Andrew Q Gordon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCE D!!! 21 is such a good b-day! Have some fun - just not too much, we don't want to see you on the evening news.

Article Basically the Focus on the Family CEO said that 'Christians' are losing the war against gay marriage. By Christians I suppose he means his narrow minded, conservative slice of Christianity. He sites demographics that suggest 65-70% of the under 40 population is in favor of Gay Marriage and that it isn't likely to get better. Interesting article, especially his explanation of why God is letting this happen

I went to many many many years of catholic school - grade school, high school, college - finally went to secular school for law school and came out Anyway, I digress - I look at the God Hates You and I scratch my head. Even if you accept religion as true - christianity is SO not a religion of hate. God doesn't Hate anyone - but yet here is this "Christian" church printing big signs saying God Hates You - and they think it trues. But as Eon said, if we ignore them they will go. Until then, well they're gonna keep popping up like dog shit, stinking up the joint wherever they go.

Geez, they are something else over there - here, you just show up a few times and they let you collect multiple benefits until somehow they figure out you're double and triple dipping. Then they send you a cease and desist order, followed by a criminal charge that they allow you to conditionally plea to - provided you pay the money back in a few years. After that they dismiss the charge, usually after forgiving most of the money you got illegally, and everyone says there happy. Perhaps now with your new found time you will realize what everyone else has been telling you - you should try to publish your work. JK Rowling started with notebooks in a coffee shop, If she can do it, so can you As I am sure you will, you should look at this as an opportunity to do something new that you've always wanted. There's nothing stopping you, just 'The Man.' My money's on you not the The Man Feel better soon.

@Lugh: No kidding we are living in sin - so terrible. What will the crazies think? @Frosty: Thanks @KC: Evidently "Pottery Barn Kids" has it is picked out for us. They'll color coordinate everything, just come in an buy it. @Mike: First girl must me amazing for you and the family - congrats and enjoy - I agree with the whole Green thingy, but not so much on the second and definitely not the third LOL @Maria: She'll be fine, she wants the money As for handsome, that'll be Mike - everyone else is going to ask why he's marrying me Oh yeah, not going overboard on the Pink, just a few touches here and there. @Anyta: Well - we already 'know' so what - as Cia told me she knows someone who had 3 ultrasounds that said girl and then gave birth to a boy - I doubt that will be us, so I think the little bit of pink stuff we have/get won't be a problem

I never got to read this on the old eFiction, though I know it was wildly popular back then. Not sure what prompted me to start this now, but I like how you write and can see why you had/have so many fans. Wonderful ending by the way - nice twist. Guess I found something new to read Andy

Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it, always nice to hear - - Andy

Thus far I have not heard anything of the - Gar's evil - but once you read the rest of the chapters, you can let me know if you are still not one of those - he might be a bit rough still I think, if you've only read chapter 1 you're in for a bit of a surprise going forward. The rest is not going to be all like Chapter 1 - though there will be other 'like' chapters - I might just name a future chapter after CB - in your honor of course Thanks for stopping by - Andy

Welcome Dan, There is definitely some great stuff to read. If you have an iPad or Nook you can even save, convert to ePub docs and upload on your reader. If you get stumped ask folks, be hard to find an unfriendly soul on here

Thanks Phana When I posted this on the old eFiction people asked if there was a longer story involved, I said no. I still think this stands alone, though it might be interesting to see how Jason's life mores on from here. Hmm food for thought Thanks again

That was all I got out of that was So the two are finally together but the Prince does or doesn't know? Seems the tricked him into thinking the bond didn't work, but what happened at the end? I read it a couple times and I'm still :blink: Help?? [Like post the rest so I figure it out? ]

That was really - um interesting. Is three times a record? I mean I remember two with David, two with Riley, so Chase is three - other than Kyle - who by the way still seems a bit stuck on Cooper - this is a new record for Cooper. Oh and by the way - when I said last chapter - and we can't respond to your responses to our comment btw - that Kyle wasn't looking for a rebound, I mean he was tracking down Rusty to get back in the Sigma. Clearly Kyle was willing to give it up for Cooper, but if there was no Cooper why not? Ugh, you're still a bad man for this LOL

