OOOOOOFFFFF,
I can’t believe that we are eleven years in.
I now have no hair and I reckon my liver is now the size of my leg!!
Doesn’t age enhance you??
I’d rather be yellow, bald, fat, have two fucked knees with a shit look on life than any Botoxed, hair coloured wank with any sort of implants!!!
One wee lassie asked me about my baldness and I answered her with, ‘I’m not bald, I die my hair to look skin coloured – It works doesn’t it??’ She told me to ‘Fuck off.’ – Ah the youth of today!!
Anyhow, enough of me not looking like Tony Curtis.
There’s a question – Who is the most beautiful film stars you have ever seen??
I’d give you mine, but Lassie and King Kong may ask a lot of questions!!!! (OH – I forgot Midge the otter!!)
Another anyhow!!!
I need to thank all of you who continually post and send and comment. I swear to, if there is a god, that I appreciate every single one of you. You enhance me and make me believe that there are folks out there worth thinking about!!
To Diane and Leila and all who started this – I am humble in your presence.
Specifically to Diane and Leila – Thanks for everything and you being there!!! Apart from Gwen and the fiends I haven’t a constant…You are that.
Okay enough of this Sally Field shite, I wanted to give you a wee bit grey matter challenge! So here are three riddles that I found that are impossible unless you look outside the box that you’ve looked outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. If a hair is a tonne, what does blue mean??
2. Cats are dogs, dogs are whispers, pigs are horse so what is a frog?
3. 16×5 is 27. That means that 14% of 12 is 156 so what does 0.5 equate to?? (That’s for you Doug!!!)
Okay, enough of my shite!
Just thanks guys I love you lots!! (Trust me, a Scotsman doesn’t say that word much!!)
Now here is a staid part of our yearly post!!!
…I give you, the best lines of this year…
‘Rate no further mention on account of being assholes’
Leila – Nora In Five Acts
‘Gabriela chews and chews, exuberant in the serenity of her chaos.’
Ed Bentley-Fisher – Woman With a Jigsaw Puzzle
‘I see our faces like trapped animals permanently plastered on the internet. ‘
Christopher Ananias – The Footnotes
‘It’s as if the world needed our silence so we could hear its screams.’
R.W. Owen-Scarcity
‘His was not a story of failure—far from it—but of striving, of brushing against the edges of possibility without entirely breaking through.’
Ameer Toor – Park Bench
I hope my two fellow editors, dive into this and give us another two pieces of brilliance. I want to end this with one of my favourite pieces of music – I give you something that will be played at my funeral!!
All the best guys, all the fucking best!!!!!!!!
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It’s an odd thing that when it’s written down, it seems absolutely impossible that this site has been chugging on for eleven years. I mean, that’s long, isn’t it? It became more meaningful a couple of days ago when Hugh referenced an old discussion thread from back in the day when there were five of us. The thread was funny. As always, there was much discussion about whisky! Well, we are writers, after all.
Quite a few things have changed, not least the loss of three editors, but on the upside the inclusion of lovely Leila, who is still working her socks off every day.
The comments have increased quite significantly, and it feels much more that we have a community vibe going on, which is excellent, so thank you to everyone who takes the time to give the authors your thoughts. I know there have been questions about how come all comments are positive and honestly, though we do monitor them the negatives ones can be counted on one hand even after all this time, so I think that proves more than anything the quality of the work that we are privileged to put out there. This thing is so much a part of my life now that it seems strange to think of a world without it and I guess while authors submit and readers read, we will carry on until we can’t any more, for whatever reason that might be.
I have to give Hugh and Leila a big hug here because they are such wonderful people to work with, funny, kind and generous – Thank you guys.
And thank you to everyone, old and new, who visits us and especially to the ones who hang around, some of them for the whole eleven years.
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Happy Year Eleven
I have quit worrying about how quickly time speeds by. Actually, I am making a somewhat insincere attempt to make it look as though the rapid pace of the cosmos no longer bothers me; but, you see, no matter how hard I try there are some things wired into my system that I can do nothing about. Constantly fretting about time is one of those. As every foot cramp must mean Parkinsons, as every envelope contains bad news, as every friendly stranger wants money, the passage of time is something to be suspected and feared. But I’m going to try because lies do look pretty good in print even though what’s in heaven’s computers disagrees.
