Lost in a Dream

[justanothershyguy]

Excellent story, Matt! I've been reading from the beginning and can't wait for the next chapter!

Glad to have a new poster Thanks!!!

Glad to have another chapter!

Great to hear from ya sheep!

God, another hot chapter, Matt. If that is writers block, then I think they have to change the entire meaning of those words. As HR stated once before, I think it is really interesting to hear the story through Brayden's point of view. I also believe the rift between Evan and Lukas will not last too long. Particularly since there is some form of sensitivity between Evan and Matt. If I remember correctly, Matt seemed to sense some intensity when Evan and Lukas had one of their heavy sexual encounters, so maybe the reverse will happen for Evan after this mind blowing evening between Matt and Brayden. I think being twin brothers would intensify those feelings. I will be looking forward to the next chapter.

In the mean time, Matt, have a Happy New Year!

Craiger

Well, I didn't have writer's block when I was actually writing! It's just easy to tell which days are gonna work well and which days aren't!

You took your sweet time posting, but in the end you delivered. Getting the look inside of Matt and why he hates fighting was quite insightful. Pains like Michael caused him can reshape a guy for the rest of his life. And then the sex scene. Oh my fucking god! ... You make your characters so real and so likable. I just can't help but feel so close to them. You know you can get me hard just by saying "Good morning! "

I didn't mean to take my time... it's just passing way too fast for me to realize I'm not writing! Ah!

i should have written this when i read the new part, but like it left me jizz covered and all and i felt kind tired to write after i got off so fucking good. i know your story is about more than sex but it left me with about nothing fucking else cuz i was all out over it. i liked the part where you told braydon about how you hate fighting and what that michael guy did. you make it feel so fucking real and so i jizz even more hard. I know ha but it is.

Thanks, Billy. Always a pleasure to hear from ya!

Matt:

You've got a great, easy to read and get into style to your writing....

Great to have another new reader! I didn't wanna completely quote this, so I'm glad you enjoyed the first parts you've read. Stay with me, criticize, suggest, comment, do as you please if you want the story to continue!

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I really wish I could be posting a new chapter, but I'm not. I just realized it had been weeks since I even posted, and for that I'm embarrassed. I left y'all hangin'! I have a feeling the inspiration may be coming back, so I hope that I can start writing again soon. Like I mentioned earlier in the post, the days are just flying by and it just hit me that I hadn't written to you guys. So, stay with me, subscribe and be prepared. I'ven't (wait, is that even possible... whatever, I just made it possible!) left you and I will be writing soon. Chapter 25 awaits! What will happen?

So, for all you new and old readers, just be patient and it will come. Just you wait and see!

Take care!
Matt

 

[Craiger]

Many famous authors coined new words, Matt, and it appears you did the same. I'll contact the dictionary publishers so they can print "I'ven't" in their next publications.......

Craiger

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 5

This gets more and more interesting.
Is he a psychic sleeper, entering the minds of other guys while he sleeps, experiencing their thoughts and actions, feelings?

Chapter 6 - HOLY SHIT! What a fucking nightmare that opening is!

His Doppleganger Evan got beat up across campus?!

Braden and Jason and Gina all seem like really great people.

Chapter 7 - How to freak Lukas out in a hurry. The coach times two, too.

(Once more) Into the breach - gutsy guy!

And, talk about your sweet rewards!

Chapter 8 - A good morning, indeed.
Waking up stuck to your man, refreshing shower, very nice view, breakfast with appreciative people.

A great story in the background, waiting to grow like a fish tale, although this one is already a huge Marlin of a tale.

Twin brothers, separated at birth?!

Chapter 9 - Aiden, football scholar extraordinaire, with a homophobic asshole of a father.

These dreams are definitely taking us in strange directions.

Musical Rooms - one change complete, one primed, two to go.

Chapter 10 - Back to Aiden, now with thte Football Coach - and, Moving day, with a bit of unthinking Kevin rearing its ugly head - around Aiden.

Sockittohim, Matt. Set his dumb jock ass straight, lol.

