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Okay, this is cool. Tres cool. Mycket, mycket cool. Really like how he comes to know how he really feels about Levi. And of course, doesn't this lead to some interesting physical/metaphysical questions about feeding? You can go hunting plot bunnies any day.
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Thanks for the review! As for Stefan, he seems to have been born under a wickedly nasty star. He could have had a doctorate in sad-face by the time he turned sixteen.
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Tak so mycke! Stefan has to endure, because his world is really awful. And how many other kids live a reality like this every day? Too many.
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Oh yes, and oh, yes. They have turned and turned and come round right. Like the way Wyatt and Eddie gang up on Bryan. They'll be wonderful and happy together. Many thanks for this story...
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May 2 Nope. Nobody noticed I was missing. I try hard to be invisible, and it works most of the time. It’s never a good thing to let other people know you’re there. If other kids in school see me, it’s because they want to make fun of the way I look or the way I’m dressed or something. If Dad takes notice of me, he’s either going to yell at me, or I’m going to get hit. I am so glad for this chance to write stuff down. When I don’t understand things, I don’t really have anyone I trust to ask
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Week Three Friday September 19, 2014: Apology
Parker Owens commented on skinnydragon's story chapter in Week Three Friday September 19, 2014: Apology
David certainly sounds wise beyond his years as the chapter opens. I'm scared for Twoey, and whether he's headed for an emotional crash. Of course, maybe it's all cool for him, and he doesn't feel any of that. Of maybe his protest that he's 'only 15' is a way of deferring any serious thought about his own heart or mind until later, or just denying that he needs to think at all...unless it blows up in his face before he's had time for reflection. -
Thanks very much for reading and telling me what you think. Stefan has had a terrible life, and it was hard not to give him the hug you mentioned while writing this. There is more to come, of course.
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In the bedroom, on the far shelf, rests a set of old-style composition notebooks. A couple of them have yellow sticky-notes poking out at odd places. The story told in their pages isn’t just mine or yours. It’s ours. For the most part, though, you did the writing. These yellow notes are just the few places where you needed to know that something else was happening, things you didn't know about then, but I did – things had gone unsaid. These old journals don’t get read so much anymore. Time move
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He lived alone with a father who beat the hell out of him. His mom abandoned him years ago. There was a roof over his head, and food, when his dad let him eat. One day, all that changed: he ran in fear for his life with nothing but the clothes on his back. And his journal.
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How terrible it must be to live in such a relationship. The guilt and pain can only be imagined for those who do not live them. My heart goes out to you. There are parents who legitimately want more contact with children currently exploring various stages of independence. But it would be foolish to assert that toxic relationships don't exist, or that there is no relationship that cannot be declared broken. Mental illness can dissolve such bonds, so can wilful cussedness on steroids. Nobody deserves to be abused.
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This chapter packs a hopeful punch into every paragraph. So very, very good to watch all the stars realign themselves properly. Will be listening for bells - wedding bells - soon.
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Okay, you have officially hooked me on your melancholy verses. You make me want to drown in desperately beautiful classical music. This is as beautiful as anything Schubert, Mendelssohn or Rachmaninoff ever wrote.
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Really got lost in Rashid's problems first and foremost. Then snapping back to CJ clashing with his dads rattled me. Cesar is absolutely right - they will have to talk it out; if CJ is as mature as he seems, maybe he'll see why Brett lost it. Maybe Brett will see that while his own anger is honest, it violates the trust between the three of them. Or maybe CJ is just going to shut them out and go his own way. Incidentally, Cesar seems to realize the problem is all of theirs to share, so maybe he'll do the necessary triangulation to keep their relationships intact?
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Thanks for reading about Fletcher and, well, let's call him Thomas. It was not at all hard to bring them to life. It must have been a great day for writing. Perhaps inspiration will strike and they'll give me more to write about their lives. I do have a very different serial in mind...in process...when you get to read it, you can judge if it's any good. Again, thank you!
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Paladin wrote pretty fully about what's going on, will second those; this reader feels enormously relieved to see Wyatt awake and functioning again. Also tickled to see Sgt. Woods interest in Sarah becoming more prominent. Hope there is help for everyone to move through this hellish experience and on into a more sunlit time. As for kudos, let them be showered on the writer who brought us this story. Thanks a million.
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Week Three Thursday September 18, 2014: Prospects
Parker Owens commented on skinnydragon's story chapter in Week Three Thursday September 18, 2014: Prospects
Oh, boy. David is about to get steamrollered. Flattened by the big dating machine. Wonder what he'll feel like afterwards? Twoey is about to get on the easy sex bus. Is that what he's really like? Hard to say, given the previous chapter; but kids have to sort themselves out, and sometimes wind up going two different directions simultaneously. Not that this is in any way comfortable in the end...However, it will make for great reading, no doubt. -
Powerfully done. Simple, quick, direct language. You are getting me hooked on poetry.
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Thank you for your kind words! And now I must write something else, or I could be in real trouble...
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Amazing how those three words - 'I love you' - can change everything. In this case, half the world seems to have slid off of Reece's shoulders. How lovely, and wonderfully written this is. Thank you.
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Thank you for taking the time to read this. These two are guys I'd like to meet one day, I think.
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Thank you so much for reading Aquinas. It was fun to write. There will be other things, but I am so, so, slow at this. That I could reply to the prompt, er, promptly, was an aberration, I fear.
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Thanks for the kind review. I learn by reading all of you veteran writers. Don't I wish everything I ever wrote flowed so well...
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Thanks for reading! This is the first thing I've written, and it was fun to write.
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Thank you for reading Aquinas, I can identify with both of these guys. The symmetry was just plain irresistible. Guess I will have to start on something new. Poising off dragons can be dangerous, I understand. .
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Thanks very much, Val. You urged me to write about three months back. No good deed goes unpunished. There will be moe again, someday.
