My little dog and I were playing on the front porch, me throwing her favorite toy and her chasing it. At the far end of the porch, she tried to grab the toy, stop and turn around all at the same time and I think she hurt herself.

The Daily Mail in London is reporting that scientist's at Newcastle university have developed an artificial sperm, Raising the very real possibility in the future of a world without the need for men!... Having said that they do say that at present sperm can only be created from male embryo's so ruling out for the moment women becoming the supreme biological being...But you know what they say, Where there's a will there's a way!!

Not the usual sort but I've just watched "The World's Fastest Indian" on the BBC iPlayer. It stars Anthony Hopkins as New Zealander Bert Munro who's ambition is to run his old Indian motorcycle at Bonneville speed week. It's an emotional roller coaster that brought tears to my eyes a few times and I strongly recommend it - even to those of you who think a story about an old man and his old motor bike somewhat uninteresting.

There are evidently 7 basic plots and every story utilises one or more of them.

The plots are:

1. Man v (Wo)man

2. (Wo)Man v Nature

3. (Wo)Man v Environment

4. (Wo)Man v Machine

Hi folks,

as Piper is rebuilding her main server, she will have to take some sites offline. Those include tgfiction.net, gabyzone.com, maddybell.com, storysite.org, reluctantpress.com, cyberbrats.org/net/info/us/ws.

For www.maddybell.com we can you provide with a mirror site at maddy.tor-der-traeume.de.

So please be patient, as things will be back in order soon.

Saphira

I have frequently heard trans folk say that they felt that stress had a roll in their final decision to actually "come out", do it, get cut, and all that. I can distinctly remember the very day and minute that I finally threw the towel in, though my "comming out" and final decision did not come for a while.

Would any of you care to share that moment with us?

Khadija

There is a really interesting program on the Documentary Channel now about Gender research in Australia.

Thank you for all of the supportive comments and Private messages. I went back to my original header on Chapter One and started to rethink things from Chapter 3. I have totally redone this chapter and focused on the underlying resentment that Alyce harbors for her parents not telling her the truth. I have taken this plot in a new direction. I started to think about the motives of the parents . There was a specific reason why they withheld the knowledge from her for so long and it was a very selfish one. Read it and you will find out.

I have one story by Lisa Paige in my personal archive: Alex. It's a well written piece and I'd like to read more of her work. Does anyone know where she may have posted more stories?

I may not be married, but I do have three girls to care for."