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Wes Simons signed off from playing his latest Fortnite Battle Royale game, having first exchanged virtual victory salutes with his team mates. He took off his headphones with reluctance: the team was on a roll. He shrugged. They'd survive perfectly well without him. His regular mid-week day off usually meant him playing online until well into the evening. However that day, he was due to meet up with the two guys Helen introduced him to a couple of weeks ago. After a short round of texts, they de
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GA's Newest Signature Author: Parker Owens
northie commented on Graeme's blog entry in Gay Authors Archive
Oh, wow! What a thing to wake up to. Congratulations, dear friend. You deserve it. 🥂❤️❤️ -
Yes, indeed. And if you've never left it to go somewhere else before, it must come as even more of a shock. Eric may have accepted who he is properly, but taking that any further would be a huge step.
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Hmm .... We're certainly seeing more sides to Eric. Has the curmudgeon gone away? I don't think so.
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In real life, I guess you mean. Yes ... a fairly unlikely outcome in the current febrile, antagonistic atmosphere.
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I love 'growly' - such an apposite description. His appreciation of the help received is well overlaid with old-style Ericness. Indeed. What an illuminating way of putting things
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I think that's very true, and amplified by the way many people consume their news and current affairs nowadays.
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@Timothy M. I wonder how much the news cycle is to blame in this? The topics you mention probably made it to the mainstream news for 24-48 hours at the most. They soon get lost in the welter of other (possibly more relevant) stuff.
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As ever, @droughtquake, your comments make me stop and think. Thank you.
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I agree with this. Even people who take a reasonable notice of current affairs could easily be very largely ignorant of gay affairs, especially historical matters. They're not homophobic; more, they need to educate themselves.
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'Dogged' is a word I would use to describe Eric. That's good, but it also meant that his narrow focus led to an equally narrow life. Just that one phone call changed everything.
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Yes ... that's an interesting thought. Certainly I think, he has inner strength. To live on your own takes that. His self-confidence is growing but from a pretty low base.
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Yes, but he's not used to spending much time on it. What he misses, I think, is those everyday jobs and chores which come from being in his own home. I imagine there are plenty of people still in that position. Just because there's stuff out there, it doesn't mean the right people view / read it.
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Yes, he has that in his favour. Apologising isn't that easy sometimes.
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Chapter 7 Brian Metcalfe lay slumped on the sofa; the TV was on, but with the sound turned down. The better weather over the weekend saw an influx of shoppers into the town centre at the start of the week. Good for business, yes. Completely knackering for him though. He thought the afternoon would never come to an end. The 'Closed' sign hadn't gone up with such a flourish in a long time. His back ached from all the standing, and his feet hurt. Not for the first time, Brian wondered whether h
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I have no spare time unfortunately. An ongoing serial and an Anthology story are quite enough.
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Yes ... You need the break, but then you wish you hadn't bothered. Geoff is only an occasional singer so it's not surprising he's out of condition.
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Hmm ... would a concierge be willing to phone at regular intervals and listen to her rambling on?
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Yes - that's pretty much like it. Thank you ... I hope it's not to the point that you or even
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*sigh* @droughtquake You're forever trying to amalgamate my two stories. Yes, Joy is coming round to the idea she misses Geoff. It's hardly a display of spontaneous maternal affection though, is it?
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It's all @Timothy M.'s fault, not mine. Both my longer stories have themes of gardening, so Tim was suggesting you as another source of info. Don't worry, between us, Parker and I cover most things horticultural.
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Particularly as his tomatoes demonstrate him to be a good gardener. As @Parker Owens said, there's plenty of information out there, but only some of it's useful.
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Writing Prompts #740, #741, #742, & #743
northie commented on Renee Stevens's blog entry in Writing World
I hadn't realised quite how behind I was with putting the prompts into the forum. Apologies. I'm all caught up now though. -
At the lunch interval of the Haydn 'Come and Sing', Geoff dropped his Creation vocal score onto the school's wooden floor. Would he ever be able to speak again? As with any musician, he had some insight into being a singer. Or so he thought. How to breathe, finding the pitch, always acting in concert, but more than anything, relying on himself as the instrument were things he found a revelation. God, his throat felt like someone had run sandpaper over it, several times. He sagged back into t
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