Timothy M.

I was happy to see that Angus considered Jason his ex-boyfriend and didn't want to see him again. Greg more or less encouraged Angus to conjure him up again, but I hope he thinks it through the next time, even if Greg does seems the ideal boyfriend. Fun story altogether.

Well, you'll have to ask AC if you can steal straight-bashing since he came up with the term when I needed the joke.Yes, let's hope Rob is protective for no reason - on the other hand I recall readers wanting Rob to inflict damage on various bad guys. As for the rest see my reply to dughlas.

I promise you will find out eventually what Eric bought. And there are more Mall chapters to come, so I'll work on including Rob and Jas as shirt finders.

“Sure, now you want me to make the decisions.” Nelson rolled his eyes at Rob, who grinned unrepentantly. “Well, if you say you want to see Cappy America, Eric will agree.” “But I liked the one he suggested too.” “It’s a romance, Nelson. I’m not really in the mood for that.” “Well, why don’t Eric and I see that and you and Jazz can see the other one?” Rob looked towards the restrooms to make sure his brother and Nelson’s friend weren’t returning yet. “I want us to stay together as much as

Two men newly and deeply in love. Those words sum it up for me. Everything Chet and Arron do speak of their love and trust and need for each other. I agree with Bucket, they are going to have a hard time disgusing this from M&K, who are themselves attuned to being in love. Thank you, Gary, for another of the most beautiful love stories on GA. And thank you, Kitt, for my Danish Drool Diverter, or my keyboard would have ceased functioning after this chapter.

The emoticon is easy, just type : followed by X and it will appear. I'm glad Miles opened up to his dad, parents can be as clueless as kids about what is important. And getting the two fathers together is a great idea. If Miles' dad does plan to leave his wife, I hope he can take Miles with him, since his mom is not good for him. But I guess that would be rather unlikely at that day and age. Well done Jay in the locker room. Zane deserved every word, and perhaps his friend can now make him listen when he tells him to be nicer. And it would be nice if Greg and Dennis liked each other, but I think Dennis would be happy just to have some friends. So far things have gone well on the first school day, let's hope it continues. Great chapter CG.

There is something to be said for a bossy and sharp-tongued girl like Clarissa, lol. She's certainly not afraid of telling idiot males how to behave. I'm sure she'd be annoying in real life, but right now I'm loving her as Neil and Liam's fag hag. I wonder how quickly Jim will work out that Carlton is more interested in Ty than in him. And I wonder if Ty will tell them to fuck off when he realizes. He's so loyal to Jim, he might do it, stupid Brat. But Dad will set him straight.

I loved the way Arron came right out and asked the question. Sure took Chet by surprise. Taking a day off together is a brilliant idea, they need to settle into their relationship before any new misunderstandings happen. I feel all warm and happy thinking about them sleeping in each other's arms.

I agree about prompt 405, it's perfect for one of my Rob & Co at the Mall chapters.

I liked your wish-come-true story, Val. And since only you, Mann and Sasha did anything with the car picture prompt, maybe it's OK to have it up again.

Silly boys. Some Roman trickster God must be laughing his head off. but at least it finally made them confess their feelings.

LOL, Snowflake - Mr. I'm-so-hot 1 - 0. Hilarious. But also wonderful the way they instinctively understand each other and want the same thing. I wonder if the massage is another test? If Brian fucks Jimmy, will he lose the chance to win Snowflake's love? Or is Snowflake cool about this until they commit?

I still want to put Ian over my knee and spank him, hard. Chet should have dragged him into the cold shower by the scruff of his neck at 6 am. When he was awake, chuck him his clothes and tell him to get dressed in ten minutes. Finally, shoved a cup of coffee in his hand and escorted him out of the door with a 'Have a safe trip home.' But I guess if Chet wasn't the kindhearted caring guy he is, Ian would never have been able to wrap him around his little finger. Well, too bad, but Ian can go find himsef a sugar daddy - or go to hell. As long as he gets the fuck out of Chet's life.

