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Whoa

Saw this on YouTube today, in video format.

It was read by a young lady (my guess is college-age) and is a very powerful commentary on the state of the world and the "Lost Generation" that is coming up in it now. At first, this seems like an unbearable message, but please hang in there until you've read through all of the post and instructions.

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Fictioneer! Magic Tale

Those interested in a new romantic fantasy world might enjoy T D Aldoenetti's Tranquility: Sorcerer/Sorceress series on Erin's Fictioneer! site. No TG content; in one sense it's like A.A.'s Healing a Princess, in that it's set against a detailed world background specific to the author. At present it's posting quickly: 14 chapters since October 15, with recent posts on a daily basis.

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Back from my travels.

Goodness, some of you missed me, I'm overwhelmed. I had a nice week away, and although the weather could have been better - one day was a wash out - I enjoyed myself. I walked miles bird watching, and was reasonably rewarded. I teamed up with a couple who hadn't hired a car, so we went off most days looking for spots to watch for new species of birds. Andy was better at it than I was - I haven't done much of it for years, so didn't get my eye in, until the end of the week.

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. . . And Fifty Cents For Your Soul

     'Mad Dog' Jansen stomped down the polluted beach, kicking driftwood and whatever else got in his way with his size 14 combat boots. He smiled for a moment at the memory of how that pansy quarterback for the Saints had looked after he'd 'accidentally' snapped his throwing arm, the pain in his eyes before he'd passed out. It had been a clean hit but Jansen knew he'd angled himself to inflict the maximum amount of damage.

George and Catherine

George Baker looked at the newspaper clipping in his hand, just to confirm the address.

He walked down the busy street, passing various shops on the way to his destination. As he walked, he reflected on things.

George and Catherine

by Susan Brown

Brutality Against Women

We've just had some horrible news here. Two women have died due to brutal attacks. A news reporter and a single mother have died. The mother died while taking a shower. Her ex-boyfriend beat down a door and shot her while her children were in the house. Anne Pressly, an ABC local reporter, was brutaly beaten by an unknown assailant last Sunday night in her house and died of her injuries just a while ago. We are heartbroken over both incidents. When will this madness end?

Portia

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FORMAT C:

Somehow, I managed to pick up a virus. I downloaded Clamwin (Clam antivirus for Windows -- an open source virus checker) and it went nuts telling me that just about every .exe, .scr (screen saver,) and maybe a few other types were infected. Not being one to goof around, I popped the Win 2K disk in, rebooted, and did a fresh install on my C: drive. It wasn't just any fresh load, though. I deleted the partition, reinstalled it, and formatted it with NTFS. Once I got things loaded, I used the infection report file to delete all the bad files from the secondary partition of my 40 meg...

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Camp Kumoni : 56


Camp Kumoni
By Anistasia Allread
Edited by Nick B

“Alright Columbine, off to the showers, quickly. Let me talk with Erika.” Phoenix ordered, dismissing them. “Go on.”

Eric slumped and sat down hard on Samantha’s bed as the others grabbed their things and headed off to the showers.

     
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Story Polishing

The final editing act I perform, before submitting a story, is to do a number of quick checks. Specifically I look at the usage of homonyms and depending upon my read throughs, words that I may joined differently (i.e. nightgown or night gown).

My standard checklist so far consists of:

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New television show

There is a new television on show on WE cable channel on Tuesday nights at 11 p.m. eastern standard time till 1 a.m. called Sex Change Hospital. Each episode is one hour long and profiles one new male to female transsexual and one female to male transsexual each episode and the surgeon is Dr. Bowers in Trinidad Colorado. It is very informative and done tastefully.

Hugs,

Jenna From FL

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Gender Neutral Pronouns

In 1993, I joined an online email group that we called TS Lesbians. We wished to avoid patriarchal language, such as he, him, his, etc. being default pronouns (used where the gender of the person referred to by the pronoun is unknown).

Use of she/he, him/her, etc. seemed literally correct, but awkward and wordy. Using they, their, etc. for third person singular, although it has been done for centuries, brings problems of whether other parts of speech in the sentence should be singular or plural.

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A wonderful response

Thanks to all the readers on BCTS. I was looking at The total number of reads on Mellissa's stories this afternoon. I was very happy to see that He r story which is autobiographical totaled so far 27,667 reads. That I am pleased to see and I am happy that her story still has readers for this first time author here on BCTS.

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Annie and Courtney

Edeyn Don't worry, I'm working on building up a backlog of both Dear Diary and Sk8r Grrls so that I should be able to post some through November without detracting from my Novelling time.

Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...

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Kelly's Journey -1- Bye Daddy

Kelly's Journey
Chapter 1: Bye Daddy
 
By Stanman63
 
Edited By Nora Adrienne with Special Thanks To Terry Naut
and to Heather Rose Brown for the Illustration!

 
Kelly's Daddy is a Police Officer well on the way to a Captaincy. He is well respected by fellow Officers and was selected to replace the current Captain when he retires. But Kelly's Daddy goes on duty when a fellow officer calls in sick and dies in the line of duty.
     
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Talking about something important for a change

Edeyn Alright, I babble a bit in the beginning, but then I move on to actual important things -- including the text to the right of the video where I break down the math. ( Click here to check it out )

Edeyn Hannah Blackeney
Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make...

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