It’s a shame they made the cover image so small on the screen and only portrait. I used to love making cover pics.

Algorithms choosing stories to feature based on a cover pic seems nuts when we don’t see a cover pic until we open the story. By that stage it’s too late to attract attention and I’ve never not read a story just because the cover pic wasn’t enticing.

The algorithm suggested one of my own stories for me to read which I found slightly bizarre.

I find I get roughly the same amount of likes and comments for every story which suggests I get the same readers every time.

Strawberries…

Or go for the Beatles..

I’m on vacation. .. back soonish mwahhhh 💋💋💋

Right-click on the picture.. save to your computer.. then upload it as your story picture

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I'm starting to worry about you...

Me too… even the cover art has pink text. 🤣

I'm not sure what's come over me but I wrote a couple of micros and neither of them are dark, cynical or involve cheating, immoral characters. I'm sure this won't last but while it does, you might like to read them

Teddy and Me - about a girl and her favourite toy and Washing Up - a novel way to get the domestic chores done... enjoy xx

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Greetings, true believers!

Just got a story published for you all this lovely Monday afternoon entitled Gulp!

After years of dodging, a woman finally comes face to face with a specific sexual act.

Loved this.. well worth checking out.

I'll have a beer please. An IPA if you have one on this fine summer's evening.. Sláinte

I wrote a couple of short 100 word micros about this

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/laundry

And

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/cum-in-my-panties

Happy Father’s Day to those of you who are one. It’s a beautiful sunny day here in Ireland so I’ll have a coffee to go… been enjoying the tunes from guest dj Sprite. Was sad to hear of the passing of Smiths bassist Andy Rourke. I remember dancing to How soon is now? many many moons ago.

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Prude theme would be fun, too, yeah?

My band in my story were called the Virgin Prudes. Prude is in, apparently 😘

Congratulations AmuseBouche... This was so well deserved. I loved the essence of this... the essence of Punk. When Dog turned up with his hair dyed and the non punk clothes, it was so sad and captured so beautifully.

I'm also delighted to see the Shy Thespian break into the top 3.. your story made me laugh with some of the euphemisms for lady parts and a proper steampunk yarn.

Congratulations to everyone who entered 🍾

This happened me a couple of weeks ago when I was submitting my comp entry. I gave up eventually. The next day was able to upload fine and I found I’d ended up with 5 saved drafts which probably explains why I have 5 punked competition entry badges on my profile. I thought maybe it was because was WiFi was slow.

Morning James. love the new Slut flag lol.. I'll have a cup of coffee please.. and perhaps a ginger biscuit to go with it.

It was changed some time back to be just like or favourite.

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/site-announcements-feedback/the-scoring-system-is-going-to-be-changed?post=4141860

I like that in SS where you have to include specific words in the entry sonetimes

If it is being reworked, I’d like a way to turn off group notifications but keep notifications of comments and likes on stories. If you belong to a busy group you get swamped with notifications of posts and don’t notice if someone comments on a story

Well it's Friday afternoon here in Ireland so i think that counts as near enough the weekend for a real drink.

The funny yellow circle is still in the sky.. a record here. so I'll have a nice cold beer. Corona if you have it, no lime.

And I think it's time for me to break out my favourite avatar again...

John, I saw this and thought of you...

The one in the True category is true.

A lot of others have elements of truth or embellishments. Some are pure figments but some have characters based on people I know.

But as Jack Nicholson says in a few good men “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth.”

Thanks Kistin… and how do you do that natty thing of linking text rather than the big long spew of htttpppttyyy nonsense?

Good afternoon everyone...

It's a beautiful day out there.. the strange yellow ball in the sky is back again and I wrote a little microfiction... which as a couple of readers have noted, is so sweet, with no dark undertones, no twists and no cynicism. I know I couldn't believe it either.

If you feel the urge to check out this little bit of happy writing, it's here https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/the-moulded-dildo

and don't forget to check out Kistin's latest too.. https://www.lushstories.com/stories/microfiction/dont-judge-a-book-2 it is much more satiating.

So there you go.. two micros for the price of one post ❤️

Ok… so apparently this bar is harder to give up than several class A drugs… so apologies all round for my drunken strop back on the 2nd January and I’m glad I didn’t delete my account.

I’ve even managed to channel my inner Violet and submit a competition entry with 24 hours to go til the deadline. Here’s hoping a mod is around to send it back with time for a re-edit before midnight tomorrow.

In the meantime, I’ll have a gin and tonic and try to find out what I missed x

Well.. there are 24 hours til the deadline so I thought, fuck it... so I put in a story. Hopefully it will get verified and get the 10 votes by tomorrow night.. is it midnight British Summer Time or funny western American time?

I’m Western Europe - Ireland

I find the easiest way to spot mistakes is publish it. Any that I’ve missed suddenly become apparent as soon as it’s too late to do anything about it… especially in Comps where you can’t take down and re-edit

I saw this and couldn't resist popping in to show you.. hope you are all good x

Thanks John 😘

I see it's fixed on the profile but it still says my age in chat.. is that a feature rather than a glitch?

I see my age is visible on profile too despite my settings and I saw the green tick 🙄

Hi.. perhaps this has been raised already but I have 'allow others to see your age' unselected.. hey, a woman can be fragile about things like that... so it's lovely that the option is there.

However, when in the chat room, it shows my age when you click on my name in the list of members in a chat... So what is the point of unselecting it in my privacy settings?

Is this a glitch or just the way things are?

Woohoo.. Go Us, Grusha lol

I’m not sure if this counts… I tried to get as many cliches as possible in… https://www.lushstories.com/stories/outdoor/fucking-the-pool-boy