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Hello Lisa, Due to EU and some states online regulations, Mature content does require members to sign in to read. You just need to sign in once in the same browser window and not log out if you wish to continue to visit other areas of the site or multiple stories. At log in, you can also check the box to save your log in info if you are using a personal device and it is safe for you to do so. Are you using an Incognito browser or have your browser settings set to log you out if you navigate away from websites? Otherwise you should not be having this issue as GA does not require members to sign in multiple times unless you choose to do so. I hope that helps!

I do often use the phrases "Walking feet!" and "How do you think that made so and so feel when you did ....?" LOL

I hadn't quite left yet since I had laundry to fold (why can't the sock eating monster just fold the rest of the clothes in payment??!) I think I did the thing that lets everyone read the stories through the links @Valkyrie added here on the blog. I checked via a browser I'm not logged in (as a site guest) and I was able to access Aditus' story chapter text. Myr might need to make more things visible/accessible later, but hopefully that's a good start for everyone. Happy reading!

Maybe it was my way of catfishing readers to the CSR blog this month, LOL!!

Hi all! How many of you have taken the time (or have been on GA long enough) to have enjoyed some of the earliest anthologies? As readers and authors gear up to enjoy all the amazing entries to this year's event, I thought I'd feature a few of the past Hallow-spooky themed events to both fit the season and get you ready for these themed reads! https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/10-2006-fall-halloween/ https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/20-2008-winter-ghosts/ https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/28-2010-winter-haunted/ https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/134-2019-fall-fall-from-grace/ https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/63-2013-poetry-anthology-whispers-in-the-dark/ Enjoy and don't forget to comment!!

