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Hi Mark I was glad to find and read another beautifull Odyssey chapter ! I do like the reaction of Caroline... not how she reacted but... in the heat of the moment she showed she cares for Granger... but... Also this way she showed she does not know him any longer so well.... Her affair should have been a warning for her... that she lost contact with him... and now she interferes in Grangers relations with his friends/lovers ... and she does not understand these affairs... so I guess this will mean troubles in the future... For Granger ... I think his friends and lovers are very dear to him and... he knows that he will see them only for a short time as he is a Captain and most of his sexual friends are officers on other ships... And that there is so little time they can be together... Now Calvert is a Captain... Granger and Calvert are/will be ... no longer a couple... and I think that is what Caroline missed.... I hope Caroline will see her error soon... but... I guess that is more for Granger to find out and correct... But as long as this is not solved... I guess this will be a sad time for Granger and Calvert and Gatling... Again a very good chapter and the way you made Caroline act ... It will add more personal views, conflicts and some extra drama to the story... I guess as Granger will find out why his friends are.... unreachable for him... I hope I'll find a new chapter soon... Keep writing I hope you'll have a new chapter soon

Ricky... I like your pov. The royalty or part of them making sure their offspring is doing well and socially not being ridicualised but seen as okay for the royal family.. And since Lord Grangers last actions known to the public were very ... very ... succesfull... I think it would be a very reasonable thing to do. But Mark might see this different.... though I think/I hope he would like your point of view ... I also hope he will continue this story a lot faster... for since Lord Granger was taken hostage... his story... has slowed down a lot... But maybe Mark is building up a series of new chapters... or a new story... !

9.11 50th part was again a nice but sad and almost tear jerking part for me. Beautifull written from Mark's pov. A nice find to have him couple with Marcel, who reminds him of Robby but... also showed him he is a good sexual partner. A longed for sexual partner. The good sex he had with Marcel may help him with growing over losing Robby.... and make him realise sex can still be great with another partner .. For Brad it might be one of the first steps realising there is another lifetime after loosing Robby. As always ... keep writing... NDG

Ahhh how could I forget that in my reaction. Probably the most important thing for kids/girls/boys is that they need to feel loved and told to be loved !

hallo Mark Paternity.... I sometimes forgot that the title told it all. Had no idea where you would let the story end. Or how it would end as there was not one but more main characters from whose POV this story was told. But again in your last chapter ... Paternity told it all... And was a well chosen title. Yes this book was that struggle about being a father and the feelings and develloping relationship kids have towards them. There is strong interaction. And those feelings can be much more stronger for the kid ! Because also he as a father is the strongest male role model. And that I only know since my partner helped some girls... yes lesbians like in this story to have children. For him and me it was him just helping them having kids... when they asked. Not with fatherly feelings. Just... amazed that they asked us. But for those two kids.... OMG I was so... amazed that they wanted him (us) in their lives after they started asking why they had no father but two mothers! And they are just 7 and 5 yo ! Mark, you captured in this story a very good picture of conflicts and feelings from the POV of a young guy in... the develloping relationship with his father(s)... and how both sons and fathers can do react stupid though they still think they are doing things right ! Conlicts and handling them... how bad they will get...I can only hope when we have conflicts so deep with our kids ... I hope they will end this way. Basicly it is about learning to see it and understand it from each others POV. Dare to be open and trusting and honest... It sounds so simple... ! loved the sory ! :worship: Ahh Mark please.... maybe this is too personal... but I think you were reacting on this site some two years ago... you had troubles with... Is this/was this your way of describing a personal strougle with a puberal son ?

Mark another good chapter. You write stories in stories. Most of the characters are developing are... changing with age. Boys become men and I think you do this very good. I like the way you describe conflicts and how to handle them when it is between people you do not want out of your life. You show in this story the struggle how to see things from someones other pov. Like the conflicts between Will and Brad and Robby. Though they were at a point where they would have liked to kill... Also Matt and Wade are very good developing characters. Young adults who learn that trust is one and honesty is essential. Also learning that the most times hidden kinky sexual fantasies can really deepen a relationship. Yes basicly, I think, you find this kinky stuff out when you have sex with someone else . Learning that, as long as you are honest about your sexual activities with others, sex between the two of you can get better and better. What you describe here is basicly how things work between me and my partner, though I do not think you had us in mind when you started this story . ... and we never exchanged rings... when we decided to be together forever ! So there were no tear jerkers here like you describe on 01-01-01 though we are Dutch and could have.... I also liked the way Matt got (from Brad) the entrance to their sex... cellar ! That means a way of trust and intimacy ...! But I do not think I let my son have entrance there yet ! Love your stories...

Jeff being a 'spring off' from someone in the Hayes family seems logical. In (almost?) every book of the CAP Saga they turn up. I would be more amazed (I think it would be a nice twist) if this time it was coming from Brad's familyline. The family they fought so hard in Millenium. Whatever Mark has in for us in the next chapters he knows how to keep us looking out for next ones! Love your Stories Mark and especially the way you can combine facts from earlier stories with the new ones

An absolute good story. Yes with very shocking parts, sadism and abuse. Sometime hazing in the worst ways, sexual exploit of the youngest highschool girls and boys or totally respectless behaviour towards those younger kids.... It was why I sometimes had to put the ook down. But also with a good main character and his friends strugling in this environment. Full of love and compassion. In my opinion a very very good and complex story with very good develloped characters. Would like to read a follow up ! As the main characters just were in their first year of highschool.

