sunsbane

Just stumbled across your story yesterday, so I´ve been reading it for the last couple of days. I´m always a bit apprehensive about reading original fantasy type stories, because it´s my favorite genre and I hate to see it not done well. I´m really glad I did try the story out though! Just finished it now and it was smokin´! I especially liked the characters´ little back stories (Garret, Maggie..) and enjoyed it all round. All I can say is good luck to them all, with their committee...

I´ve actually read this a couple times. Once when I chanced upon it while searching for stories about older men (as opposed to the perfectly lovely, but numerous, stories there are about high school and college). I liked it quite a bit, the romance side of it and perhaps even more so, the fact that they got a happy ending. I get terribly disappointed when a story doesn´t have at least some sort of good ending, so it was rather satisfying. The second time I read it was a few weeks back, when I suddenly remembered vaguely a delightful short story and went searching for it again, to reread. So thank you, it´s still lovely.

There pretty much isn´t anything said here that I don´t agree with, especially the emphisis everyone put on it being a completely individual matter for each of them. To share a bit of my experience, I haven´t ever ¨come out¨ per se, but over the last few years I have become visibly more myself. More honest with people, in some ways. In a scociety where each gender has their place, their way of dressing and acting, what they enjoy and talk about- I don´t try to hide anymore that how I am is mostly the opposite of what people expect of me. Some people know the truth about me, but I´m sure that others get the wrong idea all the time. I don´t care about the others and anyone who cares enough to ask, will probably get some sort of answer, maybe even an honest one. My family know more or less about what´s going on, a fact which was sent home when they asked, just to be certain, if it was alright to use the fund money put aside for future my wedding, all on my sister´s wedding. It made me realise that they understood. But that´s my family, and I know for a face that most of the poeple I call my friends, even the ones dearest to me, have unfortunately gotten a particular religious education and will mostly never be able to accept me for who I am. So for now, although I don´t change how I act or dress just because I´m with them, I´m not planning on coming out to any of them. Not yet, not until I am prepared for the consequences. So once again, that´s my family and friends and I decided how far I´m willing to go with each, while just being prepared for what will happen if I decide to change things or if things change without me getting to decide. Friends will be lost, but then again, maybe some will surprise me. You just have to think very long and hard about what the consequences of coming out will be and see if you are up to it. One last thing I can say is that even if it´s hard, being honest about who you are, it always makes me feel better, stronger, more comfortable in my own skin. And when I take a step back, being less honest with certain people, I end up feeling like crap. I guess that say something too.