Did September last eleventy-millionth days for you as well this year? I swear, it just gets longer and longer. Hopefully that just means you got a ton of great reading time in, though you shouldn't have needed too long for this gem. Also, Altimexis shared an image they had on another site for Cliff's Pendant, so I wanted to add that here for you along with the Author interview. Enjoy and don't forget to share your comments below! Are you a person who makes their bed in the morning, or do you not see much point? Growing up, my room was messy, but there were two things my mom wouldn’t tolerate. Firstly, clothes were never to be left out — if they were dirty, they needed to be dropped in the hamper and if they were clean, they needed to be hung up in the closet. Secondly, I was never to leave my room without my bed being made. It wasn’t that she was strict, but she was firm about keeping my room clean, if not neat. To this day, the first thing I do when I get up is to make the bed. If you were an animal, what would you be? Technically, we are animals. That said, my avatar at AwesomeDude is a crow I photographed while hiking in Bryce Canyon. My avatar for Zoom is a pair of doves I photographed on our terrace in New York. Whether it’s a conscious choice or not, apparently I’d be a bird. What’s one location you’d love to go to research for a story? If there are no limits, I’d say Mars, with the Moon being a close second. If I’m limited only to places on Earth, it would probably be Cape Town. I’ve traveled extensively and been all over North America, including 49 of the 50 states. I’ve been to Cuba, Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, China and Australia. I’ve been all over Europe, both east and west, before and after the fall of communism. I’ve been to Russia and to Turkey. I’ve yet to get to Portugal or Spain, which are high on my list. Likewise for New Zealand. I’ve yet to get to Southeast Asia, a place I’d very much like to visit. I had planned a trip to Antartica, but was hospitalized the week before we were to go and never made it back. The most glaring omission, however, is the entire African continent. I’ve heard the Cape Town is exceptionally beautiful and of the places I haven’t been, it’s probably the best setting for a story. What’s something personal about you people might be surprised to know? Although I consider myself a rather private person, I’ve not been shy about my background. My early history is covered in the Introduction to Naptown Tales, and other aspects of my personal history, my religious and political philosophy and my professional life have made it into my stories in one way or another. Perhaps the most surprising things for a prolific writer of gay-fiction is that I’ve never been in a gay relationship. Growing up as a teen in the Midwest, I thought that homosexuality was a mental illness. I did my best to ignore my feelings. Once when I was twelve, I convinced my best friend to get naked with me, but that was as far as it went. Finally, at the age of 29 while doing a residency at Stanford in the San Francisco Bay Area, I acknowledged I was much more attracted to guys, but I went to see a psychologist who told me it wasn’t a good time to be gay! That was in the Bay Area, of all places. In his defense, we still didn’t know the cause of AIDS yet. However, he also said something of much more significance – that I shouldn’t worry about my sexuality. The main thing was to meet people. Less than a week later, I met a woman who blew me away. Forty years later, she’s still my wife. Do you have any writing rituals? The only rule is that I never post a story until the first draft is complete. Nothing frustrates me more than a story that’s left unfinished, or one with obvious inconsistencies. My stories are character-based and I like to develop my characters over time, which is why I favor story series. Some of my series have lasted years, during which my characters may grow from early adolescence to young adulthood. When I write a new story, I start with a premise and a character or set of characters. I usually have an idea of how I want the story to end and what sort of things will happen along the way, but I don’t work from an outline. I give my characters defined personalities and the stories pretty much write themselves. That said, I love to leave clues of what is to come, and nothing is more fun than using deception or distraction to keep the reader off base. Because I get frequent migraines that can last for weeks, I don’t like to write on a deadline. Indeed, the migraines forced me to retire early, leaving more time for writing. I write when the urge strikes me, which may be at home or when out and about – even while riding the bus. I’ve written entire stories on my iPhone. How many stories have you written? Do you have a favorite and why/why not? That depends on how you count my stories. My series may include stand-alone short stories, multi-part novellas and full novels. I’ve been writing for about twenty years and have written dozens of short stories. I’ve written four full-length novels: Love in a Chair, which was my first story and an embarrassment, Legacy, which is a Naptown Tales sequel, Conversations With Myself, which is a sci-fi thriller, and Brilliant Boy Billionaire, which is nearly a half-million words in length. My favorite story is Conversations With Myself, even though it didn’t seem to get much traction with readers. The premise was of a government scientist who develops the technology to communicate with himself in the past, but through his dreams. However, meddling with time is serious business and to avoid it falling into the wrong hands, he does much of his work in secret. Then he makes a critical error. As a test, he contacts his past self on the night before September 11, 2001. It was only supposed to be a proof of concept, but his past self acted on the information, preventing the 9/11 terrorist attack. Things spiral out of control as he goes farther back into the past to try to fix the problems he creates. It was the most challenging story I’ve written because there were seven periods in the main character’s life that were involved and each time he made contact with a past self, it affected events in all timelines after that. Presidents changed. History changed. It was lot to keep track of. I ended up creating a graphic to keep track of the seven timelines as they progressed simultaneously. Of course there are aspects I would do differently if writing it today, but I’m particularly proud of how well-it turnout in the end, in spite of a two-year hiatus in writing it. When writing Cliff’s Pendant, did the idea for the character or the plot element of the pendant come to you first? Because the theme of the anthology was the gift, it was the pendant that came to me first. A lot of the characters in my New York Stories series are Jewish and so I imagined a Star of David, inscribed with the Hebrew word for ‘life’, with a rainbow background of iridescent glass. My next door neighbor’s kid, who’s currently a student at the University of Michigan, attended Brooklyn Tech High School at the time, so I conceived of a kid of similar age and wrote the story about Zach. To make the gift unique, I came up with the story of Cliff. Is there a particular line or scene in the story that you love the most? That’s easy – the scene in front of the Stonewall National Monument. Zach’s father hadn’t given him the gift yet, but the way his parents let him know how they felt still brings me to teas. Coming out stories can be very popular on GA. This is a very personal event that can go very different ways. Do you want to share your choices on the plot development for Cliff’s Pendant for that? I think the main reason Zach was still in the closet was because his parents, both emergency medicine physicians working staggered shifts, just weren’t around. I think the real coming out story was that of the father’s best friend, Cliff. After all, it’s Cliff’s name in the title. Cliff grew up in a much more restrictive environment, in Indianapolis in the 80s, and he led a double life. Zach’s dad didn’t even know his best friend was gay until he developed AIDS. However, out of the tragic story of Cliff came the pendant – a beautiful symbol of love between friends – which became a symbol of love and acceptance between a father and his gay son. Then when Zach made a duplicate, it became a symbol of shared love with his boyfriend. Can you share anything about your current or upcoming works with readers? My current story, A Summer in Iowa, is in progress right now. It’s a prequel to one of my New York Stories, and it’s partially autobiographical, based on when I was sixteen and spent the summer at the University of Iowa. The characters from Cliff’s Pendant have appeared in two subsequent New York Stories, most recently in October Fire, which is about the Hamas attack on Israel of October 7, 2023. I’ve been planning a sequel ever since, but then the world went off the rails. For a while, I wasn’t sure where to begin. My next story doesn’t have a final title yet. The working title is Fallout. I’ve written two chapters so far and there will probably be a dozen or so. Rather than focus only on the aftermath of 10/7, I’m going to try to tie up most of the loose thread in the New York Story series. Whereas October Fire involved multiple primary characters and was written in third person. Fallout is told in first person by Zach’s kid brother, Jake, who’s now sixteen years old, and he’s straight. Jake is a budding journalist who’s given the chance to take a summer trip in the American West with a group of his friends, most of them older, established characters from the NY Stories series. A number the kids are victims of 10/7 and two of them are in wheelchairs. Jake will go, hoping to write a story about the survivors of 10/7, but he’ll come away with much, much more. He’ll experience personal loss and the triumph of the human spirit.

