Joe J: Blog

Ayup! Joe actually has this story completed! I am working the last chapter, now. I'll be posting twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays.
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To start we are posting two chapters. It will be one per, for the following posts.
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Enjoy!!!
TeNderLoin
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Wonder of wonders I finally finished a story before I started posting it! I don't really know how to describe the story because it's part coming of age, part action/adventure and part tear-jerker with some romance thrown in just for good measure.

This book starts slowly, so don't crucify or give up on it after the first chapter please. I think you'll be happy you decided to stick with it.

One thing this story deals with is PTSD, although when I came back from Vietnam, and in the time of this story, it was called combat fatigue or battle fatigue. I know from experience that prolonged combat can affect you like it does the protagonist of this story. That homeless vet living under a bridge might have become the Chairman of General Motors if not for being in the jungle humping a rucksack and dodging bullets for 13 months. If you know a veteran who is having a tough time, contact the DAV and get them some help.

Okay, soap box put away.

If this story is readable it's the fault of Tenderloin my gifted editor. If you find mistakes it was probably something I did after editing.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

JJ

The repost of a new edit of "Twice Lucky" is in the queue.
Enjoy!
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TeNderLoin
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The Council of Advanced Mathematicians has released the name of the winner of the Steven Hawking Award for Complicated Mathematics. This year, the award goes to The Webmasters at the World Literature Corporation (WLPC) for their convoluted and complicated scoring rubric for stories posted on their websites.

"Competition for the prestigious award was particularly fierce this year," said Council President Archibald Bentham. "It was a close race between the Physics Department of Hamburg University and their Unified Theory of Everything and World Literature Corporation, but two of the judges were able to decipher one line of the Hamburg entry while not a single person could understand anything about the WLPC scoring system.

The presenter at this year's award ceremony, Sir Basil Smythe-Wellington, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, remarked that 'the complex algorithm continued to baffle some of the greatest minds in mathematics and physics.'

Lazeez, the person who accepted the award for WLPC, noted that, "I am excited to announce that in our tireless effort to further obfuscate the voting procedure we are evaluating a formula that compares the composite scores with the number of left-handed Albanian vegetarians then arbitrarily divides the results by some random number."

I posted the first chapter of a new story today. The story is purely fiction and although some of the names and locations are accurate I made that crap up. So if you are an archeologist or a history expert no use getting your panties in a bunch. I will post at least one chapter a week. Thank you Tenderloin for all your editorial help.