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Thanks, my friend :)

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Hi @giantbear - I saw the link - Looks interesting but I'm not sure I could commit to it - I have so much on the go - I might be able to submit a story by first week in November but I'm not sure that's

Thanks, Arthur - it seems everything has to be tested in the fire, particularly Jay's conflict with his mother's wishes and his place in the family. Em represents the hidden parts of family that even family

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These kinds of musings you're describing are the very thing that prompted my first novel, A Familiar Rain, which actually took twenty years to write - it was simmering inside me that long - my wife typed

Ha ha, so am I ...that's how it is in life, so it should be the same in fiction :)

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ha ha, very true...

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Interesting...you supposed I allowed the apparition in - but that's why I isolated the last line for dramatic effect to show my surprise when she suddenly appeared. But you showed me another dimension

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...And again, in reference to your question about what attracts her to him, can I say that's a perennial question - What does she see in him? A question I wondered about myself when dating my wife and

Ha ha...I don't even know myself when I start a story how it's going to turn out - I don't plot out stories - never have - sometimes people suggest ideas if I serialize a novel and I honestly take their

BTW, I forgot to respond to your other part about relationships. I hear you re women, and my pet peeve is hearing someone refer to me as 'a good man'. I don't know why but it seems so patronizing and

I think honesty is so important to being authentic but I struggle with it. One of my friends was totally honest - he was an admirer of Albert Camus and identified with Mersault in The Outsider (L'Etranger).