In article <lif156t3qvc4tuvc8krm90imu2d85bguud@4ax.com>, EWS
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> On 27 Jul 2010 21:24:01 -0500, " +Grant. " <+Grant@grant.grant> wrote:
>
> >In article <4rru46tpcqg172gidorarkiojh0ehanrto@4ax.com>, < Bone@Docs>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On 25 Jul 2010 22:01:02 -0500, " +Grant. " <+Grant@grant.grant> wrote:
> >>
> >> >In article <veip46d8ucct71ne8qauip2koddcl9q9a8@4ax.com>, < Bone@Docs>
> >> >wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Dear Mr. Grant and everybody,
> >> >>
> >> >> We have enjoyed your stories about Stevie. We can't wait to see the
> >> >> one with T-Bone in it. We agree that Stevie would be someone we would
> >> >> want to meet if he was real. We know a little about monsters because
> >> >> one of us has one but we ain't saying who. T-Bone says that if Stevie
> >> >> was a little older we might hook up with him. But Doc says that Stevie
> >> >> is probably older than him now so maybe we missed out anyway. But
> >> >> thanks for the stories. We like how you put people in the stories from
> >> >> in here. Doc has been telling us about the different characters that
> >> >> are in here and we see some of them saying stuff or putting up
> >> >> pictures. He also told us about what goes on in the fort here. So we
> >> >> know about boy lovers. We want to thank boy lovers because they do
> >> >> sometimes help guys like us. We don't have are Dads around and Bone's
> >> >> Dad is dead. So what Doc does for us is amazing. We been looking
> >> >> forward to this vacation for months. Bone says sometimes just knowing
> >> >> somebody cares is all you need to get by. So thank you Doc, we love
> >> >> you. And thank you Mr. Grant for the stories and we want to thank Mr.
> >> >> Kittens for the pictures especially for the Zack pictures. Zack is
> >> >> invited to come over to hang with us any time and he should wear his
> >> >> spandex pants with the surprise inside. We think he would be
> >> >> interesting to get to know. And thank you to all the boy lovers who
> >> >> care about guys like us.
> >> >>
> >> >> Love,
> >> >>
> >> >> Mac and T-Bone
> >> >
> >> >First, I should say hello to you both, so...
> >> >
> >> >Hello to you both. LOL
> >> >
> >> >Second, we don't need the mister, unless you really missed her. We
> >> >don't use our real names here, so there is no need to be formal.
> >> >
> >> >I'm in the fort with Doc and the others, because I came here when I was
> >> >a kid looking for help understanding who I was. They helped me not kill
> >> >myself. I stick around here now to help people who helped me, and new
> >> >people who might need help, or just somebody they know who cares. Bone
> >> >is right. I can't do much else, but I recently discovered I could write
> >> >and post some stories some people liked. Unfortunately, I got hooked on
> >> >writing them, and can't stop. Some would think it's not that bad of a
> >> >thing to get hooked on. It's sure better than what fish get hooked on!
> >> >
> >> >I put some names of posters in the stories, because Doc suggested it.
> >> >Some of the names were easy to put on the stories realistically, but
> >> >some were very hard. Kittens are in them, but pasted on the wall over
> >> >George's bed, because George and Kittens, and Registered. are all the
> >> >same person. I tried to put the poster's personality in the characters
> >> >as much as I could, but it's hard to do that when you don't know how
> >> >they were like as kids. I didn't do well with Cosmos. I'm not sure he
> >> >likes that I made him into Cosmo, the dance teacher. I think the poster
> >> >named Chad, isn't going to be upset how close his character gets to
> >> >Stevie. No way! LOL
> >> >
> >> >Both of you are in the camp stories, but only near the end, and I had
> >> >to make it rain a lot for it to happen, because I had already written
> >> >the stories before that. You will see what I mean when you read the
> >> >story called "Rain". You might guess so by its name. LOL
> >> >
> >> >You guys will be in the next year of sumer camp, MUCH more, which I'm
> >> >about to start writing. Unless you don't want me to do that.
> >> >
> >> >Some notes about "Stevie".
> >> >He isn't real. I made him up from parts of people I knew and read
> >> >about. The same for most of his adventures, and the other characters,
> >> >but most of the story ideas came from real things which actually
> >> >happened. In the story I just posted, the first part of the story,
> >> >about the horse, happened almost exactly that way, to ME!
