Rest peacefully Paul. I didn’t know you, but the testimony of those who knew you as kind and caring speaks volumes.

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Evening all, so sorry to hear about PJH. A lovely man, RIP.

Weather, well ... in the high 30's today (that's 90's for those who still do F.) And the three year old was prepared, he'd assembled swimming paraphernalia early (like his Xmas body board) beside the front door; mama took the hint and the harbor water was perfect, (it will be much more than a hot minute before I take him to one of Sydney's surf beaches.)

The TV news included the Northern Hemisphere, God knows how they choose what to show but tonight's clips were Lexington in Kentucky (I thought of two Lushies) and Harrogate in Yorkshire (a couple more Lushies.)

Heads up, on January 9th, Piquet and I will be part of the third Lush 'Meet The Author' event. It's an official Lush event where we two Aussies will chat, perhaps wittily, about our work and our experiences as authors here on Lush. The event is in Forum : Chat and will be hosted and moderated by leftlingula. (starting time in the links below) I hope you can drop by and ... Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi.

Meet the Authors #3: Oceania Edition

This sounds excellent! Sadly it is at 4 in the morning here, and I only get to see 4 a m. if I have been out all night (a rarity these days). If someone could post text of the chat that would rock

Morning all. My usual: a coffee and a gummie please

EDIT: This just in! 13 stories and counting over at Bleu (https://www.storiesspace.com/). Got some flash game? 6 more days to enter! The ante is only 1000 words

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I will keep doing the 10000 words weekly thing til end of January, and from February,

Wow. 10,000 words weekly is really an amazing output. My best weeks I might get 5000.

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” - John Dunne

I didn’t know PJH, but the loss saddens me. A toast to him, and to us all. Embrace life.

Bunny Girl, that spaceship is from a game called No Man’s Sky I am a little obsessed with. It took me months to get that ship!

Coffee, gummie, repeat as necessary.

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Pounded out a draft for a new story yesterday. Kind of a weird magic realist erotic fantasy about mirrors.

That sounds like an excellent premise!

I love these events! Thanks LL

We woke up to fog that is frosting all the trees. It's really pretty. There's a frozen spiderweb in the back yard, but I'm too lazy to take a pic of it, so I will instead leave you with a pic of the new Sentinel space ship I nabbed today in No Man's Sky. Which is the only thing I've done today. It took hours. I renamed it The Argo.

Coffee with a gummie. For science.

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Waiting on us why?

If you have a story for Stories Space, then that. If you don't have a story, then...I don't know. Interpretive dance? A song? Personally, I think you should submit this, it's been stuck in my head for 6 years: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/erotic-poems/ropes-of-cum

My fun fact of the day: tadpoles have teeth. They're called labial teeth!

I'll have a coffee until my testicles descend from learning the term "Labial teeth."

A novel about cosmic horror buried in Iowa cornfields.

On my parent's couch.

Okay, adding a fifth story here, but after that I think we may be done.

To recap, my knee was out and my wife was out of town in mid-December. I wrote the bones of five stories in that two weeks (Gift-rapt, Faith and Joy, Sixteen Minutes - on the Blue site, Good Girl, and Fucktoy). This is the last of them. Most are variations on a theme, that theme being "I'm in pain, bored shitless, and kind of horny."

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/fucktoy-2

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It is a thing. And you've commented 😃

The state of my short term memory was a tad shaky during the holidays.

So is this still not a thing? My microphone grows dusty.

Thanks Kimmie! Update:

Team Red: Annie, Carlton, Ape, Sprite

Team Blue: Verbal, Kimmie, Lyfbuzz, Bear, Bunny Girl

Anyone want to join a team? Still waiting on Annie and Carlton and sprite. Team Red needs some members. No, not those kind of members.

And…let’s not forget the comp over on Stories Space! It’s one of the best in ages.

To recap: so far we have…

Team Red: Annie, Carlton, Ape, Sprite

Team Blue: Verbal, Kimmie, Lyfbuzz, Bear

Anyone want to join a team? Still waiting on Annie and Carlton and Lifebuzz. Excellent entires in by all the others. Join us! Join us! Ante is only a thousand words.

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A friend told me to put myself out there more this year. So…

Good advice Kimmie.

Okay, another micro. I’m still churning out stuff I started writing when my knee was out. I think I have one or two of these left in me, but man they are difficult. Like little puzzles. I don’t know how Kristin does it. But she does.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/fucktoy-2

Coffee and something sweet please. Holidays are over, so I will forgoe the gummies.

