James Baxter

Now as the anxiety builds getting closer day by calendar day I read these chapters with increased trepidation following along with the knowledge that each paragraph holds the promise of innocent facts revealed that may have profound consequences in the near future. That said I remain on pins and needles as you slowly reveal what is destined to be several great tragedies ahead for our deeply loved New York characters. I'm pleased to sweat it out as you so expertly dole out the details of what will happen to whom and when. What a joy it is to read your work!

Thank you @Summerabbacat now that you've refreshed my memory I remember that movie very well. (Now I know why I was familiar with that name Beverly Sutphin just couldn't remember where from. I can just picture Kathleen Turner in that role of the psycho suburban housewife! Very funny.)

Now I feel all twisted up and panicked inside after that emotionally charged encounter between these troubled kids and their emotions! Something has just seriously changed after that frantic kiss and draining aftermath! There is no doubt that, assuming Shaun doesn't need to be rushed to the hospital, these two epically flawed characters need to have an urgent heart to heart talk to get them both on the tracks before this becomes a monumental train wreck! This is truly a deeply moving chain of events that needs to be resolved with a candid and thoughtful effort by both parties to even chance to come out unscathed any more than they already are. We are faced with a condition that will require much more than crossed fingers on two hands!!

This story has me so enthralled like no other that I'm sure it will never leave me! You are a fantastic author in so many ways that you leave my head spinning trying to pick out just one thing to comment on. I'll settle on your exceptional ability to build tension so tight that I can taste it in the back of my throat! My heartbeat is racing faster and faster with every turn of the page, I can't put it down until I've reached the end of the chapter! And your chapters are so satisfyingly long that you can cover so much material in each one that it never slows down from start to finish! Thank you for a great reading experience!

The top of my head has been itching for months now and I notice in the mirror that my forehead is growing! I'm losing my hair! Is an itchy head a symptom of male pattern baldness? I've worn my hair in a pony tail all my life so I don't have a barber to ask that of. I'm in my 70's now so it's not surprising this may have begun happening with my natural aging and all but I thought maybe somebody here at GA may have had an itchy top of their head when they began losing their hair? But on top of that @Lee Wilson you could be exacerbating my condition with your high stress causing story. It has been getting worse since you began this posting! I don't mean to call you out on it but it could be a side effect of reading your writing!? Just so you know...

I'm not quite sure what any of that means but it made me laugh just the same!

PLEASE @Demiurge, give me the link for that webpage that shows some of River's outfits and get up! I need to travel there again in my mind for a refresher.

@drpaladin @weinerdog @Mattyboy @FanLit @CincyKris and again (as always) @Demiurge geniuses of the comments section, you have me writhing on the tarmac!!! Thank you all so very much to adding depth to an already fathomless story! @Demiurge's writing always amazes me and takes me to places I've never even dreamed of and then you all just plow in behind him and leave me as I've never been trampled before!

As with so many things in American society the unvarnished truth is actually antithetical to the label a law is given. Just because it is called a Right To Work law doesn't mean that its true purpose has anything to do with anyone's Right to Work!! That is just the widow dressing it's given to make it palatable to the general (learning challenged) populous that frequent our glittering cities. A more unabashed title would be a Right to Fire law for those self righteous employers to dump onto the streets anyone they choose without due cause, for no reason, without empathy with no warning at any time they choose! This is how they destroy unions whose sole purpose is to establish workers' rights to help employees get a fair and just working environment!! A "Right to Work" law is to bolster unscrupulous bosses and help them carry out their dastardly deeds!! (And I wholeheartedly support everything that @Geron Kees has to say in the previous post)

This just goes to show what I LOVE about this site; the well informed and compassionate readers and writers who populate it!! Thank you @Geron Kees for keeping intelligence and grace at the heart of all your comments and for helping us all to be wiser because of your words!!

If vs. is the abbreviation for the word verses, is cs. the abbreviation for when a boy curses?

Was Norman Bates who ran The Bates Motel with his dead mother in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho called Master Bates when he was a child and was that a contributing factor that made him go nuts when his mother died? A moniker like that (with a daily hand job) could drive any boy crazy!

To paraphrase Peter Pan??? I JUST watched Peter Pan at The Hollywood Pantages Theatre on Saturday!! I just knew there was something special about that presentation -- @drpaladin was there in the front row and I couldn't even recognize him! My loss I guess.

Jem just goes to prove it; there's just something dishonorable about this whole "America First" group-think that is going on today!!

What a great story. I'm so glad that Conner ended up with Soren! I think they are really good for each other.