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awww...how romantic :wub: I love how you made yourself one of the main characters, too. This is honestly the first fan fic I've ever read, and I think it's great. Will there be a chapter two??

:pickaxe: :pickaxe: :pickaxe: I guess it's only fitting that I make my 1500th post right here Thanks guys, and I'll try to make my next 1500 as kind, considerate and unobnoxious as my first glorious 1500 posts were :pickaxe: :pickaxe: :pickaxe:

whoo hoo!! 19, but I have to admit that I looked over at the phone for one of the questions

Okay, so i've been stewing about this for almost a week now, and I think I'm ready to get it off of my chest: I'm pissed off at the moronic voters here in the United States. How in the hell could they have voted Phill off of American Idol and kept that lousy ass Jordan....I'm sooo ticked off. So anyway, thats my rant for the week. I havent had a lot of time to write, but I'm gonna work on a chapter tomorrow night when i get home from work and then I'll try to pound another one out by Friday. So hopefully, I can update both stories this week. Kisses Nick

Awww...thanks Kitty. Not just for the review that the other jerk didn't want to do (I don't know what his deal was) but for making these anthologies possible. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If it weren't for the Spring 2006 anthology, I would have never had the guts to branch out and try something new. Hell, we might all be reading an efiction anouncement about chapter 134 of What's the Difference Between Me and You? being posted. Now that's a scary thought, isn't it??

Camy, if I get published someday, not only will you get a signed copy, but you'll get the first signed copy

:pickaxe: Not quite....I give him props because he helps me write a lot of the stuff I send in. He worked with me on Bodega Bay and to be honest, most of the first chapter of that story came from his twisted brain. I just took the ball and ran with it when he decided that he didn't want to deal with 29 more chapters

Yeah...Aaron sorta came off as the hero in this story, didn't he?? Thanks for checking my story out, Graeme

Even if my fingers get chopped off in a terrible accident involving steel cut oats and a jar of soy sauce?? Just kidding, Bret Thanks for always supporting me as a friend and as a reader

I kinda agree with you there, but I also had to stop and think about things from Aaron's perspective. I didn't really give his character a lot of time and attention, and I didn't want him to come off as the villian in this, so I was sure to give him and David a little closure

Thanks Ieshwar! I really appreciate the feedback and your thoughts on the story. I think that in a way, you hit the nail on the head. David's mom and dad probably were being loving towards him, but he had other ideas for how they should have shown their love. I also think you're right about being so wrapped up in his love of Aaron that he couldn't see what he had right in front of him, even if it wasn't everything he'd hoped for.

Well, we're supposed to be leaving for Jacksonville within the hour, but no ones even up yet(except for me) and I have to wonder what time we'll really be going. I get the sneaking suspicion that I could have gone to school today, which kinda ticks me off, but oh well. This whole trip is irritating me , but I guess I don't have a choice. I already know what's going to happen: My dad's gonna be in a rush to get there because he hates driving in Jacksonville rush hour traffic, so he'll go about 100 all the way down 95. He might try to speed on highway 58, the way we take from here to Emporia, but he won't do it very long because of all the state troopers who'll be looking out for speeders. Then we'll get into Carolina and he'll threaten us all that if we want to stop to use the bathroom to speak up because he won't be stopping again until we get into Santee, Sc. That's where we'll stop for gas and try to beat each other to the bathrooms, only to discover that there's already a line and we all have to wait. After that, we'll eat at Bojangles, then he'll tell us all again that he's not stopping until we get to Jacksonville, and he'll haul ass down 95...until we get to the last rest stop in SC, where he'll pull off because hehas to piss. From there, we'll probably stop one more time in Georgia and then we'll head straight into Jacksonville, where we'll get stuck on 295 in some ungodly traffic tangle and sit for an hour before we finally get to my aunts house. She'll insist that we stay with her, but we'll get a hotel anyway because we know and she knows that her house is too small for 13 people (which is how many people there are with our family, her family and my grandparents, who are there from California). So, from there, we'll spend the week going to "neat places" around Jacksonville, which always involves sitting in traffic for seemingly hours on hand and wondering when the hell Saturday's gonna roll back around so we can carry our asses home. In the meanwhile, I won't be online and GA will probably be a more peaceful place for it :pickaxe: :pickaxe: :pickaxe:

I heard a new chapter was coming out within the week...most likely on Thursday

No, it was Asher

I still think he's gonna end up with Robert.

You ought to ask the pastor how many heterosexuals he knows who've had 70 different partners.

Seth dumps Rory and steals Luke away from Grandma Alice????

Also, if you haven't already, check out Graeme's Anthology entry, The End Of The World. It's all Sci-Fi-ish, and it's ultra good

Can't you take your dog with you on the road?? Also, here's a just because. Hope you start to feel better.

I feel so guilty for what I'm about to do. I've bugged everyone aroud me for the chance to prove I can hang with everyone around me. I worked hard and made sacrafices to rise above the naysayers who said I wouldn't last. I had to prove them all wrong and at least give it a try. I failed. Still, I'm glad I tried. If nothing else, I can say I hung in there, but in the end, I was way out of my league. Some people even tried to warn me that I wouldn't be able to see this through, but I wouldn't listen. Along the way, there were the antagonists who tried to bait me into failure, but I wasn't paying them any mind. Finally, after a stubborn, foolish stand, I conceed to defeat. I'm just not cut out for this anymore. I have to eat meat. The initial appeal to a vegetarian lifestyle stemmed from watching my stepmom bask in its glory. She takes her commitment so seriously that she even reads the ingrediants on each package to be sure there's no animal by product in it. It was going to be easy, I thought, to piggy back on her diet. But there was something I wasn't counting on. My insatiable appetite for meat. Any meat. Fish, red meat, chicken, pork....mmmm, delicioius, fatty pork. So, after falling off the wagon for the last time today, I decided that resistance is futile. My dad grilled up some chicken thighs today, and I made him leave the skin on just so I could endulge in an old decadent pleasure that I know is horrible for me. On top of that, I see that there's a roast defrosting in the fridge. I'm hoping their gonna make it tomorrow so I can trim the fat and put it all on my plate and gobble it all up. Gross, I know, but I can't help that I'm craving meat in thw worst way right now. Ok, so now that I've completely turned your stomachs, I'll update you all on my story progress::: I finished two chapters this week. One chapter of Staking My Claim and one of Time In A Bottle. I'm also working on a couple ideas for a short story, as well as a collaberation with some of my favorite authors on the net. I didn't have a lot of time to write this week. Most of the time I had at home was spent reading Anthology entries and working on reviews. I have to say that I feel really lucky to have been able to help Kitty out with this, and I got to read 14 really good stories in exchange As I was reading over each entry, I wondered what was in store for each author that submitted stories. Writing 14 reviews isn't easy, but I have to say that the stories I got to read were pretty easy to work with. Of course, it was great working with Kitty, our fearless Anthology coordinator. She works so hard on these anthologies and she deserves so many thanks for all of her effort. Well, as soon as I get my chapters back from my editor, I'll send them in to be posted. in the meanwhile, Kisses

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