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Ruthie
Over 90 days ago
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Congratulations to all the winners, to Burquette for her most excellent story, to Buz for his lighthearted approach to both sports and sex, and to gilenard, for making fencing interesting with his brilliant well written story.

Congratulations to all of you who placed in the top ten. There can only be three winners, but the top ten represent the best of Lush writers, VirgoGo, WannabeWordsmith, oceanrunner, naughtyannie, MadMartigan, HereTeleia, and ChrisM are all top contributors to Lush.

Everyone who entered the contest is a valuable and valued member of the Lush Community, and I wish that there was a way to reward all of you. Here's a hug for everyone.


I can't think of anyone who deserves moderator of the month more than you. Here's your prize:

Ruth means 'companion' in Hebrew. Ruthie is a diminutive of Ruth. I was previously someone's companion, and had a name in front of Ruthie that no longer holds any meaning in my life. I am Ruthie by default because I didn't want to change my original screen name to something nobody would recognize as me. Also, I am still someone's companion, but just not that person. I wish that I had been as inventive as HeraTeleia when I chose my original screen name, but I was hampered by a fleeting love.


Congratulations to all the winners, and to all the writers who made the top ten. Puddleduck, Burquette and Saucymh all showed amazing talent and skill in their stories, in imagination as well as technical skills. Their stories were really, really good. I thought that the stories in this competition were the best in awhile, and these stories were the best of the best.
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it's always appreciated when someone asks permission first, but i don't get bent out of shape when they don't. it's not so much that they whisper, it's what they whisper that causes problems for me. if someone's being inappropriate, i'll just answer them publicly.


I do that too, but sometimes people think I'm just crazy and talking to myself.
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Macadamia nut and white chocolate. However there is something to be said for chocolate chip (sometimes with nuts) and oatmeal raisin cookies.


All of these, especially chocolate chip fresh and warm from the oven.
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I wasn't thinking that young like 16 or younger girl none of my stories will be like that, was just wondering how old a Junior or senior personnel worker should be aged, Like Junior would be around maybe 23 or 24,not new but there pretty long time.Say around 3 months would that be considered a Junior,and Senior would be working there maybe years or longer but kind of young looking to be a Senior,around 29 or 30?


As long as you are clearly describing adults, and do not have any mention of any person sixteen or under in depictions of sexual acts, you are okay. If describing high school students it should be made clear that all participants are over sixteen. In business situations, unless the worker is a teenager, there's no need to mention the age. As the previous poster said, ages in companies are dependent on the company. A junior associate in a law firm, for instance, would tend to be older than a junior associate in a fast food store.
A person should always ask permission before whispering to another person in the chat rooms. That's common politeness. My friends can come into a chat room where I am and start whispering to me, of course, but anyone else should ask first.
It's okay to look at the keyboard. I like to type without looking, but I'm haphazard. To learn to type without looking takes practice. Learn to use the right fingers on the right keys, though, and you'll never forget.
I'm going to go out of character for once and say spank, but I'll need some of that wine first.
You've been here quite a while for someone with so few friends. Did you drop friends from your list, or are those twelve friends showing the only ones you have made. Have you refused a lot of friend requests? Do you check your friend's requests in your mail? Did you just start an account, post a couple of poems and wander off until now? You'd make more friends by befriending people. Most people in the chat rooms aren't there to make friends. I've spent a lot of time in the chat rooms over the years I've been here, and made only a handful of friends there. Now that there are mostly pictures in the chat room, the actual chat has become hard to find. I'll be trying to read a conversation, and suddenly a huge cock or enormous ass will appear and move the conversation away. Send out a dozen or so requests and see how many friends you get. If you like someone, don't wait for them to request your friendship, request theirs.
I've been in a stunned state of shock and horror since hearing the news about the Orlando killings. I have been dealing with it by staying busy. I have no words. John Dunne said, "'Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." We are all wounded by the Orlando shootings, all of us are made less by those deaths. The father of the shooter says that the shooting had noting to do with religion, but it seems to me that they have everything to do with religion. The shooter learned to hate gays by listening to people of religion, but some fundamentalist religious people affirm each other's hatred for gays and contempt for women on a daily basis. The shootings certainly had nothing to do with God, but they were provoked by religion. Religion kills. Our hearts are bleeding on the floor of Pulse where our fellow humans died.
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Back in those days I was in very good shape. My dad and friends used to urge me to try out for the Olympics. Put it this way I was most likely one of the fastest people on the earth ever. I used to be able to run fast. My guess is I used to run a mile under two minutes regularly. I used to run over 30 miles in just over an hour like 1 hour and 10 minutes--and that's was just one way. There were plenty of times where I think I almost killed myself and not for good reasons. I think I had a heartattack and a stroke at the sametime, I'm not sure though. It all happen because I was showing off. I was showing some friends/people that I could beat them to a place. Them using a car and me running. I did 7 miles in 7 minutes. I ended up getting there about the same time as the car. They gave me the win. But I don't know if I won in all truthfulness. Though when I stopped I felt something crazy happen in my chest and at the same time everything went wobbly and for a second or so I couldn't see. I felt like I couldn't stand. I told myself I wouldn't show off like that ever again. To this day I know someone gave me a pass, and I am thankful everyday for that.