> >> >I made the stories to happen between somewhere 1955 and 1964, so Stevie
> >> >would be too old for you now, if some miracle made him exist. Since he
> >> >is imaginary, we don't have to make him get older than we want to,
> >> >right?
> >> >Stevie wants to be bisexual, so he can have more friends and lovers to
> >> >chose from, than people who are only one way. One of the kinds of
> >> >suspense I'm putting into the stories is, is he? He loves Jeremy AND
> >> >Debbie, and more people later. But, is it just sexual? Does real love
> >> >have to be sexual? And the other way around, can you be sexual with
> >> >somebody you don't love? And if you can, should you? Stevie will be
> >> >exploring these issues, and many more, in his adventures. He even has
> >> >comments about adventures in general, too. In fact, I just wrote those
> >> >stories, number 51 "A Nose for My Trouble - Part 2" and number 52
> >> >"Telling a Nose".
> >> >
> >> >I don't really know what's going to happen in the stories, even when I
> >> >start writing. I have some ideas I want to write about, and sometimes I
> >> >start with that, or continue a previous story, or sometimes I just
> >> >start writing. There will be an idea, then a part of a story, then I
> >> >think what would Steve do next, and what can I make the other
> >> >characters do, that would make Stevie do or say interesting things,
> >> >then I write them. A lot of the stories end up being something totally
> >> >unexpected. That's funny, because I'm the one who's writing them, but
> >> >other writers say the same things. I though they were crazy, but now I
> >> >understand. Does that make me crazy too? Maybe if you heard me laugh...
> >> >
> >> >My next story post is The Adventures of Stevie #21 "Baseballed".
> >> >I think you can guess it's about baseball, right? This is different.
> >> >Stevie never played baseball before, and didn't know anything about it.
> >> >The way he sees it is very funny. But, that's not all. There is a
> >> >lesson in it for US, which Stevie doesn't get yet. Two lessons,
> >> >actually. See if you can spot what they are.
> >> >
> >> >By the way, Stephen doesn't like to be called "Stevie", so we do.
> >> >A little bit of friendly teasing never hurt anybody, did it? LOL
> >> >
> >> >I hope you have fun with Doc, and with each other. I mean more fun.
> >>
> >> Dear Grant,
> >>
> >> Thank you for taking time out to write to me and Mac. You said
> >> something about not killing yourself. I would like to know what you
> >> meant because I think I know what you meant. When I met Doc he was the
> >> only person I knew who didn't make me feel like a freak for being gay.
> >> He told me I was normal and what I felt was normal and he was right.
> >> But my whole life before that even though I was only 11 back then
> >> people picked on me for being who I am. One of my Moms boyfriends used
> >> to give me crap and called me a little faggot just because I wanted a
> >> hug or a kiss from him. That didn't stop him from rubbing his dick
> >> between my ass cheeks till he came all over my pajamas. I thought I
> >> was getting love from him. It wasn't until this past Easter that I saw
> >> it for what it really was. I don't know how old you are or how long
> >> its been since you was in high school but its still no place to be
> >> gay. The gay guys at our school get treated like shit just like I used
> >> to. So my point is somebody can only take so much shit in their lives
> >> like bullies and name calling before they snap. When some people snap
> >> they go postal and take it out on everybody. When other people snap
> >> they turn it on themselves. When your 11 you don't have no power and
> >> so you kill the pain by killing you. I got lucky the day I snapped
> >> somebody showed me what love means. If you snapped I'm glad you didn't
> >> go through with it and I hope somebody was there for you. I'm glad
> >> because your here and your making people smile with your stories. So
> >> thanks for caring.
> >>
> >> Peace, T-Bone
> >
> >You made me angry. VERY angry. Not at you, but at the other people in
> >your life who treated you worse than people get arrested for treating
> >animals. I have seen more horrible things happen to people. I know
> >dying isn't the worst that can happen to a kid. I hope you never have
> >to see what I saw, or even know about it. We all have to live with our
> >memories, but we don't have to let them make us into something we don't
> >want to be. What happened to you was made worse because you didn't
> >deserve it. Injustice hurts a lot more than some people think. It can
> >stay with you for a very long time. Let Doc keep healing you of it. Mac
> >too. Nothing works better than love.