Life is crazy, which is why I need new lined sticky notes after only being back working in school for 1 month!! We all get it, and no one should feel guilty if they just don't reach a goal. I basically put writing on the back burner 2 years ago, which makes me sad, but at least we are all still here on GA! This community is about writing and reading great gay fiction, but also just showing up for each other in our little niche. I love the connections everyone here shows all the time, but especially around our big events!

While Wildone is still off being his wild self... I'm bringing you the blog. I am SO not wild! My day consisted of cleaning, laundry, running errands with my daughter to Daiso for lined sticky notes (my FAV for work) a stop at the local health food store and Kroger (titled Fred Meyers) to top off my grocery shopping. I did find some delectable looking peaches... so make of that what you will! Hopefully you all are making the most of the weekend! What are your wild and crazy plans? Are you polishing up your anthology story if you haven't submitted it yet? 3 Days LEFT!! to submit to the proof team for the 2025 GA ANTHOLOGY before the Deadline: October1st. Myr's Deep Dive this week can keep you on the edge of your seat: Here's Valkyrie's Anthology reminder if you need it! You're invited to get "technical, technical" in this week's prompt blog: Myr brings us new knowledge or a wordy refresh with his words of the day: brontide cacoethes choler dolor ennui frisson nostomania Upcoming Writing Events 2025 Yearly Anthology - Creature Feature - Due Oct 1, 2025 - All the information you need is here. 2025 Prompt Team Event - More information to come! Member Participation Blogs - Great way to promote yourself!! Ask an Author 3.0 If you have a author you want to get some answers from, write a PM to @astone2292 Author Guess Who Get our members to guess who you are and also let everyone know who you are. Also write a PM to @astone2292 Here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! 3 Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories The Freshmen by Mark Arbour In Process Learned to Lie by Krista In Process Kandanga Falls by Mark Ponyboy Peters In Process 7 Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories Carter's Order by Topher Lydon In Process Swing for the Fences by LittleBuddhaTW In Process Capt vs Goofball by Topher Lydon In Process A Summer in Iowa by Altimexis In Process Secrets 3: The Road to the Future by Bill W In Process The Watchers: Paradox Lost by Topher Lydon Complete Ottawa Tales by Topher Lydon Complete 37 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Confessions of a Gay Supervillain by Jason D. Karl In Process What the Ship Remembers by andy cannon In Process Misaligned by Laura S. Fox In Process LEGALLY BOUND by vanalas In Process In My Mind by ChromedOutCortex In Process Love on Campus by chris191070 Complete Rókus by E K Stokes In Process Traded Goods by Yeoldebard In Process The Librarian and the Assassin, a Sapphic Romance at the End of the World by Adam Andrews Johnson In Process Another Time by Celian In Process Welcome to Redwaters by Hardianarcher In Process Peter's Story by Connectwriter In Process The Storm Wolf: Gathering Clouds by RedMoon In Process The Field of Love by Enoch In Process Essence of Life by W_L In Process Reverent: Six by Tony S. In Process Serenity by Albert1434 In Process A Grave So Haunting by solemnity In Process Family life, but not as we know it by Robert Hugill In Process Jude by E K Stokes In Process How the Coronavirus Jump-Started my Sex Life by KKirk In Process The Truth of Yesterday by Josh Aterovis In Process The Golosina, the Forgotten Land and the Skurkene by J92 Complete Kill the Messenger by mastershakeme In Process Surrounded by the Darkness by Lupus In Process Bell(e)s in the Woods by Celian In Process The World Out There by Drew Payne Temporary Hold Angel Awakened by Painawakened In Process Down In The Holler by CasualWanderer82 In Process Not just another Summer by Robert Hugill In Process A Jewel in the Dirt by Celian In Process The Seducer: A Gone From Daylight Inspired Story by MrM In Process Chess Friends by Thomas Lindblad In Process Northern Lights by Golden Ghost Pen In Process Spring And A Ring by Griz Complete Ark II: Life on Gaea by R. Eric Temporary Hold Beyond the Veil by Laura S. Fox In Process 1 Recently Updated 'Poet' Stories Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B Temporary Hold Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

