Krista

My mother had a thing for Fabio, I think... but since I thought he was butt-end ugly, I never wanted to read them growing up. At least the book covers have gotten better. I do like a strong plot to go along with the Romance aspect. I get bored very easily if I don't get it. It is escapism in a nutshell. Cerebral gay fictions are typically great reads as well. I wish I had been more exposed to those in my earlier reading habits. Maybe give some suggestions so that I can pick up a few new things to read along the way, I'm finding myself becoming very picky about the Romances I've attempted to read of late.

😮 you couldn't have shown us which story you were currently reading in your screen grab? As for the Ads, there have always been some semblance of sex to some of them as far as I can recall. Although this one is a bit on the nose... err thrusting abdomen. Maybe I'm desensitized, but I don't have a problem with it personally. I'm not sure, there may not be any control over what Ads Google sends through in their ad services? It isn't done by the people in Orange though, that much I am pretty positive is true. But like all rare things in this world, I could be wrong and they can correct me on that.

Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed the story. It was sort of a spur of the moment idea for one of GA's anthologies, but it went on too long and I ran out of time. I posted it anyway. Oh, and welcome to GA, I don't know if you've been lurking for awhile and finally joined, but there are a ton of wonderful stories here to check out.

Hmm... a Lab puppy? I can see it, if he snarls and constantly falls down stairs. Jackson does get into his own way at times and gets into sticky situations. It would be so sad for me to write over 300k words and not have him achieve his goals in that way. I mean, he may still yet find out that he won't achieve them... just no, not in that way. I love how you described both characters, what they're going through and how realistic it all feels... goals, it is good to know that I have at least accomplished some of them. I was a bit surprised that Luke was described the way he was. I've seen him slightly differently, but that's why writing and reading is good and I'll not attempt to coach anyone to see any of my characters the way 'I' see them, if the writing takes you there, it takes you there. It is my job to write them in a way that is enjoyable and worthwhile, it is not my job to control you and pigeonhole you into my way of thinking. At least not with this sort of theme/style.. what have you. There are some stories where a certain character may 'need' to be seen in a certain way for it to be effective - still the writing should reflect it, and not me preaching from a pulpit at y'all in the comments.

I would never! 😮 Too evil. So rest assured, Jackson makes it home. lol.. and that was quite the picture you painted for poor Cindy, I don't think I would wish that torture on anyone, mercy. Jackson's transformation throughout the writing has been a bit of a worry for me. I set out to make a character difficult to like, but he warmed up to y'all anyway. I wanted to make him a bit of an ass, but a loveable.. not idiot, but.. just.. I don't know, not so deep or serious sort of guy. I knew if the transition into that sort of thinking/deeper sort happened too slowly, y'all would give up... if it happened to quickly, it might not be believable. I'm hoping for the latter to be true. Luke's growth as well, for that matter. I didn't want him to meet Jackson's level too quickly either, I wanted him to stay true to himself and remain different throughout.

Thank you! My writing, I feel has come a long way from even Standing in Shadows to now. I don't know if there would ever be a spot for a High School fiction with this much swearing and sex in the publishing world.. lol. I'd have to edit a lot of that out and then edit it again. My dialog isn't structured all that correctly either. But even more baby steps for me, if I continue writing after this story. I am glad you have enjoyed the story so far.

Well, if the psychic from the carnival is to be believed, we don't have to worry about Tara at all.. as Tara is a redhead and Jackson is supposed to end up with a short haired blond with blue eyes. Lol. (More or less a younger version of Cindy physically). We'll see how solid Jackson and Luke become, I was rather invested in their relationship and the dynamic between both friend groups in the coming chapter. It could be a bit of a wreck, mind you...

Yeah.. Cindy... Thank you for coming back to the story. And for leaving a comment.

Closet how? I think he's come out of the closet on being an ass. lol.. beat it down, rather. As far as I know, Aiden is straight, unless I have unintentionally alluded to him not being straight? The Meets take a while to write, so I am always pleasantly surprised that y'all like reading them. They're also longer chapters than usual... so I'm concerned they're too long. I wonder though, if the next one I do have to write will be as impactful, since they are closer together in the timeline than what I have made them in the past. But, I couldn't let Districts be the final milestone in the writing, I have some stuff to cover.

hmm.. me thinks the ol' boy is feeling the heat from his cheeky ways and is looking to turn over a new leaf so to speak. On a serious note though, I like the WWU, but if you feel that it needs a punching up or whatever, I like @astone2292's suggestions. If you're looking for a more in-depth discussion or whatever, prompting with a question could be what gets the ball rolling. It doesn't even have to be Writing, Reading, or anything. It could be current events, life updates, etc. If they're not too personal or nosey people may answer.

