Wayne Gray

Thanks, tim! 🙂 It was time for some action, eh?

Maybe so! Thank you for writing! There’s one more too, and a lot can happen in a chapter.

Thanks, Chris. Yeah, Jed's boyfriend and packmate saved him. What's with the spirit calling him a demon? Weird!

Oops. 🙂 Thanks, Parker. This was a long chapter (for me), but I had a lot to say. There are still a few things to wrap up, and we'll get to those, probably next week. I had fun writing this one!

Saturday, April 20 (the day after full moon) Joan left with Daniel in his truck. The meet-up with the Silverwolf had gone as well as it could have, and she was happy about that. Joan looked over at Daniel as the man drove. A contented calm smoothed Daniel's features. Though Joan smiled at that, something bothered her. "Daniel," she avoided the voice as she addressed her new packmate. "I want you to tell me something." He nodded as he drove. "What do you want to know, ma'am?" Joan

If you want that slow burn, click here. It will be a very long time before Ash and Ember makes it onto the site, so if you're between stories you can give that one a shot. Thanks for the faith. The guys all have a lot of journey ahead of them. Just because Greg and Clay decided to try, doesn't mean it'll all be smooth sailing for them either. Keep reading. We'll get there.

There are probably a couple of chapters of that. 😛

Hi Ford. Thanks for commenting. Yeah. It did move pretty fast. But, Clay had a plan. He waited for two years, and he was done; he was ready to see if it would work or not, and luckily for us it did. But, if you want a slow burn story, I have one of those too. Seriously slow burn... chapters and chapters and chapters. 🙂 If you're interested in that let me know and I'll send you a link to it (I've yet to post it on this site, but that's coming down the line). Thanks again.

Very true.

This was on topic, educational, thoughtful and well-said. I just feel like I need to call that out, and thank you for it. 🙂 Concerning Greg and Mason: You're gonna love chapter five. I can't say much more about it other than that, but I based what happened to Greg on a good friend of mine who grew up in Alabama in the 80s. It's nearly verbatim what he went through. We have come a long way. But getting here has left many scars, and some of those will never heal.

Thanks, tim! I hope you stay interested in the story. This one really is near and dear to my heart. It's the story where I found my favorite genre and this cast of characters still rotates into my mind often.

Thanks, Tonyr. He's a good guy. What mainly upset him was the thought that his dad might have cheated on his mom. But, then there's also the business with Greg hiding his sexuality. Mason's a bit militant about his - he wants the world to know it, and he is willing to fight anyone who has a problem with it.

Hi Bryan. Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you're along for the ride. I had a lot of readers worried that I was changing the spirit/heart of the story, and that's really not what is happening at all. Just cleaning up, and making it better in just about every way. Elias is one of my favorite characters I've ever written. He's sweet, complex, gifted, and deserving. It's awfully hard to dislike a character such as him. I'm glad you're not sorry for liking him; I think that he deserves it. You know there will be more. 🙂

Mason's 17. ALMOST 18. He's mostly an adult, and he mostly acts like one. Though, as you have seen, he does have his moments.

Thanks, Jeffrey. I’m glad you find it interesting. You’re reading the smoothed and edited version right off the bat, so even better! More to come!

Thanks, Chris. He is confused - not about himself, but about his dad and Greg. He simply doesn’t have a lot of lived experience yet, though he thinks he has all the answers. 😋

Yep. It's a lot for him to take in and accept. He's trying. Yeah, he's still a teenager, but he is trying.

Thanks! I did a heavy edit myself, and then Thorn did as well. With our powers combined (okay, mostly Thorn's) it has been massaged to a nice readability. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

May 12 (Saturday) Mason woke. He was a little disoriented at first, blinking in the dark cabin as he got his bearings. The time difference meant he was awake at five a.m., even though the sky was still dark outside. Mason loved his dad, and he worried about him, but that worry encompassed more than the danger of Clay's job. Ever since Mason's mom died Clay had totally cut himself off from any kind of emotional connection with someone new. Yesterday when they had met up with Greg, it was the f

Ohhhh... that looks tasty. Reminds me of what we call a strada. You can put almost anything you want in them, but they're all savory and good.

I love our world sometimes.

Goodnight, tim.

Having some wine, writing a bit, reading a bit, chatting a bit, waiting for dinner to warm on the stove. Not a bad evening. How's everyone doing?

That moment where Stravor tells Keter that he would run, that if Keter wished, they'd try to run from this monstrous, powerful god. That it'd forfeit both of their lives, but that he'd still try. That's the moment I truly began to love Stravor. Nice chapter, tim. Good job.

Good questions. Thanks for reading and for commenting, Parker. Typically, pack leaders command wolves, not other pack-leaders. If they do, then it's completely apart from the pack voice's effects. Pack leaders are immune to the voice of others like themselves. Continuing this line of thought - suddenly Joan has a lot of power over Jed in the form of command over his father. But, the pack voice isn't absolute. It makes the recipient predisposed to view the command/request by the speaker in a favorable light. If Joan told Daniel to jump off a cliff, or attack his son, he wouldn't, and she would likely lose him as a pack mate. I tried here and there to hint at the limits of the voice, but I don't think I did a very good job of it. I also didn't do a good job of showing the need for a pack leader to actually lead others. It fulfills a piece of them; they're born into the role. Without a pack, a pack leader is severely diminished. Their own beast will be difficult. Spending power and energy on the pack bleeds off the need for the beast to get wild and crazy. In short, a pack leader who pays attention to their "wolves" is more stable, stronger, happier. Wolfgang and Jed are a very odd pairing. Wolfgang's talent interfaces with Jed's beast in a strange and wonderful way. They're all learning just how far that can go too. Whoa. Sorry for the dissertation.