Hey there!
I am looking for some nice coming of age stories. I have read All American and Stupid Boy and I am looking for something well written on those lines.
If anyone have suggestions. Specially if there are some with a bisexual undertone (If not there is no problem).
I am just looking for a coming of age story that is more wholesome and less stroke story.
William Redman Carter by Lazlo Zalezac
the soccer poof stories (MC was Sean Porter? seem to have vanished)
Dance of a Lifetime by Don Lockwood
Banner Year and Redemption by shrink42 (half of the second follows the MC as adult, but...)
soccer poof stories (MC was Sean Porter? seem to have vanished)
The Sean Porter yarns are in the "Playing the Game" series by the Rev. Cotton Mather.
You can check out Country Boy, City Girl. It has some stroke value, but is much more story driven than many seem to be.
And several of the characters are bisexual to one degree or another.
https://storiesonline.net/s/17259/country-boy-city-girl
Living next door to heaven by Aroslav is a huge 3 part story that covers coming of age, bisexuality, rags to riches a VERY small bit of incest which is only mentioned maybe 4 times which in no way is a main focus or takes away from the story, i highly recommend the read.
Thanks y'all for your recommendations. If anyone knows about more stories with a mt/mt and mt/mt side let me know.
The Nick Scipio series also.
Once a commonly referred to story in here, not many of us recommend it anymore. Largely because in almost 20 years he has yet to ever finish the thing, and even those that have been "paying" him to finish it have largely given up.
5 years ago, I would have listed that one as well, but not in a long time.
Mushroom
9/14/2020, 1:49:52 PM
@LonelyDad
The Nick Scipio series also.
Once a commonly referred to story in here, not many of us recommend it anymore. Largely because in almost 20 years he has yet to ever finish the thing, and even those that have been "paying" him to finish it have largely given up.
5 years ago, I would have listed that one as well, but not in a long time.
I agree that I too am disappointed it isn't completed yet, but the completed books do take Paul et.al. from high school to at least part of the way through college.
I agree that I too am disappointed it isn't completed yet, but the completed books do take Paul et.al. from high school to at least part of the way through college.
That they do. I read it every time a new chapter came out. Then he went on an almost decade long spell of not writing hardly at all, then pulled immediately behind a pay wall.
Even if you are a member of his Patreon now, if you want to read his earlier books he tells you to go to Amazon and buy them. And I have heard from many even those members have been decreasing, as he drags his feet constantly in sub-stories in order to keep from finishing his main story. As if that will end the money coming in.
Now I am all for somebody deciding to take their works private and charge for them. Myself, I am damned near broke, but also write simply because I enjoy telling stories, and not in any way to "make a buck". And I have toyed with the idea of writing a story just for that, but never do because I do enjoy the feedback I get from here from the readers.
And if I ever do, it will probably be with a rewritten "Okinawa". But still free in here, only for sale to the people at places like Amazon who would never subscribe here in the first place. Or maybe the Night of Madness series, as it probably has the potential to me the most "commercial" of my works.
But dragging out a "book in progress" in a series 20 years old, who does Skippy think he is? George R. R. Martin? *laugh*
But dragging out a "book in progress" in a series 20 years old, who does Skippy think he is? George R. R. Martin? *laugh*
Have you ever seen them in the same room at the same time?
Have you ever seen them in the same room at the same time?
If Skippy was smart, he would finish the damned thing, then just move on. He can continue with the young parents, the kids, even some of the others he has introduced over the years.
Whenever I start a story, I have a plan on how to finish it. And if I like it enough, I can continue in a different way.
And holy crap, I just took a peek. Book 1 has now been broken up into 2 books, at $5 each. And that was the shortest of the series, so he is turning 4 books into what, 10+ when he is finished with this newest change? At $5 each?
Paul Hughes should not have gone into architecture to get rich, he should have made him a writer.
