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Anonymous
1/12/20, 4:40 AM
thank you! awesome story! welcome back and happy new year
LongtimeFan
1/12/20, 4:40 AM
What a sweet little story. :) And it has transformation/brain-drain, too, which are some of my favorites! I wish I could find an enchanted stream like that...
Anonymous
1/12/20, 4:32 AM
It's here, it's here, another chapter! Very excited this story is continuing.
1/12/20, 4:12 AM
Derek, I suppose Jared's motives could be viewed as purely malevolent and selfish, but the friendship between the guys felt genuine to me, and the narrator's acceptance of what happened to him didn't feel forced.
1/12/20, 2:30 AM
Very cute!
1/12/20, 2:20 AM
Thia is adorable!
1/12/20, 1:30 AM
Huh, I've never thought of "The Birthday Gift" with that framing before. Thanks for giving me a new way of thinking about one of my favorites Cris!
BankStreet
1/12/20, 12:42 AM
> This from Wikipedia: "As a psychopathological term, the first to publish on neurasthenia was Michigan alienist E. H. Van Deusen of the Kalamazoo asylum in 1869, followed a few months later by New York neurologist George Beard, also in 1869, to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia, and depressed mood. Van Deusen associated the condition with farm wives made sick by isolation and a lack of engaging activity, while Beard connected the condition to busy society women and overworked businessmen. Neurasthenia is currently a diagnosis in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (and the Chinese Society of Psychiatry's Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders). However, it is no longer included as a diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Americans were said to be particularly prone to neurasthenia, which resulted in the nickname "Americanitis, (popularized by William James). Another, rarely used, term for neurasthenia is nervosism."
1/12/20, 12:36 AM
nycboot, the best examples of that kind of story that come to mind are Derek Williams' [The Birthday Gift](https://www.gayspiralstories.com/newStory/show/1172) and RdyRoger's [Huge Changes](https://metabods.com/stories/huge-changes-book-one).
1/12/20, 12:21 AM
It was nicely handled and quite simply told. Kudos.