Just as an FYI, it also should be in the zipped folder for stories beginning with S on my google drive.  Those are all the PDFs I downloaded from Velvet Demon's 4share drive.  There are outtakes as well. 

But that was posted before she pulled, and I won't pull single stories out....

I know she seemed surprised how happy we were to see her here.  And I know we comment about people's writing here, but I hope they understand it isn't personal when we do it.  Also, the whole point of doing it here was to not comment on the reviews.  Sometimes you just need to say something, but you don't want to discourage the writing.

It's sad that there are such nasty people out there who hide behind a computer.  But I am so happy we would rather talk about things like plumkin and laugh, than be nasty.  Okay, plumkin is pretty nasty.  But you know what I mean.   

I have a mobi as well, but since the Google drive stories have been out there, I just mention it.  There are a number of "please don't post" stories in it.  I just downloaded it all as a zipped file and left it as is.  This has been on my TBR list forever, but something keeps stopping me from reading it.


So I did finally find something that I'm liking.  It is a vampward, but a little different.  It is also a period piece, which I usually avoid having read so many when I was younger.  Edward is very sweet. 

Touching Solitude » by catharticone You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
Edward moves to a remote homestead in Oregon, seeking isolation to recover from a traumatic event. However, a chance meeting with his lovely yet melancholy neighbor sparks concern for her. Can these two broken individuals help each other to heal? AU.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 87 - Words: 252,786 - Reviews: 2370 - Favs: 806 - Follows: 611 - Updated: 1-4-12 - Published: 4-8-11 - Edward · Bella - Complete

I rec'd that here, so I'm very happy you like it! 

You know how sometimes I complain about the uninspiring, cliché formate a lot of Twific have, well I'm reading Sleepers, Awake and I have no idea what the hell is going on. Still at the early stages (chp 6) but I get a feeling we're not in Obvious any more toto...The writing is superb though and my brain feels like it's coming out of deep freeze, even if I do go three pages forward, two pages back to try and make sense of what I've just read!

Sleepers Awake by Fiesty Y. Beden

Bella, compulsive sketcher of wolves, has not dreamed in years. Unexpectedly, she begins to dream again the night tragedy takes away her first and greatest love. ExB, sort of.

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Demaris, what kind of strange story have you got me caught up in? I'm on chapter 13, and I have no idea what is going on or where this is going. As a big fan of Lissa Bryan I'm obviously not averse to strange or original stories, but when is this going to start making sense? I'm sticking with it though...

Let me if it makes sense once you finish it, I also have this on my list.  It was rec'd by some author I really liked, although I can't remember who, but I just have never gotten around to reading it.

I just finished it. I'm kind of angry at the moment so I'm not sure if I rec it. Will need to think on that for some time.

was it not an HEA? 

Oh, and Touching Solitude has a meadow in it.....   

I just 107yearoldvirgin's blog post and just have no words.

This time last week, I was really feeling down - my temperamental health issues had left me feeling really upset and anxious and I was a bit over everything.

A visit here and a text message from a very dear friend that I have gotten to know via PTS got me through the weekend and through last week and now I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

I can't imagine seeing pure evil and hate every time I turn the computer on. It makes me so angry, and so very sad, that there are people who are so cruel - and adults none the less!

Remember the outrage we all felt when Rickell told us what her daughter was going through? There is no justification for bullying, but some of us had a very small amount of empathy for the other child because her home life wasn't great, and unfortunately a small amount of teasing - definitely not bullying, but teasing - is something that everyone goes through, especially in the teenage years.

Why does it continue when we are adults? What deep-seated need do these people hope to meet by destroying the confidence, self-esteem and potentially, the lives of their victims?

For God's sake! These people are adults - and THEY make the decision to visit a website and click a link to a fic and then read the fic. No one has ever held a gun to my head and forced me to read anything on ff.net!

Some of you may have seen mention of a particularly disturbing fic on ff.net that was, despite being reported since June, was only removed yesterday (it was still available on AO3 yesterday). The fic involved incest and child molestation and had some disturbing reviews about how "hot" this was! A father ejaculating on his newborn daughter that his teenage daughter had given birth to, 10 year old children being taught to pleasure their parents and siblings, teenagers impregnated by their parents, and adults impregnated by their children - it was possible the worst thing I had ever read, and I read about 4 chapters too many before I not only stopped reading but also reported the fic. The only reason I kept reading was because I was expecting the story to change and the perpetrators would get their just desserts.

Did I contact the "writer" and threaten them and call them names? Did I leave a review that would raise their review count and give them the attention they were obviously craving by writing this travesty? Did I jump onto FB or Twitter and discuss the fic? No - for the first time ever, I reported the fic to the site administrators and waited for them to remove it, which they eventually did.

There is a right way and a wrong way to handle every situation, and 107's blog shows us that we don't know what other people are going through. For all I know, the writer of that awful fic is a victim of abuse and this might be their cry for help - misguided, sure, but I don't know what goes through some people's minds.

What I really love about PTS is that, while we might not always talk favourably about a particular fic, and we might be critical of a person's behaviour, I can not recall one time when any of us have actually attacked anyone personally.

Even the thumbs down button was a source of angst for most of us!

I hope 107 is still hanging around here - it's a positive place and I'd like her to know that there are still decent people in the world who do genuinely care for each other.

What the hell? I'm disturbed just reading about it.

Hope you are feeling better.