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§ § Friday, October 12, 1989 After classes I studied, ate, and waited on campus until Dr. V finished his classes and his office time. He’s taken to allowing me to help him around his office when he’s in residence. He particularly appreciates my abilities with the computer. For some reason, Dr. V is pretty ignorant about them. He prefers to hand write his notes and transcribe them with an old manual typewriter. At first, I tried to teach him how to use the word processor that came with

§ § Thursday, October 11, 1989 Is it strange that I’ve started to find the howling of wolves somehow comforting? Rather than feel stalked, I feel this strange sense of…being protected! A feeling like those creatures are howling for my benefit rather than to strike terror in my heart. They feel like they are calling to me telling me ‘sleep soundly, we are here. Don’t worry about a thing! We protect our own!’ I’ve been having many such thoughts since my coming to stay here with

Hi praise indeed! Thank you kindly for the encouragement! I love Comsie’s GFD series. I’m a huge Anne Rice fan and yet I find GFD an even more compelling vampire universe than Anne’s, may she RIP. I just decided to mix up three of my favorite vampire stories into Comsie’s GFD framework. It’s fun writing for it!

It’s hard when you can’t trust your own memory. Why, I feel that way sometimes when I get up to go into the kitchen!

Two more entries are coming up tomorrow and Sunday.

§ § Saturday, October 6, 1989 I just got off the phone with Mike. He doesn’t remember there being a crunch mark in the wall across from my bed! I didn’t tell him about my freaky ‘dream’ because I didn’t want to come off as totally nuts! I was hoping that the impact mark was something I, just, never noticed before and that Mike would have remembered it. But, he didn’t. I asked, could it be that we both missed it? Maybe, like, there’d been some poster or picture covering it that made us

The reaction of this boy seeing color for the very first time is priceless:

I love this kid’s talent, but I love the support of his school just as much! Way to go Caleb!

Oh, No! Not Monday! 😮

I got most of the ones in I & II but III was more challenging. I guess I watched more movies in the 80s and 90s than later. We can thank PC gaming for that.

Well, Billy is definitely confused. Here is his perspective after what Brandon does in the next entry: https://gayauthors.org/story/comicality/thesecretlifeofbillychase2/23

Yeah, but not as meaty!

The next batch of Brandons are ready… Entry 19: https://gayauthors.org/story/mrm/brandon-smiling-from-the-billy-chase-chronicles-2/19 Entry 20: https://gayauthors.org/story/mrm/brandon-smiling-from-the-billy-chase-chronicles-2/20 Entry 21: https://gayauthors.org/story/mrm/brandon-smiling-from-the-billy-chase-chronicles-2/21

Tuesday Yeah, nothing much to report today. Just work, work, work… I finally got the Trig problem solved! Geeze, that one took a lot longer than I was expecting! It cut into the time I needed to get that stupid English paper started. For English, to save time, I… cheated a little. I found an acted out play of Hamlet on MyTube and, basically, watched the thing from beginning to end like a movie! You know what? When you see it done by actors playing the parts, the play actually make

Monday I knew things were going too well! I just knew it! Here I am on the verge of getting something serious started with Billy and school has to come knocking! I think the teachers had a meeting over the weekend and all decided to make this coming week the week from Hell for Brandon! I swear I got projects from every class! An English paper, an art project, a super hard trig problem to solve, a paper for History, a science project needing a partner…we have them all this week and

…Ok, I’ll bite: what are you working your way back from? Whatever it is, I’m glad you’re feeling better from it.

Saturday “But…true love waits, Brandon!” That’s what Chandler wrote in his last email to me. I guess that means I’ve got to be patient and not be so easily discouraged. Billy is definitely coming around! His behavior yesterday afternoon was not disgusted or confused. It was more like he was having trouble putting into words his feelings. That was the same problem I was having! Chandler made another important point: I need to accept myself and be clear about my own feelings if I’m

An Emo tribute to Stevie!

Let’s Rock! Anytime You Smile - JT Music (Loving Brandon’s Smile) Racketball - SUPEREGO (Gym-time Partners) Dreamy Little You - Kitty Cat Fan Club (The Prettiest Boy In School) Alone Together - Fall Out Boy (Frustrations) Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects (Don’t want to be a dirty little secret) Tell Me You Know - Good Kid (Trying To Get Brandon To Notice) Weightless - All Time Low (Falling For The Dream Boy) Backseat Serenade - All Time Low (Being Second Fiddle) Faster - Good Kid (Trying Harder) BILLY - 6ix9ine (F*ck You, Billy!) That’s What You Get - Paramour (Telling Billy Off) In Between - Beartooth (Still Caught In The Middle) Crash and Burn (Acoustic) - Savage Garden (Reprise from ‘Brandon Smiling’) All You Need Is Now - Duran Duran (Coming To Terms) Sex Emoji - Metronomy (Re-seduction) 6969 - Ninja Sex Party (Getting Freaky With A Certain Someone) All Signs Point To Lauderdale - A Day To Remember (Something’s Wrong) Black Heart Emoji - Karnaboy (Heartbreaking) Lately I Haven’t Been Sleeping - Spirit Club (Suffering From Brandonitis) Your Call - Secondhand Serenade (A Fateful Phone Call) Closer To The Edge - Thirty Seconds To Mars (Troubles Coping) Snide Little F*ggot - Hammerlock (The Beat Down) Take Me To Church - Hozier (Hanging On By A Thread) Why - Secondhand Serenade (Just…Why?) Too Bad You’re So Beautiful - Duran Duran (…and complicated) I’ve Been Waiting - Brothertiger (…in vain) Someone Else Not Me - Duran Duran (Letting Him Go) Watch How You Go (Acoustic) - Keane (Reprise From ‘Brandon Smiling’) Thnks fr th mmrs - Fall Out Boy (Thanks for a fun ride while it lasted) Please, Don’t Forget Me - POP ETC (‘Don’t you forget about me, Brandon!’)

I just wrote Brandon’s response to this and Brandon got quite a bit out of it, but not directly. The panting and the blushes and the soft and uncertain ways they are talking to each other are telling volumes under the surface. Unfortunately, both of these kids are still too inexperienced with this stuff to understand the nonverbal cues. As of this writing, I’ll be releasing Brandon’s side of things probably within the next couple of days. Stay tuned!

One of my greatest influencers on writing was Chris Claremont. He turned the X-Men into a full-on saga! I just finished reading his entire run of X-Books and he was the undisputed master of comic world-building! He connected more threads than a lace weaver! MCU needs to seriously consider him to write any future screenplays for a rebooted X-Men!

Kool! We get to see Kang go all out badda$$!

Ah…offering the Dark Trick! Some might say that would be the cruelest thing Colby could do to Deacon. Some Elders know what Hell that eternity is on this Earth. But, maybe love…can make it more bearable.

Happy New Year! 🥂

Frizzled.