Jason Rimbaud

Thank you. I had been playing looses with their connection and felt it was needed to start and tighten the strings as it were. But our silly little friends have plenty more mistakes in them I'm sure. The next chapter colors in more details about Ethan and who he is. We're in the back half of the story now, all the players save one have been put in motion towards their collision on Christmas Eve.

From the attention its getting, I hope its good, and proves to studios that good gay stories are worth the money. I shan't watch because of...you know...sports balls. But I hope its a continued success.

Number one, thank you for that!!!! I didn't even know if anyone picked up on that. And secondly, we are our own worst critics. People like what you do, get over it. .

However you feel about your own work, remember I am aspiring to get to your current level. Some of the stories you have written have stuck with me for weeks afterwards.

Did you peek at my finished chapters? . Thankfully, I decided to have him pass out. Trying to write/right that scene would have given me a heart attack. That's so unsafe. People stop doing that. And with your phone, just rawdog it like they do on airplane flights now. Sheesh.

I wish I had a friend. Even my husband says he's not my friend. I boldly ride on to El Dorado alone.

I think I have gone on record declaring that my characters are unreliable narrators. Percy and Five have already lied to everyone in the previous story. They've been lying to themselves this entire story. Maybe Ethan is the only one that isn't lying. Now that we are in the back half of the story, all the players start interacting more so we'll find out who is right/write. But yeah, he seems to be a lying piece of dung here.

Full disclosure, I started writing it November 18th, posted the first chapter December 1st. So I should be good to reach my goal. Now if I can get to your quality, I''d really have something. That's my goal for 2026, to get better.

If he even brings it up. I mean, after he heard that, he shoved his tongue up the boy's ass for the first time. I know Five as well as Percy are real adapt at thinking one thing and doing another, but they've only had one honest conversation and right afterwards, they decided to go on pretending. Ethan just might be the thing that they deserve. We'll see, who knows what the new year is going to bring. I do have a question, it's my competitive side kicking in. I have written the story, it's finished, but I have not posted everything. Do I still get credit for the amount of words written in two months, or does it have to be posted? I'm asking for a friend. . I think I failed at that challenge.

I came up in a time where everyone did cocaine, booze, pills, in large amounts. If you did not partake, you were hazed mercilessly. Your tools would disappear in the middle of service, pilot lights would suddenly go out. I worked for a celebrity chef that is well known who did more cocaine than anyone I ever saw. I also worked for Chef Martin Yan, from the cooking series Yan Can Cook, who was delightful and one of the nicest people I ever met. I worked with the record holder Chef Tony Wu who hand pulled over 15,ooo noodles in under two minutes. I've had a wonderful experience, but I distanced myself from that toxic culture a long time ago. Other people did drugs, I played video games and whored myself out for BBQ sauce. (don't ask) Your story sounds intriguing, I think in the new year I'll check it out. But be forwarned, I get really silly in my comments sometimes.

With a Capital T. Ethan is a fun character to write. He talks from both sides of his ass and has an agenda. Percy and Five better keep on their toes, you never know what someone like that is going to do.

It's all I have ever done. I don't know how to do anything else. I'm a chef/owner who's worked for celebrity chefs, amazing chefs no one has ever heard of, and everything in between. I rose in my profession toiling out in Fine Dining, places and chefs that looked great on a resume but never added to my pocket book. As you said, long hours of prep, high attention to detail, and then the chef waltz's in ten minutes before we are serving Mr. Moviestar and he gets all the credit and the money. Around fifteen years ago I saw the writing on the wall. Fine dining restaurants are phasing out as this younger generation prefers take out and eating at pickle ball courts. I dove into fast casual restaurants and learned everything I could. Four years ago I decided to open my own fast casual concept on the weekends in the heart of San Francisco. All my friends thought I was stupid opening a hot wing restaurant. But I saw during Covid that everyone was being brainwashed into eating out of boxes. I chose a cuisine that traveled decently, modified my packaging to reduce soggy wings, and focused on creating my own unique sauces. I spent a year experimenting with different types of flour, different oils, until I perfected my wings.I opened a delivery only spot, a hole in the wall with only me as the employee. A year later I had to close and open a brick and mortar restaurant as I had to decide between my restaurant and my career as a restaurant consultant.. I chose myself. Now two years later, I have paid off all my debts, have twenty or so employees, and looking to open another location. And know that's a long way to say, most of my stories have elements of cooking in them, usually one character loves to cook, but I don't want to write about what I do fifteen hours a day. And the reason I rarely read stories about restaurants, unless you've been inside them, one normally doesn't get it right. Plus, it's hard to write characters who spend almost all their waking hours inside a kitchen trying to sleep with the new host.

