Jamal

I sort of agree now too, so I’ve changed it back. Apologies to everyone for my erratic and impulsive meddling.

I found this compelling and superbly tense, and intense. It was uncomfortable but I couldn't stop reading. I didn't find the beginning difficult to fo...

It occurred to me that he might have forgotten that he didn't actually get around to it. There's a phenomenon whereby making a note to do something—an...

Attractive ebullience and adventurous playfulness make this an enjoyable story. A lot of it went over my head and I wasn’t sure what was going on, but...

Would I? No, I did say my current favourite; to be clearer I should’ve said my favourite so far.

I liked it. Written with care and artistry. A simple parable, but inventive and impressively enriched with different people and places. Nice work!

Great! Neither order is perfect, but this way it’s fixed and untied to popularity. My current favourite story is unfortunately at the bottom, but I fe...

@"Benkei" I’ve done it. The stories are now fixed, so that those with the fewest comments won’t languish at the bottom. Everyone, please don’t panic. ...

But I'll do it if nobody objects strenuously.

I think that's reasonable, but last time I did that, people kicked up a fuss and I think I ended up changing it back.

I liked it a lot. It made me chuckle, and the chuckle-making talent is one not to be sniffed at in a writer. The chaotic quality noted by @"hypericin"...

I loved it. An affectionate pastiche of Victorian science fiction and adventure stories, along the lines of Poe, Verne, Wells, and Haggard (a genre I’...

Outstanding! Full of life, moving and truthful, brilliantly written and compelling, consistently strong throughout. I’m envious. I certainly was.

Stories are here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/categories/54/short-stories-dec-2024

:yum:

But this is all academic. The reality is that it’s been December 16 on Howland Island for over an hour and a half.

And their meat is as succulent as the cheeks of God.

If there had been cows there, Gary's parents wouldn't have had to eat Amelia Earhart and history might have been significantly different.

For example, that person---he's an old man called Gary---knows that Earhart actually did get to the island, but he's kept it secret all this time beca...

I don’t know. Someone living in a tiny disused lighthouse named in honour of Amelia Earhart, who was looking for the island when she disappeared in 19...

That’s just what they want us to think. :nerd:

They’ve got backup though. I knew Peanut was a chihuahua by the way, but I recognize your need to set the record straight.

Not a great start to your week. I wish Peanut a speedy recovery. Stomach pain in goats can be serious.

Me too, but it seems we have to wait for the Howland Islanders at UTC-12. Damn those Howland Islanders.

Seems like you combined “binge” and “bender”. In that vein, you could also have said “coke fueled bend.”

Or let it bubble for a few months, developing flavour, then begin building the finished dish, to be served up here a year from now.

Probably. Cheers and good night!

I get you, on an intuitive level.

I actually thought of David Lynch as an example of good ambiguity. For me it's not analytical, but emotional and intuitive. Lynch is an emotional dire...

Yeah, I was thinking about this the other day, exactly along those lines. With good ambiguity, there's a strength to it, a feeling that it's intended,...

Ah right. No inappropriate content :sad:

Sounds like a swell dame. I thought you just had to scan them cursorily and then post them.

:lol: That was kind of the idea. I liked it cos it sounds so awkward, even to me. Baden is actually swell though.

And I you, my swell pal.

Aye it’s back to how it was: subscribers can upload images. Outside images, though, interpreted as referring to images hosted outwith TPF, have always...

That's a misleading projection, since the angle of view isn't straight down from directly above the cookie

One-upman strikes again! I was merely helping to solve one member’s difficulty and made no attempt to explain things generally. I leave such pithy sum...

Beigeness rating: 8/10 :up:

Oh.

How's the pay?

I'm happy to have smoothed your path to fame.

There's been no bickering so far. It's a conversation between ToothyMaw and me in the role of TPF support, being held publicly. That said, there is de...

You’re not helping :wink:

It can’t be edited but the text can be copied, either directly from the Drive interface or by downloading it. B&ND might find it easier to download it...

So the next step is to send it, and for that you need to use an external site. Pastebin allows you to just paste directly, but if you use Google Drive...

No comment.

I have to work out what you’re trying to do. Are you trying to edit the text after you have uploaded it to Drive? Because the idea here is to do all y...

Paste the text into a text editor (notepad on Windows, for example) and save it as a text file (a file with a .txt file extension). Upload that to you...

Previously, people could send files directly in PMs, at least if they were subscribers. EDIT: but if people sent Word documents, it would be up to Bad...

I agree, I tried pastebin and didn’t like it, so I just used Google Drive instead. It’s just a matter of sending text, so there are multiple ways of d...