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  • Cia

    May Signature Feature: Never Too Late to Change by northie

    By Cia

    I can't believe it's already May! We're looking forward to the change of the season, so I wanted to feature another story that is all about change. Have you read this story in the past? There's a whole series for you to enjoy!  Length: 42,145 Description: A lonely, older man has spent his life hiding his sexuality. One day, by chance, this changes. Then a young man arrives to help him widen his horizons, as he slowly comes to terms with life as a gay man. A Reader said: A he
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  • wildone

    Weekly Wrap Up (May 10 - May 16)

    By wildone

    I thought I would start the blog with welcoming me back   According to the false rumours, I have not died. 🪦 I have to thank @Cia for doing a spectacular job and stepping in to cover me  Let's give her some love for all of her help Now that I'm back from my nearly 3 week vacay, I have to tell you all I"m happy as a pig in ... mud  I did a 4 day road trip driving a U-haul across Southern Alberta, Montana, Utah, no, never saw any cute mormon boys , Arizona, Nevada, Arizona again an
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Writing Stories

New Novella- Essence of Life is Live

Here's a link to my new Culinary/Romance Fiction story: Essence of Life This story has been a work of labor for many years. I conceived it back in 2019, but did not publish it as there was a lot of issues and Covid put a damper on things. Though not a long story, it's probably one of the most fun stories I've written about food and restaurant culture.  I hope readers will enjoy it and maybe get a little hungry reading it. Good food like good stories should never be wasted. Bon App
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Daily Musings

Nifty Archives Not So Nifty

So… the Nifty Archive isn’t feeling all that “nifty” right now. Last Wednesday morning, I submitted Chapter 25 of Swing for the Fences as usual, expecting it to be posted that evening. That’s how it has always worked in the past. But by Thursday, nothing. Other stories had gone up in the Gay Male/High School section, but mine hadn’t. I resubmitted Thursday. Still nothing. Friday came and went. Still nothing. I emailed the archive at nifty@nifty.org AND stories@nifty.org. No resp
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW in Daily Musings

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Common Sense

Elder Care 102

Warning, somewhat of a rant ahead.  I signed up for this. I knew what I was getting into when I made the decision to move back to Massachusetts and into my mother-in-law's home. My MIL will be 91 in November and has been in a slow, but steady decline over the past few years. We could easily see it whenever we visited.  It starts out slowly. They no longer walk as fast or as far. After a while they are holding onto your arm to go down the curb. Next, they use a cane for anything outside
kbois

kbois in Common Sense

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Daily Musings

SFTF Chapters 21 & 22

So, Chapters 21 and 22 of Swing for the Fences have both been posted now, and they're what I would consider "transitional" (and shorter) chapters, giving Nick and Jack some time to "settle in" as new boyfriends and be happy and in love for a little while. But stay tuned for Chapter 23 (which will be posted on Wednesday, September 3rd), as some more "excitement" will come along to challenge Nick and his friends. The second round of revisions/edits for Medellin is taking longer than I expecte
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW in Daily Musings

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Daily Musings

Swinging for the Fences & Other Musings

It looks like it's been about 16 years since I've written a blog here. I guess I'd forgotten they even existed. So, I'm back writing again after about 20 years, with my second complete novel, Swing for the Fences. Chapter 20 will be released on Saturday morning (August 23rd). After that, only 25 more chapters to go. The chapters in this novel are much shorter than I'm used to writing, hence the large number of chapters.  My next novel, which I have almost completed, Medellin, will only have
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW in Daily Musings

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employment

Pushing past the PTSD I have from applying for jobs as a post-grad in Great Recession America.

So I started the job application process to try and get started on my paralegal career.  I'm not going to lie. I haven't applied for jobs since 2015 and I'm trying to break into a new field. It's really hard not to think about the three years I spent trying (and failing) to break into the museum field when I got my master's degree. In 2015 I finally got real and started working a retail job I've been in since, save for the lost COVID year. Going on the advice I've been given, I'm tryin
methodwriter85

methodwriter85 in employment

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life

Officially a certified paralegal!

Now what?  No clue, but we'll see! I'm leaning towards starting out by applying for file clerk jobs, and see where things go from there. I'd say I'm probably most interested in contracts, torts, or probate.  Now I'm just going to take things in and see where things go.
methodwriter85

methodwriter85 in life

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Blog

Sneaky bastards ...

Well, we knew it'd happen. This week, I've been tapped by our CFO to help in a dispute against one of the federal regulatory agencies governing us and our funding. The short of it is this: an audit found they had overpaid us for our lab expenses to the tune of $200,000 a year for five years. In other words, they planned to shave a cool million off our next payment and withhold $200,000 a year from here on. The reasons are utterly bogus. Claiming we're double-dipping. Part of that is cl
Wayne Gray

Wayne Gray in Blog

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member

Coming back to the light.

Anxiety is like a long, dark tunnel. You can maybe, if you squint just right, see a dim light at the far end. But as you move towards it, it flickers and dims as you encounter a turn in the tunnel. You begin to doubt that there was a light. That what you saw was just a figment of your imagination. You do, eventually, reach some light. Only to find another tunnel. And it’s just as dark. And twisty. The tunnel is cold, damp, and dark. Very, very dark. Sometimes, you can see that light fl
mollyhousemouse

mollyhousemouse in member

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Lifeline

Lifeline

I'm always wondering just how much energy one needs to accomplish the plans you make in your head right before you go to sleep and then wake up. It's especially hard because sometimes way back in the day, I'd just forgo sleep and just focus on what was important, which is always writing, but that's not how things go, at least for me. I tell myself that I'm going to do this and that and even complete an entire to-do list complete with the checkboxes, and instead I fail.  I have been staring
ASH PHOENIX

ASH PHOENIX in Lifeline

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Work

Work insanity

Just a rant. The college I work for has a new Dean (oh joy).  Great!  Except that she's psychotic. She waits until the last minute to make any decisions, then makes one that is illogical and actively hurts the goal that is trying to be achieved.  My boss is at a point she's seriously considering early retirement just to get away from her. If it wasn't 6 years away for me, I'd probably consider it too.
Fae Briona

Fae Briona in Work

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beginnings

Friends, Fellow Writers, the GA Mod Team, and Inspiration

My previous blog entries are part of my personal writing journey as I do my best to finish my first multi-chaptered work.   This blog, however, explains how I came to be inspired to work on a multi-chaptered story in the first place:   I just went on a hunt for 2024's Secret Author Talking Topic Thread and reading it was like seeing my GA life flashing before my eyes.  To anyone who might not know, I was urged to join the forum by a friend who enjoyed reading anon
BendtedWreath

BendtedWreath in beginnings

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life

Brushed Up on My Resume for the First Time in 10 Years

I had so many goddamned unpaid internships. Deleted some of them; mostly deleted the short-term holiday gigs I had at retail stores in the early 2010's. Ah, the life of a Millennial. (I still get PSTD flashbacks to Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" as someone who worked as a Victoria Secret's stock boy during Christmas 2012.) For context, I'm a 39-year old who had the whole "let me get an arts degree in a subject I LOVE" deal and ran smack head first into the Great Recession of the 2010's. I thin
methodwriter85

methodwriter85 in life

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