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    Weekly Wrap Up (Jan. 5 - Jan. 11)

    By wildone

    First a disclaimer, I'm tired and none of me editors are around to read the wrap up for me   I hate to say but the first couple of weeks have been terrible for our US friends and neighbours it seems. With LA burning down and the east and southeast getting blasted by ice and snow, I have to say I hope that all of them are okay  I'm sure there is other places too that are having strange and wakey weather too, like Friday we had an actual thunderstorm (rain) and a blizzard Saturday night. Noth
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Rising towards reinvention

Failures and victories

The past few weeks have been full of contrasted events.   In the list of failures I have to include my last marathon race. This time, I wasn't able to train as well as I did last year because my ankle never fully recovered from last summer's fracture. I only managed to run about 45 to 50km a week instead of the 60-70 I should have done. Despite that, I thought I would be able to finish it. Well, I had to give up around mile 18. It's the first time I can't complete a marathon. I made mist
Bleu

Bleu

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Depressed

Been depressed quite a bit lately, it comes and goes, some days are full of sunshine other days, gloom. Seraph74 reviewed one of my stories, Merry Christmas Patrick, and asked for a sequel. So, with doing better to do, I’ve now got a fresh faced sixteen-year-old moving into a college dorm with an eighteen-year-old, who started in summer term, thinking all sorts of nasty thoughts about the cute boy with alluring eyes at the other end of the footlocker.   It’s the autumn of 1971, barely two year
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Reset, Reload, Redo

I live in the land of the Freaks!

In theory I live in a 'college town' but given we are 'inside the beltway' - code for close to DC - I hardly think this qualifies as a college town. I mean it's really just a very close in suburb of DC. But I've never seen so many freaks in my life:   First there's Mr. Wizard - he frequents the Starbucks near campus - he sets his drink on the counter, waves his hand over his drink twice, takes a drink, sets it down and does it again. He does it everytime before he drinks.   Then there i
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Nephylim's Blog

Update on the Morphine.

Well, two weeks on Morphine and what difference has it made... pretty much bugger all.   In fact, if anything, it's made it worse. The problem is that I have two levels of pain... the underlying toochache that is there ALL the time, whether I am sitting lying or walking and that is much better.   The other type of pain is the... being stabbed by sharp knives or burning needles kind of pain. That's the kind I get when i twist or stand up or bend or sit down. If anything that is worse because
Nephylim

Nephylim

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jamessavik's Blog

Men of a certain age...

Sometimes I feel horrible. Usually it hits in the cold of winter but I've got a solid blast of pain in the heat of the summer.   The stiffness and pain aren't really so bad. As far as pains go, I've had worse. It just doesn't go away for days at a time. Today its in my ankles and knees. Other times it'll be in my neck and shoulders and it is always in my neck to some extent.   I get pain fatigue. I get tired of it. Sometimes it interferes with my sleep. I only got about 4 hours last night an
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Viv's Blog

I Need A Favor...

If you're fluent in reading and writing Spanish, good with spelling and grammar, and have a couple spare hours and would like to help me out with a project, let me know!   Thanks!
viv

viv

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;; " .MidnightSecret. " ;;

a bitter sweet good bye. -

I open my window & I can start to feel the rain pouring down. So I went outside for a walk & ended up crying.   "You were never like the others." I wish I had it in me to walk up to you at graduation & say I have liked you too for what seems like my entire life.   I guess it's true that you're finally going. But I don't want you to leave. I don't exactly understand why it is I feel this way.   Sometimes there really aren't enough tears to get over the pain. These
MidnightSecret

MidnightSecret

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miker33's Blog

well...

well... seems like that nobody believe me or hear the side of my story, since they take someone's word over me. this is what really upsets me a lot, and i wanted to tell them my side of the story, but i couldn't... *sighs* story of my life... look, i didn't mean to harass someone, but im not really harassing someone, im just saying or telling someone, thats all? i just wanted to show them my point of view... but i guess no one would understand me. i thought people here would understand me...  
miker33

miker33

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Nephylim's Blog

The Joy of Morphine

So, I have been having a lot of trouble with my back and joints again.   I have to admit that since I have not been working it has improved, but it has been a real struggle since I had the really bad episode in February. Usually my acute attacks last a week and then they go away. This time it didn't completely go away at all.   The problem I have is that my discs are crumbling. I have a lot of problems with my back generally since I broke it but the disc thing is the scariest because the di
Nephylim

Nephylim

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Reset, Reload, Redo

No Baby Momma Update - Really

Been working on the long promised companion to Second Shot - this would be Jordan's trial for those who followed the story. It is a bit harder to write than to visualize. Trials are actually rather boring, just ask anyone who's been stuck on a jury for a long case. The interesting exciting parts are few and far between. So that is proving a bit more of a struggle than imagined.   I submitted the Anthology work, but kind feel meh about it. It seemed so much cooler when I was writing it t
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Gay Authors News

The G.a. 2011 Summer Anthology Is Now Online!