Chapter 11 - Waking up to shit music, as your boyfriend puts on the shit-eatin' grin. You should have turned around, bent over, and told him to eat shit and die - or at least pleasure the shit out of you as penance, lol.

Ultimate Frisbee, the collegiate "intramural/pick-up" game of choice for the non uber jock community on campus.

Team Offense playing "let the opposition kill the queer quarterback", are they? That's what I'm reading between the lines, here.

Methinks Kevin did Just what Matt told him to do during the 1/2 time break in the locker rooms, with Coach right there to back him up - and reward him!

Sneaky little bastard, aren't you, Yentle? "Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match, find me a man, catch me a catch . . . ."


And, now that I'm at the bottom of Page 1, AND it's almost 2:30 EST, and I have church in the morning, I'm going to bid you sweet adieu, my young padawan friend and spectacular author.

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 12 - Sunday morning Sunshine and assorted happenings!

Oh happy morning - and "why was Kevin in Lukas' room, instead of his own?"!

Evan has a bit o' the devil in him - time to start sorting out who is adopted - or, are both?

What cruel trick does he have up his sleeve to pull on his parents? - As if we don't have an idea! Time to find out which/or if both, are adopted, and maybe why?

Brayden get shamed into a proper might out date, eh? A little romantic competition from the sib can be a good thing. Of course, to be fair, they've only been together for a week, and a pretty hellacious one at that.

Man, his folks hit by a drunk driver?! Critical condition. His brother calling him - not good news - and that will likely cancel the plans for tomorrow, not that they're immensely important at this point. But they may well be, later. He and Bryan may need some surrogate parents the comfort them.

Chapter 13 - The tragedies of September.

Getting to the hospital, and being able to talk to his mom. A curious quandary - telling his mom about Brayden, and coming out to her, while she's so badly hurt - I guess knowing your mom is key - would the strain of finding out your son is gay shock her system, or be a blessing as it turned out to be?

Lunch with Evan and his folks as a distraction.

Wow. A bit of a shock. Being given to their best friends to take care of, because of early financial difficulties of the time. Truly sad that they drifted apart, given the special bond between the families. Then, again, the unspoken pressures, conflicts, perhaps even the guilt of the birth parents.

Good News! His parents have been upgraded, are both awake and alert and doing well! His dad is quite a character - and turn about fair play, with Matt's surprise visitors coming.

And poor Bryan - talk about blindsided! Of course, I think I missed a transition in there- when did Evan walk in? When his dad asked Matt how he knew about Dan and Mary - I expected Evan to walk in with the second "surprise", bit either I missed it, or it wasn't there, lol.

Rating Matt's cusses - Bryan sounds like Jason noting Matt's infrequent cussing. Save 'em for when they really count and make an impact, I've always said.

Dean has some definite issues - is Matt saying he's deep in the closet, and he can tell, having been there?

Meanwhile, back at the dorm, with studies not going so well - heads in different locations, and Brayden freshly back from the showers, it sounds like a little physical distraction and emotional release is on the agenda!

The intensity of their lovemaking was great - wish I was there, and part of it!

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Your note between 13 & 14 was a window into your soul, of sorts. Thank you for sharing it with us, and your continued efforts and talents in writing the story - and your presence elsewhere! You're a great guy, Matt.
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Chapter 14 - The slow waking up, thoughtful, reflective. The love welling up inside, suffusing your
entire body - it's an incredible feeling to experience.

Dean and his sister were twins - and she was 1.5 times the legal limit. That's a lot of alcohol. The twin connection will be telling, methinks.

Lukas - an extremely powerful stripping away of one's facade/veneer, getting to the raw emotion underneath.

And the talk with Dean. Peeling an onion, layer by layer can take some time, but it still gets to the heart of the root after awhile.

And Lukas and Evan - and by eventual extension, Aiden. Extremely powerful Q & "no A" session.

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 15 - That's a helluva start to the chapter. Evan doesn't want to be an adult, so he pulls childish bullshit, which will doubtless bit his cute butt in the long run.

