Sasha Distan

Crappy things happen, but at least he got away. And now Marty is there for him too. A secret shared and all that...

Leon blinks rain out of his eyes, and then hides behind his hands for a brief moment. “This is a conversation which desperately needs whiskey. Are you still gonna let me in your house?” “Are you sure you want to?” I growl nastily, “after all, a faggot does live there.” “Don’t say that,” Leon mutters, and I wonder why it always seems the rule for me is different from everyone else; he’s called other people that plenty of times. “Come on, I’m fucking soaked.” It’s his fault we’re both shiverin

awww Jeff, I am sorry. But if they never show their faces to me again, what would you say knowing I'd kept them from you? I can tell you they live in the same universe as Hani, the Million Dollar Rent Boy genetic experiment, if that helps. Or does that raise more questions?

getting the description done before tags is going to be way better! awesome!

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If they stick their necks out again, I'll let you know.

It's a good week for the promising authors. Look at us all being prolific!

Army nicknames are the best, right? Glad you liked them Puppil!

Thank you Jesse, and you're welcome. As always. A slice of life for now, you never know!

one day on a planet far far away, perhaps.

nowhere for the moment, but thank you.

Thank you! I think so too, but apparently the boys of the squad are brewing gently. Hopefully they'll find their time, but if they don't, I thought it would be a shame not to share them.

Awww!! a little one! *goes all parenty and mushy* Clem (the man Ma is talking about who has an impressive beard, excellent casserole making skills, and is rather a good shot) is a real person who I met when we were over there in late fall two years ago at a pheasant shoot. He was part of the inspiration for the Clem of Ladies' Man fame who you know (and love). I first heard the song 'God Made Girls' on that very same trip, and thus the idea of the story was born. I wrote a chunk of notes on the flight back. He is a very nice young man, and I think of him often.

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I have read and voted, and left reviews for most. I think I have been rather more... truthful? Though some people might say harsh, in my reviews. Not knowing who the author is gives an interesting freedom in that respect. I've always wanted to leave reviews which are more "review" and less "commenting". There are some good stories there.

Pretty cute, though the last scene felt a bit OTT personally. Kind of like when they add an extra scene onto the end of a movie to "round it out" when it's not actually needed. I really felt for the main character though, because having a birthday on april fools has gotta suck.

I worked out they were both the prankster(s) about 1/3 of the way through. Too many obvious hints. Sorry. Also, the switch in the change of perspectives from Ted noticing Ryan to Ryan viewing hot guys going past his office to the bathrooms was quite jarring.

fighting with both hands is standard, also, Cooper volunteered that information because his brain was a bit... overloaded. I'm not sure Cooper listened to a thing Spoon said after that first comment!

Oh yay! does he still have his magnificent beard? I miss those days, though maybe not the rain...

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I will never blame an editor who works for free (with additional hugs). and yeah, the brain is great at filling in the blanks!

not what I said at all, clearly you didn't actually read it. I never blamed anyone for these problems, I never said they should just 'get over it'. Seeking help is a good thing - wallowing in misery/stress isn't. What I said was, defining someone's stress as being directly related to their "minority issue" (for lack of a better short term) is always going to be a divisive. It's like saying that Gay white men can't feel stress because they aren't discriminated against in the same way as trans women (this comparison was actually made last year by the UK National Union of Students who declared white gay guys couldn't lead LGTBQ+ groups because they were too privileged). We're all people, we all have things that make us feel less than worthy compared to others, the current culture of over labelling all these things takes away from the issue of actually helping people to deal with the effects of this stress. Otherwise you risk drawing more and more lines in the sand to divide people, saying that someone mixed race can't feel the same stress of someone who is black, or that a white Christian in Zimbabwe is somehow different from a Muslim woman - they are both persecuted. Let's deal with the problem, rather than continually telling people what they can and can't feel/be offended by because of what race/class/culture/religion/sexuality they "belong" to.

There's a fair amount of argument on this side of the pond the main point of it is that we should do it - first - to ensure that we can then make the rules for the ethics of these things. After all, I'm all for genetic experimentation if it can eradicate things like Parkinson's and Huntington's and a host of other degenerative genetic conditions which make life hell for people and their families. Designer babies on the other hand is a horrible idea. The concept of getting there "before China" and making international laws on what is allowed and what isn't, appeals to a big sector of the scientific community. After all, like you said, it's going to happen at some point. How smart it is to make a wild colony of mammoth, on the other hand, remains to be seen.

I agree with a lot of what Carlos said. English (including American English, Australian English, and the host of countries (India/China/Japan/Denmark/The Netherlands etc) who speak English as a second language right from the ages of 4 or 5) is a constantly evolving language. I speak very differently from my parents, the kids at school talk in ways (and not just using 'new' words) which make me sound very different from them. Some of it will be stylistic choices, such as in speech, because not everyone has the same level of education/grammar/speaking style, and that helps to make character different and distinct in the way they talk Sometimes it will just be little things which weren't picked up in editing. From personal experience, it is impossible to catch all the slip up's in a long story without at least 3 people doing 3 passes each. And even then... the Fifth Harry Potter book rather famously contains a scene where someone is seen in the woods who died three chapters previously, because the fact JK Rowling had typed the wrong name was missed by every single editor and test reader - and that's for a multinational publishing corporation! Sometimes we must just accept there will be tiny errors in fiction people put out for free for our enjoyment, and they're probably fine with the fact it's not 100% absolutely perfect.

Very sweet. I think whoever wrote this either has teaching experience with children with developmental delays, or has a friend/relative with DS or similar. It reads very well, and the little things like the teacher being proud of his 'r' being the right way around and the waving of the hands make Peter's character very believable. Hugely enjoyable over all, and I also loved the moment where Peter's mom had to go get tissues. So lovely.