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Bearkeep, pour me your strongest, please.

Heartbreaking day with Dad. I’m not strong enough to go through this again. At least Mom’s not here to see it… 😢

I'm so sorry to hear of your day with your Dad. You are a good daughter and a good person for doing that so selflessly. My heart goes out to you. I hate that fucking disease.

Congrats to Dubya and Life and the other winners. A drink for all of them.! I truly did not think mine worthy of a podium.

I'll have a coffee. Trying not to eat so much junk this year, so no sweets.

The true prize is seeing Jen's boots.

I did not expect the podium for this story - so many hot clever takes on this, and I didn't think mine had the heat to compete (good rhyme though!).

Also so cool to be on the podium with Dubya and Lifebuzz! I'm honored. Congrats you guys.

Congrats to the top ten too. It takes so much courage to put words on paper and let others read it, especially when it's something as personal as your sexual fantasies. So, congrats to everyone who entered.

I'm also a little relieved to not come in fourth place.

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Do what I did in church, vaguely gesture a cross while circling your hand around your chest and mumble ‘Jesus Mary homina homina homina’.

My sister told me that Catholics said "Head, chest, shoulder, other shoulder." I believed her for years.

I think non-Platinum stories should be auto-translated into pig-Latin via bot. Only platinum stories get re-translated back into English.

Ersonally-pay, I'd-way ov-lay is-thay articular-pay erk-pay.

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You know, that thing on the trapeze, with peacock feathers, glitter, and a bag of gummy bears. What's it called again?

Friday night

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But what if I finish 4th (lol okay let me hallucinate) and I don't want a Canadian boy toy?

If I win fourth I'm going to have him paint my house.

A Public Service Commission: don’t ever leave your butt plug in when getting an MRI.

https://www.unilad.com/news/health/woman-screaming-pain-sex-toy-inserted-mri-086994-20250109

Coffee and a donut please!

True story

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What about 5am then?🙃

If you ever see me awake and communicating before 10 a.m., it's an imposter.

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Leave a friendly note to the mod and tell us where that line is. "Hey, Moddy, I know that what I did <here> and <here> is unconventional, but it's intentional. BTW, I love what you've done with your hair!"

We will happily back down unless it's unreadable, in which case we will push back. We can't tell whether an author doesn't understand typical grammar rules or is sidestepping them for style unless we are already familiar with the author's work.

Good answer. And I love what you’ve done with your hair!

Here a micro rule I used to keep myself in line during my short-lived experiment with micro: someone in the story has to be changed by the events of the story. Not exactly a character arc, because you only have 100 words, but a character shift in some noticeable way. It worked for me, anyway.

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Unfortunately, this video doesn't play in Canada – probably a copyright issue.

Oh, well. Once Canada's part of the US, that will all go away…

NO FUCKING WAY!

Monroe tried it in 1812.

Didn't go well.

The British burned Washington in retaliation for America trying to capture York (now Toronto), which is why "The Executive Mansion" became "The White House" – they had to paint it white to cover the scorch marks.

Who had Land War in North America on their apocalypse bingo card?

Morning all. Windy as the dickens out. I enjoy hearing the wind howling as I write. Trying (unsuccessfully) to match Carton’s 10,000 words a week. I might break 6000 this week with a running start.

Coffee would be swell. I hope the Annie/Piquet writers thing went well. Two fine writers. I swear Annie is channeling James Joyce sometimes.

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Thank you all who came to this fab event with these fab authors. In the coming days we'll post the links to the stories mentioned in the chat so check back in this thread!

Also look out for our February Meet the Authors event featuring Sprite & ScreamQueen (formerly known as Vanessa)! It's going to be a Meet the Authors: Tentacle, Horror and Sci-Fi Edition 😜

Sprite and Vanessa! What an unholy alliance! I’ll be there with all sorts of inane questions! Assuming it isn’t at 4 a.m.

Thanks for these LL. I love to see the emphasis on writers and writing.

Pretty quiet in here. I dropped in for a shot of bourbon, with a purple gummie dissolving lazily in the bottom of the shot glass like a sunlit daydream.

Sigh

It involved a belt.

What's the nicest thing you've ever done for someone?

Nope

Have you ever worn a collar during sex?

Coughing. I kind of like sneezing, it's orgasm-adjacent. (Hi Beth)

Would you rather have too much coffee or not enough?

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Thanks, but I guess I’m still unsure how to think about that.

If a character is drinking and conscious and not being coerced but acts a little more freely than they might normally even though it’s of their own free will is that problematic?

Regarding the Hypno, it seems a more precarious. Theoretically a person wouldn’t do something under hypnosis that they wouldn’t normally do, but the basic premise of hypnosis stories is control over someone else. How should we think about consent in that context?

Let’s say a guy puts a woman under and while in trace he asks her to undress. Under normal circumstances if he had gone up to her and asked her to do that she would say no, but under trance she agrees. Is that problematic?

I apologize in advance if this comes off as pedantic, but I do want to understand this better for future stories I have in mind. Thanks!

These are really good questions. I wrestled with these myself when writing a tentacle sex story. It's a nuanced discussion, and I was really trying to avoid any hint of -i-ness. Thanks for helping clarify.

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It’s 27 degrees F here. If you each pick a place to start licking, I might thaw out by Valentine’s Day.

That strategically placed v-shaped twig is genius.

Nothing new here. It's cold, but the snow is melting a bit under a bright sun. Writing about cosmic horror in the Iowa cornfields I grew up in.

4 days left in the Bleu comp. It's really a strong one.

Coffee. No gummie, I need to focus.

If you could provide us late risers with a copy of the text after the chat, that would be awesome!

Happy birthday Kis!

Big snowfall here, had to cancel my eye doc appointment. My big chore for the day will be shoveling the driveway. Still, should be a cozy day, snuggled together indoors.

A coffee please. Hope everyone is doing well. Go Team Bleu!

I have been given a hall pass for Nicole Kidman.

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.