After months and months of writer's block on my Midlife Renewal/Midlife Resurgence series, I finally got one out. I had been stuck on which of numerous mild kinks to introduce, and how to choreograph and sequence the sex once the story gets past dessert. Having a holiday break finally gave me the time to sort it.

And that's just one of three stories I managed to get out during the holidays. Here's how to be productive with the writing: stop working! Just wait until I fucking retire, folks. I've been staggered by the response to my competition entry, now above a 260 score, more or less doubling anything else I've published. And Disrobed, my not-competition story (but which meets the comp criteria) has also proved remarkably popular. I see no greater proof that short stories get read more.

To the original topic, what to work on now? Next chapter in Midlife Resurgence. Guess I should keep it short and salty. This time I've got the sex choreography figured out and just need to actually write the thing. Not sure I'll keep harping on the mild kinks, given a somewhat tepid response to this last chapter. Maybe my readers just want plain old, straight-up bisexual action. I can totally keep writing that. And the subsequent chapters are going to get wilder even without any kinks.

Haven't been to one in quite a few years, but used to, usually spending some time in a booth and jerking off. Only ever did anything with a guy once, through a glory hole (see my story A Hole New World, linked in my sig), and it was marvelous.

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He misspoke, you guys can be a territory. We can use the maple syrup money for a few more of Elon's rocket launch tests.

Yeah, if we took over Canada (and Greenland, and ... ?) there's no way the GOP would allow for statehood. That would mean a bunch of additional Democrat Senators, Reps and Electors. The GOP would have to triangulate significantly leftward (and tone down a lot of their culture-war bullshit) to maintain any chance at power, and their donor base does not want that.

Whatever we took over would become added "territories" (i.e., colonies). Few Americans know this, but we are already the world's largest colonial power due to our various territories that lack statehood.

I understand that the competition deadline is based on when you submit the story, not when it’s published, but a week-plus lag? I see another entry got added yesterday. Curious as to the story behind the story. https://www.lushstories.com/stories/flash-erotica/christmas-party-revenge-sex

The latest Midlife Renewal installment, Piñas Coladas, kicks off a hot MMF threesome that also introduces me to some new (but mild!) kinks.

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I really wanted to enter this one. Had a story started and everything. Planned to finish it last night. But then I slipped and fell on the ice on the steps of my son’s house and spent majority of last night on the couch barely moving. I can’t win lately. Just glad I didn’t break anything. I am looking forward to reading them all.

Sorry to hear about your fall. I hope you recover quickly.

Also not that much of an ass man, but I do tend to prefer fuller-figured women, so I suppose I lean towards bigger, rounder ones. That said, I’m not that picky or prescriptive when it comes to body type, and I think must reasonably mature guys aren’t either.

Run what you brung. Your body is FINE, and don’t obsess over what you can’t easily change. There are a lot more factors that make a person hot or not than their curvatures.

I'm sorry to hear if anyone who is asking, unless they're about to have sex with you. That's tokenizing and dehumanizing.

If you don't like having a penis, I'd guess that after (or if) you have surgery, you may well find a lot of people who aren't interested in you once they learn your status.

There's nothing wrong with having preferences (I eventually learned not to worry about those in the dating pool who dismissed me out of hand simply because I'm short - and by the way, that's a lot of people). But don't waste your time dating (or judging!) people who aren't interested in you because of a physical attribute. There will still be those who are interested you, either despite (or even because of) it. Focus on them.

Dunno. Haven't had a cock in me yet, but I have ejaculated from prostate stimulation with toys up my ass. I have NOT had an orgasm from it, however, and those experiences are precisely how I learned the difference.

At least the handful of times I accomplished this, it was highly pleasurable to feel (and see!) cum shooting out of my cock, without a doubt. But I remained in the heightened state of pre-orgasm, and hadn't yet achieved that sense of completion and release that comes with even the smallest real orgasm.

Not saying it can't happen. It may be that guys with a lot more anal experience than me may have experienced a full orgasm from anal penetration. But I do have enough experience to know that orgasm and prostate milking are not necessarily the same thing.

I couldn't stop at just one Festive Flash story! Although competition rules only allow one entry per contestant, here's my other thousand-word idea to get my eighteen-year-old self laid on Christmas Eve after an unexpected flash. This one's in the Bisexual genre: Disrobed

Whew! What a contest! I've just finished reading ALL the entries so far! That's nearly 90,000 words and counting, sure to top a hundred grand by the deadline. I've seen amazing originality in some of these stories. Compared to some past Christmastime competitions, I'm reading about (and immensely enjoying) a lot more hugely-hung elves and slutty Mrs. Clauses. While I of course have a handful of favorites, I've found the vast majority of entries worth a Like, and almost all of those worth a comment. The quality of writing on display here is as impressive as Santa's ponderous, peppermint-flavored pecker.

