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Interactive Table of Contents question

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My latest offering features an interactive Table of Contents. The body of the story is preceded by a column of jump-links that allows the reader to jump to a particular chapter. I've pretty much decided that on longer works (in my mind that means >20K words) that rather than posting as a serial I'll provide this kind of means for the reader to read part of the story, leave and come back later and be able to jump to where they left off.

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New story up

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I wrote this story some time ago. Until now it was only available as an eBook from online retailers.

It was inspired by a very real protest in 2017. It was chronicled by instinctmagazine.com in their story titled: “Boys in Skirts Beat the Heat—and the System” and featured this photo.
Protest in skirts

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I have been giving much thought to all that I have……..

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To be thankful for this year - and to all that I have lost. To all that WE have lost.

I have much to be thankful for. I am coming up on five years cancer free this spring, and I feel great. I am healthy, very comfortable financially, and I am finally able to relax and enjoy life without feeling driven to climb the next rung on the career ladder. Something that those who have served will understand, one is shooting at me, and just as importantly I am not having to shoot at anyone to protect my team.

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End of year sale

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Hi!

I’m excited to announce that all my books will be promoted on @Smashwords as part of their End of Year Sale 2025 starting on December 8! Be sure to follow me for more updates and links to the promotion for my books and many more! #EoYSale25 #Smashwords

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Happy reading!

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Looking for a story

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Th story starts in the lobby of a hotel.
An overweight IT consultant wants to enter the lift and bumps in into another man.
This man does a double take because our protagonist looks very much like his missing wife.
IT guy get's hired as doubleganger for the wife.

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Website Shenanigans

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I know that the Bigcloset it was having some Technical difficulties over the weekend, Ddos attacks? Now when the first home you visit the website you get the message am I a robot prompt and have to click the button to proceed. The problem is Older computers and tablets that don't have up-to-date browsers simply want to be able to visit this site anymore. As for me, I prefer the Internet Explorer as it works better with my text reader so I can enjoy this website.

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Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary…….

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And although I know my spouse will never see this post, I simply wanted everyone to know how much she has meant to me over the past several decades. Tomorrow will be our 40th anniversary, which is probably about 39 years longer than I expected our marriage to last, lol.

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Just a quick comment about one of my pet peeves……

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My spouse is a huge NY Yankees fan, which can be veeeeeery annoying, lol. Especially since our local cable tv provider carries the YES Network (Yankee Entertainment System), which means that EVERY SINGLE YANKEE GAME FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON IS ON TV, and she has to watch all of them.

Now I have nothing against sports in general, or baseball specifically - but it is very annoying when for basically half of the year she has to watch a baseball game every day! Especially since I am a Dodger fan, and she is watching the damned Yankees!

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Sudden issues reading on Fictionmania.com……..

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I have been re-reading a group of my favorite stories recently, including Clara’s works on Fictionmania.

Last night, when I finished part five of “Kiss Me Bianca”, closed it, and went to open part six, I suddenly received an error message, which read as follows:

429 Too Many Requests
If you're a human being, try again tomorrow
If you're a bot, go to Hell and stay there!

I am still not able to access anything beyond the entry page at Fictionmania. Anyone else having this issue?

Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Or why I am getting it?

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To everything there is a season.

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To everything – Kern, Kern, Kern
There is a season - Kern, Kern, Kern
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing

To everything – Kern, Kern, Kern
There is a season - Kern, Kern, Kern
And a time to every purpose under heaven

A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together

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The Trump administration is supposedly looking at……..

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Prohibiting transgender people from owning firearms, their justification being that supposedly, “Statistically, the trans population has been prone to violence.” White House Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka made similar remarks: "In just a couple of years, we have seen seven mass shootings involving people of transgender nature or who are confused in their gender. Seven in just the last couple of years. That is inordinately high."

Let’s look at real facts here:

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First, let me say I abhor political violence…….

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But isn’t it ironic that in 2023 when Charlie Kirk was asked whether he thought his right to own a gun was more important than school children being shot and killed he responded, “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.“

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Tomorrow, tomorrow

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Kern will come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be Kern!

Just thinking about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

Kern will come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may

Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya
Tomorrow!

Kern is just a day away

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Some times you just have to scream

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I'm sorry to be writing about Trump again, but I just need to flush this toxic man from my mind. I just read that his administration is trying to find a way to move all federal prisoners that are trans, into prisons of their birth gender. Add to this he wants to disarm us, you would think he is trying to kill all trans people. My first thought was, well I don't own firearms and I'm not a criminal so this doesn't apply to me, but Trump will not stop there, next he will probably start deporting trans people to friendly Islamic countries.

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For Writers

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I subscribe to Bookbub a free service that sends me a daily email with bargains on ebooks based on broad categories I picked. Most of the time there are a couple of free books on a subject I like.

Today, one of the free books is geared to help authors in writing and avoiding some common pitfalls. The book’s title is “Dear Writer, You’re Doing It Wrong” it is by Becca Syme and I thought it might be something that might prove useful. The book is currently offered for free by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books and Kobo for a limited time.

Anyway, I hope this helps you!

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I don't know. Maybe I'm depressed or maybe just tired. I have three stories going as Works In Progress. In each case, when I reach a point where I needed to work out how to reach the next plot point I usually put that to the back of my mind to let my subconscious work it out. So as to keep the creative juices flowing I then pick up one of the other stories and find that my subconscious has a handle on how to proceed. I've been making great progress on all three stories

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Please take a moment to sign this petition…….

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Dr. Shannon Joslin, a biologist and bat researcher who has passionately worked at Yosemite for years as an employee of the National Park Service, was recently terminated by the Trump administration. On their own free time, SJ and six others climbed El Capitan in Yosemite and took part in a tradition of hanging a flag at the top. Hanging flags off El Capitan has occurred in the past without consequences. In February, demonstrators hung an upside-down U.S. flag, often symbolizing a distress call, on El Capitan to draw attention to the mass firings by the Trump administration.

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