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Clearly, people need to be more aware of the valuable time the mods contribute here, and resubmitting a story that's been deleted does seem to be a presumptuous abuse of their time. It would be understandable if someone deleted a story and then made significant revisions, but now with the option to hide the story, deleting wouldn't be necessary. The policy of not verifying stories that were already verified once before is clear and fair.
However, if I didn't have the option to easily delete material that essentially belongs to me, I'd have to think a lot harder about whether to submit something or not. I'd probably stop submitting poems altogether if I didn't have the option to delete them.
While the incredible contribution of the mods here is absolutely indispensable, not to mention gracious on a Herculean level, it's also true that many writers here invest a great deal of time and effort in their writing, and then submit what we write here for people's free entertainment. It's a whole lot of work on everyone's part, and the option to delete shows us deference and respect. Please leave this option as it is.
Wow! Happy birthday Lush!
Thank you, Nicola...and thank you to so many...for being here and being who you are. Lush gives something more than a little sexy entertainment to so many. Y'all rock!
Can we make a video of LadyX blowing out the candles?
After that, can we light 'em back up and make a video of sprite blowing them out again?
And after that, can we....damn....we're gonna need a LOT of candles!
There once was a lady named sprite
Who wrote stories with all of her might
On the day of her birth
We all cheered with mirth
Happy birthday O lady named sprite!
Human beings are indeed complex entities. I don't fully understand why some people almost feel a sense of ownership, if that's an adequate word, of those who create things they enjoy. Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis were two of the biggest assholes to walk the Earth, yet they were two of the greatest artists of their time. More and more, I don't want to know personal details about the artists I enjoy because it gets in the way of my enjoyment of the music or book or film. I share personal details on a case by case basis, perhaps less and less as time goes by. My personal attitude is that I simply don't fucking matter. Please just read my stories, and I really truly hope people will enjoy them as much as possible. If someone feels something deep...even better...that part of me reached that part of someone else, and that makes it damn good to be alive...to be human.
Generally, it freaks me out anytime someone associates me too closely with something I've written. I just tell stories. I don't even tell them very well, to be perfectly honest. Certainly not as well as many others here. But people come to Lush for all kinds of reasons, and a site like this provides a very valuable outlet for a lot of people. I would never discourage anyone from writing to say something about a story or poem they read, but I would only hope to receive the same personal respect I would offer in return. However, I never would have expected to, but I've met some truly wonderful people here.
Well...ok...here goes: In fact, I am a very short, fat and mostly bald. I have a mustache I never trim, but that's ok because it hides the nest of hair growing out of my nostrils. I work as a janitor in a huge industrial complex, and spend most of my time in the boiler room where I write pornographic stories on rolls of toilet paper I steal from the supply room. My olive drab uniform hangs too low off my hips, and my butt crack shows so deep someone could plant daisies in it if they had a mind. I smoke cigars and chew tobacco simultaneously, and I spit pretty much anywhere I feel like it. Cheerleaders and fashion models all love me, however, because I am hung like a farm animal, and the wild swinger parties we throw down in the boiler room are the stuff of legend. We take numerous pictures of the scandalous goings on, but in the interest of protecting my personal privacy, I can only share these pictures with sprite.
I came. I saw. I came again.
Nothing like a discussion of this sort to put an interesting slant on one's day.
D was once arrested for indecent exposure while urinating in the bushes when waiting in line to buy tickets to a Lady Gaga concert. He was seated in the back of the squad car only to find himself face to face with Paul Ruebens, who'd just been arrested on a similar charge.
I'm afraid if I said so out loud I might end up breaking site guidelines.
Since the best soft drink names are already taken, guess I'll just go with Frank Lee. I'm almost getting used to the stupid bastard.
I ban the Goddess for raising the temperature in here.
spend half the time apologizing that whatever price I paid could never compare to her true worth
she was a force of nature. period
In the words of the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, "What the world needs now is not love sweet love, but a little more common courtesy."
That moment when your lips finally touch, crashing through whatever uncertainties and hesitations remain, and the heat of her breath swirls into the cavern of your open mouth...that's what being alive is all about. After that, fucking is just exercise.
Of course, we all need to get plenty of exercise.
Ok, sheepdog...you work in a family business? Don't take this the wrong way, ok? But take a fuckin vacation! Get on a goddam airplane and go see this woman and kiss her feet and beg her to forgive you for being as big an idiot as your pal, frank. I've had about 25 more years than you to fuck up my life, and I've really practiced hard so I could hone that to a fine art. Trust me, you don't want to get to be my age and have to wonder "what if". Take it from a guy who chose about an hour ago to rip out his own heart and toss it into rush hour traffic, we're the only ones who can break our own hearts. This ache in my right now feels fuckin impossible, but it's telling me I'm alive. It's telling me how stupid I am, too, but that part I'm used to. I knew that already. But it's telling me I wasn't wasting my time. I know that probably doesn't make much sense to anyone else..but...the older and supposedly wiser I get, the more I'm beginning to think it's the fairy tales that are true and real life is the bullshit.
Sorry for the rant. Just sayin', ya know?
Just a suggestion for you, sheepdog...she already knows how you feel. Women are waaaaaaaay smarter than we are.
Ok, I really don't mean to sound dense, and I feel you all more than you know, but what's the point of falling in love with someone you can actually have? Honest question. Are we supposed to believe we even have any control over who we fall in love with? A life without heartbreak would be a horrible crime.
Shima, I feel you especially. Hang in there. That feeling inside you is a force of nature, and if you allow it, it can make you stronger. Just take a walk down the street and look around at the zombies who never had such good fortune to feel that alive. I know how much it hurts. Trust me on that. In the long run, it'll either work or it won't, and the next time you meet someone, you're gonna have all that power of love in you enough to her up like a city.