Mark Arbour

Look at you, going way back for a blast from the past...more than even I did!

September 19, 2003 Palo Alto, CA Will I followed Stef up the steps to his flying palace, followed by Julian and Stef’s bodyguard. The flight attendant, a nice young woman named Celeste, was there to greet us pleasantly. “I will need a car to take me to the Waldorf when we land,” Stef told Julian. “We can drop you off on the way.” That last line was directed to me. “That’s okay,” I said to him, then looked at Julian. “I’ll need a car to take me to SoHo,

You’re the first person who mentioned that! I wondered if anyone would notice.

I heard that song a few years back, and this scene has been stuck in my mind. It's hard to imagine Claire and Jack reacting positively to the tattoos. 😀

Will has decided to do his undergrad years at Harvard. I think that JJ and Will are like brothers who are still in their bitchy fighting mode (like they were 12), and it hasn't evolved into a more mature relationship yet.

We’ll presume he had more time with Tony. 😀. I think that at this point in his life, Will is much better off with ‘friends that fuck’ relationships.

September 19, 2003 Escorial Palo Alto, CA Will I collapsed on top of Tony, smashing my cum between us, panting as I gripped on to him, even as I felt his cock slide out of my ass. “Nice way to start my day,” I said. “Thanks for getting up for me.” It was pretty early in the morning for him, because I had school while he didn’t have shit to do. “I’ll always get up for you,” he said, and gave me a nice kiss. “What was with that, anyway?” “What was

And you were always monogamous?😃

Well said, and with Tony, he seems to be at the same place Will is at.

You have no idea. Chapter 69.

September 18, 2003 Boston, MA Wade I was only into the second week of my second year at Harvard Law School, and this term was looking to be a ball-buster. I sat in my study, working on my latest project, even as my mind reeled off the things I still had to do today. I was fortunate in that this year, I had no classes on Fridays, but that was small comfort based on the amount of work it looked like I’d have to do. My phone rang, jarring me out of my study coma

I don't think John would be that worried about it. And Private Tim could be bribed. 🙂

I so missed your dry wit and commentary! I think Cody and Marcel must be thinking exactly that, and laughing, and Lou is probably scheming to avoid Thanksgiving at Escorial. Ace isn't married to any of those subsequent ladies...he's just got girlfriends. And Stef is safe for now.

He's a fascinating character, in that he seems to have this subconscious desire to do just that: to be alone. I'm not talking necessarily about his romantic relationships, I'm thinking of him in general. Kind of a lone wolf. I think your perception of Carullo is interesting, but I think he's actually quite typical. Someone from his background, raised in the world of football, would probably just assume that this was how grieving was. He'd probably assume that you just hurt for a long time, and eventually it was over, and you'd be fine. I don't think he grasps that this is something he should address and 'solve'.

Every once in a while I write a piece of dialog that cracks me up. This chapter has one of those: I imagine John does a pretty good impression of Claire, and after her comments at dinner the night before, he must have been totally cracking up.

September 17, 2003 Escorial Palo Alto, CA Will “So you going to have a massive party with all your brothers in Malibu?” I asked Darius as I walked him out of the house and to the waiting car. “Could have done that before,” he said. “Don’t want to do it now and fuck up my own house.” I laughed. “If you change your mind, let me know when it is.” He opened the door and was about to get in the car when he paused. “You going to call JJ?” he as

I think it's significant that when JJ went into Carullo's bedroom a few chapters ago and woke him up, Carullo's first word was "Joey?" Clearly this still weighs very heavily on his mind.

Yes!

I think it’s reasonable to assume that Gathan was the conduit of info to Zach.

September 17, 2003 Tribeca Manhattan, NY JJ I felt a foot gently nudging me, trying to wake me up. “Mr. Jeremy, they are all gone,” Jacinta said. I stretched out, trying to get the ache out of my muscles from sleeping on the floor of her closet. “Thanks,” I said pleasantly. She was surprised at that, since I was usually pretty crabby in the morning. “What time is it?” “It is five o’clock,” she said. “Have you been up all night?” I asked,

October, 1800 HMS Valiant Near Landsort, Sweden His Majesty’s frigate Valiant crept slowly forward, waiting for dawn to break, and even more importantly, waiting to see if the fog had subsided. They’d been mired in a maddening soup of the stuff for the past four days, damned to exist in a tomb of atmospheric moisture. The waters in the Baltic were so littered with submerged obstacles that after the first day, they had only dared to progress under very light sails. Gra

That's a good point, but being ahead of the curve would have led him to think that it wasn't contagious, per se, since it's spread by mosquitoes.

Well said.

September 15, 2003 New York, NY JJ “That was quite the day,” Stef said, as he and I collapsed into the soft seats of the Maybach. All I really wanted to do was sit there, say nothing, and try not to be in a pissed off mood, but Stef was evidently insistent on having a conversation, just one of the many things he’d done to seriously annoy me today. “It was,” I agreed, forcing myself to be in a good mood, even though it took a herculean effort. We’d gon

Part of the way I got my head back into writing was going over and re-reading my old stories. Inevitably, that lead me to find some errors and annoyances, and I ultimately opted to try and fix those. I had done that in the e-book file format, but that was before I realized that GA no longer has an e-book section. Anyway, it is my intention to update those stories where I made changes, but it may take me a while. I'm also planning to post them in e-book format on Amazon, just for those who like to read old stories in that format. I'll let you know how that goes. In the meantime, if you see activity for an old story, that's what's happening. One of the biggest changes you'll notice is on multi-author books. Originally, I'd just changed the font and color to designate different characters, but a very helpful reader pointed out that it would be better to show the character's name in the beginning of that segment. That's how I've been doing it for quite a while now, but when I make these changes, you'll see that becomes universal, and you'll see that the fonts are now the same.