New story not posted?

+1 on Em's hunch. My day job is software engineering; most of the world runs on undocumented, unknown processes that nameless, forgotten people in cubicles run as part of their daily jobs. Laurel's probably having a sleep in.
I like reading and listening to those Reddit stories where the asshole manager or owner either fires or pisses off the IT person and they quit, so they either take their program, or had never trained anybody else to use it, so they desperately try to hire them back, or get what they need to fix the debilitating problems and they're left shit outta luck.

That could be a story, actually. Software engineer had basically carried the whole business and the smug owner or DM fired them and it all went to shit. He begs her back, she refuses, but said she would help for a consulting fee and if he serviced her however she wanted. Since the company is going to die, there he is, desperate, in a dress, while she uses his face as a "message" cushion in his big cushy chair, while fixing shit at his computer.
 
August is always a bit slow, American summer holidays etc. Or, an upgrade of some sort in the works, maybe?
There's Memorial Day, Labor Day, Independance Day, Fathers Day, Vetrans Day. I always forget some, but there's not a lot and not all are a big deal.
 
Because this is Lit, I feel like someone should add a line like "Because her Master didn't let her, but instead forced her to walk down the street with his cum dripping from her cheeks."
Patience is a Virtue
Virtue is a grace
Grace is a little girl
Who didn't wash her face
No said her Master
So the cum stayed plastered
On her hair and cheeks
As she walked down the street
The looks of the crowd
Made her feel quite proud
 
I like reading and listening to those Reddit stories where the asshole manager or owner either fires or pisses off the IT person and they quit, so they either take their program, or had never trained anybody else to use it, so they desperately try to hire them back, or get what they need to fix the debilitating problems and they're left shit outta luck.

That could be a story, actually. Software engineer had basically carried the whole business and the smug owner or DM fired them and it all went to shit. He begs her back, she refuses, but said she would help for a consulting fee and if he serviced her however she wanted. Since the company is going to die, there he is, desperate, in a dress, while she uses his face as a "message" cushion in his big cushy chair, while fixing shit at his computer.
@Bramblethorn did something like this in his brilliant "A stringed instrument" which remains one of my guilty pleasures.
 
Apparently my sleeping-in made me miss this party. I also had one queued-up to go live this morning. Not only was it "up", my dependable two-bomber got to it first. 🤷‍♂️
 
Patience is a Virtue
Virtue is a grace
Grace is a little girl
Who didn't wash her face
No said her Master
So the cum stayed plastered
On her hair and cheeks
As she walked down the street
The looks of the crowd
Made her feel quite proud
This and most of the rest of this thread would be rejected if it were submitted for publication on Lit.

I thought we were better than this. Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong people...
 
No kidding. I have two followers in my "fan club", which is a real PITA because GS is a low-traffic/low-voting category. It has indeed become a shoulder-shrug at this point. I don't know what I did to upset these guys, but apparently I crossed some sort of line several months ago, and must therefore pay the price.
 
My number one friend visited this morning at his usual time, which the delay still left available. It was the very first vote. He had a friend for the seventh vote, but Romance at least gets a high voting rate. Somehow my morning troll missed my BDSM story, which is good because that appears to an even worse category to gets votes in than GS is. My romance story from this morning already has more votes than the BDSM story posted a week ago. I'm happy with the rating, but it is so vulnerable to a downvote.
 
+1 on Em's hunch. My day job is software engineering; most of the world runs on undocumented, unknown processes that nameless, forgotten people in cubicles run as part of their daily jobs. Laurel's probably having a sleep in.
Same. That nameless, forgotten person is quite often me. I find that yesterday Shelby was quite the ditzy bitch more often that I'd care to admit.
 
This is not a Laurel please approve my story thread. I have a story scheduled to go live today, which usually means around 2AM east coast US time. But it is still sitting in pending, saying "Today" as publication date. I have only been here for less then six months and it was several stories in before I realized that the pending told me when it was approved/would be published.

Has any of the long term folks seen them not release stories? Did anyone else's story scheduled for today not get released? Or get released? Is this a me problem or a Manu problem?
I don't know your time zone, but 12:30am (or 00:30) in the U.S. Eastern Standard time is when publishing "goes live."

So if your time zone is more than three hours "ahead" of that, then, you would have just had to wait until that milestone.

My number one friend visited this morning at his usual time, which the delay still left available. It was the very first vote
Sounds like it did get published after all?
 
Yeah, about 5 1/2 hours later than usual. Probably something crashed or Manu was doing an update. Just surprised me. First time I have seen that here.
 
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