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    Prompt 250

    JamesSavik commented on ShadowDancer's story chapter in 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.
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    Spiders

    JamesSavik replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    Isn't this how bad sci-fi movies get started???
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    His balls dropped. It was time with puberty setting in.
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    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.
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    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

    JamesSavik commented on wholysoul's blog entry in 365

    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    We do have quarterly anthologies here... wink, wink, nudge, nudge
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    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.
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    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

    JamesSavik commented on JamesSavik's story chapter in 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.
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    Those were different times.
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    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
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    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.
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    Of course the Outsiders REALLY resonates with me- sans the grease.
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    Last Call

    JamesSavik posted new chapter in James Songbook

    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

    JamesSavik commented on JamesSavik's story chapter in 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.
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    Wow. 27 whole reads. I knew I rushed it toward the end but I didn't think it was that bad.
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9uTKBZl5aw
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    This one sure did the trick for me. So did this one. BAWWW! Tell us: what films moved you to tears?
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    That Guy

    JamesSavik posted a blog entry in jamessavik's Blog

    Time for a confession. As often as I do it, you would think I was a bloody Catholic. One of the biggest issues I had coming to terms with being gay was, in my time, that excluded you from ever being a dad. Sure- things are changing on that front. If I had the cash, I could adopt but I don't and I'm getting to old for it. So if you wonder why I am the way I am with the younglings, that's it. I may not ever be a dad, but if I can be that guy that tells you that you have value when you feel worthless or gives you hope when you feel hopeless, that gives me meaning. That's who I am and, I'm pleased to be that guy. Somebody has to be and it might as well be me.
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    This one is fun: the Cloud (short, suspense, mystery, scifi) So is this one: the Metamorphisis (short, OMG ) And this one: An Awkward Moment (short, coming out... unplanned)
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    There's less and less intelligent life here on earth every day. Colonists are already being booked for Mars. So... who is going? What will you do on Mars? Me, I think I'll open a Spoo Ranch. Sure- Spoo are depressing little creatures, always sighing because they know they exist to be eaten, but they do taste like chicken. Dip them in buttermilk, sprinkle them with lemon-pepper, roll them in flour and fry them up!
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