It looks like The Empire (also known as the Adrian and Kali story on SM) has made it as a finalist in the 2011 Next Gen Indie Book Awards, in the Romance category. I would have preferred the Scifi cateogry, but I`ll take it
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The beast’s eyes were bloodshot and swollen, its gigantic head swung from side to side like the stone counterweight at the end of a catapult. Men were swept aside with terrifying ease, their bodies heaved into the air and landing lifeless on the packed earth. Circling the armored animal were slaves
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Slowly but silently, I walk in your tracks;
Whisked in the shadows, not far from attacks.
I tried to run and I tried to hide,
Away from the nothingness I feel inside.
The moon shines brightly, swarming the air.
It's beauty intrigues me. I howl without
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A while back Venomous Vixen posted some poetry she found "while cleaning out a shoebox." At the time I lamented the fact I didn't have a shoebox to clean out myself. But this weekend, while moving a bookshelf, I came across my high school literary magazine from 1991. It had two stories
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If there is one thing I have heard over and over again on this site, is the fact that a lot of people don't particularly know the proper protocol for comma use. Awhile ago I had sent a member this list of generic comma use guidlines (and I say guidlines because to a point, comma use is subjective to
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as you all know, the upgrade is scheduled to happen on Monday. Other than the downtime, there are a few other things you should expect.
For one, the templates / themes / styles (whatever you really wanna call it) will most likely be broken. Therefore, the very likely possibility is that I will revert to the default software template provided. Over the next few days after that, I will attempt to fix this issue, but it's not gonna be immediate.
As always, the cookies will be an issue. Log out, clear your cache / cookies, then log in again.
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So, after 3 days of technical craziness (for me mainly), StoriesMania is finally fully operational once again. It heartens me to see that the new system is sitting there so pretty, and being the way I always wanted it to be - a great community central page with articles pulled from the database, widgets on the sides that show the most recent forum posts amongst many other things, and of course, all the other new features.
Was the money well-spent? Hell yeah. I am constantly thankful that I have great people who help me look after the site while I am busy navigating life. Add to that, the very fact that they willingly took money out of their own pockets to fund the upgrade makes me feel guilty sometimes that I've been neglecting the site in recent years. I still can't promise to be around, but I can promise to try my darn best.
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The Skype meeting was called to discuss a few things that will be added to the site, brought back from the dead, etc.
First order of business was the forum upgrade. We need a forum upgrade from, I believe, 3.2.1 to the newest 4.0. There have been many upgrades that we have not
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Beautiful. Just beautiful.
An Oath Against Rome
danielsenandrew on 16-05-2012