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  1. Boy Mercury X

    Go Home

    Boy Mercury X posted new chapter in Go Home

    Chapter 1: The Drive "It’s not just stubbornness, Boon. It’s the delusion." I picked at the edge of my thumbnail, watching the blur of turning leaves banking the two-lane highway. The car heater hummed, fighting the creeping autumn chill as we left the progressive sprawl of Seattle and moved deeper into the flat, rural eastern half of the state. "He was in basic training for six weeks in the nineties," I continued, feeling my voice go tight. "He twisted his ankle on an obstacle co
  2. Boy Mercury X

    Go Home

    Boy Mercury X posted a story in Fiction

    Returning home, an artist and his fiancé are drawn into his father's dangerous orbit. Before it ends, the three will collide in ways that leave no one leaves unchanged. (This story predates "Jake's Story" and involves some of the same characters.)
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    To be honest, it's partially out of respect to the readers and wanting them to have a story that doesn't linger forever... but also until I finish a story I don't always know what it is. I typically go back and add and adjust, to get the early parts to lead up to the end.
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    Thanks so much for reading, and for your kind words. I think Boon gets MVP for every story he's in. I ought to do a follow up where they visit Boon's family and he becomes an agitated wreck.
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    Your warning is one reason I may not post Go Home, but it is easily available at other sites.
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    Thanks, @CCinPS. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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    As a rule, I don't publish anything until the story is complete in my hands, and I can tell readers what to expect. I personally like to know what I'm getting into - five chapters or seventy-five, for example. Again, I really appreciate you sticking with it. ♥️
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    Thank you for sticking with it @Flip-Flop. To be honest, I thought most readers would give up early, because it was a tough read. I'm glad you got to the payoff. ♥️ Joe
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    Thanks so much @dboggs9700. I truly look forward to your thoughts. At this point unsure about the other two stories. Not sure they'd land right at GA. and also a little in the wrong order. I'll DM you though.
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    @Cane23, thanks for always being thoughtful about your reading. I like to think it's as much opening as closure - and that if there's a visit to Seattle there will be a follow up that Boon will not sit out.
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    Thanks @akascrubber, I'm so glad to know the story worked for you. There truly are many cases of people having rough starts, but through resilience and some kindness and a little luck, building engaged and fulfilling lives. I think there's something in there too about Junior's journey, even though being raised by a narcissistic asshole somehow maintaining his emotional openness to love and be vulnerable.
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    Chapter 15: The Arrival Jake parked his chair on the salted concrete walkway outside the Sourdough Diner, the biting Alaskan wind whipping around the corners of his heavy canvas jacket. His calloused hands gripped the rubber rims of his wheels, bracing himself. He’d spent the weeks since that phone call waiting for Junior to step out of a car, look him in the eye, and demand to know how Jake could have so casually betrayed the boy who had worshipped him. A dark rental SUV pulled i
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    If so, I think it's understandable how Jake could expect something different, if only because he was conditioned young to not trust.
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    I think that's certainly how Jake sees the impending visit.
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    All will be revealed tomorrow, @dboggs9700. I hope it will be a positive experience for readers.
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    Chapter 8: Equals Stationed in the sun-baked sprawl of the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps base, while other recruits puked in the heat and broke under the pressure, Jake thrived. The brass didn't care that he was a bastard from a fucked up family in a trashy flat on the wrong side of town. Fuck, it almost seemed like the minimum requirement. They only cared that he could run three miles in eighteen minutes, strip an M4 carbine in the dark, and hold the line. He made Corporal in rec
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    Thanks @dboggs9700 - it's not the type of story I typically right at all. But it was fun to write and I'm glad you had fun!
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    Thanks @dboggs9700 Jake has a long way to go, but you don’t have long to wait. Part two should drop tomorrow and part three the day after.
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    Passionfruit

    Boy Mercury X commented on Boy Mercury X's story chapter in Passionfruit

    And one who likes to read!
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    Chapter 1: The Ghost on the Line The shrill blast of the whistle cut through the heavy thuds and squeaks of wrestling shoes on the practice mats. "Hustle, Timmons! You’re flat footed out there!" Coach Burgess barked. His voice echoed off the cinderblock walls of the high school gym. He wiped a hand across his jaw, feeling the rough scruff there. "Keep your hips down!" He spun his chair around in a swift pivot to track the heavyweight driving his opponent toward the edge of th
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    Twenty years ago, Jake traded his body to survive, then fled to the Marines. Now a coach in a wheelchair, he thinks he's put his past behind him. But when Junior—the boy Jake betrayed—tracks him down, Jake must face the tangled knot of their shared history.
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    Thank you @HTK. Your favorite read of 26 would be quite an honor. Glad I have eight months to try to top this.
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    Thanks @J J. There are two more installments that might answer some of your questions, or hint at the answers.
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    Ah. I'm a little envious. I have no practical skills whatsoever. That's why I work in strategic planning and business development. I'm good at it, but not the sort of thing that comes in handy in a zombie apocalypse. I'm the guy who would depends on others, probably hiding the fact that I was bitten by a zombie and about to be a disaster.
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    Thank you @chris191070. Thanks for sticking with it.
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