Mark Ponyboy Peters

I know exactly where you are coming from @Summerabbacat!!!

@Summerabbacat hopefully they don't get too much more. We've only had about an inch up here in the hills for the past week, and that's just from constant miserable drizzle. Enough already! Give us some goddam sunshine! MP

No rain on the parade there, friend. In a country town two guys hugging "may" still raise eyebrows here ... just depends on who sees it. 😉 I remember my cousin's great surprise at his sons 18th birthday when all the guests (his sons school friends in particular) were arriving and many of the boys hugged, and some even kissed young Matt on the cheek! He took it really well though! And yes, we know Elvira and Magic! Geez, we're not THAT far behind the US. LOL I'm sure that there would be those who would clamour for the cardboard cut-outs ... but eventually they would lose their appeal I think ... unless perhaps they were signed. Movie posters are another thing that folks sometimes go crazy for as well..... MP

Having been indoors all morning, while in the relative comfort of an air-conditioned room, I was a little unprepared for the day that greeted us outside once we had finished and I finally left the library. It was one of those hot summer days, but worse than that, it was also quite a humid day, with the distinct feeling in the air that a storm was brewing. As I took the short walk from the library to where I had parked the truck I continued to speak to Aaron on the phone, and by the time I r

Thank you @Paladin I don't believe it has to always be about action or sex ... for the sake of the storyline you just have to balance things out with a touch of real life, which is something that you also do so well. 🙂

Thank you @Summerabbacat. But you better slip out to the supermarket and buy a couple more packs of tissues then. We're only half way through, so far!

Thank you @Paladin ... great progress made, but I can't help but suspect that there will still be some bumpy roads ahead!

@Harshaw thank you so much for your very kind words. I truly appreciate the support I am receiving from the GA community. This story was finished a few years ago, but I am still writing, so there will be more stories to come 🙂

Initially I spoke for around forty-five minutes, discussing how I got started with writing and then moving into the process of writing my first novel, the cornerstone of which was that second draft I had handed to Tom. That day seemed so long ago now. Given time, and with guidance from both him and Bill, I had finally managed to put something together which they had thought worthy of taking to first an agent, and then a publisher. I could see that my dreams were really beginning to take sha

Thank you, kind sir! ❤️

We went through a door in the corner of the room, then down a short hallway until we came to the kitchen at the end of it. I noticed that there were several other doors and rooms along the hall, all of which appeared to house offices. Once in the kitchen I quickly noticed that the room smelled of freshly brewed coffee. Anne pointed at a coffee machine, which was filled with the dark brew. ‘This is one of the best things about using these rooms. The coffee is always on the go,’ she said

Yeah, the more rural you are the more you'll end up talking like me! (lol) I totally agree with the "piss take" comment . . . I'm sure that a lot of this sort of language has its origins from that!

@Summerabbacat I know that there are plenty of folks out there who are just like you. I get a few emails every now and then bemoaning the fact that I use those terms, but to be perfectly honest I think the majority of Aussies do. I don't think any less of anyone who doesn't like to use these terms ... that's their prerogative ... but I do get a bit antsy when I start getting lectured about it! NOT that I think you are doing that! lol I'm just a boy from the bush and the kind of language I use in my stories is pretty much exactly what I use and hear each day. If some folks don't like that ... tough! MP

@Summerabbacat plenty there I've used. Plenty there I've never heard of! lol

@Summerabbacat here ya go! Appendix:Australian English rhyming slang - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Haha ... it's all good ... that's the kind of thing I do all the time, so you're not on your Pat Malone there, son! 😉

When morning came around, grey and cold, I found myself waking in a strange room and in a strange bed, but the warm body with which I found myself entwined certainly wasn’t strange to me. I knew in an instant whose sun-streaked hair it was that I found myself breathing into, whose firm, work-fit body it was that my arms were wrapped around. I was precisely where I wanted to be. Surprisingly, we were both still fully clothed and I could feel my morning wood straining against the confines of

Some excellent points you have raised there. Great minds think alike it seems 😉

Before I packed away my laptop for the day I decided I needed to go online and check my emails. Once I had connected I found that for the most part there was just the usual crap, which was quickly deleted, but there were also a few that I needed to deal with, mostly from Shi-Anne. She and Harry were starting to put together the schedule for the launch of the new novel, so book signings and morning television shows and all sorts of other stunts would no doubt be on the agenda. Did I wan

...and again...and again! 😁

I found her there, in the office that old Bill Joyce had once occupied, although it wasn’t quite as dark and dingy now as it had been back then. Nor did it smell of stale cigars and mouldy books. I had loved Bill dearly, for not only what I learned from him, which I have carried right through into my current career, but also for his friendship and support. Sure, I still may have some bad habits in my writing, of which my current editors almost certainly must despair, but I am sure that it w

Whiteboard? More like a whole fecking white-wall !!!

Oh yes, I have plans for Danny and Jake

Thank you @Summerabbacat and yes, you are pretty close with the ages. 'The gang' moved to T'ville "around" 2000 when they were 18 or 19. Shortly afterwards Tony showed up on their doorstep, and at that point I think he was about 15 or 16, so around 3 or 4 years behind the others (just off the top of my head without going back to double-check!). The Party that is being planned for now is 10 years on (2010), so at this point the gang are in their late 20's, with Tony and Aaron about 25 at that point. Traditions is set at Christmas 2019, because The Rise of Skywalker has just been released, so the gang are all around 38 here, And Tony and Aaron about 35-ish here. And if Kieran and Charlie are about 22-ish here that puts them as having been born around 1997 or so. That'll be kind of important for another story! LOL I'm trying to work all this out as much for me as for anyone else, because I want to make sure I don't stuff up with the other T'ville Universe stories -- either planned, or already underway! And as for Kieran and Charlie in this story . . . yes, they have a lot of stuff to work through in the next few days, as others have pointed out, so I'm hopeful that all will work out in the end!

Thank you so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. There is more yet to come in the series! MP