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Come on over 😛 -20 C and a foot of snow. I could use some warming I'll give this a shot How do you like your eggs? Scrambled? Over-medium? What is over-medium? I've heard of over easy and over hard, but medium How do you measure that? Me, I'm partial to over easy with some hot sauce. What is your favorite story on Gay Authors, and why? Circumnavigation because like CJ, but no where even near the effort of him, I read every single chapter published over a year and read every chapter as they came out. Also his occasional PM's to me for my ideas or thoughts What brought you to GA? I remember looking on the internet when there wasn't too much internets, I found Nifty and then I think a fanfic story I was following said the author was also posting here. I too have never looked back. But I did help out on BoN for a few years which took me all over the place If your life was a book, what would be the title? Living Life for Dummies What is your favorite soup? Easily homemade Chicken Noodle. Just some extra love that goes into the homemade type.

Well, compliments to you and writing what right now is a mystery. 😏 I think there is 3 different tangents or threads going on here. Leia being pregnant, Brandon and Jordan and their growing, shall I say bond? Then whatever Keith has that is making Brandon keep going back for more. You give us more and more snippets to formulate questions in our minds but not enough to make concrete ideas of what is going on. like you give us just enough and then BAM, you switch things up so I’m more focused on the present part of the chapter than rather what I have just read. Frustrating, yes. But probably speaks to a well planned out story and executing it perfectly. So for that,

Strange, Brandon I don’t think had made any indications he might be gay. After the make out session that Leia ended with the lip ring girl at the party, not too much to go on. Not sure why he’d let Keith have his way with him, not once but twice. There must be something else going on. 😵‍💫

Wow, this story went sideways quick Well written and in what I’m beginning to expect, scenes, thoughts and emotions and feelings raw and bare. In a way, Keith has me intrigued, not just for being the creep he just demonstrated himself to be. More so, is he another creator or enabler that Jordan wants to track down. Is he half of the evil that is crashing down on Brandon and his friends ? I hope Brandon is okay, and has some left over physical scars, on I’m not a masochist, I just want others to see something is dreadfully wrong and can help him.

I don’t think I’ve seen Species myself either. I’m more imagining something from Alien popping out of Leila but not by birth canal, or cesarean section, but gnawing it’s way out, from inside. Damn you Cassie, it’s bed time and I thought I got Alien out of my head years ago.

I was thinking about the same thing, of this possibly being dangerous. Thinking big picture, if Brandon Iikes creating portraits, did Jordan actually exist at the school, or was he doing a random drawing and the Jordan appears in his dimension? I guess it would be freaky if he drew the picture and Jordan lifted of the paper and into his room 😮 Dont mind me, I like to take a wild guess after the first chapter and wait and see how wrong I am. Just the ‘calling’ of Jordan increases the mystery. Looking forward to more.

Sooooo, that should kick off the mood of this weekend Not really sure what is more scary, the song or the facial expressions of Bobby Pickett!! I had a certain European food and chocolate company send me a whole bunch of Halloween candy mini bars due to my current job! I have boxes and boxes of mini chocolate bars, not the best for a lifelong diabetic I know that Krista is expecting some but I think the UPS fee to send them to Kentucky might be a bit excessive. So what should I do with them? When I was a kid, I went out trick or treating and after Mom and Dad took me to the local children's hospital where I donated it. They in turn would get me some more diabetic friendly treats. Somehow over the years, hospitals seem to have asked not to have chocolate dropped off, I wonder why So what should I do with all this chocolate? I have Monday to decide so I'm sure you will all have very helpful suggestions A bit slower week at the blog this week Our first blog after the Weekly Wrap was actually on Thursday ! Valkyrie in addition to surveying the site about future anthologies, enlisted the help of @CassieQ on some tips on Writing for a Theme: Then on Friday, our trusty Prompt Team marked a Prompt-aversary Actually, they went back to pay homage to the man who was our prompt guru for years, @comicfan Saturday, Comicality wrote a interesting topic, one that piques your interest just by the title: No matter how many blogs are posted, Myr is logging in 7 days a week to give us new Words of the Day: proclivity, smorgasbord, efficacious, orchidaceous, per contra, garble, homogeneous Well if you want to help us meet our October goals, you have Sunday and Monday. Do our authors have 9 new stories and 82 new chapters? Think of it as nine stories of nine chapters and one has a prologue Just kidding, we all appreciate every single word you share with us all You're the best!!!! Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories Gap Year by Mark Arbour The Company by JamesSavik Flying Circus by Carlos Hazday Ancalagon by Cia Jay's Loelife: A GA Exclusive Epic-logue by Mrsgnomie Picture Me And You by Comicality The Cat Burglar by Aditus Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Last Reels by Mawgrim Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Prairie Dogs, Pronghorns, & Penis Sheaths by Biff Spork Stolen: Unearthing the Lore by lomax61 Love Is Everything by Ajbt2001 Shadow Effect by kbois The Playground by ObicanDecko The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Chasing Rusty Parker by Laura S. Fox Letter Found in a Desk by Refugium **Complete** Raising a Rebel by W_L The English Year by Jwolf Ash's Marriage Trigger by Thirdly Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 The Next Stage by Littlelovestories ARROW by CLJobe Resentment: A Psychological Thriller by ValentineDavis21 Collections by RichEisbrouch **Complete** Blueblood 5.1: Red Alert!! by R. Eric Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