Gasp - everyone doesn't like us? Shocking Welcome, and try not to believe everything you read in the paper about us, those are generally just the bad examples anyway Andy

Hey Newbie from Scotland - Oh my but what's next is terribly loaded question Where to start Personal favorites of mine are - in No particular order (In)visible - by Anyta Sunday The Bridgemont Series by Mark Arbour Hostage - by Nephylim is amazing - and not just because I got a shout out at the end Cia's Escaping the Pain is quite good If you dig Sci-fi Adamagicka by Hamen Cheese was also kick ass. Not to double dip, but Enigma by Nephylim was very good. If you like Fan Fiction, Tests of Blood by AllenSmithee was really well done Lugh wrote some amazing short stories for the Anthologies which is helpfully bundled into a collection that you can download if you like Anything by Dom Luka is always worth reading. I also enjoyed, Raven: The Hands of Ada Those are stories that are done - and there are a ton more that you could go to as well but that's just a brief selection of personal favorites

Four months from today is the 'Due Date' for the baby - so like 17 weeks or so and my life is over Surprisingly there's been no new baby momma drama - well not since two weeks ago when she called to complain the check the bank sent her was not drawn on a bank in her area so she had to wait 'three whole days' for the check to clear to get her money and would I call the bank to find out why they didn't send a check she could cash. Yeah, um no sorry, not doing that. Pretty much everything else is going as expected. Everyone is excited, Mike is busy looking at baby clothes, blankets, bonnets, whatever - and I am trying to stop him, we are trying to decide on colors for the baby room - we are leaning toward light green with some pink - er ... well Mike is leaning toward that, I'd leave it as it is - yellow. Seeing babies now is such a different experience. Before I wanted one, now I'm scared cause I'm having one lol. Honestly, we are excited, probably naively so, but still excited. Mike is always saying stuff like, if our daughter does that ... or our daughter isn't going to be like that etc. Watch, everything we don't want is gonna happen. He is already picking out kids she can and cannot have contact with lol We've started the paperwork to have her parental rights terminated, so when she gives birth, she has no rights. We've got to get the paper work to the hospital so that when the baby is born they know not to give her to the surrogate. That seems to be Mike's biggest concern, that they will make a mistake, give the baby to her and she will fall in love with it and disappear. I keep trying to reassure him that she isn't organized enough for that. But watch her prove me wrong again. Added to the list of things we need to do before the baby is born is, get married. We thought about DC but the republican's in congress are making noise about adding a rider to some appropriations bill calling for the repeal of the gay marriage law in DC. We figure we need to go to a more stable state - since Maryland will recognize other states gay marriage - won't allow it on the own, but heck you can spend the money elsewhere to get married and be recognized here. :wacko: Probably go to New England somewhere to do it, but we gotta get a move on it, summer is almost here and that's it. We don't want our daughter born out of wed lock Going to go enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend, and try to keep Mike out of baby stores, or sections of department stores. Andy

