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You know you folks down there crashed the Canada Immigration website after the results were announced. Crashed it hard. No, that's not a joke.

WTF?!?!?

Given the differing results in Cole's various attempts, I'm going to have to try this again with other stories. And yea, like Merkin, it complained that what I submitted was too small to be reliable. Perhaps I should've pasted a whole story instead of a page or two.

This site examines writing samples to determine which famous authors most closely match your writing style. http://markallenthornton.com/blog/who-do-you-write-like/ Apparently I'm similar to Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, and Samuel Pepys. Who knew?

Here's the link: http://www.today.com/parents/teen-invents-sit-us-app-so-no-high-schooler-has-t103444

And here's an article about it. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexican-boy-stands-up-to-11000-anti-lgbt-protesters-celaya-guanajuato-in-solidarity-with-gay-uncle-a7239836.html A quote from the boy when asked why he did this: "I have an uncle that is gay, and I don’t like people hating him."

Wow, that was just a wonderful story! Or, to quote a line from a wonderful story I just read from an excellent writer: Heheheh. Thanks Cole. That was really fun. The climactic scene was perfect.

Excellent story! Very nicely done. One of those stories that you want to re-read after a bit of time goes by. Thanks for writing it, Cynus

So there I was last night, thinking that even though I prefer to wait for stories to be complete before reading them, I'll just take a quick look at the first few paragraphs before heading off to bed. Suddenly, I reached the end of Chapter 10, I realized it was way, way past my bedtime, and I was going to pay for it. Which I did. But was it ever worth it! Excellent story so far. I look forward to more.

Just caught up with this story. As always Mihangel, wonderfully done. Riveting characters, scenery so vivid one can smell, hear, and taste it, and a lovely sense of culture and time. Perfectly done.

Nicely done. Though I suspected early on....

Here's the link: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/staten-island-teen-hangs-self-after-catholic-school-staff-do-nothing-to-stop-bullying/ This is so very tragic. Especially now. We have so many measures to help. We have so much education for teachers and professionals on this very topic. It just shouldn't happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6KN3TY7lI

That's fucking hilarious.

Rejoice, party, and imbibe. The American Dialect Society, and over 200 cunning linguists, have decided that one can now correctly use the singular 'they.' No more awkward he or she, he/she, etc.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

One of the best pieces of writing advice I came across was this: Never forget that you, the writer, are not the narrator. You're the writer, and the narrator is fictional. The narrator is part of the story, and the writer chooses what kind of narrator that story is going to have, which can change the tone and impact of the story to a large degree. It is part of the story process, part of character development. Therefore it is perfectly reasonable to think a story could have a narrator that uses a lot of spicy language. It depends of the effect being sought.

Very nicely done. One of those stories where, after reading the ending, I have to go and read the entire thing again from a new perspective. Love it.

Excellent and engaging! This was a wonderful beginning to a novel or a series! Right? Right?!

Naw, he was just fiddling with it.

A wonderful story. Well done. Very entertaining.

This story was gruesomely fantastic! The descriptions were so vivid I could almost taste the brains. Yum!

Story time, and it's even a Halloween story. When I was a youngster, maybe nine or ten years old, right around Halloween my older brother bought a record (yeah, remember those?) that contained various horror sound effects. Each track was accompanied by a little description on the liner trying to dramatize the effects. One of the tracks was of someone who had been buried alive. The sound was a man supposedly scratching the inside of a coffin while breathing hard, weeping, and screaming. I remember reading the little blurb while listening to this in my brother's room. I was horrified. Absolutely horrified. My imagination ran wild, and the vision in my head was disturbing in the way only a very badly scared child can be disturbed. I had trouble sleeping for a day or two, and whenever my brother would bring the record came out I made myself scarce, immediately. It absolutely petrified me, the very notion of being buried alive. I got over it, but every now and then something will remind me of that, and the wisp of a memory will come back and remind me how I felt back then, being deathly afraid of being buried alive with no hope. So, yeah, thanks for the word of the day, Cole. Harumph.

Thanks guys. And yeah Graeme, I tried to make Curtis with maybe a hint of Aspergers or Autism. I appreciate all the kind words!