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OMG, Jamie. I'm completely awestruck.
I finished JHS, the High School Years and was just incredibly impressed with your writing talent. Your ability to create, then flesh out totally believable characters and storylines is simply amazing. Jordan and Dan share a love that is so completely pure and sweet that I wept for/with them.
Well, I just completed The College Years and I'm not weeping anymore--I'm crying my eyes out! You have given me a gift, Jamie, that will be hard to forget. You are an absolute treasure--your gift for words and imagery are beyond value. I'm going to immediately charge into The Interim Years, but I know already that the tale you have so clearly and passionately woven will stay with me for a long, long time. I thank you for that . . .
With the greatest respect and admiration,
--Sterling
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(as I scuff the toe of my boot in the dirt and try not to blush too much)
Thanks so much for those really kind words. JHS is something that just grew out of my sense of right and wrong / friendship and family. It's taken so many different twists and turns. I've never really known what was going to happen until I sat down to write.
I read a quote last night that stayed in my head all day:
"When I was four years old, they tried to test my IQ. They showed me a picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me, "Which one is different and does not belong?" They taught me that different was wrong." Ani DiFranco
No reason for telling that; just wanted to share.
Thank you again for your words. They encourage me to write.
Jamie
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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I have been meaning to post and tell you much the same as David for quite some time Jamie. Your writing is truly amazing and has had me crying more than once. I am fascinated by what you say is your ability to sit down and churn it out. Do you have any explanation for this. The spiritual nature of the stories is also heartwarming. Sorry to have to make you blush some more but you are a totally awesome dude.
Keep writing, the mind boggles where this is going to lead you.
Glad you got a lift hearing about your friends.
Aussie
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Location: United States
Registered: August 2006
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I didn't know you lurked here all that frequently, having caught up on why the chapters slowed down in frequency.
I, too, would really like for you to continue/complete your story. I've found many of the characters to be very well-developed, and I'd like to see how you'd tie the loose ends together.
So good luck to you out in the boonies, and I hope to see new chapters of your story posted soon.
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Just a comment, There are very few people that I have very high regard for, most are on this MB and Jamie is one of them. He is one of the most warm caring and talented people I have ever had the privilage of knowing. When I needed something to help me know that life and being gay didnt completely suck, I found this site and I found Jamie's stories. His stories are much much better than Brokeback Mountain and should be made into movies. Im not pumping Jamie's ego up, but I have never seen anyone post and say his stories were bad. His stories touch your life and your heart. I count Jamie as a friend and I will always wish him a good life and happiness. As long as he will write, I will read and enjoy. Thank you Jamie from my heart.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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aside from timmy's story of chris & nigel, which was the first story/series i've ever read here... JHS has always been a very close, very tight second to the story that was the one that endeared me to this site and its members.
your was the one that kept me here, and i always looked forward to new chapters. the last time i was here you were gone, or pretty much all but gone, with your move.. and it's good to see you back here again (...and writing! or well, i had several chapters to catch up on, since i was last here, so i assume that you are, thankfully, still writing!)
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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Hey Grace:
I don't remember if Chris and Nigel was the first gay story I read, but I DO remember that it was the first one that really knocked my socks off--based on the highest quality of the writing art. Timmy is another author, of only a VERY few, who can weave characters and storylines into a fabric that simply wraps itself around you and makes you feel warm and good and pure. We are all so fortunate that they both share their incredible talent with us.
--Sterling
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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You are more than kind. Thank you. It was easy to write when I was driven by inner demons. I cannot emulate currently what I was able to do back then.
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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Well, Jamie...
I've now just finished "The Interim Years." My heart is so full that it's about to burst. You talk about just sitting down and pouring this stuff out. Well, it could only come from a heart that's as big as all Montana....or is it Wyoming! The magic you create with your words is truly overwhelming. Thank you, again, for the incredible gift you have shared with us.
--Sterling
--Sterling
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Isnt Grasshopper just awsome! I read his story "In the blink of an eye" and cried all night, everytine I thought of the trees. Thats what real love is supposed to be. It goes beyond the physical till ot becomes more than the universe can hold. Thats the kind of love I want in my life.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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