The 2011 Summer Anthology - Walk on the Wild Side - is now live!   Please check out the stories at the above link, and please don't forget to leave the authors a comment in the discussion threads (there's a link at the end of each story to take you to those threads). The quarterly anthologies are provided free of charge by our authors - giving them feedback is the only payment they receive. Archangel by Quonus10   Brothers of the Flames by Rilbur   Dare by Kingdom by the Sea  
Graeme

Graeme in Anthologies

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Bitchy Family Members, Redux

So, I make a joke about how I'm used to Black and Mild cigars as opposed to the chocolate cigars they were handing out to celebrate Sister 2's twins arriving, and now Sister 1 and Sister 3 are convinced I'm a cigar smoker who secretly goes out to get my fix. They really do want to believe I'm just some liar who hides what he does from everyone and is into all kinds of crazy shit. I absolutely lost it in front of my mother. God, they piss me off. It of course makes sense that the first time in
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Another week

Well, another week at the shelter is in the basket.   Got a new roommate yesterday. Seems nice. He used to be a trucker until his employer gave him a breathalyzer test one morning and his reading was over 0.04, which is way above the zero tolerance trucking companies usually expect. Needless to say, his world has gone from okie-dokie to oh-f**k-this-isn’t-good. The only negative aspect of our new relationship is his radio or rather the station his radio is tuned to. I guess it’s rock of some s
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Eric's Blog

Defying Gravity

Today I decided to defy gravity, and well it hurt. I fell down...   But in all seriousness I found that being unemployed has given me time to work on things that seem to have crept up on me. I've been focusing inward on myself and doing some reading about Freud and Jung, two of the psychologists who seem to make some sense to me in terms of people and the like (hard to explain and for me to do that would take all day). Unfortunately all this reading has lead to a decline in my social life and
Phantom

Phantom

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Bender's blog

Life bursting forth from my fingertips.

"I think we should stick to being friends," he said, his brow furrowed with fake concern, and with what little control I could get about me I smiled weakly at him, showing the fatigue in my eyes. "I'm sorry," he followed, "I hope this is okay?"   "I understand completely, and it's fine," I said, although I didn't understand, and I certainly didn't feel fine. All I wanted was for him to leave my apartment, but I still had to see him twice weekly, so I had to save face for just a little longer
Bender

Bender

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

He's gone

My roommate of the last four months left for home yesterday, deciding after being away for 15 years the snowy winters of Upstate New York are better than the ice storms in Dallas. I will and won’t miss him. It’s kind of hard living with someone who has to be right, all the time. Yet the sandwiches he smuggled into the shelter every now and then were very much appreciated.   He is the kind of guy who having earphones for his television will listen to the same appliance without the earphones at
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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old bob's Blog

My work is my life

During the last 4 months, I participated in the life of GA with 10 blogs, 6 of them dealing with death problems. It's horrible ! Fortunately, the last blog dealt mainly with the future.   Today, I forget the past and also the long term future. I only care what will happen in the next weeks. In exactly one week, next Friday, this will be my birthday. I do not know what my wife and my children are planning to prepare. I dont like too large family celebrations but I'll let them do what they wa
old bob

old bob

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S.L. Lewis Many Thoughts and Updates

Update on Back

I spent yesterday in the hospital. Again. I went in about 10:30, got out about 2. Not to bad.   But, the nurse who was assigned to me...couldn't feed the damn pain killer into me without bursting my vein. Pretty much, shoved the IV from where it was in my vein to sitting on the muscle...after poking another hole into it.   So I have a nice big bruise and I'm still sore like you wouldn't believe. Me and my vicodin are once more having an affair.   Tomorrow, nice bright and early, I get to
S.L. Lewis

S.L. Lewis

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