Regardless of the ongoing awful truth, I have discovered that breaking time into smaller pieces does reduce the god awful perception of speed. So I placed the latest twelve month sprint on the sacrificial altar in my mind (which doubles as an ironing board) and gave it many wacks with a mallet (a fantasy mallet because the old one has been mislaid) and have come up with five pieces of this past year, which I will now label with an actual labeler as soon as I find the sticky roll that must have fallen into the same black hole that has claimed the mallet.
Piece One: A Semi-Relevant Scientific Fact: There are fifteen stars within eleven light years of the sun. The number will increase to thirty-three in another year and a half midway between our twelfth and thirteenth anniversaries (we will look around and tell each other we are getting closer to town).
Piece Two: Wedding Gift: Steel. It describes the strong bond of your love and/or the main metal in the shank you have yet summoned enough courage to use.
Piece Three: How Much Eleven Dollars (American) Will Get You: A McDonald’s “value meal.” To be fair Ronald, and the other fast food hustlers, do give you more calories for your buck than the vegans ever will. Something like fifty to one. The carbs and fats are generously included for a pittance.
Piece Four: A Squirrel Photobomb: These are the most common occurrences wherever Tree Rats are to be found. They are known to frequent fast food establishments as often as I do.
Piece Five: The dim relief that I did not break the damn year into more than five pieces; a relief seasoned by a hint of “I should have quit at three.”
Anyway, that is my contribution. But I’d also like to add to the top lines of the year, those that in my humble opinion rate further mention (please see after I roll the credits). But first I thank Diane, Hugh, Nik, Dale, David, Doug (we certainly get the “D’s”), Gerry, Mick, Steven, Paul, Christopher Ananias, Marie Russo, Tom, Fred and all our other commenters and contributors for keeping us moving, inch by unforgiving inch, toward further flung stars. All the best to you and yours.
Leila’s Top Eleven Lines of the Eleventh Year
(note–in this group, each line sums up the story for me)
- “Dad told me, in so many words, that here was a great artist, as he pointed at Kris in the little box, but one that the world couldn’t come close to fully understanding. Because of that, Dad said, this man must suffer.” Dale Williams Barrigar , Kris
- “The reason they had to become the words was because they needed to preserve the stories in a world where books were being destroyed.” Tom Bentley-Fisher, Woman With Jigsaw Puzzle
- “You said I had no right. I told you roots don’t ask permission. I flinched as you swore at me. Maybe you weren’t worthy after all.” David Henson, Say it With Flowers
- “Brown eyes. What a gaze… What they saw in me I’ll never know. How you see is the person you are, she’d say.” Geraint Jonathan, Dimps
- “Oh aye, him. The guy that covered himself in hen’s feathers, said he was awa tae France, and jumped off the castle wall. Fell straight intae the castle midden, broke a leg and was covered in shite. Aye, we all ken that tale.’ Michael Bloor, Kenny Drummond’s Parchment (sometimes I just love the sound of the voice).
- “He looked up, in case there were additional whales hanging in the air, just waiting to drop.” Kelly Housanni, A Whale of a Time
- “Today I am free to be honest—honest as I can about everything. Our murdering mouse.” Christopher J Ananias, The Footnotes
- “And he did so for the very simple reason that Brian had only one good eye. He still had the other one, but it just wasn’t any good for seeing. It was great for being seen, though. It was in a glass jar of formaldehyde, which Brian would show you for a quarter.” Hector Hernandez, Waiting For Robert Nix
- “Leon felt a thrill of stress, like when he worked at the mental hospital and a patient went off the rails.” Harrison Kim, What Bob Remembered.
- “However, ethnic pride was a dangerous commodity these days.” Matias Travieso-Diaz, Paranoia
- “But something in that house had waited a long, long time to be heard. And now—it will never forget the sound of my voice.” Katelyn Humbles, Are Ghosts Real?
The Week That Was
To anyone who thought we had forgotten the Week That Was–Ha! Wrong-O! (sigh, two exclamation marks–oh well, it is a special occasion).
Just like every week for these last eleven years, we again and happily have six more writers to single out for their contributions to LS. Three are long time friends, the others are fairly new to us but they are just as appreciated.
The Sunday Rerun was Dauntless by Frederick K. Foote. Next month Fred will become the fourth member of the 100 Stories Club. This one is utterly magnificent, and the title perfectly describes the MC, Horace, who is a keen bluffer and truly an “OG” to be proud of.
