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    Secret Author - Rewind!

    By Valkyrie

    The posting of this year's Secret Author Contest will be delayed indefinitely due to Cia going through a tragic family emergency.  Please respect her privacy and do not reach out to her and ask questions at this time, especially about when the SA stories will be published.  We apologize for the delay, as we know this is a highly-anticipated event each year, but family matters take precedence, especially during a time like this.  Thank you for your attention and understanding.  Stay tuned for mor
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Give me the strength

I feel like strangling everyone at work! It's like why must you be so incompetent!?!??!!!!   Give me the strength to not want to scream at everyone!   Every email, every phone call, GAH! GAH GAH GAH GAH!!!!!!   One email writes:   "Ryan,   Need to reshoot for the spread for *censored* magazine. Can you be there by 6:30 am? Photographer is leaving by next week for Paris."   GAH! GAH GAH GAH GAH GAH GAH!   That's all I can rant about! GAH!
ryan jo

ryan jo

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Leukemia - Light the Night Walk

It's a rare occasion that I'll blog about anything serious (or at all really), so I'll keep this short.   It's rare that you go through life and meet someone that doesn't have some sort of heartbreak in their past. I'm not talking about relationships either, but more of the kind that causes you to stop and wonder how life can be so cruel sometimes. From cancer, to domestic violence, to losing a loved one in an unfortunate accident, everyone has had something like this happen to them in their
JSmith

JSmith

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Fatal Festivity

My last post here said how happy I am to go home. Ironically, last night I recieved a call from my mom telling me, my childhood best friends dad has died. He was suffering from Parkinsonism for a long time, had a mass compressing his spinal cord, which was found to be thankfully benign and he was bed-ridden since early last year. But, he was recovering well. The physiotherapy was paying and the last when I saw him about six months ago, he was able to walk on a surface but couldn't take stairs ye
asamvav111

asamvav111

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Festivals and Cold

This is my first blog entry here in GA, and I must tell you I am a lousy bloger. I have started three blogs in my online life and abandoned all three after a while because of lack things to post. Then, why am I doing this now? Do I have more things happening to me now? Well... for starters, I am indeed going through a period of change, no not Sex change, but a change regarding my career, my life, my surroundings and what not. More over, I have matured over the years to be able to find few stuff
asamvav111

asamvav111

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Why am I still such a Romantic, when I am so Rational? fixed typo

The job is ugly, my numbers don't see any light at the end of the tunnel if we keep this up. I am awaiting a Board meeting to make a presentation of my findings and hope some of our outside directors can see the inherent flaws in internal management. Heck, even portions of senior management are siding with me (partially to save their own asses, sad but true).   Outside of work...I have just found my new favorite gay movie: From Beginning to End   http://youtu.be/BH6vtx3HVB8   This movie wa
W_L

W_L

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The Cloud (2)

University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD     “Throughout the fossil record we can see that evolution proceeds in stops and starts. It does not and has not proceeded in a straight line.”   Dr. Jerry Cassidy drew a time line on his white board and put five tics on the graph. He knew that half his students were asleep and the rest only cared because they needed a mid-level science elective to graduate.   “The great extinction events have had a major effect on the biological world. Every
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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The Cloud

The Cloud (Part I)     Paranal Observatory, European Southern Observatory Cerro Paranal, Chile October 22, 2016   The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Array was focused deep in the blackness of intergalactic space examining galaxies that dated to within a few billion years of the Big Bang when Director Addler's phone began to ring.   The first call came from Dr. Willoby at the Australian National Astronomical Observatory. Old Jack had found something strange and h
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Reflection

Recent events have had me thinking about a lot of things lately.   One thing is what lead me to this site. A little over 6 years ago (tax day 2006) I decided to follow the link to the site from Nifty. The link was at the bottom of my favorite story from author Vance aka Vlista20. When I joined the site I didn't know what to expect, nor did I think I would find some many different stories. I eventually branched out and found some really cool stories to follow and authors. I eventually became a
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Will have to be off GA for a day or so....

Crazy shit happened today as I just found another $250,000 in costs and problems with cashflow with these contracts that senior management agreed to.   Need to do a cash flow analysis, sorry if I am late with Chapter 2 of Big Squeeze.   Here's a little reminder of me for you guys:  
W_L

W_L

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Big Bird had two gay dads! I'm serious

The two creators of Big Bird were a gay couple, Christopher Lyall and Kermit Love (Nope he didn't create the frog)   http://www.queerty.com/turns-out-big-bird-is-the-child-of-two-gay-dads-20121011/   I didn't know that, now all those years of adoring the big Yellow Bird's mannerism makes sense, I think
W_L

W_L

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ER

I was going to just do a status update, but it was getting a little long for that, so I decided to do a blog entry instead.   I kinda hate myself for doing this, but I finally went home and left my Mom at the ER with my dad and sister. I didn't want to leave, but my Mom was worried about me being able to drive home safely (I work 10 hours shifts and by the time I get off of work, I am exhausted). So after the fifth or so request for me to go home and get some rest, I went.   I am getting
CassieQ

CassieQ

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Oh, damn, now what?

