Happy Memorial Day Weekend to my 'merican neighbours  

I did not realize that every US flag in the US no matter on state or federal property is to fly at half mast on Memorial Day for fallen and current and retired soldiers! If you did not know, now you do  

Let me know if I'm missing any other countries that might be taking off from work on Monday  

I worked 25 years in retail, I did my share , I always thought it was unfair that holidays really didn't mean anything to owners who wanted to make money 365 days a year. Then again, I guess if nobody was to go shopping, the money people wouldn't open if they were paying for staff to work but no money being spent. I think everyone most have a story of working a job in retail or possibly food service that had you working holidays. Unless you were a Maximillian Theodore Winchester III, then maybe not 💸

So a double question, did you work either a retail job, or restaurant job in your youth, or heck, even now ? That would be cool if you have made a life out of it. I'd still probably be in retail if I didn't have my accident  So the second part of the question, tell us the best and worst part of the job that you can remember.

I had a job in HS that was at a gourmet ice cream shoppe 🍦It was mainly people coming in for hard ice cream cones and such, but we offered sit down as well where you could get things like Banana Splits, Sundaes, Ice Cream Earthquakes, which was like 12 different scoops of ice cream and toppings. Also had a small grill too. The great thing was people being people, would come in and order something like the earthquake and you would write down what kind of flavours they wanted, then we'd make it and ring it up and they would be we are not paying $24 for ice cream and walk out.  Well someone had to eat the ice cream, so it would fall to us. The worse part is we had one assistant manager that would call meetings once a month and tell us that cash was missing on this night, this night, or that night and if you were working, everyone who worked that shift would have it taken off their paycheques 😮 Learned that is illegal but I was more pissed that 6 months after I quit because of this she got fired for stealing cash from the store  

So what about you. Do you have a similar good and bad of a retail job or food service job?

Shall we now move onto the what they are paying me the big bucks for , the Weekly Wrap Up!

Monday, we got an all new Signature Feature. I downloaded the funky banner that Cia does up  :

Tuesday, Myr was digging deep into a different genre this week. If you haven't read stories of this one, why not give it a try:

Wednesday, Cia was back again on Wednesday with the Signature Feature Excerpt. See if this peaks your interest: 

Friday, Val was a bit late to the show, but she still made a splendid appearance with the Prompts:

Myr, Myr, Myr, quite contrary, what Words of the Day did you grow?

rivalry, dominant, submission, strategy, power, clandestine, revelation

Wow! Lots of completed stories this week. If you are one to only start completed ones, you have quite the collection below!

Here is the look at the past week's postings on all our Authors and Poets!

1 Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories

1. The Double Hex by Topher Lydon

7 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. The Construct by Topher Lydon
2. The Holy Lance of Antioch by Topher Lydon
3. TRAVISTY by Mark Arbour
4. The Double Hex by Topher Lydon
5. Traditions by Mark Ponyboy Peters **Complete**
6. Hazardous by CassieQ
7. By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens

1 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories

1. Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W

2 Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories

1. Oklahoma's Son by Wayne Gray
2. Blades of Ashes by lilansui

44 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. Bring the Dawn by dragonthusiast
2. Alpha Awakened by Painawakened
3. A Tickling In The Wild West by Ticklishboy30
4. The Vulnerability Protocol by chris191070
5. Seaside Entries by ObicanDecko **Complete**
6. A Wolf's Skin by Boy Mercury X **Complete**
7. Revelations 2026 by mastershakeme
8. A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian **Complete**
9. Futile Devices by CasualWanderer82
10. The Best Man At My Brother's Wedding by StoriesByTroy
11. The Quantum Capybara and the Quarterly Report by chris191070 **Complete**
12. Hollywood and Vine by Albert1434
13. The Curse of Love by Yeoldebard
14. A versatile Count by Thomas Lindblad
15. Alex & Neil: Moving On by Robert Hugill
16. Monstrum by Laura S. Fox
17. THROUGH IT ALL by vanalas
18. Role of a Lifetime by KKirk
19. Everything Meant Nothing by StoriesByTroy
20. The Mirror of Dreams by Lupus
21. The Quiet Between Them by andy cannon **Complete**
22. Noah's Adventure by AquariusGuy **Complete**
23. Boy Meets Boys by Grayson Rose
24. When the stones breathe by Kileoli **Complete**
25. My Straight Best Friend Asked Me to Be His Boyfriend by StoriesByTroy
26. Gilded Things by Nuno R.F.C.R
27. Blades of Ashes by lilansui
28. The Cwtch. by E K Stokes
29. At Tempest Island by Grayson Rose
30. Frat Games: The House Plaything by StoriesByTroy
31. A salty drop of Magic by Celian
32. Holiday Drama by quokka
33. Kismet by E K Stokes
34. The Burden of Ash and Blood by Mike Carss **Complete**
35. turmoil by Paladin
36. Exile to Érenn by Mark Paren **Complete**
37. CRUISING by Wombat Bill **Complete**
38. Beyond the Veil by Laura S. Fox
39. Aethan's Reign by ValentineDavis21
40. My Best Friend’s Brother Dylan Was Supposed to Be Straight by StoriesByTroy **Complete**
41. First Encounter by E K Stokes
42. Indian Summer by Boy Mercury X **Complete**
43. The Son Who Stayed by ChromedOutCortex **Complete**
44. Morning Wood & Workwear by Soren Kraft **Complete**

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