Thank you! When I set out to do a sporting heavy story, I wanted to do it in a way that people could feel it. Otherwise, I feel the theme would fall a bit flat as a secondary backdrop sort of theme. I only hoped I could do it satisfactory at best, action writing is difficult at times, especially continuing to do it over and over again and making it feel fresh each time. ahhh Cindy. To be honest, this one seemed a bit tame by her standards. She's not storming campsites, making threats, and such. lol Maybe she's getting soft. 😮

No, I have zero swimming in my background. I spent a couple hours researching how it was set up at the high school elite level, how the races generally went. Then I imagined what all the character would have to be aware of when they were in the pool in the act of swimming competitively. I did make some obvious errors in earlier chapters (do warn him if he plans to read the entire thing, that I am aware of them). I miss-named one of Jackson's events for a bit, but I corrected it in later chapters. Then the pools, vary in length, so the distance and laps they would be taking should have been more unique depending on the facility. Not every facility is going to have the money or space for elite level swimming competitions, which is what I have been depicting in the writing. -- I mean I guess they could have, but in the small town setting that I chose, I highly doubt it, not when I had Jackson be a bit abnormal for picking swimming and it not being a school sanctioned sport and all that. lol. I'm thrilled to know that I got his approval. Cindy has balls, yeah. And very poor timing. But I imagine, so did Godzilla.

“Get your asses up,” growled Tony from the other side of my hotel room. Scaring the fuck out of me, I fell out of the bed taking the sheets with me. Charlie grumbled and I felt him tugging on the sheets and I regretted staying up late talking to him and Drae. I had qualifying and event finals today for my sprint distance swims, the one hundred meter freestyle and the four by one hundred meter medley. I already qualified for my event finals in my bigger race, the eight hundred free yesterday. The

Thank you for coming back after the long hiatus and leaving a comment. I may not deserve it, but it I am glad to see it. Thank you for coming back! I think they do, I feel that they are in the next few chapters too. Which is 'maybe' part of the reason I was struggling. I had the mindset that the only way this story can continue is if they aren't. Now I'm of the mindset that I don't care, I think the other themes are strong enough to carry it, even if the romance is a bit more settled. I still have things to cover on that front too, mind you. I'm just going to stop worrying about it. The theory of Henry just being a loveable pile of man and that he knows has been a long lived theory. It 'almost' makes me want to go out of my way to twist up that theory completely and be diabolical... but we'll see, won't we? Sometimes it is good 'not' to give us 'evil' authors ideas. lol. It would probably be humbling for him, if anything, to know the opinion of Henry when Henry thinks he isn't around to hear it. I don't know, I think Henry has always generally liked Jackson and accepted him for what he was. I don't recall him outwardly judging him for anything or making a point to tell him that he had to change, etc. As you can see, I love Henry. Henry spin-off in the works? 😮 I actually think a younger version of all of them pre-marriage would be interesting. Craig, Grace, Welker, Henry, Carrie, Troy, Troy's estranged ex-wifey, etc. I've never really developed outside parents like I have with these sets of parents before. Thank you! I love writing love stories. Thank you for coming back to the story and leaving a comment! Maybe 'should Luke come to Georgia,' would be the more pertinent question. *whistles* All that aside, the little brat Jackson actually has to get into Georgia himself. He's been known to screw stuff up in the past, like royally, he couldn't do a better job if he tried.. sort of thing. I love writing about both of his friend groups. I wish I could focus on both of them a lot more and well past where I have already... since I'm so much farther along than what's posted... I said this privately in a PM you sent me. I actually didn't feel ready to graduate when I was younger. I looked around and didn't want to see it all end. I had a great high school experience, overall... with really supportive friends - much like Jackson has. I also knew their plans and their plans didn't involve staying or going anywhere close to me and I feared that change so bad that maybe I didn't really enjoy a lot of the closing milestones that came with it. Thank you! This is the drawback of me being a bit ahead of y'all. Good for you rather, bad for me, as I like to talk and I don't want to over do it and spoil anything. I just read one of the chapters well into the future of when this one took place. I am actually trying to restrain myself from just speed posting it - errors and all. @wildone probably wouldn't appreciate me doing that though.. lol.. and I do still have two chapters to write so I better behave, buckle down, and get those done so I have a complete story to offer you when you get there. Lol! Everyone had cocky eyebrows this chapter. Shay, Tara, Luke, Jackson, the bouncer at the club entrance... I was in love with the eyebrow game, I guess. Cocky eyebrows can be effective in their own way. I was actually wondering if it was a bad habit I picked up, but thankfully so far, I've been in the clear for two chapters I've read past this one. The next chapter is 34ish pages long, I think. @wildonetold me not to post it until Thursday, but it is edited and ready to go. I think he needs a break, he edited 45 and 46 really fast and even I had forgotten how massive that chapter was. The following chapters aren't small either, they're rather large.. even Chapter 50 was 7777 words exactly, but I've since edited it some and shortened it from that perfection. 7755 lol

Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who returned to this story. Secondly, I would like to apologize for anyone who made it a drinking game to see how many times I wrote, "cocking an eyebrow.." or "my foot brushed against his/his foot found mine.." I'm sure by the end of the chapter you were severely sauced and had poor judgements running through your minds. I'll get to the comments individually tomorrow. I'm in the process of reading this chapter so I can flow into the next one better.

