I read a story once where a man was captured and the locals took a liking to him.. Can't remember the title ..
Any story similar will do as well..
I read a story once where a man was captured and the locals took a liking to him.. Can't remember the title ..
Any story similar will do as well..
Try
https://storiesonline.net/s/54551/toms-adventures
by
https://storiesonline.net/a/TRix
Boy captured by Indians
DeeBee's 'Hidden Heritage' stories has the protagonist a prisoner of female elves.
I vaguely remember another story in which a man gets captured by a female survivalist group. Unfortunately author and title escape me.
AJ
Nathan Wolf's Secrets of Liberty Mountain: Yesterday's Tomorrow
A homeless Vietnam veteran's life abruptly changes the day he stumbles upon a cult of female survivalists living off the grid for the last fifteen years. His presence is unwanted and unwelcome. To become the exception to the "no man alive" rule, the elderly vet must earn the trust of a skeptical and hostile sisterhood.
Can't recall the title, but soldier captured in one of the desert shithole 'countries', escaped, found and taken in by locals...falls for local girl...
Definitely not. I avoid most of Ernest's writing... his typical style is just unreadable to me.
Earnest us one of the best authors on this site!
"us" probably should be "is".
He has 80 stories on the SOL site, I just looked to make sure. The top 19 are scored above 8.0. One is even above 9.0. The next group are in the 7s down to number 66. The rest of them are higher than 6.0, which is the average that management adjusts scores around, so over 6.0 is above average. If we go by the scores assigned by his readers, it looks to me that he is one of the best authors here. Maybe someone should check his Fine Story's scores and maybe his scores on the Science Fiction site as well. Are his stories on Bookapy scored? Looks like a mini thesis project for the really anal.
Nobody is required to like any particular set of stories, or to read them, but a lot of readers seem to disagree with the thought they aren't good.
Just to play devil's advocate, He never said they weren't good. He just said the writing style is not his cup of tea.
not his cup of tea
I think he said "unreadable". Seems a little more negative than not a preferred beverage. I do not disagree with every readers right to his or her own opinion. (I am willing to add other pronouns if some feel they would be appropriate.) Its own opinion, too. I think there are a pretty large number of SOL readers, among the ones that vote for stories, that do find his stories readable. If you haven't decided, perhaps you should give one or two, or even more, a read, and make up your own opinion. I don't want him to stop writing them in the belief they aren't appreciated.
While there are a number of real life issues that get in the way of my creativity and writing, such as several recent trips to and from the hospital with my son due to a gall bladder stone issue and complications, what people think of my writing is not one of the things to interfere with my writing.
Over the years I've written stories in the present tense, the past tense, first person, third person omni, third person restricted, etc. Some people don't like present tense stories, some don't like first person stories, some don't like stories with sex scenes, some don't like stories without sex scenes - I've written about all of the variants you can have on the mix of all of those themes.
While I can understand some people not liking present tense stories, I fail to see how that stops them from liking the many past tense stories I've written.
About the only thing that's fairly consistent with my stories is I tend to write in the vernacular English instead of formal English because vernacular is looser and more natural for story telling. That means I use contractions in both dialogue and narrative. Part of this is because I used to write formal reports while in government employment and found the very stinted formal English horrid for story telling. After many millions of words of formal English I enjoy writing the millions of words in vernacular English close to how the language is spoken.
I've got over 30 works I'm trying to get finished but the 90 minute drives, each way, to the hospital tend to ruin a day and the following evening. Especially in the hot days we've had lately - 28 to 42 C temps are not good for driving in.
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Especially in the hot days we've had lately - 28 to 42 C temps are not good for driving in.
You know, they have invented something for that. It's called air-conditioning :)
You know, they have invented something for that. It's called air-conditioning :)
ayep, but not even the best car air-conditioning does a damn thing for you when the sun is coming in hot and strong straight through the windscreen on you like a furnace.
ayep, but not even the best car air-conditioning does a damn thing for you when the sun is coming in hot and strong straight through the windscreen on you like a furnace.
You know, they have invented something for that. It's called window tinting ;p
In NSW I think tinting is not allowed for the windscreen.
There are also legal limits on tinting car windows in some US states.
There are also legal limits on tinting car windows in some US states.
In the state of Michigan, USA the law states that only the top 4 inches (10cm) of the windshield can be tinted and the Front seat side windows: up to 35% tint darkness can be used. Back seat side windows: up to 35% tint darkness allowed. Rear window: up to 35% tint darkness allowed. Medical Expections To The Michigan Window Tint Law Certain medical conditions make it a necessity to have windows that are tinted darker than the legal limit in Michigan. Conditions that allow a person a medical exception are melanoma, lupus or a sunlight allergy.
This is just Michigan I have know idea what the rest of the country laws are and I have know idea how they define or measure 35%. This is the info on the poster at car shop I go to when I need window film.
In the state of Michigan, USA the law states that only the top 4 inches (10cm) of the windshield can be tinted and the Front seat side windows: up to 35% tint darkness can be used.
I can just imagine a custom car builder in Detroit (actually, is there any town or city in that state that anyone would actually want to live?) coming out with a lowered roof such that the front window is 4 inches tall, and blacked out tint...
I don't know about going down to just 4 inches, but lowering the roof of a Ford Model A hotrod is fairly common.
I rather doubt it could be done safely with a modern unibody car.
I rather doubt it could be done safely with a modern unibody car.
