Thanks so much to all my readers out there. The first chapter of my Trios story just hit 100 kudos. It's my second story chapter to break a hundred with chapter one of Music Magic being the first.

Hi all,

An eagle-eyed reader spotted an awkwardness in the previously published distance chart for the Bray/Palar valley.

I have just posted the next segment of Havens Salvation. I am hoping that this is an original story not based on any others work. It is hard to know for sure beings I have read so many stories both here and in other circles but a extensive check of my memory I can not find any thing like this elsewhere.
I am trying to bring the characters alive for my audience giving the people you read about warm flesh and blood reactions to there environment and to each other. You my audience will be the final judge of that.

Make of this what you will...

'Cyclists are more intelligent, charitable and cool than the average person' says study.

Well, Erin's little challenge has sparked my muse back to life. We'll just have to see what comes of it ...

My wife of 47 years is currently fighting a re-occurance of malignant melanoma, which has metastasized to her brain. In order to combat it the Drs are going to try Brain Surgery. Thru all the discussion etc. they frequently referred to the procedure as SRS surgery. When we got home, wanting to know more about it, she Google d SRS, and was very amused to find that the only references to that she could find were to Sexual Reassignment Surgery, which she does not think she is a candidate for. She finally found it on a medical reference web site as Stereotaxic Radio-graphic Surgery.

I know the reaction to Op Rescue: In Plain Sight has been very significant (judging by comments and kudos). That makes me wonder if the audience as a whole considers this better than, on par with, or less than Op Rescue: New Co-Ed. The main reason I ask is that while New Co-Ed has a lot of hits, it has few kudos. That makes me wonder if it was as good as my latest effort, or worse. Or is it an artifact of posting a link to a PDF file (as opposed to a 450+ page story in the form!) so the kudo button wasn't accessible? Was it because New Co-Ed was too long for most people's tastes?

So I sent in a story to amazon...4 weeks ago. No response yet other than the automated response letting me know they got the submission. I know supposedly they have 2 more weeks or so to go before I'm supposed to worry, but I can't help myself.

To add to this, a fan recently edited RiH 10. The editing job was very well done, very professional and I in no way mean to imply that I don't appreciate it. However the editing did make
clear the astonishing number of grammatical flaws inherent within my writing style... flaws I'm positive the story I submitted a month ago shares.

I have been on (Estrogen) Vivelle dot .1 since they decided that my kidneys and liver were to weak to metabolize the pills.

I hope I don't overstep my bounds, but I would like to offer up a writing challenge for the month.

The title: The Tranny Shop

Well, I am trying to clean up the mess I'm in regarding the accident I had last year, and its not fun.

I am really humbled and in awe at the same time. I am at a loss. My solo story, The Dress Punishment (http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/31054/dress-punishment) just passed 25,000 reads.

They dropped me off at the salon, and I got pampered for 4 hours, which prompted the new photo. So sunday was very nice.

I have been reading the Reluctant Girl stories and was thinking about how I use to feel when a story used my childhood name. Especially when the character was so not me.

Just saw an interesting commercial. It was regarding a drug proscribed for several mental conditions like ADD, and apparently it had the side effect of growing breasts on men. Why do I feel like this could be a story here?

Something a friend posted a link to over on LiveJouyrnal.

Had me in tears.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear

Finial my plan is Coming together. Reformatted, properly edited by djkauf the magnificent,

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #70: Brrrrrrr!!! To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

Ma just called. It's past noon back home, but I guess she doesn't realize it's about 1:30 in the morning here. Sassafrassa...

She called to say we should postpone our delayed visit yet again as Winter Storm Ion is gonna be bringing extremely cold (dangerously cold, in fact) arctic air to most of the U.S. Northwest for the coming week.

Ma says the East Coast will not be too affected yet but it's best to stay put here in Manila.

I am asking this here because I know there are geeks on the loose ere.

Today, I realized, Duh, that the internet search protocol on a smart phone is different than that of a computer.

The wonderful djkauf has saved you all from trying to interpret and decipher my latest posting.

Sorry my brain has turned to mush (or more mush than usual) and my eyes hurt, so apologies for not posting anything tonight. Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow.

Angharad

Tailing's of this tale

This is the beginnings of a journey I hope you will find entertaining and hopefully thought provoking.

I have been out of work since Jan 2013. Now congress dose not wish to continue to fund Unemployment.

I wish all of you at BCTS a very Happy & Prosperous New Year in 2014.

