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The man holding the knife to his throat was rather ripe in his personal stench. Not that Zavien was all that surprised. The blade was not overly sharp, which he viewed as a good thing. Zavien had been lectured extensively about not going out into the streets with the commoners. Kidnapping, murder, rape, and burglary were the most stressed reasons. Apparently, they were right. He had no sooner finished his ale and started the walk home when some common thug grabbed him and used him as a sh

Thanks, Comsie! I'll keep this in mind as I'm working on my anthology entries.

Great things to think about Comsie. Thanks!!

Toby's species requires 'consent' and they aren't that ethical in getting it. Not scrambling out of bed when he first woke, was enough of a consent for Toby's species. These two will likely be seen again. This is set in my King's Rangers World. https://www.gayauthors.org/stories/browse/world/kings-rangers/

Justin was creeping through the woods when he came across a small body lay curled into itself tucked under a little hill. He would have missed it entirely but for his empathy. The emotion that registered with him was emptiness. He approached the small bundle cautiously. He increased his scan and found that there was no ill intent coming from the body. It was something young and still alive. He gently searched for thoughts and only found that it was a boy. Teen by the feel, but petite for

This is a collection of scenes, shorts, and story ideas set in the fantasy space

You had too many lines and for some reason, the system could not read the image size from the gallery, so was failing the image. I've corrected it for you, so you have your image with a link to your stories.

You have one. What is it you are trying to do, exactly?

Just click on the author's name to get to their story list and then choose to Follow and you'll be alerted to new stories from the author.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'm glad you enjoyed it... there is a ton of Anthology stories that are well worth reading

I figured @BHopper2 would have said something about this, given his love of Trek Maybe @W_L too?

Yup. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-find-planet-vulcan-from-star-trek/ar-BBNxGv9?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Excellent article @Comicality I love how you include video samples! And I have all the movies you show clips of too! I'd include the climax from Scent of a Woman too. You had no idea where Al Palcino was going in that speech and everyone was hanging on it.

My, how time flies. 16 years! The site started on September 13, 2002. The story on that can be found on our 15th Anniversary page here: https://www.gayauthors.org/anniversary/ This year, I just want to say: THANK YOU! We are here today because all of you are still here posting stories, reading stories and sharing in our community. So, in the spirit of our great community, how about you share with us what Gay Authors means to you?

Though, I suspect if you hit edit and save on each story, it'll jump to your new series...

It's the Ampersand. It was handled differently back when then it is now, so was not stripped properly before. This sort of issue is corrected with the new update, as we handle series differently. @A.J. is going to have to poke the database to fix your issue.

This week I'd like to talk about two of the new features coming to the site soon. I've shared this a bit with the authors, but I wanted to share them a little wider. This is a more focused view for readers. We currently have one way for authors to group their stories: Series links. They work, but I've wanted them to be more obvious. So, with the new version, we're giving a bit more depth to our Series. Series now has a description. We can also add a series banner and special enhanced displays for series that have special circumstances. Authors should take note of the red Xs on the side. We can now very easily remove stories from a series (and yes, it asks to confirm the delete, so no accidents) or reorder the stories by simply pressing the up and down arrows. But a series of stories isn't the only way to group stories in the next update. As anyone who has ever read Tom Clancy, Mercedes Lackey, J.K. Rowling, or Rick Riodan knows, you can have a whole bunch of different series featuring different aspects or couples that all take place, along with stand-alone stories, in the same world. And hence, the next new feature: Worlds. Worlds function almost exactly like Series, except that there is no order like in a series and you can add Series to your world. For the sharp-eyed readers here, you will spot "Contributors". For the purpose of this demonstration, I added dkstories' Dreams of Humanity Series to my Psionic Corp world. Series listing also allows contributors, though I didn't show it in the example above. Also in the picture, you can see that Series has one highlight color (black currently) and Worlds another (Violet, currently). Also, Dreams is tagged with Premium, so that is also listed. I see this feature getting used for authors who share the same writing world or for authors like @Comicalityand I who write stand-alone stories that share the same area. In the example, you see two of my Anthology entries which are stand-alone entries in my Psionic Corp world. Good news too, current existing stories in a series will import in as is. The Author or staff members will just need to go and add a description to the series page, and it'll be good. (if one isn't added, it'll just look as it does now) The browse menu will now have a "Browse by Series" and "Browse by Worlds", as you can see in the right-side menu in the above image. There are other things coming as well. But as you can see from the screenshots, the test server already has these features working

Thanks @Comicality I've had my share of more difficult contacts over the years because of my writing and GA as well. We do bear some responsibility to our fellow people to help where we can.

So this is a thing. The reviews have been outstanding. I played the first mission up to the first boss fight this morning. It's a beautiful looking and sounding game on the PS4 Pro. Outstanding really. The little I've played so far, reminds me of Batman Arkham series but with a much more kinetic character to control. My only complaint is with the PS4 controller. 12 years of using xbox's stellar controller and the steaming pile of crap that is the PS4 (more like POS) controller makes playing anything an exercise in frustration. I mean seriously.. where the hell is the guide on what an R1 vs R2 vs R3 means? That's just stupid. And the layout is not built for large hands. The controller sucks in the extreme. I'm looking to see if I can find a decent PS4 with the xbox physical layout... Otherwise I'll have to just play this game in story mode, because I spent more time fighting the controller than I did enemies on the screen...

Hello everyone! We're going to be starting up our Anthology Flashbacks in fall next week. Please take this opportunity to follow this blog! We only have 11 Followers at the moment For Writers, some important topics are in this blog. Please be sure to check them out if you missed it: This flashback did not get a lot of love, so since you missed the last opportunity to read and review some great stories, check them out now!

Nope. It's in the next row that I didn't show.

For those of you that don't know, Gay Authors stays open and improving through the combination of Premium Membership subscribers and advertising. This pays the bills and allows to maintain and improve the site. In the last version of the forum software, they introduced a simplified Subscription Management tool. The most important thing it does is fixes that stupid error "You have already purchased... etc". The catch, of course, is that any time the software changes like this, there are hiccups. I've waited sometime now for them to have plenty of time to fix bugs. I'm hoping we don't see any. We'll be switching to the new system soon. In theory, all current and past subscribers should be switched over and there will be a new simple interface for you to use to renew or change renewal times. I'm also putting a link to Premium directly on the Main Menu. This is how it will look, basically. @Cia is still finalizing the graphics as I write this. Once you have subscribed, the interface is MUCH better than the old system. It is very clear as to what you are subscribed to, when it expires/renews: Expect this change to hit this week!

That is a more advanced trick that @A.J. will have to help with. The upcoming update simplifies the Series system a fair bit.

Nathan pounded the emergency button on the airlock as the water roared toward him. The watertight door slammed closed just before the wall of water reached it. He knew he had to make it to the launch bay so that he could take one of the scout subs back to the main colony. He let the desperation of the situation settle in for a moment as he watched through the small window in the door as water completely filled the compartment next to his. Eighteen, and barely that, was too young to die.