It isn't that hard to do safely but it just not done cheaply. I see many cars at shows where they cut and lower the roof you just end up needing to have a custom made glass windows to fill the now smaller openings. My neighbor has a 1960 something Chevy Nova that he cut 5 inches (12.7cm) out of the roof line and slammed to the ground.
It isn't that hard to do safely but it just not done cheaply.
For an older car with a separate frame and body, sure.
A unibody is the frame and body all in one piece of stamped metal.
Cutting into a unibody has a very high probability of compromising the structural integrity of the car.
The Chevy Nova was of semi-unibody construction having a bolt on front section joined to its unitized cabin and trunk rear section, available in two-door coupe and four-door sedan configurations as well as convertible and station wagon versions. Unibody just means that the vehicles body of the car helps make up the frame to support the undercarriage. You can get away with lowering the roofline with little problem as the structure for support is still basically there just smaller, but you couldn't get away with chopping the roof off a unibody car to make it a convertible unless you build a frame under the car to replace the now missing roof.
You know, they have invented something for that. It's called window tinting ;p
ayep, and window tinting the windscreen cops a nice mutli-thousand dollar fine and replacement of the offending glass in this state. The side windows do absolutely nothing to stop the sun coming in the windscreen when you're driving toward the sun in the late a.m. and then in the late p.n. while going home.
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The side windows do absolutely nothing to stop the sun coming in the windscreen when you're driving toward the sun in the alte a.m. and then in the late p.n. while going home.
Then you should fix up a nice sun shade for your car :D
Then you should fix up a nice sun shade for your car :D
That would cause a slight issue while driving along at 100 km per hour, which is what I have the heat issue with. I can park under cover at each end, but travel between is the real problem.
That would cause a slight issue while driving along at 100 km per hour, which is what I have the heat issue with. I can park under cover at each end, but travel between is the real problem.
Of course, it was a joke, the thing is for parking. Instead you could try an old fashioned exterior sun visor but it plays hell with aerodynamics.
Instead you could try an old fashioned exterior sun visor but it plays hell with aerodynamics.
and in many new cars is voids all warranties and safety approvals because there is no ridge to screw it to, so you have to drill holes into the framework which then, technically, degrades it's designed safety requirements. In may cause no damage at all, but the bureaucrats will still class the vehicle as non-standard and approved for road usage.
but the bureaucrats will still class the vehicle as non-standard and approved for road usage.
Sometimes there are just too many rules...
Sometimes there are just too many rules...
very true. There is not a heritage classified building in Australia, the USA, or the UK that's over 100 years old that meets modern building codes, but they're all better built than a building constructed to modern building codes. Yet you wouldn't be allowed to build those buildings today.
Yet you wouldn't be allowed to build those buildings today.
That's because no builder today would build to the same quality. No builder today uses seasoned lumber.
Now, granted there's a few good reasons for not building to certain codes from back then - I prefer more modern electrical and plumbing (although I disagree immensely with the most recent add-on to electrical codes... I'd object less to a "no electrical outlet less than four feet above the floor" than the "must use inconvenient outlets everywhere to protect children from autodarwination")
Ernest is one of my most reread authors. I think I am at 7x for Mack. I don't think Ernest feels particularly unappreciated except maybe by his government. I know I try to convey my appreciation to all the authors whose stories I read though I try to limit it to one per story so I don't distract them from their writing efforts.
There are a large number of readers, a not so large group on the forums and I think most of us know not to choose a story based on a single opinion (I would hope). While I am not a fan of all Ernest's stories, I do enjoy most of them. The ones I do not enjoy are not due to quality so much as content. Squiks are squiks and some squiks have nothing to do with sexual content. I know there are several on the forums who just cannot deal with what they feel is poor grammar. I consider that a squik that is just as valid for them as my squik for scat. Sure, bk69 could have been a little less negative in the post. I didn't take offense to the reply to my suggested possible story. My suggestion was actually posted more for the OP and other forum readers than bk69.
'nuff said, or as me pappy would say, "I don't need a second opinion, I like mine just fine." ;-)
I think he said "unreadable".
Actually, I said his 'typical writing style' was one I found unreadable. However, I also gave him a decent review on one story where he used a more readable style.
I just had a lot of bad experience with trying his stories, it seemed almost all were that present tense crap. If there were some indication of which stories were written without that style, I'd probably read more of his.
As for scores - ever hear of selection bias? Only people who find a story readable will likely vote. And people like me, who predict that the writing style will be disagreeable and don't bother to confirm that won't adjust the scoring downward. (And scores on SOL have rarely been about readability, and more about writer popularity, and content palatability than anything.)
If there were some indication of which stories were written without that style, I'd probably read more of his.
most of the older stories are past tense, so you can start there with a date sort.
"us" probably should be "is".
There are probably a few thousand more entries on this forum where you could go through and correct typos.
There are probably a few thousand more entries on this forum where you could go through and correct typos.
There are way more than just a few thousand. That particular correction was a lead in to appreciating the author under discussion. In my opinion I think it is better to read stories and sometimes suggest something to proofread than to work with an enormous number of opportunities to correct forum posts. Stories matter. Forum posts mostly don't. Your opinion may vary. If it does, go right ahead and post proofreadings here. See what it gets. Mostly negative comments.
A Match Made in the Hindu Kush by Celtic Bard is close. Possibly with some other stories details mixed in.
https://storiesonline.net/s/59581/desert-dream
by
https://storiesonline.net/a/Crunchy
Shipwrecked time traveler is taken in by desert tribe