So I read this start to finish this am - really like how you write. You should try your hand at something longer. I also read where folks are unhappy you ended it already. Let me say this - and remember I am one voice in many - DO NOT add more chapters if this was the end. Seriously. If this was the end you envisioned, then don't tinker with it and add more. it will only ruin things. My suggestion would be to do a new story with the pair. I say this because everything in the chapter led up to this ending. Trying to 'extend it' would ruin the plot twists and turns you meant for it. Start fresh with a new chapter one and run with that. This ties in with write something longer. The urge to finish is always strong, but you could have done so much more in a couple places - like the time between boat sex and mansion sex. Was there frustration, anticipation, anger that Marcus was in the closet, did his friends suspect and he had to retreat a bit? You get the picture. Then the end. You did a great job of the the conflict between the two, but did so little with Brishen at the end. Of course some would say - and they would be right - that less can be better. I agree to a point. BUT the focus of the end was Brishen emotions. You could have given us more, it just seemed to go from "Okay, I'm home and heart broken" to "I'm published and happy" to "I'm gonna forgive him and try to work it out." All in a few hundred words. As I said up front, this is just my opinion, not gospel and verse - I am one who might tend to over do it. Second Shot was almost 300K so that was WAY too long. But this had the potential for more. Why did he forgive Marcus? Had anything changed? Was it just he was sorry over and over on the voice mails and texts? Did he care if Marcus never came out or if there was a repeat of what happen? Did he just decide to go back to what was in "In the Cards" and trust they were right? It - the end - seemed a bit too easy. I almost said contrived, but that isn't right. Marcus totally loved him and the cards said it was true. But how did Brishen over come 'being nobody?' What was different? What changed for Marcus? You see what I mean? That would have made the ending better. I said this in the review DO NOT add a chapter. This is over. Anything else would be forced. A new story, a new conflict would be better in my opinion. It will give you more room to expand your characters that people evidently really want to know more about. Think of it like Brishen's short story. The one he expanded into a novel. Run with that, expand and create new plots for the boys. That's my thinking at least. Andy

Thanks for posting this. Mike and I are about to become parent's in September and hopefully we'll never encounter someone like the actress/waitress, but if we do, it's nice to see people's attitudes are supportive. I think your comment about the south has a bad rap is accurate to a point - I think you will find a LOT of people just like those in the Diner that stood up for the parents. The bad rap comes from the legislation that is passed and comments of the politicians. My guess is, and I have no proof to support this so it is just my opinion, that in places like MD, Mass, NY, DC. which are considered liberal, it is considered bad form and perhaps even political suicide to bash anyone, including gays. Perception might be the biggest detriment. That said I think these things are changing everywhere. I wonder how many Texas politicians watched that thinking, if almost half the Diner voiced an objection - there had to be another 25% or so that agreed with the objections but failed to speak up. Oh one last comment, Mr. High Five - what a coward. It's fine to give her a thumbs up and a high five in anonymity but when confronted with his 'beliefs' and his bigotry, he suddenly doesn't have the courage to stand up for what he 'believes'. Typical. Thanks again, Mike and I watched it with smiles.

The system doesn't announce who's new [well except at the bottom of the forum page and then it only shows the name of the last person to join not all who joined that day], so unless you walk up and wave electronically like you did, no one really knows you're new. I didn't know this part of the site existed when I joined so I've never welcomed here either and I've been here a hot minute. BUT since you did let us know you were new: WELCOME!!!!! Glad you are here. Andy

I rarely comment here - I admit to looking, but almost never comment, but you have THE most amazing eyes. My grandmother - Italian as she was, had similar eyes, but even in a pictures yours just stand out. Very

How'd I miss this??? This gets a great big: WOO HOO!!!! And quite of snaps - maybe even an around the world and back snap. Congrats John!!! Well deserved indeed.

So they are bonding them together so they can get the information from Kynan. Interesting, smart, devious and poor Alan. But in the 'there's always a bright side' if one dies the other dies. So now Kynan has a way to preserve his secret - kill Alan and he dies too. So let the mind games begin.

Aure better find a way to help them. He just committed a grave error. If the Prince takes over, well watch out eh? God that was emotional, so well done Monsieur Dark,

Holy Crap Dark man, I've missed two chapters Be back later

okay so Chartley's a twat but at least he's a brave one. And Clifton will make Captain soon, another valuable political ally for George and kin. SO Bertie is rearing his charming head to harass George yet again, only this time he's drawn in Freddie and possibly his Father the Earl There is no end to the problems you throw at our boy is there?

Chartley is quite the arse now isn't he? You think that after the pasting they got at Oran, they'd not do something as silly as attack Belvidera again. Even with the attempt at Klingonese 'this is a good day to die' no one thinks George is gonna go that easily