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1 Tuesday, November 10, 2020 1 29 1
1 Your Story "Happy Cristmas Neil and Norman What an exquisite piece you have written. Mix of love, hardships and problem solving. Thank you for opening your heart.

Geoff

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1 Sunday, February 9, 2020 1 28 1
1 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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1 Monday, January 6, 2020 1 28 1
1 Hello

I just finished "Merry Cristmas Neil and Norman". I so enjoyed this story.
Thank you for writing it.

Peter M.
from Maine. USA

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1 Tuesday, December 17, 2019 1 27 1
1 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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1 Monday, December 16, 2019 1 26 1
1 Hello,

Thank you for the wonderful story about "Neil and Norman". You write very well, the details are great and it is just so great to read.

Blake

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1 Friday, September 16, 2016 1 25 1
1 Hey Andrej,

just finished "Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman", and want to say what a beautiful story. I found that I could not stop reading, had to shut the comp down to go to bed before I got into to trouble with my Partner; but went back to it today to finish. If the others (I'm sure they will) are up to this standard I'm in for so very happy reading.

Cheers and love
Ernest

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1 Tuesday, 17 May 2011 1 24 1
1 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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1 Monday, 10 March 2008 1 23 1
1 I have just finished to read "Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman" and enjoyed the story line very much, a little disappointed that it did not continue while Ned grew up, although I must admit that it was a good point to finish on.

Thanks again

Dennis

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1 Thursday, 17 August 2006 1 22 1
1 Hello,

I've read two more of your stories. I was very touched, emotionally moved by "Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman." So sweet, so tender. Neil's inner feelings remind me a lot of my own emotional makeup.

You, are wonderful. Thank you so much for the joys you're giving me.

Mike

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1 Tuesday, 4 July 2006 1 21 1
1 Andrej

Just finished reading Happy Christmas Neil and Norman and have started reading Snot Boy. I very much like how you portray your characters. I feel like I am part of them and am feeling what they are experiencing.

James

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1 Sunday, 18 December 2005 1 20 1
1 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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1 Friday, 19 August 2005 1 19 1
1 hey there pips!

hope u two are doin good!
i've read 4 of andrej's works:
epistolary, happy christmas neil and norman, dear eugenio and infamous trade, the first three i've read too many times i lost count already. loved em, especially epistolary.

BIG thanks for sharing ur works man, same goes for the translator, kudos to ya both!

max from philippines

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1 Saturday, 23 July 2005 1 18 1
1 Hi, how are you? My name is norman and I'm a fan of your stories. I have read almost all of your english translated stories, but the one I love the most is Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman. It was so wonderful and making me longing to have a love-love ralationship like they had, since I don't have such a luck since i have never had any lover yet.

Well, Thank you for your attention and I wish you luck in life and in love.

Sincerely Yours

Norman

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1 Friday, 20 August 2004 1 17 1
1 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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1 Wednesday, 6 August 2003 1 16 1
1 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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1 Wednesday, 27 March 2002 1 15 1
1 Dear Mr. Koymasky,

It has been such a long time since the appearance of another translation of one of your stories that I thought I'd write again to express my keen interest in being able to read the others.

You may recall that I have read every story currently posted in English, some of them more than once (Double Shunt continues to be my favorite, with Happy Christmas Neil & Norman and The Tide's Man tying for second).

Is it possible to say when some of the remaining stories will be posted in English?

Yours gratefully, Frank

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1 Monday, 3 December 2001 1 14 1
1 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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1 Tuesday, 25 April 2000 1 13 1
1 I've read a few of your stories and find them to be of the same nature of "Underworld"... namely that the main characters seem very friendly and likable. I enjoy reading about their exploits. I e-mailed you back in February to tell you how much I enjoyed Neil and Norman. I also got curious and explored your website and got a kick out of your jokes. Last week, I wrote to Alexander and had a bit of a pen-pal relationship with him. I've since joined the ASSGM-list egroups. Of all the stories posted I find that yours and his are most enjoyable to me. I look forward to more of your stories.

Art

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1 Wednesday, 15 March 2000 1 12 1
1 My Dearest Andre,

I have read Happy Christmas, Neil and Norman and also Love and Underworld's Story and they are as beautiful as your other stories.

When I read them I can feel the love that you posses in your soul and I know that you are a romantic like me. I know in my heart that love is the force that holds this universe together and I only wish I were one of your characters in your writings so I could share your love and passion. When ever I read one of your stories I feel the love and wrap myself in its warm comfort.