They say a picture is worth a thousand words This is what it looked like in my next of the woods after 3 days of temps in the mid 20's C, (77F) which were records, to dropping down below 0 overnight (32 F) and getting around 15 cm (6 inches) of snow Just so you know, even though I'm happy to see some much needed moisture and the first snow fall of the year, I blame this 100% on @Krista She wished this on me for like the past month and a half. Now rumour has it snow has been spotted below the Mason Dickson Line already So curious, have you had any snow? The ways things are I guess it might be appropriate to ask everyone, no matter where you are This week we got into a regular groove again and had some missed weekly blogs make their returns. Monday, Cia was in to introduce us to this gem of a story in our Signature Feature: Wednesday she was back with an excerpt from the story to entice you into taking a look. Wednesday was Val's time to talk to us all about anthology themes. She also opened up a couple of polls to gauge opinions out there. Friday, Additus brought us back to the weekly prompts. Are you thinking it is time to give one a go? Saturday was Comsie's day to bring a new writing article to help everyone out. Each morning, depending on where you live we got a new word of the day: pleiad, panoply, caravansary, juncture, exonerate, extenuate, cozen With one week to go, let's make a valiant charge to get our reading stats up there for the month of October: Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Flying Circus by Carlos Hazday Northern Exposure by Mark Arbour The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Ancalagon by Cia Elias by Krista GFD: Children Of Sunset by Comicality The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose by AC Benus Jay's Loelife: A GA Exclusive Epic-logue by Mrsgnomie The Cat Burglar by Aditus On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories The Fraternity House by Bill W **Complete** Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx **Complete** Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Last Reels by Mawgrim Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Shadow Effect by kbois ARROW by CLJobe Ash's Marriage Trigger by Thirdly Prairie Dogs, Pronghorns, & Penis Sheaths by Biff Spork The Playground by ObicanDecko Chasing Rusty Parker by Laura S. Fox The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Canaan Club by Westley D. Dance over the Thunderclouds by Georgie DHainaut **Complete** Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 Inherited by lomax61 Finding love by AquariusGuy Raising a Rebel by W_L Gods and Ancients by Grumpy Bear Wild Flower by vanalas Never walk alone- Walk on by Andre Delport Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

@Cia, did you just end that excerpt with a cliffhanger CJ would be sooooo proud of you BTW, I was uploading the graphic to my signature and I must say that I'm really impressed and really liking it! Your graphic represents the story very well!

I did too! and three and four and maybe five times 😢

One of my favourite CJames Stories. Like others I waited week to week to see what would happen to his great cast of characters. A while back I sat down and read through it all in a few days. Reminds me of why he will always be the undisputed King of Cliffhangers 😜 also, that I miss him grazing around GA. If you want a lot of twists and turns, and a great look into the mind of a psycho path (I mean a character, not the author, although somewhat similar 🤓) I highly recommend this for a read

Be careful what you suggest @Mattyboy, when I may of suggested something I got called a lot of names

OOoooooooh Let the speculation begin!!

