Brayon

Have you tried Uber Eats, Grubhub, or DoorDash? There's a couple near us that are showing "closed" and won't answer the phone, but are open with just those services doing delivery.

Advice for our family:

Reminds me of an old D&D module about a lost dwarven layer to Undermountain. But, I can see this as part of your King's Ranger series.

I am not a fan of bugs, and we have some nasty palmetto bugs down here. Think roaches, but 2-inches long. Nothing worse than to wake up with one of them running across your face, and you're zipped up in a sleeping bag.

Ice Cream for Breakfast!

Her room isn't where I can get to, to look in the window.

Thanks, miss molly. We wave at each other from across the lobby, so we have that at least. Sleep well.

With the Covid-19 restrictions in play, my every other day visit with Mom, has turned into random phone calls, and a once a week drop off of stuff for her. Can't enter the building, so I have to wait out front for a staff member to pic up her stuff, and then they have to wipe it down before she gets it. I'm glad the facility she lives in is taking all these precautions. But it has disrupted our routine, and she's non-to-happy about that. She didn't even get to see me on my BDay.

Thank you, @Myr and team, for all your hard work!

Hugs tim. I can't wait.

The voices in my head are telling me to start a new project. A story about how an Author falls in love with one of his story Characters.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Perhaps we need to start a "Single Authors Support Club" here at GA?

Poor Steven and his boyfriend! Nice opener to a long, multi-episodic story. Hint, hint...

This, I agree with, and any further discussion I would have on them, would surely send this to The Pit. However, they are required on GA for certain story elements, and I've had to use them on a few of mine because of that requirement. I have a story now, that when I go to post it, would required several Trigger Warnings and Story Tags the Admin require. So, sometimes, this is beyond the Author's control. I love that you've expressed this, and that most Readers would have this attitude. However, there are some Readers out there, who are the opposite, and demand that you post the next chapter, or story in a series, because they feel entitled to it. Sometimes an attitude like yours, and a good compliment is enough to get an Author to post that next chapter, or story, because they've finally had time to write it, or felt inspired enough to write it and post it. While the latter, will make Authors run for the hills.

From what I've seen, and to add another category or two to the discussion, Were-creatures, Shapeshifters, Changelings, and the like are found in Horror and Paranormal. I think the overall tone of the story would dictate what flavor of genre the story is. But as previously mentioned, Shifters are so overdone it is an instant, "nope, I'm not reading" in most cases when I come across them. It would have to be a seriously class-A story for me to read one that contains Were-anything in it. So, either a fresh take on them, i.e. people don't really change but channel the essence of the critter, or the story comes highly recommended by someone I trust, for me to look at them. For example, @Backwoods Boy has suggested I read @WolfM's stories, and I've been beta reading one of BB's stories that uses shapeshifting elements in it, that are really fresh.

I can relate to that. My asthma has been acting up more than normal, and my doctor sent me for a swab test on Thursday. Been waiting for the results to say if I have Covid-19, or it's just my normal asthma acting up with all the pollen in the air. I got seven stories in various states that I'm tempted to start posting too.

Semi-motivated. Busy with school stuff, but when I have time to write, I get some written. But it can be a slogfest just to get a sentence in.

831 added to my growing list.

A Happy Start to National Poetry Month.

Cool, thanks for the explanation, Myr.

Damn... I would be tempted to call child protective services. That just ain't right.

Getting ready to start posting a new story, and decided to refresh myself on what's on the add-story system. I noticed that there is a new Content Rating of "Mature - Member Only." Is there any special criteria to use Member Only over the normal mature feature?

Noam Chomsky: "If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise you're not in favor of freedom of speech."

Hugs, tim. You got this!