I'm as surprised as everyone else he hasn't been axed yet, the cheeky thing.

Tara ended up taking us well past the smaller towns that I was used to, every one of them probably having the same sad stories of people being stuck in them. Dominated by banks and factories and people who lived there for generations. Each one of them dead as ghost towns now that it was later in the evening. Now we were driving down a quiet street where every driveway ended with a closed gate that led up to large, newly built houses. Looking around, I couldn’t really imagine growing up her

I have finally finished Chapter 50, finally. Maybe Chapter 51 and the Epilogue or whatever we're going to loosely call the closing scenes.. won't be too long in the future from being done. I've hunted down @wildone and he's had to dust off his editing hat, but maybe we'll get some chapters out soon. I think we have 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, and 50 to edit and post. Chapter 45 may already be edited, I'll have to go back and check.

Good. I was sucked into the, I don't want to say craze, but the craze... lol, when the first film was due to be out. I like to read the book before I watch the films and since I was curious, I read the first book. Then curiosity took hold for the second book, then the train wreck of the third and fourth book smacked me in the face. I've tried to reread the series since, but I can't get past the first chapter. And good, sparkly vampires shouldn't exist... mock away.

I know, right? Rude behavior, terrible.

😮 Don't let the little cheeky thing attempt to swindle you. Git' him. Also, no you're more than welcome, I am nothing if not giving in my battles to keep our @wildonein line. I mean... there's only so much one person can do with him on any given day.

Hush you.

Yeah, I should have fleshed out the ending a bit better. I was tired and this was spur of the moment, since I kind of made the promise of a Prompt since I made that cheeky comment in the forums. Aro can read every thought a person has ever made, in their entire existence/life whatever, with just the touch of his hand. So he would know Joel's plan to destroy him and his hold on power/powerful vampires. Also he would know that Corin's mind control didn't work on him either, that Joel still had his own mind. Stephenie Meyer the original author went into a lot of trouble to create an evil kingdom that couldn't be touched. So I thought it would be interesting to write a story about a character that set out to do that. I also poked a lot of fun at her writing that I've always had an issue with, but only readers of the series would really appreciate. For starters: She created her Vampires to be marble-like, cold-skinned, and unchangeable. Which means they don't produce sperm, they can't cry or produce bodily fluids other than "venom" in their saliva to aid in their feeding on humans. That's it. At the middle of the 4th book though Bella becomes pregnant with a vampire/human hybrid baby. Her new husband Edward, with that logic - would have had to never ejaculate or have a sexual or masturbatory event... ever, for hundreds of years - otherwise his tank would be empty. Also with that logic, I would have thought the sperm would be a residual fluid from his human life - so in theory, their child should have been completely human and not a human-vampire hybrid at all. Which would give the Volturi/Aro no reason to start a vampire war. Also in Meyer's world, wolves imprint on their mates. They have no control over it, they could be in a committed relationship with someone else, married to someone else.. and run up on someone new and "imprint," and change their mind completely. Jacob, was in a love triangle with Bella and Edward, Bella couldn't make up her mind, because she loved both of them. The pregnancy broke the triangle and she had to become a Vampire. To clean up the fallout from the broken love triangle, Meyer had Jacob imprint on a baby, Bella's hybrid baby. Which also made no sense, because imprinting has a biological function in that the strongest female - male pairs would imprint on one another to keep the "werewolf gene," strong in their Tribe. So imprinting on a Vampire even a hybrid - their mortal enemies, the only reason they exist at all... was stupidity. So in other words, Meyer created an impossible baby to close the story, because she didn't have a better way to do so, that's it. I mean, she had to write an entire Codex explaining all this, so that she could get away with her plotholes in the original fiction, but I didn't buy it. The codex didn't make any sense either. --- So if you didn't know that specific history, and what Aro's power was specifically, then a lot of this prompt didn't make a lot of sense with the backstory that I just sprinkled in. I wanted to try a different sort of writing style with this story, using vocabulary and sentence structure that I normally wouldn't use in other writing.

Krista's Prompts Chapter 10 by Krista - Gay Authors Well.. I did it. Better late than never, I guess.

PT 113 - The Hunted It was inevitable, I should have known that going in. Looking around at the sunlit spot I chose overlooking a lake. I watched as campers shuffled out of their tents, none of them wise to my lurking. The disappearances started a month ago, two years after the impasse out on that frozen meadow. Curiosity, that is what I blame this on. News of a special child or immortal abomination swirled around Forks Washington and I had to see it for myself. It wasn’t everyday tha