Wow, what a fun filled chapter 😮. First Robbie finally got to check out his brother in a brotherly way. Lol. Never had a brother so I don’t know if I would have been, in Robbie’s words, a dick to him over a dick 😃 A couple of things stood out to me. First was how Sue seems to be moving more and more away from Don, and more towards ALL her children. I’m reluctant to say she has made this her final decision as she has fooled Robbie, and us in the past. The thing is, in the past Robbie never really acknowledged her, but maybe thought of her as a use to get at Don. So yeah, use her. No matter that the pastor, the police chief and Don’s other cronies say, Robbie has proven to me he is maturing very quickly. Not jumping in at the dinner discussion to antagonize Don more? More importantly that he probably couldn’t call Sue mom until he knew she was doing what his mom wholeheartedly do for Robbie. I’m sure when she gets alone, she will shed a tear of absolute happiness that I did when I heard him say it, and say like he totally meant it, ❤️ The second thing is how Robbie realized how the pastor makes him feel the opposite ends of the emotion scale at the same time. I’m thinking that he understands the multi personalities that make up Matthew better as well. The one that is alone with Robbie, the one when he is around his church friends, and the one when he is around his dad. I do wonder if the way for Jo to get to Symmonds is not through Matthew talking to her, but him telling Robbie enough about all the things he has done to Matthew and his friends. Hersey, yes, but when looking at child abuse, that much could open a full blown case with the Ministry of Children which I would think would bypass the local police chief, and the OPP would be the ones behind the investigators. Maybe even take down a pastor too 😏 Anyways, go Sue

I know that Krista was always looking for ways to portray Elias in the timeframe he passed away. Simple words and other character traits was something that she was overly concerned about. I'm glad you have noticed and mentioned. I'm sure you have put a smile on her face Also removing some self doubt that she sometimes puts on herself

Well a Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends. Not sure if you all have plans to be with someone(s) for the day or for dinner, but I really hope you all do . I'll be heading out to friends place this year to join his entire family to enjoy a turkey and so much more I was thinking about Halloween, since it is my job in real life , is like less that 3 weeks away . So have you put any thoughts into what you are going to dress up as? That is if you dress up. Why not have some fun this year and no matter what happens, you can do at least do a little dress up for Halloween. Maybe something as easy as some cat ears, pin a tigers tail to you butt, so many possibilities. So tell us your big, or little, plans for the 31st. Another quieter week at the GA news blog but what we had, we had well worth the quality Monday, Cia dropped on by with a brand new CSR for the month of October: Wednesday was the first one of the month and Aaron brought us something new to us all and frankly I never would have thought of doing . Did you check it out? Also, make sure you send him just 3 simple, easy questions about a story you read here. He will get the answers you never knew you could have answered! So the past 5 weeks, we have had 4 weeks of a fabulous anthology stories under the theme of Anniversary. So Cia recapped everything all up into a nicely wrapped up blog entry. Curiosity is killing me, did you read all the entries? Seven days this past week, Myr was in with a new word of the day: youthquake, Cassandra, kapellmeister, thwart, aubade, unabashed, crux Now we are just barely into 1 week of October, but lets see where we are in our goals. Maybe some residual effects from the anthologies? Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories Gap Year by Mark Arbour a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Flying Circus by Carlos Hazday My One True Weakness by Comicality Ancalagon by Cia Elias by Krista GFD: Fanboys by Comicality Jay's Loelife: A GA Exclusive Epic-logue by Mrsgnomie rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin by AC Benus **Complete** The Cat Burglar by Aditus Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories In a Stupor by Bill W Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx The House Sitter by Bill W Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Canaan Club by Westley D. For you by Zuri The Playground by ObicanDecko Shadow Effect by kbois ARROW by CLJobe Tough Times by quokka CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox Ark II by R. Eric Dance over the Thunderclouds by Georgie DHainaut Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 Raising a Rebel by W_L Detour by matcha Gender Bender in a Blue Blender by Thirdly The Flash of Brilliance by W_L **Complete** Warming The Cold One by garfwiz Recently Updated 'Poet' Stories Poems of Reflection by NFields1608 Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

