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 Is anyone else getting those spams with links as comments on lj? I heard on the radio a while ago that the way Google calculates "points" means that having a link placed (even in the comments) on a well viewed site, pushes that linked site towards the top of the page.  And I understand that spam blankets everything, but I don't see how adding their link to my lj posts (almost a dozen since noon yesterday) would help them at all. And really can't they be a little more original. Every single one of these is exactly the same 'I've got a huge crush on you' message.

Also can anyone think of a mama/papa/daddy equivalent of carrying-parent. That is the only think keeping me from posting part two of Wings. What do little Ravi and Draja call Kairava? Carcar? Caca? Cara? I'll post both a gender neutral and an all male pronoun version for those that have trouble reading GPNs. But as I will start working long holiday hours starting Wednesday, the sooner I can come up with a word the more likely the story will go up before January.

And for those who read Gestures, I'm almost 5k in to the second, as yet untitled, part. I haven't decided on the rating yet (I haven't written anything graphic in over a year, maybe two) but it will probably come down to whether I can find time to write when the kids aren't home.

Last time I spent an hour in my house alone: Two weeks ago. Next time: who knows.

I met my daughter’s new boyfriend on Halloween. He was dressed in a black suit with a red tie and my older son instantly recognized his costume (Agent 47, from a video game, I believe) even before he turned around and we spotted the barcode on the back of his shaved head.

He is six eight (203cm, the same height as Kurt). I know other men who are in the six six, six eight range. Most, like my uncle, are gangly or, like my ex-coworker’s son (who happens to be the same age as my daughter’s boyfriend and I had a few hours of sleepless worry that they might be one and the same), have gym muscles over a beanstalk figure. But Agent 47 fit his height. Even with my daughter (five five, 165cm and half his weight) standing in front of him, he didn’t look out-of-proportionally large.



Title: Gestures
Status: Part 9 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: beads, a present, a kiss, the watering hole, welcome, agreement, introduction, home, kisses, swimming, temptation, planning, leaving, a pang, the ocean, trading, boats, sharing, paperwork, cargo, wants, goodbye, tears, flight
Length: about 4,400 words
Summary: Colt goes back to his home away from home, but his journey isn’t over.

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The next morning Orion dropped a dozen beautiful beads into Colt’s hand. “I couldn’t just leave them among the ashes. Make something for Lion.”

( Why hadn’t he just said yes? )

Some days I really love my job. Today I had three customers that stood out. One guy came to get a single rose. He’d come in yesterday for one as well. When I gave my parting comment ‘Have a nice day’ he responded that he was working on it. I had to smile. I don’t mind helping someone get laid.

The second guy laid down almost eighty dollars without blinking. The huge arrangement of stargazers and pink roses was for his wife. He’d been meaning to buy her flowers for a while, so he picked an arrangement worth all the ones he would have bought. He planned to put this arrangement on the center of the kitchen island. She is five months pregnant and he wants her to be happy and stress-free.

The last guy wanted his single rose dressed up. Instead of the free clear plastic, he paid extra for shiny pink cellophane. Then he tried to pay. The resister wouldn’t take his credit card. He tried a couple of times, but it kept declining his tender. But he had enough change in his pocket. He paid for a six dollar rose with quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies. As I counted out the change, he repeated that he knew he had $10.15 on his card. When I was done, he had only thirty cents left in change. So he spent over one third of his money on a flower for his girl, which is romantic. Although I’m glad he’s not dating my daughter.


Title: Gestures
Status: Part 7 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: a delicate nose, homesickness, brooding, rocks, holes, glass beads, beautiful tools, sand, heat, minerals, gravity, and centrifugal force
Length: about 2,000 words
Summary: Colt raises his spirits with craft time.

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When the meat was finished cooking, Lion woke Colt. They ate and then scraped the wet wood off the cat’s pelt and put on a new layer. They were almost out of bark to brew up.

