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Nuts - no. But don't limit things too much - maybe mommy wants to kiss Mrs Claus! You might want to think about limiting it to one writer per topic - I think a group of stories about Daddy kissing Santa would be the bee's knees!

Pork pie and pickled onions I understood but what on earth are twiglets and wobbly blancmange? For me? Homade linguini, fresh tomato sauce, meatballs, and bracolli ( a meat roll with Italian spices inside). Have not had any since I was labeled type II diabetic and pasta became a no-no for me.

3PM EDT, the sun has finally come out, the rain has stopped, the water level in the flooded swamp has begun to recede, and i think i just saw a mouse run across the kitchen! This means war!

It's your birthday! I'ts your birthday! May it be everything you want it to be!

Ummm - no

Actually in NJ right now you can get your permit at 16 and a provisional licence with restrictions similar to the ones you listed at 17. Restrictions on times and number of passengers are lifted at 18. Pictures are printed differently than the rest of the state until you are 21 at which time you get a full unrestricted licence that can serve as legal id. When i was a kid you couldn't get your permit till 17 but that changed some time before my daughter got her licence.

Hmmm - now where have I heard words like that before - that a story an author thought shit was actually pretty good.... oh wait - sasha's! Lovely, emotional, and just a tad creepy. Excellent!

I will not repeat what the others said except to say "And you don't think you are a writer?" Stories often decide they want to go other places than we intend. Go with it! I think i will add you to my follow list, just in case your borrowed muse decides to take up residence. Hopefully he will not be as annoying a little bastard as mine is tho. I am looking forward to seeing what the two of you have to say.

I love it! But didn't momma teach Dermot not to play with his food? A well written story that is destined to be added to my favorites file to be enjoyed again.

As I understand it real life is getting in the way and rather than leave half a story up to languish in the archives he chose to unpublish, at least until he can find the time and motivation to finish the story. I am going to miss him and his writing!

Bobby and Steve are still trying to figure that out Lisa. If they come up with an answer maybe there will be a chapter 4.

They are teenagers Sasha, there is no limit to the trouble they can "conjure up"!

Or pre-disposed to doing the same thing. Alcoholism can run in families and needs to be guarded against to break the cycle just as children who are abused tend to grow up to be abusers themselves. It's not chiseled in stone to be that way but it can and does happen. And yes perhaps we have seen more words on horses than on skating, but what we have seen there is what the horse world calls "hacking around". The competitive world is very much different. The same goes for Brad and Will's surfing - they are out to enjoy themselves, not to compete. Again if competition were involved things would have evolved very differently. JJ IS a competitive skater and handles everything much differently than someone who is just skating for the enjoyment- even if we DO NOT see the day to day on the page. Would you say Matt and Wade are not serious about hockey because we haven't been to practice daily since Millennium? I have to agree with Jeremy, Frank almost has to fall apart in the next few chapters. That's almost inevitable. But I can see Matt, who IS his grandson after all, being a key player in keeping him from hitting rock bottom, as well as the planned marriage to Isadore, and who knows what else Marks fertile little mind can come up with?

The Morning After Bobby was slow to open his eyes. He felt sluggish and foggy. If he didn’t know better he would accuse Paul of having spiked the punch. Maybe he did. It might, just maybe, explain the fiasco that went on between 11 and midnight. Bobby’s groan as he tried to sit up woke Steve. “Holy mother of stone statues Bobby – what the hell did you put in the punch last night? I don’t remember tasting anything in it, but my head fee

Shouldn't classes at Stanford be up and running, if not already then shortly? That puts Gathan and Tony back in Palo Alto, and several lesser characters as well. All sorts of opportunities to create both drama and new supportive relationships. Odd that we didn't hear anything about Matt's adoptive family through all of this. Granted there were some pretty rough times when Matt found out he was adopted, and then when the rat fink outed him at the holiday dinner, but I had thought they had settled their differences and were getting on well? Why on earth would the parents not have been there to support the boy they raised when he lost the bio-father he only recently found and came to love??? And of course there is the new, unknown quantity of Ethan. We don't know nearly enough about him to even come close to the ballpark on speculating with him. I am quite sure Mark can drive us all nuts with speculation without pulling another Jeff/Robbie look alike out of the woodwork. Maybe if/when Wade brings Ethan to Escorial Frank will latch onto him and give them both something they need - Ethan a resident father figure and Frank a reason to move past losing Robbie!

Be patient Joanne - his story is worth the wait!

That's hard. Mark hasn't given us too much to work with there.

If it were to work at all it would be BECAUSE they are a hothead and a bitch. One would learn to control his temper better because that's what the kid really needs and the other to curb the bitchiness because he doesn't want the fights. We don't know that JJ doesn't do drugs really - just that there has been no evidence of it. I also get the feeling everyone is thinking drugs in the sense of first Jeff's and then Marcel's experiences. JJ is into competitive sports in a time frame when performance enhancing drugs were just coming into national attention, and the governing bodies of sport associations were just hashing out how, when, and if to test people for them. Trainers and coaches encouraged their use, sometimes in "protein drinks" without even telling the athlete. Somehow I keep associating bitchiness in JJ to 'Roid Rage. That could explain the swings from his insightful side to the really bitchy outbursts.

In fairness to Tyler that wasn't his intention, but in the horse world reputation is everything. Thanks.

A lot of these were posted all over the place before I took the editor tag and could start a "story" for them. This one was my first and took me forever to track down in the prompts section. I've seen the "help me human" look more times than most would realize! Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it

Promises “I never make a promise I don’t intend to keep. You know that!” “I didn't think you would stop talking to me over this! It was a misunderstanding!” “No, a misunderstanding is handled by talking to the other person. You spread gossip. All of which was untrue, and you hurt my reputation in the business. I have had 4 clients call and cancel already this morning and you just spout your shit last night! How are people supposed to trust me wh

Seems Jake let Versace off easy. I think I would have gone ballistic on him! Lovely story Wayne!

That's the way a Halloween should be!

Sorry Carlos, but I have you beat there - first tissue was needed when I saw the chapter had posted. Oddly, very much like in my real life, I managed to get through the memorial with a minimum of tears, then lost it again when Brad was on the beach. I think Sammy is right - JJ would not have liked any place at this point. What's the old phrase? "You would bitch if they hung you with a brand new rope."? Nana dropped a grief councilor in their laps that first morning. Will more or less forced Brad into his shrinks office. I think they all could do with a few visits.

Wish we were allowed to like reviews. I would like all three of the ones here now.