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You said many of us know your feelings about vampires. I do not. Care to elaborate?

Things base and vile, folding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind: Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Someone is getting excited.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

I don't think viruses can do 'magic' like this. They are responsible for some mutations, as are many other mutagens. If viruses attach to other cells as they usually do, do other things as they normally do, they are mutated as well. Mutations are only one factor of evolution. They provide the material, the other factors can work with. It's a very long process to change a population, or even an individual significantly. People are afraid of viruses because of the terrible illnesses they can cause, Ebola virus, HI virus, Corona virus, etc. They also can be responsible for the development of certain forms of cancer, emphasis of 'can'. They are fascinating yes, but to make them the magic evolutionary factor is not correct IMO. They sure do good as the bad guys in some fiction though.

Thank you nostic! As long as the battery isn't low, it's probably better than some real person sometimes. Ha! Yes , I had fun writing this.

You're right! I never thought of that. Well, maybe Chris is so infatuated with Eric, that he can't see that he's hurting Jonah. Thank you for your comment, Irri.

I guess Jonah was kinda blindsided and then just didn't want to lose his face. But maybe it helped him too, some kind of reality check. Thank you for you comment, Lisa!

Yep, that's what I always say! Thank you Lisa.

Happy Birthday!

More flight than fight, I fear.

Thank you for your comment, Dave. I couldn't have said it better.

Thank you Val, that's good to hear.

Thank you Cole! Couldn't do this without your help.

Dear Zach. I have to start somewhere, so why not with the day I met Ren for the first time at my friend Chris’s house. Chris wanted to show me something, but hadn’t said what. As soon as I was through the front door, he grabbed my arm, dragging me into the living room where he pushed me onto the couch. "All right, Jonah, sit here and tell me what you think, okay? Be honest.” He rubbed his hands against his thighs and, when he noticed what he was doing, pushed them into his back pockets. “You k

'Last call for flight Condor 7365 to Brussels. Boarding at gate number D91.' My friend Ruth once told me a good way to fully understand an issue is to explain it to somebody else. Doing this can reveal even complex interconnections, often together with the solution to said problem. Who was I to contradict a well-educated and eloquent specialist? Not me. I didn’t tell a real person though; I typed it up on my laptop. My laptop named Zach. Yeah I know, I'm pathetic. 'May I have your attention

Come meet quirky, irrational, impulsive Jonah, who runs when life gets complicated. This time he is in Sicily, Italy. What else? Oh yes. He talks to Zach, his imaginary laptop friend, collects people who want to take care of him, as well as slightly possessive, manipulative boyfriends. Time for a change.

Happy Birthday Dave. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

Maybe, if you throw her a tea party.

"Well, that's nice." "What?" "Dog slobber all over my shirt."

I love writing flash fiction, prompts and anthology stories. A few words, a phrase, a photo is enough to see a certain scene, hear a dialog and I start writing. And then comes the 'cut, cut, cut', to carve out the idea, make it clearer or more intense, put a spot light on it. I love doing that also. Sometimes these short stories even can be jigsaw pieces, put them together and you have a new story. Ben plays Frisbee with his dog. His brother is grumpy. (10 words)

I am one of the bad guys from the other side of the canal. Why? Because I am a committed European, who eventually wants a strong united Europe similar to the United States of America: single currency, a parliament which is not continuously challenged and hindered by egotistical demands of single member nations, and so on. Even if it is still a long way to go. Guess who's always pissing on my parade? There are dire warnings by European banks and CEO's about what would happen if Scotland would be independent. These warnings are even more dire if the UK would leave the EU. So I have to admit, all rational reasons aside, I am looking at the feeble and very late attempts of the no campaign with a certain degree of schadenfreude. And we all have our own Euros, with our own little pictures that represent our countries and are happily mixing them. I'm still excited when I have Euros from France, or Italy, or Spain, or Greece, or...Scotland? Maybe next time Britain votes, they vote with rational reason. Wouldn't it be great if they'd learned something from their Scotland disaster?

And in games. Mass Effect 1-3, Dragon Age 1,2 and probably 3 to name a few.

You don't know how many times I started to read this and then stopped again. Today I managed to finally read the whole piece. To abuse a child is so wrong, still it happens all the time. With this story you showed us some of the consequences from child abuse. Having difficulties to interact with others normally is one of them. Often more abuse follows. You did a great job with this story, Wayne.