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Hello Andrej,
My name is John and I am English, I am really sorry not to have contacted you before, to thank you for your wonderful stories, which you write with such passion and compassion. I always read them with tears streaming down my face, you are such an emotional writer. I confess that so far I have read only a few, but will continue steadily so as not to become too dehydrated through loss of tears! Seriously though, I absolutely love the gentle way you deal with sex in your stories, making them an accompaniment to, rather than the primary focus of the narrative . "Dear Eugenio" was so emotional and touching, as was also "The life begins at 25. As an old man, I love films and stories with a happy ending and I have spent most of my life trying to help others, sometimes I might add, with disastrous results. I am certainly no saint, and have to admit that sometimes my helping was prompted by ulterior motives, but then we all strive to find love in our own ways, I suppose.
Having just completed reading "We are presumed to be enemies", you have once again reduced me to tears of joy and happiness. Once again, I apologise for not writing sooner, but I have suffered all my life from a reluctance to put pen to paper, or in latter years, finger to keyboard. I am totally amazed at your amount of writings, and trust that you will continue for a long time to come. I assume that you are French, and are a citizen of France, a country which I dearly love, and where I have spent so many happy holidays and sometimes longer visits.
So please Andrej, stay safe and well in these troubled times, and I thank you once again for all the joy you have brought me, and I'm sure, many others,
John
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 |
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Good day, Andre;
Thank you for sharing your story "life begins at 25" with us. I so enjoyed it and loved how it developed. It also gave me courage to move on to something myself. Only I fear that I may be moving too fast.
I so did enjoy "Life begins at 25"! I loved the way you presented the characters and how they came to know each other. I have longed to be with a guy who is gay, like myself. But I cannot find one here in Canada that would want to be with a man who is 65 with lots of handicaps. Although I am not in a wheelchair, I do have other problems that could cause problems if the other person does not love me totally.
You see, as I said, I am now a senior in my country. I grew up when it was not good to be gay. I am also very active in the church where, up to recently, it was frowned upon being gay. Marriage of a woman and man was the only proper way and still is although there are some churches that do same sex marriages. Mine, unfortunately is not one of them. I am a Priest and this complicates things. I am married because the church would not approve of me being gay. So to hide it, I got married. I love the woman I married very deeply. I do not desire to hurt her but she is so much older than I am. And she is fairly healthy while I am not very healthy. She told me after we got married that if I was gay, she would not tolerate this and she would leave me. I know that I do not wish this to happen for I love her that much. And yet, I am drawn to being with guys and having sex with them. I do not mind that they have sex with me and not make love to me. There cannot be a way that I could give it back. At least not yet. If the time is right and I am able, then I would love to find a man to live with and make love with.
Then I read your story about when "life begins at 25"". How I wish I was 25 again. Perhaps my life would have been so different. I know very well that my wife loves me deeply although there are times when I have doubts, minor doubts. But doubts just the same. I so wish that I could be with naked guys. I spent 19.5 years in the military reserve. I got to see a lot of guys naked.
I realize that this has become a very long narrative that I was going to leave as
being short. Perhaps, there is a story for you to make somewhere. But I wanted to tell you the affect that your story affected me and I enjoyed so much. It helped me to make a move to a guy that I fall in love with since the first time I saw him. He is 29 but that is ok. He seems to be so beautiful inside and out. And I hope that some day we will meet so that I can make love to him and he to me.
Thank again for that story. I loved it so much.
Sincerely,
Larry
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
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Hi Andrew,
during these couple weeks, I've managed to read three of your stories, not because I took a long time to read, but because the lack of time I had :)
Anyway, the stories are "Money, Beauty, or Love", "Life Starts at 25" and "Akim, Akim...". I would like to say that I enjoyed the three of them.
In "Money, Beauty, or Love", I was kind of surprised with the conflict at the end, it was rather unpredictable, and I liked the twisting, even though it ended happily.
"Life Starts at 25" was better, because I love Jacques' character. It was predictable though, but it's okay :)
And the last one, "Akim, Akim..." was okay. There were just too little conflict between Akim and Piero, but I loved how your pictured their first sex encounter. It was lovely.
Well, sorry for my rambling. And I will read your other stories too :)
dizzy
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Saturday, 7 July 2001 |
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The longer I muddle about with the internet, the more I realize that it's just like "real life." Imagine walking along a boulevard and seeing someone who is stunningly beautiful. The moment is caught, captured in a non-destructible brain cell like a snapshot. And then the person is gone from view. But you still have the "snapshot" to savor.
More to the point, imagine being introduced to someone whose conversation and ideas, whose looks and carriage are so impressive that you know you'd like to get to know them better. Much better. But time, "propriety," occasion prevents one from making that effort. And then the person is gone, the last impression a firm and friendly handshake.
Imagine then the joy, elation, euphoria when later and completely unplanned, you meet again with either the vision of beauty or the conversationalist and have time aplenty to explore unabashedly and unfettered "what makes them tick."
