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    2026 Anthology - Horizons and Unspoken - Week Two **NOW LIVE**

    By Valkyrie

    This year's anthology started off last week with a bang! The number of comments and reviews are impressive, so keep it going!  This week, we have five new stories to read, along with Chapter 2 of Myr's story from last week.  Ready, set....   Check out Chapter 2  
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Action/Adventure Genre Deep Dive 3

Top 10 Most Read Action/Adventure - Action Fiction focuses on fast-paced action and physical challenges.  Often involves a hero or protagonist facing intense obstacles and overcoming them through physical prowess and skill. Gap Year by Mark Arbour Complete The Light at the End of the Tunnel by kbois Complete Shadow Effect by kbois Complete The Case of the Short, Short Prince by Geron Kees Complete The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X In

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April Signature Author Feature: Incy Wincy Spider by northie

April, such an innocent month. Not a whole lot going on... so I thought I thought I'd send you curveball. Enjoy this little tidbit and think about what might be coming out of YOUR woodwork.   Length: 3,121 Description: Dave Harrison is late for work, again. Turns out, that's by far the least of his worries. A Reader said: If you like creepy mixed with humor, 'Incy Wincy Spider,' is the story for you. Don't be fooled by the title, because this tale is far from the well known

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GA's Newest Promising Author: WolfM

Please join myself and the Author Promotion Team in congratulating @WolfM  in becoming GA's newest Promising Author. They have been a member at GA for almost nine years, and in that time they have posted over 600,000 words across ten stories. Writing mainly shifter paranormal stories, they are the author of the popular Running with the Pack series. You can find all of they stories (and poetry) on their author page so please jump in and take a look.

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Weekly Wrap Up (Apr. 4 - Apr. 13)

It might be spring where you are, except our friends in the Southern Hemisphere It was a beautiful day today and will be tomorrow. Only to be followed by snow on Monday and Tuesday  Well I said, darn it and I started my spring cleaning today. OMG, I can't believe how much I threw out, recycling where I can. I started with my pantry. I'll admit I was ashamed of myself . I found stuff at the back of the cupboard that had expired in 2022 😮.  So that leads me to my controversial question for t

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Of Pride and Power Chapter 29 is Live

Chapter 29 As I noted I'll be on vacation for a bit, I'll leave a few short stories just so folks get some more info on side characters and stories. As for this chapter, it's an interesting culmination of effects. In the 16th century, the forces of the Calvinism Protestants and Counter-Reformation Catholics were very powerful movements that warped society and enforced a lot draconian moral rules. Places like the Netherlands, which traditionally were far more liberal and cosmopolitan du

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Tell, don't recount

Most of you will probably be familiar with the rule/advice "show, don't tell". (Actually, this advice is a little flawed in itself, as outlined in "Bad Character Intros vs Good Character Intros (Writing Advice)" by the YouTube channel "Writer Brandon McNulty", but that would be a whole over topic for another day ). What we are focussing on today, will be the telling aspect. Because, even though, there can be good "tell", when "show" wouldn't work, and then, there's bad "tell", which I

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2024 Poetry Anthology - Seasons - Week Two

Welcome to week two of our 2024 poetry anthology - Seasons! Enjoy these next five poems and poem collections and be sure to leave a comment or review for the poet.  A reminder that I will be on vacation from April 7-22nd with limited availability to be on site, so please direct any technical issues to @Myr @wildone or @Cia @Aditus and @Valkyrie both have two chapters, so be sure to come back tomorrow to check them out!     

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Book Review: The People V. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin

At the time it was called “The Trial of the Century,” though many people have forgotten it now, and others question that title.  There have been higher-profile trials since then, but Simpson’s trial did deliver shocks and forced questions about the American justice system. On 12 June 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend, Ron Goldman, were brutally stabbed to death on the doorstep of her home. A mountain of evidence pointed to Simpson as their killer but, over

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Western Deep Dive 2

Top 0 Most Read Western - Western - Alternative History Challenge or subvert the traditional conventions of the genre by providing a more nuanced and critical perspective on the historical events and characters. They might question the morality of certain actions or depict Native American perspectives more accurately. No stories Top 0 Most Read Western - Crime Western Combine Western themes with the conventions of mystery or crime genres. They may involve detectives or

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Beyond Thicker Than Water....

I know I started this blog as a means to give greater context into Thicker Than Water and my writing process, which hasn't been well received (oh well), so I thought I'd turn this more into a discussion forum instead.  The first thing I'd like to discuss is to quote a Chicago song, "Where do we go from here?" I'm not yet done with Thicker Than Water, as I know how the story will end but not quite there yet.  I will be continuing the adventures of the characters in the story over on Nifty in

Featured Story: Crossing The Moon

It may seem like just a week or two ago that we were reviewing a story, but it has been a month 😮 So why don't you all check out his story that @Timothy M. did a great review for?     Crossing the Moon by HinderToyBL aka Rambling Robin & Thirdly Reviewer: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 136,292 One of the great things about GA is that you can find a story about almost any topic, in a multitude of genres. Some are romantic, others serious, many are funny

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Weekly Wrap Up (Mar. 31 - Apr. 6)

Hmmmmm, what to discuss today? Tell you what, let's leave it up to you!  Instead of me bringing something up to discuss, what do you want to discuss? In the olden days when people listened to the radio , talk shows would usually have a Friday Free For All. So let's do a Sunday Free For All.  Some rules. Nothing political, nothing overly sexual, so keep it PG  For your own personal safety, I would not discuss what evil  that Valkyrie and Krista have planned for me next . They may include you

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A 'What Am I Doing and Why?' Rant (sort of)

Do you ever wonder what you're doing? Sometimes, I think that I don't think at all. I do things often without enough thought, and then there are consequences to deal with—not always huge ones, but still enough to make me wonder. Lately, I've been telling myself that I need to get up to write and set up a daily routine. I'd get up, but I found all kinds of excuses not to write anything at all.   Yesterday, I decided, for some health reasons, to make life more like a job now that I no lo

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