Well it has happened October has darkened our doors This means the seasons are a changing. Have you got any frost on your pumpkin, or any other parts yet ? It is also sad in the sense that this week concluded week 4 of the Anthology - Anniversary. Please, if you haven't had a chance yet, make sure you thank your Authors, Poets and Editors and Beta's for making this one of the best, not only in participation, but in content on the sites 20 year history. Also time for a HUGE shoutout to our Anthology Team who have been tirelessly working to get everything set up and ready to go. I'm hoping that all of you get some rest and relaxation and have a sense of accomplishment to take you well into the future!!! Now by the clock on my wall, it is 3:43 AM So I think I'm going to get right into the Wrap Up. Heck, I even see @TalonRider is up to do his daily post in LPW! Monday was the CSR Discussion Day brought to you by the letter "C" (for Cia). Oh my, I'm so overworked this week , looks like the letter 'C' then brought us the final entries for the Anthology on the Thursday! Sort of like Old Faithful, we had Myr spewing out new Words of the Day, Sunday through Saturday: bludge, demean, fervid, obdurate, fata morgana, gist, infantilize With September in the past now, let's see where we ended up on out goals. Pretty darn good in my books All made it in all but one category and we juuuuuuust missed out on that one. Take a collective bow everyone Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Gap Year by Mark Arbour On Track by Headstall **Anthology Entry** New Arrivals by northie **Anthology Entry** Bellini by Cole Matthews **Anthology Entry** The Purple Door by Valkyrie **Anthology Entry** The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose by AC Benus Ancalagon by Cia Elias by Krista Jay's Loelife: A GA Exclusive Epic-logue by Mrsgnomie The Cat Burglar by Aditus a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories Founder's Day by Myr **Anthology Entry** Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Primal Park by astone2292 **Anthology Entry** Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Tough Times by quokka The Earth and The Snake by SilvryArdor Touma Shimizu by Luca E **Complete** Finding love by AquariusGuy The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox Gender Bender in a Blue Blender by Thirdly WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L More Than Nothing by Littlelovestories The Third Clue: A Pacha'ka Adventure by Geron Kees **Complete** Sun and Moon by SilvryArdor For you by Zuri CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill Canaan Club by Westley D. Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 The Next Stage by Littlelovestories Detour by matcha ARROW by CLJobe A terrible, nonsensical poetry and others by SilvryArdor Raising a Rebel by W_L Dance over the Thunderclouds by Georgie DHainaut The Flash of Brilliance by W_L Blueblood 5.1: Red Alert!! by R. Eric The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X Hamilton Gode New Edition by Luca E Wild Flower by vanalas Youngblood by metajinx Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

3 down and 1 to go!! We are getting there! Before you start to feel withdrawals from not having any more new anthology entries, rest assured that there was enough of them for the Anthology - Anniversary that there will be a fourth and final release next Thursday for all of you What else is new you ask (okay, maybe you didn't ) Well Thursday was not only the release of round 3, but it also was the kick off off the Fall Equinox up here in the Northern Hemisphere and the Spring Equinox in the South. Did you happen to see any Druids walking down the street around sunrise on Thursday? Seemingly to keep with the turn of the season, I have now caught my first full blown cold of the fall I thought it was just going to be a sniffle or two but waking up this morning I had a present that I was definitely not wanting. Fluids, fluids, fluids they say. No beer for me today, but a couple of liters of water instead. I was wondering to myself, Self, what else happened at the GA News Blog this week? Well if you asked yourselves the same question, thank gosh you have visited here for a nice wrapped up and easily referenced place to get it all. Monday, it was time to kick off with an all new Signature Author for the next month: If that was not enough to get you to check out our featured Siggy, how about a little excerpt of theirs on Wednesday: Finally on Thursday, we had the 3rd release of 4 for the Anthology - Anniversary: We did also have a featured word every day of the past week too: sawbones, viva voce, procrastinate, paroxysm, bathetic, froufrou, chilblain With only a week to go, are we going to make all our goals this month? Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories Gap Year by Mark Arbour tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Fireworks & Rain by Aditus **Anthology Entry** Faithful to the Cause by Mrsgnomie **Anthology Entry** Self-help by northie **Anthology Entry** Loving Anniversary by Carlos Hazday **Anthology Entry** The Cat Burglar by Aditus Ancalagon by Cia Translation Trashbin by AC Benus S-K-Y-L-I-G-H-T by Comicality rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin by AC Benus Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories It's Been a Long Time by Bill W **Anthology Entry** Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Pardon My Polari by Dodger **Anthology Entry** A Thousand Years of Hope by lilansui Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Lust and Propriety by HinderToyBL **Complete** The Third Clue: A Pacha'ka Adventure by Geron Kees Touma Shimizu by Luca E ARROW by CLJobe CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill The Seducer: A Gone From Daylight Inspired Story by MrM The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch I Hate This Town by Demiurge WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L Tough Times by quokka Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox The English Year by Jwolf Ark II by R. Eric A Thousand Years of Hope by lilansui The Syndicate by BKWildenberg Detour by matcha Raising a Rebel by W_L Finding love by AquariusGuy The Next Stage by Littlelovestories The Flash of Brilliance by W_L Dance over the Thunderclouds by Georgie DHainaut Youngblood by metajinx Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