Today was such a day for me. Months ago I had visited the Nifty Archive and found, quite by chance, the story "Life Begins at 25" by an author whose name I had never seen before. Needless to say, I was entranced! Here was an actual love story, and since I'm a sloppy old Romantic now, the story was just what the doctor ordered. I would have gladly sacrificed being ambulatory if it meant that I could be held by the one person who loved me unreservedly. What a wonderful story!
Regretfully, there was no mention of a website and not many other stories listed, and I had foolishly not bookmarked the location of "Life." Since then, I have collected quite a few bookmarks for quality authors who know how to spin a good yarn. This morning I finally found a link to the Teenage Gay Boy Love Stories Webring, and on the first page was a link to your site!
This time I am smart enough to bookmark the site. (I'm not as stupid as I look, you know.) And what a site it is! It's going to take me months to fully explore all that you have to offer. But I will steel myself to the task. This will be one chore I actually look forward to each and every day.
Thank you for doing what you do and for doing it so well. I can only hope that in the twenty or so years left to me, if I have even that many left, that I can shed the label "neophyte author" and be worthy to sit in your shadow.
Sincerely,
Carl
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Tuesday, 23 March 1999 |
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Let me begin with a disclaimer, dear Andrej Koymasky [or however you should be addressed]:
Any laudations or criticisms I may offer are based on a reading of only one chapter of one of your writings, and my brief "visit" to your site.
So they are neither profound nor especially insightful. Bear with those givens, and accept, I beg you, what I offer as being well intended.
Your site is visually quite outstanding. I delighted in the colors. As an architect I enjoyed your conceit of grouping your divisions of your subject matter as items in the rooms of a house. A clever idea I haven't encountered before. I also enjoy the idea that, although you state your name is a pseudonym, you exhibit your photo. But, I forget. This is the internet. It could be anybody's photo, couldn't it, and you could be actually a blind, lame, black grandmother from Algiers, for all I can tell, no?
Well, I did enjoy the chapter of yours that I actually read. The one about the boy in the wheelchair living in Paris (Life begins at 25). I found it hard to accept the limits you set to the mother/son relationship. She appears more as a hired attendant in her emotions. But if you imagine her that way, that way she is. It is an interesting story, way beyond the pornography it purports to be.
I feel much honored to have encountered you, albeit it has been by the back door, so to speak. But isn't it always like that?
David
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Saturday, 20 February 1999 |
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Dear Andrew:
Peace with smiles! I first read your "Priest, forever", and since I am a Catholic, it "suited" me, and I enjoyed it very much -- especially the excellent ending. Then I read your "Life begins at 25", which I also found to be excellent -- I have several friends who work with the handicapped, and I only wish I could share it with them, but I cannot (what would a nun think!?!). I have started your "Nunc Dimittis" (of course, the title caught my eye, since I am a former Latin teacher).
I have also visited your web site, and particularly wish to congratulate you for your Memorial Hall -- helps me to reinvigorate my praying. I often pray to that martyr of ours, Matthew Shephard.
Take good care of yourself.
Ciao, with brotherly affection,
Theo
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Friday, 29 January 1999 |
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Thank you so much, Andrej,
I just read your story, "Life starts at 25", yesterday and today. I have been crying uncontrollably at times. Because of the beauty and love and passion of Jacques and Alain. I hardly know what to write to you, I am so full of emotion after reading the story. I am sure you must have heard this before.
I lost my last lover to AIDS. I have been alone since that time, except for a few flirtations with other HIV positive guys I have known. No love in my life, though. I think that is partly why the story grabbed my heart so strongly. My lover and I had a love like the boys in the story and I miss it dearly. Please don't think I am complaining or crying on your shoulder, on the contrary, you have lifted my spirits. I found such beauty in this tale, I had to let you know.
I will start now to read your other stories. I can't wait. I really am so moved by this beautiful story of love. Thank you again for writing it. I will also look around your site and find out more about you. I think you are a person I would be proud to call a friend.
For now,
Sincerely,
John
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Wednesday, 27 January 1999 |
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Andrej,
I wanted to write to tell you just how much I enjoyed "Life starts at 25". The story really is wonderful, and you must be very proud of it.
One thing which made it very enjoyable for me is that the story is much more about love than about sex. I particularly liked the bit where Alain insisted on being allowed to love Jacques, which was a
sharp contrast to my own situation, and it didn't take Jacques too long to give in. I am in love with someone who is, at the moment, fighting his feelings. If I push him just a little, he doesn't communicate at all. I know that he loves me really, but oh! if only he was a bit more like Jacques and didn't put up so much resistance!
Thank you for posting it to the newsgroup. I stayed up very late just to finish it off! You should consider having it published commercially, rather than just post it on the internet.
~ Tim
You wrote:
... In my home page I've put some of my stories. If someone wants to read
... them, the URL is
If someone wants to read them? Don't be silly! You'll have hundreds of hits!
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