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I really enjoy the "lightness of being" in this story, Comsie. There's enough heavy stuff in the world these days, it's nice to spend a few minutes on how great a "stolen moment"' kiss can be!
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Just on the tip of your tongue, and someone blinks and the moment's gone.
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"Well...this hurt to write 😬" Thank you for sharing this with us. It's powerful stuff they way you depict the beauty shining through the smothering pain and traumas. And thank you for including some green shoots of growth and hope in every episode.
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Give It To Me Straight - Chapter 11
Mattyboy commented on Comicality's story chapter in Give It To Me Straight - Chapter 11
So is Ricky's UNGGHHH!!! like Randy Stephens' one, or is that more of an UNNNGH! ? Can we have a crossover episode where they go on a date at Milo's Greek Restaurant? (This can still count as complete, it can be like a holiday special!) -
All's well. Noah needed that.
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oh boy, missing 19 woulda been missing a lot
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The episode-posting rate is pretty outstanding, though
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Someone, probably Ophelia, needs to have a talk with Lilith about just how much screamy-teen-pressure the Seth-Noah relationship can handle. Although she deserves something nice in her life too. Beautiful and powerful stuff, @Demiurge, thank you for sharing this story.
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Howard's just "in his 70s" And still pretty sharp, from what we saw here. 70s is like 64 in the old days
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And of course the business he pinged on was "wasn't dating him." Hi folks, I know this conversation's been on for a while but bingeing thru tonight. So I'm having the last three months episodes convos all at once
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Probably one of the Landry kids (Max?) siphoning/embezzling cuz they think the old man is past it. Seen it before.
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@Dodger Sorry to poke, so are we at March 2011? And Robbie's 17? I know it says somewhere back in the chapters, but I figure you have a handle. Btw, love the setting. I grew up in Ottawa, and this is the first long series I've read set in Canada, and I've really bonded with how you're handling Cobourg and Ontario. I'm winding up to maybe figure out who to lobby for "Canada" and "Ontario Gothic" tags here.
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Nice. What's this format called? I like the rhythm of it, and this piece. And your thoughts touch my soul as well, it's not just the format
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I'd like to be clear that I'm not too proud to beg a little, if that would make anything better.
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In the story we're still back in 2011 or something aren't we? And didn't we lose that almost-law on Conversion therapy with the election?
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Well, that went better than expected. Hope Matt's right about Stephanie.
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I like this, thanks for revisiting these stories and continuing on. I like these story for their simplicity. There's lots of people writing in this genre and with these story tags, and sometimes people get really fancy trying to do something new and worrying too much about whether they're being avant-garde enough. This is just good solid fun with some lovers sorting themselves out. And banging. Which is one of the things I come here for, and this totally delivers. Thanks.
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Wonderful story. I think I would have liked a less stressful ending, without one more go-around with Amber and Dad screwing up the boys finding peace for one happy weekend. But that's life, and you don't always get what you want
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Good lord, Amber is an awful person. And I was thinking that even before the last terrible conversation. She's done that thing a couple of times of "I won't get in trouble, so I can't see why you'd be any different." But it's a high school archetype all right, I've known several of 'em.
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Ooh mysterious! And I was there about the skating too. Certainly I get that Greg is flailing around trying to make things better, but there are at least two (CJ and Dad) people in town who might actually murder Corey if they saw him in in intimate situation with Greg, so "where are we going" is a pretty legit question for Corey to be asking. It's thriller-grade tension in the story but yikes!
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Clint may have noticed too that despite people agreeing to pay out over the river-ruined phone and watch, nobody's actually given him anything (he wouldn't take it from Clint's Dad). Corey not bothering to collect on that debt reminds me a bit of Jackson not opening his recruiting letters in "Best Year." Quite different characters, but they share that lack of je ne sais quoi ... it's not quite ambition or materialism, because there's also a sense of being satisfied-in-the-moment, and also carelessly letting futures wither away. It's cool to read something written a while ago at the same time as your current stuff, Krista.
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This was an interesting move, but I was holding out hope that Corey could leave his dusty football trophies in the taped up box, and put something else on the shelves. He might have done that if he was doing the unpacking, and it might have helped Dad come around to the idea that Corey isn't going to play football again. Or caused another fight, I suppose. (and I was having the same doubts as Geobill about Dad's income, I live where being a teacher is a good job, but I know how it is in a lot of the US, and it's probably worse now that it was when you wrote this).
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I'm on board! This is fun and fresh, thanks for sharing it with us. I miss back-to-school.
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Mooresville ! "this seemingly forgotten place we all called Mooresville, even though it wasn't on any traveling maps" (SiS 4). Solid name, and "a small town surrounded by other small towns like this one" and brilliantly vague about how far that'd be from the state line, or what that line would be anyhow !
