Will Hawkins

I believe that in England there are several forms of address used. The Queen and the King if there is one is addressed as Your Majesty. The heir to the throne is addressed as Your Royal Highness and the other members of the Royal family as Your Highness. All that is well and good, but I was unable to confirm my facts on the appropriate websites, so there is no guarantee.

The clock continued to tick, clucking a tsk tsk tsk at him. Wonderfully expressive line!

I find that many of the stories I read are rather lacking in character development, it requires an author with some skill to round out a character to the point that you feel you would recognize him if you met him on the street. You are such an author. Congratulations and I am looking forward to continuing my reading.

'I bought lunch for Noah and I.''I bought lunch for Noah and me.' would be better. If you have trouble deciding on the proper case for pronouns, just say the sentence without the noun; 'I bought lunch for me' sounds right, I bought lunch for I is obviously an error.

I am glad to see that my instincts about hints, clues, or whatever, pointing in the direction of wherbeings is not too far off. Is that similar to 'gaydar'? If so, my wherdar is much better than my gaydar. I so want Rory and Milan to get together; they could be so good for each other - a lover for Rory and a healer for Milan. Many, many promising threads Suilan,

Unusual healing abilities, extreme sensitivity to smells especially body odors - a strange combination - what do we have working here? Okay, I will read on with interest, but I have a feeling we are dealing with something other than human! If so, then Milan has found a cure for his immune deficiency disease - as well as a partner who might become a very, very close friend! Beautiful plot establishment and characterizations, keep up the good work!

Excellent beginning, a Japanese-Italian boy with an immune deficiency disease moving to Colorado, lots of opportunity for creative writing there. Keep up the good work!

Hey, my friend, of course, your first obligation is to your health, but just to provide a little incentive, there are many readers out here in computerland who are eager to read your stories. Both of those you mention are eagerly being followed by your audience. As far as the lack of libido is concerned, not every Chapter needs a fuck, just throw one in every once in a while. Yes, know this is a gay site, but some of us just skim the sex anyway, so a little will go a long way. Get well and rested. I am looking forward to your writing.

I need to chat with someone who knows the ins and out of editing GA stories. I am a very new guy at computers and chatting and am unsure how to get help/guidance on various operations. Is there someone out there who can help an old man get up to snuff on a keyboard? My first question would be: my MacBook was purchased by my partner when he was back home in Portugal so the keycaps are set up for European use, but I use only American English, so when I type, I have to remember that such and such a key, though it has a symbol on the keycap will produce a different character when I press it. I am getting somewhat better at learning the new format, but it would be so much easier to have the symbol on the keycap be what would appear on the screen when I pressed it. Can any computer whiz-bang help me with that problem without ruining my computer? The letters are correct, it is the punctuation and symbols that are f---ed up!

Your method of extracting stem cells sounds icky, but my best wishes go with you and your brother. I wrote a story (unpublished to date) in which undifferentiated stem cells were extracted from fetal cord blood then reproduced in an artificial blood substitute, harvested and freeze-dried to preserve. This resulted in a powder which could be encapsulated and administered orally. I could only wish this method would work as the reproduction of undifferentiated stem cells would mean no cross-matching and no time limit for dosing. Your generosity in donating stem cells to your brother is saving his life I am sure. I'll thank you and I am sure he is grateful as well!

Oh, and I have learned that the little bit of gay porn, well not so little, you can find almost any combination of two men you can dream up, available on the net does get somewhat boring primarily because I have no one on whom to practice. Ah well, such is the curse of old age! I lived through the AIDs epidemic without taking any chances and ended up healthy in that aspect, though there are some other problems of age creeping up on me!

I am sure I am making use of only a small percentage of the computer's capability, but out here in the Mata Atlantica, the internet is a lifesaver for me. It keeps my mind going, well ar half speed, but still perking along. It is nearly the only communication I have in English, though Jose can handle ordinary conversation in English quite well.

