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Kyle shuddered as fingers stroked his back. Despite the heat of the sauna; despite the sweat dripping from his nose and chin, and running down his torso, he couldn?t help the involuntary shudders as the delicate touches wove their way from his neck to his butt; shoulder to shoulder, and started to circle his waist.
Eyes closed, dreaming of his love, he was immersed fully in his fantasy. The fingers traced his muscles, they followed his spine, they tweaked that little bit of the waistline he was developing, they randomly followed the little lines of sweat that gently ran down his body. He groaned softly, and began to stroke his own thighs, nearing his private parts, whilst the fingers kept doing their intimate tour around his back and sides, ever increasing his ?oh so pleasing? daydream.
Suddenly Kyle jerked awake. Oh My God. What was he doing? He was in the public sauna at the local community pool, and there might be people in there with him. His worst fears were realized as he saw two older men watching him. He felt like dying of embarrassment.
But what was this? They were both giving him the ?thumbs up?, and were smiling happily at him.
Suddenly Kyle noticed the fingers were still stroking his skin with a butterfly touch. What the hell? He hadn?t been dreaming that? He turned like a flash and all his worries were instantly gone. He broke into a beatific smile as he saw Jeff, his one and only, sitting there, with a contented and nearly smug grin on his face.
Copyright, Trab, 2010.
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Nice, but I'll bet they haven't thought about the negative sides of this. As far as I can see, these things sense the right pH balance, which could occur in any number of ways. We could have little clumps of concrete growing in all sorts of unwanted places.
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I believe that the biggest threat to democracy and decency is the growth of the virtually immortal corporate entity. With totally amoral goals of profit before anything else, they just do whatever it takes to gain strength, and if that involves pitting one poor segment of humanity against another, even over decades, that is what will happen.
In the past this same role was taken by Big Religion, and their position has been only slightly eroded by Big Corporation. They work the same way, and do the same evil deeds, and ultimately they have the same goals; total control over you and I.
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I have never understood how anyone could think ELECTING judges would make for a non-political stability and fairness. What amazes me is that it has taken this long for it to become obvious. The next issue with a similar basis is the electing of Sheriffs, District Attorneys, and others supposed to be enforcing the laws of the land. Sure, you may get perfectly qualified candidates, but you are more likely to get populist ones, who cater to getting re-elected more than to meting out justice.
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It's good and thought provoking, but I wish he'd run it by an editor first. Still worth the read though.
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Where are the adults who should be showing them that they can live a good life? Where are all those internet posters with all their whining? Hiding! They’ve fallen prey to the gays are flawed argument and use the net to vent in the safety of anonymity.
That's not totally fair. They may very well have fallen prey to fear of bullying, and in no way believe the false 'gays are flawed' argument. They may not have anything to gain, or even offer, by standing up, out and proud, but would instead place themselves at some risk. Not everyone lives in large towns and cities, in which there is some anonymity just by being one of a million; some live in towns of 1000 or fewer, and it may well be a town that is mostly intolerant.
I'll be perfectly frank; I live in a small town, I have no relationship, I have no chance of a relationship, I have no interest in a relationship (the main reason why I don't have a chance of one), and as such I have nothing much to offer anyone by being 'out', but I do risk possible problems. Probably not, but nevertheless, the 'reward' or 'payoff' for coming out is nil and the downside of doing so is finite, if not huge, so there is no point at all in doing so. On the other hand, if something were to change this balance, like me seeing somebody being bullied, I'd be 'out' and in the fracas immediately. All I ask is for the balance to be close to even so that there is some benefit to be accrued compared to the risk taken.
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I guess I'm going to have to change my diet again. I read the story and thought, "What was the point? Interesting, but what was the point?"
It was only when I read the other two comments that I figured out (ie. read) that this is the first part of more, not a short to stand 100% on its own. Duh. Now it makes more sense.
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From personal experience I have to point out that Canada geese are full of shit. Well, not after they land on your lawn or the golf course, but definitely shortly before that.
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I'm not sure how to react to this story. It's well done, obviously, but maybe a bit harsh on the American attitude (I won't say intelligence) depicted.
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You said "the new chapter" but you also said "long dormant series." The question is whether or not this new chapter is the last, or just the very next one in a much longer series. In other words, would the volunteer be volunteering for just the already written material, or for even more to yet be written?
And no, I'm not volunteering, although I'd consider it if I wasn't so down on my own abilities and so tied up with other projects.
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Interesting. I didn't see ANY remorse at all...some anger, and mostly just wanting to be done with him.
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Wow. How to put a relationship into a few words; gut busting words...one has to wonder at the life the older man must have had earlier on, to do such a thing. He too has his demons, as I suppose we all do.
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Couldn't agree more. Fabulous read. Well done!
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What are you guys talking about? There was something about skimming and shallow thinking, wasn't there? And some dude who researched our loss of brain cells, right?
Seriously though, I was driven nearly nuts reading that article, what with those stupid ads, which insisted on blinking at me for some reason. Ugh. Then I remembered that Safari (my browser) has a Reader sub-program that actually grabs the article only, and strips off all the ads and other distractions. I was fine after that.
I do think that there is a serious problem with our younger generation with this issue. They also seem to need, besides distractions, ever more elaborate 'programming' even in the 'real' world. A hike used to be good, but now they need a hike with a zip line, then next time a hike, zip line, and hang glider at the end, and again an upgrade to hike, zip line, hang glider and a bit of scuba. They get insanely bored by doing the same thing each time, even if the hike is a different one in different conditions. It is as if they need continual stimulation and can't relax at all.
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It's flash fiction if there is no more. If we start to reject flash fiction stories because there could potentially be more written then there won't be an awful lot of it posted.
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Nice, if a bit puzzling in the background premise.
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I find that reading books is infinitely easier than reading an electronic screen. So much so, in fact, that I often print out reams of paper instead of trying to read my iPhone at night. There are other minor inconveniences with ebook reading, and one of them is it crapping out due to lack of battery power when I'm on a reading roll. Another is an insane tendonitis problem from holding the small screen in position. If I turn sideways the stupid screen flips orientation instead of letting me lie on my side and reading it that way. If I touch the screen in the wrong way, which happens if I drowse a bit, the story goes careening over the screen in all directions creating a major challenge to locate my current 'read spot'. You can't dog ear it either, and the smell is putrid by comparison with the scent of a good book with good paper. God help you if you fall asleep while reading though, as the screen could smash in the fall to the floor, or even worse, you roll over onto it. And finally, if there is a long power outage you can't take pages from the ebook to make a small fire to warm up, or wipe your butt if you run out of toilet paper.
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Congratulations for sure.
But, but, but really? ELKO NV? OMG
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It seems to have gone on hiatus.
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If only it were that easy. Nice to dream of it though.
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D. F. L. ????
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They do seem to feel that freedom of speech should be freedom to say anything at all, right, wrong, and just plain asinine.
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Sauna Shock
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ROFLMAO. He likely wasn't that shape at the time, but if so, well, ugh, I don't know what to say, being somewhat walrus shaped myself.