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These banners look very pretty and edible Congratulations everyone!

Cute commercial. I was considering on buying one but I think I might just save up for an iPad. As for reading in direct sunlight, doesn't a matte covering mitigate the problem for glare?

Fucckk I started reading anyways when I said I wouldn't. Good start! This is a very different piece than your other story but retains some of the contemplativeness (is that even a word) that had been present in your characters. I'm looking forward to finding our what exactly Dan's conundrum is.

Hahahaha god that is priceless

INCEPTION VOLCANO LAKE? I'm in.

...Dental floss

Oh that sucks ass :< I totally read your status wrong, I thought you said you were considering either or. Did you ask your doctor about Ortho K? It sounds like your doctor is already getting you wear rigid lenses so it sounds like Ortho K would be the perfect solution for you wanting to get rid of your glasses.

Oh god, experiencing second hand embarrassment

That is so good to hear Renee. I'm glad you guys could all pull through this : )

I know what you mean. Sometimes I leave reviews just because, but most of the time I prefer an acknowledgement of my adoration hehe. And we don't know for sure but we've all pretty much come to the conclusion that he's just busy with life. Domluka will come back eventually though, he always does! :3

I will be attempting to find something pink... But the chances are kind of slim. Maybe I'll wear like pink war paint on my face or something.

Yeah, or that. I think it's nice not to have our discussions fade into oblivion xD Besides the fact that CSR is (surprisingly) a lot of fun, the added benefit of giving the stories we've read more exposure is definitely good

Hey guys, I've been reposting what I've written in CSR to the author stories' themselves in the form of reviews. I think the authors and any other readers might appreciate that :3 but totally up to yall

Hey JWolf. I posted a review on the CSR discussion today but I thought I'd post it here as well so other readers can see it

Also: Running Far Afield - Libby Drew (18K ish) Autophobia - Thornton (13K ish) The Other Side of Me - Domluka (lol) But all of these are a little out of the word count range...

I nominate...... Brotherly Love - Circle !! Such an underexposed fantastic story with plenty to discuss. Also it's like the only story that I really love that I can find within the 20K - 90K range :<

Word.

This was a very, very interesting story. Besides the obviously crazy intense plot twists, what I really enjoyed was how Jwolf played about the power assertions between Tyler and Travis. In the beginning, Tyler displayed all sorts of heteronormative dominating douchebaggery that was typical of how many men treat women, but then Travis started making demands of affection of his own that kind of threw him back in control and made Tyler uncomfortable. I felt like the whole story heavily revolved around this constant power struggle with every subsequent event tipping the balance; Tyler threatening Travis with the gun, Tyler kidnapping him, but then Travis killing the clown against Tyler’s will, Travis going to the police, Tyler trying to kill him but with a reversal of positions at the end, etc. I also enjoyed the characterization quite a bit. Both characters were vivid and unique, and both of them were flawed. I feel like I read too many stories with characters that aren’t flawed enough, and that makes me feel apathetic towards them, but Travis and Tyler both were intriguing in their own right yet made their fair share of stupid decisions. Both men exhibited blatant vulnerabilities/insecurities. Both hungered for attention, for love, and (again) both had desires to feel like they needed control over their life somehow. I liked how their affections towards each other were entangled with all sorts of other motives and consequences. Sometimes, it was hard to tell if Tyler really did love Travis, or if he was just psychotic, and if they really felt anything beyond infatuation with each other. “Love” in real life is often adulterated and difficult to define, and I thought this was a more realistic reflection of such “complicated love.” As for Travis’s final arrest – I thought he completely deserved it. He made way too many irrational decisions that I was pretty indifferent towards his survival near the end. I mean, if you knowingly run off with a serial killer and then all the same be rather apathetic towards the wellbeing of your family, you deserve to be subject to natural selection lol. I’m not sure if Jwolf was aiming for that but I thought that in the latter 2/3rd of the story the majority of Travis’s decisions seemed completely illogical and that did stretch my limits of believability, unfortunately. Now only the stylistics of the story. I enjoyed Jwolf’s prose and I think a lot of people can benefit from reading his stuff. It was appropriately detailed and I had a vivid image of each and every setting, although there were some awkwardly placed adverbs. The characters were described well too, even though he took a very conventional approach with Travis (which would normally make me stop reading right away). I did catch a few spelling errors (some homonyms) and thought that it could have benefited from another beta/editor, but other than that I’d say it was fairly well-written. I think the strangeness of the story would be off-putting to some and thus a more detailed synopsis would definitely help reach out to a target audience. Personally, I liked its uniqueness. I like stories that are fresh, exciting, honest, and thematically sound, and “Nowhere Man” definitely reflected all of that. Thank you Jwolf for writing this riveting tale, and thank you to all the people who organized CSR!

You seem like a very kind hearted person full of incredible strength. Grief never goes away but the pain of it will be less in time. My condolences go out to you and everyone who was affected by this.

Beautiful video.

^ I wish I hadn't watched that...

Yeah I was thinking about that too xD But I think since the discussion lasts over a week Trebs meant that you can still read it next week and participate.

A u t h o r 's N o t e It seemed to me that the humid garden that surrounded the house was infinitely saturated with invisible persons. Those persons were Albert and I, secret, busy and multiform in other dimensions of time. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, 1941. "The Garden of Forking Paths." It's been nearly four years since I completed and posted a story. "Six Seconds" is a spur-of-the-moment piece that I did on a break from my latest project, inspired by hypertext, multiverse theories,

Five years back and a hundred kilometres away. Sage was still sixteen. He was bandaged and homeless and he was alone, driving a car down a highway in the middle of the night, a single duffel bag in the backseat, leaving the one person he had ever cared about behind. Yet, hope still filled him. His tears stopped, and he reached to retrieve a cigarette from the side pocket of the car door. In Sage's mind, Callen's face was preserved forever; seventeen and golden, vulnerable in the moonlight, and t

The light pillars of New Seatrouver elongated as Callen and Sage ventured to the top of the tallest hill beside Penny Lake. From the corner of his eye, Callen saw a tiny piece of black sticking out of the frozen landscape. Curious, he approached and dug at it with his hands. Sage joined in after a moment. A few minutes later, they unearthed a small, but relatively undamaged, toboggan. Callen could barely contain his excitement. "What a find!" Callen said, brushing bits of ice off from it. "It'