Five doesn't seem like he ever learns his lesson.

“Let’s shoot pool,” Percy exclaimed as he stood up. “What?” Five asked with a grin. Percy had just taken another shot and was getting unsteady on his feet. “You can’t even see, let alone shoot pool.” Percy waved his hand dismissively. That act nearly sent him crashing to the floor. He giggled and Five slowly slid down the bench until he could stand. “Okay, maybe I’m a bit drunk.” “I’d say you’re hammered,” Five said with a grin as he grabbed the boy’s arm. “Pish and also

So when I first started in the industry, there was a lot of what you describe in professional kitchens. My first chef would kick me in the ass when he saw something he didn't like. He treated the girl servers like dirt, he used to hot plate them all the time. Which means you stick half a plate in the broiler, get it really hot, and then hand them that side. He also said sexual things constantly to them. But thirty years on, many of the chefs that grew up in that environment have worked hard to change that type of behavior. It's still there in pockets, but as a rule, things are miles away from that type of chef. I know in my kitchen I don't tolerate any of that behavior. As crude as I am online, in my kitchen there are no sexual jokes, lewd behavior, or anything of the sort. You will find a bunch of swearing, mostly by me, but we are an open kitchen so we have to be on somewhat good behavior. As for your story, I read the description, and it sounds intriguing but I have a hard time reading about "restaurants", I also don't watch things like Kitchen Nightmare or that sort. But I am curious about the story, maybe I'll jump in.

I only completed one story this entire year, a very experimental story told in journal form. It was not high on anyone's reading list. It was also my first and probably only foray into First Person POV. I think I averaged maybe 70 views per chapter. But the views don't make sense to me. I can't give you an average because my dumbass doesn't remember how to do the math. But let's say chapter two, had 90 clicks. While chapter 3 had 104 with chapter 4 at 70. The comments were pretty much 8 per chapter, so unless people are skipping chapters, the clicks seem to give me false data. I did wonder if you get another view if someone comes in to read the comments or respond to comments, that is the only thing that makes sense to me why certain chapters have so many more views than other previous chapters. Maybe one of the smarter people on this site, which is probably everyone, can explain this seemingly illogical view count. My current story Frosted Hearts is holding strong around 200 clicks/views per chapter, which is way more than I anticipated as it's not a romance story or well written. Its another experiment for me as I set out to write an entire novel in one month. I failed in that endeavor, I didn't get it all posted in December, though the story is complete and I'm currently posting with about 78,000K posted. I post every Monday. As you are talking about reflecting on 2025, I'm looking forward to my goals for 2026. First goal, have my Christmas story written and ready before November so I don't get stuck in this trap again. I am very curious about something else in regards to views. My story Tyler's Dilemma averaged about 1,500 views per chapter before the new restrictions came into play. I write only Mature content so I knew I was going to be hit from dwindling readers. But is anyone else, that doesn't write Mature stories, seeing the same drop in numbers or did they stay the same for those between G and PG13 for lack of better descriptors?

I went down there plenty of times, and I'm am slowly learning to curtail what I share. But for me, it's the past, so it doesn't matter. It's how I behave today that I worry about. I am no longer a slut in practice. At least that's what I tell myself.