Monday introduced Jacob Orita. His Hades Lounge will mess with the reader. But in a good way with fiery language that pops like fire and twisting plumes of verbal tenacity. If you haven’t read it yet, be sure to bring coffee (perhaps adulterated) when you do.
Michael Smith brought us The European Dishwasher Stacking Championship on Tuesday. This is so bizarre that I thought it must be real. Michael has a gift of reaching out with the wry and peculiar and this one wins on all such accounts.
A.J. Woolf changed the pace on Wednesday with Midnight. This tale brings the reader around full circle and it doubles back on itself in a way that few writers can do, much less attempt. Little by little the events merge and the result is extremely satisfying, if not a bit sad.
Someday, down the line, I believe, from reading the omens, that Harrison Kim will make the vaunted 100 Stories Club. He certainly will if he keeps producing at the rate and quality he has the past year or three. A Thousand More Steps is another fine look by Harrison at the strange little pieces that somehow go into becoming a human being. Harrison found his voice a long time ago, and it is well worth giving him a listen.
Newcomer Foster Trecost closed our eleventh year with his brilliant The Bottom Drawer. We all have that one thing in life we would dearly love to take back if we could. Such often drives a story, but seldom do such things come to such a fine, fine result. It is the shortest work this week, but it speaks of infinity.
And there they are, hope for yesterday, today and an invitation to all to provide hope for tomorrow.
I now add my favorite Queen video!
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Happy 11th to everyone. Although the actual date for LS was Monday, today just happens to be the 62nd anniversary of my memory. The JFK assassination, which happened when I was four, is my oldest confirmable recollection.
The event this year is much more appealing.
Leila
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Leila
It must have been a very strange “Welcome to the USA.”
It was not my first memory, but I remember very vividly sitting there watching Tricky Dick Nixon resign (on the television) 11 years later.
Dale
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Hello Dale,
Ah, Tricky Dick…
He was all the rage on tv that summer. In fact I recall that debacle dragging on for about a year before it.
I was 14 or 15, a real lesson in goverment, that was.
Thank you,
Leila
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Hi Leila,
Happy eleventh to you to.
I was trying to remember my first memory but it’s a bit hazy. I think it was a trial of strength then pain. I was hiding under my mum’s drop leaf table and I wondered if I could raise one of the sides. I couldn’t, it fell and smacked me under my right eye. I can’t remember if I was knocked out but I do remember the blue colour half my face turned.
You have been a pure inspiration since you joined us!!!!
All the very best.
Hugh
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Ohhhh, I forgot the riddles. Well, I had blue hair for awhile, or so it seemed; it was not colored, just a weird natural transistion from dark brown to grey, which happened in the c early 2000’s….
Well, the math question gets me a zero for sure.
Hmmm…wrote them down, will return soon….
Leila
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A big congratulations and virtual high five to the LS team past and present. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be an editor of a lit journal, and the answer always comes back the same: Too much work. So, my gratitude and admiration to those who do it…and keep it going for so many years. I agree with Diane about how LS has forged a community. You’ve helped create that, and it’s so nice to be a part of it. Thank you, Leila, for (among so much else) including me in some of your selected lines. And thank you, Hugh, for your unwavering support of all of us. My answers to your riddles: 1. The color of the sky 2. A critter that hops 3. 1/2. Probably not what you were looking for, but it’s too early to strain my brain! 🍾🥂🎉🎈
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Agree about too much work.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks as always.
You got the riddles spot on!!!!!
You see, I made up the questions so I left it to you good folks to…
It’s been a pleasure working with you over the years. I am always astounded with your imagination. Long let it reign.
Oh and being an editor – Well over the past few days we received well over a hundred submissions. We had been listed by another search engine…Don’t know why. I think from reading them all, we found two to publish!!
Sounds a task (And it was) but my point is, it was all still worth it to find those two!!!
Stay happy and healthy my fine friend and a huge thanks once again!!!!
Hugh
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Hi Editors and Everyone,
Congratulations on 11 years!
This is a mighty achievement. I’ve seen a lot of Internet mags fold. They come and go like the leaves are falling, but not LS.
There must be untold hours of labor each week to keep this publication alive and well. Writing a column each week would be a daunting task, let alone reading all of the submissions in the slush pile. Then selecting and publishing them. And all the other considerations and work, that I don’t know about, like some vast mechanism working in the wee hours.
It has been a lot of fun reading and getting included on your site. I’ve enjoyed the stories, and your Saturday columns that always draw me in making me laugh and have left me pondering life. You have many fine writers and commenters on this site, including yourselves. I’ve read some excellent Sunday Essays, too. Shout-out, DWB!
