Mark Paren

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sticking with it to the end.

I’m glad it came across as “beautiful.” That’s what I was trying to accomplish with the mythic backstory and location.

Thanks you for this comment. You expressed exactly what I was trying to achieve.

Aiden’s character arc is complete. I’m not sure there is enough growth left for these characters. Thanks for asking.

Thanks for asking. We’ll see.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading to the end.

Godfather II may have been as good or better than the original, but it’s a rare exception. Maybe someday.

I’m not sure I’ll write a sequel, but I’m glad you want one.

I appreciate your support through the process of writing this story.

I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’m not sure about a sequel, but it makes me happy you want one.

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment and support.

December arrived the way it always did in the Bay Area, not with cold exactly but with a change in the quality of the light. Lower and more golden in the afternoons. The hills brown and dry above the peninsula. The bay flat and pewter-colored on overcast days, brilliant on the clear ones. Aiden had been counting down to solstice since August. He was still counting. The Berkeley application was in. Declan’s letter had arrived via email three days after Aiden asked for it, characteristic

I don’t know what “promoted author, promising author, or any other author status” are but I would hate to confuse readers thinking they were reading a new story and finding a rewritten older version. I’ll think about it. Thanks for the suggestion.

The California coast appeared below the plane like something he’d forgotten he knew. The bay first, flat and silver in the afternoon light, then the peninsula spreading south, the specific geometry of the Bay Area from above with the grid of streets, the brown late summer hills, the thin line of 101 running along the bay’s edge. San Mateo was somewhere in there. His mother was too. He’d been awake for most of the flight. Not anxious. Just unable to stop thinking. He’d read three chapte

Sequels are rarely as good as the original. But thanks for suggesting one..