Once a commonly referred to story in here, not many of us recommend it anymore. Largely because in almost 20 years he has yet to ever finish the thing, and even those that have been "paying" him to finish it have largely given up.
I wonder how long his stories will remain on SoL since the current intro states;
I hope you enjoy my stories. Start with the free ones here. And when you're ready to continue with Summer Camp Swingers: Christy (Series 5), you can join me on Patreon.
Since Lazeez has a policy about 'teasers', this would seem to fall foul of it.
I believe Nick is using the same loophole in that policy as several others - he's posted complete individual stories, and while he's hiding the sequels, those aren't necessarily considered using 'teasers'.
Yes, but unless he puts the sequels up on bookappy, he can't do anything on SOL to point his SOL readers to where they can buy the sequels.
The above is a recent change in policy, but it's going to bite any authors following the described strategy.
I believe Laz also exempted patreon, but that may have changed. But considering Wayne Clark has had his blog directing people to amazon and lulu for quite some time, I think the 'teaser' rule didn't include hiding sequels.
Now, if someone abruptly 'ended' a story in the middle of a plot arc (say, for no reason other than the date in-story) and then made the rest of the 'series' pay-only, that might get Laz to step in, but...
I believe Laz also exempted patreon, but that may have changed.
IIRC: The new policy has some specific rules for Patreon and other sites like it. What's available on Patreon can only be so far ahead of what's on SOL and once the story is complete on Patreon, the complete story must be posted to SOL within a defined time period.
Mushroom
9/14/2020, 2:49:52 PM
@LonelyDad
The Nick Scipio series also.
Once a commonly referred to story in here, not many of us recommend it anymore. Largely because in almost 20 years he has yet to ever finish the thing, and even those that have been "paying" him to finish it have largely given up.
I believe Nick Scipio's Summer Camp series is now complete. In the beginning, must be close to 20 years ago now, he set out two mysteries - Who is the Wife (of the main character) and Who Died (a female close to the main character). Those two questions have now been answered. I won't divulge the answers, but I will note that there is someone on SOL who uses "GITW" as his/her user name, and that user must be disappointed. At one time, there was a note from Nick Scipio on SOL promising he would eventually post the entire story on SOL. As far as I can tell, the promise has been removed. I have no idea what that means about the eventual appearance of the rest of the story on SOL.
You can always create a patreon and have some other stuff given there or just for the sake of supporting you in you craft in a small way.
And talking about Nick Scipio's story thank you for the recommendation. But parent/children incest just gives me the creeps.
Nothing turns me off faster than someone being called daddy.
The first three books of Nick Scipio's Summer Camp are very good. If you are into coming of age stories and haven't read them, you are missing out.
They take the protagonist, friends and siblings through early teenage years to collage. That's as much coming of age as anyone needs. The fourth book 'Wren' is also not bad. Certainly worth reading .... for free.
What Nick has done since can pretty much be discarded. I supported him on Patreon until very recently. He is now onto an extended epilogue and still hasn't finished. The last book, 'Christy' is a multipart extravaganza all by itself, even without the epilogue. None of it is badly written but Nick, his characters and the story ran out of steam several years ago. The MC is now married to a woman who has two girlfriends on the side, perfectly happy to have sex with him also. Other swinger type things are going on as well yet it's all very boring and frequently annoying. I realised I didn't care what any of them did anymore or what happens to them.
I would much rather recommend some of the spin off work set in the same universe. John Evans' 'Diary of a Masher' (available on this site) started off being a little too close to SC but developed a separate narrative quickly. His MC appears far less sanctimonious than the one in SC also, but then again any character not written by Mr. Scipio is bound to be. Unfortunately not updated in a while but John is still active and an accomplished author.
Big Ed's 'Chris Coulter' Stories', fourteen in total, are very, very good indeed. However, you really need to be familiar with the first three books to get the most out of them. I don't know what the etiquette is these days for recommending stories not on this site, but I think some of them are hosted here and you should be able to find them from there.
