with the promise of at least a little H2O in Maddyville!

It's been a long time since I've had to worry about fires that I wasn't fighting. Lol. Even THOSE have been awhile, but we got a level 3 evacuation alert today. I'm at our church with my family and clients now. Gonna be a long day or two.

When I started this morning it was a 'chilly' 28C in here. I have managed to finish and tartify the next chapter of VotV so it is up for your enjoyment. Now it is 32C and things are getting a bit too much even for me, let alone the equipment.

I'm sorry everything has taken so long but Real Life(tm), you know? Assuming the weather breaks, and I don't get burnt out of my home, then things should become a little easier in the next month or so.

Have you been following Teen Queen from Outer Space by SammyC over on the Patreon channel?

okay so yesterday Mom and I went to a laundromat to do our clothes.

And just as we had pulled out our stuff from the dryers and had started to fold them, a rainstorm opened up seemingly right over our head. The water poured down until there was ankle deep water outside the door of the place, and then a lightning bolt must have hit a nearby transformer as the place went dark and all the machines stopped working.

Last night I remembered a story I read (I think on here) that I cannot remember who wrote it, or a title... Premise was boy was roped in with his cousin(?) to help clean out an aunt or other family members house. As they did so they came across a series of dresses she had made that he then tries on since he's a doppleganger for the person she designed them for after being pushed into it by the cousin. The story revolves around those dresses and finding them since they're numbered and in an order as they clean out the house. Eventually SHE admits she's tg and moves forward.

okay, so yesterday I finally got to spend some time with Sharon and Sam for the first time since I got home from the hospital.

We went to the Muttart Conservatory, which is one of the most beautiful and most relaxing places in Edmonton.

Best moment though was while we were waiting at a bank, and Sharon leaned into me saying she had forgotten how good a pillow I make.

It was a bit of a long day, and I'm paying for it with a forced quiet day today, but still, worth it.

Well, since Shiraz hasn’t posted about her most recent story yet, let me try my hand at it. This one takes place completely at Vernon Farm. (Well mostly) It also brings the story into recent current affairs with the whole COVID-19 crisis. Then just when you are lulled into thinking things are going smoothly, BOOM, Shiraz drops the big one… (Ok that might be a bit of poetic licence on my part.)

I do recommend the book very highly.

HER

Once in a while I bare my soul; more often my soles bear me.

Hey guys,

So I know the schedule for each chapter for Plot Twist in Paradise is Fridays. Unfortunately I am not able to post Chapter 4 today because there seems to be some issue with the site. As soon as I hit save so that the chapter goes through it sees a 503 Backend Fetch Failed error from the server side.

I have messaged Erin and Piper. Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon. However I have to appologise to everyone that Chapter 4 wont be coming today. Once the problem is resolved I will post tomorrow i.e. Saturday.

Seventeen years ago I found a home for this part of me who never really lived outside of my heart. Along the way I discovered purpose and a vitality I dared not live.

Wrote this in a flash of inspiration last night. The images are AI but the text is not. Let me know if it's worth expanding into an actual story.

Here you are: young, beautiful and eighteen years old. You have everything you've ever wanted and everything you could ever want. Your life is almost picture perfect, albeit with only one small exception. Ever since your step-mom ran off with a younger guy (no great loss there), your 'daddy' has started treating your body like his own private amusement park.

Hey everyone!

Chapter 3 of Plot Twist In Paradise is now up!

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/111129/plot-twist-par...

Hope you guys enjoy!

Love,
Emma / Emma la Tierce / E3

or what i intended but i'm here now!

So I had this dream where I was working in a warehouse basement (alone, for some reason), and a group of thieves came in to steal the stuff.

I tried my best to stop them, I threw things at them I took swings with whatever I could find, I hid stuff from them, I even jumped on them.

It was not only ineffective, they didn't seem to even mind.

They found me amusing instead of even being a nuisance.

I kept on trying anyway, so I guess that's something.

