though honesty isn't something you can ask of him

[candle_beck]

i'm reading this book, which is rockstar times ten. it's called 'the brothers k,' by david james duncan, and it's about baseball but also more than that. the crazy thing is, my brother got it at a used bookstore in noe valley (who knows fogcity? anyone?), not because he knew the author or had heard anything about it, but because it had this

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[lastcatastrophe]

ending sentences with preps doesn't bother me. it's a guideline for people who don't know better. just knowing that it's technically incorrect makes it okay (as opposed to me, who had to double-check the apostrophe on it's? yikes.

what really kills me is when people don't end parentheticals.

[lastcatastrophe]

also, jesus. this is all we get? you're a tease. ;)

[candle_beck]

snerk. parentheticals, huh?

man, you think i'd be over the grammar thing, by now. what with all the writing in voice and stuff and how if i get ballplayers saying 'for whom,' and proper use of restrictive clauses and even the damn serial commas, i've basically lost the point.

too much of this is ingrained and too much of it is instinct and i haven't gotten to use 'wherefore' in a story yet, but goddamn if i'm not working my way up to it.

[nycscribbler]

Still in love with this fic. Boys are so hard to write about, aren't they? With all that emotion that they so don't want to talk about?

[candle_beck]

yeah man. boys SUCK. and yet i am irresistably drawn to them. it is a vicious cycle.

[littlestclouds]

to echo lira:

this is all we get? you're a tease.

i find it interesting that munson misses the physical part of their sexual relationship rather than the friendship they had before everything. . ."happened" between them. it makes me wonder if he and eric were such good friends to begin with, or if he's in such denial that he's convinced himself he doesn't miss eric chavez as much as he actually does.

. . .

i think that made sense.

please post more soon. i crave it. this is what i look forward too. especially since finals are coming up and i am slacking on studying. if i flunk, at least i'ma flunk for a good reason.

[panicqueen]

if i flunk, at least i'ma flunk for a good reason.

i second that, and amen. i can see it now. "i'm sorry, mr. gray. i didn't mean to fail my chemistry final. but you see, there's this wicked-great chick online named candle beck and i'm kind of addicted to her stories like i am to pixy stix and i can't stop reading the above mentioned stories and i have no idea what stoichiometry really is, but do i care? well. not really."

in other words, you are an evil tease. this part was far too short. :P i loved it dearly, though, and the stupid complexities of their relationship are starting to get to me. i want them to kiss and make up, but alas, they've got a lot of shit to get through.

god, you know how to just tug at a girl's heartstrings, doncha?

well, that's what you get for taking chemistry, dude

[candle_beck]

it is my diabolical master plan. to drive you out of higher education and have you living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.

ps, i dropped that reference to one of my little brother's friends and he had no idea what i was talking about. i felt so old. and sad for him.

i snerk at the idea of me being a tease. you realize we're 89 pages in at this point? that is some lengthy non-teasing, man. but you be patient! adn will be thus rewarded.

[candle_beck]

it's a complicated thing, dude. munce, he's very self-aware and yet not at all at the same time. which is why i like him.

as far as you flunking out, lemme just go ahead and play the ace of having WRITTEN THE THING DURING MIDTERMS AND THE PLAYOFFS. i'm not sure how i'm even still in school. or alive.

[dancingpoet]

I agree that you are a tease.
I really love this story. I do look foward to new installments.

[candle_beck]

thanks, yo! it's good to hear, cos, you know, i'd be afeared that people are losing interest and stuff. not that i'd stop posting, but i would worry.