VeryWellAged: Blog

Here's another real world example of how what I write about is not fantasy, but the truth. The stories are fiction; but they are based on the underlying reality of life on these islands. And so I give you today's headline.

Fifteen percent of Filipino girls were married before their 18th birthday, and 2 percent of girls married before the age of 15. And for you math impaired, that's one out of every fifty is married at fourteen or younger.

I have created a new portfolio of all my fiction in PDF format. The size of the file is approximately 15.5MB.

As I am not done writing, I have a new novel in the works which will hopefully be released in the coming year. Therefore this portfolio will not be my final and total collected works. But for those who have been having problems getting on ASSTR with its frequent episodes of being offline, this single file offers you all that is currently available.

It will require a fairly up to date Acrobat Reader.

If you want a copy, please leave me a note containing an email address which can handle large attachments.

Evidently ASSTR's author index was brought back on line. It must be a very old version as it doesn't include my stuff which can still be found at https://www.asstr.org/~VeryWellAged/index.htm

However, ASSTR is out of disc-space and is in prolonged death throws. At this point there is nothing I can do about it and the attempt to bring up an alternate site has, at least for now, failed.

And so, I am probably done posting stories. For those who want copies of my works, I urge you to download them as ebooks from the ASSTR site as it is still working at the address above (before it disappears entirely), or if you want a portfolio of ALL my stories in a single PDF file, I can email it to you upon request so long as you can handle a 35+ MB file.

I have created the Prologue and now the question remains, which authors do I invite to participate. If you know of any quality authors on the SOL site who don't rely on tricks (magic/MC/fantasy worlds/etc...) and you think they would be someone I should invite, please nominate them! I will then contact them.

This will have nothing to do with my work as an author. While I have written the prologue and the initial bible for this saga, I doubt I will post any of the stories. Rather I will act as a clerk.

Those authors who want to post a story in the Series will be given access to the universe, one at a time! So my job will be to manage the first come first server process and to work with the authors to make sure we keep the 'bible' current.

If you are an author here and want to see a copy of the initial bible, which I have yet to get posted as Lazeez and I are not fully set up yet, drop me a note here and I will provide it.

Here is the synopsis:
This is a multi-author, time-sequential saga of the thirty-one years of the Disciples. Each story will start as the previous story has ended. Each author will add to the saga new pieces to the saga that will be carried on by the following authors. The Disciples are Faith, Hope and Felicity. They are of this world. The lives of a small select number of people will be forever changed. Will it be for better or worse? Even the Disciples don't know.