I too will be soon 60 and am feeling that I am alone in life never having found a true love. The desire for someone to love the real me, the one with all the faults and frailties, the being that is I hope young and beautiful, within this aging mortal body .

I send you my love and hope that someday we will meet either in this world or the next.

Gary

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1 Wednesday, 15 March 2000 1 11 1
1 Hi Andrej,
enjoyed your story about Neil and Norman, it really has some prose quality unusual for the Nifty Stories. The only thing I didn't like was that they couldn't live a happy and out-of-the-closet life, which should be possible even in Britain these days. The lottery win was slightly unrealistic, but then: it's a Christmas story.

I am curious how the story of the Japanese brothers "Boy-San" I found on your home page is going to end. I picked to read it first as I have some connection to Japan myself. But finally Netscape crashed, which I will take as a sign to go to bed finally, I will have to get up for work tomorrow.

Bye and sayonara, Andrej-san!

Allan

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1 Saturday, 4 March 2000 1 10 1
1 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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1 Tuesday, 29 February 2000 1 9 1
1 Andrej,

I have just finished reading not one but two of your stories in one sitting, I have the sore butt to prove it.
The stories that I read today were Neil and Norman and Chipi. I won't even try and attempt to compare the two because you can't - they are two beautiful love stories that each in there own right overwhelms, exhilarates, excites, enchants and spellbinds. They take you on an emotional journey - and I felt as though I was travelling with the characters of the stories - although while reading them they came alive!
It is only recently that I was informed of the very existence of gay stories - nifty and such - But these are tales of love and it makes a difference.
: )
I can't decide which is a worse form of torture - to read a chapter or two and then... ah... have to wait for future chapters to come along. Or to read a story in its entirety and not be able to travel along the characters road any further - after going through so much with them.

Thank you so much - your site is wonderful and the stories... I have only read two but I can't wait to continue my way through the translated ones available!!

Thank you also for taking the time to read this - you must be a busy man : )

'iam'

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1 Friday, 18 February 2000 1 8 1
1 Just wanted to say I liked your last series happy Xmas... i've been reading some of your texts on Nifty for quite a while.

Continue posting please.

Christian

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1 Wednesday, 16 February 2000 1 7 1
1 hi,

i just had to write to tell u how much i am enjoying ur story "Happy Xmas", it is so well written and very touching not at all like the usual fuck stories on some sites i cant wait to finish it

thanks

mark

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1 Sunday, 13 February 2000 1 6 1
1 Hi

Enjoyed reading Happy Christmas, Neil & Norman. As a newbie to all this, I'm trying to find out whether/ which gay sites offering free trials are for real. Can you recommend any?

TIA if you can help

Regards
Tony

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1 Sunday, 13 February 2000 1 5 1
1 Andrej

Happy Christmas, Neil & Norman -- Truly the first Gay orientated story that I have read. I looked forward to the new chapters and hopefully there will be more. You're a very good writer!

Thanks
Steve

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1 Sunday, 13 February 2000 1 4 1
1 Andrej

I just finished reading the whole 11 chapters of Neil & Norman which I found on ASSGM website. Although this story was written many years ago it would be nice if it can be updated to the present time when Ned would be around 15 years old. It would be interesting to see how their relationship endured throughout the 90's. Any chance of this happening?

Arthur

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1 Monday, 7 February 2000 1 3 1
1 Hey Andre ...

Just want to let you know how much I enjoyed reading your story..."Happy Christmas, Neil & Norman". It is really nice to see how a straight guy & a gay man can actually felt something for each other. I love it simply because it is really a story, not just another erotic porno that starts and ends in sex.

Keep up the good work, Andre! Can't wait to see your next installments ... Take care & I love you man!

Your new fan,

Bobby
from the Philippines

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1 Sunday, 6 February 2000 1 2 1
1 Hi

my name is Jason, I am 26 years old. I just read your story about Norman and Neil that was a great love story, I really enjoyed it a lot. I like reading love stories that are not all sex but more love like this one was. Well I just wanted to tell you how much I liked it and I hope to read more of your stories.

Jason

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1 Monday, 10 January 2000 1 1 1
1 Dear Andrej

The story "Happy Christmas" is special to me because I have always fantasised about taking a younger man 'under my wing' as it were, and both of us falling in love and becoming equal partners. I like the story and think it will appeal to romantics like myself.

There are stories of yours that I prefer (Epistolary, Boy San, and the story about the puppets). But that is because they appeal to me in a special way.

Big hugs.
Scott

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