Christopher
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Thanks for the shout-out, CJA!
I want to add that your stories on Literally can confidently be placed upon the shelf beside Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver.
DWB
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Hi Dale
My pleasure! Your essays, poetry, and fiction writing are masterful!
Thank you!
Christopher
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PS: “Train Dreams” the novella (I thought it was novel) by Denis Johnson is on Netflix. A new 2025 movie. It looks pretty good!
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Just watched Train Dreams. Beautiful, heartbreaking, and haunting.
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for the kind words.
I can’t speak for Leila but the Saturday round-ups are easy for me. Please don’t take that as arrogance, just a simple fact that never in my life have I thought too much – Same with the Round-Up’s – If I thought I would have dried up ten years back!!!
Thanks so much for all that you do. Folks like yourself are the reason that the site has went from a site to being something that bit special!!!!
All the best my fine friend.
Hugh
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I feel a little like I’ve grown up (figuratively – I look like a worn out twelve year old) together. I thought my first LS story might have been in 2015 (which was the year of my first acceptance – which was never published), but it was The Dumb in 2016.
Being around ten years deserves high praise. I was going through my website and counted 150 of my stories had been in defunct publications before I quit counting and started to consider if I needed a different hobby.
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Hi Doug,
It’s been a total pleasure to have you around the site for the years that you have.
Never grow up but choose what age you want to stay! I think I’m around 36, well that is until I try and stand up!
Keep being you and keep cherishing Sharon!!
Thanks for everything and all the very best my interesting friend.
Hugh
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Bravo, brava, to all. Thank you for being.
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Thanks so much!!!
Much appreciated!
Hugh
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Well guys, I reckon we all deserve a drink or seven. Eleven years and hundreds of stories and blo0dy Norah what a week we’ve just had. Usually at this point in the game I’m all ‘Here’s to another one and onward and upwards’ and all that but Jeeps the last few days have been a trial. Just like the foothills of Everest it was a question of one step at a time and don’t look up. However, lots of lovely support from our friends old and new and that’s a warm and fluffy thing. Thank you Hugh and Leila for your tenacity, good humour and sticktoitivness. xx
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Hi Diane,
It has been some week. But in a way it has made me appreciate the site and all those involved that little bit more!!!!
Thanks as always for your support and friendship over the last eleven years.
Hugh
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Congratulations!!!
Other sites/online mags have come & gone but LS remains a go-to read for me. Thanks for all your incredible hard work (and for accepting my stuff!). Here’s to the next decade …
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Hi there Steven,
You don’t need to thank us, just keep being a part of the site!!
We can’t thank those who comment enough for keeping it what it has become.
All the very best my fine friend.
Hugh
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Dear Leila, Hugh, Diane; and all Readers, Writers, Commenters, Commentators, Posters, Submitters, Perusers, Thinkers About, New-Comers, and Returners-to LITERALLY STORIES:
This site deserves to be celebrated for so many reasons that I will limit myself to a brief three in this space. The following three Reasons for Celebration are in order of importance.
ONE: Literally Stories is helping to pioneer NEW WAYS OF COMMUNICATION, and connection, for the human species itself. I mean the term “connection” in many of its non-advertisement senses, as in where people are able to humanly reach out to one another on a person to person basis and via a small/er group of people with similar interests. In a world of 8 billion people and climbing, this is so important that it can never be overstated. It also brings people together internationally. Again, important beyond compare.
TWO: Literally Stories is helping to keep HUMAN WRITING exciting and alive in an age when, to many, AI looks like it can do the job better than humans can. AI cannot write human writing better than humans can because AI is not human and it CANNOT think and feel like a human. We all use AI for certain things ALREADY, but that does not mean it needs to completely take over the mind, heart, imagination, and soul of Humanity Itself. Literally Stories recognizes this in a complex way and provides a creative, free-flowing forum for ideas about this and other issues of equal concern. Literally Stories has enormous VITALITY and VARIETY as a human writing project.
THREE: Literally Stories is pioneering new ways of telling stories. Everything humans have ever done, thought, been, or created has arisen because of their ability to tell stories to one another. As the mainstream media WORLDWIDE becomes more and more monolithic, monotonous, corporate, and generic, and more and more at the service of individual and unseen monsters who all say the exact same thing (in a few different ways) over and over again every single second, Literally Stories focuses on authentic, creative story-telling that is as new as tomorrow and as old as a bunch of people sitting around the fire together 11 thousand years ago.
