Greetings my little chickadees.  

Let's get everyone to shout out a chickadee call. Chick a dee dee dee  

No, sadly I'm not drunk. Just a name I occasionally call people. Why, i don't know  How about yourself, what is a name you call a group of friends that you know? Mates, pals, gals, ladies, men, boys. girls. Please don't light up the Moderation Teams PM and Alert system by using that British term for a finch, as it is not allowed on GA. Why you ask. There are certain words that Google Adsense bots search for. Also some pictures too. If we get too many warnings, they cut us off from that revenue stream. So please don't say that word. Or, even if you call your friends other sexual names, maybe don't say that either. I have one gay friend that calls everyone gurl, and no, he is just a normal guy, not into any other letters of the rainbow. 

I know some people are in my mind hypersensitive of referring to men as boys, but in sports culture, I think everyone is one of the boys. Boys, men, boys to men they all are males  

So what did you all think about the blogs on Monday and Tuesday?  Usually one of us log in and unfeature the previous days blog when we wake up. Monday, was my error, as I didn't realize Cia was going to have a Secret Author Post  So I wanted to do this months Review for the Review Team, so I sat down and read a story that I loved when I heard @chris191070 was going down under, so I wanted him to read it in his downtime and go find the characters in the fictional towns in Australia . So I was up to like 12:30 AM on Monday AM reading up to the end, then did a blog on it and posted at 2 AM, then went to bed for a nap and went to work. Turns out Cia had a blog loaded up to go Monday AM too. So you had 2 blogs on Monday. Then we added more fun, on Tuesday, Myr's blog I guess came up and none of us 3 noticed so everyone had 3 featured blogs  I see all 3 got love, so that is a good thing  

I think that about covers the wrap up, so I'll just say good morning, night, afternoon, or wherever you are 👋 

No? Not enough? Okay here is the weekly update:

Monday as mentioned we had 2 competing blogs. Make sure you check out both of them:

Then Myr popped in on Tuesday and added yet another :

Yet, that wasn't enough for the week, Cia was back with another Secret Author Contest entry:

One thing that was not posted repeatedly on multiple days were the individual Words of the Day:

redemption, closeness, stability, reconciliation, determined, poise, assurance

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1 Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories

1. The Double Hex by Topher Lydon **Complete**

10 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories

1. Take the Long Road Home by kbois
2. Enthralled by Topher Lydon
3. Carter's Asset by Topher Lydon
4. The Double Hex by Topher Lydon **Complete**
5. TRAVISTY by Mark Arbour
6. Hastings Tale by Topher Lydon **Complete**
7. Out of the Blue by Mark Ponyboy Peters
8. Treacherous by CassieQ
9. Roping the Moon by Headstall
10. Cory's lie by Topher Lydon **Complete**

1 Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories

1. Blades of Ashes by lilansui

41 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories

1. In the Barb by Vcs
2. Aethan's Reign - Exile by ValentineDavis21
3. Self-Portraits by Richie Tennyson
4. The Tor by andy cannon
5. Safe Distance by Tony S.
6. Fault Lines by sumtimesIwrite
7. How We Became Ourselves by Kevin Snell
8. GFD 13: Fallen Angels by MrM
9. From Maine To The Pentagon by Lee Wilson
10. 1st Love: Past by Grayson Rose
11. Designed for You by mastershakeme
12. Six Months of Silence by Lupus **Complete**
13. All In Or In The Way by Thightide45
14. The Wayward Brothers by CasualWanderer82
15. Parents Weekend by Boy Mercury X
16. IceBerg by J92
17. Blades of Ashes by lilansui
18. My Straight Best Friend Asked Me to Be His Boyfriend by StoriesByTroy
19. House of the Moon by Albert1434
20. Heart of Teutonburg by Mark Paren
21. The Curse of Love by Yeoldebard
22. Alex & Neil: Moving On by Robert Hugill
23. Unraveled by jkwsquirrel
24. Shooting Stars by Littlelovestories
25. Beefy, Chalked Up and Taken Hard by Soren Kraft
26. Monstrum by Laura S. Fox
27. The Mirror of Dreams by Lupus
28. At Tempest Island by Grayson Rose
29. Time Stood Still by Jason Rimbaud
30. turmoil by Paladin
31. Ly's Pandora's box by Kileoli
32. Between the Two by Grayson Rose
33. Beyond suspicion by Thomas Lindblad
34. Alpha Awakened by Painawakened
35. Seducing The Cambion by BendtedWreath
36. Begin Again by Kevin Snell
37. Never walk alone- Walk on by Andre Delport
38. The Field of Love by Enoch
39. The World Out There by Drew Payne
40. Beyond the Veil by Laura S. Fox
41. THROUGH IT ALL by vanalas

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