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I'm saddened to hear this, but I understand. We'll still be here, ready to read your words, when you feel like writing again. Until then, my friend, I can re-read your works you already have posted.

tim is a fantastic poet. These works of his are full of emotion, stunning visuals, and pull at the heartstrings of the reader. Each chapter is another journey into a world that is crafted skillfully.

A well-written story that talks about abuse, and triumph over it. Flowed well.

A fantastic tale of Life vs Death, and one that makes you think about the future. Beautiful written, it flowed well, and really gave a lot of visuals. You can really connect with the main character.

I have no words for this.

A fantastic story about choices. The writing flowed well, and the dialogue was good. Painted great visuals.

I'm working on the next installment, right now. I decided to use Mark in it, and because there was some confusion with The House of Aeris short and the chapter called Act 2 - Prelude to War - Part 3, I decided to go ahead and combine the Tales story, into the main storyline.

No one knew his real name, he was only known by his title: Guardian One. While not the leader of the Human Race, he was a Military Leader, and one trying to hold the Sol Federation together. While his Guardian Force brothers, and sisters, were scattered across the Federation, assisting the Military in the war with the Thorian Empire, he was on a diplomatic mission; One to try and establish a war treaty with a race known as the Proxima. So far, things had been going well, and they wanted a face t

A beautiful Irish love story. It was written well, good visuals, and was fun to read. Four-stars because at times, it was hard to follow the dialogue the way the Author wrote the story.

A beautiful tale. Thanks for sharing it.

A fantastic tale of love between two people from two different worlds. The writing was excellent, vivid pictures were painted, dialogue flowed naturally. My main beef and the reason why I left four-stars is the following: Because the writer employed in error, the "Show, Don't Tell" method, that publishers seem to insist on, there are gaps in details to make this a fully complete story. The lack of Infodumps, a staple of the Fantasy Genre, leaves out the details needed to explain the divisions of the world. Too much assumption is done by the reader, in order to fill in the gaps. The story was great, don't get me wrong on that. It could have been a lot better, had the writer employed the genre's staples.

One hell of a twist for the ending. Loved the visuals in this story, and the progress the main character went through.

A sad but beautiful tale. A Son remembers his family. The visuals and descriptions were marvelous. I recommend it to anyone.

tim, your skill at poetry leaves me speechless, yet again. Both the visuals and the emotion, these invoke, I have no words to describe.

A fantastic tale, of two people in love, who finally admit it to each other. Beautifully written, great visuals. Short and to the point.

Interesting choices this week.

And here, I thought this was an older story and not a brand new one. I should have checked the date. Excellently written, and packed full of details. Looking forward to more.

This was a fantastic short story and a powerful scene of magic in action. Not many people can write a fantasy combat scene, with both martial and magical aspects, and this story does excellent in both. It was minimalist in details of the world at large, which is typically a drawback on fantasy stores, but not where the focus of the story was. The lack of an Infodump, is a serious burden on the reader, as they have no clue what the world is about. Barring the lack of description, and details in the form of an Infodump, I still rated the story five-stars for the action-packed scene alone.

Yuppers. They are male. LOL. I so know what you mean.

Tone, and inflection are just as important as the words themselves. I have friends, that when we're together, you'd think we hated each other, with what we called each other. However, if you listen to how we say what we do, you'd see we were playing around. But, be an outsider, and say the same things, and all bets are off. From personal experience, whoever said: "Sticks and Stones, may break my bones; but words will never hurt me," lied. I fully agree with what you said, about the power of words, and what MacGreg said about, "Taste your words, before you spit them." Thank you, molly, for another great blog.

Weird, but good. The reason behind the three-star rating and my weird comment is that the story seems to be part of a larger series. In fact, the last chapter, mentions that the story was continued in another one of the Author's stories. However, when looking at the stories, and the descriptions, it is unclear where one is to start, in order to fully get the order of events. Having-said-that, this story as a stand-alone was good. The characters had enough life to them, to where they weren't two-dimensional, and there was a good use of language to convey a fantasy setting. However, there was a lack of details and description to fully paint a picture of what was there. Very minimalist, and requires the reader to fill in too many voids. Also, the use of Translator's Notes on a couple of the chapters makes one not familiar with the Author's series, wonder if these are someone else's stories and were translated to English or just a styling used by the Author. I suspect it is the latter, as some of the other stories presented by the Author uses Translator as a title reference.

That's really interesting. I'm currently writing a story about twins going into space.

New topic in the Fantasy Writer's Sub-forum for Role-Players on how Wizards of the Coast in introducing more inclusive gaming for the Gay Community. Must be a member of the Club to view the link.

I know more people look in the Forums than they do the Status Updates, so a quick announcement. Over in the Fantasy Writer's club, Myr has added a private forum area for Role-Players to discuss storytelling in cooperative games. Just getting off the ground over there, but it would be fun to talk about our favorite systems, worlds, etc. Who knows, we may be able to get some folks together for some Virtual Tabletop RPG goodness. So come on over, join the Club, Hang Out. Pulled up a chair, or sit on the floor. https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/forum/305-roleplaying-games/

More excellent poems, tim. I could feel the emotion in these words, and see the visuals you painted. Lovely they were. Also, I referenced this chapter in a Topic Tuesday thread in the writers club.