Well Happy Easter if you celebrate

Well Happy Passover if you celebrate  

Well Happy Long Weekend for everyone else  Unless you don't get a long weekend and then in that case  

I was looking at the calendar and noticed that April is just 2/3rds gone  I really haven't seen too much spring signs other than the snow gone. We are dry, really dry and grass fires seem to pop up here and there. We have precipitation in the forecast but it really isn't enough . Long hot summer coming, but how can you look forward to that when you can't probably breath due to forest fire smoke!

Okay Steve, move onto the positive  For those that do celebrate Easter, in not necessarily the religious realm, but maybe more the commercial one, how was your childhood? Did you wake up for an Easter Egg hunt? I did, but the deal was my sisters got the chocolate eggs, which I had to leave if I found, and I got the hard boiled coloured eggs . My sisters seemed more than willing to leave those for me . Growing up as a diabetic, I did have different rules. I guess the good news is today, I imagine that with the medications and delivery methods you can now search for the chocolate ones too  But what about you? This is a late Easter this year. In my neck of the woods it is usually wet or snowing so hunts were done indoor at home. I hear about outdoor easter egg hunts but around here they are only usually at the dog parks . They'll eat anything  

We should just move along into the Weekly Wrap Up at this point of time. There was way too many emoticons in that last run on paragraph .

Monday, Parker Owens from the Review Team presented a pretty in depth and interesting story review:

Tuesday was Myr's look into the Horror genre :

 Thursday was another exciting day as we got to see the second round of Poets and their works for the Poetry Anthology:

Whew. Just saying I'm exhausted with wrapping up this weeks GA News Blogs  

Someone who should be tired, but isn't, is Myr who gave us a whole new bunch of Words fo the Day:

laconic, grovel, acerbic, expedient, potpourri, chutzpah, nomadic, 

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4 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. The Freshmen by Mark Arbour
2. Diversity Studies by Parker Owens **Complete** **Anthology Entry**
3. Esprit de Corps by Valkyrie **Complete** **Anthology Entry**
4. Abhean's Verses by Parker Owens

3 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. Closing the Barn Door by Ronyx **Complete**
2. Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W
3. Roots To Branches by Dabeagle **Complete**

1 Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories

1. A Thousand Years of Hope by lilansui **Complete**

38 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Fates Mates & Pirates by P. E. Knapp
2. Poems and Moments by Juanmdez
3. Hard Pill to Swallow by LostSole **Complete**
4. The Last Boys in Clinton by Lee Wilson
5. The Kings Boy - A Medieval Novel by E K Stokes
6. The Fifty-Three Year Old Virgin by Tallguyct
7. The Shadows of the Night by Leo Lacaz
8. Traded Goods by Yeoldebard
9. Dust in the Basement by Celian
10. Hercules vs Antaeus by Catgenie **Complete**
11. David C. McLavic by CLJobe
12. The Three Musketeers by RedMoon
13. Where Love Lies: Book 2 by vanalas
14. Reap the Whirlwind by Josh Aterovis
15. Shadows of the Moon by Albert1434
16. Not just another Summer by Robert Hugill
17. Blood Money by Yeoldebard
18. Arcum Nights by mastershakeme
19. Years Gone Bye by LostSole **Complete**
20. Liar vs. Liar by Laura S. Fox
21. A Good Place by Mark Ponyboy Peters
22. A Thousand Years of Hope by lilansui **Complete**
23. Tyler's Dilemma by Jason Rimbaud
24. Between Cutlass and Desire by Rafy **Complete**
25. BigPaws by Jack Poignet
26. Sigma Squad: The Railroad by RedMoon **Complete**
27. The Blue Moon by Lupus
28. The Spider and the Flea by Lee Wilson **Complete** **Anthology Entry**
29. Finding Self - a poem in terza rima by Tim Hobson **Complete** **Anthology Entry**
30. A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian
31. Brian & Gordon: Living in threes by Robert Hugill
32. Futile Devices by CasualWanderer82
33. House Of Exiles by GENERAL PIGNOUF
34. The Silver Tongued Scoundrel by ThePhallocrat
35. Traditions by Mark Ponyboy Peters
36. Novel Experience by LostSole **Complete**
37. How the Coronavirus Jump-Started my Sex Life by KKirk
38. Wolf in the City by Laura S. Fox

2 Recently Updated 'Poet' Stories

1. Thoughts about life… by JACC
2. Various Verse by CountDickula **Complete**

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