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    Sci-fi Genre Deep Dive 10

    By Myr

    Top Read Sci-Fi Stories Since Deep Dive 9 Top 1 Most Read Science Fiction - AI Consciousness Explores sentient AI and post-human ethics, often questioning identity, consciousness, and morality. The Construct by Topher Lydon Complete Top 10 Most Read Science Fiction - Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic concerned with the end of civilization, either through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civiliz
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The Broken Beautiful Boy

I posted this on Reddit, in a sub that talks about pleasant encounters you've had with people that left a good impression on you. Here's a tale of an platonic stranger encounter I had when I was 21...   *** When I was in high school, I was a hormonal gay teenager who had two minute crushes on any cute guy that crossed my path. There was this one guy, I can't even remember his name now, who was a senior when I was a freshmen. He was an artistic type, with auburn hair with sideburns that framed
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Remembering Kathmandu

Five years ago I spent ten days in Kathmandu. It was on my bucket list, and I must say that I was enchanted with the people. Watching guys as old as myself holding hands while walking was a pleasant surprise -- not necessarily gay but just friends. I understand that the hotel I stayed in went down. I am so glad that I did include this trip in one of my novels. May the people of Nepal recover
alex canton

alex canton

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Life Has Its Moments

I prefer to focus on the odd.   This morning the washing machine died. It had a long life. It gave its all trying to wash a load of my father's underwear and socks. Middle of the cycle a belt went and the machine seized. My father dutifully woke me up to tell me, help him go down and drain it, then take all the wash we could find down to the local laundromat and do it.   Tomorrow he wants to go shopping.   Today I am going to recycle the cans and plastics, pick up something to cook for din
comicfan

comicfan

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Banned

Lets start a protest and ban Kanye West from society! And then once we've done that, Beiber's ass belongs to us!   [insert triumphant Ullulation here]
The_Jordanator

The_Jordanator

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Likes And Dislikes

So someone asked for me to tell about my likes and dislikes. That would be a good start.   So here they are, welcome to my world of what I give the tick and what I give the cross.   I like food, iPad, TV, music, writing and sketching. And of course: Boys, boys, boys.   I like the summer sun, the warmth of my bed and hanging out with good friends.   What I don't like is unfair treatment, self obsessed celebrities and anchovies. And I'm not into fantasy/witchcraft either.   So there we
The_Jordanator

The_Jordanator

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Hello, My Dear Colleagues

I have been blogging since quite a few years, and I recently discovered this site, which I have found to be varied and friendly. It is not frequent -- I think -- to find a place to discuss or exchange concerns about our writing within the gay community. This is especially true in my case, as I live in Panama, and this aspect is kept under the carpet -- not in the closet. My experience with the gay theme stems from my clinical work in the field during 40 years. This produced several scientifi
alex canton

alex canton

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A New Nation Rises

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Jordanation! Thanks for popping in. I only figured out how to do this five minutes ago and now I've started an egocentric tribe of one. Please follow this blog, that would be awesome. Not bad first entry so far, huh?   What's gonna be in this blog? (That's always good to talk about) Good question - I have no idea. But that's great because I can post random babble and it'll be okay! OH I know, I'll do done promotional plug-ins for my story 'Someone Like Me'. Th
The_Jordanator

The_Jordanator

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"openly Straight" By Bill Koenigsberg- When A Book Really Hits Home

Hey, I came across this Young Adult book that Adam Phillips recommended to me a year or two ago, called Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg. I was in Barnes and Nobles, and I basically devoured the book in about two hours. I honestly loved the story. It's the story of a guy, named Rafe, who after being Mr. Openly Gay Guy, decides to get a new fresh start by going off to boarding school and just being regular. Because of his resemblance to a very former popular student, he's embraced by the jock
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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I Have A Kinky Fetish

I want to free you from bondage.   How weird is that?   I don't want to tie you down. I don't want to smack you with whips.   I want to free you.   Now if I can just free me.
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Overly Long Absence

So I've not been about. This is not my fault.   1) our internet got cut off 5 days before we moved 2) we moved house 3) school blocked GA from all school computers 4) despite having moved in on the 2nd May, our internet didn't get connected until TODAY!   Normal people are irrational and grumpy without the web, so can you imagine what my life has been like living with a first-class grade-a bona-fide geek-nerd and programmer without internet? He's been in hell. Oh goody.   The house is b
Sasha Distan

Sasha Distan

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Boston Bomber 2

I was touched that the Boston Bomber told a nun no one should suffer like his victims did. Really. I thought to myself, well, here's two eyeballs, two kidneys, two lungs, a heart and a liver to harvest to repair the victims, who can get bumped up the waiting list for a transplant. No need for pain medication, as resources are limited, and our sick and dying have so much need of pain relievers. Restraints are all that is required for Mr. Bomber, restraints and liberal use of a taser.   Our grea
Drak

