Hmm. That's surprising. I figured it would be Beneath (back when I was Verbal), but that only has 3. My most recent story, Tintinnabulation, has 15. That's my best.

Every job I've ever had I took because I needed money. The worst was probably as a "crepe assembler" at the Magic Pan.

Have you ever eaten at a Magic Pan?

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perv

My interest in kitty ears is purely literary, I assure you (https://www.lushstories.com/stories/fetish/purr).

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It would be, indeed, but not one I have risen to, I'm afraid. Outside a comp, I think only two writers have gotten it for a micro -- KimmiBeGood and AylaJ.

I believe Verbal got an RR for his mico, Drowning. I understand he's kind of a dick though.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/drowning-3

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I have a few special friends, know I write erotica and read some of my stories. My children (now adults), and husband know I write because they see me always very busy on the keyboard, but they have no idea what I write and that I publish my stories somewhere. They asked me to read and I said NOPE!
But my son, who also is a very good writer, asked me to write a story about him, and I'm working on it. I don't know if I'll let him read it, though.

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Lol I entered the Storiesspace comp too; so do check out the stories, they are great.

I did read your story Vanessa in the ten minutes it was up, it looks really good cant wait to see it complete.

Enjoying the Olympics, the swimming has been fantastic.

Take care everyone, August already ... wonder what this month has in store for me

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Hi Rumpies!

Hope y'all are having a great weekend. Comp results should be out soon and best wishes to all you brilliant writers. There are always more than 10 great stories, so in or out of Top Ten you are held in high regard.

I was pleasantly surprised to have Carlton mod my new micro. Super excited he's a mod now.

As for me, rough weekends of late with Mom. On another note, I had a date. It was fine until he turned into an octopus. Now some of you tentacle lovers might squeal, "Yay!" But I did not. I am trying a date with a different man this Thursday and might borrow Terence for the evening. If he gets handsy, he might get a surprise!!

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That sounds scary but maybe its always a hastle for them to find my veins
and I'm always dehydrated so that makes it worse.

This is random but I miss Tonya, Alyx, Ping and I need more Jeff and where is Rach? I never see her anymore

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Pink lemonade sounds good. Even better if it's a slushie.

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Good Idea !

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so, writing stuff...

started working on a new chapter of Alice yesterday, in which the Queen of hearts is finally introduced. these are fairly quick writing for me and a lot of fun to do i am thinking of powering through and finishing the series. i think, including this chapter, it's got about 5-6 to go before being done. and then, i have an idea for a follow up which will be very different in tone? we'll see. i really would like to get back to Mrs V and Ketchup too, so maybe we'll do that first.

lifewise. December and Jan were hard. that's about all i'm going to say, but i hit a sort of rock bottom and am slowly working my way up again. just how life goes, so i have been a bit scarce, to say the least. feeling better about things, now, so fingers crossed. also, some huge decisions looming, but ones that can wait until after the pandemic is vaccinated out of existence. life changes that are positive. also, i need to travel in the worst way, so that's in my future, hopefully.

lush wise. we have a contest. poetry. i kind of hate poetry, but i like that our poets get a chance to strut their stuff and am looking forward to some excellent entries by all of you.

few notes. have been enjoying Emma's mantids, so thanks for that. nice to see a lot of new faces. funny thing about that. change is hard. i have been here for 10 years now and things have changed a lot, sometimes in little ways, sometimes slowly, sometimes in big ways and quickly. it's nice to have a comfort zone where things are just as they are and you settle in. but then, things do change and new faces and a new atmosphere takes hold. embrace it. keep the things that are important and welcome the new energy. that goes for Rumps and that goes for Lush. things evolve. people come and go. i love that, no matter what, Rumps has always been a place to share about writing and to inspire and encourage our authors. i remember when i was the hot shot writer here. i am always very happy to pass the torch to those willing to take it, and have done so several times. we have some wonderful "newbies" here. Kimmi. James. Michelle. Emma. Also, a favorite of mine, Violent Vixen is someone to keep an eye on. Haven't had the chance to check out everyone yet, but i'm working on it.

