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Yes, indeed. Everything was going so well for our two before the setback. Is it something both of them can just shrug off? Thanks, Puppi - you're a faithful supporter of the story.
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In which case, more thanks than usual for persisting and commenting. Hmm... experimentation, and pushing yourself, are both good ways of improving writing skills. Because my writing has been dominated by the two chaptered stories over the past year or so, then that part of my writing style has become the norm. I certainly don't see it as my only style, as looking at some of my earlier work will show you.
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What a wonderful word that is. And it covers exactly the emotions necessary. That's a huge compliment, Gary. Thank you. I really enjoyed the different challenges writing it brought on.
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And I imagine we both hope their experiences are less benign.
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Thanks, dugh. Weirdness and ghosts - who could resist? Interesting you describe the area as 'Marches'. We use that term for the Anglo-Welsh border, but I've never heard it up North.
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Just a bit. Thank you for your time and effort on this story, dear friend.
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If our characters all acted in a logical fashion, there wouldn't be much to write about. And there is the niggle of "What if I do nothing?".
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Music filled the flat one late afternoon when the message light on the phone blinked. No bleep or buzz because they'd been turned off. Ferdinando Sor requires practise and concentration. Whoever it was would have to wait until the piece concluded to my satisfaction. Finally, I propped the guitar up against the digital piano and rescued the phone from on top of a heap of sheet music. The screen showed a message. Come at once! Help! It's urgent! There it was: the short, mystifying text
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An anonymous text message sends Tom Charlton on a rescue mission against the clock. But what is real, and who is the one in danger?
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Reflection: Commemorating PULSE
northie commented on Mikiesboy's story chapter in Reflection: Commemorating PULSE
Same here. Reading this at work was not a good idea. I'll be back to read everyone's contributions later. Thank you all for your writing: poetry, prose, essay, they each brought forth tears and remembrance.- 26 comments
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GA's Newest Signature Author: Mikiesboy
northie commented on Graeme's blog entry in Gay Authors Archive
Congratulations, tim. Another poet makes Signature.- 72 comments
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Although Eric is the main focus of the story, the two younger men are important players as well. Both interact with him, learn from him, and give Eric the sight of two gay men living full, open lives. I enjoy focussing on them as well as your 'favourite curmudgeon'.
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What a lovely, tender way of ending the story. Another step along the road of putting the nightmares behind them. It felt very real - Jim included. A great read.
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It was great fun, thanks Def. And being very late to the party, the formatting quirks have been sorted. I like stories told through texts, messages, and other media, as well as the normal storytelling. It all added to the immediacy and the pace of the piece.
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Having made up his mind to go, he followed through. I wonder how much the thought he has someone at his back has helped? Rural areas with intermittent phone signal and slow internet, the urban poor with limited literacy skills, and the elderly come to mind.
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He hasn't got to me yet. *Hurries off to find the garlic*
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Hmm... the last time I visited my local branch, the assistant persisted in pushing the bank's app. 'Why didn't I use it?' 'I'd find it much more convenient.' When she offered (almost insisted) to download and install the app for me as if I were some technological refusenik, I nearly lost my temper.
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Yes, apart from one reluctant shopping trip to the city courtesy of Andy, we have seen him only in his own town. And even then, he's largely restricted himself to those few areas he's used to. Leominster's not quite terra incognita, but getting pretty close.
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I was thinking of a history teacher who actually treated us like humans, not exam fodder. I saw him in the street some 25 or so years later on one of my visits back. He looked almost exactly the same, only older. It can happen.
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That's the way the (ex) high street banks would like us to go, despite the fact their apps regularly have problems. They are removing branches at a frightening rate, wilfully ignoring the fact that there are people who can't / won't / lack the equipment to bank online.
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I haven't been on a plane in living memory. I'd be at least as nervous as Eric, probably more so because of all the rules and regulations before you're even allowed on one.
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Fired up would be one way of describing him. As are the other two, only for rather different reasons.
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Yes, seeing yourself on the screen gives a different perspective - good or bad. Living on your own without the pressures of work or relations, giving up on your appearance could be too easy - as we see with Eric. As you suggest, there may not be major changes, but small ones can help.
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Yes, to see a genuine person in front of the camera, rather than someone rehearsed to within an inch of their lives. Even if Eric felt awkward or tongue-tied while doing it, editing can make things look a lot better.
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Eric arrived at the train station out of breath. Although the bus dropped him off quite close-by, he was scared he'd miss the next departure to Leominster. He checked his watch again: fifteen minutes to go. Often he didn't bother wearing it. Why should he? But with catching trains, he thought the watch essential. Hardly anywhere displayed a clock nowadays; though as he walked in, he spotted one high up on a wall. Now what he needed was a ticket. He looked for the booking office and found it
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