For this week’s journey to the previously posted, we have the third and final installment of my collation of story pairs with similar or identical names—so it’s one last chance to see how different stories with similar monikers can be.
2022-02-25 12:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots of different kinds of stories this week, both new and continuing. My contribution, called “Lust & Consequences,” is another example of a story that sort of galloped madly down the track with the bit in its teeth and I just struggled to hang on. The ending was a surprise to me, and the middle, too, frankly. I hope you like it, though, if it’s up your alley. Anyway, make sure to try out the tales you think you might enjoy, and remember it’s a boon to authors and visitors whenev...
2022-02-19 13:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW STORY: Lust & consequences, Parts 1–2 by BRK—Hayden manages to gain an ability that turns beliefs into truth, but the knack for making things turn out the way he wants them to is a lot more elusive.
2022-02-19 13:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week’s retrogression into the past, I’m continuing with the exploration of story pairs with similar or identical names, and finding further proof that two stories with the same title are the ones least likely to be anything like each other. Check it out on the website.
2022-02-18 11:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This week there’s great new stuff and some great continuations, so hopefully there’s something for everyone to enjoy. From me you get a double helping of the Patreon-commissioned story “Resolutions,” which has a few plot turns I hadn’t consciously anticipated, for all I’d managed to lay the groundwork for them in previous chapters anyway without knowing. Writing is weird like that, sometimes. It’s not exactly Tolkien flummoxed at unexpectedly meeting Faramir in Ithilien or anyth...
2022-02-12 14:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW CHAPTERS: "Resolutions", Parts 12–13 by BRK—At a breakfast out with the others, Ray faces a critical turning point or two, and discovers that one of his friends is not all he appeared to be.
2022-02-12 14:28:50 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week’s trip to the archives, I decided to see what would happen if I started pairing together all the stories with similar or identical names on the site. There’s quite a few sets of exact or near-exact matches, so I’m going to split up the results across three consecutive Friday Flashback posts. As expected, it’s kind of awesome how stories with the same title can be completely different from each other. Check it out on the site...
2022-02-11 12:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow. Just checked the stats, and: Record story page views in January, busting past 500k.
Thanks for coming to the birthday party, everyone. I love you all. Looking forward to a great year and to a lot more beyond. :) #metabods25
2022-02-06 13:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Really big update this week. Not only do we have a big pile of contributions from old and new writers alike—including three 25-themed Metabods anniversary stories from AKA, Proteus, and Ziel—but this update also includes the lucky thirteenth installment of my bimonthly Vignette Party event where I write one-scene stories based on prompts from my excellent and esteemed suggestion-level Patreonites. This time there are four stories from me, all evocations of things patrons...
2022-02-05 14:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out the main site for this month's Vignette Party!
2022-02-05 14:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week’s flashback, we’re collecting stories from on or about February 2014, a whole eight years ago. Hope you find something interesting!
The next update is the Vignette Party scheduled for tomorrow, 5 February. In the meantime, have fun exploring the archives, and thanks for visiting the site.
2022-02-04 12:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots of interesting stuff this week, and from me we get the latest continuation of the Patreon-commissioned epic “One Hot Summer”. Explore the week’s offerings at your leisure, and think about commenting and star-upvoting the stories you like.
Next week is the lucky thirteenth bimonthly Vignette Party where my trusty and well-favored suggestion-level Patreonites suggest one-scene stories for me to write. If you want to get in on the action, check out the possibilities—and if you...
2022-01-29 15:06:15 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW CHAPTERS—"One hot summer", Parts 43–44 by BRK—Zac breaks away from the others to come to terms with what’s happened to him, but before long all the giants and their friends meet to figure out what to do next now that they’re larger (and more hung) than any human could possibly be.
2022-01-29 14:58:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re back with my third periodic roundup of stories with good views and votes that haven’t previously been featured in a flashback post; the previous installments are here and here. The rules are as before: the story has to be at least six years old; it has to come from the middle tier of the archive in terms of story views; and it has to have a ranking of four or more stars from five or more votes. It’s an interesting mix, including the very first muscle growth story I every read (“...
2022-01-28 13:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post
📢Upcoming Vignette Party alert! If you're in my Patreon at the suggestion level, get your prompt in for the Feb. 5 Weekly Update. That's my latest Vignette Party—one-scene stories based on ideas from my Patreonites. And if you're not, you can be!