An interesting step into Evan's mind's eye on how he sees Aiden and Lukas, methinks. And another restless night for Matt.

Another "grammatatist" I see. "Can" instead of "May", lol. My Dad in-law used to pull that on his kids all the time - and I picked it up, to my wife and kids' neverending dissatisfaction.

Kevin, scrunched head, text w/smile. Hmmmm?

And back in the room w/ Brayden and their intimate cumfest! And cumfest it was, too - or is that Times TWO for TWO!

You are doing a great job, Matt. I'd stay up and read even more, but I need to be up way early in the morning.
I should have gone up an hour ago.

Take care, sir.

 

[justanothershyguy]

<snip>
You are doing a great job, Matt. I'd stay up and read even more, but I need to be up way early in the morning.
I should have gone up an hour ago.

Take care, sir.

Thanks, DQ. Sorry for keeping you up last night, but we both know it was for a good cause. Catch up on your sleep and get back to the story when you can. It ain't goin' anywhere, that's for sure!

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Hey guys, update time. I had part of 25 written, but it was collecting dust while I was stuck on a part. I am now 'un-stuck' and working again. Again, I won't promise a posting day, but I'm hoping that it will be sooner rather than later. I have to agree with what I am quite sure you are all thinking, it has been too long.

I know this was a short update and it was more in response to DQ's posts than anything, but I figured I could update the rest of you patient boys while I was at it. Also, thanks for no hate mail while you wait. I would have grabbed a pitchfork, joined an angry mob, and yelled things if I had to wait this long! Seriously though, you guys are awesome and that's why I keep writing.

Thanks

 

[Craiger]

Matt, a good story is like fine wine, very much worth the wait. Looking forward to the new update.

Craiger

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 16 - Every man's wet dream - waking up to being serviced with an awesome head job!

And a wet DREAM, it was, lol.

Cumpleat with some good natured ball busting. What are friends for, anyway?!

A good visit to the Hospital and Dean - since the folks seem to have been preoccupied with other things and forgot to tell Matt they were sprung from the joint!

Gramps - an older generation gent who needed to be called up short - maybe he's retuning his neurons a bit after the push back.

And, the wonderful, loving, HOT, Erotic love making.

And who was their voyeur? Brother Evan, maybe?

Chapter 17 - Hail, Hail, the gang's almost all here! Free Show! lol.

What a great morning shower - Dream!

And, better yet, the real intimacy of the locked bedroom.

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 18 -

“Hey Matt!” he said once I reached him. “Good to see you, too. Who got you to come?”

‘What?’ I thought to myself at first and then realized he was talking about who I came here with. “Brayden, of course!” Well, I suppose my answer would have been the same either way.

Great line, Matt!

Oh, Shit. That fucking cunt, Dean.
You were drunk, and should have known better, too, though.

You DO know how to rip our hearts out.

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 19 -
The beginnings of rebuilding.

Friday night was a clusterfuck.

Hakuna Matata - it's in de past.

Here's hoping!

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Chapter 20 -
The angst of trying to set things right - and the battles - making the first step - trying to figure out how frequently to try again if you don't get an immediate reply.

Flash Forward to Brayden's wedding - to whom?

And the Agony is replaced by the reconciliation and knowing all is well in their little part of the world.

And, Payback?! When, where, PIcTURES!
(I typed the above before I got to your paragraph, lol.)

And on to the Shower Scene!

And, there's that brotherly connection, again. One of these days . . .

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 21 -
An interesting start- getting to know the guys on the floor more - some good and some not so good.

Then there's the Dean factor . . .

Nate - Nasty, homophobic Nate.

Well, things seem fine with Dean.

And, now Nate's about to get the ass-whoopin' of a life time - verbally, if not physically.

Call Kevin - so he can see what's what. . .

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Chapter 22 -

Flashback a la Brayden - intersting!

"Peaceful" confrontation - with a lot of verve. Beat that boy's ass and never laid a finger on the cowardly bully. Because, that's what they usually are, cowards.

Sam, good old Sam will turn Nate around.

And now, on to the hot, STEAMY sex.
YES!

