Where the heck and how the heck does one locate this list? (if one doesn't have you around to tell me?)
Alright, got mine in:
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Funny enough, it was originally conceived to be an R/NC story, but as I started writing it there sprouted a possibility to turn it into a more romantic tale. Initially, the possible romance was supposed be centered around the healing/recovery from the nonconsensual event, with the MMC helping the FMC deal with its consequences as the catalyst.
Later on, however, I realized that I could shift the plot to preventing said awful event in the first place. So I did, and that turned out to work quite well. I'm still very curious how the story will fare, though, considering it contains no sex at all and only hints of other kinds of physical affection.
Oh, and it also has a flavorful sprinkling of very specific subject matter that might tickle the fancy of some people here, esp. @onehitwanda and I think @TheRedLantern and maybe @nice90sguy or @PennyThompson. I mean, the story tags are:
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and the HTML tags include copious amounts of <kbd>
Sorry, no
-f, this isn’t a nonconsent story.
It's normally within a couple of days.
Whelp, I got in Sunday night, and thrilled to see it published. Wish it wasn’t so close to the deadline, but better than the last one. As before would love feedback. And yes, I’ve got a sketch of an idea for Valentines.
I saw this too and LOVED it. Is this an annual occurrence or is it new this year?
The front page lady looked much different last year, so this festive change of clothes is definitely new.
Dang it - we should have gotten warning. She's a story all on her own and I'm just not good enough to produce it in a day.
I still want an author event (in 27?) writing stories about her.
We should start a thread starting in January '26 trying to document any change the undergoes. Think she'll be dressed as the Easter bunny? A New Year's Eve celebration? My goodness, I hope so.
...looking forward to World Nude Day.
My Halloween poem did something like that and then a sweep somehow brought it to 5 stars even though it wasn't even technically qualified for the contest! (I still don't see why poems can't get their own category or at least honorable mentions without monetary rewards, though) I'd say wait until after like the 13th or 14th before trusting the numbers. And also remember that post on "regression to the mean" goes both ways. Extremely low AND extremely high scores will find a center over time.
I know, and I'm sure that the scores will adjust properly in time, I just wish they'd not be so bad in the interim.
Heck yea you are. And, interestingly, it shows as 5 stars when I pull up your stories page. So at least at one point, it had a 5 star rating on there.
It was originally going to be a follow-up to last year's contest entry but I decided, when it got rejected, to submit it as just a Christmas story, so nobody should be going into it thinking it's a contest entry.
Yeah, that's why I'm disappointed with how this year's winter stories are going. Sure, the end of "A Mid-Winter Night's Dream" cuts out before the sex because the story doesn't really build to a sex scene, but I didn't think it was *that* disappointing. The kiss felt like a natural climax.
