Daddydavek

If Zach isn't toast yet, he should be. Patrick is just a diversion for Will. Darius' take on Beladona was interesting. The get together in Virginia has the potential to be dramatic and hopefully revealing for us poor readers lost in the thicket of competing theories and speculation.

Poor Jake. After that marathon, a week will seem like a month.

The collateral is certainly captivating.

More shut eye!

... The vignettes are spare and well written...I like this tight format, but my preference is for a bit more background and detail.

I hope the author gets motivated to continue...it was getting really interesting.

Saw this story listed on RickP's page and decided to take a look ...and liked it. On to the next chapter.

Will does think well on his feet, even when emotions are a tilt-a-whirl. The revelations about Lord Preston were ominous and JP's reservations about not warning him seem unwarranted....which leads me to wonder what Mr. Arbour has planned. More please!

While I do view the site on my tablet, I still select the desktop site on my 8 inch tablet. Oh, by the way, I did view the video above on youtube and subscribed...

Based on the first paragraph, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak...

Yeah, I agree...but it used to be forty...

Brad sure received a surprise from Jake. Immunity to HIV is not completely unknown but is so rare as to be still a partially unanswered question. Here is the Wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV The estimate is that people with some resistance to HIV is less than 1%. There is no firm estimate of the number who have complete innate resistance...

Not all is so well with the RAMS as noted in the following article their TV rating in LA is only an 8 share on average for the 2017 season. http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/st-louis-outdraws-la-in-tv-ratings-for-rams-playoff/article_7175561d-259d-5b3b-adc0-c9c72507e4fe.html

In the past I used either Firefox or Chrome and sometimes was running both, but over the past few months I've only used chrome. When I used both I noticed when I opened task manager that each browser started to gobble RAM. So I started monitoring when using just one or the other and I found that Chrome was using less memory. There are some slight display differences and I think that Firefox is better on mobiles than Chrome from that perspective. However, since i prefer to visit the site on my desktop, chrome it is. My desktop is over ten years old and uses an AMD phenom chip with four cores. It upgraded to Windows 10 pro 32 bit which I've been running since Win 10 came out. My internet is fairly fast and on Speedtest just now showed 76 Mbps on this desktop with five other devices connected including tablets and smart phones. Accordingly, I don't have any problems with speed of pages loading or even with uploading info to the site. Actually, this site works very well compared to many sites on the net in my twenty-five plus year experience on the internet.

Liam's rationalizations for not seeking help, including going to his parents seems to indicate something more than depression alone...

You'd think these guys would learn to hold back a bit, since they all know too much about each other, but no, they enjoy stirring the pot, even if their's gets a bit stirred as well. For us reader's it's almost voyeuristic and yes I enjoyed it. More Please!

Granger navigated those dangerous political shoals adroitly to end of the chapter. Spencer's caustic remarks were a bit unexpected, but Granger's deft handling demonstrated he too is becoming a force to be dealt with.

Not an easy episode for Liam, but great empathy from Toby. Well done!

I found this montage honoring and remembering some of the musicians and singers we lost in 2017 that is well done.

It seems relocating and finding some way to support yourself are key to your plans. That would free up some time and be of real help to both your mom and grandparents. Work, family and quality of life balances are important and it seems you have clearly identified what you need to do. I can only applaud you and wish you the best in quickly achieving your goals. The writing on site is a bonus for us members. As to links to Amazon for commercial products, I would have no problem with that if the site can get a cut. However, I too would like to see more people subscribe to the site. I was wondering if in addition to giving subscribers access to premium stories and an ad free environment, we could give them another perk. One that is almost cost free. It seems that reputation points are one way people seem to measure themselves. Why not give rep points given or received by subscribed members a little overweight, say 1.1 vs. 1.0 point?

You are most welcome! I'm honored that you read and enjoyed my story. If you haven't read my other story, I hope you give it a try. Thanks again. DDK

Thanks for the very kind words and I'm glad that you are enjoying my story!

There are so many sensibilities out there, that if every one of them was taken into account, then stories would be very bland and vanilla.....and frankly boring. I suggest that authors write what the know about and try to tell an amazing story that stirs one's interests and passions. If you only read something that you agree with, then you are in a box and a boring one at that. It's ok to read a story and think, I would have told that differently or I would have taken the story line in this direction. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, including the author! The point is to read, write and think! Because we have young people under age 18 on the site, we are required to label stories "Mature" that are mature. The god of the internet GOOGLE has so decreed and we as minions must obey. Otherwise, labels can be informative but should only be required if you are writing something truly controversial and the site administrators deem it necessary.

A black widow is a spider and the tangled web of threads running in this story is a fairly elaborate web and it seems JP's clan is being drawn ever more into the web.