I have just read the article below about the rise of ‘Mamils’ that’s Middle Aged Men In Lycra,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10965608

Now I know what word to use, when all those cyclists on Southsea seafront, zoom past me on my morning exercise
Now, if I can find a word that I could use when a certain young blonde girl goes by, making my sedate pace look like standing still, I will by happy
Love to all
Anne G.

Thieves use breasts to distract victim

Police in France are looking for two attractive female thieves who bared their breasts at a man at a cashpoint to distract him before stealing his money. The women in their 20s exposed themselves to the victim as he punched his pin code into an ATM machine in Paris.

I suppose using such a story title for so long was tempting providence - so today, I did just that, fell off my bike. I have two rather painful knees, but at least I've stopped the bleeding now.

As the time goes on I'm finding some new bruises and aches and pains, including my left wrist and thumb - both of which I've injured before.

The concern of motorists is breathtaking, they just drove past while I'm standing at the roadside dripping blood everywhere. Thankfully, I was out with friends, so managed to get home and do some first aid to myself.

Here's what I've got planned in as far as Becca goes:

Coming up next is a shorter story called Face of the Enemy.

After that is another new Center story I'm writing called Weight Problem. Becca and company will appear at some point in the story, including one of her friends that left with Gideon. That person is going to play a prominent role in this one.

Then I'll pump out another Becca, hopefully around the same length as the first.

I'm hoping that all of these stories will take place in the months between the end of my first story and the beginning of Off Center.

If I've overstepped my bounds, then I ask that the admins unpublish this, no questions asked, no hard feelings. I feel like this needs to be stated, though.

I'll keep it simple. All I ever wanted from this community is mutual respect. That's it. You don't have to like what I write, or the style in which I write it. You don't have to comment or read it. But please, please be respectful of each other.

Name: Stephen Kyle
Sex: Male
Talents: Gadgeteer

Ok, so now it's time to try and see how this works in action:

Name: Doris Zeul (formerly Dr. Damon Zeul)
Codename: Giganta
Age: 29 (physically about 16)
Height: 5' 10 1/2"
Weight: 190
Stats: 34C-26-34
Power: Enhanced Strength, Size/Density Alteration
Talents: Doctorate in Genetics, Doctorate in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology*
Accessories: GL communications and costume ring

Shoe: 6
Dress: 8

*Acquired Doctorates at Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson College of Graduate Studies

Strength: Class 3 (maximum press about 500 lbs.)
Agility: Class 3
Endurance: Class 3

While going through some things, I stumbled across my old Canon Rebel. This old thing brings back a lot of memories. See, when I was a freshman in high school, I decided I wanted to try out photography, so I bought a cheap piece of crap single-reflex SLR camera and took Photojournalism.

There were maybe ten of us interested in the class that year so we were all incredibly close by the end of it (You try spending six to ten hours a week in a darkroom with someone and NOT learn their deepest darkest secrets after awhile *grin*)

Please, please, please!!!!

Hot off the presses (okay, basically the presses aren't hot anymore, but you know what I mean)

Today is Maggie Finson's birthday!!

I won't give any numbers, that would be uncouth (hey, there's a good word - look up the definition of couth)

What I can tell you, is she is old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway.

Happy Birthday Maggie!!!!

After a lot of thought on the matter, I have decided to post one of my Nano stories that is still in progress. I will do some editing before I start putting them out but It should run one section a week. This will take a while as I am on chapter 27 and still going. So there you go.

I just finished Part four of Assassin, Yahoo. My brain is fried. Now all I have to do is edit all forty thousand words of it so I can send it to Holly for the real edit. Hopefully it will be posted in about two weeks. I can hardly wait to start part five because that's where the story starts to be fun, at least for me, Arecee

I was thinking yesterday about the portrayal of fathers in stories here. It seems like for the most part, if they feature in the stories at all, they are a barrier, rather than an aide. I wonder if that matches reality? Do fathers struggle more with a child who feels like they are transgendered? If so, what could we as a community do to help them? Just a thought.

I've never bought into the numbers put out by Fictionmania. Fifty-seven million hits in the last dozen years seems a bit much by several fold.

Carpe cakum, Edeyn. Hope things are going really well for you in the land down under.

Hugs 'n stuff,
Cathy