I would be remiss if I didn't mention at the start of the Wrap Up about the 2nd round of the GA Anniversary Anthology 😮 It is more a fear of @Valkyrie. Even without her threats and promises of a world of hurt, I would have done it anyways So about those stories, why not give us an update on how you are doing? Did you get through all of Round 1. Have you got through Round 2 already ? Have you liked and left a chapter comment or story comment? I know our authors really appreciate everyone's feedback. With this being the first anthology in a while, let's leave our authors with good memories of what you thought of what they did. How the characters and stories made you feel! On the personal front, not too much to report here So I'll save you anything more about me Even though I didn't know what day of the week it was, I did manage to get the Review Teams latest and greatest review up on Monday: Then on Tuesday, did you drop by for some cake and drinks? Supposedly Myr had the hard stuff hidden for just himself Luckily he did up the following blog post before he cracked the bottle . 20 Years, WOW!!! Then with great fan fair, we got the second round of the 2022 Anthology: Anniversary: On Friday and Saturday we gave the Review Team and Comicality the day off again. They will both be back soon! Now what about the Word's of the Day? Did we get 7 of them? bevy, torpor, eidectic, esoteric, prognosticate, obeisance, pellucid Now with all these new stories, how the heck are we doing on our goals? Wow, we have surpassed our goal for reviews Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Translation Trashbin by AC Benus Gap Year by Mark Arbour Boundaries: An Old West Tale by Headstall **Anthology Entry** One Hundred Forty-Five Candles by Aditus **Anthology Entry** Poems for Sunday by Valkyrie **Anthology Entry** Ancalagon by Cia A Home For Christmas by Comicality GFD: Children Of Sunset by Comicality rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin by AC Benus Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Ten Years After by Mawgrim **Anthology Entry** Sticks and Stories by astone2292 Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Canaan Club by Westley D. Lust and Propriety by HinderToyBL ARROW by CLJobe CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill Finding love by AquariusGuy The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Goldstein, Johnson & Cole by Mancunian Hamilton Gode New Edition by Luca E Touma Shimizu by Luca E WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox Kit by quokka Twist of Fate by Remijay Shadow Effect by kbois For Better or For Worse by kbois **Anthology Entry** The Trouble At Jackalope Pass by drsawzall **Anthology Entry** Clovers End by Wolffang I Hate This Town by Demiurge Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 Gods and Ancients by Grumpy Bear Raising a Rebel by W_L Resentment: A Psychological Thriller by ValentineDavis21 Youngblood by metajinx Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

