Going for the Gold by Cole Parker

[Rutabaga]

Only 5 chapters in and there are already enough twists and turns to make me dizzy.  An intriguing and entertaining start.

R

[Cole Parker]

Thanks, R.   A ways to go yet, but as you might imagine from my history, it all works out in the end.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

C

[Rutabaga]

So now we have, not a cliffhanger, but a shirt-hanger.  And I don't mean the kind used in a closet. 

R

[Oliver]

It's getting difficult....

Not so nice for the main character, but very nice for the reader of this, again, brilliant story.

🙂

Thank you, Cole!

 

[Cole Parker]

Thanks, Oliver.  I appreciate the kind words.

 

C

[Merkin]

Cole wraps up this lovely story and, as usual, it begs for a sequel.  Sigh.  Little chance of that, right Cole?  I'll have to be content with this one. 
I so like to read about thoughtful boys.  This story could be a handbook for young gay guys on how to set standards for oneself and then work it out.
 

[Rutabaga]

What a lovely ending.  Great story  

R

 

 

[Camy]

Yep, another wonderful Cole Parker story with a life affirming, happy ever after, ending.

Wonderful!

[Cole Parker]

Thanks, guys.  I had another short written, but have decided it needs more.  I don't want unhappy readers asking what comes next more than usual.  It may take awhile.

C

 

[Camy]

19 hours ago, Cole Parker said:

Thanks, guys.  I had another short written, but have decided it needs more.  I don't want unhappy readers asking what comes next more than usual.  It may take awhile.

C

 

Umm.. a short story in the same world as 'Going for Gold, or just another, merely excellent, short story?

[Cole Parker]

Well, I wouldn't characterize it that way—merely excellent.  When I started I had something in mind and was able to put in on paper (see?  You can easily see how old I am;  putting it on paper?  Really?) but realized that while it satisfied me, it wouldn't most other people.  It's a story from several POVs (Colin doesn't like stories like that, but a bunch of them are getting published) and I'd worked the relationship between the two antagonists out perfectly, uh, excellently, but realized while it worked for them, it left the readers hanging.  So I'm plowing forward with another voice.  Hope I can make it work.  I got a decent start on it today.

And Camy?  Get off your ass and write!  You do a marvelous job, and your writing here is terribly missed.

C

 

C

 

[colinian]

2 hours ago, Cole Parker said:

Well, I wouldn't characterize it that way—merely excellent.  When I started I had something in mind and was able to put in on paper (see?  You can easily see how old I am;  putting it on paper?  Really?) but realized that while it satisfied me, it wouldn't most other people.  It's a story from several POVs (Colin doesn't like stories like that, but a bunch of them are getting published) and I'd worked the relationship between the two antagonists out perfectly, uh, excellently, but realized while it worked for them, it left the readers hanging.  So I'm plowing forward with another voice.  Hope I can make it work.  I got a decent start on it today.

And Camy?  Get off your ass and write!  You do a marvelous job, and your writing here is terribly missed.

C

I definitely second Cole on the part he wrote that I highlighted in red above!

Colin 

[Bruin Fisher]

And I 'third' it....

[Camy]

Blimey. I've never been thirded before.

Bless all your cotton socks.

And it's arse, not ass. 

Anyway, who's to say I haven't been...?

[Bruin Fisher]

You have been? Writing? Oh frabjous day!  (Does Snoopy dance)

[Cole Parker]

If he doesn't, he should at that news.

Blimey indeed!

C

[Oliver]

Loevely ending indeed!

Thank you Cole!

[Cole Parker]

Thanks, Oliver.  The right guy got the right guy in the end.  Oops!  Should I say that?

C

[Oliver]

Bullseye! 😉