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    September Signature Feature: Hidden Sunlight by Stellar

    By Cia

    Well, after a longer haitus than usual, we're back! This is a long, long story by an author many of us have enjoyed for years. Have you read this classic story? It's a go to favorite of mine when I'm looking for that apocalyptic style OMG WHAAAAT story, even though I know exactly what's going to happen, I still love it. Give it a try, especially if you love a LONG read!  Length: 175,313 Description: Facing a life-changing medical procedure, 14 year old Shay approaches it with the
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Writing: 50 How-tos, Tips, and Tricks

No, I'm not sharing my own advice for writing--I'm sharing one of the sources I use to explore and research various aspects of the business from figuring out those pesky grammar and punctuation rules to questions about publishing you might not know you need to ask.   Writer's Digest.   Seriously, if you're an author, but you're not hooked up with this site and getting their free newsletters via email--you're missing out on a valuable free resource you should be using! Today, they've put o
Cia

Cia

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What?

In the early 70's, my family moved to Mississippi from Louisiana. I was enrolled into a military school to begin my high school years. At 14 and being a female it was quite terrifying. My first day to attend classes, I was as lost as a student during his first day on a college campus. The school I was going too also had boarding students and their dorms. It was a new world to me.   I'll never forget the first break of my first day. I sat on a bench alone pretending to be absorbed in a bo
joann414

joann414

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Great Stories You Might Have Missed #4

A New Life by the Eggman   Preston O'brien and his Mother have relocated from Texas to Malibu, CA. For a gay kid from Texas, it is a whole New Life. This story has been around for some time. It is a great slice of life in Southern California in the nineties. It gives hope to those of us that live in the sticks that somewhere there might be a new life for them too.   Bonus:   the Quarry by Driver   This is Driver at his best. It introduces a huge cast of characters and delves deeply into
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Just went on another date today

The honest truth about being single, legally blind, and gay is that it is hard to remain optimistic about your prospects in love as you continue on the trek to find the right guy. Sex does not drive my interest in guys, so that kills 70% of the dating scene, and I have to "come out" to them about my own issues from the low field vision.   I don't hate any of the guys I date either, it's just that much harder to really put yourself out there as you lose another bit of yourself. They are decent
W_L

W_L

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Life & Hiatus

First blog entry on GA The year ends tomorrow and 2015 brings changes, some quite unexpected. Hence the blog entry. I love writing here on GA, and often run several stories at the same time. Its a challenge I love and I try to keep updating as often as I can. But the new year brings a change to this. As work is important to keep life going, I have to place my posting on GA on hold. The company I work for is sending me to an even more remote place. Hehe, several factors will seriously affect m
lilansui

lilansui

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Great Stories You Might Have Missed #3

Tapping by Kit   This little story is lot's of fun and it is as English as a pile of fish & chips.   Mark is 15, just out of school and his dad has to move. They buy an old mansion in Scotland with a ghost and a 100 year old secret. What will he find when he looks for answers?   READ IT! IT ROCKS!
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Great Stories You Might Have Missed #2

Brian & Pete by Dewey   Once upon a time there were two boys on the West coast. Their names were Brian and Pete and they fell in love. Then things got complicated by reality.   This is the story that broke through my shell and got me started writing. It did me a lot of good because through the struggles of these brave and noble kids, I could see myself differently.   It is a beautiful thing but I warn you: it hurts. Have some time on your hands and a box of Kleenex handy.   This is o
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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New Year's Eve, Late Christmas Gifts, and Unfinished projects

I don't know about anyone else but this year can be over, and it isn't soon enough for me.   Just to recap the worst highlights - Dad went into the hospital in October with massive blood loss. I was up every day for over two weeks before I went back to work and really needed a break from my break. Dad then went to rehab after three weeks in the hospital. He remembers ambulance rides to the hospital and to the rehab center but not the time spent there. HE will finally come home from rehab on Ne
comicfan

comicfan

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New story

Hiya everyone!   As you may know, I've had a rough couple of years, especially the last one. Due to some of the experiences I've had recently, I am hopelessly stuck on the next scene for Trials and Tribulations. I will at some time be able to get through it and complete the story, but for now, I have another idea.   I've started a new story, untitled at the moment, but it will involve teenagers meeting head on some serious adult level events that affect this earth and other places as well.
Enoch

Enoch

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I am back...with lessons learned

Months of inactivity is over, real life is a bitch (why do we use such a misogynistic terms to denote a bad experience in the first place?), but it passes.   Let's see some updates on my life, I am still employed, I am still a homeowner with a decen sized mortgage, and still quite alone as a gay man in his late 20's. Nthing has changed in the last 3 months concerning my life.   As for my writing, I have been holding off for so long, but I want to get back to it again. Between my grandmother
W_L

W_L

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My 2014 Playlist

So these were the tunes that I enjoyed in 2014- give it a listen!   Methodwriter85's 2014 Playlist   1.   2.   3.   4.   5.   6. " by the Chainsmokers (This kinda felt like a modern-day take on Valley Girl by Frank Zappa.)  7.   8.   9. "   10.   11. " (I enjoyed it before it got played a million times)  12. "   13.   14.   15. 16. 17.   18."     20.   21."   22. "   23.   The homage to Rob
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Great Stories You Might Have Missed #1

