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Subject: TLW Chapter 12 to be posted either tomorrow night or on Friday afternoon


Author:
Drake
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Date Posted: 22:26:48 01/08/03 Wed

To those of you who have been waiting, chapter 12 of The Last Word will be posted in the next 48 hours.

HAPPY NOW, BUBBA! ;)

There will be a two week delay because my main editor is not only out of town, he is out of his native country.

That's about it for now.

Drake

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Subject: Your New Horoscope!


Author:
Drake (The Seer)
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Date Posted: 23:47:31 01/09/03 Thu

Time for more well-wishing from the stars!

Capricorn: (Dec. 22—Jan. 19)
Avoid any gifts given to you by a Cancer. They mean well, but they are not bright people. Venus recommends keeping a bottle of chloroform on hand so that you can escape an embarrassing situation and keep your medical bills manageable.

Aquarius: (Jan. 20—Feb. 18)
It is a very simple concept: No matter how much he (or she) loves you, sneezing on his (or her) spaghetti is not going to endear you. The stars know you are slightly allergic to tomatoes, so just get the Alfredo dish. Of course, the sneeze will still happen, but the noodle dangling out of your will be something the both of you can laugh over for years to come.

Pisces: (Feb. 19—March 20)
Uranus is certain that your sense of humor will take you over that line. The nine-volt battery shorting out between you younger cousin’s braces may seem like a funny idea, but the reality will be much different. However, if you get them to hold popcorn kernels in the mouth, you can see a rather interesting affect.

Aries: (March 21—April 19)
No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to ignore the decapitation. Next time you had better listen when the stars and the friends tell you not to stick your head out of the sunroof while in a moving car. There is just no telling how low a bridge really is until you reach it.

Taurus: (April. 20—May 20)
This is not a good week to go creeping around the shrubs and bushes surrounding the home of the one with whom you are infatuated. With Pluto crossing through your fourth house and Mercury rising, it should tell you that the flash photography would be a dead give away in the middle of the night.

Gemini: (May 21—June 21)
Dear Gemini, with your dual personality, never lose hope. Granted, some may call you schizophrenic, but the heavens know the truth. This will be a good time for you to talk loudly to yourself on elevators and on buses. It will guarantee you a solitary ride where you can openly debate with yourself (you nutcase).

Cancer: (June 22—July 22)
Well, giving your Capricorn grandmother that Thigh Master for Christmas was not such a good idea after all. The moon says that you should seriously reconsider the weight set you are planning on for her birthday. The old woman just cannot handle the stress like you can. Please, stop trying to encourage her to take up boxing: you will both end up looking foolish.

Leo: (July 23—Aug. 22)
Neptune is in conjunction with Mars, so you should know the Velcro is going to tear your eyebrows off. The stars suggest you avoid the tanning booth for a while unless you really want to look like Whoopi Goldberg. It works for her, but not for you.

Virgo: (Aug. 23—Sept. 22)
It’s a sad fact that you make either a truly ugly woman or a grotesque looking man. Some people were just not made for cross-dressing. This will be a good week for you to sign up with the local community theater group so you can learn the wonders of make-up. It’s worth a shot.

Libra: (Sept. 23—Oct. 23)
Saturn warns you that vehicle repair just is not your thing. You also bought the wrong manual, and that explains why your brakes went out on the car. Fortunately, Saturn was watching over you, and the nuns are not going to press charges. Donate some money and talk in vague, hostile terms about supposed past interactions with priests. They will cut you some slack.

Scorpio: (Oct. 24—Nov. 21)
Now do you believe Taurus people simply are not good companions for you? The conversation about cannibalism, that will take place on Tuesday, should not be construed as a joke or a metaphor. This person means it! Just watch when this one licks the ketchup off your arm and leaves teeth marks.

Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)
Once again, the stars have it in for you. This week you can: A) fall to your death while shingling a roof, B) electrocute yourself while blow-drying your hair on the toilet, C) accidentally drown in your fish tank, or D) ignore the expiration date on the cottage cheese. When Libra is in ascendancy, you might be spared the worst pains of death, but that is a ways off.

The Stars Are Watching! (They were also keeping me awake with their incessant babbling).

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Subject: DrakeTales site hangs my browsers!


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Chaz
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Date Posted: 08:30:02 01/08/03 Wed

Since yesterday, when I attempt to contact the www.draketales.org site, my browsers freeze up. This is using either Mozilla 1.2 or IE 6. I have to kill the browser using task manager in Windows to get out.

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Subject: Found under the dust - more clutter!


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TheEggman
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Date Posted: 12:31:02 01/08/03 Wed



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Subject: It's been way too long.....


