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Tris

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  1. Tris

    Chapter 1

    Always enjoyed just about anything @chris191070 has ever written. This is no excetion, so I'm very much looking forward to see how this develops. I am quite different from both Frank and John, yet I feel some sort of (kinship?) connection. I guess that's one of the marks of a good author. Kudos!
  2. Tris

    November Surprise

    After yesterday's debate, there was renewed attention paid to his eyeliner.
  3. Tris

    Entry 57 & 58

    When Ross goes back to London, wouldn't it be nice not to have pushed Thomas away? I mean, a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, eh?
  4. Tris

    Entry 56

    I don't remember life being so complicated LOL. But maybe nobody really had a crush on me at Thomas' age - or I was simply oblivious to it. It was all so, so long ago - though I clearly remember being "involved" with the boy across the street when we were both turning 12. I knew at the time that wasn't just a phase, or if it was, I'm still going through it 🙂
  5. Ah, yes - the source of my own (occasional) undoing. Reminds me of a song (no, not by ABBA @Summerabbacat lol): "She's come undone." At one point, that was almost my personal Theme Song. Still is, come to think of it. But instead of "pheromones," I usually call it "Kryptonite." It's more euphemistically subtle, somehow.
  6. I'm in tears. So beautiful. So haunting. THANK YOU @CasualWanderer82. It has been decades since I was last in my mother's homeland. I should go back. This might be the enducement I needed...
  7. Our most amazing author, @CasualWanderer82, has an uncanny knack for doing that. I am in awe.
  8. @CasualWanderer82 I'm going backwards, still devouring Our Summer Rhapsody, but I can't get enough of your talents - so here I am at Ground Zero, so to speak. As I've said elsewhere (but some things bear repeating), you have taken me back to my younger days, vacationing with family in Mediterranean climes and then traveling on my own. The linguistic interplay brings me back as well - not that I am as gifted - I am merely bilingual with a smattering of other regional languages. Heck, I've tried to "learn" Italian so many times, each one less successful than the previous, despite my genetic heritage. But enough about me. YOU are the Man! Thanks!
  9. I hope I look that good when I reach that age - and he just improves with time. As for me, I thinking I'm wilting.
  10. OMG. I lived in the UK (well, Scotland) for a few years - you've got it all coming back to me like a (bad?) dream!!!
  11. Ah, a man after my own, um, heart! We need to organize our OWN transcontinental watch partay - sex on zoom, anyone? So sad about Bjorn, however... *sigh*
  12. Too bad Bjorn is str8 (he IS str8, isn't he??!?). As for the time element, @Summerabbacat, perhaps we could mount (is there a pun in the there someplace?) an instant replay for your viewing pleasure - you do like to watch, don't you?
  13. If it's a group affair, could all of us @Robert Hugill fans be invited to assist?
  14. Utterly captivating from the get-go, taking me back to my own Mediterranean wanderings of yesteryear as I searched for my own Niko. It would take me several decades to accomplish the break-through, the escape, that Oliver achieved. Better late than never! @CasualWanderer82 : your readers are forever in your debt.
  15. That has been my experience - every once in a blue moon it behaves, however. I've attributed it to posslbe francophonic / genetic engineering, given that in my own life, French occasionally pops out inadvertently, unbidden. My "friends" have gotten use to that idiosyncratic "feature" of mine - hopefully they find it more charming than annoying. Strange to say, though, it never happens when I'm in the throes of passion. Then, it's English all the way - hence my self-characterization as English-dominant (though I'm NOT a dom!)
  16. Thought I'd die laughing at this one! Touche (now where in the world is the acute accent on this #*(& American keyboard??!?)
  17. In my mind, he was "Demon". But I guess none of us are beyond redemption...
  18. Tris

    Three

    The author @Salerion has done what I wasn't sure I'd ever see: the deceasement of the Narrator. Of course, I suspect it's been done elsewhere - maybe I haven't read widely enough. Somewhere I've heard that the Dreamer never dies in their own dream. awakening beforehand. Maybe that's the same phenomenon (if one can call it that). In any case, until the dead Narrator tells us the story is over, we don't know if the Narrator is actually dead. It's almost a literary Catch-22. Part of me wants him to "wake up" so the story can continue. But I'd leave that to the Author. Either way, this was an absorbing tale. Kudos!
  19. Tris

    Chapter One

    Another newcomer here. Not sure how I even stumbled on this story - maybe it was in the monthly GA genre posting - but I'm glad I did. Like @nix, I'm not quite as-old-as-dirt, but having already reached my three-score-and-ten, I'm fascinated how guys in this day and age navigate their way through the stresses of growing up. That was something I didn't think I was very successful at while I was going through it, though I knew I was a Very Happy Boi despite the sturm-und-drang of it all.
  20. I hadn't even begun to think along these lines. Hats off to you, @Summerabbacat. Being an Adult Child of an Alcoholic, I'm surprised this hadn't occurred to me at all - though I must say that the impact of my father's booze never struck me as more than incidental, so much so that when I eulogized him at his funeral, I don't remember saying much about The Bottle at all. No, I wasn't in denial. My mother wasn't even at the funeral. Maybe I simply had strong defense mechanisms.
  21. And a shout-out to @Superpride who has written some of the SEXIEST scenes ever. Personally speaking, this chapter was particularly, um, productive. Author! Author!
  22. Talk about the L word, I just LOVE this song! Another "never heard it before." What's so funny is that sleepy Bjorn reminds me of ... ME (except for his beardlessness): I was always the guy asleep at birthday parties (they'd taken snapshots of me snoozing at my friend's 21st) or on the floor after a particularly wonderful meal ... I know it's rude of my to nod off at a friend's place, but, well, we can't all be perfect. Thanks @Summerabbacat!
  23. Even residents of Mars would recognize this one! One of my favs! So poignant, to be sure. For some reason I can relate, though ultimately I really can't complain how my seven-plus decades have (so far) panned out. Thanks @Summerabbacat!
  24. She sounds spectacularly talented @Summerabbacat. I'll have to listen to Wuthering Heights furshur.
  25. The name sounds vaguely familiar, but I was rarely exposed to much of anyone during my three years in the UK...
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