Drak

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Thank A Teacher

So this past week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I think it is all very important that everybody thank a teacher that really taught you something valuable. The very fact that you can enjoy reading on Gay Authors all stems from an early elementary school teacher showing you all the skills and techniques of being an effective reader. The fact that so many of you can write wonderful, sweeping, complex stories all began with learning how to write basic sentences in preschool, kindergarden, and 1
TetRefine

TetRefine

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Happy Mother's Day

Happy mother's Day to all mothers, Step-mothers, foster mothers and adoptive mothers. You all do a wonderful job and this day is especially for you all. xxxxxxxxxxx
Caz Pedroso

Caz Pedroso

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This Week

This week is one I would not want to re-live ever.   It started on Sunday with one of the worst things that could ever happen. I got the call from my uncle that my sister has passed away. I didn't believe him and called him all sorts of things but he still stood my me. He was here for my parents while I was 1,000 miles away in Iowa. I got on the first flight I could to be home.   I had to help my parents prep and get things ready to lay my sister to rest. She was only 18 months older than me
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Summers Been Released In Hastings

Bank holiday Monday (4th May) saw the Traditional Jack in the Green parade in my hometown of Hastings UK.   Every year Morris dancers from all over gather to perform and walk the streets of Hastings Old Town.   The parade ends on the West Hill, where the Jack is symbolically slain, releasing the spirit of summer for another year.   It is a very busy day for the town, with thousands of outsiders gathering to witness the festivities. Many come on their motorcycles, there can be over 40,000
Caz Pedroso

Caz Pedroso

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The Plan

When navies build a ship, it's a big expensive deal. Ships are supposed to last decades but many things change over decades. There are engineering improvements and new technologies. Missions expand and more capabilities are required. There is a real danger and, it has happened many times, that multi-million dollar state of the art warships are obsolete before they leave their builders slip.   It's called different things by different services. Refit. Modernization. Overhaul. Sailors wouldn't c
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Human Nature Is A Vicious Cycle

In modern civilizations, we hold ourselves as "enlightened" and above the old crimes of the past. Yet as recent history would tell us, such claims are haphazard. Lewis Sinclair would say, "Now is the fact that can't be dodged", because we have a tragic issue beyond just a few isolated cases. There is a terminal illness inside the experiment of free democratic societies.   No matter how long we struggle, how true our cause, or how noble our sacrifices; somethings persist in society, an "open so
W_L

W_L

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Again, Sometimes The Fix Is Easy...

Okay, so here's my funny for today....   The safety release cable that connects from the engine to the handle on our lawnmower broke at the end of last season. We thought we'd have to buy a new mower but we managed to fix it and get it running again.   So I come home after dropping my daughter at her golf lesson, and there is one strip of lawn cut. My husband said that's all he could do before it just quit.   When I asked if he knew what was wrong, he said, "I'm just a computer guy.
craftingmom

craftingmom

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On A Dead Child By Middleton

ON A DEAD CHILD by Richard Barham Middleton   Man proposes, God in His time disposes, And so I wander'd up to where you lay, A little rose among the little roses, And no more dead than they.   It seemed your childish feet were tired of straying, You did not greet me from your flower-strewn bed, Yet still I knew that you were only playing -- Playing at being dead.   I might have thought that you were really sleeping, So quiet lay your eyelids to the sky, So still your hair, b
MrM

MrM

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Youtube Turns 10

YouTube is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, and to celebrate, I thought I'd post my favorite 10 videos from YouTube. What are yours?   10. by Jenna Marbles, 2010  I love how Jenna Marbles packs insightful social commentary into a dumb blonde persona. Well-done.   9. " , 2008  Twilight brought much laughter during its run, least of all the many, many spoofs that existed.   8. , 2007  For context: Britney Spears 2007 VMA's   7. "Oakland!", 2009 (A Tourism Guide)  
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Q & A With The Beast

Why did you change your avatar from the silly cat to the blue Beast?   I'm posting Broken here at GA and that ties into that story.   Why did you post Broken? It's been on the shelf for a long time.   I'm stronger now. I plan to finish it. Anyone that has read it up to this point will tell you that there is a lot of ugly stuff in it and you can tell by the last chapter- it's going to get worse fast.   There's a whole lot of drugs in it...   Duh. It was the seventies. The whole country
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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About Obama

I live in region where there is little love for Obama.   Some people tune in to a ton of FOX News or something to that effect, and their opinions are shaped by different information than the information I absorb from such sources as "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," MS-NBC, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, NORML, the BBC, the New York Times, and a liberal education in English literature and upbringing as the son of two college professors.   Today I drank beer with a kind, gentle, g
Drak

Drak

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