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  1. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    A short edit to the very end of the previous chapter! My bad! The actual end to Chapter 6... As they walked up the path, Levi said, ‘There’s something I need to ask you . . .’ ‘And what’s that, mate? You can ask me anything you want, anytime.’ ‘It’s just I . . . I don’t know what to call you.’ Matt glanced at his father, whose face carried an amused expression. ‘Levi, you can call me whatever you feel comfortable calling me, mate. I just want you to know that I’
  2. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    Yes.
  3. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat "If there were Thompson Twins there would have to be three of them" OK... I'll keep that in mind then! lol
  4. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Lynx003 oh, I suspect that Levi will be having his own internal conflicts, but we may not discover them for a little while. Maybe later, when he meets up with Toby at school, and the girl Toby likes, we might find out more . . .
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    @Summerabbacat damn! Did I leave Margaret in there? I thought I'd edited them all out as I was leaving her nameless ... for the simple reason that I "thought" I had given her a name in one of the earlier stories and didn't want to call her by the wrong one! lol Looks like I'll have to do some back-reading and editing then! lol Not so sure about that "twin" idea though ... at least not in this case ... but maybe there might have been a set of Thompson twins at one point separated at birth, one raised by its natural parents and one raised by some nice folk in Macquarie Harbour ... could be interesting to see how that pans out! LOL
  6. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @dboggs9700 let's just say it's all a work in progress! lol
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    @weinerdog perhaps we will find out when they meet? lol
  8. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    -- Chapter 6 -- The room still smelled faintly of cedar and old books. Levi had stood awkwardly in the doorway while his grandmother had fussed with the curtains the previous day, pulling them open to let in the late afternoon light. Dust floated through the narrow beam of sunshine, catching in the air like tiny drifting stars. ‘There,’ she had said softly. ‘That’s a little better.’ Levi nodded without enthusiasm, but said, ‘Thank you.’ The room was small compared to the
  9. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat or maybe Father Costas WAS a Catholic priest, defrocked because of his non-conformist views, which fly in the face of the modern church's views, and who just managed to find a home at the Thompsonville Community Church, and as he WAS a Catholic priest, his naturally leaning with his new congregation is to -- somewhat loosely -- follow those traditions (which include Midnight Mass) . . . maybe . . . 😂
  10. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    Thank you @Summerabbacat perhaps a review and small edit may be required then! Either in that story, or this one! haha
  11. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat oh yes, I suspect that Father Costas from the non-denominational Thompsonville Community Church will be introduced to Levi at some point. Matt and Luke are heading into uncharted territory - for them - so their journey is possibly going to be almost as interesting as Levi's.
  12. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @weinerdog thanks for the comment. No specific personal experience with an event like what has happened with Levi and Matt, though I guess that almost anyone who sees a close family member take their last breath will have some inkling as to the feelings that they, and others around them will experience. It's all a part of life, I guess.
  13. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    -- Chapter 5 -- The funeral was held three days later. It had all been prearranged by Julie; small and simple, just as she had wanted it. A quiet service with Amazing Grace and How Great Thou Art being sung, followed by a graveside service, then a gathering in the church hall. A few neighbours came. Two women from the office where she had worked. People from the church. People Matt did not know, people who knew pieces of Julie’s life that he had never seen. Levi stood at the
  14. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat thank you so very much. A long way to go yet, but things are slowly coming together, as challenging as it is -- for everyone (including the author! lol).
  15. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    -- Chapter 4 -- By the time they returned to the hospital, nothing had changed. That was the awful thing. The nurses still moved quietly between rooms. The corridor still smelled faintly of disinfectant and stale coffee. The same old man sat in the visitors’ lounge with a newspaper open on his lap, though Matt doubted he had read a word. Matt had somehow expected the world to feel different after the conversation around his parents’ kitchen table. He had expected some kind of shift, som
  16. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat thought you might like this No 1 from 2000
  17. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Luca E thank you. And yeah, it is 26 years old, and was my first story, so I can see why it might seem "dated" LOL
  18. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @flesco thank you very much for your very kind words. So glad you are enjoying my stories. ❤️
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    @Summerabbacat thank you very much. These guys have each others back, no doubt about that, but I do sense a few testing times ahead!
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    @Gary L thank you very much!
  21. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    Great start! Looking forward to seeing where this goes! 😉 MP
  22. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    -- Chapter 3 -- Matt’s phone, sitting on the picnic table in front of him, pinged once more. He had lost count of how many times he had heard it in the last hour, since he had come outside to sit in the hospital rose garden, alone in the darkness, to just breathe. And to think. He knew that it would be either Luke or his parents, but would check it shortly, now that his heartbeat had calmed and his breathing was close to being back to normal. For a while there he didn’t know what was h
  23. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat you're welcome! I really had to do it for myself as much as everyone else ... I just didn't want to f*ck it up somewhere! lol
  24. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @pvtguy it took me a bit of fiddling to get everything lining up, but here is the sequence, as far as the years these stories are set: My original story in this series, After We Danced, was written and set in 2000/2001. The most recent in the series, A Good Place, was set around 2010/2011 (basically 10 years after the lads moved to Thompsonville). Out of the Blue is set around 2016/2017, and a couple of years prior to when I set Traditions. At the time of OOTB, Matt has been working for the guy who owns the auto store and service station since the early 2000's. By the time we get to Traditions, then he will be running both businesses.
  25. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Summerabbacat I cannot disagree with any part of that statement!
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