. The pregnancy was confirmed and they now gave us a schedule and a due date - our life changing day - Sept. 29, 2011.   First thing, that date seems AWFUL soon to me - much too soon - but then I learned the 40 weeks we were expecting is from the date a woman's cycle begins, not conception - 40 weeks is really deceptive advertising if you ask me. Then if there are twins
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Fixing My Destiny

Working It Out - Book 2 by Don Hanratty

Working It Out Book 2 was a great read - and excitingly picks up right off from where Book 1 ended, which some authors sometimes decide to move the timeline forward quite a bit to introduce enough uncertainty to introduce new characters, new settings, and new conflicts without opening up questions to why the conflicts did not occur in the previous novel. Don did a spectacular job in making sure that the plot progressed just as quickly as Book 1.   I loved the plot, and it gave me the long awa
J.T.

J.T.

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jamessavik's Blog

the Place In Between

Coming soon for the Spring Anthology:   the Place In Between   It’s never a destination. It’s a place in between tedium and suburbia. It is an impulse turn off of the daily routine; a guilty pleasure that you can feel guilty about after you feel the rush of the forbidden.        
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Fixing My Destiny

Working It Out by Don Hanratty

Working It Out by Don Hanratty's a great, fast paced novel that took me through a series of roller coasters along the ride. I just finished Book 1 (of 3) and I must say it was a great novel. I have to admit that the novel's speed was a bit too quick for me, as in before I could get any time to really realize what's going in the surroundings, the scene changes and you're shocked by the next series of events that happen in the plot. There is no "plateau" where things just randomly settle down f
J.T.

J.T.

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Alright, so it's the new semester. I have a job on campus at the student dining hall. Work is work, but this time around I'm getting more hours. And to be honest, I really don't like two of the shifts I have- I don't like the pace, and while I know I could get used to the duties over the semester, I just don't feel like $7.25 an hour is worth getting aggravated trying to get used to something when I've got two other shifts with job duties I'm used to having. This week I'm working somewhere clo
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Eric's Blog

It's My Life

It's a good Bon Jovi song and says a lot about what I'm feeling right now and what I'm dealing with.   As you may or may not know, I have an overbearing mother who thinks the world revolves around her and everyone should drop what they're doing at her beck and call. I'm not being over dramatic, but honest with this statement. I'm in the process of moving to Pennsylvania and finding a job (and I have a few leads that I'm following up on) which is taking up most of my time. I also have a lot goi
Phantom

Phantom

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Reset, Reload, Redo

Holy Shit, Part II - She's pregnant!

So today was the day we found out - and weird as it was, I seemed to be the least nervous of everyone I knew - even co-workers were more anxious than I was. I just figured I'd know when I knew.   Mike sent me about 20 text messages - I was in court for a good part of the day, first in the morning than again around 3 ish. At one point my phone kept vibrating so much from all the text messages, I had to take it out of my pants pocket because it was making me excited.   I must have been a
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Nephylim's Blog

Death - Is it Just Me?

I have never been afraid of death. I have been afraid of dying, but I have pretty much made my peace with that too.   Afraid or not, at peace or not, I have always had a total fascination with death and I have been told that makes me weird. As many of you know I have a thing about unconsciousness. I find the fading of consciousness fascinating and very sexy (may I say from an entirely altruistic point of view and not through experience). As an extension of this the moment of death is even mo
Nephylim

Nephylim

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