Bill W

Too soon? For Christmas lights, yes, but for the guy on the ladder, never!

All I can say is that's one hell of a camoflauge technique. I could see it in the link you just supplied, but I still can't see it in the first pholo.

Eh, I think people just moved the kaffeeklatches to Starbucks or other coffee houses.

Damn, I've heard this term used hundreds of times and always thought they were saying coffeeclatch. I guess they weren't using the right German accents.

Ok, but all I see are grains of sand - or something like that, but thanks for the input.

Steve, do you sleep in a closet under the stairway too? I buy candy expecting trick-or-treaters, but I've never had more than two in one year, so I end up eating the candy myself - and believe me, I don't need those calories, but the candy tastes good. I do have a question, though. Was last Thursday the end of the anthology stories or should we expect more this coming Thursday? I hope there's more.

I'll correct my calendar by adding the additional '1' in front of the year.

I wonder if they'll continue to use this term now that we're in the digital age and more reading is being done online and people are collecting e-books instead of actual books. Will the word become e-bibliophile?

Although the French the bibli in the word for library, bibliotheque, the actual basis for bibliophile is Greek. It is a combination of the Greek word biblion (book) and philos (loving).

Thank you for responding and I'm very glad you enjoyed this story. And I agree, it is a shame that people that type of experience or that type of friend in their lives.

I'm glad you enjoyed my story and I appreciate your response. It's a shame that you never connected up with your friend, but it's never to late if you hear he's been looking for you.

Thank you for your support in reading all of my Halloween stories and The Castaway Hotel. As far as continuing the latter. I have no plans about doing that as of now. I'm focused on another series at the moment, although I do take a little time off to write seasonal tales. I hope that answers your question and I do that you for your support.

A person who is duped into giving a couple of friends a ride to the bank and ends up the getaway driver after a bank robbery will sometimes receive the same sentence as the actual thieves.

Some people are using AI to make videos to dupe us into believing something that isn't true.

Congratulations! I'm sure that's been a wonderful friendship and this story might have brought back some memories of the early years. I'm glad you enjoyed both the story and your 50 year friendship.

And sometimes a gunshot as well.

Thanks, drs, and it may not be as serious as some of the others, I think it shows that a leap of faith can pay dividends, even if they aren't exactly what you hope for. I'm glad you enjoyed this little tale.

Thank you for the feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed this story. Yes, Jeremy's pickup line was very bizzare, but Tad came right back and pointed that fact out to him by asking if he was related to Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's to Jeremy's credit that he didn't move on from Tad once Tad realized he was straight, and it's made for a lifelong friendship. They work at the same University, are co-faculty advisors for the Science Fiction Club, and Tad named his first forn after Jeremy. Jeremy's leap of faith had many rewards.

The slang meaning for blare is 'to crank up the volume really loudly'.

From the Middle Dutch or Low German word blaren, meaning to roar or bellow.

And is a marching band, the brass section can blare above the other instruments.

Provocative, thought provoking, and well reasoned. When I was in college, I had a philosophy professor who challeged the class one day. "Did God create man or did man create God?" The argument in support of the latter was that men in power created the idea of a god to control the masses and threaten them with an everlasting punishment if they didn't live by a specific moral code. This code may have varied by different regions and different powerful leaders, but it was basically the same. They used God and the threat of severe punishments after death to get a large segment of the population to accept and follow their particular moral code. It's a slightly different argument than you presented here, but I thought it was just as valid. By the way, to correct an error and to prevent you from making the same mistake in the future: enunciation is the way something is pronounced or articulated - annunciation is an announcement or proclamation. I hope that helps.

Actually, Libby, it would have been better if you used this to start the story. You could have shown Jess reliving one of these episodes, diving for safety, and realizing he'd merely ended up in the fountain at a different point in time. It would have given the reader a lot better idea of what was going on.

That was a good article, although I have a question with something the author said at the very beginning: "apparently living in a tropical climate has its drawbacks." Australia a tropical climate? That one puzzled me, but the rest of the article was very informative.

Thanks, Danilo, I'm glad you enjoyed this series. As You might tell, I also loved the Dragon Riders of Pern series. And I loved Quantum Leap as well, although I enjoy the new series, I'm partial to the old series. I guess that makes me a geek too!