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  • Cia

    September Signature Excerpt: Hidden Sunlight by Stellar

    By Cia

    Did you catch Monday's feature to Stellar's story, Hidden Sunlight? It's well worth a read, but if the member's review didn't convince you, please check out this excerpt from chapter one!  Want to read more? Click here!
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  • Valkyrie

    What Do You Want?

    By Valkyrie

    First, a reminder that the deadline for this year's anthology is fast approaching!  The Proof Team is hard at work, but keep those stories coming in!  I've been brainstorming some ideas for the anthology blog, and I wanted to get input from authors and readers of the anthologies.  Please tell me what you'd like to see in future anthology blogs, and I will do my best to make it happen.   1.  Anthology Rewinds - re-featuring past anthologies 2.  Writing tips - such as grammar, punct
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Take another shot of courage

Well, I did it. I went out on a limb and I did something that I might or might not regret. I guess I'll find out for myself soon enough because I already sent the email off and there's no way to get it back I won't say what I did, because if it doesn't go how I hope it does, I think I'll be crushed, and I don't want people to see that side of me. Sometimes I don't know why I'm scared to take chances, even though in the end I know I'm going to do it whether I'm scared or not. That's just how I
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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My own fault

Well, I admit it....I've been slipping. My writing has been sucking lately. I feel really dissapointed in the last chapter of My Jump Off that I posted. Here's what I think happened....     I started off just writing for my boyfriend, but i felt like I wanted everyone to read what I was writing, mainly because I think I wanted to know if it was any good or not. I mean, getting an honest opinion from Taylor about a story I was writing just for him was going to be impossible. So I started posti
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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One week and counting!

One week from right now, I'll be on a big ass plane, flying over a big ass ocean ... I just hope I don't have a stomach bug on the plane like I did when I flew back to the States from mainland China back in '98 ... that was a horrible experience, and one that I shall not go into details about!   Anyway, today had to be one of the most tiring days of my life, plus it is FRIGGIN' HOT here in Taiwan right now. Today was my last day of work, and after work, all of the staff in our division went
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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Spicy chips and the Catholic Church

I rather like Cross Country now. Why, you ask? Because of a boy, exactly like everything in my life. There is a totally cute freshman on the team and now I look forward to practice. Sadly, I've only seen him once, and I've never spoken with him. Yet I fully intend to talk to him as soon as I can.   We're going out of town tomorrow, to God Damn New Mexico. I hate New Mexico, and I am NOT looking forward to this, especially because we get back on my birthday. Great way to spend a birthday
Bender

Bender

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Why do I do it?

warning......serious self exploration ahead     Ok, so I got this email from one of my Nifty readers, and they asked me a simple question....why do my two longest stories and all of my almost all of my poems involve plot lines or themes where the main character has a good family???? I had to stop and think about it for a minute, and then it came to me in a flash.....because I think families are important. Not just because I come from what I think is a good family, but because, as a Christi
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Pictures: Me, Lucky, and Timmy

Hey everyone, so I was thinking maybe you guys might want to see what I actually looked like. So dispite my extreme dislike of just about every picture I've ever taken, here's a few. I also have some Lucky and Timmy (I didn't let them look so I don't know if they like them or not, but I think they're adorable )   I'd just gotten out of the shower in this, thus I'm sure you guys can appeciate why it isn't a full body shot. My hair isn't this colour anymore I had it a little darker in an a
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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Carrying a kid on your back for 40 blocks...

Okay, so today I had to babysit my lil cousin Bailey (she's 4) for like 11 hours. Well that gets to be an awfully long day...don't get me wrong, I love my lil cousin to death but yea. I had asked her mom if I could take her to the park later today and she said that would be fine. Well apparently there was a park a few blocks over, which I didnt know about... ...so I walked to the other park which was like 19 blocks from the house. And...I couldnt expect her little legs to walk that far, and sh
xander

xander

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Madman Across the Water

I can see very well There's a boat on the reef with a broken back And I can see it very well There's a joke And I know it very well It's one of those that I told you long ago Take my word, I'm a madman, don't you know ...   Fabulous song! *wipes sweat away from forehead* Whew! I had a busy morning! I had a doctor's appointment at 9 AM, dentist at 11 AM, my final trip to the post office, and I had to stop by the vet to get the date changed on my forms for the cats. So, anyway, when I w
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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One of those days

Ok, so I've been totally bored today. We got home today from Carolina and I slept all the way home, but I was sharing the back seat with my cousin James and I had to sleep sitting up, so I had a sore neck and a headache when we got home. Then I got online and chatted for a while but my PC crashed and I had to restore it back to it's last recovery point. In the meanwhile, Taylor hasn't called and I'm getting depressed, so I started reading. I found a story by Matt, Unrequited, and it was good.
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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Lovely little distractions

Ok, I need happy distraction, so I am posting kitten pics. These are the babies I still have left. *sighs* I miss Butterscotch.   Little Baby's long-haired black boy and her short-haird tiger girl. (callling them Handsome and Kitten)   Sweetheart's 2 yellow boys and Little Baby's tiger girl. (The long-haired yellow boy is known as Big Boy and the short-haired one is Baby Boy)   Sweetheart's Baby Boy, Little Baby's Tiger Girl and Handsome.   This is Baby Boy, a pretty good pic o
Luc

Luc

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the answers

Okay... after much review... and extra points for creativity... and knowing who cheated I'm going to officially declare Joey the winner   Here are the correct answers...   1. What is my middle name? June... you know how very creative that was since I was born in the month after all.   2. What is my favorite color? Green of course!   3. Which of my kids is older, my son or my daughter? Prepubescent girl wins...   4. Where was I born? LA   5. What is my favorite candy? Jolly Ran
viv

viv

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*whines*

Ok, I'm just going to whine a little here about nothing that terribly important.   You know, I had what I considered to be a fairly decent idea for something for the Summer Anthology. So I started writing it and actually finished it--and it was more than twice the maximum word count. Ok, so no big deal. I just posted it as a story and went on with life.   So then I had what I considered to be a fairly decent idea for something ELSE for the Summer Anthology. So I started writing it and
Luc

Luc

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Photography!

