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Dear Andrej
I must confess to not being very good at e-mailing to authors - but having read several of your stories recently - I have to say how much I enjoyed
For Dress, a Tattoo (Yakuza) - Happy Cristmas Neil and Norman - Love and Underworld's Story - The King of Sitges - The Star's Shadow
You can tell from when you posted them how lazy I am at writing to authors
Your writing style is excellent - a professional level - and the translations to English are very good
I am just amazed at how long ago you wrote these stories - you must have started at a young age - but as the stories date back to the 1990's - do you still write?
There are bound to be a few stories that will not appeal to me - but please keep on posting - I really enjoy most of them!
Regards
Brian
68 - from the UK - relocated to Malaysia
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019 |
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Dear Andrej,
Thank you for the Norman/Neil series.
I thought it was very good and, often, both moving and perceptive.
Yet, allow me two points of criticism.
First, I think you made the young man too wise for his age and background... I can see you needed that for the reader to accept the older man's falling-in-love with him. But yet...
Secondly, I must admit that I find the 'happy end' far too Hollywood-like, like a X-mas story from the Hallmark 'factory'. I can see why it might satisfy you, as the writer; but it yet didn't satisfy/convince this, admittedly particular reader.
But nevertheless: thanks.
And: have a good Christmas.
Regards
N
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011 |
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Hello Andrej,
I started reading "Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman" and though needed to go back to work, I hated leaving the story. This was the most wonderful story I have enjoyed!!
I have adopted back along two children and one lives with me this day. Though it is not the same as Neil and Norman, became in time friends and then intimate lovers. My last adopted son, now 27 y.o. lives with me still.
Lots of people when we are about think we are lovers, as the love that is shown on my son his growing up since I adopted him at the age of 12, from a horrid home; I call him my Miracle child. He still suffers from the damage from his former family, but, lots of healing has taken place and there is no shame in a hug and kiss when my son needs it.
So this was kind of a reminder though different of when I came upon my son. This was absolutely a wonderful love story!! The beautiful friends and how they gained a child to raise together Just Wonderful!! So needless to say I loved this story, "Happy Christmas"!!
Hugs, in friendship, Geno
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Sunday, 18 December 2005 |
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Hello Andrej,
I just finished your story Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman. I liked it a lot. I just kept on reading until it was finished! There is just enough drama and there is a happy ending. It's a love story about commitment. I like to find these elements in a story. It was very fitting to read this story at this time of the year.
I did read another story today, In Full Flight. It's good to read about stories in a European setting for a change. The stories on the nifty archives are mainly from the US or the UK. On occasion you find a story from somewhere else. So I'm glad to have found your site.
I was feeling down after reading chapter 6. I was filled with a great sadness. Your words touched me. I don't understand how some parents behave towards their children. Granted it's not always easy to hear that your child is gay. You have so many expectations for them. For
some of them it's like hitting a brick wall.
I'm 34 and my family know about me since last June. I'm new at accepting myself but it's the best move I've made. I've never felt better about myself. And to think that I was fighting it all this time! It's great that my family is really supportive of me and I know my luck. I won't have to give up the relationship I have with my family. I know it's not always the case and I already talked to someone through email that told me that his boyfriend was kicked out of the house after he told his family at the age of 18. The sad truth is that these things exists. Even the way Giovanni's father is behaving could happen. Human nature can be both very beautiful or very ugly.
The ending was very poetic. Not quite the happy ending that I was looking for but the fact that both lovers remain together is enough. I like the fact that this second story that I read from you is also about commitment. It's what I am longing for. That and romance.
Have a very nice and happy Christmas,
Andrew
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Friday, 20 August 2004 |
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I have finished four of your stories: Goldfinch, Black Clover, The Boss' Toy and Happy Xmas Neil & Norman.
It is hard for me to pick my favorite between Goldfinch and Black Clover.
I really liked Goldie, your characterizations are good, and I felt I could see the characters in action reading the story. I was thrown off a little by the geography; I had trouble at times figuring out where Goldie was. Other than that, the story is good.
Black Clover, I think, is probably a shade more my favorite, after all. I recall reading chapters, then I would go home, and wonder where that book was with the Arabian story! Then I would have to shake myself to remember it is on the computer at work!
I feel you did an excellent job on the historical accuracy of the area and times in that story. I feel great that our hero succeeded and did well. Thanks for a great story.
Happy XMas... was the first story I read. I was slightly confused by the back and forth in time frames, at first, but I caught on. It was very realistic how you portrayed the slow blossoming of Neil and Norman's relationship, the confusion, back-tracking, and so on. Another great story!
The Boss' Toy, well, I am glad Sylvio got free of the horrible Don, but I have a hard time reading stories where children are abused/hurt in any way. Even movies showing kids getting hurt bother me. I know these are just stories, but I have a vivid imagination, and I get drawn into the plots as if they are real; that is why I get upset about kids being hurt/killed.
I have started the 7 Brothers story, I'll let you have feedback when I am done.
God bless you, and Matt: many long years together!!
James
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Wednesday, 6 August 2003 |
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hi
i've read a few of your stories, the english ones and man, you're a writer worthy of praise.
something just crossed my mind, perhaps you could have been a lot more famous if you had lived alongside oscar wilde, robert ross and alfred douglas, [......hmmmn what literary pieces would you have written....] though i doubt if you'd trade the experiences and treasured times you had and still have now
these are the stories i like most
1. epistolary ----- this one's really cool
2. happy christmas, neil and norman ---- i like the part here where norman provoked neil, norman's leaving neil's apartment and norman's apologising to neil the next night
3. dear eugenio
4. the puppet's theater
i'm 21yrs old. i have no knowledge regarding the italian language, so i can only hope that a lot of people will come to aid you to translate the rest of your stories in english.
hey andrej, keep it up!
happiness to both you and matt!!
H.M.
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Monday, 3 December 2001 |
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Dear Mr. Koymasky,
Earlier today I finished reading the last of your stories in English. Through coincidence, as we approach the holidays, it was "Merry Christmas, Neil and Norman."
Thank you so much for your generosity in providing your readers with so many examples of your creative imagination - one gift after another.
I look forward to the appearance of the others in English, all of which I hope you will post via the Nifty Archives where they can be discovered and appreciated by so many present and future readers. It is largely because of my discovery there of your stories that I sent them a contribution today.
Sincerely,
Frank
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Saturday, 4 March 2000 |
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Andrej,
In the past week or so, I finished reading "Males House", "I, The President's Son", and "Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman", and I am now in the middle of "Chipi". All these stories are so wonderful, and are written in completely different styles, so each time I read a story I get a totally new and fresh perspective of the unchanging fundamental theme of love.
"Males House" makes me dream, as I am married and have a little boy. I am so happy that everything worked out for Fiore and Daniele.
Then there is the incredibly beautiful love story between "Neil and Norman", one is older, and the other is perhaps straight. Yet their almost impossible love survived everything and grew even more beautiful with age. It filled my heart with such tender and warm feelings. I can actually feel their love and happiness when I close my eyes. It also made me dream.
In the "President's Son", every trouble that Dave went through touched me in a very deep way. In a sense, perhaps I too am not able to live in a way that I really wanted, yet life goes on. Even when I closed the story, the tears on my cheeks are not dry. I can still remember the last sentence of the story, I can almost recite it "Life flows just once, unrepeatable. So we can just live it, day after day, with all the joys and the pains it presents to us, waiting for tomorrow." I know I do not need to say anything more, because everything is right there in that sentence.
With a strong tight hug and a kiss...
Love,
Matthew
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