I sit, joyous, alone in my little cottage, in quietude and peace. It took 4 hrs before I could breath without pain from my back and that was OK. Artifacts if a life fully lived but no need for an organ recital. I feel so connected with you all; participate in your pain and joy and I do feel with you. I am supported by networks of trans friends/allies, another network of LGBT friends and allies and a very strong small network of families. Thank you all, you bring me peace and joy and I hope I reciprocate. You all truly have my love.
Joani

Happy New Year to everyone at the Big Closet: The readers. without whom one of us would be here. The authors, who give us so much of themselves and their imaginations. And to Erin and the staff, who make this place great. May the new year bring you all health and happiness.

For my readers, I am half finished a new chapter of Alex in Wonderland and 21000 words into Syryn's Song the new Hyperverse story I mentioned in my last blog on Christmas Eve. It's a bit longer than I was expecting so I'll probably have to break it into several stories of which Syryn's Song will be book #1.

I guess I should say happy new year to all.

May everyone have a joyous, happy, new year. May all your dreams come true and may you find the pot of gold at your rainbows end. If you do I will help take care of the angry leprechaun.

Paula

The Daily Wail does the usual dirty trick of using irrelevant material in a the tragic story of an astonishing accident, where a large Red Deer stag charged a group of people in a driveway and unfortunately badly injured one of them. A chance in a million. incident.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531577/Woman-paraly...

or in the Guardian:

Hi Brother's & Sister's.I just thought I'd let u know that this morning I had to have Oral Surgery & when they released me around 11:30 am I got a big surprise.My Mother,Father,& Little Sister were there to pick me up & Take me home.My Mother & Little Sister will be staying with me & Jessica until I'm better.

Had a very weird dream last night.

Meinn gott, I hate moving. Expecially having too pack. Little ol me had to pack my whole room all by myself, lol

I've been going through some of my older unfinished stories and reading them lately. I came across one from Lilith Langtree called 'The Soul Does Not Perish', it's a well written modern day D&D type story. There were 9 chapters of it posted by Lilith and then nothing. I've not seen anything posted by her in a while and was wondering if anyone knew if she was still writing??

Blossom

So I was looking at some site with strange pictures and came across this:

Well, things aren't looking so hot at the moment. When removing the cathader the doc mentioned a graft not going well (a large graft I migt add). He gave me 5 bottles of metaiodyne to douche with and would not talk to me after. So here I am knowing something has gone badly wrong scared as hell. I have a meeting tomorrow whwhere I might get some answers. The smell from this is unbelievably bad, so I douche.

When I know more I'll post mote.

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #68: Chagrined To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

I feel a bit chagrined. Moe and I postponed our trips home for the holidays (Kyoto and DC) on worry about the weather.

Lots of places in the States DID have really bad weather last week, so we thought that our decision was a good one, but Ma said that it was warm enough in DC the day before Christmas that Dad called it shirt-sleeves weather, and flights to and out of Raegan/National, Baltimore and Dulles weren't in danger of being canceled anytime soon..

Well, color me chagrined.

OK, I am waiting for a story about this phenomenom. :}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2JIhX0vGhc

As of about ten minutes ago, Josie's Con Stories: A Collection Of Transgender Short Fiction is pending approval on Amazon Kindle.

.... then this will be of interest to very few of you.

Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s sequence of novels A Red Heart of Memories (1999), Past the Size of Dreaming (2001), and A Stir of Bones (2003) may be of interest to this site’s readers for one major transgendered character, who is onstage in Past the Size of Dreaming and A Stir of Bones and appears in flashbacks in in A Red Heart of Memories. Several other characters are more or less atypical in their gender identity and presentation. Hoffman has also written a number of short stories about the characters from these books, some but not all of which are in her short story collection Permeable Borders.

I have a visitor staying and sometimes real life and real people have to take precedence over my imaginary ones. We're going to Bath tomorrow, the city not the ablution, assuming the trains are running.

Normal service will, I hope, be returned tomorrow.

Angharad.

Hi everyone

The Pictures Are Back!

To all,

I posted my newest work, Honor First, Honor Last, Always Honor. I neglected a critical piece of information.

I just thought I'd let everyone know that there was a little bit of Trouble when My 2 Uncle's & 5 Aunt's showed up,but when they threatened to kill me My Mother called the cop's on them while My Father & Sister's Boyfriend destracted them.They were arrested for for something but I can't remember what now.It was so funny.Also I'm sorry for not blogging about this sooner,but it turned out that there is another in the Family who is Transgender & that is a Cousin of Mine on My Mother's side of the Family & was disowned last night by Her Parent's,but Taken in by Me.She told Her P

Another Christmas come, another Christmas gone.