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3. Setting foot in the hustle and bustle of Tangiers airport had the distinct flavour of the exotic. The change was tempered by the surroundings of an international airport, but soon completely enveloped them as they stepped outside. Palm trees stretched along the island in the middle of the broad avenue where a few taxis were lined up. The drivers casually talking, leaning against their vehicles, waiting for clients. The countryside as far as Zachary could see was barren dry sa

2. When Zachary was in Paris he spent his time sightseeing and studying, in equal measure. Life at the Foyer Des Jeunes Travailleurs was a bizarre mix of sleeping, eating, and parties. At those parties he often found himself alone in the crowd. Not because he didn't speak the language, more a chosen isolation. This was the 17th arrondissement dominated by the Sacré-Cœur. The domed white cathedral sat astride a hill crowded at its feet by hoards of tourists. The place was dedicat

1. The bus pulled to a halt whipping up a cloud of dust from the dry dirt road. Suddenly they were in the midst of a hive of activity. People stood up, dragging baggage from the metal overhead racks, fishing out bundles from beneath seats. They pushed their way to the front, climbing out into the midday heat. Embroiled in the chaos he stood still a moment wondering if they would be left there, disembarked without their luggage. He saw Lowerstoff move to fetch his rucksack from the so

A surreal trip across time - An anti-hero - And two gay guys Zachary is swept into a world of intrigue where everything may not be exactly how it first appears. Bound together with his companion Lowerstoff, they are embroiled in the scheming of Hamilton Gode. What the goal might be is far from clear. The world they inhabit is blurred, epochs collide and mix together. This is a wild fantasy, an adventure where the ground can shift beneath you. A little surreal. Hamilton Gode is an anti-hero, Zachary and Lowerstoff are pretty much gay!

This was a really engaging opening chapter even if it was predictable because you told us what would happen. I would have thought Matthias would be used to cold winters, if I'm not wrong he lived in Berlin and well that's pretty far north, but what do I know. Looking forward to finding out how things go after that rather disasterous and embarrassing end to their evening in the bar.

Went online, saw a new chapter, and was pleased then not disappointed. I like the way you are slowly developing the story and introducing characters.

This story after the fantastic prologue seems like it was written by a different person, or the same person but not at the same time as the prologue. The evocative, descriptive narrative that was present in the prologue is not here in the rest of the story. I imagined the story would develop the prologue, however it turns out to be life on the farm (in the same town) and a budding (predictable) relationship with sex to go. What was exciting and different (the prologue) has progressed into an unremarkable tale without the brilliant prose that so attracted me at the start. The prologue and the story are simply not in the same class, the former is an intoxicating immersion into a rather unique scenario, the latter a simple tale.

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Wow! This was absolutely an amazing piece of writing. The narrative descriptions were a masterpiece. I stumbled upon it and honestly it's the best thing I've read in a long time. So many stories throw in sex scenes which probably don't belong, whereas this was all about an unexpected sexual encounter and was brilliantly done and very beautiful. Just plain excellent!

I just love the music and the film, guess I have a thing for perfume publicity. If you prefer the Amanda Lear original, it's here: https://youtu.be/b9YyPIiT2pM

On the list of things that made Sebastian himself, music cemented itself in the top position. I can't help but think there is something of the author himself in that line. He smiled again, warmly, but Sebastian felt like it was a smile meant to be kept for himself. It is exactly these kinds of intimate descriptions which permeate the narrative and exemplify your writing style adding detail and bringing the story alive, giving it feeling and emotion. Great chapter, developing nicely.

A beautiful story extremely well written, so much so that it shines like a rare pearl discovered by chance in an oyster. One boy's experience of finding himself in an era when love and peace invaded even those otherwise quiet and remote rural corners of America. A time when as the world changed, as it always does, a relationship developed which would last a lifetime, and this in some way by the grace of peace and love, a reefer and a beer, when a storm is brewing and will inevitably erupt. This is a little gem, an accurate and heart rendering tale of life, the world, and love. A masterpiece!

Really good story, well written (with a few quirks), refreshingly mature (it isn't about hormone charged teenagers), realistic and engaging. Plus the soundtrack chapters is innovative. The characters are engaging and I couldn't put it down, if the next chapter was published I'd have read that too.