I ... don't think my subconscious likes me very much ...

has turned out quite Cheddary!

and she brought a new story with her!

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/111054/journey-thousa...

... it's another!

Well, 60 years ago, I came into the world, and according to Jaci, I've been spreading girly germs ever since!

Makes him the same age as Mairlyn Monroe, Andy Griffith, Queen Elizabeth II and others

My late mom would be a youthful 99 until July 3rd

As for Mel,

It's good to be the king.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oea2cZgbcYU&t=6s

With significant help from Columbine, I finally have a new story up!

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/110945/blackouts

Hey all, I’m currently out of the area on vacation with Aimee and the NinjaPotato.

We had a hardware failure that I mostly bypassed but is still causing some issues and I can’t be there in person to fix it.

With luck we will be home in a few days and I will be able to nip this in the bud.

HuGs
-Piper

couple of weeks, some bad, some good!

Fifty Years of Pride in Albuquerque

Albuquerque was one of the first cities to organize a Pride event after the Stonewall Riot of 1969 and the first Pride Parade in New York City in 1970.

I am finally beginning the transition, since I found out I can safely take the estrogen patch safely. The soonest I can see the endocrinologist is this coming January. I have also discovered that I am intersex, and will see what the endocrinologist finds out. I do have a female skeletal frame, carrying angle, small genitalia and already have A cup breast development without taking hormones. I will start writing again as I have even more to experience now.

I came up with a story idea a couple of days ago, but when I went to try and write it out, I ran into the same problem I have been dealing with for a while - I get to a point, and I just run out of steam.

I have about a dozen stories in more or less the same condition, but I am wondering if this is why I favor flash fiction - one way to get around the sticking point is to just end the story.

I am not desperate enough to try AI, but I am not sure what I can do.

This story ran on one of the local TV news programs last week, and the clinic was a few days ago.

https://www.news10.com/news/saratoga-county/saratoga-library...

I'm attempting to read the finality of this story but I come up with blank body text with only the comments showing

Following on from Leeanna's posting: The new guidelines, which are set to cause much grief for those of us in the UK have been placed before Parliament for their approval.

There is a mechanism in our Parliament called an "Early Day Motion" - in itself it will not decide anything or even force debate, it is more like a survey or petition MPs can sign up to. However, if it gets enough support that might help it get debate time which could possibly change things.

I think its wonderful that thousands of years ago, humans gave cute nicknames to pets, wrote each other love letters, made complaints about not being paid enough, and wrote graffiti on walls.

We really haven't changed all that much.

I have spent the last few weeks doing some major editing and revisions to my Costumes story. I think I'm close to being ready to publish it. Yeah, I know, I wrote it 15 years ago. I still view it as one of my strongest stories, so maybe a good one to be my first book to publish. I need your help. One of the things I've always struggled with is selling a story. You know, writing that blurb that appears on the BCTS front page or on an Amazon web site to convince a person they want to buy this book. Tell me what you think of this blurb.

I realise that in the last few years, my upload schedule has been, to put it bluntly, crap. This is despite the fact that I have no fewer than 21 chapters in the backlog that need editing but are otherwise ready to go. The reason I haven't, well, edited them is due to a lack of free time.

Since I got out of the hospital, I just haven't had any energy for writing, so I don't know when I might have something new for you all.

such is life.

its been more like soggy June so far!

It has been a damned serious business... Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. … By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there. {Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, spoken to Arthur Creavey in an interview after the Battle of Waterloo.}

What type of lie did a former defense attorney tell?

a rhetorical question of course but one minute it was starting, the next its gone! At least, that's what it feels like

Here's a little update about Toni With An i and when Toni can be expected to be seen again. I've been crazy with house move stuff. What I expected to take me three months has actually taken me fifteen months, and it's just now I've gotten my writing setup somewhat tolerable again. There's still a huge amount of work to be done, and it's really stretched my finances, and energy, meaning a lot less time to write.