Depending if you look at what the premise was, Percy and Five in a cottage for twenty-five days. We are sixteen days in at this moment. So two weeks took me eleven chapters, maybe eleven more. I don't know, I'm cutting scenes and adding more, I'm all over the place. This was supposed to be a single chapter christmas story so its already gotten out of control. The good news, the story is finished, with the ending I envisioned at the start. The bad news I'm re-writing each chapter as I post and have cut about 25,000 words. Mostly the scenes were repetitive, a bunch of sex scenes, any time I mention them having sex in the story, that was a cut scene that was written. Then I had a few scenes that went really dark and I wanted to pull back from those elements. I already have a small readership, going full on dark would lose the rest of them. So to answer that question, I don't know how many chapters left, but they are all written.

The truck driver and Ethan, two "straight" boys meeting in Alpine Crest. Maybe his truck is rocking after all. No lie, first draft, Anthony, wasn't named Anthony, and he was a bit of a creeper and when the boys went to his truck, some shenanigans happened. I felt it turned too dark for my vision, so I cut all those scenes, changed the name in honor of someone who makes me laugh and gives me the semi (pun intended). I think you are going to end up hating Michael.

Is Percy committed to Five? Did he tell Five about it? I do think you might be on to something regarding Five and his "mission" in regards to Percy. But I think neither one of them have learned the lesson they need to learn.

As this was based on my local club back in the day. Pennyslvania law was different. To be able to open and serve alcohol on Sundays, a certain percentage of your sales must be in food. So all the "bars" gave away food every day, usually hot dogs, or potluck, one pot meals and counted that cost as "food" sales to remain open on Sunday's. So yes, they served food. There was also a place called the dungeon, I'm sure you could figure out what when on back there. I didn't include it in this story, cause even though Percy is "exploring" his bondage fetish, I didn't want to have a sex scene and if they went into the dungeon, I would have had to include it.

Am I the only one that thinks its hot when my husband chooses my outfit? More than half of my undies that are super cute (IE GAY/SLUTTY) he bought for me to wear for him. Ethan showing up unexpectedly raises some red flags, and Percy behaved in a manner I would not have had. Barging in on me peeing would not be, oh hey, let's play tonsil hockey. I wonder if him being kind of on the fence wil come back to bite him on the ass. But it was nice to see Percy admit that its different now. This dance club, is modeled after a club I used to go to back in Pennsylvania, it was called Stallions, and I think I described it pretty much perfect, though its been thirty years since I was there. I spent many a nights shaking my booty and many after hours where lets say, I was on the bar but I wasn't dancing.

I actually saw that, and deleted a "the" so I could have that number. .

“Hey, wait up.” Percy turned to see Michael waving to them across the street. “Is that the dude from the mines?” Five asked as Michael waited for a car to pass. “Yep,” Percy said as he shoved his hands in his pockets. “I’ll explain later.” Michael caught up to them, and Percy looked at him expectantly. “How do I know your grandfather possesses the necessary contacts and funds for right of first refusal?” Michael asked bluntly. “For a professor, you seem to lack

I actually have so much to say about this topic. But I know my love of debate and picking things apart to the smallest level pisses people off. And most of my opinion would be esoteric, many do not like to engage in that fashion. I will say I can usually tell if it is a male or female writer by the prose. Each gender writes distinctively. Neither is better than the other and comes down to reader preference. On this site, Krista is one of my favorites, follow closely behind by Cassie. One writes predominately coming of age and one offers a variety of stories with Sci-Fi themes. I wouldn't go to Krista for sci-fi. By the way, these two writers are some of my favorites on this site period. Then you have Thirdly, fun, cheeky stories with some supernatural elements and amazing fun dialogue. On the other side, you have Jack Poigant (I always misspell his name and always feel bad), his story Big Paws was hysterical and had one of the most intense chase scenes I've read in a long time. You can't forget about Lee Wilson, who wrote a story about a sentient room that I couldn't stop thinking about for days. All his stories are unique and written from different point of view that I could never emulate. Jeff Burton is hard to describe, but he wrote a saterical story about Nifty stories that is so much fun that I wish he'd hurry up and finish it. I'm sure there are many authors who write romance but since I don't usually enjoy those stories, I don't even try. I think what I'm alluding too, there are many great writers of either sex and one could find their interest from any of them. If I'm misrepresented anyone, that was not my intention, I was attempting to show that many authors write different things so it all comes down to talent in the end.