Thanks Mark, another nice chapter. I did like Granger reacting to Calverts needs. The way you wrote it, George was really reaching out to Calvert. This could have easily resulted in a bad break up if he had not responded. But because of Grangers reaction... I think ... most of the damage was reapairable and that was what Calvert needed. So again yes a very good captured situation. Calvert needed to know George still was there for him. He was sent away... but not... because he was not loved.. And also... George gave him a good crew as well... probably to support he meant the best for him..

Mark again a very good chapter. Will must have been shocked seeing the boys.. he knew from a picture. The sons of a guy they wanted to kill. Will is in a lot of ways old enough to handle things for himself but this ... The way you wrote Will behaving when he saw those boys was I think was very accurate and very much to the point. Boys this age can be brave and look and can act older but when confronted with things about life and death. Will realised a few days ago that some boys were gona loose their father and he pointed that out... to the others when having "that" talk. But I guess he then never thought he would know theese boys so close ! So yes he is also young and he can act as an older boy ... and he looks like an older kid... but emotional he still is that 15 year old kid. So seeing these boys... I think you wrote perfectly how a boy his age could or would react. But I also guess your next chapter is also about this. About Will seeing this happening. Ahh... for the benefits of the main heroes in these stories... I do hope it was an accident and not a killing...

Again a beautiful chapter... and again I like it that the historic features are good and well thought of. Although hurting ... the more romantic me.... was the reaction towards Calvert. But ... Yes... Calvert should have learned and understood years ago.. that he lives in a period and a setting with strict hierarchical rules... and behaviour. Like when a more senior guy is coming aboard... so you have to step down... Also...Calvert knew from the beginning of this voyage what would happen if another ship was captured... So... don't whine... So yes... even I can see the logic in that ! Like to see what is coming and learn how his former midshipsmen were prisoners. I think they will have a role in this story... I am amazed how you can write chapters after chapters and stories after stories with facts so... perfectly fitting and combined....

In my way of thinking I can only hope JJ clung to Robbie knowing he had been in the same kind of situation he was. But Mark has made this story ... so amazingly... complex... and still he can write the next chapter so easily... different from my and probably a lot of peoples thoughts... Love your stories...

Thanks for another great 'Grainger' chapter. I really like to read the Bridgemont series. I felt a bit worried you had put the Bridgemont series on hold. I admire the way you can handle the big picture and the way you can combine the facts from earlier 'books' and chapters... A new chapter usually makes my day ! Thanks ! Keep posting.

... Love is in the air... and in your story. I'm over 20 years with my lover and still wonder how to excite him again and again.. Just the way you wrote this story. Thanks. A nice short story.

A well written plot in a dramatic and sad story. I liked your story. Keep writing..

Thanks for your nice story and I like the way you deepen the story with each character

Hi Mark Glad you are back and continuing your story !

I liked this story very much. This will give hope for a lot of boys ... Not every gay boy thinks of himself as being is a wet dream for other guys, so when 'the prince on the white horse' comes around... You do not even have to be an angel for that! thanks for this beautifull story.

Do you really understand teh words being underrage ?

I can nnot see yuor pov. 13 years old is way out of gay clubbing !

hi I do not see what is wrong with my point of view. I think you id not not even considered my points. I also do not see why someone would be so negative about what I posted or even be negging my post ! Because that is happing also ! I'll give you this scenario, to give you a background of my point of view. Will is in the bar/club. Before he starts his pole dance he talks about who he is ....(that is what Mark wrote). That is a "wow" for some people. Then he starts pole dancing and some guys think: hey let me tape/film this or make pictures from him ! They also here that Stef is around, so they make pictures/films of the crowd. After this night the rumour spreads. Stef Schluter was here and his grandson did some amazing sexual pole dancing act. Some press people and/or enemies of Stef or Brad also hear from this. Now.... Some people start to get very exited. They realize the boy is 13 yo, they have pictures/film fragments that Will is stripping, having sexual contact with guys while on stage and also have pictures/film with Stef watching what is happening on stage ! Now what do you think can happen. ..... I would think some enemies of him or Brad are going to exploit/use this ! So in some paper there is this big item (with some pictures): Stef Schluter caught in a paedophile club while watching his 13 year old grandson having sex on stage ! This would be almost the same as: the Micro ploff man what is his name Bill Gay or something or the Appollo -orsomething man Steve JO watching his/their 13 year old granddaughter being fingered in whorehouse ... This would be world wide main news. This would be shattering the public image of Stef. This would would have an impact on all of Stef's family ! Now tell me again : am I still out of line /way out of target?

I'm not interested in the moral aspect of a not yet 14 year old boy going to a gay bar/strip club. But when you are the grandfather of a young boy and you see that 13 year old boy is going to strip there.... whore himself out.... We live in the time that things can be taped very easily. And that grandfather understands what might be the consequence of that for the future of the boy ! As an adult, the boy is his responsibility, he should have interfered. So, what I can not see is how Stef could have missed that. And the second point he missed is because it will also affect himself. He is there with the boy as the adult ! You see the paparazzi getting pictures of that and the headlines screaming: Well known and very rich granddad lets his under age grandson, a 13 year old boy, act as a stripper in a paedophile club ! Because I think that is the way the reaction might be ! This is not adult sex any more ! This is a paedophile act . And all people there should have realised what risks there are for them (especcially for us gays !) to let a very young boy do that act. So, I cannot see that Stef missed that point, because he is (in a way) responsible for a paedophile act ! So again, this is not about moral, it is about what Stef did not seem to have realised ! It may have serious (legal ?) consequences for him as well ! He stood by doing nothing to prevent that paedophile act. Okay, it is your story and you even might already have the next chapters going into this ..... Keep writing, even about controversial things

yes, for a lot of people kids changes their thinking and behaviour. Even as a donor it changed my life and vision of life permanently.