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Happy new year everyone! Took me a little while but Chapter 224 is up! I hope you all enjoy and I hope you’re having a good beginning of your year! As always, because I still love film and still go to the theater as much as possible, I’ve complied my yearly lists for the best and worst films of 2024. So, without further ado, here they are! Best of 2024 Honorable Mentions - Challengers - Conclave - Dune Part 2 - Wicked - The Truth vs. Alex Jones Top Ten Best Films of 2024 I Saw The TV Glow Hundreds of Beavers Anora Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Nosferatu Inside Out 2 Hit Man Strange Darling The Wild Robot Love Lies Bleeding Worst of 2024 Joker: Folie a Deux Borderlands The Crow Kraven the Hunter Madame Web Reagan Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa Lisa Frankenstein Unfrosted Jeanne Du Barry

A very happy holidays to you all! I am almost done with my little vacation and when I am back, it’s back to work on the story, so I beg your patience for just a little longer. I hope all of you find the time today to be with family, friends, or simply find something that brings you a good amount of joy. For what it is worth, I appreciate all of your support and views over the years, even as I sometimes make you wait months and months for an update. I hope you enjoy your day, eat something delicious, and I will be back with an update soon! Joe

Hey everyone! Sorry about the bit of a delay but chapter 223 is currently up. Unfortunately going to be a little slower around the holidays again but I will be back as soon as I can! Hope you are all well and safe!

Just posted chapter 222 in time for the holidays! I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and find the time to spend it with those closest and most special to you Or, at the very least, treat yourselves! Thank you for sticking with me for this long. Remember that no matter what, I am thankful for all of you.

Chapter 221 is up! Hope everyone is doing well and you all enjoy the chapter!

Hey all! Chapter 220 is up! Hope everything is having a good autumn so far and enjoy your Halloween!

Hey everyone! Just posted up Chapter 219, first chapter of the Employment Saga! Sorry for the time off but I am back and ready to continue! Hope you have all been well and I shall return as soon as possible!

Hey everyone! Just realized I never posted up the follow up message! Surgery went well, just been giving my eyes a few days to recover! Screens are still a little rough but I’m headed home today and should be starting the newest chapter soon! Hope you have all been well and thank you so much for your patience.

Hey everyone. Surgery is today! I'm sorry for lack of updates; mostly just been taking time for me and the wife and enjoying the last couple of weeks wearing glasses. But that should be all over today! Just wanted to let you all know I am safe and heading into this with a little trepidation but knowing it will be well worth it in the end. Hope you are all well and I will be back soon!

Hey everyone! Chapter 218 is finally up and the Graduation Saga is over! And here I must put forth a few things. In case you’re not in the mood to read on, I’ll sum up: I’m not finished, I’m just taking a bit of a break from the story. There are a few reasons for this, but I’ll start with a fairly understandable one: I’m about to get eye surgery that should hopefully fix my vision. I’ve lived with crappy vision since I was around 10 so I’m finally going to get that fixed! What that means is that there will be a recovery period and I’d prefer not to strain my eyes. As much as I love this story, I don’t want to give myself a headache and risk lowering the quality of the writing. So, just as a health option, probably best if I pause for a little bit. The second, major reason, is a bit more personal. I started this story ten years ago (God, what a time to think about...), the vast majority of which have been while I’ve been in the military. I started it two years after I graduated college, so a lot of those fond memories of university were present, but not necessarily something I needed to draw on. At least, not at that point. I did not enjoy high school, for the most part, so it was fun to write about Jack and company having their adventures and dealing with teenage crap and all that good stuff. But as he’s gone to university, I find those happy memories returning. It was easy, at first, just from a writing perspective. When he started freshman year, I knew I was just starting his college adventures. Much like I thought when I first started college: There’s plenty of time. But as each holiday passed and each school year ended, I found myself remembering the end of my own journey more and more acutely, those old emotions returning and becoming all the more acute because I was no longer dealing with them internally. I was putting them down on paper. If any of you have ever seen the episode of The Twilight Zone called “Walking Distance”, it’s much like that. And if you haven’t seen it, give it a watch. My favorite episode of the show, hands down. So as Jack’s journey draws to a close, I find myself realizing something for the second time in my life: there’s no going back. There’s no redoing it. Writing about Jack’s adventures and time in college has been as close to a ‘redo’ of college as I can ever do, but it will never happen again. I started this story when I was twenty-three. Still young and still vibrant. I’ve matured so much more as Jack has, to the point where I know that I could never write a story like this again. I could never take that journey again. I think it’s a hidden tragedy of an author that they can only have one of their greatest story. They may have many masterpieces, but Alexandre Dumas will only ever have one “The Count of Monte Cristo”. F. Scott Fitzgerald will only ever have one “The Great Gatsby”. Frank Herbert will only ever have one “Dune”...and all of its follow-ups. This isn’t to discount contiguous themes or styles (you always know when you’re reading a Stephen King story), but the event is the event. It is beyond rare that an author replicates an exact story, and even then it is usually only as a deconstruction, analysis, or response. Also, I am in no way claiming that I am in the category of those writers. Not even a little bit. It’s just how I think of this stuff. So, yes, I will be taking a bit of a break before continuing the story. Don’t worry, there is more to come! Though now I dread what follows. My wife and I are currently trying for our first child and if that ends up lining up with what Jack has going on...Hoo boy. Not sure how I’ll handle that. As I said before, we are beyond the halfway point of the story. I know how it ends, though not entirely sure how exactly it gets there. Pro tip for writers: allow yourselves to be surprised. It staves off Writer’s Block. This is a very long way of saying that I am taking a break, but I didn’t want to leave all of you with nothing in the way of explanation or appreciation. To all of you who have stuck with me for these ten years and those who are brand new, thank you so much for your support, encouragement, and excitement. There’s a part of me that almost wishes I could have Jack start writing his own erotic story on a blue website, just so I can relieve those exciting first few months, but that would be far too meta and indulgent and if I am going to feel the painful toll of nostalgia, I’d prefer it to be something I need to write. So take care, all of you. I will be posting updates about my surgery and how it went and when I start writing again, but I hope all of you enjoy this last chapter for a little bit. Take the time to read other stories as well! BashfulScribe is still posting and, whatever thoughts I have on his stories and style, his dedication and hard work deserve appreciation. There are multiple other authors on here that are worth checking out and, though I don’t frequent it often, I’m sure the old blue site has some decent material. I would hope; I’m somewhat tossing all of you into an unknown with that one. I hope all of you are well, I hope you all enjoy the chapter, and I hope all of you know that you are as integral to this story as anything that I could bring you. Thank you for your support and I promise to be back as soon as I can. - Joe

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that this coming chapter is a slightly longer one than usual, so I’m taking a bit longer with it. I promise to post it up as soon as I can!

Chapter 217 is up! Next chapter will be the end of the Saga, in more ways than one. Something to hopefully look forward to! Hope you’re all doing well and I will be back as quick as I can!

Newest chapter is up! Hope everyone enjoys reading and has an amazing weekend

Hey everyone! Unfortunately, no new chapter yet, but as today is my birthday, I wanted to extend to you all my usual affection. I remember ten years ago, when I first started writing the story back on the old site, I’d mentioned how I was turning twenty-four after I’d posted maybe five or six chapters? And now, ten years later, we’re nearly two hundred chapters in and though I write because I enjoy it, it means the world that all of you are still here, still reading, and still supporting. So thank you all so much for that and everything else. New chapter coming soon!

Chapter 215 is up now! Enjoy all!