Jeff Burton

@Lee Wilson God isn't that the truth dude, good one. This is literally the theme for the whole damn story.

Me too lol

To be honest I think I should have called it "Black and Blue" for the double entendre.

Like Gasoline on a fire.

😏

Quit talking about yourself. ❤️

I seriously tried to keep my train wreck out of this station, and failed. All aboard!

My phone has been on do not disturb since September of 2023, so if you wanna reach me thats not the way to do it. lmao Okay now onto Nathan, @Summerabbacat you are correct in your disappointment, Nathan should have sent something, anything. @John Henry is also correct in what he said about people with depression, so now the universe divides by zero and the next chapter is gonna be a shit show. Remember how I said in a comment someplace where things were going too good and it was time to make someone miserable, well there you go now everyone in this story is going to be miserable.

I just gotta say I love Corey to pieces and I’ll comment more when I’m not on a mobile device lol

Yeah I've had more than a few Jackson's in real life so it's a sense of justice when I do it.

Teenagers are unpredictable. Especially this one.

I seriously wanted to scream at Killian for not reading the book. This whole thing is escalating quickly. I'm waiting in anticipation for the explosion.

I stared at my closet in trepidation. I shook the still damp freshly showered locks of my hair from my eyes as I tried to consider my options. The room was quiet except for the silent hum of my ceiling fan as the blades whirled on the low setting. The air in my room still felt stifling no doubt as a result of my my nerves, which matched the chaos that was my closet. I had nothing happy. Everything I had was an assortment of whites, grays, dark blues, and of course black. My mom had tri

Back in the day I did a little of the same. And when I worked a few jobs I was the one that had to translate reports so the suits in the C-Suite could understand it lmao

I’m returning the stalk. This is a damn beautiful story that’s well written and makes you think, I love stuff like this. Great job! You should continue this lol.

I’m usually good with words but at this moment that eloquence is eluding me. My heart goes out to him and his family.

Thanks, I appreciate the vindication it does help. ❤️

Every time you do that #teamspike gains reputation points, so please keep doing it. ❤️

That in itself is a lie!

Ooooooo someones playing in the naughty box.

I have to give you a little bit of credit now that this is done. You have this ability to really see and react to what your reading in a way that confounds me. You see points that I as an author missed and I wrote the damn thing. I've tried to improve my writing and my writing style over time just so I could one up your comments, and maybe even surprise you. I am by far no where near professional caliber when it comes to writing, but you and the others really pushed me hard to be the best that I'm able to be at my current skill level, and I have to thank you and the others for that. I really do appreciate, the past comments and the future ones you will write. And the same goes for everyone else. This is my first multi-chapter thing I've ever been able to finish, and it took me 20 years of thinking I wasn't good enough to do it. So again from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Funny story, last night I started a half ass outline, a real one for Jacob's side of things, then wrote this very short Chapter 9. I will give it a shot and we will see were we are at, at the beginning of 2025. It'll also give me a chance to devote some more creative energy to Salvaging the Road to Redemption and Life in Suspension (at least I know how that one ends). @weinerdog I'll tag you in this comment to include you as well since the response also follows your comment.

I appreciate your comment on Chapter 8 and this one too, you basically validated something I was already feeling. It just didn't feel right for some reason, plus Tyler is too mentally stable for me to pull off in the long run. lol I'm not afraid of non-happy endings. Life generally doesn't have a bow attached at the end of it so it's okay for literature to be that way too.

I seriously didn't want to drown this one out. And I think that's why I had a problem writing chapter 8 and 9. I really do want to do a story on Jacob, and be in his head for a while. That story will be longer and reading it is optional. We'll see what happens.