Your question had me laughing 🤣🤣🤣 because if the ads appear based on page content, I was reading https://gayauthors.org/story/gdaniel/what-is-true-love-anyway/ when it popped up, and who was it who started the thread? But he does say in the summary: Lots of graphic sexual content. 🤣🤣🤣

Here is the banner I was talking about. It's actually animated with the young guy in glasses getting fucked.

Publishing a novel (whether you do or don't) is in some way a guide to where those big numbers of readers are. Publishers want a book that they can sell in sufficient quantities (to make money). What are publishers looking for? They are not normally interested in anything less than 60,000 words. They are looking for a strong plot which is based on characters who are seen in depth, and for an original approach. They want authors who use words well, who understand such basics as spelling, punctuation and grammar, and whose prose is easy to read. Thet want authors who will be able to write additional publishable books or stories or features for them. They prefer an author who continues to write books in the same genre as their first work, rather than one who is a jack-of-all-trades. To summarise: a successful book is: 60k plus words Original Easy to read Has a strong plot and characters All these pre-requisites are stated in this article https://www.writersservices.com/resources/what-do-publishers-want by Michael Legat. My personal thought is that many stories lack that important strong characters and plot, because they focus entirely on the protagonist and his lover, those more successful novels expand to include sub-plots and additional important characters. When talking about a strong plot, that seems to me difficult to achieve if nothing is planned, simply sitting down and writing the story is likely to produce a simple two person love found, happy ever after, still popular, but never a great original story with intriguing plot and twist, turns, and surprises!

@astone2292 idea of what was the readers fav book of the week is a good one, but requires too much work (for you). I'd keep it simple, change the book list, example: On going story selection (random): Inherited by lomax61 "A very original contemporary mystery" (reader comment). Stories have enough chapters that you don't need to list every on going story every week, but adding a comment is more interesting , takes readers to the book, and every book on the list of o going stories can get a mention, only not all in one go. You could add: new stories this week and final chapters if you like and perhaps a completed story and review link and quote. For me that's better than a bland list. The spotlight, Prompts, Ask an Author are self promoting and don't need repeat mentions unless there's some big change. The Goals stats are a waste of time, if you want stats put in site stats, numbers, countries, etc. of visitors.

If anyone else here uses WPS for word processing then you need double line spacing to copy and paste resulting in single line spacing on the site, or you paste from the clipboard in which case you don't need the double line spacing.

To be precise about the Gay Games banner ads: they vary and the one illustrated by @northie previously is fine, no problem. There is another example of a Gay Games ad ( I'm not going searching for it) which is a gif (an animated banner) of an older hunk ass fucking a youngster wearing glasses. NSFW not safe for work is a warning to people who may not want someone to glimpse over their shoulder a young guy getting fucked. Gay Games is gay porn. Looking at the site at work (on your break, on your phone, or whatever) is not the point. The gay porn (explicit, and yes that banner is explicit) is the point and users deserve a warning, so as not to be taken by surprise. Remarks about working at work and the ads you get are due to your web browsing history are not helpful, even a little insulting. Buying a subscription to remove ads is a solution, but doesn't warn users of the free version of the site, which are the majority. Being seen on a Gay site is not a problem (for most people), but being on a Gay porn site or site with gay porn ads (explicit) is a different matter altogether. At least now users are aware they may get a Gay Games porn ad, which may be fine, but could be pretty damned explicit.

No, you are not alone, the site has become NSFW, with these explicit gay games ad banners.

There are stories with sex in them and sex with stories, if you use the 80:20 rule, this falls into the latter category with 20% story. I'm three chapters in and that's the format, the story is good, the sex fantastic, it's absolutely a M/M Gay Romance and there's a huge audience for the genre.

The whole song without the cinematography and publicity (which is actually very well done) is here: https://youtu.be/xo7gptsrD10

It feels odd commenting on a story people read over two years ago, but it wasn't bad as an opening chapter. Maybe I'd have liked to have encountered the other three band members, because I'm interested in how they will react to this, but I guess that will come.

A word about inadvertently gay spiders, current songs and recipes worth trying. That's a wild ass and the most shazamed songs of the week, although, inadvertently gay, that's not sure, perhaps we should have stuck with the big assed super hero? Now that really is a wild recipe. Oh crap! We forgot the spiders...

"I know very little about homosexual relationships, but I know a lot about love." That's all that matters.