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Another lovely chapter. As a student and frequent visitor I have had the pleasure of showing NYC to a couple of first comers. Pun unintended. It is wonderful to see what the city does to them, the awe on their faces. You captured it. Thank You.

What a good writer you are! I have read most of what you have posted, a couple to go. Plots have good suspense and your characters have a reality seldom found in gay fiction. You have posted a lot in a short time. I hope to see more. Thanks for the good read.

Great start! The last piece of yours that I read was the entire Sword O f Kings epic. This will obviously be different but I know your skill with excitement and suspense will not fail us. Johnny

DAMN, You pulled tears from this old man, again. Thank you for Andy and Zander. Yes, thank you for the evil ones and their final comeuppance. Thank you for the wonderful, beautiful people whom you have populated this novel with, the kind I like to think make up the great majority in our world. I cried a lot, but there were lots of smiles and even a few laughs. Don't you dare stop writing because we need more. Future publishing, perhaps? As ever, Johnny

Thank you, Thank you, for this amazing wonderful story. I look forward to whatever is next on your writing agenda.

Something , someone guided my finger to click on this one. My partner of 53 years was a victim of that horrible disease. His last years were spent mainly in his bed and he stopped speaking. BUT he always, to the end, smiled when I entered the room, and he listened closely when I talked and read to him. There was always response to our good-night kiss. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I had a feeling of deja vu all the way through. Finally figured out why. There is an uncomfortable similarity to the opening of Gone From Daylight, the pier, the junkyard.....

I am hooked, you have me for the rest of the run. I happen to think that Chris Lydon is the best sic-fi writer posted on gay sites. Your style reminds me of his. That is the most sincere compliment I give. Thanks for the good read.

Just, Thanks

My limited vocabulary knows only one word for all this: WOW!!!! Thanks and all good for the next chapter.

I am new to your work. Having been very involved with Global Explorer and feeling a bit bereft at its end.............I started looking and was drawn to your title. I began to read Sword and felt a little similarity, maybe just your elves and Global dryads. I agree with the previous reviews that your prologue is uncomfortably horrible to read, but I think it is necessary so that we have a proper fear and respect for the evil guy that is down the path. I love beraut, Kieran is surely the one to fulfill the the task and could the sword of the title be the talisman from prologue? I plan to read on patiently and wait for all to be revealed. Thanks for the good beginning.

A truly beautiful story. You have helped this old guy with his confused thinking about young people. Thanks for a great read.

A lovely, charming story. So different from what we usually find in the sci-fi area where there always seems to be an overload of violence and conflict. I would like to hear more about Gabe, Perhaps he could find a way to change lies to truths? Thanks, Johnny

I don't just like it, I love it!!! I have known all of these people over the years but try to avoid those still alive. I grew up in a reactionary Republican home where hatred of FDR was palpable. I doubt they can be changed. Perhaps the only hope it that their young might be exposed to an education that teaches them to ask questions. After surviving WWII and Korea I saw the light and am still proud to remember the day I told my father that I had voted for Harry Truman. Thanks for the great read. Hope it somehow makes it to the mainstream press.

Hi, Billy. I was so pleasantly surprised and happy to see Trials on the new postings list. It is one of the best stories I have found. Being a small town boy I could appreciate the reality and sensitivity in your portrayal of the good and bad of that life. I am so glad you're back and that it looks like the story will continue. As always, thanks for the good read.

Thank You, from a sharer.

Truly, a fine chapter. The way in which you have presented Lt. Waltham makes him very attractive, Modest, Handsome, a patriot? I hope to get better acquainted with him in future chapters. Thanks for yet another good read.

Good read, Cole. I am an only child, always curious about friends' siblings. I was thoroughly enjoying the story and almost at the end I had to scream, " These coincidences have to stop!" When I lived at the Park Terrace across from Loring Park, a friend down the hall was a bellhop at the Radisson on Seventh street, laying every man that checked in,to hear him tell it, And his name??? PETER, of course. Great story, loved brotherly interaction and the food. This was all a hundred years ago, early 60's. Thanks for another good one. Johnny

An AWFUL story that needed to be told. Shouted loudly from the roof tops. First time I have been moved to review but have read a lot of your stuff. Am involved with Barbed Wire now. I am always so impressed when a writer talks about real places in Minnesota. I have been to Lake Winnibigoshish but must have missed Boy River. I looked it up. It really exists. A hundred years ago I met my partner in Loring Park. Turned out we both lived at the Park Terrace and were both in grad school. Jobs took us to Ohio but Minnesota is still my answer when asked where I'm from. Thanks for the good reads. Johnny

I am new reader. Something told me to click on Melvyn. Like 1 I was born in 1929 (here you should say, "You don't look it." ) As soon as I was licensed I purchased my first car, a beat-up 1930 Model A. One end of the front bumper tied up with twine. No rear bumper. It served all the purposes a car should for a boy through high school. Went away to college, wounded in Korea, made it through grad school. My dad had junked my car but when I would go back home friends would always talk about the good times in the Model A. He was maroon, 4 door, curtains in the rear windows. Once seven of us were in the car, I rolled it in a ditch,and we all just got out and tipped it back up and were on our way. Try that with a Mustang! Thanks for the wonderful read. And thanks for memories and even for the tears. Now that I have found you I will look for more. Johnny

I am thirty-six years into my second fifty, and am always amazed at the similarities I find between my life and others'. I know this may be hard to believe but I ran away from Minneapolis and found my life in Cleveland. Many thanks and continue to be kind.

You hooked me with Tantalus. Hope that returns soon, but this new one starts powerfully. I looked up your other things and have put them in my folder labeled To Be Read Soon. Thanks for this great new one.

I was totally caught up in the strange beauty of the story, the way friendship develops with care and soft words, even words that can't be understood. Then the joy of homecoming overlaid with the grief of parting. Just great. Thank you.

Exciting! Frightening! A great start. I have heard about witness protection forever but never occurred to me what a thorough, complex process it is. I'm curious about the message on his cell.

I am quite sure Mary Ellen doesn't stand a chance against Alex, but let the battle begin. Should be a 'hot time in the old town tonight'.