Brayon

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" - Rhett Butler

Thank you, very much for reading, and for the feedback Badforlad. Devin's cursing, like his appetite, are just character flaws that I added. Though his eating habits are tied to his magic, his cursing is more rebellious youth. Having spent a day at a religious private school recently, I actually think I don't have enough cursing in the story! So many F-bombs, and it was an elementary school too. I will say, my editing team did remove a lot of the cursing, so it wouldn't be overbearing. Thank you again.

We're getting closer, and closer to what people call the singularity. I don't find that prospect frightening like some do, but I think we're coming into a new golden age of mankind. Voice control is the next leap in that direction. Personally, I have Cortona disabled on my Laptop. She's a ram hog, on my ancient craptop.

I knew this guy once, that swore all he did was pot. But, it really messed him up. He couldn't remember his own name and had to look at his Driver's Lic. I swear he was smoking something that was laced with something else.

"The perception of Normality is what elevates us above the chaos that is actually the norm." - A random substitute teacher in my High School years ago. I'm not 100% sold on the idea that Chaos is the natural state of the universe, due to a lot of patterns of Order that can be found in all things. However, what I feel this person was trying to tell us, those many years ago, is that Humans have used Law/Order to define societal norms, in order to advance the human condition. Outside of that, Humans use a lot of orderly patterns in order to define their existence. While your day starts at 4:45 am, mine ends around 3:00 am, and then starts again sometime around 7:30 am, with the screaming of the baby coming from the other room. That's my current normal. Routines, order, normalcy, they are all words that describe the patterns we each settle into, in order to process how we handle our time.

I've always heard that Writer's block, is when the voices in your head, refuse to talk to you.

@Timothy M. I thought I was the only one who was thinking, that sentence was a little off. Even saying it out loud sounds iffy. If I used that sentence, I would swap "what" for "where" as well.

Well, I'm glad you were able to capture them, while they were still there.

I enjoyed the visuals, tim. Thank you for sharing them with us.

I think you did. LOL. Your poems.

Welcome to GA.

Might seem a little dark, but I kinda like: Retribution Vengeance Avenger

Yes. It's called "Backup and Sync from Google." I have it on my laptop. You just have to tweak what folders you want to save, and how it handles deletion of files.

I don't have Dropbox, but I use OneDrive and Google Drive. Cross-platform OneNote is a GODSEND!!! I can do notes at home, and access them on any computer.

This has happened to me. I had a file become corrupted, and when I went to the backup in the cloud, it was several days old. So, a story that was pushing the 6000-word mark, ended up with just a small piece of just under 700 words, or so. I was devastated. After a day or two, I went back and finished the work, and had some friends look it over, and it got posted. I have both physical and digital copies of my Notes Journal, and it works for me. Some of my best thinking happens, usually where I'm someplace away from my laptop. That's when the pen and paper come out. But, even being bit by the TechnoDemons, I still use the digital landscape for notes.

Another fantastic story tim. I love the childlike innocence of Alasdair, and how the interaction between Berdem and him played out. Simply wonderful.

Both are a good prompt idea, hmm...

That's surprising seeing as how some of the early GA stories are like pure porn. That was something that I had noticed about GA. A shift occurred over the years from, more Erotica Based, to more, well, I would call it real stories. Where sex is a sub-plot and subtext. As long as it doesn't dissolve into M-Preg. Nothing makes me chuck a book faster into a pit of fire than a male character ending up pregnant. @Comicality thanks, again for another useful blog post.

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln

Thank you, Comsie for reading, and for the Feedback. I have been thinking about expanding this story, but I feel that the ending fits for the brothers. They bravely went to death being true to themselves. If I did expand upon the story, Edwin and Owen would not be the central characters, they have each other in the afterlife. A new story would focus on what happened after their death, and new characters who grew up hearing about how the brothers were true to themselves and to each other.

Sad in parts, but was a fantastic story, tim. I love the use of historical features, like the New Australia colony, being a 'not' penal colony. Loved the twist of it being a romance as well. Awesome!

There is not enough hours in the day to catch up on my "To Read" list. More added.

You can feel the emotion in this piece. Very well written, and beautifully done. Thank you, for sharing with us.

So disappointed with Billboard Music. Not one Steve Grand or Eli Libby song on the list. So, here is Steve Grand - Say You Love Me. Dedicated to all us gays that develope Straight boy Crushes.

This was a great story. I loved how it was told from the perspective of the ring.