Well, well, well. Shall we wrap this week up like a pig in a blanket . So question for all of you, have you partaken in any of the great first releases of the GA 20th Anniversary Anthology? How many have you read, 1, 2, or all of them? What do you think so far? I've personally had a busy week, as on Thursday night I was going to get into bed with my iPad and start reading. Much to my surprise out my condo's bedroom window 😮 Okay Steve, that is an excuse for Thursday night... Then I came home from work on Friday afternoon, to find that all my shelving and hanger racks in my closet had decided to come crashing down . So today I tried on every piece of clothing and ended up donating 3/5th of my wardrobe . Tonight was a football game. But, I will try to get into them tomorrow for sure! We did have other things going on here at the GA News Blog that we shouldn't minimize or forget. Monday, Cia kicked off the week with an all new CSR for the month of September: Then on Wednesday, Aaron threw caution to the wind and got all up in another author's business and personal space, but once again it resulted in another great AAA 3.0: Then the big day came on Thursday, and it was with great pleasure the Anthology Team was able to start releasing the 2022 Anniversary Anthology!! We did take a break on the Prompt and Writing Articles this week, so the focus will be on the Anthologies. Then one thing that didn't change, was that there was 7 new Words of the Day: zydeco, ethereal, festoon, amok, primordial, trepidation, canaille Now I think this month there will be a lot of reading, a lot of reviews, chapter comments, and story comments. Let's push for a blue month Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose by AC Benus Northern Exposure by Mark Arbour Gap Year by Mark Arbour Odes to Life, Love, Loss, and Loyalty by Headstall **Anthology Entry** On the Grass by AC Benus **Anthology Entry** If Memory Serves by Comicality **Anthology Entry** The Plateau by Comicality Ancalagon by Cia a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Left Without Words by Comicality Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories Happy Anniversary, Honey by Bill W **Anthology Entry** Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill WL's Prompts- Short Stories by W_L WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L Shadow Effect by kbois Rock, Paper, Scissors by D.K. Daniels **Complete** Hamilton Gode New Edition by Luca E Finding love by AquariusGuy The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Ark II by R. Eric Touma Shimizu by Luca E ARROW by CLJobe Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox Kit by quokka Ravings of a Rabid Werewolf - Poetry by Wolf by WolfM Canaan Club by Westley D. Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 The Perfect Car by Mancunian **Anthology Entry** Promises to Keep by W_L **Anthology Entry** Never walk alone- Walk on by Andre Delport The English Year by Jwolf Raising a Rebel by W_L WL's Gay Manga and Anime Review by W_L **Complete** Youngblood by metajinx Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

I was somewhat caught off guard with the passing of our Queen. Actually was quite emotional when I heard the news and then when listening or watching the TV news. I knew she was of declining health and she wouldn't be with us for long, but the actual passing was a shock to me. I was explaining to Krista how the Queen probably means so much to me growing up in Canada. From elementary school (grades 1-6) all school assemblies were started off with Oh Canada and always concluded with God Save the Queen. She was on all our currency in one way or another. She was on most stamps until Canada Post started to move away and recognize others, but most historical stamps during her reign was her portrait. I remember going to hockey games, concerts and other events in our early days hockey rink, with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip up in the rafters with the Canadian flag and the Union Jack between them. These portraits must have been around 12 feet high by 6 wide, nothing small about them. Our courts in Alberta were Court of Queens Bench. We had a Governor General nationally and in provinces the Lieutenant Governor representing the Queen in Canada. She and Philip loved her visits to Canada from what I could see. Engaging, personable and trying to meet with as many people as possible. She engaged with First Nations reserves, she took pride in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the regiments with Royal names in our Canadian Armed Forces. I saw her in passing when she was in Calgary to celebrate our province's 100th birthday. At the time their was a contest for students in the province to write about what Alberta meant to them. My best friends father was a public school (non private in North America ) principal and one of his students was a winner. The student and himself, as principle, were invited for a reception to meet the Queen and have lunch with her and other winners. I don't believe other politicians were involved. She met everyone and had a chat with each and everyone of them, thanking him for his service as she called it. My friends father mentioned many times after that after his wedding and birth of his two children, this was the most monumental times in his life. Why am I telling this? Just so you understand how she has been with me so to speak my entire life. I tried to follow her and her family when I could. Our country is based on the Queen as our head of state, and Constitutional Monarchy style of government. She has sporting events named after her in Canada. She has awards and honors in her name. She has historic sites and such named after her, including a lot of schools All of this made me feel close to her and felt like she was actually a small part of my life. God bless Queen Elizabeth II, may you forever rest in peace. 😢

Intriguing start to the story. Im here since the story was September’s CSR story. The thing is, who is Daniela? Is this a character from another @James Carnarvonstory Im so confused, but shall read on.

