So, you met Mindy again back in Part 1 of the Epilogue. She has a fiancé now, Brett Kincannon, a hot new rookie who plays for the Braves.
She's a fun character and one of my favorite models. See for yourself.
July 1996
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Our little two-car caravan arrived at the Pines in July 1996 with four tired adults and five very cranky kids. We’d been up since the crack of dawn, when we’d left Boston and flown commercial to Atlanta. We planned to return and do some house-hunting after a week at camp, so we’d rented two minivans and had driven from there.
I wasn’t quite ready to walk into t...
2020-08-10 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate from Nick (Aug 3 at 4:40 PM):
2020-08-03 12:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate from Nick (Aug 3 at 4:30 PM): The original version of this part followed a bonus scene (that you'll read in a moment). I thought the scene with Paul talking about the get-together made it clear that the camp was changing, but I was wrong. Clearly.
So... I spent a couple of hours editing and revising the bonus scene to include it here, as a regular scene. As a result, I moved the last two scenes of the or...
2020-08-03 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDec 1994 – Nov 1995
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Susan Renée Hughes blessed us with her presence on a balmy Sunday in December 1994. She was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, even red-faced and slightly confused. She wasn’t grumpy or even suspicious. She was our first baby with dark hair, and she looked back at me like she couldn’t understand why we were the same. Then she sighed and decided I was probably ...
2020-07-27 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJul 1993 – Nov 1994
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We officially closed our company doors on July 31, 1993, three years after we’d opened them. We didn’t have any unpaid creditors, and our office lease was up, so we didn’t even have to declare bankruptcy. Our attorney simply filed the forms to dissolve the company. It was depressingly simple.
We managed to salvage more money than we thought, but not enough to ...
2020-07-20 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(Aug 1990 – Jun 1993)
2020-07-13 12:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the summer of 1992, Trip began looking for a development partner for our tract of land on Lake Lanier. He found him in September. His name was Douglas J. Trimble, and he was a big-time property developer in the area. He wanted to build a golf course, condos, a country club, and a gated luxury community on the lake itself.
“I’d love to start right away,” he told us, “but I have this other development I need to finish ...
2020-07-13 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNote from Nick: Whoops! Sorry this is late. I thought I had it scheduled already, but I didn't. So this is live. I hope the anticipation was worth it.
Oh, and remember... Part 2 takes place from Aug 1990 – Jun 1993.
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Christy and I started talking about children again. We both wanted more, but not if it meant several months of hell after they were born. I could handle the lack of s...
2020-07-06 14:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostNote from Nick: Part 2 of the Epilogue takes place from Aug 1990 – Jun 1993. The e-book will have a subtitle, but I can't do that here. So... you get a note.
Also, this week's installment is longer than the next two. I decided to include an extra scene to keep the money scenes together. (No, not that kind of "money scene." Money in the literal sense. You'll see.)
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Trip and I st...
2020-06-29 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChristy and I spent the rest of the afternoon a
2020-06-22 12:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I'm excited about the Epilogue. Duh!
Yeah, it's the beginning of the end, but it's also the thing I've been working toward for 18 years.
I wrote some of these scenes in my head more than a decade ago, and I can finally share them with you.
Anyway, now that you've 2020-06-16 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for a new index!
First, some quick(ish) announcements:
📆 Big changes are coming! I'll write a longer post and link to it, but here's the tl;dr:
In the category of "I can't make this shit up," I give you the Top Gun Callsign Generator:
http://www.topgunday.com/call-sign-generator/
My callsign?
Seriously, I can't make this shit up:
Bahahahahah...
2020-05-14 19:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostWill you do me a favor?
I'm trying to get to know my readers (you, duh) so I can expand my readership.
If you have 5 minutes, please take a quick Reader Survey.
I respect your privacy, so the survey is comple...
2020-05-06 22:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So, here's the story— Okay, not really. Here's the backstory on the story.
A couple of months ago I received a random DM on Discord from a woman named VoiceLikeCandy. She asked if I ever recorded any of my stories.
My first reaction was, "are you kidding?!?" I mean, you've read my stories. You know how long they are. Can you imagine an SC audiobook?
But then Candy and Big Ed started talking, and ...
2020-04-24 12:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not a baseball fan, so I didn't know anything about the huge brawl between the Atlanta Braves and the San Diego Padres in 1984. I learned about it when I was doing my research (yeah, I'm pretty thorough).
