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JamesSavik

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  1. I went a little crazy myself after 2 years as an admin. Having to worry about technical stuff was- wow. Somebody please send that poor kid on a cruise.
  2. I want to believe... that it's just a horrible rumor. X-fylz was the biggest tease in television history. It dragged you through every pop culture conspiracy theory and urban myth, tantalized you with clues and never delivered or resolved a damned thing. If it's back, it's only because there is a huge surge in machismo. Damn spelling checkers. the right word was masochism
  3. Comsie beat you too it with his Billy Chase series.
  4. Anthony Michael Hall is the kind of guy I fell for in high school: cute, nerdy and scared to death of huge, dangerous jocks. Those that were brave enough to hang out found that the tiger is really a puddy-tat. I'd rather lick them than bite.
  5. JamesSavik

    Prompt 250

    Meth destroys families, relationships and people. Addicts can't see it. They are caught up in a horrible death spiral and often take down those around them. I am involved in an anonymous program that focuses on drugs and I know how hard it is for these addicts to kick and how much damage they do on the way down. It's not at all uncommon for a meth user in their 20s to look like they are in their 40s. It really wrecks their health. Thanks for addressing this issue. The family in this story did the only thing they could. Meth addicts get paranoid, delusional and dangerous. It is as serious as it gets.
  6. His balls dropped. It was time with puberty setting in.
  7. 1st day of 7th grade I was in a fight before the home room bell rang. Kids don't understand. They're afraid and often times can't trust the very people they should. Nothing makes a bigger mess of their ability to trust like abuse. They are going to try to protect what they have.
  8. Kentucky is the favorite. They are a strong team in a relatively weak field. It wouldn't surprise me if this year one of the small college basketball powers made a lot of noise like Xavier or Butler. They always end up with very competitive teams for their size.
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    Failure

    The only way to never fail is to not do anything at all. Everybody remembers Joe Montana for all the flawless Superbowl wins, 40K+ yards passsing and 273 TD passes. They don't remember 1,982 incompletions and 139 interceptions. Even the best there ever was had some days he wished that he had stayed in bed. Get up. Shake it off. Get back on the pig.
  10. This is a problem with political dimensions and we can't really take it on here. I guarantee you that those of us living in red states and living with the backlash see things very different from the people in blue states where things are hunky-dorie.
  11. He's wrong. #1 If you don't think there are all sorts of barriers for gay people, you aren't gay and you haven't run into them. A few states have anti-discrimination laws. The majority of the country does not. #2 Your being gay is all that matters to some people. It is all that they need to know to make them hate your guts enough to want to hurt you. You can expect to be attacked on some level- bullying at school as a kid. As an adult, they will undermine you to neighbors, try to get you fired from your job and tell bald faced lies about you. If you think they aren't out there, you are dead wrong.
  12. We do have quarterly anthologies here... wink, wink, nudge, nudge
  13. When you start out, work on you core- chest, stomach, abs and stuff. You need to build a base to work up from. A strong core is the key.
  14. Graeme- this isn't a story that I wanted to write. I felt like I had to. There just isn't much written about those times. It took a long time to get to the point to where I could write it.
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    Nightfall

    Cole- Not nearly enough has been written about those times. There were just too many tragedies and so much trauma. People today just don't understand the fear. This was very early in the crisis. Before reliable tests and when the medical people were just as panicky as everyone else. We had a triumph. I understand why so many of the stories didn't get written. No one got out without scars.
  16. Those were different times.
  17. My 70s trilogy is finally complete and it's all hosted here at gayauthors.org It follows a small group of friends from Mississippi that learn that we need each other, how to be friends and lift each other up. We weren't saints and all of us got lost along the way at some point. Only together did we find our way. the Place in Between Getting to the Happily Ever After Nightfall
  18. edit: My very first moved in across the road when we were 6. Knowing what we were doing: We met at an arcade- I was 16, he was 15 but we were really only a couple months apart. I was dodging someone that I didn't want to see and, he decided that I was coming home with him.
  19. Of course the Outsiders REALLY resonates with me- sans the grease.
  20. JamesSavik

    Last Call

    Last Call The lights are down and the band has gone home, The place smells like stale beer, cigarettes and rust. No one is here because their life works too well, Lonely people drinking away another lonely night. It doesn't have to be the romance of the season, It would be enough if it were the romance of tonight.
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    Nightfall

    Thanks rustle. This is something that few people have written about and, I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with and avoid. We have to remember. It cost too damn much for it to have all been for nothing.
  22. Wow. 27 whole reads. I knew I rushed it toward the end but I didn't think it was that bad.
  23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9uTKBZl5aw
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