Thank you, John, I appreciate your prompt & clear response.

I recently got a message asking me to change my email address. As I created the one I use specifically to match my Lush Stories profile, I am reluctant to do this.

Was this a genuine request from Lush Stories?

I am currently enraged by the people who covered up and turned a blind eye to the behaviour of our former Prince Andrew, he never made the slightest effort to hide what he was. Shame on you all.

I met him once socially, I was being “a beard” to a gay friend who was being interviewed for a big job with a Qatari sovereign wealth fund. The soirée was in London, we both looked good, I’m not denying it. His unsubtle attempts to look at my friends cleavage elicited a response from me that made it clear he had better stop & then fuck off. He did both.

Last Thursday night with a neighbour and local gym friend. The flirting has been going on for a year at least. I summoned the courage and asked if she would like to join me for a drink at my garden table that evening. I seemed to get everything right. Music on the Bluetooth speaker was a playlist of mainly REM & Elbow. The wine was an ice cold English sparkling wine from Sussex (Chateau Legover from now on) It was just the perfect evening at the table and later upstairs.

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I am seeing this message occur regularly, usually when there are a lot of notification. It does however also occur during longer chats. I'm in the UK. My broadband fine, the router works well and I regularly clear my cache. No idea what is going on, but hopefully the attached image will help?

Confidence and a sense of adventure

Two weeks ago in a hotel in Hong Kong, I was there to see my youngest son for his birthday. A couple of times I noticed this lady checking me out, but I was there to see my lad. After he caught the train back to China I went to the bar for a drink, she was there, we got chatting. She was British and with her husband on a business trip. He treated her appallingly, rude, neglectful and uninterested. The next morning they were having breakfast and he was paying far more attention to his laptop. She stayed for another and joined me after he had left. I invited her to my room, she said yes. You can guess the rest. A few hours later we were all on the hotel shuttle bus to the airport. He didn’t have a clue.

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In a hotel room in Hong Kong with a married lady.

Most of my stories are either based on experience or an embellished version of it. I was late to enjoyable, adventurous sex having been in a vanilla marriage for 27 years. I like to think that I fly the flag for good sex after 50.

I can honestly say that life just got better, and keeps getting better. It is just a number. In the run-up to it, I felt really down. A few days after that it felt as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders.

I was wondering whether readers were influenced by the choice of picture. I recently published another chapter in series I have written. With hindsight I chose for the cover a rather boring picture of a train. This story has attracted noticeably fewer readers than the earlier ones that all had much racier cover images.

I have found on more than one occasion that a character or characters develop life of their own. I wend up with stories that can run to several chapters.

Yes

Probably only of interest to my British Friends? But,

Ticketmaster - Oasis tickets.

Thames Water - Fucking thieves

The referee at this afternoon's Arsenal v Brighton game.

Hi Kimmi,

Readers opt to come to Lush, most of them know what they are going to read and view on this site. I'm sure a great deal of what is written is fantasy, and quite a bit of it pushes boundaries. I'm sure will all enjoy mainstream fiction, I enjoy detective stories, but that doesn't mean I condone or promote murder. A little perspective is required here. Lush has clear rules about what is acceptable. That young man didn't have to read your story, he chose to and could have stopped at any time.

I'm about to submit my 100th story to the site. I'm incredibly grateful for all the positive feedback from readers and generous assistance from the moderators.

With a Lush friend earlier this week.

Quick trip to Liverpool or more precisely the Wirral, it didn’t disappoint.

I've had the pleasure of having a couple of my dinner guests bent over my dining table.

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a series link retrospectively? I've read the thread above and can't find any blue boxes anywhere. I tried going via the edit story function but that sends an already-approved story back to the moderators creating unnecessary work.

Friday night and then again (twice) on Saturday morning with a lady from work. Totally unexpected, but highly enjoyable.

This was the message I received yesterday, the inconsistency in your rules is unhelpful.

"Be aware, though, that we have an informal 1k minimum word count on chapters of series. This is to avoid submissions of snippets. That's why I advised you to flesh your tale out a little more."

I had hoped that it would be possible to series link these stories because they will all be built around a central character. I had no intention of making them chapters because they would all be in different categories. The only reason for choosing the flash erotica category was to circumvent a rule that said all submissions had to be over 1000 words. I didn't want to pad this out. I don't think I am going to pursue this idea anymore.

Thank you, I appreciate your suggestion. I have just had the story rejected again, this time because apparently you cannot series link the flash-erotica category.

All I can say is that years ago, I just ran into this brick wall of inflexibility. Rather than ruin the submitted piece with clunky attribution, I edited the dialogue out and stopped using it.

As for the comma’s I have read every article I have been sent, and I can’t spot where my submission fails.

I am really struggling to see how in the last few days my writing has deteriorated so badly.

Thank you for your observation, all I can say is that the insistence on attribution every time ruined the flow and made the story unreadable, so I stopped including it in submissions.

A question for fellow British & international contributors. Are you having difficulty submitting stories to the site that do not conform to the rules of American English? I have spent the afternoon trying to submit a story only to have it rejected several times. I write on a Mac using Pages and run the script through Grammarly set to British English twice. It passes.

When I first started writing for the site. I used to use dialogue in my stories but stopped because moderators insisted that I use he said/she said at the end of every line of dialogue. This inflexibility made the stories boring, repetitive and almost unreadable.

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