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2024 New Year's Contest

If you click on 2024-01 January - New Year's Resolution Story Contest above, you will see a list of the entries.

Contest Closed for entries.

Please post your choices for top three stories and possibly win $50.

Start the New Year right by participating in Jill, Emma, and Joanne’s writing contest!

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Sledgehammer by me from DopplerPress on Amazon

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Sledgehammer on Kindle

  

This is the same story that's been in the Hatbox for some time, now released with new editing and a new cover on Amazon. The story of Jake and Cody, friends--and Freds--for a lifetime. See story for joke about the Freds.

Hugs,
Erin

Hatbox funds needed - Today

Cash contributions from our members are how we keep BigCloset operating.

Company account was down to basically $0

If bills hit, we will overdraft.

Amazon is supposed to pay us tonight, but my stomach is cramping now with anxiety about this.

Please, If you can help, it will be appreciated.

Paypal contributions come straight to our account.

Hugs,
Erin, Piper, Jamie, Cat and the rest of the crew

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The Last Holidays - Kindle eBook by Grover Young

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Craig is one of Earth's bio-engineered soldiers in a war against an alien invasion. Unfortunately, when he uses his powers, he turns female. Now Halcyon has to deal with invaders and with Craig's girlfriend's preference for his female self! On top of that, Earth is losing the war.... There must be another way to deal with the conflict or the world will run out of holidays—forever!

The Last Holidays

New story up

It's been a busy couple of months. My muse hasn't dried up. But it's been hard to find time to sit down and bang out some words.

The idea for this story occurred to me a couple weeks ago on a visit to a couple friends.

So I've been kicking it around in my head for a while. But somehow when I sat down tonight, it just flowed.

I tried to keep it a bit minimalistic. But I hope some of you enjoy it.

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Attn: Admin. Trying my hand at an organizational page.

I'm trying my hand at an organizational page. I think I've got it. I've tried it out in preview and it works. I'm going to copy and past the body content to my word processor so that I can reproduce it.

I'm not sure where it will end up. I'm reluctant to just hit "Save" and hope that every thing is really ready. Can someone give me a hint as to what I can expect.

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Christmas, God, and Emma Anne Tate………

Yeah, I know, which of these things is not like the others? LOL - believe it or not, they have a lot in common this evening.

I had just finished reading Emma’s latest posting this evening, part 6 of 8 of her story Who Makes Intercession, and was leaving a comment when my youngest son came in the house - he was eating dinner with us this evening. I finished typing my comment regarding Emma’s story, and got up to eat dinner.

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A Rare Statistic (Hits and Kudos)

One relatively recent story of mine has over 100 kudos and under 1000 hits: How BttF Might Have Ended with 840 hits and 103 kudos -- the same number of digits for both.

Also, a fifth story hit 200 kudos: The Family Council.

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Resolutions: Recommended, FFS and Revolution

I'd like to recall attention back to my story from January Resolution Revolution It is set now and is eerily familiar in that a fascist power has it out for Transgendered Americans. The one thing it did not get right was that a quantum singularity appeared near enough the Sol system to give transpeople super-powers. I like to think that even when I feel powerless in real life that I can live a bit through a fictional life where all things are possible.

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formatting problems

Every time I post a story here I have to go though and fix the line spacing. I will get sentences like this:

This sentence must be to long for the website because
it does this.
and the the next sentence is below like this.

I write in libre office and then copy and paste. Also, while I'm asking, how do I center something like the inscription in The Lynching Tree. It was centered in my draft but moved to the margin when copied.

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My Next Book on Amazon

I am looking to have Doppler Press publish yet another anthology of my short stories on Amazon / Kindle.
Firstly a word about Doppler - Profits from this enterprise are applied to keeping BCTS going, so please support this publishing house and their authors, many of whom are part of this community.
But what I am looking for is somebody to help with my next book as my latest foreword writer.

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New book

I have a new book out on Kindle which is a first for me, as it is non-fiction. The subject matter may interest some on here,, though, as it is about cycle touring. I have taken my logs from three tours and edited them to better fit the narrative, so it will come across as very 'jerky', but that is a feature.

The three tours are:
Around Western Australia
From Hoek in Holland up to the edge of the Norwegian border with Sweden
From Munich along the Danube to Budapest and then around Hungary

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Distracted

I'm still working on my epic alien story, which I've been trying to do a final editing pass through lately, but I keep being distracted by other stories. There's another one that's ready to post now, but I'm going to give you all time to read all the epic Christmas contest entries before posting it.

Besides that, there's Dog Days and a couple other short stories that are near being ready to post. The problem is all the other stories distracting me.

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Toni (With An i) – Allison Zero – Ms Woolly – what’s happening?

Hello, everyone!

