F3 – Cycle 30 – The Stories
Posted by Flannery Alden
on May 12, 2011
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Posting for Doc, who has to work through the deadline today. I look forward to reading these great stories and I’ll have a new prompt for you in the morning.
Beach Bum gives us A Moment of Happiness
Ingrid Hardy’s Stepping Out
Veronica shows us Ghost
L Turner shares Youthful Expedience
Joyce Juzwik puts it In Plain Sight
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Blogger is throwing some kind of fit and I can’t sign-on, its a bummer.
Umm, I don’t mean to nitpick but the name of my submission, is youthful expedience. small thing I know
Blogger still “down”… can read stories, but not letting anyone sign in, so cannot comment.
Hi… It appears Blogger has gone AWOL. Can you please change to the link for my story over to my WORDPRESS blog…
veronicathepajamathief.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/ghost/
Thank you.
Blogger won’t let me leave comments… Beach Bum, that was heartbreakingly sweet! Funny that we both had the C word on our minds.
Seems to be working now…
Or not.
Or not.
My apologies, L. This is fixed.
I could get back in to one of the stories, but still can’t comment there. Yesterday, I couldn’t even leave one here. This is AWFUL!
This is done.
Joyce, read yours while Blogger was down and it was your usual excellent work.
Thanks! I was jujst over at your blog, loved your story!
Great story! Drifted over to your WordPress blog and commented there.
I read yours as well while Blogger was down, it was an excellent story. Like Joyce’s, I’m not seeing it on your blog right now.
Thanks so much, Beach. I really appreciate your comments. Now, my posted story doesn’t exist. I don’t know what’s going on. Still having lots of problems posting comments here too. Driving me crazy!
Beach – I just read your story and LOVED it! I left a comment there… will leave here too in case Blogger decides to “disappear” it….
Heart-achingly beautiful! As he paints, first the charcoal… then the colors, I can feel Jason’s love for Emily. It is almost as if he is making love to her… and then, when the last brush stroke applied… he does!
The ending of your story moved me to tears, and reminded me…
Love endures…
I have reposted my story on Blogger… let’s hope it stays this time. I am very sorry that I missed people’s comments there.
Thank you Flannery, for changing the link to my story over to my WORDPRESS blog. I appreciate that.
Beach – Thank you so much for your wonderful comments to my story. I am very flattered, and pleased, at the vibe the story gave you. I have watched only a very little of Burn Notice… perhaps, subconsciously, that was in the back of my mind when I wrote GHOST. Thank you.
Joyce – I did get the chance to read your story last night… unfortunately, I could not leave a comment. when I went back later, the story was gone completely. I hope you will repost… I very much enjoyed it and would like to read again.
The same thing happened to me on Blogger. I am glad I posted on WORDPRESS too. I found this morning that I had to repost GHOST on Blogger.IN PLAIN SIGHT is, as is everything you write… EXCELLENT! A great telling of the rashness and impudence of youth. Your storytelling is so compelling, always drawing the reader back… always leaving me waiting anxiously for the next Thursday, and another of your wonderful stories.
@L Turner – I did not get a chance to read your story before Blogger went down. I hope you will repost.
Thank you, Flannery
To L Turner: My story came back, but I still can’t access yours. Please repost. I’m going to keep checking though because blogger said all posts temporarily removed will be restored. What a nightmare.
Thank you so much, Veronica. I really appreciate your comments and I am so glad you enjoyed this one. I knew where I wanted to go, I just had no idea how to get there. So, I just started writing and let it take me. I’m happy with the way it turned out. I’m VERY happy other people think so too!
I did not back up my story
, that’ll teach me! (and I thougt about it too) Man, and I actually liked it. Only half of it exists in draft form, would have to rewrite it. I’ll just add to my list of other drafts to finish and concentrate on this week’s
Thank you so much, Beach. Finally, commenting here is not an ordeal as it was earlier for me. Nothing would go through for me.
Thanks Beach, makes me feel better that at least someone got to at least see the post. I’ll read everyone’s tonight. I’m finally back on track as far as time management goes.
I don’t usually backup my stuff either. After I post it I delete it and just correct all the problems straight from Blogger. Got worried last night at work and spent a couple of hours coping all most of my stuff and saving it. I had concerns Blogger might completely crash like Live journal did a couple of years ago.
Your story was great story and I hope you bring it back, I would reread it.
I actually read all the stories – on and off… does Blogger do that often? I hope that does not happen to WordPress as well… They were all such excellent stories as usual, making me feel so unworthy to post.
Emotional, conniving and mysterious, they all were! Beach, (I think it was your story) your story brought tears to my eyes. :-)
Ingrid – In the almost two years I have been on Blogger, that has never happened. I have been on WORDPRESS a shorter length of time, but have had no troubles. Some of my friends have told me that WORDPRESS is more reliable than Blogger. I haven’t decided if I want to switch, or just post to both.
I learned the hard way, back in college, about backing up. I had been working on a psych term paper, saving it only to my trusty thumb drive, not my laptop or the school’s computer. Two days before the “drop-dead” due date for my paper, guess who didn’t check her pockets before doing laundry? Yeah… Lexar may be good, but it was no match for Maytag and Whirlpool!
Now, I back up all over the place!! That damn paper was an “A”, but because I turned in late, only got a “C”! Grrr…