James Baxter

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.

One of the great experiences GayAuthors has graced me with is your wonderful love filled journey of Oliver and Niko's lives. The years of adoration they shared made this a love story for the ages. Thank you @CasualWanderer82 for brightening my life!

Thank you for a wonderful story and for wrapping it up so nicely!! I'm glad we get to see eight years into the future so all this settling down can have a permanence go along with their domestic bliss. I'm really glad to see Otis finding his true self in teaching special needs children who often, like Otis, never outgrow their innocent outlook on life. He was right to wait until he was settled in life before he took the step of marrying Hudson. Now the two of them can really focus on raising a family of their own. I wish them all the best and will carry them in my heart forever!

Moving forward from the first to this second chapter I was all set to read amid great trepidation, for you have set such a high prescient of admirable writing skills last August with chapter one, but I was happy to find that you did not disappoint me! In fact you thrilled me once again with your talent. I read this chapter with a fine toothed comb, word by word, anxious not to miss a single nuance of your intention as you wrote and I was filled with admiration at your ability to captivate me once again! I have become one of your most ardent fans! I anxiously await your next chapter. I LOVE this story!

Excellent! Written with such skill and precision I'm surprised I didn't see it when I first read this ten months ago. Perfect in every way! You've transported me right to Greece and into the lives of your vibrant characters!! I'm impressed!

I, too, love Otis and his unique ways and can't wait to see him in your final post. He is so honest and pure in a sense no other character has been in such a long time. This sincere and genuine to a fault Angel and you are to thank, Laura, for bringing him to us every week! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

I'm following you revisiting Comsie's library and I totally support you paying tribute to Comsie along the way!

I got this notice from GayAuthors that said: @Geron Kees has posted chapter 5 to a story you follow Is That a Monster In The Closet, Charlie Boone? so being the curious fan that I am, I opened the e-mail to find that indeed I did have a posting of chapter 5 from @Geron Kees waiting for me. I found it peculiar that I'd received a stand alone posting of chapter 5 with no previous postings of chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, and chapter 4. I took it in stride and remedied the situation and immediately backed up to chapter 1 and began reading from the beginning. I was glad to discover that this Charlie Boone story was just as riveting as It was the first time through five years ago and eagerly devoured all the chapters up to chapter 5. Now it's on to chapter 6 but want to once again thank @Geron Kees for writing such fabulous tales and keeping me entertained so well. Now I'll be waiting for new current material to come my way.

I'm still 37 pages back into the chapter with my reading but back there I came across this gem: I just had to copy and paste this to my comments section before it became lost to me inside of the many pages of text!! It is a brilliant way to explain the passage of time (from a Buddhist point of view) in just one simple sentence. Remarkable!! Thanks @Geron Kees for your insightful writing skills. Keerby nodded. "We've split up this sense of time moving into seconds and minutes and things, to make life easier for us. Every second is accounted for, and every part of every second, down to the smallest little bit. But time doesn't know that. It's all one as it passes, it's all the right now. The only differences in perceived time to us living things are places in our universe where the frames slide past each other for some reason. That can happen naturally due to speed or gravity, or because some power user made it happen. And the future is not set at all, even though we also think of it with the same words that we see the past. We can say, 'I was there an hour ago', or we can say, 'I'll be there in an hour,' and we see them the same way, as a specific moment in time. But that past moment is an expired now, and the future moment doesn't really exist until we actually arrive at it as now."

I haven't read the chapter yet but need to comment on the very first line: This is probably the shortest chapter in the whole series!! AND it's almost 12 thousand words!! I just love these long chapters you post and if this is the shortest then I'm doubly pleased. Your long chapters are very satisfying with so much content happening with each post. AND you post frequently so we don't have to wait very long for each update! Speaking for all of us readers, I want to thank you for the long chapters and the frequent postings!! They make this fine story only that much more enjoyable.

So, that's a drug dealer?" M asked excitedly, peering out the window. "Can I go say hi ?" I defy anybody to find a line even remotely similar to that one in another story😄 Way to throw out a challenge, @weinerdog !!! I doubt you'll find any takers though.

I discovered Comsie's Shak Out Back and read all of his postings on his home site. @Comicality was my first experience with a gay contemporary author and his stories are how I learned about GayAuthors.org and the treasure trove of exceptional writers that post here. Accolades to all of them but they were all just imitations of Comsie's great library that first led me here. He saved me from a closeted life in solitude and for my escape from that fate I will be forever indebted to him. He made it OK to come out in public after a life spent in the shadows. I thank you, Comsie for my awakening and rebirth into the whole gay community. He will be sorely missed!

Turning mankind inward to a seething pit of unholiness ...while we wait... What a scathing observation of our current condition!

As the first boys in this series to find love in another boy's eyes here in Ravello, Angelo and Giani now take the mantel to watch over the blossoming young hearts of Marco and Georgio with the perspective of sages of boylove and how high it can fly. Their experiences as teenagers can only offer support and guidance for their charges as they walk in their shoes discovering their place in the lovely world of Ravello. I follow them now in my imagination but would be ever so grateful to follow them on the pages of another @James Carnarvon tale of love. We readers can never be satisfied...

She was doing this new move tonight though, reverse cowgirl, and it was especially dumb. All the awkward shifting, all the uncomfortable placement of hands. She had some sex book, with hundreds of different positions and she’d tried to show it to Connor once. He’d had so little interest; the whole book was nothing but a blur of arms and legs. Sex just didn’t interest him. This is a quote from early in chapter one but I couldn't resist reprinting it here. To refer to a sex manual as "a blur of arms and legs" is simply BRILLIANT and I feel guilty to say that I didn't catch it until my second read-through in preparation of reading your current posting today. My comment was so impatient to be said that I had to write it even before I read this second chapter! 'nuff said, now back to my reading of chapter one...