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So, they are essentially only throwing one party after another at this point. Oh my … 😬 But at least, now they finally learned another term for "making love" … Is that a nod to bragging about the cars in the first chapters? The qualifier makes it pretty flexible, mind you 😉 👍 Pretty conservative. Life is not all about kids. Not about the "perfect" two children family. And you don't need to have an excuse (being career-focussed) to not want kids. And there doesn't have to be the qualifier "yet". Well, it's not like it was kinda prophesized in the comments of earlier chapters that Carlo's methods and decisions are sometimes a little questionable, so it's only logical that something happened. As I said in your other story: Very American that the only thing, one can think of, is a car 😜

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I was 12 and in the 7th grade. It was maybe a quarter to 11 am (pacific time) when a student from the office brought a note to our Social Studies teacher, who turned on the TV. I was busy reading our assignment when kids around me began crying (especially the girls) and making enough noise that I looked up to see what was going on. I can readily understand how Phillip feels that people today don't know about Nov. 22nd but don't even remember Sept. 11th. It looks like Colin and Jason might be getting closer. That's a good thing. Phillip needs something good to happen in his life.

Thank you for an excellent story. We are used to stories where the protagonist (In this case Carlo) is really smart and while nobody 's perfect you would think they would learn from mistakes it's disappointing that Carlo apparently didn't unless it was something totally different and unrelated to what happened with Duncan. Could somebody with incidents like Carlo had get work like he did? I'm glad you mentioned what year this story started I was going to mention "A Laurel and Hardy Story 100 years old? I have to admit prompt #68 sounds very interesting looking forward to it Oh BTW I didn't skip to the end

If your looking for a poem that will leave you feeling a bit nostalgic, this is the one. It won't take you long to read and you'll find it well worth the effort.

Emmett comes from a witch coven, but he is not a witch himself. It will stay a mystery for a while longer Thank you!

Brilliant! I believe you took us all on a trip looking back at our past. I loved your descriptions as you went through the various seasons and the images you evoked were ones that many of us could identify with. It left me feel a bit nostalgic after I finished reading your poem. Thank you for sharing this wonderful verse

God yes so many annoying people suddenly less in the world! Thank you!

"Seems" may be an apt description based on Oscar's trepidation at Koen's offer to join his trip home to Canada for a Christmas vacation. Lucky for Oscar, there isn't sufficient time to get a passport. Oh wait @quokka, there is. While the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) normally takes 6 weeks to get a new passport, if you are travelling on short notice you can, according to their website, use the: "Urgent applications Priority processing. If you need your passport urgently, you may be eligible to pay the priority processing fee for faster service. We’ll process priority applications in two business days from when we receive your application". Oscar and Gramps could pick up his new passport on 3rd business day at office in major nearby city, like Perth. And Quantas flies non-stop Perth to Vancouver round trip for $3600. But it is a 23-hour flight and that might be too much for Oscar to handle. 😒 IF he changes his mind and really wants to go and give 'snow' in BC a try? Normally he would need his parents to sign passport application approval, but as previously stated, they gave his grandparents 'Guardianship authority'. So ? https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZaVKLgtVmuq2CCs/?mibextid=0VwfS7

We could settle for "he's a rare type" Thank you!

Gary, "Breathless" is beautiful and erotic. It draws you in and fills your mind with countless images. "Mendacity" is powerful, and even scary, because it honestly expresses the 'sign of the times' . Its what many of us have to deal with on a daily basis. Thank you for sharing these two vastly different poems.

An interesting look at the 'four seasons', Adi, and each one brought vivid images to my mind as I was reading them. Your title, "Changes" reminded me of the song "Changes" by David Bowie and the catchy lyric - ch-ch-ch-ch- changes. I'm still humming that tune. Wonderful job!

A wonderful collection of poems, Tim. I really enjoyed them, especially your final poem. Thank you for sharing.

Another Wonderful Chapter ,Oscar and His Grandparents have built a Really Cool Compound for Possibly Oscar’s Adult Life .One of His Friends Invited Him to British Columbia for Christmas Holiday too . His Grandparents Might Be Able to Work a Miracle in Getting a New Passport for Him ,Or Invite All His Friends to The New Coastal Property 🌝

A beautiful collection of poems about the apple, although you went a little afield with "An apple Eve knew not" and "The apple of my eye is passing fair", but I loved each and every one of them. In fact, "Where the flagstones end" made my stomach growl, so now I have to go and get a snack - I believe I still have some Fuji apples left.

I wanted to comment not so much on the story, but the writing. Thinking about your writing style which, at least for this story, has a label. It immediately struck me, this is soft writing. I should explain the label, not really for a seasoned author like yourself, but for the benefit of others. I can't take up the space to explain the detail, so here is an extract from and link to an explanation of soft writing. With a soft opening, you’re beginning your story in the day-to-day for your character, the average experience. We’re familiar with the archetypes of plot, of which the most basic is “character exists, something happens to change up the ordinary.” A soft opening isn’t a departure from this, but rather the where we move the focus. With a soft opening, we’re going to start with an increased amount of attention on the “character exists” part of that story, setting up our player(s) and what their daily existence is like before we jump into the “change.” http://https://maxonwriting.com/2015/09/25/being-a-better-writer-hard-and-soft-openings/ It seems to me you do this perfectly and that makes for an engrossing and captivating story which draws in the reader. There is drama, but it's subdued, there is action, which is a slow build, this is not a story that starts with the hard opening of some dramatic incident, rather it is the gentle revelations peeled back to show a life that's been lived. It's got sub plots a plenty and is really well crafted.

Thank you for sharing such a great story! Looking forward to the contuation!

After a brief pause, we pick up where we left off. Attack!

It looks like a cross between a shaggy cat and a rabbit.

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He's too naughty, he should learn to be as nice as me!

Well damn..i know he was an assassin but can he catch a break lol .... and brutal but I can imagine it worse; if uve ever seen the medieval torture chambers in Europe ud agree...