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Razorline: no sex scenes SyntaxError21: none Razorline: good Oh... no spice!

And now I put more butter on the bread than I was allowed to as a child when the winters were cold and climbing into bed even colder, and I hated the winters, except when it snowed. Another good chapter that eloquently describes a different time and place.

The descriptions are well written and drew me into the event, it presented the reality of the situation and contrasted the way people deal with tragedy in different ways.

It was very real.

Much better, I would never have found (or read) the series had you not just created it 👍

It seems that Ryan got what he wanted and Ishmael too! Great story, I enjoyed reading about their encounter.

I took a look at Scribble Hub because I was curious, what I found was a lot of Lesbian stories and some gay boy stories all terribly written and basically teenage stuff written by hormonal teenagers who are just discovering their sexuality and want to express it. Well they probably want a boy or girlfriend to have sex with. It's full of stuff like I wrote age thirteen. As for any serious gay themed stories, I didn't find any and wouldn't post there. Royal Road is okay, but demands an investment in mutual reviews and commenting. If you find any serious site post a link, I wouldn't bother with Awesome dude or Castle Roland, if they're still even functioning, it would be a miracle if you get a reply on a submission. You could look at The Story Lover. Good luck.

Okay, but your answers provoke further questions. 1. I understand some story summaries are rubbish, so if you missed a story because the summary didn't attract you to it, what eventually made you come back and discover that initially dismissed story? 2. The last story by @Topher Lydon was an author you already follow, but how did you find the last story you remember reading by someone you had never heard of, or how did you initially discover Topher Lydon? I'm really interested in knowing how you actually found the last unknown author and read their story, not generally, I read summaries, reviews, but specifically, like EK Stokes described his process. Then I could add another question, after finding a new author and story, did you like/finish the story or not?

I clicked TRENDING STORIES and found, Love in a time of hatred vol 2. Simple question which is probably stupid, but how do you find vol 1? I like to start at the beginning.

I have one supplementary question to help clarify what decides you to pick up a story and read the first chapter. What makes you pick a story and open chapter one? If you say summary, title, author, that's all the answer I need. If you say genre or tags, I need more, why this story and not a hundred others in the same genre or with the same tags. You can say, I open every new story, you can say it was recommended (where?). THE QUESTION: Thinking about the last and only the last, story you clicked to open chapter one. Why did you choose to open that story?

I'll take a look 👍

I read these blogs about authors and stories and I agree with you they are very useful and informative and influence what I read. People's comments I'm not sure about, they are very varied, I don't think they influence me too much.

Thing is, how do you know what might be a good story before reading it, and before reading it you have to, as it were, pick it up off the shelves. When looking at the shelves you have only the info from the presentation, title, author name, summary, cover image, genre, tags, etc. So whilst I don't go looking for author names they are right there with the story title and both influence me.

@ReaderPaul you have good reason to be weary, if anyone thinks AI gives you correct information they are mistaken, because it only searches the web and compiles what it finds, and we all know the web is full of crap. Ask a question on a forum and you get everyone's opinion, their prejudices, and more besides, everything except the answer to your question.

This was a great story with real believable characters and an interesting plot. Struggling with what life throws at you and trying to surmount obstacles and deal with the bad stuff, is the general theme. The story is about young gay men and the mc Aled who is trying to come to terms with his sexual orientation in a less than supportive family situation. Highly recommend, very well done.