Anyway, here's a great video with lots of explanation and background. The brawl was a big deal at the time, and even today. So I had to include it in the story, e...
2020-03-20 18:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostTime for a new index!
First, some quick announcements:
📘 My publisher is about to release SC: Christy, Volume 6, so I'm going to update the Catch-up + VIP Pass tier and change the price. It'll probably go up to $30 at least, maybe $35 if I include Vol 6. We'll see. (This probably doesn't affect you... unless it does.)
✋ When I...
2020-02-20 03:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostI've been talking to a woman who does audiobooks and story narration, and we've decided to do a trial collaboration.
I'm going to write a short story and she's going to narrate it. (I might publish it here as a short story as well, but we'll see.)
I need to get her a script by the end of February, so...
Who do you w...
2020-02-03 15:50:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas from the Hughes ladies, Erin and Beth.
Oh, and Merry Christmas from me.
Hey, whaddya mean, "Me who?" 😜
Who else fills your life with so much joy?
Uh-huh, that's what I thought. Now, where were we? Oh, right! Merry Christmas.
I hope you have a wonderful day with family and friends...
Check out Big Ed's latest post if you're a fan of Terri Dunbar. (You remember her, right? She's one of the swingers at camp, famous for her... um... barbecue sauce. Yeah, that's the ticket. Anyway, I digress.)
I posted a comment/question on Big Ed's update. Free e-book if you're the fir...
2019-12-16 16:35:42 +0000 UTC View Post
[Edit: Fucking Patreon. It adds HTTP:// to links... even when they have it already. Thanks, morons. Not. Anyway, the link should work now.]
So... you remember Rosemary, right? She's another architecture student, and she starts dating Freddie DeFeo.
You met her back in Chapter 3 at the Halloween party (the one where Christy wore the Alice in Wonderland dre...
2019-12-10 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
[Bah! The first link didn't work. It worked fine here, but not once I published it. It's fixed now. - Nick]
Ask and ye shall receive!
If you remember Terri's tango lessons, she told Paul a simple mnemonic to help remember the steps:
Walk, walk, tango close.
Good advice!
Here's a free gallery if you need an in-depth lesson (ahem!): 2019-11-28 23:21:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I love Brooke. She's such a fun character!
This scene is from SC-Christy, Ch31. She was thinking about a threesome with Paul and Christy, and... well... you know what she did.
Kinda makes you wish for a windy day for the UCSD graduation.
- Nick
2019-11-27 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This scene is from way back in SC-Christy, Ch30.
Terri arrives in a pink minidress for Paul's birthday party.
By now, you all know how things turned out between them, but don't despair! I have a complete novel planned for Paul and Terri (and Christy, of course). So you'll definitely read more about her.
Until then, you'll h...
2019-11-24 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So, this scene is from way back in SC-Wren, Ch7.
Paul and Trip were having fun in the lake with Elaine and Annette (remember her?). After a game of Chicken Fights (look it up), the ladies decided to play with the guys instead.
Anyway, why do I call this "Lake Effect"? ’Cause lots of things happen at nudist camps that are out of...
2019-11-21 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Mindy first appeared back in SC-Christy, Ch1 and then promptly disappeared off-screen.
She's basically a walk-on, walk-off character in the current series, but I have plans for her in the future.
She's part of the modern-day swingers' group with Paul and friends in Atlanta.
Fun fact: Big Ed and I write lots of our stories together, and he i...
2019-11-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Gentlemen (and Ladies)... meet Kim.
She and Carter are fun characters, and you'll see more of them in future stories. I have at least one planned, and I'm sure I'll think of more when I start writing it.
Until then, you'll have to make do with an illustration.
And if you ask nicely, I might post a character pic or two.
- Nick
P.S. - It's...
2019-11-18 19:52:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe tl;dr
I need to take a short break from posting new chapters. The same for pre-release chapters for Staff. So I'm going to take two weeks off, till after Thanksgiving.
I'll start posting Ch36 on Dec. 2. For Staff and Counselors, I'll start posting pre-release Ch39 on Dec 9.
Skip down to The Good News if you don't want to read th...
2019-11-18 05:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostApologies if you've read this already, but all creators are probably sending some version to their patrons. Anyway, here you go. - Nick
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