I think Chet had a good point about readiness. They have been ready for love for a long time. And this is why they could be taken in and betrayed by their former partners, who were apparently not looking for Mr. Right, but only Mr.-Right-Now. No harm in that if you're single, but pretty evil and callous if you have a faithful partner who has invested in your love. But Chet and Arron seem ready to invest heavily in each other, mentally and physically. If this chapter is anything to go by, their instincts have been honed and refined by previous hurts and are now spot on. A ready-for-relationship-radar = reladar ? Perhaps a better ability than gaydar?

I still think Jaro's review looks like that from drooling without proper cover for his device. Anyway, my favorite sentence in this chapter was: Something in Arron went click too. I think the story clicked for your readers as well by this point. We want those two guys to connect and be right for each other - and never stand each other up.

It seems Michael knows Arron well enough to realize he does not like to be set up with a date - even if we know from CotT that Michael didn't know Arron was gay until he came out at work himself. On the other hand, Chet's green eyes are making him forget all about this rather quickly. I think they would do the same to me. Green eyes are my favorite. And hunky guys in uniform. Envious sigh...

You know, I have the feeling Chet may dislike Ian more for the hurt he caused Arron and through this Chet, that for the original break-up. But at least this time the cure for the pain came sooner rather than later. Arron fought with courage and regained his trust and the reward was well deserved for both of them. "I had a taste of losing you today, and I never want to feel that way again." Let's hope Chet won't have to, but Arron is a cop after all. But I trust in Gary to give them their HEA and years and years of loving, playful togetherness.

You made me feel sad and hopeful at the same time. It hurt. but it was a compeling story.

You're quite right Ron and in fact Sasha is one of the writers I was thinking of when I talked about writers breaking away from the mold. Born Wolf is definitely one of my favorites in the way it sets up a credible shifter universe.

I didn't mean to compare them as writers. I only meant to imply that they in each their field set a certain standard - or maybe set up genre rules is a better description.

To be fair to Chet, if all had gone according to plan, Arron would have known everything about Ian's visit, if only they had cooked supper at Arron's place. And faced with a impossible situation Chet did his best to reassure Arron while telling Ian exactly what he thought of his behavior. It's true, Chet shouldn't have trusted Ian and left him in the apartment, but he couldn't have thrown him out the night before. Right after reading this chapter I was more worried about Arron, he seems in shock. Will he come to his senses and trust in Chet again?

I think you should stick to the usual prompt feature, why change what works. And no one could expect you to do all this work, the time is better spent on other things. The way to do a monthly feature might be to make a temporary topic where all the authors who did a prompt in the past month went and left their name, the name of their story with an embedded link and the first line (or two). Then you copy all of them - and if the author forgot to do it, then no blame on you for missing any. Afterwards, simply delete the topic and start a new one - or delete the posts and go for the next month.

I guess Liam is not taking it as badly as I feared, that's a relief. Doug is a good friend even if he's thick at times, when will he learn not to call Neil names? I got the message you were hinting at: the parallel between Liam and Phil, how people can change and see the errors of their ways, but it's understandable that Neil doesn't trust either of them. By the way, why didn't Liam send the mail to Todd as well as Neil, ? If Todd reads whatever he has written, he might persuade Neil to read it too. Liam isn't all that bright / clever either, is he? I'm impressed Ty didn't bash his dad's face in, that bastard deserved it for talking to and about Karen that way. But in a way it's good she has met him, so she knows where Ty is coming from and that he is not exaggerating when he says his dad is an utter bastard. I wish they hadn't told Ty's dad about him going to Carlton with Jim. But they probably didn't see any harm in it, since they don't know the mischief he's been up to with other clubs. The funny thing is he's probably done Ty a favor as he might have started negotiations if his dad hadn't blocked it and now he's still free to go to the best place. Talk about irony of justice. Deon needs to meet Clarissa.

I get all nostalgic now, it was such a wonderful experience, reading that story.

That poll was difficult to decide on. On one hand, if people know their prompts will be featured, it may encourage more to be written right after the prompts are out - or at least for the weeks you do the first line feature. On the other hand, it's also nice when you chose to feature a single prompt, including older ones (since this happened to me ). Maybe you could keep doing the usual prompt feature weekly and add a monthly prompt wrap up, where you feature the prompt stories written that month. All the first line prompts could be grouped under the relevant heading and the other prompts (list of words etc) can be featured with their first line. But I guess it's quite a bit of work...