I’ve not been around in a while so I’d like to think some are wondering, “What’s happening with Ms Woolly and her stories?” (Some are wondering about the stories, at best, let’s be honest... :P )

I’m fairly sure I mentioned earlier this year I was in the process of getting a place of my own and had to pause my writing. I now do have a place of my own, which is amazing. What’s less amazing is this place which initially appeared to just be in need of a new kitchen and a coat of paint actually demanded an entire renovation. Oh no!

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NoMoji (Please Don't Use Emoji)

So this error pops up for people every once in a while, and I always forget to make a post about it. I often forget it's even a thing and spend hours trying to diagnose posting issues when it happens, only to remember, "Oh yeah, that's a thing."

The version of Drupal and the Database system we are currently using can't understand EMOJI! The charset doesn't allow for it.

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Check them out! Two Free Novels for Download!

Lynn Oliver is a new author here on BC, and she has put up two of her novels for free download as PDFs!

I haven't read them yet myself but they seem worth checking out. You can find them at Lynn Oliver

If you read them, come back here to leave a comment and some kudos! Lynn will appreciate that, I'm sure!

Hugs,
Erin

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Cannot Find a Story

I recently read and enjoyed a story written from the point of view of Princess Ozma of Oz. It was the first posting of to be of several about Princess Ozma, her transformation from the boy Tip, and the struggles caused by that transformation. I believe it was from "The Land of OZ" written by L. Frank Baum more than 100 years ago. It was the first Oz book I knew. It was a sequel to "Dorothy and the Wizard of OZ" from which the movie was made. I read most of them eventually. My mother read it to me when I was about five or six.

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Halfway!

Poking at the Light project in Scrivener for Hope's Light this morning, I realized that with Friday's chapter the first half of the book has now been posted. Being in seven 'Parts' in terms of its structure, this means we're halfway through Part Four...and rapidly heading towards the tipping point where things steamroll towards the finale!

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Apologies

To any who may read my latest posting "An Unexpected Christmas Gift (Omnibus Edition)". I found the "Create Content" heading very unco-operative in editing the story, mostly in spacing to make it readable. Being frustrated I decided to post anyway and will continue to edit in "My Stories" which seems to be far more forgiving to a computer Klutz like me, so please bear with me for a couple of days.

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To readers of my continuation of "My Summer in Pantyhose"

I appreciate the Kudos. What I'm wondering is just how well did I do in picking up the storyline and the writing style that Jeremy Chandler used.

It was a stretching of my writing skills to run multiple story arcs at the same time. I had particular trouble keeping multiple time lines running parallel. That and I haven't written in third person in years.

So what do you think; did I accomplish my goal of making a seamless transition of authors and did I do a credible job of taking the story where it needs to go?

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The end?

This post is more to give myself some closure before I move on to other avenues.

I want to publicly acknowledge that I am no saint, I burned my bridges one by one over the years.

Some things that happened that essentially made me public enemy #1 on BCTS I’ve never forgiven myself for being involved with.

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small body of water or a small stream?

small body of water or a small stream?

neither, Brook(e) while it does mean small body of water or small stream

In this case it is the new name of a main character of a story i cant remember the name or the author of, and most importantly much plot

MC changes school, to boarding school, can't remember if this is because change from middle to high school

can't remember if Brook is MC's name and mistake in gender is assumed as someone spelled Brook with an e

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Time to binge read "My Summer in Pantyhose" by Jeremy Chandler.

I've finished writing what I'm calling a "Prologue of My Continuation of My Summer in Pantyhose." It's a chapter by chapter summary of the 24 chapters posted by Jeremy Chandler. The intended purpose is to allow those who've read the original to refresh their memories as to what gone on up to this point.

If you haven't read the original, this probably isn't for you. Binge read "My Summer in Pantyhose" instead.

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Question: Nearly ready to post my continuation of Jeremy Chandlers tale.

I'm nearly ready to post my continuation of Jeremy Chandler's "My Summer in Pantyhose." I've continued it to the 2nd week in September. While it obviously leaves the reader wanting more, the title limits the tale to the "summer," so it ends with just a glimpse of what may be to come.

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Here's Jake!

I spent some time with AI, and found that it really has a problem doing the little things. Jake has two different colored eyes, and it took me forever to get that done how I wanted. I went through, quite literally, hundreds and hundreds of images before I found my Jake. https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/104259/mister-sister-... Jake face final.jpeg

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Anybody Remember this story

A young man, the soul survivor of an attack on a wagon train to the west is transformed into a copy of a dying young woman to care for her baby by an alien device. Later found by the woman’s young son and husband. He is persuaded to continue west with them to care for the boy and baby. Gradually falling for her new family.

I had the story saved on a now dead kindle as a document and cannot find it on my laptop.

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