Official Support Thread - 5th Annual 750 Word Project

Just got the inevitable comment, "Leaves too many questions unanswered"
"sigh*
 
I know we're not even halfway through the month yet, but I enjoyed the challenge. The 750-word format allows the author to experiment with narrative styles that wouldn't work in longer pieces. I'd write a second (or a third), but recently took on a new volunteer project and can barely find time to drop in and read the latest.
I'd love the be able to look at all submitted stories, but we need consistent tags. Some stories are tagged "750 word challenge", others "750 word project". And there are many other variants. No matter, the full list will appear 1 March.
Nothing but fun, IMO.
There should be a link that opens on 3/1/2023 the will give a list of all the entries.
 
Leisure Suit Larry??? Waaaaa hahahahaha! I haven't heard that name since MS-DOS was a thing!
The timing is about right. I have John Fowler leisure suits in powder blue, vanilla, and lime green. Somewhere, why back in the storage closet.
 
The timing is about right. I have John Fowler leisure suits in powder blue, vanilla, and lime green. Somewhere, why back in the storage closet.
I think I may still have my lime green Johnny Carson polyester leisure suit…it last fit about 35 years ago.
 
I think I may still have my lime green Johnny Carson polyester leisure suit…it last fit about 35 years ago.
The green of mine is more of a grayish green. I don't think I could have worn one that was true lime green. Mine are of raw cotton and are fashion-house cut. I received them free for walking the runway in them--but I did wear them for a couple of years in Bangkok. Nothing made a statement like a well-cut powder-blue leisure suit in certain circles in Bangkok. (They still fit but not as flat in the belly as originally.)

John Fowler was a Bangkok fashion designer from the 70s to the late 80s. He had really great art-themed printed T-shirts and beach towels. He was credited with establishing the Thai cotton clothes industry a couple of decades after Jim Thompson had established the silk industry. Put a lot of Thai to work between the two of them. Fowler died of AIDS in 1989. Jim Thompson (a former OSS spy) disappeared while taking a walk in the Genting Highlands of Malaysia in 1967, leading to a couple of books and TV "whodonits." I've included both in some stories.
 
Most of the fascinating people are old or already gone. I knew and ran with John Fowler. Jim Thompson was before my time, but I knew people who had known him. Funny thing. I opened the work I'm now reviewing to submit to Literotica this morning and there, popping out at me, were the stories of John Fowler and Jim Thompson and also of Cowboy (T.G. Edwards), the founder of the Soi Cowboy tenderloin district of Bangkok (who I also knew and ran with at one time).
 
My father includes Kat and Larry Martin as his long-time friends. Chris Enns is a newish friend, or can we say after seven years, she's still a new friend? Many of his old buddies have gone on already, which worries me about him. But 67 isn't that old. Nowadays anyway.
 
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