Now, I could almost feature this whole story, that's how short it is. But hey, that just means you have no excuse about reading it!! Want to read more? Click here

How about some another feature of an older story by a popular site author for our readers who might have missed it? Rated "G" for a feel-good story by the author himself (and I agree!) you can't miss this story that's just *ahem* a little Bonkers! Length: 1,263 Description: Two fearful boys meet an outstanding dog. Dedicated to all the dogs out there who are sometimes smarter than their boys. A Reader said: This snapshot of life creates a feel-good moment as you see a young boy overcome a great fear. Thanks, James. ~ raven1 If you want to spread the word about James' story, download the graphic below and add it to your signature! Make sure you come back on Wednesday to see the excerpt I chose to share!

In light of the time of year, the start of the school year for so many from preschool to college, and the nearing deadline of the coming anthology, I wanted to feature a past anthology with a school tag. I plugged in those filters (have you tried that system?!) and viola! This month readers get to enjoy Cliff's Pendant, a short story written by Altimexis for the 2021 Fall Anthology themed "An Unconventional Gift". And if, like me, you're going crazy with your IRL schedule, this is a snack-sized submission! If you like it, though, it's part of another series you can submerse yourself in! Just another gift to you. Remember to come back to share your thoughts on the Discussion day! Cliff's Pendant by @Altimexis Length: 7,527 Description: Zach thought he was fooling everyone and was only out to Jake, his kid brother. Then on his 15th birthday, his dad gave him a rainbow pendant inscribed with the Hebrew word ‘Chai’, which means ‘Life’. His dad had had it made to give to his best friend, Cliff, who had AIDS, but never got the chance. Zach promised to wear it with pride, but hid it under his shirt, forgetting he had to undress for gym, a class he shared with Tanner, his secret crush. A Reader said: A brilliant and worth-while read from this year's Anthology. The amount of detail sucked me in and wouldn't let go. Filled with the character's intelligence and awkwardness, this short story put a smile on my face. Very well done! ~astone2292 Come back on the last Monday of the month, September 29th, to check out the Discussion day and share your thoughts!

It depends on how graphic the language gets. If you are using words that describe body parts, acts, how that might feel, etc.... Google will ping those as graphic content. It would then be better to rate the story as Mature, for language only, which you could put in a story note if you're worried about the rating putting people off. Thanks for checking!

What Myr is referring to is that our Stories Archive automatically creates a copyright notice for content posted to the archive. Therefore if you are including images that were AI generated to your story, that could be interpreted as adding those under your copyrighted content. I always recommend that only images authors own (self-created, purchased rights, or creative commons) are added to Stories content, with no AI generated images directly added to your stories archive content (cover art/banners). If you want to use those images you can put them in the gallery and then link to your album. It is a workaround that avoids any legal complications.

For my FINAL 2025 Secret Author Story "Reveal the Truth" reveal ... our Contest Winners!!! The "Reveal the Truth" Reader winner is... @impunity The "Reveal the Truth" Author winner is.... @Thirdly Winners receive a Premium Subscription. I will reach out to you via PM with more details, so be looking for that. Authors, if you haven't noticed, all stories have been revealed and returned to you. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to write a story, read a story, like, comment, review, participate on a blog, poll, or topic game! As always, this is a fun event that creates a lot of buzz and connection for the passion we all share our community that just shows how great you ALL are!!

The Poll users have spoken!! The readers' favorite stories with the use of the theme "Reveal the Truth" are... 9 Votes Family Secret 8 Votes - Tie!! My Dead Ex is Haunting Me Through Grindr & What It Takes 7 Votes Thetis