Oh, Matt. Fan-Fucking-Tastic is just the word to describe it.

 

[DonQuixote]

Chapter 23 -
Morning fun and games during Q&A - everyone pick on poor Matt!

Am I Gay? Ponders Sam, I AM!

The bigger question is,
Will Nate be his Date,
Will Nate sup his Jizz
Is Nate as horny for Sam
As Sam is for HIS?!!!

Time for Paradise Lost between Evan and Lukas? Evan is a bit like a kid in a candy store - just getting into sampling everything with his eyes.

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Chapter 24 -
The tennis match is back on - service: Brayden.

In THIS CORNER, weighing in at . . .
Lukas and Evan continued . . .

Matt, you already HAVE a magic "Wand".
I know Brayden would agree.
And, maybe THAT's how to get through to Evan's head - if you can't get in contact with the BIG head, make the LITTLE one horny as fuck and facing "not tonight, asshole, I've got a headache and his name is EVAN".

And, everyone's worst nightmare come true for Matt - coming out to your best friend to have them completely reject you. You, the person they have known forever. You, the person who has been there for them at any hour of any day. You, who they know better than the back of their own hand.

Then, lest they get too down in the dumps over their friends, time for a little stress relief - a la showing each other just how much they care for each other - as they audition for the cum pump at the floor Christmas Party.

And, it looks like I'm catching up with myself!

 

[justanothershyguy]

Hey guys! I know it's been a really long time (like, really long). And sadly, this is probably going to be getting most of your hopes up.

A long time ago I had part of a chapter written. And it's just been sitting there. I don't have writer's block, I've just lost the interest in writing. Been focused on the rest of my life. I'm sure this is all a great disappointment to my loyal readers, but the lack of communication is totally my fault.

The story will remain, because I like to think I did a good job with it. I just now know I should have ended it when I originally thought!

So the last bit of info I'll leave you with is this: I have not decided if I will write again. All I know is that it will not be for this story. And it will probably be much shorter with a planned ending to it. I don't want to get overwhelmed again!

Thank you for all of your fantastic support. You are all fantastic and I cannot even begin to suggest that this is what you deserve. I always wanted to end it, I've just run out of the focus and time to write for it!

Matt

 

[DonQuixote]

Matt,
The Story Forum is an interesting place - and I'm sure some will be disappointed.
BUT, one of the great things about the forum is it lets people explore their writer's itch, to see if they can give it a good scratch and have it take off or not.

Another is - it lets people explore their inner workings - come to terms with issues in their real lives in a cathartic way - for some, it's about coming out to themselves (and others) in a reflective way. As the author attains a comfort level in their own skin, they no longer feel a need - or a desire - to continue a story - I have seen this happen many times.

While the story may not have a "satisfactory" conclusion, the REAL Life it represents, does, and that's all the difference in the world.

 

[hardreader]

Matt --


Few writers who have left their stories incomplete (and I suspect more are left unfinished than finished) have the strength of character and self-respect, as well as respect for their readers and the craft they have been working at, to admit they are walking away without the classic conclusion we all had originally expected and hoped for.


But more important, and I hope I this is not too much of a reveal, having come to know you a bit over this entire process, the reasons this story goes dormant is because you, as a blossoming gay man, are not. Your life has become more demanding, more complex and steadily more complete. Demands for your time abound in ways they never did when you were in your writing frenzy.


I am proud to have had the opportunity of getting to know both the story Matt and the real life Matt. The conclusion in my mind is more than the "satisfactory" you reference above. Hold your head high and be proud. Matt is a better man for all he has done even more so for all he w ill do.


Later, my friend.
-- H.R.

 

[Craiger]

Hey Matt,

Good to hear from you again and thanks for coming back to us whether the story was in completion or not. I feel, as the others have stated, that the story and your characters were so alive that I can imagine in my own mind how and what things are happening with them. Your talent is exceptional and I so look forward to anything new you care to pen. Keep in touch with us whether by story or just to say hello.

Craiger

 

[oregonbiguy]

I love this story. It really speaks to me. Great work