So a while back, I was talking to my Uncle about me getting a different job, and he came up with like a really good suggestion for me...he told me that when they were growing up, my other uncle used to do Videography and Photography for events like weddings. Okay, so I don't know how clear it is that I'm sorta really like ( ) into photography, but I am , so to me this was a freaking awesome suggestion!   Well back in the day, lol, my uncle charged like $80 bucks for a wedding video, but the
xander

xander

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Young Man's Blues

I pitched a bunch of stuff last night, and my apartment is looking emptier and emptier. I also made what was probably my last trip to the supermarket here ... I can safely say that that is one thing I won't miss about Taiwan. But there are a lot of things that I will miss. Despite my seemingly constant bitching and complaining, this place has been my home for over five years, and it's what is familiar to me. So much has changed in America since I've been gone, it's going to take some time to adj
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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My favorite vid at youtube :)

OK, so lately I've been kind of a you tube junky..lol. I love going there and watching cifferent vids...so, here's one I found that cracked me up. Man I was thirsty....I thought you were gay . Check it out. Not much to talk about right now. Im just enjoying not having to be up at 5 in the morning for anything
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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a day of twenties...

Okay guys and gals...   Here is a link to my site, officially hosted by Gay Authors... thank you for the space and the opportunity. http://viv.gayauthors.org/   Okay and as promised and just for fun... Here is a quiz about me, who else? It is my birthday after all   1. What is my middle name?   2. What is my favorite color?   3. Which of my kids is older, my son or my daughter?   4. Where was I born?   5. What is my favorite candy?   6. What are the names of Viv
viv

viv

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I'm driving, they're griping

So the other day my mum says "Your Dad and I are going to drive to Dallas Monday."   You see, this is really my Mum's tactic for getting me to drive them to Dallas.   Two 80 year olds, 1 car, ~500 miles = recipe for disaster. Dad says he can drive just fine. The Parkingstons shakes and the inability to stay awake for longer than 20 minutes at a strech? Heck, I guess he'll walk it off. My Mom says she can drive just fine- despite being scheduled for cataract surgery in July and being unable t
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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The end of a chapter ...

A little over two weeks to go before I head back to the States. It's kind of hard to believe that I've been here for over five years ... it really doesn't seem like it's been that long. I've still got a bunch of stuff to get done to prepare for my departure, some people I need to say goodbye to, and stuff like that. Fortunately, I got an early start on shipping boxes home (which my parents have told me have already started arriving) and getting stuff taken care of for my cats. I still have a bun
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

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I Wonder...

I tend to wonder about a few things. Here's a sample:   About This Site   I wonder how I can change the email address on my profile when I don't know my password (it stores it and logs me in automatically), and can't get it emailed to me since the email address isn't correct.   I wonder what RSS feeds are.   I wonder why it only lets me quote 10 times in a post (then it just shows the words "[ quote ___ ... / quote] " ), but then if I try to add a second post right behind that to finish
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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what the hell!?

Alright this is gonna be try number two for this entry! I was almost done and clicked something else and then... it was gone and now this is me... debating wheter or not to just say f**k it or write it all over again! Whatever...   I have a pretty crappy job and it doesn't pay horribly and almost anyone could do it, but still every day I show up, on time, and do my best and go above and beyond cause I take pride in my work. I like feeling like I am valuable and needed. So I was off work Mond
viv

viv

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ooooh, it's happening

Ok, so I finally resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to submit the story, My Jump Off, to Nifty. Well, I felt really bad about it the first day and into the the next day. But then, something funny happened........the first thing I noticed was that I had 200 hits on my page that werent there before. The second thing that happened was that I noticed I had moved back into spot 26 on the Top Site List here at GA. The third thing that happened was that I noticed my inbox was full. Th
NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

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New Nukes

The Bush Administration has proposed creating a new generation of small, clean tactical nukes for use against super-hardened bunkers in places like Iran and North Korea.   I've always thought that small, tactical nukes were a very bad idea. A small nuke that doesn't lay waste to a continent is much easier to justify using. How is an enemy going to respond to one?   What is really sad is that so few people understand the science behind these beasts. Sure- there are significant engineering c
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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A little update on Xander

Okay, so Xander is now on Iams, which I've read still isn't that good for him, but in my book, it's waaay better than Ol' Roy.   So we were eating dinner today and Jayne just started barking like crazy...we look outside and there was some collie wandering around by the kennel. Well Jayne being such a bad dog, you guys know, was just going psycho, doing all she could to try and get at the other dog. Well I don't see Jayne's logic in this, but for some reason, she thought that she should take it
xander

xander

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