Jashley13

@guest_dark Have not had the chance to play it yet. It's on my to-play list

Hey guys! So, checking on the story boards, I noted that we've hit a marker. She is the One officially has reached 200000 views! Wow! Can't believe it got there as quickly as it did. And you know what? It's all because of readers like you, readers who support and encourage and critique and suggest and analyze and basically do everything to make my work so much more rewarding and fulfilling. You guys seriously are the best readers and followers an author could ask for and I promise I will continue to do my best so future chapters can be just as good

@guest_hello Favorite SNES game...hmmm...well, I was a big fan of Link to the Past and Super Metroid. I also really liked Final Fantasy VI (even though it has HUGE problems and is nowhere near the best in the series) and Super Castlevania IV. But if I had to choose a favorite...it would probably be Chrono Trigger, which expanded into the even greater Chrono Cross on PS1.

@guest_dark_ I do. I guess it all depends on what 'favorite' means. If it means the boss I find the most fun to fight, then probably Four Kings. If you mean which one do I think is the best, then I'm gonna be boring and say Ornstein and Smough.

Hey everyone! Halfway point! Now, just to clarify, when I say halfway point, I'm talking more in terms of events that have happened so far in the chapter. For example, it's looking like this chapter may run close to 100 pages. Now, that's not to say I'm currently at 50 pages, but more than I'm at the point in the events that will happen where half of them that I want to relate are finished. Basically, those sections I separate by those bars. So I'm currently at the point where half those events are done...just not the big one. Yeah, this chapter is going to, one way or another, pretty much wrap up the whole Alan and Amanda thing. Won't give away how it turns out but I hope it'll be worth the wait.

Hey guys! Reality Check time for Chapter 27: - Jack's conversation with Amanda about Sam and his skepticism about her choice of boyfriend (and her subsequent blowup at him) mirrors a conversation I witnessed between a couple of my friends, who happened to be brother and sisters. Nothing was going on between them; the brother was just very protective. - The entire dinner with Sam is very similar to the first time I met my parents-in-law. It was just me, them, and my wife, so I had to add in some more dialogue so that Jack and Alan could participate, as well as the whole thing about baseball, but aside from that it was almost parallel. - Pasta tacos are amazing. Seriously, try them sometime. - Yet again, the scene in Theater class is almost identical to my personal experiences. - During high school, I would sometimes get so wrapped up in personal stuff that I'd neglect my friends to the point where they, like Joe, basically demanded that I hang out with them. More than once, I was all but strong-armed into it. No regrets, though; I pretty much always needed the break. That's about it for now. Working on Chapter 28 and I can already tell that it's going to be a big chapter so I will do my best to get it done quickly and have it out in a timely manner. Hope everyone is doing well and I'll update again soon!

Chapter 27 is up! Only one more chapter left in the Twins Saga! Jeez, this one's been kinda an emotional roller coaster for me. Maybe not as much as the Tara Saga but still... Hope you all enjoy and I'll see you soon for the Reality Check and updates on Chapter 28!

Congratulations YNP_Refugee for the 1000th comment!!!! I wish I had more of a reward than that but in a few hours, I'll have the next chapter up so hopefully that will suffice

Gonna have a Sunday surprise for you all Wait...just kinda spoiled the surprise...well, check back tomorrow anyway

Hey everyone! Work on the next chapter is going well. I'm trying to get it up in the next couple days, hopefully by Monday at the latest. Just a quick heads-up: this may be another no-sex chapter. If I can work it in somehow, I will, but I don't want to include it just for the sake of including it. If it fits into what's going on, then great. Otherwise, it's gonna be mostly about character and set-up for the final chapter in the saga. Hopefully it'll all be worth the wait but just wanted to let you all know in case there was some confusion as to why there was no sex in this next chapter. See you all soon!

Hey everyone! Next chapter is halfway done! And sorry for the false excitement about BashfulScribe's next chapter. Trust me, I zipped over faster than anyone to check and, yeah, it was kinda disappointing. I chatted with him a bit and he was rather amused by it. He also says he's been working on it a bit so, hopefully, we should see it soon. In related news, a new chapter of An Incest Birthday is up on sexstories.com and very, very worth it. Check that out if you want something to read in the meantime. See you all soon!

Hey everyone! First of all, I wanna send a special message to JohnnyBanana: I'm glad the news isn't as bad as it could be. I hope the news continues to hold out well and you're still in our prayers. And a special thank-you to everyone else who supported him. This is an awesome community of people and I'm glad that, in my own little way, I can help keep everyone together. Now onto the Reality Check: - For Kayla's reaction, I asked my wife how she would react if she got similar news. I have never actually done anything like that but she and I sat down for a while and hashed out how the emotions would play out. - I did have a buddy in high school who was rather unpopular for a while who decided to run for Student Council. We managed to convince him to hold off for a year to repair his reputation. I won't reveal how it turned out as that would fall under the classification of SPOILERS. - Jack and Kayla's critique from Ms. Locke is identical to many that I got in high school. I'd like to think my teacher was trying to push us but, honestly, I never felt like it was doing much more than pissing me off. - My brother and I fought a few times growing up and the fight between Alan and Jack is a fairly close representation of how they all went down. That's about it. Minor bits and pieces are based on real life as well, but none really worth mentioning. Have started work on Chapter 27 and hopefully it'll go by quickly. Hope everyone is doing well and I'll message soon with progress updates!