Well, I guess the time has arrived.   This morning, I worked with an enrollment advisor at a university that thinks I have what it takes to pursue a Bachelor's in English. At least I got the language right. So, at 62 years of age, I'm going back to 1968 when I dropped out of college the first time around.
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Good things coming.

Okay as I promised I am working on things. I finished my Halloween story and I have a beta going over it even as I write this. Huge thank you to KC.   I am revising the end of my Prompt Story. The sucker is over eight pages and still not finished so looks like it will be going outside my usual "The Prompt You Say" stories and getting a heading all of its own. I never do that unless a tale reaches ten pages. I will be shopping it around for a beta soon.   Work continues on my other two main p
comicfan

comicfan

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A Special Thank You to MikeL

Yes, you old Frog, I promised I'd thank you properly.   MikeL helped me out with editing the Introduction of The Big Squeeze, today. He's the best kind of reader a writer can get, some one who is willing to interact with the writer on fixing flaws and improving the story. I wanted to thank him properly as an outside contributor. I know Mike, you can't join my team of Editors and Betas (I pay people in kibbles and bones, not flies ), but I still think you deserve some acknowledgement for being
W_L

W_L

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Welcome to the New W.L and his writing style

First I want to thank my Team:   NotNoNever- Thanks for keeping me anchored to the vernacular and keeping the story simple enough for readers BlueSoxWSJ- Thanks for being my secondary source for finance information as we both come from different viewpoints, it's a thrill to do this together. SidLove- You are a great beta and insightful on ideas. I will need to work with you and Blue on the financial appendix very soon, so readers can track back on meanings Harcallard- Don't worry Harc, you
W_L

W_L

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Signs of Life

Okay I didn't want everyone to think I forgot everything I was working on. I have been writing just so you know.   1) I have the End of the World Anthology story finished.   2) Started work on the Winter Anthology.   3) Wrote what was suppose to be a very short piece for the Anniversary Prompt. Well right now it is about ten pages and still growing so by the time I finish it will either be a long short story, or a short three part tale. Depends on what it is like when I finish and what my
comicfan

comicfan

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You want what?!

When I moved in with my son, I broached the subject of getting a dog or atleast a big cat. Each and everytime I brought up the subject, N was adamant we weren't having a pet in his house. Well, last week he said "we need a dog."   I've been hallucinating so much for the past couple weeks, I couldn't be certain if he said that or not. Afterall I'm the resident cracker box around here; and, having a dog just might get me moving, "Have you walked the dog?"   Not only does he want a dog, he want
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Student Loans- The Bad News and the Good News

The bad news is that my student loans are due on December 18th. The good news is that according to the longer 25-year repayment plan I picked, I don't have to pay any money because of how little money I made in 2011. The plan I'm doing bases how much you have to pay on how much money you made.   I mean, obviously I'm going to still put money in rather than just let the interest run wild, but if I had gone with the standard 10-year plan I'd be looking at 700 dollars a month in payments. The
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Friendships of Value

This is a funny old world in terms of friendships, relationships and how we interact with people. I have found over time that my outlook on life, and how I value my friendships has changed so remarkably in the last few years, maybe as a result of doing a bit of growing up myself.   Traditionally I have always been terrified that allowing myself to 'grow up' or become more mature would make me boring. I guess in my limited view on the world, once you got to thirty or something, you automaticall
Yettie One

Yettie One

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Doctor/Amy/Rory, Finn/Rachel/Brody and Sam/Dean

I am just so sad.   The recent episodes of Glee and Doctor Who are the reason for it. (BTW If you havent seen the episodes and dont want to spoil your own surprise, you should not read this. It will contain a bit of MANY spoilers... maybe)   So, Doctor Who. Season 7. Episode 5. Angels take Manhattan   Amy and Rory are gone And the way they went, it is just so sad. So unfair to them Okay, they arent anything like Rose or Martha or Rose or Donna or ROSE! but they needed an exit that was
SidLove

SidLove

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Today I Had to Tell Georgie George Had Died

Today, I had to tell Georgie George had died. I wonder if he understands what that means. Perhaps to him, it just means the ginger cat won't be here to compete with him anymore. A triumphant story of the undercat, or it seems.   Georgie had overseen the death of two cats. One is my own cat. When Georgie came along, my father shifted the affection toward Georgie and my own cat died slowly out of depression (and he just quietly sit on my lap the day before, and finally accepted my affection
Ashi

Ashi

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