AND ALL OF THE ABOVE IS DONE WITH GREAT HUMOR AND LOVE OF LIFE, PERHAPS THE MOST WONDERFUL THING OF ALL!!!
This is an awesome site to be a part of. Thanks for everything!!!!!!!!!
Dale
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Hi Dale,
Your comments are always perceptive, thought provoking and thoughtful. These attributes make you a unique individual who never simply accepts or shuns, you think!
It’s been our pleasure to work with all the individuals who make this site what it is. And that is the most important thing, all who are involved are individuals. Individuality is something that is under-rated so much in this weird corporate / social media obsessed world that its become!!!!
Thanks as always my fine friend.
Hugh
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…….To all the Grinches and Scrooges out there who wonder why LS doesn’t have more negative commentary posted upon it, I would like to say two things.
One: Not all the comments ARE positive. Sometimes there is disagreement. It is simply framed with humor, restraint, irony, and good spirits. Read closely and you will see.
Two: You are right that most of the comments ARE positive; and that is as it should be.
Please God never let this devolve into a cynical theoretical academical kind of site where bashing what you don’t like becomes the norm. Or where nitpicking and nasty focus on unimportant details fuels the writers.
And, Diane, I also agree with you. None of the stories deserve to be bashed because of the culling and curating process that goes on beforehand. While I can’t claim that I don’t like some of the stories better than others because of my personal preferences, I can say that I’ve never seen a bad story put up. I know of many sites where almost everything they post and publish is a piece of trash. Not so here, by a long shot!
Dale
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thank you Dale for that. When we set up the site it was partly in response to another place that we had all been using. That site’s downfall was that they undertook to publish everything that was submitted. They did edit work and unfortunately there were those who leapt on that as a free editing service and they simply couldn’t cope. It’s really tough but sometimes it has to be acknowledged that a piece of writing is not ready for publication. It’s all valuable learning though.
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Hi Dale,
Thanks for bringing this up.
It’s not something we mention too much but since you’ve mentioned it…
Between the editors past and present, we have ‘spoke’ about this. The first thing I’d say was we decided a long time back that those whose opinion decides that there was an odd missed exclamation mark or comma, we wouldn’t entertain. The site where we met (Shortbread) had the punctuation nazis who would be appalled at the odd something that was missed. Typos and wrongful punctuation happens – It’s the nature of the beast. One of Nik’s stories had been read by four of us and was up on the site for a few years before someone spotted that there was a very small section that had a change of tense. None of us had spotted that. None of those who previously read it spotted that. It simply can happen.
The discussion that we have had about negative comments was a bit tricky until we came to a conclusion. It may sound a bit arrogant but the way that we looked at it was this. If the comment was out and out nasty, there was nothing to think about – We protect our writers!! But the ones that were a slight on whatever, we thought, that was a slight, not so much on the writer, but on the whole system that has worked for thousands. We spend time setting up, reading, discussing, reading each others opinions before coming to a decision. We have never done this lightly, so for someone to be negative, it nips at our system which in turn can cast into doubt every single submission we have accepted.
You are spot on when you say that some of the comments can be interpreted with question – But they are never nasty, normally they are quite clever!
Finally, we need to authorise every comment. Now this can fall into the folks who doubt and sneer at the positivity but I can put my hand on my heart and tell all who are reading this, the amount of comments we have refused are less than the fingers that I have on my right hand!!
Thanks so much for mentioning this Dale!!
Hugh
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Happy birthday, editors. I was a late-comer to LS: didn’t stumble across you to 2020, but I’m very glad that I did. The whole set-up is wonderful: you turn around submissions really, really quickly; the headers are great (sometimes inspired); your published comments to almost every piece (what a commitment!) are always supportive; the editorials are fun and a gentle guide; and… Well, I could go on. Long may you flourish. mick
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Hi Mick,
Thanks so much for the kind words.
It’s been a total pleasure working with all you writers and commentators.
This is a very lonely discipline and it takes a certain mind-set to be able to write. I hope that all the writers realise what they do isn’t easy. We see so many submissions that prove to us how far apart all our writers are from the majority!!
All the very best my fine friend.
Hugh
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I’m piecing together what we have here, and it’s far more than my earlier impressions. Congratulations on eleven years, that’s quite something. But not as old a my avatar (it need about a fifteen-year update). Happy to be here, and congrats again.
fos.