> >
> >I wasn't picked on. I was bigger than most, and a popular football
> >player. I just didn't want to be who I thought I was inside. I liked
> >girls, and had girlfriends, but I liked boys too, but I was afraid to
> >do anything with them. I thought there was something wrong with me. I
> >was very afraid somebody would find out. Sometimes I wanted to die,
> >just to get it over with. We had computers. I searched and found the
> >fort. There were kids like me in it who had a good time, and there were
> >people who cared. That made me decide to stick around for a while. I
> >forgot about wanting to kill myself. It took me a while to notice that.
> >Stupid, wasn't it?
> >I felt so much better about myself, I didn't need to stay with the
> >group, but I did visit it once in a while, even when I was going to
> >college. Then I went to war. I got exploded in Iraq. Some parts of me
> >never made it back to the States. I wasn't whole. I didn't want to
> >live, all over again. I had been a big strong athlete, then I thought I
> >was nothing without that. I had lots of professional help and got
> >better. I had nothing to do for a long time, while I was recovering
> >from lots of operations, so I came back to the fort. There was a war of
> >a kind going on here, and I stepped right in the middle of a pile of
> >it. I joined in the "fun". It gave me another reason to live, I
> >suppose. The people here then helped me become more peaceful, and
> >"nice", in a way the shrinks in the hospitals couldn't, because I
> >couldn't tell them everything. So, I owe the fort and the people in it,
> >SOME of them, my life all over again, and I went back to college and
> >got my brain so filled up with educational stuff, I have to do
> >something with it now. Sharing is good, right?
> >Now my life is beautiful, and I have a great new job I'm starting soon.
> >I had some tough times getting to where I am, which I wouldn't wish on
> >anybody, but they did help to make me somebody I like now. I hope all
> >your tough times are over with, and you can like who you are, and you
> >have only good times now, and for ever after.
> >
> >
> >> Dear Grant,
> >>
> >> Bone wasn't going to say this but I want you to know. Last spring one
> >> of the varisty football players was threatening one of the out guys
> >> Bone was talking about. The guy was going to punch this kid, a
> >> freshman, and Bone stepped in. The guy swung Bone and Bone took him
> >> out. I didn't see it happen but I got all the details. The other guy
> >> got suspended for two weeks for hate speech and threatening another
> >> student. Bone only got a day and a half. Maybe you might say no
> >> fighting but I think he did the right thing and I'm proud of him.
> >>
> >> Love,
> >>
> >> Mac
> >
> >I'm glad he did it. I'm an ex soldier. I know about fighting. In a good
> >cause, I hope. His was a good cause. I don't know if I would have the
> >courage to do it myself, at his age. That's another reason why I admire
> >him.
> >
> >I'm trying to make Stevie into somebody like your Bone. Courageous and
> >caring. Somebody I would like to have been as kid, but was too afraid.
> >I don't know if you love Bone, or how much, but if you do, I think you
> >have a good man there, who really deserves all our love. I'm glad
> >you're proud of him, because I am too.
> >
> >You can tell him all this, but I suspect he might be able to read it
> >for himself.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >For you both, one of the reasons I'm writing and posting the Stevie
> >stories, is so kids who come here can see possibilities and
> >circumstances and consequences before they experience them themselves,
> >so they have some idea what can happen. They can explore ideas they
> >maybe never thought of, in a fun and interesting way. This might help
> >them, with who they want to be, and what they want to do in the future.
> >I hope.
> >
> >I will be waiting for you to tell me what the two lessons are in
> >Baseballed. You can get help from Doc, if you want.
> >
> >Have fun, and always be yourself to each other.
>
> Hello Grant,
>
> Bone is grumbling because you gave us homework. We read the Baseballed
> story. We think the lessons are that Stephen don't like to be told
> what to do and he should have asked questions and understood baseball
> before he tried it out. The other one is that Stephen likes to figure
> things out for himself but sometimes like in baseball things don't
> make sense til you get used to them so we figure he should have
> watched what the other kids did to figure it out. Did we flunk? What
> happens if we get it right?
Well...
Nobody really likes to be told what to do, but Stephen is used to that.
What he doesn't like, is something else. He doesn't see any reason why
people should want to play baseball. It might be fun for other kids,
but it sure wasn't fun for HIM. But then, what kid would like basket
weaving as much as Stevie does?
Stevie didn't know a thing about baseball, then they gave him a bat to
swing. They didn't know he didn't know, and he didn't know he was going
to have to play it. He had to learn as he played, because of the
everybody plays rule.
Now imagine him trying to explain what happened, to somebody who lives
on a farm in Argentina, who has never even seen a TV, who has never
heard of baseball, either. He knows English, but how much?