Both my partner and I use computers. He is in his late 60s and I am mid-80s. Even I have mastered some of the programs and use the internet extensively. Of course, he, though quite grumpy about it, hs helped me extensively. But living here in the Brazilian "outback", 5 clicks from anyplace at all I get tired and disgusted watching CNN and enjoy reading stories on GA. So I get practice at the usage and would die of boredom if there was no access here. I am enjoying this story very much, primarily from the author's descriptions about gay life before Stonewall (which I mark as the beginning of the Rainbow Revolution).

Bougey, now that is one I haven't heard before, I had to look it up: Adjective. bougie (comparative bougier, superlative bougiest), also bougey, (chiefly African American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeoisie people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness). Not that I am disappointed, but I expected the relations between Artie and Dizzy to go a little deeper at this point if you know what I mean!

I agree with your analysis to a certain extent. I, too believe the gay community needs to work on ageism, of course, I see that from the viewpoint of my 85 years! Hey, I may not be able to get it up anymore (without chemical help) but I still find the other end very interested. You kids just don't understand how much fun being a 'bottom' can be! I fail to understand the references to sexism and racism, however. If by sexism, you mean gay men and lesbian women as couples, that I can see, but gay couples and lesbian couples seem to get along fine together, and racism, wow! All you have to do is view a little gay pornography to see gay men overcoming any prejudice against having very close relations with men of other than the ASP race!

“Our waiters flirting with you.” 'Waiter's needs to be a contraction for Our waiter is. 'over bearing' needs a dash as 'over-bearing' it is a compound word. it could also be spelled as one word, as overbearing. And I still hate punctuation rules!

😥 Yes, I am smiling through my tears. I am sad because Adam's love-life is such an ass-hole, but smiling because Adam recognized that quickly and applied his size 12 to an appropriate portion of ex's anatomy. Good going man! This event can only have positive effects on the relationship between Artie and Adam. I am also in somewhat of a state of shock to realize how young you are, Ace. Your grasp of emotions, both gay and straight is amazing. Congratulations on a well-written tale. Even the Troll's comments have been about minor errors. Excellent work!

'Are you leaving your room?' -- Do you mean "loving" at this point?

In reference to the comment about not calling it SFO. Don't call it Frisco either. That will get you drummed out of town as well!

This is quite the day for confessions; both of our leading characters 'coming out'. I am so glad they finally chose to 'clear the air', that will decrease the number of lies they have to tell one another considerably. My time in San Francisco was many years ago and I remember well what you are calling the 'heritage' street cars. In my day there was no BART or subway up Market Street and the cable cars and streetcars covered all the routes except the (then) very newest things, the trolly busses just beginning to take over on residential routes. Market Street had four streetcar tracks in the center all the way from the Embarcad-ero to Twin Peaks where two tracks peeled off the SW and two dived into a tunnel under the "t's of the virgin" [Twin Peaks] to daylight in the Sunset District. I do not remember the exact years I was there, but I was attending a Junior College and had to ride the streetcars to school every day.

“Woh, woh,” He quickly rushed over. “what’s the matter?” Woh is the name of a Hindi television series, the word you are looking for here is whoa, the word that means 'stop', at least it does so to a horse.

it was my friend’s dad, it was my friend’s dad's horse, "The horse belonged to the dad of the friend, not the friend. It was the horse that was ridden -- I think. Unless Artie is much more versatile than he appears to be! I mean a lot of strange things go on in Northeast Texas, but then I have never lived further north than San Antonio!

it was my friend’s dad, it was my friend’s dad's horse, "The horse belonged to the dad of the friend, not the friend.

“Don’t over think?” I asked with a cautious look. 'Overthink' is spelled as one word. “The alley between your houses are big enough to squeeze through.” ''The alleys between your houses...' “Woh.” Dizzy exhaled as I pulled away. “That was nice.” "Whoa." Dizzy exhaled as... what’s really going on between Dizzy and I? what’s really going on between Dizzy and me? Use objective case for pronoun as it is the object of the preposition 'between'.

we were laying shoulder to shoulder, watching the show. Not unless there are eggs involved! The verb, in this case, s\b lying. 'in the park home room.' Should that be 'in the park home run?