( He’s the only one who wore them )

The Floral manager (my immediate boss) left me a note yesterday ( rant )


Title: Gestures
Status: Part 5 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG 13
Content: waking up, orange coveralls, the past, Star, story, sleep, leaning, the pelt, recipe, a new knife, kisses, translating, helping, pragmatism
Length: about 3,200 words
Summary: Lion acts upset with Colt’s new relationship with Orion, even though Lion has Python.

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Colt woke to the chattering of people and the cracking of a fire.

( This wasn’t love )

As I was working on a story where the two of the leads were eighteen and thirty-two, my daughter mentioned that she had a boyfriend. (I had kind of guessed this, the hickey on her neck was a big give away.)  I knew he had to be older than her because all the guys in her dance class over the summer were older. And I was pretty sure he was a guy from her dance class because this was only the second week of the new semester and the only hobby she has time for outside of school is the local dances on the weekends, which she'd been to pretty faithfully lately. And that these last few weeks, she'd always had a ride home. 

So I asked his age. He's eleven years older than her. I'm not really freaked out, she's twenty after all, but I'm kind of weirded out. (he's closer to my age than hers.) But I probably shouldn't be because every story I'm currently working on except this one and Harmonies, the leads are at least that far apart in age.



Title: Gestures
Status: Part 3 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: knots, secrets, helpful children, achy feet, a loom, swimming, a story, a rude awakening, Python, flowers, wooing gifts, blown kisses, a discussions, plans, sleep
Length: about 4,000 words
Summary: Colt is wooed by a guy in love with someone else and finds that he doesn’t mind.

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When Lion returned, he sat beside Colt and tried his hand at the knot Colt was teaching the older children. Grandfather called him away. Lion came back a few minutes later and sat down as if nothing had happened. He showed Colt and the children a complicated knot. A woman called the children to work. They left the leather thongs they had been knotting. Colt collected all the ones he could reach and removed the knots.

Lion cleared his throat. “Horse mate?”

( Could Colt give up his old life and go native? )

The other day an older man arrived at the Floral kiosk minutes before I was supposed to get off work when I was already running late. I sucked it up and greeted him warmly. He wanted balloons. I blew up two balloon bouquets (12 balloons total), which took a while. Then he looked through the cards while I did the last few things and then I rung him up and left twenty minutes late.

But I wasn’t annoyed because he told me his story and I love stories. This guy was planning to celebrate his partner’s fiftieth birthday by bringing balloons and wearing full drag to the airport to greet his partner as he got off the plane from New Orleans. The card he picked had a high heeled shoe on the front and said fabulous was like perfect only more fun. I hope they both had a good time.


Title: Gestures
Status: Part 2 of 10
Genre: science fiction, romance, slash
Rating: PG (13?)
Content: setting down, stew, information, a new name, waiting, a boat ride, natives, help, hope, a swift, hard trip, care, Lion, Quest, Grandmother
Length: about 4,600 words
Summary: Colt is help along on his journey, but some help is better than others.

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Deresla II was a beautiful planet and the first in the solar system to be colonized. Most of the rain on the inhabited islands occurred during the hot season, so they were always green and fertile. Six centuries ago, the colonization ships had landed and taken off again to get the second half of the colonists, but then a plague hit Galgaie XII. Planets were locked down and planetary governments were more worried about saving their citizens than about people who had moved away.

( He had sad eyes )

It give you some idea of what I've been doing when not writing another chapter of Harmonies or sequels to Mage Partners or Wings, I've got other things in the works.

Here is a pony rendition of Trinity: Phillip (or Canton I haven't decided), on his seventh anniversary, gives his boyfriend Ty permission to sleep with Damien (and only Damien). As long as Phillip can too.




Phillip (or Canton) is the guy in glasses. Ty, the ginger, wears a kilt and has lots of body hair (much to his men's delight). And Damien wears skin tight jeans and a button down shirt to work (I did the best I could).

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Also here is a snippet of Gestures a story that turned into a foursome without my permission. I've been working on for over two years. This is an almost random sample from page 28 of 87.

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( snippet )

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I've got more stuff, but none ready to share.