The lessons in the story are:
Words can be tricky things. The same word can mean something very
different to different people, even if they know the same language. A
vampire bat, and a baseball bat, are both bats, but you only want to
play with the balls which go with the baseball bat, so you don't get
the vampire bat upset with you.
Things we grow up with and are used to, can look VERY strange to an
outsider, who never saw it before. Try to get Doc to explain to you the
English game named like an insect. They use bats and balls, but it sure
isn't baseball! What the heck is a "wicket"?
How stupid is golf? You hit that poor little ball so very hard, it goes
far away from you to escape. Then you have to walk a long way and look
for it, only to hit it away from you again. You keep doing that, with
some extra time playing in a sunken sandbox or three, until you finally
put the ball in a hole in the ground. Then you take it right out, and
do the same things all over again, and over again, and...
Now why would anybody want to do all that? But they do. What a world!
Yes, I play golf sometimes. Not well. LOL
We learn every second of our lives, but we don't notice it most of the
time, because we think it means work. It doesn't have to be, if you can
make it fun. I hope I can do that with my stories.
> If you was are age now you would like T-Bone. He's really easy to get
> to know and he's real nice to people and he's HOT! <SQUEE!> But
> anybody can go up and talk to him, he ain't stuck up or nothing even
> though he's popular at school. It makes me proud that you want Stephen
> to be like Bone. He just says Aww shucks. lol
I like him already. You too. Any young friend of Doc's, is a friend of
mine, and should be to everybody here.
> Bone wants to write.
>
> Dear Grant,
>
> I wasn't whining when I wrote about my Mom's old boyfriend, but thanks
> for caring. I wasn't going to say nothing but Doc asked me to because
> he said in all his years in the Fort he never seen a young person talk
> about how it felt to be on the other end of a dick and maybe it would
> make some people think twice.
I know you weren't whining. I never thought somebody like you would.
That's a good reason for telling. It might help adults and boys alike.
Helping is always a good reason, I think.
> I'm glad you got a reason to live like me. The world is filled with
> beauty if you bother looking around. I got Mac and he's my best friend
> and my boyfriend and every minute we spend together is just like
> heaven I guess. Today we seen a turkey hen and her chicks passing
> through the field up in our cove where we go to be alone. They didn't
> see us. And if you ever get the chance to make love on a mountain top
> at night under the stars, we recommend it. You feel real small but you
> feel like your a part of everything. I'm sorry as hell about what
> happened to you in the war. The way you deal with it makes me glad to
> know you. Your the kind of man I want to be. You should make Stevie be
> more like you and he'll be just right. He'll be more than just a boy
> with a big monster (like me!), he will stand for something.
Thank you for your caring.
I look around a lot. I have no problem at all seeing the great stuff.
I am very happy for you that you and Mac have each other, and not just
very often. LOL Friendship and love are two things money can't buy, but
cost you a whole lot when you don't have it. It almost cost me my life
when I thought I didn't and wouldn't have it. Now I have a lot. I will
show in my stories that we can never run out of love, no matter how
much we give it to others. We get it back much more.
You and Stevie, and me too, stand for what is fair and good for people.
Isn't that all we really want? That and love, naturally. Good food is
nice too.
You don't have to be sorry for me for what happened. I'm not now. It
helped make me somebody I like. That could mean it was the best that
ever happened to me, which sure didn't feel like it at the time! LOL
> Peace,
>
> T-Bone and Mac
The next story introduces Chad, but only a little. I stuck him in it
after I already wrote it. He's more in the next one after that, with
you both. I don't think you will be upset with the sleeping
arrangements. LOL
The story I'm posting tomorrow, has in it what people do in the XXXXX.
Sorry, something prevented me from giving that away. LOL
I have written stories up to number 58. The next ones will be about
year 2 of summer camp, and the kids with your names on them are going
to have a LOT of fun.
A lot of the stories I have already written but haven't posted yet,
have some really hot sexual things in them. I said in a post around
here before, I wasn't going to do that, but Stevie made me change my
mind. I hope you don't mind I put that in my stories. Much.
One of them is from something Doc posted about. Blame him. LOL
Maybe Doc can show you how to read my stories I post here, using a
browser and google, but my posts there stay only about a week, and you
can't see pictures there. You shouldn't post that way yourself, though.
This works with any kind of internet connection, which I think one of
you might have.
Don't forget to hug Doc for me, and each other.
--
Grant
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