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James
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Location: Canada
Registered: November 2020
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I am looking for a story about two boys that lived on the U.S./Canada border around Abbotsford B.C. They met when one of the boys had a flat on his bike and they hopped across the border to fix it. They eventually became good friends and visited back and forth.
Under these COVID related times I would like to get the name to pass along to some friends to read.
Hope someone can help.
James
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I've used the site seach engine, with no hits. I went and tried the same on Nifty. The results don't look promising. When yoiu fijdnit I;d love to kno and read it, please
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I recall the story. They both lived in back to back homes with their back fences abutting each other's yards across the border. Both of their fathers were border patrol agents for their respective countries. The boys dug a tunnel between their garden sheds so they could tryst together bumping uglies or making out or whatever. They also started their own little black market in candy at their local schools, selling candy brands or bars not available in their own countries to their classmates. This continued for awhile until...
I don't recall what site it's on or who the author is.
“There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.” - Terry Pratchett
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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That is a cute story
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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ivor slipper
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Registered: September 2013
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Well done, Pedro!
Like Teddy I could recal the story outline, but that was as far as I could go. Now I can enjoy reading it again. Thanks!
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Bisexual_Guy
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Location: USA Midwest
Registered: September 2015
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Gee Whillikers is a very good author. Some of the best stories I have read by Gee are -- "The Scariest Costume of All" -- http://dabeagle.com/stories/gee/shorts/scarycostume.ht ml
and his novel "The Wish" -- http://dabeagle.com/storymainpages/WishHome.html
and a gay hockey story, -- http://dabeagle.com/stories/gee/shorts/ooml.html and at the end, Gee explains what hockey differences he used to make the story better.
Stories by Gee Whillikers (pseudonym) are on Dabeagle.com and awesomedude.com and codeysworld.com with the most stories being on AD. However, there is one story (The Spelling Bee) that is on Codeysworld.com and not on the other two sites.
[Edited to make the links work ~ timmy]
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Each of these three is my new favourite
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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The Wish, linked above, is one of my favorites of Gee's. Probs also in my top 10 of this genre. Great story by an accomplished author.
“There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.” - Terry Pratchett
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James
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Location: Canada
Registered: November 2020
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Thats the one. Thanks
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Pedro
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Registered: March 2014
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"Bisexual_Guy wrote on Wed, 30 December 2020 04:32"Gee Whillikers is a very good author.
Stories by Gee Whillikers (pseudonym) are on Dabeagle.com and awesomedude.com and codeysworld.com with the most stories being on AD. However, there is one story (The Spelling Bee) that is on Codeysworld.com and not on the other two sites.
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For what it's worth,
'The Spelling Bee' is on AD, just that it is buried in the forums and not in the main bookshelf. It was posted as a response to topic Gee himself had first raised. He later added a second tale, unnamed, to the same thread. https://forums.awesomedude.com/topic/10657-mamihlapinatapai/ ?ct=1612241324
Pedro
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GeeWhillickers
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Location: Canada
Registered: May 2021
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I just came across this thread after being referred to it. I just wanted to thank everyone for your comments on that story as well as the kind comments on some of my other stories. I really appreciate the kind words!
--Gee
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Wizard
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Registered: May 2025
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I am also looking for a series of stories I believe I read here years ago. If it wasn't here it was a very similar looking site.
It was a series set in Australia coast in a small town where it seems from the stories many gay runaways or kicked out ended up and ended up becoming friend in that smaller town near the coast. I Believe in one of the stories one of those boys was living in his car on the beach. I do not remember the name of the stories or the author, just that there were a few stories that had characters from earlier stories in them.
Anyone remember these if so let me know the author or name of those stories, it is not impossible he has written more stories since.
Wizard
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Pedro
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Registered: March 2014
Messages: 95
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Hi Wizard
Try the stories by Mark Peters here on this site. He does -or did have - his own site that may have more than here. His tales are set on East coast Aus. IIRC southern Queensland.
If his stories aren't the ones you were looking for, try those by Kiwi, also on this site. They are also set in small coastal town except in New Zealand, not Aus.
Happy hunting
P
Pedro
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Bisexual_Guy
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Location: USA Midwest
Registered: September 2015
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Mark Peters writes very good stories. I have never been disappointed with a story by Mark Ponyboy Peters.
