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    2025 Anthology - Big Announcement!

    By Valkyrie

    Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Joyous Kwanzaa to all who celebrate! I'm still in a bit of a food coma from Christmas dinner, but I wanted to bring a reminder and also some important news for next year's anthology.  First, submissions for Carlos' tribute event are due tomorrow, so be sure to put the finishing touches on your stories and post the link in the thread in the Writer's Circle.  Second, I decided to do things a little differently this year, and instead of having a committee decide
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You know that story you thought I was done writing

Yeah, well... me too. Apparently we were both wrong.   I've gotten a number of pieces of criticism about the last two chapters of Yankee. They boil down to two main points:   1) I didn't like the ending 2) The ending was weakly written   #1 is something to be coped with -- the plot's not going to change. #2, though... unfortunately that second point is a lot more valid than I wanted it to be. The ending of Yankee could have been really strong, but intsead it had Rob kind of wussing out a
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Viv's Blog

Happy 'V' Day and stuff...

Ugh! I just ate sooooooo much ice cream... spumoni from this yummy italian restaurant we go to. It is so good and I couldn't stop myself! :wacko:   So, first of all, Happy Valentine's Day!!! To everyone!   I am SO proud of Davey! Just an amazing effort from an amazing little brother with an amazing heart and a way to use a crappy situation and turn it into something that's just... AMAZING!!! If you want to know what he did... ask him! It's his news to share... but SO YAY sweetie! A se
viv

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GREEN & CHAZ'S BLOG

Slow Motion.

I thought about everything that happned last night. My mental break down. I reread what I had written. It really felt good to write that but In the same sense it made me think about where I was mentally last night. I could have easily told my friends yet I am always hesitant to hinder then with my problems. This si why I feel like I am losing my mother. I wanted to tell her so many times in the past week but I always failed at it.   I came home today with every intention of telling my friends
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Chronicles of My Life

A Dozen Long Stem Artichokes

I don't get flowers. I mean obviously I don't get flowers since A) I'm not in a relationship and B ) even if I were I don't think guys recieve them that often. However, by "get" I didn't mean "recieve"; I actually meant "understand". I don't understand flowers. Oh, I get that society has attached a special significance to their reception from that special someone, and as such I would be thoroughly delighted to recieve flowers from a boyfriend. Yet, all of the pleasure would be derived from
AFriendlyFace

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Xan's Blog

Alright, I'm sick of this crap

You all know and are probably in love with my dog Xander. Well every so often, Jayne (my brother's dog and Xander's mommy) gets loose and runs off. Xander never having to toughen up from being taken from his mom like the rest of his siblings, has always been a mommy's boy. In being so, whenever Jayne runs off, so does he, but only running for his life to keep up with her, and usually crying as he runs . Otherwise, if he's not on a leash, he just stays in the yard like the good boy he is. Well s
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Viv's Blog

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICH!

Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! EWW!   Last night my cat was kind of freaking out, we could hear him scurrying around at the end of the hallway, and Rich even went down there once to find out what was going on and came back shrugging. So I went down there to go to the bathroom and the cat is still being freaky and when I turned on the light OMG!! He is batting around this 'thing' on the bathroom floor. I literally have to shove the cat out of the way with my
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GREEN & CHAZ'S BLOG

Throw your son out of a chair why don't cha?

So dinner, yes dinner. Dinner turned into an unexpected disaster that ended with me falling out of my chair, and me yelling and me hitting the Liar with my fist.   I went to my mothers house because apparently she wanted to cook for me. I was weary of this but as I wrote before I wanted to talk to my stepfather about her behavior. So much to my surprise the Liar is there cooking with my mother. My stepfather had to stay late at work. So I said crap just get it over with. Naturally I called Ch
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GREEN & CHAZ'S BLOG

Uncomfortable at home!

