I've published the second chapter of "Dear Matt" on Nifty. I wrote this update in August 2007 and then put it on my long-defunct website in a hidden link, so I don't know exactly how many people actually read it. I think I was been paranoid about my real friend Matt actually stumbling across it.
And yes, I will be publishing additional chapters of "Dear Matt" soon.
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I realized that I had two separate author profile pages on Nifty, one under my defunct excite.com email address and another under my current address. The kind archivists at Nifty have merged the two profiles, so now you can find links to all of my fratbear stories dating back to 2001 in one place.
With the possible impending collapse of the Wayback Machine, I've gone ahead and republished my 25-year-old "story" "Dear Matt" on Nifty.
It's the first part in a multi-part tale of heartbreak.
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Oh damn, I may need to republish “Dear Matt” on Nifty in case the Wayback Machine goes away www.wired.com/story/the-in...
And yes, my earlier post about receiving "upsetting news about one of my best friends whom I haven’t seen in years that just completely rocked my world and sent me into an emotional tailspin" is indeed about Matt.
This was always the story that garnered the most reaction from my readers.
(Please note that the email address on that long-defunct webpage is also long-defunct; my current email is thefratbear@yahoo.com)
Look what I found on archive.org! For those of you looking for "Dear Matt," the true "story" I wrote in June 2001 and hasn't been available online for more than 15 years. web.archive.org/web/20020413...
Thank you for the boost!
Feel free to message me on here on Bluesky or email me at thefratbear@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
Those of you who’ve been reading my writing since the 2000s may know the friend I’m referring to, since I wrote a couple of “stories” about him which I will probably republish on Nifty.org eventually (they haven’t been available online in more than a decade).
Since receiving that news, I don’t think I can write about anything else except my feelings about what’s going on with my friend, and I probably won’t be ready to even write about that for a while.
Then, a few weeks ago, I received upsetting news about one of my best friends whom I haven’t seen in years that just completely rocked my world and sent me into an emotional tailspin.
You may be wondering why I haven’t published any new stories since I finished “Sloan Cosgrove 2, Confessions of a Middle-Aged Bear” back in September 2024. Towards the end of last year, I was actually brainstorming ideas for new chapters in the Sloan Cosgrove saga.
I ended up saying hi to him and even took a couple of selfies with him. I did NOT tell him that I’d written an erotic story where a character inspired by him fucks the bear hero. And I certainly didn’t tell him that I’ve seen leaked video of him jerking off on webcam.
I recently returned home from an overseas trip, and when I was waiting in the security line at the airport for my flight home, I was surprised to find that a famous strongman who inspired a character in “Sloan Cosgrove 2, Confessions of a Middle-Aged Bear” was standing behind me in line!
I just had to mention something wild and Sloan Cosgrove-related that happened to me recently.
Just popping in to say that I'm safe from the wildfires here in Los Angeles. (And Sloan and Bobby would be, too, in their Koreatown apartment.)
Note: This series ended up being over 500 pages long and more than 200,000 words!
I had all this knowledge in the back of my mind when I got the idea to write an epilogue combining Sloan's 45th birthday, his and Bobby's wedding, and having sex with Gabe again. Making Gabe the wedding officiant was the final piece of the puzzle, and that's how this epilogue came to be.
My friend's daughter and her husband attended and where they got to know the real-life Gabe.
A guy she was friends with in college moved out to L.A. and became one of the real-life Gabe's best friends. When this guy friend ended up getting married, the real-life Gabe got ordained so that he could officiate the wedding.
We started discussing recent comedy and improv shows that I'd gone to, and I happened to mention that I'd seen an improv show with the comedian who inspired the character of Gabe. Turns out that my friend's daughter actually knows the real-life Gabe personally.
Then, late last year, I discovered a pretty incredible coincidence. I had dinner with the daughter of an old friend and her husband who were visiting Los Angeles.
I was dying to write another chapter where Sloan gets fucked by Gabe's massive dick again, so I decided that the only way to do that without breaking "canon" was to have it happen in an epilogue that takes place years after Sloan has finished telling the story of "Sloan Cosgrove 2."
However, I also realized that I'd written myself into a corner by ending chapter 22 by stating that it was the last time Gabe fucked Sloan.
There was another reason for writing this epilogue, too. Towards the end of 2023, I realized that one of my favorite characters that I'd created was Sloan's best friend and roommate Gabe, who's based on a real-life comedian that I met once after an improv show over a decade ago.
I realized that it had taken me so long to write the series that Sloan's 45th birthday was coming up, and I began to wonder what Sloan would be doing on his 45th birthday, and then I came up with the idea of ending the series with Sloan and Bobby's wedding.
Notes on the epilogue to “Sloan Cosgrove 2, Confessions of a Middle-Aged Bear”
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I really didn't decide to write this epilogue to "Sloan Cosgrove 2" until earlier this year.
After I've spent a couple of years writing this series, I'll probably take a break from writing for a few months, but I'll post updates here. And as always, feel free to email me if you have any questions or comments.