Just so the younger crowd know what I'm talking about

I'm so excited I just can't hide it I think I'm about to lose control and I think like it So September 1st came and went and I am so looking forward to our upcoming Anthology stories!! I know some are done and some are in the hands of our excellent proof team. I guess we can all now wait anxiously to see the first round of entries I'm up late, early, whatever time in your neck of the woods, so I need to get this all wrapped up and get to bed Monday Cia was back with the CSR Discussion Day: I feel like I should put in an Europe song here Val was back with the exciting news about the anthology! Really, I don't know how Val had time for all these blogs I thought she be attached to the TV watching the Continental getting ready for the Masters 🐎 And if you didn't think we offered up enough this week, well we had one more to go on Saturday: Now Myr was a busy at work churning out some new Words of the Day: epitaph, scupper, stellar, ultima, huckster, sophomoric, schwarmerei Sadly the month of August has past and that means we are on our way to autumn and then winter in the northern hemisphere. Why don't we check in on how our goals went for the month of August: Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories Translation Trashbin by AC Benus Gap Year by Mark Arbour The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus Ancalagon by Cia a Glass Floor Underfoot by AC Benus Everhope by Carlos Hazday **Complete** Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories Sticks and Stories by astone2292 To the Weyr by Mawgrim **Complete** Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill WL's Prompts- Short Stories by W_L Ark II by R. Eric ARROW by CLJobe Kit by quokka Wild Flower by vanalas The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Raising a Rebel by W_L Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox Detour by matcha Touma Shimizu by Luca E Finding love by AquariusGuy WL's Gay Manga and Anime Review by W_L Shadow Effect by kbois WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L Forever Yours by vanalas **Complete** To Sleep in a Bed of Deer by Yeoldebard **Complete** Canaan Club by Westley D. In Chandler's Hands by MrM Dragon's Roar by Xfighter1984 Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)

Hey all, what's up? First off, thank you Cia for stepping in last week and getting the majority of the Weekly Wrap Up done for me Not sure if you noticed the latest announcement, but Myr, Cia and the programmer are all working triple overtime to try to fix the caching issues. Some significant improvements have happened over the past week with a few more patches coming this week. Hopefully they can nip this in the bud soon, as I know they are all trying so hard to get it done. You also are having great patience too! So after the high heat we have had the past couple of weeks, we had a thunderstorm around noon today with a lot of lightning roll in, and I was caught in it Wouldn't be the first time I've been caught, but at least I didn't get hit by lightning... this time Yes, that fact probably explains a lot about me . Well as I look outside right now 8 hours later, still raining with the occasional clap of thunder. Now for what happened here at the GA News Blog for the week. A little bit quieter around here for a bit of a change.Believe it or not, Valkyrie was the first to get a blog up for the Anthology. Just remember, you have 4 days to get your anthology into the review team! Friday, Aditus was here to represent the Prompt Team with a couple of new ideas to prod you for the week Just the name of the prompts piqued my interest: Comicality held the final position with another great Writing Article to help everyone out that picks up a pen and paper so to speak: With everything going on, Myr was still setting his alarm clock early and posting the Word of the Day: caduceus, slew, flounder, rectilinear, variegated, argosy, decussate With the month coming to a close why don't we put a one last big push to get all our stats as close to the100% levels: Anthologies, Writing Challenges, and Contests 2022 Anthology - Anniversary - Submitted to @Valkyrie for the proof team by Sept. 1, 2022 Blog Opportunities Ask an Author 3.0: Send in 3 questions that you would like your favourite story's author to answer for you. Send them into @astone2292 Story Review: Send it in to @Timothy M. of @wildone And here is the look at the past weeks postings on all our Authors and Poets! Recently Updated 'Premium' Stories On Fire by Cia Recently Updated 'Signature Author' Stories rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin by AC Benus Gap Year by Mark Arbour By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Everhope by Carlos Hazday Ancalagon by Cia Northern Exposure by Mark Arbour The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose by AC Benus Recently Updated 'Classic Author' Stories Finding Good Trouble by Ronyx Recently Updated 'Promising Author' Stories To the Weyr by Mawgrim Death in the Shadows by astone2292 Recently Updated 'Author' Stories Halcyon by matcha Shadow Effect by kbois ARROW by CLJobe CRYSTALLINE by Wombat Bill Diamond Eyes by ValentineDavis21 The Next Stage by Littlelovestories The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Resentment: A Psychological Thriller by ValentineDavis21 The Travellers by Georgie DHainaut **Complete** Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys by Laura S. Fox WL's Gay Manga and Anime Review by W_L Goldstein, Johnson & Cole by Mancunian Come Back To Us by LittleCherryBlossom26 Raising a Rebel by W_L Finding love by AquariusGuy WL's Mainstream Gay Book Reviews by W_L Gods and Ancients by Grumpy Bear Detour by matcha Ark II by R. Eric Brandon Smiling: From the Billy Chase Chronicles (2) by MrM Youngblood by metajinx Read, Write, and REVIEW!!! (Don't forget to Recommend too!)