His site is at -- ponyboysplace dot com and when I looked it up just now I saw I couple of stories I had not seen on any other site.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Mark is gradually re-proofreading, editing and passing us his stories. Thus you will see more on his site until that process is complete. He also has some new tales under way.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Wizard
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Registered: May 2025
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thanks to all those who answered me I will check it out and get back to you if it wasnt the right stories series
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dgt224
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Location: USA
Registered: May 2011
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"Pedro wrote on Mon, 01 February 2021 23:58"
For what it's worth, 'The Spelling Bee' is on AD, just that it is buried in the forums and not in the main bookshelf. It was posted as a response to topic Gee himself had first raised. He later added a second tale, unnamed, to the same thread. https://forums.awesomedude.com/topic/10657-mamihlapinatapai/ ?ct=1612241324
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For anyone coming to this conversation late, as I did: The link quoted above no longer works, since AwesomeDude is no longer at that address. Replace ".com" by ".org" in that link and it will work. There is also a related story by Pedro in that same thread that is well worth a read, although fair warning: it involves a fairly dreadful pun. Corrected link: https://forums.awesomedude.org/topic/10657-mamihlapinatapai/ ?ct=1612241324
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Wizard
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Registered: May 2025
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I read riptide and I can tell it is from the same series I was looking for. Thanks for the help now I wish I knew the order of the stories.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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"Wizard wrote on Sat, 17 May 2025 01:23"I read riptide and I can tell it is from the same series I was looking for. Thanks for the help now I wish I knew the order of the stories.
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They are in "story order" on Mark's Index Page.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Wizard
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Registered: May 2025
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I ended up reading Mark Peters stories and felt I read one that wasn't listed there After going throught them. Thanks to you guys and posting his website I found the one I was missing which was named A good place.
I dont know if its missing here because he's reworking on it or was never on here which I doubt since I had to read it somewhere before but at the moment it is missing in the series in case you want to add it.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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"Wizard wrote on Sun, 25 May 2025 00:24"I ended up reading Mark Peters stories and felt I read one that wasn't listed there After going throught them. Thanks to you guys and posting his website I found the one I was missing which was named A good place.
I dont know if its missing here because he's reworking on it or was never on here which I doubt since I had to read it somewhere before but at the moment it is missing in the series in case you want to add it.
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Mark is re-editimg and reworking five stories, amongst which is "A Good PLace". Additionally he is writing new stories.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Wizard
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Registered: May 2025
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I can't wait to see the new stories. I'm just done reading A good place from his wordpress which was pretty much the one I remember reading years ago. I read the earlier stories on this site before that were re-edited but since it had been so long since I read them originally, I didn't see if they were different than before.
I'll keep checking for when A good place reedited comes back here since I just read it, to read again and see if I can spot the difference between them.
In the meantime any good suggestions on what I could read next?
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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I could always suggest one of mine. Seriously, though, dip into any!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Wizard
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Registered: May 2025
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I ended up reading the stories by small town guy.
The stories were good but there was WAY WAY too much repeats of the same stuff to the point of being annoying. Removing that would make it a much shorter story but better at same time. I'm not sure if it was just me or others thought the same.
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Bisexual_Guy
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Wizard, I can recommend any of the stories of Geron Kees, which are on this site. Scroll down on the "Story Shelf" section on the left side of the Home Page. He writes on a variety of themes and can write in various styles.
Other talented authors include Altimexis, Backwoods Boy, Rick Beck, Bensiaman, Teddy S Bower, Benjamin Connor, the talented Jessie D, D K Daniels (especially his short story "Sometimes With Reality"), Andrew Foote, Mark Friedman (especially the somewhat quirky story "An Apprentice's Adventures"), Nigel Gordon, Nicholas Hall, Hamster, It's Only Me From Beyond tthe Sea, Mark Peters, Merkin, the excellent Cole Parker, the excellent Pedro, Ricky, Ronyx, Doc Sawzall, Ivor Slipper, Victor Thomas -- especially his short stories, and there are a lot of other good authors and stories as well.
As with any set of authors, some individual stories will be liked more than others. But Timmy has done a very good job of selecting good stories.
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