Timothy M.

Or perhaps just common sense ? No, you're probably right, the wants and needs of the people we love are as important as our own.

It makes a lot of sense, because I felt the same while writing the chapter. I'm delighted you're part of the Patrick family now. Thank you for reading and leaving lovely comments.

They're of course also learning things about each other which I don't mention (favorite food, music, books etc), but all the major stuff is there. Patrick has never talked to anyone about his sixth sense, not even his parents, so that's a huge step. But he'll get there.

Oh, I'll definitely read it, and the interview above made me even more certain. But for the first time in months I'm getting some writing done, and i don't want to lose momentum. It was encouraging to hear you were able to come back from losing your passion for writing, even if you feel it's slow going.

It's a good thing he didn't break both arms. I think he got off lightly with the Talk. He and Todd make a good couple, but I agree about more talking.

I'm glad you were persuaded to post stories on GA. In spite of the occasional rant I enjoy reading your stories, which are both well written and interesting. I haven't managed to read the CSR story yet, because I want to be in a brighter mood than the February grey grumpiness.

What a relief. I was worried, but Michael's family were perfect. Thank you

I am too, although I'm stalled at the moment. But at least there are more chapters to read for you at this point. Although, with the speed you're going through all my works, you'll run out soon. Luckily, there are lots of great stories on GA:

LOL, you're right. Every time I try to write a Complete short story my readers and I want to know more. I have a hard time letting go of my characters. I do want to return to Gil and Tar and replace the last line with more chapters, but I need to finish my currently incomplete stories first. Plus, fantasy is a difficult genre since you have to come up with a whole, coherent world.

I guess Bart already had his date with Death, but it wasn't much fun. You'll have to read the story I'm currently posting together with @aditus to - maybe - find out about another kind of dating Death. Thanks for reading and commenting.

thank you. I have to admit I was nervous when I first posted the story, mainly because of the difficult balance you mention. I keep being amazed and grateful about people liking and praising it. You can find the other stories in @Cia's household item game here, they were very interesting (weird) too.

You'll be happy to know I'm currently writing on more chapters and hope to start posting once I'm done with the story I'm writing together with Aditus. If you laughed a lot, my missions with this story is a success.

Thank you for leaving a comment. I was following your progress as you hit the like buttons, and it was a nice surprise to wake up to this feedback on the last chapter and the story. Have you decided whether you're Team Rob or not ? (You can find the other members and check out the T-shirt in the story discussion topic.) I'm delighted and grateful for your remarks about the conversations and scenes, because dialogue was always a weak spot in my writing. A lot of the credit for improvement goes to my editor / beta reader @AC Benus.

Well, at least they got it right on the second try - or was it the third ? So what did Landyn do to enable D to lower his shields ?

Lots of good points in this article. However, I hope for readers that most of them do NOT read out to themselves inside their heads. I have a friend who was a very slow reader (which was a problem when studying), so they took a speed reading course. One of the first thing the instructor asked was: "Do you read the text out to yourself inside your head?" Several people said yes and were told this was a major reason for their slowness. If you don't do it, the path to understanding is from your eyes to your brain, short and fast. If you do it, the path in your mind goes: eyes-mouth-ears-brain - a long, slow route. Making kids read out loud when learning to read should only be done in the shortest possible period, so as not to set this pattern in their heads. It took my friend quite a while to get rid of the habit. That said, there are also disadvantages to being a fast reader like me: you tend to miss details. But I often read stories, I like, two or three times and usually discover something new each time.

Great recommendation by tim. Just don't read Bound & Bound when you're alone on a dark and stormy night. If you need any more encouragement, you can also check out @Valkyrie's blog review from 2015.

No, nestling arrows are quite harmless, and they wouldn't work on Sablo anyway, because he's been shot with a silver arrow.

Thanks (it not just me but Aditus, too). Yeah, the timing of the DOR revoke was slightly suspicious. Is it significant? (author short hand for either big plot twist or plot hole). Diego did in fact have a few decades of more normal guardian duty, before he found himself assigned to those children, but yeah, he's not been a happy trooper for a while. Reaper man is my favorite DiscWorld novel and it's always fun when he appears in the other books too. "KIND OF DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?"

We can read that here too. Great story.

why are you scrubbing the bathroom if it's being renovated. Won't they rip everything out ?

I saw a study once which looked at statistics for teen pregnancies. The countries with the most comprehensive and mandatory sex eds in schools, including teaching you how to have safe sex, had significantly fewer teen pregnancies than countries where there was no sex ed and/or mainly the no-sex-before-marriage mantra.

I hope the confusion will be over by the time Aditus and I have finished the story. But you never know...

Isn't the clitoris the female body's equivalent of the penis ? I think it was less than ten years ago that I read an article saying that describing and drawing the clitoris as a 'button' was totally ridiculous, because it was more like a rod, with the tip being like the head of a penis. I can't remember being taught anything like that in sex ed back in the 1970'ies.

How does Tracy know about Jeff ? While I'm glad he's befriending the shunned gay boy, I feel a little sorry for Jack who is actually standing up to his best friend and calling him on his bigoted behavior. It will be interesting to see whether Jimmy will be a better friend than Jason was. But perhaps Jack will retreat deeper into his closet and watch Tracy and Jeff with envy.

I'm glad the chapter appealed to your romantic heart. You've pointed out something essential about my story, which is Patrick getting a family after years of loneliness. Patrick and Peter falling in love was the aim of the original short story, but when I decided to expand it, I wanted to show all the other positive consequences of them getting hit by Cupid's arrows.