Sammy Blue

Thank you for all your comments. It's been a while, but I enjoy coming back to this story every once in a while when someone comments, and I am still happy that people write their thoughts to my story. Thank you very much.

Thanks :)

I'll see what I can do.

It does still exist but I honestly don't even remember what the end was... Co-Authoring hasn't really worked for me so far... maybe one day I'll try

I think new writers mostly do that, but it's pretty interesting to write main characters that are nothing like you... much more challenging though. And haha, I haven't seen him in years but he was a great person when I knew him.

1. He got blassgrüne Augen in the German version, which is probably not as noticeable a word as glaucous is, since it's a compound of two rather common words. I remember having a big struggle on how to translate that since it's sorta not that defined (outside of the RAL-color pattern, but I think perception of the word is different from the exact RAL-color). 2. Lol yeah sticking to what words your character might use rather than what you would use is more challenging than what people think, but it's a quality of a great writer to get that spot on... 3. Yeah, probably best to first write and then post, but that makes all the feedback only half worth it... Can't really change a finished story, or only with large difficulties... Did I mention Gemini was finished in November 2013 but I rewrote the last 20k words to like 50k+ and completely changed the ending? That was because I wrote it first and posted later and the first comments made me realize what things I had completely overseen... I would love to write again (or feel like it from time to time) but I know chances of me getting anything done in the next few years are slim so better not start...

Thanks for the comment and all. Ethan was in fact inspired by a young teen I knew back then from an LGBT youth group. He's pretty close both how I picture Ethan and just the kind of person he is, I think. I cannot remember whether or not I had any specific real life "templates" for the other characters, but if I did it as only loosely or I would remember, I think.

1. haha glad you can learn from me 2. Yeah it doesn't work so easily, like some people imagine. Kids can be badly mistreated and they'll always still go back to their parents (or who they know to be such). Only Josh being in his teens and the person he is enables him to think this way at all. 3. I wish such was the case for all stories ^^

Haha I honestly don't think I wrote them that well. I think the teens in the story are all pretty okay done but the adults seem very blurred in retrospect. None of them are really properly shaped out or they're not that realistic... I had a big issue making them work in the story, maybe because it's so focussed on the teen protagonists. I suppose it might just be that it works out in the end, I think it gives it a bit more of a teenager view than a neutral one, you know, distant from adults and all that.

When we talk about bullying there are things, particuarly the way you hold yourself etc. that can attract bullies. It doesn't mean it's anyones fault though, as you said, it's a simple observation of why things happen the way they do. It's interesting to ask for reasons though. You should read "Wenn die Kinderseele weint." by Romberg-Asboth if you don't already know it, might be an interesting read. This isn't really a main topic in the book but it was mentioned as a side note if I remember correctly, or somewhere along those lines... Anyway it reminded me that you might enjoy the matter, knowing you. I like that observation about Josh being naked.

Hey Zuri, I actually researched this a bit... had too look it up again though, it's been so long. There are barely any baby hatches (as you might know them) in the US as of now and from what I (Wikipedia) know they've first appeared around 2016., so way after I wrote this. However, all states have so-called "save-haven-laws" specifically for NY state -> https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/safe/ So from what I looked up and heard, this is pretty realistic in the how and why of how she does things. Thanks for your review

Hey, does anyone know where those disappeared to? An old link I have doesn't work anymore and the search function doesn't turn anything up... Thanks for helping. Sammy

Well Ben's really not having an easy time. Looks like a card house about to collapse.

Well I think the reason he approached them was well done. As for them being in the same place at the same time? Well... that's the thing about writing stories isn't it? There is probably thousands of students coming in new that year and visiting that spot. Out of them only one is there at the same time as Neil & co. Of course you could now tell a story about a different guy that goes there at a different time, but you didn't, because that would be pointless. While it sometimes seems like things just so happen to fall into place, if you look at it differently, of course we narrate the characters that meet, not the ones that don't meet. So you could really say, the reason you're telling Mason's story is because he met Neil at that spot. ❤️ (PS: Did I mention I'm a dad now, too? )

Aaah, I was so focused in the housing, I didn't even consider they could meet at university looking forward to the next chapter already! The football players at a gay bar sounds interesting too

Great chapter! That place that's up for sale... I have a feeling about that...

Well that was a good start and I liked that you went over many major characters again like you did. While I do remember a lot, it has been quite some time since the last book. I wonder if Ben is our mysterious hunted character? Seems a bit suspicious almost that he got so little mention yet he was mentioned.

Wow this totally made my day! So far, we don't know much about the story yet, but I agree with what was previously said, I don't think Mason is the one being hunted... Looking forward to reading more.

Wow, way cool. I'll be checking this out as soon as I have a quiet moment

I have been inactive on GA for a while, just checking in rarely. I'm glad I did look at new stories though (blame me having to study for some major exams and procrastinating). If I hadn't, I would not have found this story. It was very well written, it was dragging a bit in the middle but then, I did help to built the tension towards the end and the wait was rewarded. I have several times played with the idea of writing something like this and actually my first tries on writing as a teen went along the lines of the beginning of this story. I never got around to actually doing something like this though, I could never get the language right for one. (Not a native speaker). Anyway, thank you for writing this story and sharing it here on GA, I really enjoyed it!

Thank you a lot for leaving likes and reviews! It's been a while since I wrote this but there are a lot of memories connected to this story, so I really enjoy coming back to this when someone leaves me a comment

Haha, it was for me too, at the time. I suppose it is almost a bit pretentious to use, but then, me not being a native speaker, I looked up words that would fit what I wanted to say and this is what my dictionary gave me...

Thanks a lot!

Hey we most definitely do Nostic's studies are going well and she's currently doing an internship with one of the major steel companies in Europe

Hey! Thanks for your review and your thoughts. I do enjoy living in Germany around Christmas time, too. E.g. Christmas market in Braunschweig is pretty awesome and it was a real joy to show it to nostic last year after she came to Germany.