#random read

now that I’m gradually adjusting to the daily stresses of med school, I plan on incorporating 10-15 mins read every other day of just random things, a habit I saw from @noodledesk! for now, here is my quote of the day:

"The Invasion Commander's Motion for New Business" by Shaenon K. Garrity

Nell Freudenberger, "Hover"

Broken record time, my lovelies. Send your love and support to the writer as well, mmmkay? ;)

Pay to Play by tartanroyaltea

Erotica/Drama, Charlotte Green is a shy and studious medical student living in London, struggling to pay the bills. In desperation, she joins a ‘sugar daddy’ website and gets chosen by none other than Tom Hiddleston, a notorious bachelor and extremely wealthy City solicitor with a few little kinks.

Part 1 - Part 2 – Part 3 - Part 4

I cannot tell you how excited I am about Random Read. The brain child of one bluebirdtweets and we love her for it.

How many have you read so far?

Here's what we're talking about:

See the ‘Random’ in the last line under the header? 

Click on that button until you see a story come up (if asks come up first, which they may… just hit random again).  Once you hit a story, read it, or a chapter of it; and if you like it, either let us know, add a note to the story, or EVEN BETTER….send the author a surprise ask on his/her blog telling how much you loved it. 

Let’s dig into the library a little bit and see what gems we can come up with!  Never know, one or two may inspire YOU to write something, something that can be the next big hit around here.

Or maybe something that will remind us of a story we once read here and loved, and want to share with others.

Now, here’s the COOL PART.   Ready for this?  Are you sure?  Okay.

Those who send in asks based on the RANDOM READ or who like this entry will be put into a RANDOM drawing for three RANDOM participants to win a very very RANDOM three paragraph drabble from one of the admins of any pairing of their liking and any first line they can come up with.

Let’s do this thing!  Get random!

We’ll run this thru the end of March! 

If you want to be eligible for the drawing, GO HERE and click the little heart or send us an ask about a story you read through Random. 

- Kris

I hope the new theme works for everyone. I will need some help in adding a search box, and that's the only thing missing. 

BUT!! We have a random back. If anyone knows how to play with the html to get an actual search box included, I'd be ever so grateful. I've been googling, and I have the coding, I just don't know where to add it. I can't find codes they tell me.

Seriously, I'm HTML stupid. 

Soooooo....  with RANDOM back: Let's revisit the random game. Do you remember? 

See the 'Random' in the last line under the header? 

Click on that button until you see a story come up (if asks come up first, which they may… just hit random again).  Once you hit a story, read it, or a chapter of it; and if you like it, either let us know, add a note to the story, or EVEN BETTER….send the author a surprise ask on his/her blog telling how much you loved it. 

Let’s dig into the library a little bit and see what gems we can come up with!  Never know, one or two may inspire YOU to write something, something that can be the next big hit around here.

Or maybe something that will remind us of a story we once read here and loved, and want to share with others.

This will not only inspire others but will help Kris and her league of volunteers to get the archives completed!  In fact, Kris tells me that she’s going to be adding on a BUNCH of archived stuff tomorrow so look forward to that.

Now, here’s the COOL PART.   Ready for this?  Are you sure?  Okay.

Those who send in asks based on the RANDOM READ or who like this entry will be put into a RANDOM drawing for three RANDOM participants to win a very very RANDOM three paragraph drabble from one of the admins of any pairing of their liking and any first line they can come up with.

Let’s do this thing!  Get random!

We'll run this thru the end of March! 

"This is just until you get on your feet" [my mother] liked to remind me. I hung my towel on the stationary bike. I stacked books on top of Tae Bo DVDs. Each night I refilled the air that had leaked out of the mattress during the day. The noise of the motor usually brought her around, and we'd talk - her pedaling, me sitting on the engorged raft. My mother will be dead one day. People don't think enough about this.