What a rollercoaster of a week! 😮 

It was a lot of highs , it was a lot of lows . No, I did not borrow this from Dickens . Yet I, and you hopefully made it through it.

I, like others have noticed the huge switch has been flipped since we hit September here in my neck of the woods. It seems like it was late June and I was talking about the sun being seen close to 10:30 at night. Now, it is like at 6:15 someone turned the lights out and we all went to bed for the fall and winter  Maybe I need to find a job of the same latitude down in the Southern Hemisphere. With remote work, I'm sure someone on Australia would take me in for 6 months of the year. 

I think Australia would work. But, I don't really want to be like 12 hours ahead though, as I would be awake when everyone is asleep down under while I work. Or maybe I got that all mixed up since Melbourne is 14 hours ahead of me, or maybe not. Might have to go somewhere in South America to stay in the same time zone. Oh, maybe that won't work either, I'd need to build a raft somewhere in the middle of the Southern Ocean between Santa Cruz, Argentina and Auckland Islands, New Zealand. Considering there is absolutely no land mass probably within 1000's of kms in any direction, I imagine the internet would be spotty .

Okay. I will just stock up on lightbulbs for a long dark fall and winter!

I remember going and visiting a friend in Dallas and then in Houston, and was surprised how little deviation that was between the sunrise and sunset in the summer and the winter. Then again on the equator, they would be 12 hours of each year round, would they not? I'd probably be too damn hot to notice  

Now I guess my mind is at ease that I'm staying put. Now shall we see what happened last week?

Monday, Cia kicked off a normal week here at GA and brought us the all new CSR story for September:

Tuesday, Myr took us on a voyage to the genre of Poetry:

Thursday, Valkyrie checked in to see if you have got your creature on. You have 1 month to go to get your anthology in;

Friday, she was baaaaaack  She gave us a couple of fall prompts:

We had a Word of the Day. Did you check each one out? Did you learn any new words this week ? Believe it or not, I never knew the difference between compliment and complement 😮!!

odyssey, omission, emission, complement, compliment, atrocious, proponent

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4 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. Learned to Lie by Krista
2. Beyond Salvation by Mark Ponyboy Peters
3. Krista's Prompts by Krista
4. By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens

5 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. The Watchers: Paradox Lost by Topher Lydon
2. Swing for the Fences by LittleBuddhaTW
3. Ottawa Tales by Topher Lydon
4. A Summer in Iowa by Altimexis
5. Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W

47 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Finding Home: Hood & Holy Water, Bk 2 by JJQuinn
2. Ink and Flowers by Celian
3. How the Coronavirus Jump-Started my Sex Life by KKirk
4. Kill the Messenger by mastershakeme
5. Misaligned by Laura S. Fox
6. The Librarian and the Assassin, a Sapphic Romance at the End of the World by Adam Andrews Johnson
7. Down In The Holler by CasualWanderer82
8. In My Mind by ChromedOutCortex
9. Flame and Frost by lomax61
10. The Golosina, the Forgotten Land and the Skurkene by J92
11. Traded Goods by Yeoldebard
12. What the Ship Remembers by andy cannon
13. Reverent: Six by Tony S.
14. The Legend of Fred Krueger by Twisted_Dreemz
15. Soccer Rivals by Golden Ghost Pen
16. The Storm Wolf: Gathering Clouds by RedMoon
17. Serenity by Albert1434
18. The Clinton Boys Head South by Lee Wilson
19. In the Angel's Keeping by Josh Aterovis
20. Not just another Summer by Robert Hugill
21. Love is... 3 (Arthur and Max) by Tony S.
22. Another Time by Celian
23. Do You Ship Us? by Littlelovestories
24. The Inch Between Them by D.K. Daniels **Complete**
25. Liar vs. Liar by Laura S. Fox **Complete**
26. BigPaws by Jack Poignet
27. Confessions of a Gay Supervillain by Jason D. Karl
28. Surrounded by the Darkness by Lupus
29. Ash's Marriage Trigger by Thirdly **Complete**
30. Bob and the Biker by Jack Poignet **Complete**
31. Peter's Story by Connectwriter
32. Northern Lights by Golden Ghost Pen
33. Family life, but not as we know it by Robert Hugill
34. Randy for Submission, Pursuing the One by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
35. A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian
36. Sapphire in the Stars by JujuTheDruid
37. Tate and The 1st Year Wizard Problem by Kyler Stone
38. Angel Awakened by Painawakened
39. A Letter Surprises by Paladin **Complete**
40. The Purple Phoenix by GENERAL PIGNOUF
41. Good Times by Albert1434
42. LEGALLY BOUND by vanalas
43. The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X
44. Yours to Bully by Littlelovestories
45. Superman and Lex In: Unexpected Discoveries by Ticklishboy30 **Complete**
46. Wolf in the City by Laura S. Fox
47. Stupid in Love by Inkognito **Complete**

1 Recently Updated 'Poet' Stories

1. Poems by Jellico by Jellico

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