and of course, the "oldies" keep putting out work that is top notch as well (although i miss seeing Verbs in the queue!) speaking of which, i think we all know by now that the queue has been crazy as of late. we actually put in a concerted effort a couple of weekends ago and knocked it down to zero. that lasted about 1 day and it's already in the 70s again, so patience is asked - we've also been slowly adding new mods, so that should help, but that in and of itself is time consuming. we do have a blueprint for what's to come during the year, but there's been a lot of flux lately with all that's been going on in the world and, as always, the stories take precedent over most everything else, so keep writing!

oh, and i'm buying, so everything goes on my tab today. maybe one day I'll even pay it.

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That's what my wife (not a soccer mom) drives, primarily, and it's our dog-hauler. You're right, it's a great vehicle, just outstanding in every respect except maybe sportiness. It and my last car, a Kia Optima, both were rock-solid dependable, comfortable, and plenty powerful, but still economical to operate.
Traded the Optima on a recent model, very low-mileage used Linclon MKZ AWD turbo, my first ever luxury/touring type car. Only had it a few months, but loving it so far!

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A huge Kentucky bourbon infused hug and kiss to Kimmi on her Micro RR! As far as I could find (not counting Comps), there hasn't been one awarded since Verbal's "Drowning" in 2018. Not at all surprised that it was Kimmi who broke that long dry spell. Always such good work.

Put anything she wants on my tab!

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hi Peeps
A large coffee with a splash of hot chocolate sounds good right about now
Coke with coffee is yucky

Jeff -Hmmm arm wrestling for the sports page.. That could be fun.. *making sure to show some cleavage * (giggles gotta use what I got)

James of course you would bet on me
Good to see everyone here today.

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Lets summon him back.

If this doesn't work we can make an actual summoning circle and if that doesn't work we can make a sock puppet Ping to stand in while we await his return.

got to have back ups for the back ups..

this place moves really fast now..I am struggling to keep up ..but I have gotten out of the habit of checking in daily.

coffee please

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Greetings and best wishes for a great TGIF blowout tomorrow -- if Friday ever comes.

Jeff, the only thing more foolish than LJ marrying you would be you not marrying her. That is, of course, just my most humble opinion. ;)

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Good morning. It's past noon so a glass of white wine is good. Lovely day here, but work is keeping me indoors. Probably too cold to enjoy much outdoor time anyway.

So, I have had a change in my life and I am still wrestling with it a bit, but here it goes. As of sometime last week, I became a father-in-law. Yep, my crazy son married his partner unannounced (he hasn't even told us when it happened) and then told us on Monday. Needless to say, I am not as elated as I might have been had things gone in a more conventional way, but I am happy. We haven't even met Ms. Seeker, Jr. yet (long story there) but they have been together a couple years and living together on and off during the pandemic. We've been on the outs with him of late but hopefully this opens the door to getting things back on track. My daughter-in-law (I think that's the first time I've called her that publicly) is almost done her degree and works for the Canadian government (which will hopefully become full-time permanent after graduation) and he is working part-time for a chip design firm while finishing his degree. Both are in computer engineering. They are promising a proper celebration when the pandemics subsides (or at least once most of us get jabs).

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this was totally on him. just decided to self delete. guy has been a bit volatile lately. happens to the best of us.

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Verbs, you're retired?! All you retiring people right now are killing me. I'm incredibly jealous!

Tomorrow I get to sit in on my old editing class. It's been forever, and maybe it'll kinda feed writing needs a bit. Life is trampling on my creativity these days.

No more Chardonnay for me, I'm off to bed. Big, clumsy hugs to all.

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All of it. Probably the most difficult was filling out death certificates--I'm an L&D nurse, women don't just up and die on us. Early in the year, as I was filling out one of the first ones, a Reuters pool photographer caught a pic of me. My hair was tied up and I was sort of at an angle to the photographer, but what is stunning is what he captured--there were teardrops on the paper. And I don't cry.

I'm up to 203 certificates now, just me. I don't know why I keep track of the number, I just do. We are all human, but at the end of the day, we're just numbers and letters on paper, lives untold.