Treatment is available for mental health issues. Please talk to a health professional. If you are gaining a great deal of water weight, you need to be checked out for heart failure as well. Don't wait too long to seek help.
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Got to love lush, and oh Cybil.... who is gonna be our new shrink here?


I'll be glad to fill in for awhile. I've had lots of experience with mental health care.
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That's actually pretty reasonable. Most of the women in my life (i.e.Carol) want thousands.


I've been settling for flowers and candy bars.
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Only in American English. In British English (which is, where the language originally comes from) it's realiSe, with an S. The same goes for authorise, penalise and most other verbs that end with ize in America.


I try to go by the accepted spelling in the writer's own country. Words like colour, harbour, as opposed to color or harbor, and the ise vs. ize endings of words. I am American, though, and my instinctive spelling is US English. If I don't recognize the spelling of a word, I try to find a reference to it being spelled that way, if I can't, I change it to American spelling. What we want is consistency in a story. If you use the spelling colour, you shouldn't spell realise with a z, and vice versa, of course. The main thing we try to prevent is inconsistent spelling. "I went to the harbor today, and the colour of the sea made me realize that I needed to organise my paint box." Some verbs always end in ise, of course, no matter which side of the Atlantic you're on. There are also some American words, such as analyze, that always end in yze.

It's not always as simple as it seems.
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The administration and other story moderators can and do see which mod gives an RR. This information is also available to the writer in their timeline. I assure everyone that these are monitored and, rarely, Nicola herself has reminded the moderating staff to carefully consider how and when these are awarded. Rest assured that we don't hand these out in a vacuum.

To me; that is how it should be. I do not see any reason a third party should be made aware of what mod awarded an RR to a story that was not theirs. Why it would be so critical for a person other than the writer or other mods to have that information is beyond me, but I assure you that the drama it would cause would quickly put an end to anyone like me awarding one. We have enough scrutiny and necessity to explain ourselves in threads like this to invite that kind of personal second guessing.


Yes. I have given an RR which was removed by administration. It was a poem. I understood it, and it took a lot of effort to read, but I thought it was as good a poem as any written in the USA in the 21st century. I have been especially stingy with my RRs since, especially when it is poetry, which is very subjective. I know that it hurt the poet, but it hurt me as well, I wouldn't want to impose that on any writer. I should have had the poem reviewed and criticized by others before awarding the RR, I suppose, but I generally award RRs based on what I like. My taste in poetry leans toward the beat poetry of the mid 20th century, and French symbolism. I learned from this incident that I shouldn't try to impose my taste on others.

RRs are not awarded at random. They are not awarded as a gesture of friendship. They are one moderator's attempt to show the readership a story or poem that they think is worthy of the reader's time. I don't have time to read every story or poem on Lush, so my RRs are generally awarded to stories that I have verified myself, but any moderator can award an RR to any story or poem at any time. Any story or poem can be nominated for an EP. There really is no favoritism. Some outstanding writers and poets just draw a lot of readership from the moderation staff. Their chances of an RR are better because more mods read them.

Become outstanding. Become familiar to the moderators by writing good stories and poems. Read the Lush requirements. Proofread. A story which needs lots of proofreading is very likely to be sent back. I have never seen a story which had a huge amount of punctuation and grammatical errors which was of RR quality. Usually there are other issues.

Learn to write. Don't just send your masturbation scribbling in expecting it to be posted. Just because it gets you off doesn't mean it's publishable. Learn the craft. Even the best writers make some mistakes, of course, but they are usually the ones most happy to have them corrected.

These are my last thoughts on this subject.
Congratulations. You've done a lot of work for the site and the writers, and you don't have to tell anybody what you buy me with the money.

Here are some special moderator of the month brownies for you.


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I agree with this whole hardheartedly. Two or more of my stories has come back with things with "much needed work" or "needs extensive editing" with links to "help me" edit my work. Another member told me to send it right back with no editing. Which I did and it was approved with "great work" "little to no editing needed" So there is a HUGE flaw in the system. Like the person said might be shooting my self in the foot. But that is sure sign of favoritism. But that's my own opinion and I am glad there are others that see the same thing.


I notice that you have published six stories here on Lush Stories. They were edited by five different moderators, four of them quite heavily. A lot of errors and mistakes were corrected for you by volunteers who have limited amounts of time because you were too lazy to do the edits yourself. None of the stories show that you had had the piece removed for correction, so I can only assume that some of them, as you say, were resubmitted without correction. There are no notes showing that you edited or corrected any of them yourself.

This is blatant mod shopping. It has nothing to do with the merit, or lack of it, of your stories, just your showing of contempt for people who are unpaid volunteers trying to help amateur writers by trickery and infringement of site rules to get your stories posted. Where are the notes you mentioned? Great work, little to no editing needed? If you go to the bottom of your stories and click on 'view changes,' of the stories you have had posted, you will see that a great deal of editing was done.