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Hi Foster,
Thanks for the comments and welcome aboard!
Hope you continue to read, comment and let us see your work.
All the very best my fine friend.
Hugh
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Big congrats to all the editors. My discovering LS some 15 months ago was akin to finding gold. It’s everything a magazine/site could be: innovative, challenging, entertaining, vibrant, & astonishingly rich in the sheer range of writers/writings featured – & not a story, essay, roundup that didn’t leave some mark on the mind. The most must-read site of them all. And a fantastic testament to the editors’ commitment, courage – & sheer stamina. More power to you all.
Geraint
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11 years! What an achievement! I’ll be forever grateful for being a part of the early days of LS and for forming such close bonds with a bunch of people I’d never met.
Hugh, Diane and Leila – you have my utmost admiration for the time and love you continue to put in to supporting writers. It’s my privilege to call you friends. And to all the writers past and present who have made this place what it is – thank you for all your words and stories and imagination.
I still hope I’ll remember I’m a writer one day, and when I do I know where I’ll be sending my stories.
Raising a glass to you tonight and sending much love
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Hi Nik,
You will always be a writer – Those who have read your work know that without a shadow of a doubt!! You just need to embrace that yourself!!!
You can’t let that get in the way of responsibility but you can’t ignore it either!! Life is a bastard and takes us off in so many paths, some shite, some mundane and some necessary but you will be doing yourself an injustice if you don’t follow your talent to wherever it takes you!!
But in saying that – It can only ever be enjoyed and never become a chore!!
HAH!! Take that as a pep-talk and not a scolding!!!
All my love to you and your lovely family!!!!!
Hugh
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Hi Nik
I missed this in the flurry of acitivity. You remain a big part of the show and I hope Stormcrow will fly again!
Leila
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CONGRATULATIONS LS 11 years and going strong.
I’m so happy I found Literally Stories. I look forward to reading it daily (nearly) – and miss it when time doesn’t allow! I feel privileged to be able to participate in a small way.
I love the honesty, the freedom and positiveness, the sadness, the perplexity, the insight, the comments on society and life, and the way each of us can relate personally and yet universally.
For me it is the essence of writing, I love the stories but also the reactions, the participation – it’s not a small feat to keep this kind of literary phenomenon actual and inspiring.
I’m glad I waited till Sunday to read this, definitely worth the having my tea in bed waiting for the heat to kick in – reading LS and checking the weather – was Code Amber in Holland – force 5 winds, -2, frost, freezing rain & wet snow – and most importantly – checking the famous Dutch ice radar telling us when the first puddle is frozen over and skateable!
I appreciate the tidbits of history in this latest news on LS, the best lines, anecdotes and riddles- got a kick out the Queen vids -I want to be free…!
Thank you editors for creating such a special place and thank you Leila for the shout out!
all the best or should I say – all the f–ing best !
Maria
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Hi Maria,
Thanks so much for the kind comments. I reckon you have got the essence of what we were and are still going for.
We’ve been in contact with so many brilliant people over the years and this is still a pleasure to be associated with.
Thanks again and all the very best.
Hugh
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Year 11 Congratulations! Who knows where things will lead? This magazine is widely known, Canada Writes, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s site for authors, sometimes has posted stories from here, from Canadian authors. Spread Your Wings, a great anthem for this! I’ve enclosed a link to Mary Cigarettes “It Ain’t Rocket Science” as my contribution to the anniversary and for the trials and tribulations of being the Literally Stories editors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viRmaG2mOvg
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Hi Harrison,
Thanks so much for the kind comments.
Maybe it’s me with my small mind but even though I know that the site is world wide, it’s sometimes difficult to realise that. I never think of a person as somewhere else, I just think they are with us as one of our writers!!
All the very best my fine friend.
Hugh
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Harrison, followed the link. Thanks: ‘It ain’t rocket science’ is excellent! bw mick
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Happy 11th to the mighty LS! I love the best lines sections here – shows how attentively you guys read and the joy you also get from this site. I love being part of the LS family (if you’ll allow such equally Sally Field-esque mawkishness).
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Hi Paul,
Thanks so much for your kind words and being a site regular!!
Don’t know if this sounds off-hand but the best lines look after themselves. We never discuss, we just wait for them to come to us. Once one of us spots one, it’s an automatic inclusion.
All the very best my fine friend.
Hugh
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