2022-01-27 16:14:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Big update this week, including a couple more responses to my call for “Metabods 25” stories. For my own contribution this week I ended up taking a different slant on the 25th anniversary theme with a story based around a lump of silver, and its unexpected role in facilitating transformation for two young pseudo-Victorian alchemists. There’s not a lot of radical change in this story; the place I was in when I was writing it just liked the premise and the story these two men were buildin...
2022-01-22 14:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW STORY: "The silver alchemist," Parts 1–2 by BRK — Alex and Jessie are two apprentice sorcerer-alchemists playing with spells they haven’t quite mastered, when a casting takes an unexpected turn.
2022-01-22 13:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week’s trip to the back room, we’re collecting stories about nights out dancing, shaking your ass and having asses shaken at you. No place better to feel the collective energy of a whole group of guys and get that sense of fates branching like crackling lightning. Anything can happen. Maybe even sex!
2022-01-21 23:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Big update this week, with lots of options for your reading pleasure. My own contribution is a continuation of “Mountainheart”, the commissioned continuation of “Love/Shift” exploring how sexy Glenn started out as a sexy college boy on the road to discovering what it means to be a shifter. (Hint: lots of sex.) Anyway, hope you find something to enjoy, and make sure to star-vote and comment on the stories you like.
The Friday Flashback this week collected some of the many novella...
2022-01-15 14:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW CHAPTER: "Mountainheart," Part 2 by BRK—Glenn finds he is already starting to change as he approaches his last swim meet of the semester.
2022-01-15 14:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve done flashbacks featuring novel-length stories in the past; for this trip into the mists of yore I’ve gone down a tier and selected some more moderate reads—ten stories that are of novella length. It’s an indistinct appellation, to be sure; for this exercise I roughly bracketed the word count at between 20k and 40k. Some of these are complete stories, some of them are ongoing (whether or not the ongo can actually be expected to happen).
2022-01-14 14:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope the new year is treating you well so far. This week I decided to revisit an older story, “King Size”, and take in a bit more the plight of poor King Rafe and his mighty scepter. I like the mix of secondary characters in this one, all careening off each other in ways that weren’t obvious to me when I first devised the essential scenario back in 2006. With any luck I’ll be able to follow up on what’s going on here soon and not leave things hanging quite so long. Plus there’s a ...
2022-01-08 12:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW CHAPTER: "King size," Part 7 by BRK—Lord Darek suspects the guard-elite Elias might be of use to him in more ways than one, while Gareth confronts Will over his magical possession and Rafe comes to terms with his colossal manhood.
2022-01-08 12:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week’s pastward journey, I’ve collected ten stories from January 2017. It was a prolific month, with a number of familiar stories as well as a few that haven’t been surfaced since they were first posted, so I’m glad to see them here.
2022-01-07 15:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
My own personal new year's/anniversary thank you to everyone who's been a part of the site. This should be higher res than the Twitter link I posted earlier.
2022-01-01 17:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year, everyone. Welcome to 2022, my 25th anniversary year doing Metabods. I did a little thank you video, so if you haven’t seen that by all means check it out. If I were YouTubing it I’d give it a clickbait title like “BRK Voice Reveal OMG!!” but the truth is I just wanted to say “thank you”, literally and sincerely, to all the people who’ve helped make Metabods and BRK possible.
For this week’s update I have two stories. Appropriately enough we’ve got a New...
2022-01-01 16:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post
NEW CHAPTER: "Resolutions", Part 11 by BRK—A sated Danny heads back to the hotel after a long, happy day of pleasure. Meanwhile, Blake decides to test his new abilities.
NEW STORY: "The royal stone" by BRK—In a hidden pocket kingdom in a corner of the Alps, Pete discovers a strange pink stone once thought to be of mystical significance to his ancestors, signified by the inscribed numerals, X, X, and V.
2022-01-01 16:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
My own personal new year's/anniversary thank you to everyone who's been a part of the site. Don't unmute if you don't want to hear what my voice sounds like! :) #happynewyear #thankyou #metabods25
2022-01-01 07:24:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s time to look back at 2021, and for me personally the biggest news is that I successfully achieved a full year of weekly updates. I started updating weekly last New Year’s after five years of biweekly updates, mainly so that visitors to the site could be sure of consistent new content every Saturday, but also to give myself a new challenge as a writer and content provider. To be honest I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off. But leveraging the love and support of my site visitors and ...
2021-12-31 13:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Aw, looks like my logo got a tattoo on his arm. You know those 25-year-olds, always trying to look alpha 😜🥳 #metabods25
2021-12-30 13:27:29 +0000 UTC View Post