Author:
Bubba
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Date Posted: 17:41:22 01/06/03 Mon

And it's time for Chapter 12.......



NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Subject: Can I clutter this board too? :)


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TheEggman
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Date Posted: 23:35:27 01/06/03 Mon



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Subject: it was a dark and stormy night....


Author:
crvboy
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Date Posted: 22:25:52 01/05/03 Sun

drake - having been a former teacher, i think you'll appreciate these (or you'll run screaming...)

These are actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. You can't make these up.........



Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a thigh master.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

He spoke with wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She grew on him like E. coli and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

She had a deep throaty genuine laugh like that sound a dog makes just before he throws up.

Her vocabulary was as bad, as, like, whatever.

He was a tall as a six foot three inch tree.

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge free ATM.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7 pm instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

The hailstones leaped up off the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Long separated by cruel fate, the star crossed lovers raced across a grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, on having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resemble Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the east river.

Even in his last years, grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

Young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

"Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.

He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a really duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a landmine or something.

The Ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids with power tools.

He was deeply in love when she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

She was as easy as the TV guide crossword.

Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

Her voice had that tense grating quality, like a first generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightening.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

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Subject: First Horoscope of the Year!


Author:
Drake
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Date Posted: 15:38:45 01/03/03 Fri

Aries: (March 21—April 19)
This week proves to you that one needs to be careful about how drunk a person should get a New Years Eve party. That venereal disease is no longer secret, and word will eventually reach your mother's ear. No matter what anyone tells you, VD cannot be cured with steel wool and an anti-bacterial soap.

Taurus: (April. 20—May 20)
How long are you going to pretend and tell neighbors that the injury caused to your fingers was the result of slamming them in a car door. It would ease your conscience to admit out loud, at least once, that you were nothing more than curious as to how the inside of garbage disposal unit worked while in operation. Spare everyone the falsehood.

Gemini: (May 21—June 21)
Unlike humans, sheep cannot get professional psychiatric help... you sick bastard! Your crusade against virgin wool is never going to succeed. Even if you do attract some followers, the police will eventually stop the movement. You have ruined gyros sandwiches for an entire nation.

Cancer: (June 22—July 22)
It is unhealthy to be that attracted to Elizabeth Taylor.

Leo: (July 23—Aug. 22)
Brave and stout of heart you may be, but do something about that wardrobe this year. Your efforts at revitalizing the terry cloth industry have been spotty at a best. Most people think you look like a giant, poorly tailored towel, and they fear you getting to near to their pools. Consider hiring someone to outfit... even if the person is blind.

Virgo: (Aug. 23—Sept. 22)
Revenge is a dish best served cold. However, nothing can stop them from making multiple copies of the videotape. Cut your losses now before people in far off lands start emailing you for personal performances. You will not win $1,000,000 nor will you have agents beating down your door with contracts for you. That sort of act does not pay... except on rare, rare occasions - and they stars say now is not such an occasion.

Libra: (Sept. 23—Oct. 23)
Your mother wanted a girl. Your father wanted a boy. Nature gave them, in the form of you, a little from column A and a little from column B. Your gender was not determined by a long deliberation over what would best suit you in the long run, but by a flip of a coin... best 3 out of 5. Someone had to tell you. It explains the scar. Now you have a new year in front of you.

Scorpio: (Oct. 24—Nov. 21)
If you pierce one more part of your body, disaster will befall you on a public bus. You will get an arm trapped out side the door with friends holding onto you. Then, zzzzziiiiippppp, your skin will come off like someone ripping stamps from a sheet. You have been warned!

Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)
The stars do not like you. They never have. All that is ever predicted is another series of gruesome deaths for you. Fortunately, the stars are not all that bright and maybe only a couple of times in the last fifteen years have they been really correct. Bum deal for you.

Capricorn: (Dec. 22—Jan. 19)
If you buy that lottery ticket, you will win. If you win, you'll discover who in your family is willing to launch a frivolous lawsuit to get their hands on the money. If you go to court, you will loose. Your best bet is not to buy the lottery ticket at all. Is seven years of your life really worth $345,000,000?

Aquarius: (Jan. 20—Feb. 18)

JUST STOP PICKING IT FOR GOD'S SAKE!



Pisces: (Feb. 19—March 20)
A unique conjunction of stars and planets will provide you with an interesting surprise. Should you hear someone yell 'Duck!', follow the advice and don't simply turn around. You won't enjoy what happens, and no amount of corrective surgery can fix it. On the plus side, if you do decide to turn at the wrong moment, your life will eventually be featured as a Diz-knee cartoon in about one-hundred and fifty years. It will make people laugh. Thus, a lot of good can come out of this... for others, not necessarily you. Damn. Just ignore this prediction. It will be much better that way.

