Yay new Kyell Gold stuffs! This will sate me until July.

Wow. As always, wow.

Now that I've read it, I am super psyched for the new book. Just that the bonus is after the last book is just so tempting! Now we know a lot more about what happened between books and this is a huge game changer! I physically felt anger and wanted to punch Eileen when she burned Lee's stuff... and that still resonates with me months after reading the book. You really capture emotion and know your way with words. I'll be first in line for the new book. <3

Interesting if you think about it that Lee and his mum are really a great deal more similar than they might think; both are in a relationship with someone their mother strongly disapproves of. Eileen just can't see that. Although I did get the impression from the last book that that freaky otter kind of brainwashed her.

Wow, what a cool little story out of the blue. It's interesting that I just finished "Red Devil" a few hours ago; my day is full of Kyell, it seems.

Thanks for the stories, dude.

Awesome empowering piece as always Kyell! ^^ Still mad at Eileen for what she did, as that was a rash action. But I also still have the hope she will eventually give up her old ways, and see things as they are and love the new Lee. Ah well I know you'll surprise us in some way. Thanks for being such an amazing writer, and I'm excited for your next piece. ^^ Also thanks for such a heartfelt bonus story.

Was great to read a piece in the point of view of Brenly. His thoughts and opinions on the situations that are happening.
I feel for the character - and that is something I've always loved about your stories. As a reader I get really attached to each character as they are all very different and unique. Like fine ingredients in a recipe - which result in a lovely meal.

Thank you for this bonus piece.

I hope to see more of Brenly in the next book. I relate completely to his character. I feel so bad for him and his situation and would like to see how he handles it

i tell you kids these days got no respect with their skateboards and their low pants and their gay lovers

Best tag evar

thanks it was a nice read

Got through about half of it. Started to think "wait, just out of curiosity, let me read the description thing at the bottom". I read it. Haven't read "Divisions".

Close call, too close lol.

Yeah, sorry--I should edit it to include a note at the beginning. SoFurry puts the description first and I just wasn't thinking when I uploaded this.

It's no prob dude

i wanna smack his mom sooooooooo hard. my hand print would be there for the rest of her life and beyond

It would be awesome to see this in the back of the next OoP novel

http://kyellgold.com/wpblog/2014/04.....s-bonus-story/

Nice! I am still totally in love with this story. Can't wait to read the next book!

Really good so far! Look forward to reading the book!

you write with a huge amount of compassion towards hurting parents, in the same way you've written countless times in the past of hurting young people struggling with their sexuality. I'm impressed, and curious if this parental viewpoint comes from your some of your own family, or parents you've interacted with?

The pain written in here is really vivid. Strikes a huge nerve for me.. its the kind of pain I know I will someday cause for my parents.. and I'm scared to death of it

It can be tough. I grew up in a Bible Belt state and it wasn't easy coming out to my parents, but in the end, it made me feel better about who I am. If you haven't yet come out, and that's what's bothering you, I understand your concern. I can't say that you should or shouldn't come out immediately because I don't know your parents or your home life, but maybe find someone to talk to about it, who is on neutral grounds: a friend to confide in. Feel free to message me, if you would like to talk further, or if you would like any advice. I will try to help as well as I can. And who knows, maybe your parents will surprise you. =)

Thanks for this little gem. I love this kind of minimalist storytelling.

Reading this has reinforced a determination that I have made after reading 'Divisions' (and after having read 'Waterways' something like 4 times):
We need to have a sort of villain origin story from Celia Hedley's viewpoint. Something that illustrates how she went from well-intentioned extremist to complete monster.
Would you please consider writing a little something along those lines?

Nice work, Kyell. You have really done well at conveying a sense of tiredness in Brenly with this story. He seems tuckered out through a lot of the story, in your books and this first-person view does a good job in explaining and keeping up with that perspective. Thank you for sharing.

One could say like farther like son, but it is also like mother like son in that family. And all three of them are alone and contemplate decisions of life just now.

The only sorry part is that Eileen has anchored herself so deep in her own little world of Wiley finding a vixen and getting pups that she negated all of his attempts to make her see who he really is even as he was literally throwing it her in the face early on. But for that Branley is at fault as well. He knew that Wiley was gay and would never marry a vixen but still he always played it like there was hope instead of helping his wife see reason before the fall-out at the restaurant.

As I see it since reading Divisions there is only one person who can eventually knit that family back together but with how such things work in their relationship it would be best for him to wait until post season to make an attempt. He really can’t afford broken or dislocated extremities now should he confront Mrs. Farrel and her church-sponsored hate organization or even a longer stay in jail for assault on them. But luckily Devlin may be more meathead than Wiley but he at least is the more collected and not so stubborn of the two and might bring his father with him to make Eileen see reason that even the epitome of straight masculinity that Mikahail Misky can tolerate his gay son and twig of a Fox boyfriend (However that may go only stands in the stars or your feather).

I love that you add in these great bonus stories and they add such great depth to the books. I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series and have gotten a number of friends hooked on them.

Very cool. I really enjoy Brenley's changing perspective through the series. A thoughtful fox, especially when contrasted with his ex-wife who digs deeper into her entrenched positions which are increasingly untenable. Still, Eileen is not merely a caricature of a religious bigot; she retains her, er, humanity. She is a pitiable example of a certain religious mindset that is a cause of so much misery.
On a side note, I believe this story is the first time that breeding seasons have been introduced in the Forrester universe. Interesting.

Brenly is a much better person than my original first impression of him in Out of Position. I wonder though, if there's some niggling part of him that thinks "if only my son were straight, my marriage wouldn't have collapsed?" Still, I'm very much under the impression that it's Brenly that gave Lee his caring nature. Comparing the two inner monologues, their thoughts are most similar when Lee is mulling over, spoiler alert, King's suicide. Not exactly in content, but in overall tone, those same types of thoughts keep their minds churning and sadly, awake. I'm glad to see the two of them repair the burnt bridges between them. Lee's own turmoil in his relationship is kind of similar to his father's so they can relate. Discovering Dev isn't exactly the man he thought he was is a bit shocking, to the reader too, I imagine Still, as long as Lee has a bit of his family, he'll be able to hold on. Perhaps it's just my natural inclination toward pessimism, but I'm sure a break-up is on the horizon for Dev & Lee. Likely won't stick, though!

Excellent. There's so much explained here, in so few words, so quickly. Really sheds a lot of light into Lee's parents and it pulled off perfectly. Lovely.

I finally remembered to read this (when I wasn't about to go to sleep). After reading it perhaps that wouldn't have been a bad idea to read it that way though.

I feel bad for both characters, but more so for Brenly. Eileen's attitude just seems so selfish to me, even if she wouldn't see it that way herself. What little hope I had of them getting back together is mostly gone though. I didn't realize things were falling apart even before "the incident."