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  • Graeme

    GA's Newest Signature Author: kbois

    By Graeme

    Please join myself and the Author Promotion Team in congratulating kbois as GA's newest Signature Author! @kbois has been a member for 7 years and in that time she's developed from a relatively new author through to one that's reached the level of Signature Author. Her recent short stories Hide and Seek and Depth Perception are of particular note and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Congratulation, kbois!
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  • Aditus

    Talk Talk

    By Aditus

    Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we? #253 Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds. When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
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MDBCs 13 Apr 2024

April 13th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catholic commemoration of Ida of Louvain April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Songkran Songkran (Thailand) Water-Sprinkling Festival Vaisakhi (between 1902 and 2011)
Writing Stories

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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MDBCs 12 Apr 2024

April 12th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (Bolivia) Christian feast day: Adoniram Judson (Episcopal Church) Alferius Blessed Angelo Carletti di Chivasso Erkembode Pope Julius I Teresa of the Ande
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MDBCs 11 Apr 2024

April 11th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Antipas of Pergamum (Greek Orthodox Church) Barsanuphius Gemma Galgani Godeberta Guthlac of Crowland George Selwyn (Anglicanism) Stanislaus
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MDBCs 10 Apr 2024

April 10th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Fulbert of Chartres James, Azadanus and Abdicius Mikael Agricola (Lutheran) Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Episcopal Church) William of Ockham (Anglicanism) William Law (A
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MDBCs 09 Apr 2024

April 9th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Anglicanism, Lutheranism) Gaucherius Materiana Waltrude April 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Anniversary of the German Invasion of Denmark (Denmark)
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MDBCs 08 Apr 2024

April 8th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Buddha's Birthday, also known as Hana Matsuri, "Flower Festival" (Japan) Christian feast day: Anne Ayres (Episcopal Church (USA)) Constantina Julie Billiart of Namur Perpetuus Walter of Pontoise
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April 7th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Aibert of Crespin Blessed Alexander Rawlins Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley Blessed Notker the Stammerer Brynach Hegesippus
My Life and Times

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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MDBCs 06 Apr 2024

April 6th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Chakri Day, commemorating the establishment of the Chakri dynasty. (Thailand) Christian feast day: Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach (Lutheran Church). Brychan Eutychius of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church) Marcellinus of Carthage
Writing Stories

Of Pride and Power Chapter 28 is Live

Chapter 28 FYI, I'll be heading on vacation soon, so I might be a bit spotty for a few weeks in terms of posting new chapters. An homage to the Field of Cloth of Gold is what I consider this chapter to be, where we see a bit more of the sophistication that commercial applications of technology have brought into existence by this point. These are luxuries without modern manufacturing or shipping would only be possible for world leaders that had nation-level resources. Like the historic
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MDBCs 05 Apr 2024

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April 4th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan) Christian feast day: Benedict the Moor Gaetano Catanoso Isidore of Seville Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA)) Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada)
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April 3rd 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Agape, Chionia, and Irene Burgundofara Luigi Scrosoppi Richard of Chichester April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)   Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) A Drop of Water is a Gra
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April 1st 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Cellach of Armagh Hugh of Grenoble Frederick Denison Maurice (Church of England) Mary of Egypt Melito of Sardis Tewdrig Theodora Walric, abbot of Leuconay April 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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March 31st 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Cesar Chavez Day (United States) Christian feast day Abdas of Susa Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church) Anesius and companions Benjamin Balbina John Donne (An
Writing Assessment

Assessing Honestly

If you're going to spend time writing and creating, I think it's good to take an honest look at what you do well and what you don't. Many of those things are subjective - is there a scientific way to break down good character creation? Probably. Do I know what it is? No. Do I know it when I see it? Sometimes. Let me start with something I don't do well: Proper character maturity. Now there isn't a universal way any age group acts. I have raised 2 and one half boys (one is still a teen) and
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MDBCs 30 Mar 2024

March 30th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Blessed Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka John Climacus Mamertinus of Auxerre Quirinus of Neuss Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs)
Writing Stories

Of Pride and Power Chapter 27 is Live

Chapter 27 Major internal reactions are happening in this alternative version of English history, especially with the addition of Omegas in the mix. When reading Omegaverse stories, I've always wondered, how would the introduction of Omegas, essentially gay/bisexual men with the ability to have children with other men, affect a society? Then, I considered what would the big religious implications be for dominant belief systems, like Christianity. Due to how I set up my timeline, especially
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MDBCs 29 Mar 2024

March 29th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Armogastes Berthold of Calabria Gwynllyw Jonas and Barachisius March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
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March 28th 2024 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Priscus Pope Sixtus III March 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet) Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)   Obse
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