Good morning everyone.

A tiny hangover, but nothing to complain about. I had a Manhattan! I've been wanting to try one of those for years.

I hope everyone had fun last night. Cheers. I will have some coffee.

Comp over at Stories Space is going strong! Only 1000 words! Show us your stuff. No, not THAT stuff.

Morning all.

Just dropping in to say Happy New Year's Eve to you all (and to Annie and the other Aussies, happy New Year's Day!). We have no plans, other than enjoying ringing the new year in with pleasure, love and kindness. Okay, that and Thai food.

Peace.

Morning all. I'll have a coffee and one of those cinnamon rolls.

Nosferatu is deserving of the hype. Ms. Depp is pretty deserving too. Yum. Excellent flick.

17 days left in the comp over on Stories Space.... Join us.... Join us.... Anyone else want to sign up for Team Red or Team Blue?

I have one more story to hype, and then I will quit yammering. I have a micro up. I wrote a 188 word version that sucked balls and was up for maybe an hour before i deleted it. A week of editing and I came back with the micro version. I don't know how Kistin does it. So. Much. Work.

Anyway, it's called Good Girl.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/good-girl-9

I think there needs to be a novel option. The site runs on short stories, yes, but there are some excellent writers here—like Techgoddess—that write primarily novels, and I think they are a unique and important part of the site. They have a following, and it hurts no one to keep the category in. I think they add to the site.

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I did. I am courgette over there.

My bad. Thanks for such a lovely comment. We are off to see Nosferatu now. Looking forward to your little blue bunny tale.

One more: a Stories Site flash. No sex, but lots of sci-fi. And lately everything I write is at least partly about marriage, so I suppose that's thrown into the mix too.

https://www.storiesspace.com/stories/flash-fiction/sixteen-minutes

Well, it turns out that when you haven't written porn for a year and start back up, all sorts of things spill out. Here's a micro I am very fond of, and I have never written a good micro before. Please give this a read: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/good-girl-9

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Sounds like a brand of beer, non? I just read Verbal's story on the Story site. spoliler alert: It was magnifique but it should come with a warning to bring tissues.

Aren't you gonna leave a comment? I'm a whore for comments!

I'm in on Blue. Sci-fi.

https://www.storiesspace.com/stories/flash-fiction/sixteen-minutes

Plus, a little micro project I'm working on.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/good-girl-9

Hello little bunny. I would be happy to read your lapine fantasy. And our only plans for New Year's is take-out Thai food, some champagne, and perhaps a gummie or three. Do bunnies do gummies?

I've submitted to the comp on Blue. I went hard sci-fi with the theme. Go Team Blue! Where are the Red Team entries?

https://www.storiesspace.com/stories/flash-fiction/sixteen-minutes

We are off to see Nosferatu today. SO psyched.

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It is not allowed. I have tried. The best you can do is use recurrent characters, but only in stories that are not otherwise linked.

Yeah, I thought I remembered something like that. If you couldn't break through that wall, no one can

I am thinking of writing a series using only micros, meaning 100 words at a time. Each micro would (hopefully) be stand-alone. But I think I read here once that you can’t do a series of micros. I agree it would be difficult to pull off well. Mods?

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My short, smut-free story of hope, if interested.

https://www.storiesspace.com/stories/realistic-fiction/the-most-wonderful-gift-of-all

Go Team Blue!

This is a gorgeous piece of writing Kimmie. Really. You should be proud. Good luck with it.

Go Team Blue!

Bear and Ape also have excellent entities up over there. I will get mine up (heh) by Monday. Go read us!

Coffee and a cookie please.

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(Yawns and scatches his butt)

Only questions are: How is the score counted, and who does the counting?

And thanks to Ape for getting some caffeine going. I'll take a Bear-sized mug of Yorkshire Red, and wander back to Kimmi's Korner to snooze, perchance to sleep.

The Stories Space judges. We just follow their decisions. (Edited) First place is 4, second is 3, third is 2, and top ten is a 1. Highest average number wins. Simple! If Blue team wins, they buy drinks at either here or Inspirations (without disclosing the wildly kinky, sex-crazed nature of the Red site of course). Ditto with Red team.

I played No Man's Sky ALL DAY yesterday. 180 hours into that game now. Today, I will slightly less lazy, but not by much.

Coffee and a 🍪 please