My mother called me and asked me to come over. She said she needed help going through some of the stuff we have in the attick, you know old furniture and pictures my mom has. I know this was an effort to get us close again, and I caved in. I mean she was reaching.   Chaz, Selene and David invited themselves as usual. I really don't know what they were planning on finding. I dont have alot of pictures. I dont take them. Its a personal thing for me. I have an average of two pictures taken of m
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Chronicles of My Life

Language Overload

Well my first Latin test is tomorrow. I'm really rather concerned about it. Mostly because I don't think I'm that ready for it AND because now I feel like I'm going to disappoint my professor. But it'll work out, I'm going to study a little bit more before bed and hopefully it'll be enough. On the bright side he's allowing us to use our Latin dictionaries for the test. Which is awesome because, truth be told, I never bothered to learn my noun endings (something I should have done at the b
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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Read my blog

Busted my head open

Ok, so yesterday at school I did something really dumb.......I was running to catch a football and I wasn't watching anything but the ball as it was sailing throught the air and into my arms when......WHAM!!! I ran into the goalpost. Anyway, they called resue for me and I had to ride to the hospital. All I got was 4 stiches and some pills for my pain. My dad showed up and was totally losing his mind, as usual. So anyway, now I have a black eye and my face is swollen on the right side. My eye i
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Xan's Blog

mad at Justin again...*sigh*

Well, I don't know if she's behind it this time or not but I'm mad at Justin right now....   Our school is having the Annie musical and auditions are after school yesterday, today and tomorrow. Since I saw the last one and saw how cool it is to perform, I wanted to be in one, but one little dilema...I have stage fright . Well yesterday after school I had to make up a test and take care of a yearbook page and I got done around 4:30. I was kinda mad cuz my mom needed the car yesterday morning a
xander

xander

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GREEN & CHAZ'S BLOG

READ THIS IT COMES FROM MY PSYCHO MIND!

Chaz and I had our first real fight this morning. It made me feel good. I know what your thinking, "Green is crazy." But I kid you not I am happy because it makes our relationship real. I was worried that if we kept on like this for ever we would get bored of the happy relationship routine. I really love Chaz and his family except for his brother, were not there yet. My mom and my friends love him too, granted as long as he brings no unwanted birthday cakes. Even my ex's like him.   So this mo
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Zot spot

Yankee's done, yay!

Chapter 16 is off to Nifty and Myr, though both folks have plenty to do, and it's 10 AM so I wouldn't expect anything before the morning. Still, I've finished, and feel the need to dance the geeky author dance of completion. This would be a good time to avert your eyes.   Now it's time to dig into other things. Ben and William await, as do a number of other characters who've been grumbling at me lately.
TheZot

TheZot

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Viv's Blog

i love my husband... sometimes?!

Okay so I just got home from this pititful excuse of a way to spend my Monday night. I had a Good Scout Leader meeting to go to, every month once a month... so it was my month to bring a game, craft, or song to share with the other troop leaders so they have something new to take back and use at their troop meetings. So, I brought a game... In this game you pass a roll of toilet paper around telling each person to take as many squares as they need, of course, not telling them what for. Then once
viv

viv

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Little Buddha's Thatched Hut

I hate Tuesdays

I finally got up off my lazy butt yesterday and forced myself to go to the supermarket and get some cleaning done, and today at work I worked a bit on the conclusion for my thesis, which is about halfway finished (the conclusion that is, the main text of the thesis is mostly done, save for a bit of revising and polishing up) ... it always seems, however, that the last little bit is the hardest to write, and although I know what I want to say, and even though it's mostly just re-hashing the main
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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Val's Blog

Post-Super Bowl insanity...with pictures

So yesterday was fun, not because I really care about football but because the entire city lost its mind. I didn't go out until about midnight, and by then it was snowing a lot and the roads were kinda icy, but there were still some diehard lunatics out running in the streets and screaming. The bf and I went to a bar in the poor ass, mostly college kid populated part of town, and unfortunately I'd already missed out on all of the rioting and fires, but I do have a few pictures of the aftermath f
lagomorph

lagomorph

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GREEN & CHAZ'S BLOG

The Shadow Boys Two: Thirty minutes

The lights on the stage go off as the kid walks through the door. The shadow boys reappear under a new light a moment later. This time they had taken the pink make up off and they were wearing white tuxedos. One was smiling while the other frowned.    
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GREEN & CHAZ'S BLOG

High School Angst And Hot Waiters, My Treat...

I decided to take everyone out for dinner tonight. We went to a fancy restaurant downtown. My mother knows the owner so we got a good table in a private area of the restaurant. He even tried to give us free food but I insisted on paying, besides I think we all needed a nice night out. So everything is going good when I realize who our waiter is. Our waiter is someone who I kind of had a big fight with in high school. He and I never saw eye to eye on anything. We were rivals kind of.   Well
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