Now you all must be wondering, what are you doing up at 5:15 AM in the morning  

I have succumbed to the hockey bug and I am awake for in a little under an hour, I will be watching Team USA play Team Canada for the Olympic Gold Medal  in Hockey . Interesting thing, I can head to the bar right now and watch the game if I'm so inclined and have some beers with my closest Canadian fans 🍺 Yes, a lot of provinces in Canada allow for bars to open for Olympic Gold Medal Events. Not sure if there was many people in the bar for the 50K Cross Country Ski Race though  

So repeat after me, Go Canada Go!  

Now onto this time of year  I'm sure since the US of A is a month earlier than Canada but are all of you  being flooded with advertisements on taxes. That leads me to the question of the week. Do you do taxes? I know some of the US have no state taxes, but do you still have to file for federal taxes? What about over in the UK, or Germany, Australia, is this tax season too? If you do do taxes, is do do correct English 😮, do you use pen and paper and mail them in, tax software, an accountant, or maybe pay for something like H&R Block, who are usually accountants but are more reasonable than a full fledge bean counter you pay year round. 

Now a bit of a personal question, do you pay or get money back?  You don't have to answer. I usually get back so maybe that is why I have a smile on my face every spring  Now if this conversation makes you , then I know your answer. 

Well enough about hockey and taxes, note I did not say death and taxes. 

Monday, it was a brand new Signature Feature. Never heard of this Author, have you?  

Tuesday was Myr at the plate, he lobed an all new Genre Review, History! I'm sure this will not give you nightmares like in high school. Or maybe it will :

Then on Wednesday, you know who was back once again to follow up with the Signature Feature Excerpt: 

Before we discuss Thursday, we have just over a month to get our Poetry Anthologies in 😮 Oh dear, oh my! Well don't give up hope, Val is here to help out:

Now the other day I saw a drunken Canada Goose flying north to Canada in February in -30 weather, so I thought Aditus had sent Val the prompts and she had wrangled a goose and tied the Prompt onto its leg to drop off to me, so I wouldn't forget to post about it in the Wrap Up. Unfortunately said goose did not drop the prompts off but something else 💩 :

Words of the Day come easily some days and some days they do not. How were they for you this week?

gentle, affinity, friction, defiance, strain, clash, brink

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1 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. TRAVISTY by Mark Arbour

4 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. Deed by Topher Lydon
2. Carter's Campaign by Topher Lydon **Complete**
3. Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W
4. Fantasy Flash Collection by Myr

52 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Young and Hungry for Love by Wombat Bill
2. My Valentine Came With a QR Code by Soren Kraft **Complete**
3. Gabriel's Gambit: Contract Terminated by Jason Rimbaud
4. Jody and the Navy by KKirk
5. Finding Myself by RichardWrites **Complete**
6. Permanently Black and Blue by mastershakeme
7. Wrenhaven by Nuno R.F.C. Rendeiro
8. Raze the Night by dragonthusiast
9. Crown of Fangs by Yeoldebard
10. Sliding into Secrets by Soren Kraft
11. Malicious glee by Kileoli
12. Blackmail by chris191070
13. As They Say - (Revised) by D.K. Daniels
14. turmoil by Paladin
15. Exile to Érenn by Mark Paren
16. Borders and Bribery by Thirdly
17. Somewhere Only We Know by Tony S.
18. At Tempest Island by Grayson Rose
19. The Story of Aaron and Brad by Odie
20. Out Of The Closet by RichardWrites
21. A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian
22. History Lesson by Boy Mercury X **Complete**
23. THROUGH IT ALL by vanalas
24. Love Is Still Blind by Lee Wilson
25. ThunderDust by J92
26. Knight and Squire by Albert1434
27. A Change of Worlds by Josh Aterovis
28. The Curse of Love by Yeoldebard
29. Widderkin Interlude by Palantir **Complete**
30. Frozen Peaks, Burning Heat by Soren Kraft **Complete**
31. The Art of Living by Robert Hugill
32. The Longest Third Date by LJCC
33. Neon by William King
34. Time May Change Me by William King
35. Another Time by Celian
36. Angel Awakened by Painawakened
37. A versatile Count by Thomas Lindblad
38. Other Side of the Tracks by ChromedOutCortex
39. What We Survive by ChromedOutCortex
40. North Meets South, Worlds Collide by R. Eric
41. Family life, but not as we know it by Robert Hugill
42. Welcome to Redwaters by Hardianarcher
43. Bending Eli by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
44. The Discipline of Silence by Kileoli
45. The Seducer: A Gone From Daylight Inspired Story by MrM
46. A Hunt for the Promise of Champagne by Celian
47. Noah's Adventure by AquariusGuy
48. Frosted Hearts by Jason Rimbaud
49. The Acquisition: A Record of Compliance, Pleasure, and Ownership by BrokenBoundariesGayErotica
50. Darren’s New Life by Lee Wilson **Complete**
51. Beyond the Veil by Laura S. Fox
52. U-N-I by unilive

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