Chapter 26 is up Hope everyone enjoys. On a more somber note, everyone please keep JohnnyBanana's father in your prayers. His family has just received some bad news and I'm sure they could use the support right now. He's been a faithful and wonderful part of the forum and I hope things take a turn for the better soon. Only two more chapters left in the Twins Saga. Boy, this one is sure zipping by fast, huh? It seems like two weeks is the new consistent gap between chapters, but I don't want to commit to that, especially since doing so in the past has kind of backfired. It's working for now and I hope it continues to work. Reality Check to come soon. Hope everyone enjoys reading, hope it was worth the wait, and I'll see you all in Chapter 27

@JohnnyBanana I am so, so sorry to hear about that. My prayers and my wife's prayers are with you and your family. I hope everything turns out well and that they are able to stop it quickly. I wish there was more I could do but your family is in our prayers. Also...new chapter tomorrow

Halfway done with a clear shot through to the ending. Hopefully I'll have it up by this weekend fingers crossed

Hey everyone! Reality Check time for Chapters 24 and 25! - Mr. Harrison's grabbing of Jack's neck and words of warning are very similar to how my dad used to keep me in line. - There was a nice, long, boring stretch of high school P.E. where we played nothing bad badminton until we basically revolted and forced the teacher to let us do something different. - Jack's choosing of a play with Kayla was something I did in Theater Class. - Jack's audition is, word-for-word and emotion-for-emotion, exactly how my audition for Seussical went my Sophomore year. - My friends whom Alan and Amanda are based on had a very similar conversation with their dad that Jack has. He used similar reasoning to Mr. Harrison but could not exactly back it up as strongly. Their dad is now...not exactly okay with the relationship but at least tolerant of it (this is not spoilers for later in the story; I have not exactly decided how the saga is going to end) - Jack and Kayla's conversation with Becca is based on a conversation I had with the girlfriend of one of my more sensitive friends, after I had made him feel...let's say depressed (it was with a comment on something I didn't know about and he forgave me; her, not so quickly) - Jack and Kayla's Valentine's Day date was based on a date I had with my wife on Valentine's Day. - The douchebag I knew in high school that Craig was based on (whom I, to my regret, never exactly gave a chance to) also wanted to run for Class President but couldn't even get his name in for consideration. He was that unpopular. Well, that's about all for now. Work on Chapter 26 is coming along well and, unless there is a drastic change, it looks like Chapter 28 may be the end of the saga. And I wanted to send a big thank-you to all the fans, who have been nothing but supportive and (based on the comments) highly entertaining with their theories on where the story is going. I can only hope the actual product lives up to expectations. And it never fails to strike me with a certain level of pride that...well, you don't discuss the characters as if they are characters in a story. You discuss them as if they were actual people, rather than lines on a page that I made up. I don't think there's much greater praise for an author than to know his work is given life by the readers. So thank you all for the vote of confidence and I will continue to do my best to live up to your loyalty.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! <3 As promised, Chapter 25 is finally up Now, just to warn you, it's a long one. Like, a really long one. As in, this may actually be longer than Chapter 15 (the one with the fight with Brad). I'm stunned that it came out that long; it honestly didn't feel like it was that long when I was writing it and, hopefully, it doesn't feel that long when you read it I'm aware I missed the Reality Check for the last part. I will put that one in with the Reality Check for this one. I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day with someone special to you Hope you enjoy this chapter and see you in Chapter 26!

Good news! There will be a Valentine's Day gift for you all

Hey guys! Well over halfway at this point Don't want to nail down a date just yet but I'm hoping to have a Valentine's Day gift for you all

Update time! About a third of the way through with two days off coming up to get more writing done A quick lament, though, for my complete lack of artistic talent in the drawing category. As much as I like to think I'm a good writer (your support and comments help) I am terrible at drawing. Like, my stick figures are to normal stick figures as stick figures are to Picasso. That bad. I bring this up because I was struck with the idea the other day to draw character portraits for all the characters in my story, just to give a visual representation for how I think they would look in real life. This was, of course, thought of in those few moments between waking up and full consciousness, where anything can happen (including kissing a girl you don't realize is your cousin). I thought it would be a really cool idea, especially if I could somehow get it posted on my page on the site, but, sadly, lack of artistic talent means it will not come to pass. Sorry. Anyway, plowing through Chapter 25, which is looking to be slightly longer than a normal chapter, even though it is less plot-driven and more character-driven. See you soon!