The Stars are Watching!

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Subject: Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!


Author:
Drake
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Date Posted: 15:32:37 01/01/03 Wed

To One and All:

Happy New Year!



I wish everyone a peaceful and joyous new year, and may all the best come your way throughout the entire year.

My thanks to all of you who have accepted me so warmly in this Internet writing community. It has been my absolute pleasure writing these stories and sharing emails with people. I will continue to provide the best work I can for everyone.

Cheers!

Drake

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Subject: GWG Announcement


Author:
Marc
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Date Posted: 16:40:45 01/02/03 Thu

The Board of Directors of the Gay Writer's Guild would like to announce to any and all interested parties that we are in the process of streamlining and upgrading our presence on the web, by a number of changes that we feel are in the best interest of the guild.

As of Saturday, December 28, 2002 the Board of Directors of the Gay Writers' Guild was no longer in control of the content of the websites, gaywritersguild.org or gaywritersguild.net, due to a glitch in the relocation of our servers. As a result, the content of these sites will not be updated, pending further notice.

In order to access any new additions to the GWG archives please go to gaywritersguild.info. Once the transition has been completed, you will be able to reach the GWG through any of our six domain names.

1. gaywritersguild.org
2. gaywritersguild.net
3. gaywritersguild.com
4. gaywritersguild.info
5. gaywritersguild.biz
6. gaywritersguild.us.fm

We are also redesigning the site so that it is more user-friendly and easier to access by persons with various disabilities in accordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

It is our intention to enable the site to better reflect the mission statement of the Gay Writer's Guild, to provide a usable resource for gay genre authors in a clean, safe environment.

We would also like to thank all of those who have helped and supported us through the three years we have been on-line. It has been you, the authors and readers of The Gay Writers' Guild that has given us a reputation for excellence unparalleled anywhere on the Internet.

At this time, we regret that we are obliged to announce the resignation of long time board member, Christian. We will miss his diligence and steadfast devotion to the guild. Ever will we leave the door open for his anxiously awaited and most welcome return.

While we are in a state of transition, moving to our new servers we ask your patience. If you are an active author and require posting new work, please send E-Mail with the attached file to GWGMail@cs.com. Be sure to put "Submission" along with the title of the story and chapter number if applicable into the subject box. Also, be sure to include your return E-Mail address within the body of the correspondence.

All other E-Mail should also be addressed to GWGMail@cs.com and please include a brief description in the subject box.



Thanks again to all the readers and writers for standing with us as we move forward into a bigger and brighter future.

Sincerely,
The Gay Writer's Guild
Board of Directors

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Subject: Well, things did not work out like I planned...


Author:
Drake
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Date Posted: 10:03:01 12/29/02 Sun

Here is a personal tale of woe...

The weekend was nothing like I imagined it would be. I was supposed to head out of town on Friday afternoon, but that never happened. Why? I got blasted by a nasty case of the flu starting on Thursday night. It was incredibly intense for about 36 hours, and I am still feeling weak and shaken from it. Last night I managed to hold down some soup, and that was an unbelievable thrill for me. I have not had a case of the flu like this in years. It was a gift from my brother-in-law. He showed up on Christmas morning just recovering from it and, well, I didn't know I had received the surprise package.

I was miserable. That's about the only way I can describe it. Sitting up made me woozy, and looking at a computer monitor made me sick to my stomach if I stared at for longer than five minutes. Even now it makes me a little lightheaded. This was about the least amount of fun I could have imagined for the holidays. I am hopeful that I am now innoculated against any further incidents.

I will try to get some writing done, but I can't promise anything too extraordinary.

Still a recovering little draconis,

Drake

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Subject: Web Site Update: TLW Chatper 11 Is Now Posted


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Drake
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Date Posted: 19:08:53 12/26/02 Thu

Salutations One and All:

First, I hope you all had a pleasant Christmas. Even some of us non-christians had a pretty good time of it. It does not take religion to revel in the company of people you love - family and friends.

Second, as you can see by the subject header, chapter 11 of The Last Word is now posted. Enjoy.

Third, I will be out of town this weekend. Hence, not much writing is going to be taking place. It will be up to five days before I can hit the keyboard again and continue. Friday of next week may be the earliest that a new chapter is posted.

Be well.

Drake

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Subject: got snow dragon boy?


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crvboy
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Date Posted: 21:17:35 12/23/02 Mon

come east drakey... they're saying snow, snow, snow for us christmas day! they're talking a foot plus out where we are! just as long as we don't lose power until after dinner is all cooked! i don't feel like cooking a roast on the weber!

happy christmas all!

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