Keep 'em coming - and keep us all cumming! I see a few prolific authors on here yet to submit an entry. Meanwhile, I have a second pecker-polishing Festive Flash idea (quite different from my official entry) that I may yet polish up and submit as a non-competition entry in the Flash category. (EDIT: just did! See “Disrobed” in my signature).

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This is rather... taxing.

That a hint? Is someone going to flash the county tax assessor in your story? That could make for an original entry, and you would know how to make it spicy.

I'm in! Amy's Mom

Amy's Mom is my entry in the Festive Flash holiday competition. Insecure, eighteen-year-old Joe can't stop thinking about his friend's hot mom, can't decide whether she's flirting with him, and can't figure out what to do about it. Then an accidental splash and flash reveal Amy's mom to be as horny as she is hot.

Earworm alert: you might not be able to finish the story without "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne running through your head.

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End Northern Hemispherism I say.

Anti-antipodeanism?

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OK, so – does it have to be about Christmas? Would another religion's Winter Festival do?

Asking for a (feckless) friend…

My presumption would be that the "around Christmas" rule covers that.

Got two ideas for this comp. Just finished the first draft of one of them (with multiple flashes!) at 1100 words, after fixing one of them logic-problem thingies Carlton mentioned. Getting it ready isn’t just a matter of chopping ten percent, though. Still has way too much buildup and not enough sex. Definitely need to fix that ratio before submitting.

Congratulations to all the winners! I’ve only read four of the ten, all of which were excellent, so it looks like I’ve got some early-winter reading to do. Great work, everyone.

Went a handful of times when I was a young man, but here's how long ago that was: the women still had pubic hair.

Thanks for all your hard work in fighting the bad guys!

As an American, I don't think it's my place to tell other countries what to do here, especially "all." By which I mean to say, it's up to the citizens (or subjects, as the case may be) to decide.

One more to add to the list that seems to have popped up in the past few months: guys (usually barely-legal teenage boys) with gigantic, obviously fake, cocks. Do they post these videos just to get eyeballs? I can't imagine that a guy with a rubber cock is a turn-on to anyone.

Just published! My entry in the Whodunnit? competition: Grilling the Suspects starts with a crime, continues with a long investigation involving a lot of sex between men and women and men and men, and concludes with the solution to the crime. I hope you enjoy it.

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I wasn't sure I'd get something whipped together, but since the weekend I've gone from Nothing But A Title to Third Draft. Probably a couple more days of editing before I submit it.

I’m in! Grilling the Suspects

This may go against the consensus, but covers definitely make a difference for me. They help set the mood, and although my imagination is fully capable of operating without a cover image, they do often help me visualize the characters or the scene.

I would no longer consider publishing a story without one, and I intend to eventually go back and add cover images to all my older stories. I already have done so with some of my more popular tales.

UPDATE, June 2025: "Eventually"?! Ha! I'm almost DONE! I think all but two or three of my seventy-five stories now have covers.

The next chapter in my Midlife Renewal series has been stalled for months. Not quite writer's block, though I'm stuck a little on the exact choreography, but it's just hard to find enough IRL time to concentrate on a story and make it good.

On that note, I am spending some serious time writing this week, finally motivated to submit a Whodunnit competition entry. Got my first draft done on Sunday or so. Sure, by the second or third draft I had a story that flowed reasonably well and was (I think) sexy. But man ... that is about a tenth of the effort that's really needed, compared to all the rereading, revising and rewriting. There isn't a word that doesn't get my eyeballs on it twenty times. It really is time-consuming, especially for the high standard of a competition. I still don't feel like it's ready yet, with only two days left, but I still hope to ... uh, squeeze it in.

Edit (8 hours later): published! Grilling the Suspects

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that can't be real..."DOGE" as in "Dogecoin'? Its like puppets on a string.

Oh, it’s real.

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We're all doomed.

I’ve mostly been shrugging at Trump’s appointments as more or less what’s to be expected, but Gaetz?! Sheesh.

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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/?back=1

Looks like Harris somehow overspent her campaign budget and needs to find another $20M and she wanted to be in charge of spending our taxes? 🤣

Oh my God, she went TWO PERCENT over budget? The horror! Sure never saw that in my decades working in the private sector. /s

Is this normal? Yes! Cum is delicious if it’s warm from the source. I swallow my own regularly, and in fact intend to do so a few minutes from now.