Falling Off A Log by Driver   If you have never read this story, it's so good it hurts a little.   Joey and Scott are two average kids. They aren't athletes, they are so uncoordinated they are a little dangerous and they aren't brains. What makes them special is that Joey can play the electric guitar, Scott can sing and they love each other like brothers. They are both very talented and together they are something very special.   The boys do a lot of jamming and growing up.   Typical of
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Neko update

Just wanted to say that I'm nine chapters and 20k+ words into the Tears of the Neko sequel, so it is coming along. I expect it will be shorter than the original, but we'll see after my betas get back to me. I have sent the first six chapters to them today, but of course, being the holidays, I don't expect to hear from them soon.   I have been sick the last two weeks, and that has slowed down my intended progress quite a bit. But I would still expect to have it out in January, just maybe not ri
craftingmom

craftingmom

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Yule Greetings

A happy Yuletide Season to all my GA friends and fellow members! Dinner was great--ham, fresh bread, green beans and sweet potatoes...and sweet tea to drink. My little girl--okay, Siamese cat Bortai, is enjoying an inch-thick slice all of her own, suitably cut into small pieces. She is one happy 14 year old girl right now! Her birthday is around now also, from what I could calculate when I got her and her brother back in 2001 when they were 3 months old in March. Her brother was stolen six year
ColumbusGuy

ColumbusGuy

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Kitty Kay-o and the Cat Cannibals (or why grammar matters)

My mom was a little girl during the Great Depression. In addition to all that, she grew up in a tiny town in the Mississippi Delta.   If the rest of the country was broke, the Delta was like Oh my God, how could they get any poorer poor.   They lived on what they could grow on their farm and had precious little extra.   One of my mom's best pal's was a big black cat named Kitty Kay-O. Back in those days cats weren't that common in those parts. Kay-o was a prized mouser and her kittens were
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Nightfall (preview)

There are three stories in a trilogy. The 1st is: the Place in Between The 2nd is: Getting to the Happily Ever After The 3rd will be Nightfall   I've started it but I'm not sure when it's going to post. Most probably in the Spring Anthology.   I have several things going on at once. Well- screw it. I produce better under pressure.   Nightfall is about the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Back when AIDS was mysterious and we didn't know much about it. It's about the fear, the panic, the
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Anniversary

“It’s not that I didn’t like the gift…”   “You don’t,” Ron interrupted while flipping through a magazine.   “Right, but he doesn’t have to know that.”   “He will figure it out when you never wear it and it goes the way the rest of his gifts have gone, “Ron said gesturing towards the closet.   “It’s our fifth year anniversary, that deserves something more romantic than a brown coat and an even plainer brown scarf,” Daniel exclaimed, pushing his hair off his forehead.   “It could have b
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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Rainbow Award Winner- Silent /Giveaway :)

My novel Silent was selected as the 2014 Rainbow Award Winner in the Gay & Lesbian Young Adult Category! I don't think I ever posted much about it here-- ran a couple of ads at one point, but I sort of suck at advertising and self-promotion. In any case, on the off chance a curious person stumbles by my blog, here's the cover/blurb:   2014 Rainbow Award Winner: Best Gay & Lesbian Young Adult Novel     Alex's life as a teenager in South Central LA is far from perfect, but it's his
Sara Alva

Sara Alva

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Scotty gets a Mustang (and I got the shaft)

Scotty gets a Mustang     I'm fifteen. It's summer and in July in Mississippi, it's hot as hell.   Things haven't been awesome at home for some time. Not since my asshole scoutmaster told my parents that homosexuals weren't welcome in scouting.   He threw that little bomb into our home and walked his self righteous ass away. I hated him. I really wanted to kill him because nothing was ever the same after.   My dad never hit me before. I was always afraid. They told me that you can't b
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Merry Christmas

This time of year can be filled with joy, excitement, happiness, and what some would call, miracles; but also, dread, loneliness, stress, and depression can be found as well.   Don't be so quick to brush off rudeness or an uncaring attitude. Perhaps with a smile, offer an ear to bend, and be the person someone can lean on, you could help bring a miracle into a person's life. Be a candle in the darkness!       Merry Christmas
Enoch

Enoch

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A Tekkies Christmas

A Tekkies Christmas   Every Christmas it seems the weather is dreary, And I gets calls from my friends, their minds bleary, They buy laptops and games and PCs for their young, But getting it all going can be a bit high strung.   So I go about town in the dead of night, With my shiny tools and flashlight so bright, To help those poor souls to get things working Since with Santa's elves, there can be no shirking.   Off to see Bill and Cheryl to get a lap top loaded, Off to see Kim and
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Santa Meltdown

Had to finish up some Christmas shopping, so the Kid and I hit the mall. Store after store and going to yet another store, she was a little irritated with me. She didn’t like anything I picked out for gifts and she was annoyed that I wasn’t taking it serious.   “Could you be any more embarrassing?” Kid mumbled under her breath.   ……...........….Challenge Accepted……….........….   I waited until reaching the center of the packed mall, crowds of people waiting in line to see Santa whe
K.C.

K.C.

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quick book review

within another forum entry - http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/39712-changing-gay-to-straight/- on page 2 i mentioned a book called "Hiding from Myself" by Bryan Christopher - - it was an advert that just so happened to pop up on that forum message - and talk about targeted marketing !   anyhow - on with the quick review - the sub line on the advert was "can a gay person change" - Bryan is a Texan, a fundamentalist christian , and gay. this book describes his struggles to become an "ex-
MarcW

MarcW

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