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Sex scenes. Definitely. I much prefer some insinuation, innuendo if need be...I can imagine quite well the how and what...it's almost exclusively second grade vanilla anyway. Poor grammar - at least when it's much worse than my own as non native speaker. A distinct pet peeve are the, oh so frequently appearing, homophones. - I only have a 30 inch waste, because I waist so much of my time in the gym. 😉 Long winded description of eye and hair color, body shape and what not, of every, even minor characters. It's never necessary for any story...readers will always picture your characters in their mind differently. What makes me actually quit a story? Repetitive plots by the same author. When I realise, I have read it all before - and there is absolutely NO new twist, character development or a new/exciting finish... Or, when I get the feeling an author has run out of ideas, and either rushes the story to a poorly planned out and unsatisfactory finish, or some weird "deus ex machina" plots get introduced, in an - usually futile - attempt to save a storyline that got stuck in the mud, or run up to a dead end in a single track street. Preaching. I stopped following an author when after his first story, the second and third promised to be just more of (in that case) a pro-catholic proselyticing. Mind you, characters can have their faith, cherish it, be destroyed by it, but I don't want sweetly sermons constantly in the storyline. Pet peeves? Too obvious stereotypes. Overused plots - one more accident killing both parents at once, and I start screaming! Trigger warnings. Absolutely. Spare me those, as long as the bible is a topic in school still. I can deal with emotions, should they overcome me. In fact, I consider writing to be good when it can actually change my mood - either direction. I am sure I can find more....but you get the idea! Besides, I rather see what you guys have written for my perusal and enjoyment now, than spend too much time thinking about the lttle things I found annoying in the past! Keep up your work, and have my sincerest thanks!

Great art! But how is this raven standing? I can only imagine it hanging from a high ceiling....

Wow. very powerful. It is a shame the Alpha did not register what happened or never acted before, to keep up the peace...

Did an ancestor of Woorawa leave the realms with his stone? Millenia ago? Anyway, the threatened people of Woorawa's might make good settlers in the new Realm.

an interesting discussion about faith coming up....I can see a situation where the harm done by religious beliefs, can be held in check by clinging onto a slightly better flavour of said religion. If only because no other values / avenues have ever been taught/learned

I see things are going to be ok in the end.....Harlan's Don is no other than the great and generous Corbin Reina. Devoted to his love Paul. With greta resources, financial and otherwise at his fingertips. Of course, some strange people and happenings could make matters more interesting for a while.....

Having lived through the early years of the plague, I very well remember among the first spreading the disease - as soon as the cause and ways of transmission had been discovered - the first were closeted gays (in sham marriages) or bisexual men, who brought the virus from their real or made up 'business trips' to US bath houses. And most likely those were also the ones infecting the blood banks through their blood donations. While gays visiting the then paradises of gay culture NY, Chicago, LA; San Fran....did their part as well, the closet queens spread it to the wider population. Since for years nobody could figure out what the actual disease was - there was just this sudden and massive uptick in rare sarcomas and pneumonias and related deaths - you can't ever blame them. we were all clueless for years. Frightened, yet still inadvertently spreading and spreading.....

That nightly phone call from Nick made me think of abuse.... The initiation might turn out quite differently this year.

Righto.... go Sam!

Sweet and sexy. It pays to present the wares well! But we already got a glimpse of two good hearts...

So nice! can't wait to hear Callan pluck Davy Graham's Anji next week - or will he play it one day together with Chris? Like Paul and Ed Simon did in 68!? That'll be a treat!

While I was brought up in the ways of the Old School, even back then there were Mulcibers with more compassion and a better grasp of how to approach Erebi in such a quandary and emotional turmoil. They probably had either by intuition (and perhaps upbringing) or by observation and experience learned to use empathy and support to achieve their goals. But there always were - and are - they likes of William. Not necessarily mean spirited, some are just a bit full of themselves, some are truly not caring and some seem to think it just has to be done that way. Never asking, never questioning and not even knowing an answer to the question why they think emotional detachment or even cruelty might help them any..... While I softened considerably in my approach to new Erebi, I hope I never was a William What Micah has 'learned' remains unclear, like so many other important questions here. But he has made a resolution and is living a straight and honest life now it seems. It is the prerogative of an Author to cut off a story line at any point - even when questions and hints he himself had placed remain unresolved. Sometimes the spark just isn't there any more, the mindset doesn't fit the plot any longer, the interest wanders elsewhere, to explore new fantasies. For the reader though it's always a bitter pill to swallow, when coming to a point in a story where it seems a hasty retreat and a (cursory) bundling up of a few strands have been made. An effort to somehow close off a plot is better than just totally leave a story unfinished, sadly there plenty of such to be found at GA. I want to thank the Author here for a very touching and excellent written story. A fairly good insight into the world of Mulcibers and their wards may help a wider audience to understand this very special and tight knit community

getting into the swing....

sweet and lovely! It's CACCIATORE btw. drop the H. Otherwise kackatore gives a totally wrong connotation….wouldn't smell nice either!

A little firebrand that is....Asher sounds more like a profession or pastime than a name here...

Surely at the Sylvia Hotel! Old time charme, pleasant view and location! Lots of tradition and previous celebrity guests to be the hotel of choice for a writer!

If nly I could write....this pretty much would be my style! So yeah, I love it! And not only for selfish reasons, I have to admit! 😇

I’d say, the ONE thing you don’t want to have - with nukes on an unstable volcanic island nobody can easily get away from - is a freaking press conference about the matter! Not until the bleeding things are safely away...

Not Kelly....but then I knew it as soon as he made that call.....Helen would have been ok. Anything but that conniving snake...

Hoping for a continuation - soon!

The hurt, the anguish we sometimes have to face growing up....a very powerful chapter. Thanks for conjuring...

Melancholy is the graceful acceptance of sadness and despair. I’m left holding a lily quietly in my heart.Remembering those that went too early PS: I would like to see the inspiring picture?

Obviously I am binging on this beautiful story, so I have no time to comment on each of those nicely crafted chapters...I only use annoying, if inevitable breaks to refill the Bourbon and get some Chet Atkins and Earl Scruggs going! Longing for a languid night in the country, by a fire, under a starlit sky....

At the last sentence I had to break out a bottle of good Bourbon and get my Gretsch....one for Papaw! And one for good luck for Wren....

Can I please have basketball boy - to court, nurture love and cuddle?