Hey everyone! Not an update-on-chapter post (just started) but more kind of a thinking one. About an hour ago I received a very angry message from a reader who claimed that they had posted a review of the story but could not see it anymore. Their immediate conclusion was that I had taken it down because it was less than kindly. They then proceeded to slice apart the story, bringing up how Jack was too perfect, stuff like this doesn't happen, incest is unnatural and immoral, the story has plateaued and become completely predictable, etc. etc. etc. You guys know me; I'm never going to tell someone that their opinion is wrong, even if I disagree with it. But it got me thinking...the way I write is probably very, very different than how most people write. Not trying to set myself apart or anything, like I'm some sort of one-in-a-million gift or anything, but I am aware that I don't follow set 'rules' of writing. I remember, a few months ago, someone posted a comment basically telling me I had to follow the stringent outline of writing, i.e. exposition, rising action, etc. This seems to tie into people who believe that the story has not flowed like most stories thus far. On the one hand, that's kind of what I'm going for. I loathe being tied down to rules of writing; I've never found that they help me. I recall in college (Jack will go through a similar experience), I was in a script-writing course and I decide to write my one-act play in a very different style than everyone else. The main criticism of it? It wasn't like everyone else's. The problem I had with that criticism? It failed to acknowledge the fact that everyone else's scripts were, basically, the exact same script, just with different character names. Now, I don't mean this as a smack-down of other stories. Hell, even back on xnxx (which seemed to have a million of the same exact story) my favorite authors were the ones who broke boundaries and defied the rules. See, the 'outline' of a basic story doesn't fit into my story because I'm writing as a slice-of-life sort of tale, not a 'this is a story for the sake of a story'. Life doesn't follow a stringent outline of exposition, rising action, climax, etc. I'm aware that this is not how most writers write, but I take that as a compliment. I don't want to be like most writers. I want to be my own author with my own story. And I've always been drawn to stories that defy the conventions of storytelling. Hell, look at anything Tarantino's ever made; he prides himself on flaunting basic 'writing rules'. My favorite film of last year, Boyhood, didn't follow any structure aside from the structure you'd have to find in a person's life. Hell, one of my favorite films of all time, Tree of Life, isn't a story in the general sense but an experience of lives and time and space. Does it have a story structure? Probably, but not in the basic, according-to-Hoyle sense. Ramble, ramble, ramble, I think my point is that, if it seems like I'm making deviations from form, it's because I am. If I need to break rules in order to tell the story or to serve the characters, I will. I find it more honest and more believable, at least from my perspective. Do you have to feel the same way? Of course not. Trust me, I learn more from criticism than from praise (but I love praise too, if I can allow one moment of immodesty). One last thing I noticed from the message: the author seemed to believe that Jack was 'too perfect' because he didn't cheat. In fact, I've noticed that almost every person who has ever called Jack 'too perfect' has basically demanded that he cheat because 'that's what teenagers do'. I was not perfect in high school and yet I had two girlfriends and I never once considered cheating on them. I'd like to think others have done the same. Anyway, just thought I'd share a bit of my mind with all of you. If this has been too long, I apologize but I like to go at a topic like this in-depth, so you know that I'm taking it seriously. If you guys love the story, trust me, I am so very very grateful to you all. Every praise brings a smile to my face and every time I post, I pray that it lives up to your expectations. You are all the best audience an author like me could hope for...way more than I deserve. And I am working my hardest to stay worthy of your praise and attention. So, in short...love you guys and I hope the next chapter is worth whatever wait you have to go through

Chapter 24 is up (yaaaaaaay!) I finished it at work tonight and was planning on posting it when I got up but, honestly, I didn't want to make you guys wait any longer. Hope you all enjoy! I'm going to take a day or so off before I start Chapter 25 but I will do my best to get through that one quicker Hope 24 was worth the wait. See you guys again soon!

Happy birthday jc1138!!! So sorry it won't be ready on your birthday but, like you said, it can be a belated birthday gift

So...good news and bad news. The bad news is...no new chapter today (booooooo!) The good news is...brand new chapter tomorrow (yayyyyyy!)

Hey everyone! Update time! So, this is tentative, but I am aiming for the next chapter coming out on Saturday or Sunday. I'm not exactly close to the end (maybe 2/3 of the way through), but I know the next couple of scenes, which helps me a lot since the dialogue kind of writes itself if I know the set-up. I will let you know a definite date when I know it but this weekend is the target. And, since I hate having updates just be 'this is when it will come out', I'll give you a couple of 'teasers' on Chapter 24: - First, no sex in this chapter. Again, it would feel out-of-place and I hate trying to force a sex scene into the story. I think I've realized, since moving here from xnxx, that I am writing not a 'sex story' but a story that happens to have sex in it, since it's a big part of the characters' lives. So this next chapter will be more story. Apologies if that annoys anyone but that's why I wanted to let you know beforehand. - Second, as I mentioned, Jack's dad is going to explain why he is against the twins' relationship in this upcoming chapter. There has been some speculation as to why he is against it and...no one's come up with the right answer yet. Trust me, I'm not going to go completely off-the-rails with it but...it's probably a bit different than you think it is. I won't say more than that. Next time I post will be with a definite date for the next chapter so stay tuned