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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 !
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I kinda got that scene with Connor and Jackson and the bin. I mean, yes, random stoopid damage to Luke managing to get going at the school, but it I felt it. When I was a teenager we sometimes fell into weird patterns of doing something because it was what we did in that situation, we knew we had to play our roles in the group. And it came up extra-strong if we ever met people who knew who were outside the group. It was certainly childish teenagery and immature of Jackson, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Jackson owed Connor an embarrassing prank, and Connor knew it, and the devil will have his due.
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Fun stuff. Great that the back-to-school muse checked in!
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"Maybe I'm just scared of doing it wrong. Or...not as good as I want to do it. Who knows?" 🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍
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"As if a thick, muddy, substance had been tossed into the very gears of time itself." I'd ask you where the muse touched you that day, but I'm pretty sure I know the answer. (My apologies if that comes off a bit vulgar, you've blended together a wonderful mix of romance and comedy and eros and physicality here) (And I was poking at you about wandering muses in another thread earlier, but Erato seems to have been by your side that September)
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And now we've launched, gentlemen! Nervy stuff, there for a while... tantalizing pacing!
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Chapter 67 - "Burden Of Truth"
Mattyboy commented on Comicality's story chapter in Chapter 67 - "Burden Of Truth"
You are a glorious fountain of hilarious and sexy stories and characters, Comsie. I don't have any doubts about your abilities, but you know how muses are, sometimes they wander off. -
Chapter 67 - "Burden Of Truth"
Mattyboy commented on Comicality's story chapter in Chapter 67 - "Burden Of Truth"
I've been getting slurpy with Comsie to see if we can get him write more, but the vampires seem to have gotten their fangs into his muse. Maybe if we double-team him. And it's a great time to be inspired for a back-to-school episode -
Yay for finding love in Ottawa! Wonderful story, thank you!
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Yeah, seems likely. But Matt's gotta lotta stuff in his recent past that's potentially "of-interest-to-law-enforcement." He's been conditioned to expect the worst, but by a lot of real "worst" experiences. And the Morris' and their lawyer might be retaliating. Hope it's no worse than neutral,
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Ha, Welker comes through with a sense of humor! Very impressed with how you voiced Jackson here, I was getting the feeling of a happy group-buzz with the filtering fog of operating on not much sleep. And I feel great for Luke. He was there for the prank, got laid in the back seat of a Mustang, had a chicken sandwich, and he got chewed out by his Cindzilla the teacher mom, and was able to finish with"his smirk falling short as he yawned." What a high-school day-night-day! He can graduate with his head held high.
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What a wonderful ending. Thank you. Wow the middle books were quite the slog, but that's quite the rays of sunshine at the end!
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Outstanding work from Marc.
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Argh, you were doing so well Topher with the red plates. Canada doesn't have an embassy in London.
