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Someone’s Having a Birthday!


And it’s a BIG Birthday, too!

She’s an absolute treasure. A wonderful author, someone who’s succeeded at marriage for over 57 years, and always a warm, positive presence here at BC.

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Take a bow, PATRICIA MARIE ALLEN! Or maybe a curtsy. :) Happy 80th to you! May your pantyhose never sag, and your nighties never tangle!!!

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Writing TG stories in 2025

What do you do if you're thinking about writing a story focused around a transgender character, in 2025 America where institutionalized transphobia seems to be ubiquitous?

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grammar problem

Lately I have been seeing a lot of sentences that annoy me. they look like this: "John is a singer that is quite loud." I'm certain that this should be "John is a singer who is quite loud." The problem is that I'm seeing this substitution of 'that' for pronouns in these sentences so often that I'm wondering if I'm wrong?

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There is nothing to worry about ...

There is nothing to worry about with Trump and Republicans in charge

-- The State Department is now not even issuing renewing passports to transgender people.

--The National Park Service (NPS), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior changed the information about Stonewall on their website. They erased four of the leaders of the riots who were transwomen and changed the phrase LGBTQ rights to LGB rights.

-- As of February 7, 2025, transgender individuals were banned from enlisting and having publicly funded gender-affirming surgeries in the U.S. military.

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BCTS Patreon Experiments: books!

Great news everyone!

To try and help us move away from reliance on Amazon so much, we're going to be starting some experiments on the Patreon with making books and/or stories available to purchase there.

Right now we have two options available in this way: the complete collection of Quillian, and my own story Fresh Start. We'll be working on moving more work over there in the future.

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Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day.

I just posted a short story for Valentine's Day, titled, "The Valentine's Day Gift" It comes in at just over 8100 words.

Thanks to my beta reader. She assures me that I was successful in giving the story the look and feel I was after.

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Summer Camp

I am looking for a story, I began rereading Anistasia Allread's story "Camp Kumoni"

I remember another story where the MC signs their-self up for a summer camp my pulling a fast one on parents, think it may be Guide\Girl Scout camp

can't remember but there may have been a leather working workshop

please help

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Dura or Duro

It occurred to me - years late - that the male street hero should be named Mano Duro rather than Mano Dura. However, my two years of high school Spanish are decades in the past. Can someone with more knowledge of Spanish let me know which is correct?

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Life After Retirement

So...here I am at the end of my contract, having reached the mandatory retirement age in my country of residence. Theoretically, I should have plenty of time to complete all of my unfinished stories, but it goes without saying that nothing is ever as simple as it first appears.

While I have a small pension provided by the government, it's not quite enough to make ends meet, meaning I have to decide what to do next. Basically, its a choice between finding another job in the private sector or moving to a cheaper country.

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Janegirl Scout Cookies

Yesterday, when I'd gone grocery shopping, I passed a few Girl Scouts selling cookies. That started a kernel of an idea rolling around my head. I woke up early this morning with a first scene in my head, which is inserted below.

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AFAB Transfemme - Is it Trans?

I have posted a story today and I think that I would be helpful to get an opinion on it.
I believe that is clearly belongs here, but is an AFAB transfemme individual truly transgender?
I pose the same question in my closing note, adding that the opinions of some are that "all genders and sexualities should be tolerated", but what exactly is this?
I would love to receive comments on the story, or here.
Maryanne

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Mein Gott, was für Ein Auto

While taking a break from a story I am working on I saw a photo of a 2025 Corvette Z..... something. 1000 hp, twin turbo V8, claims very good mileage if the driver keeps the foot out. 233 mph. Performance suspiciously like an Audi R8 which they stopped making. The driver of this beast MUST be a very masculine woman or perhaps TG ????

This must be edited into the new story !!!!

Gwen Brown

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Life Update.

Good evening everybody. I hope this evening finds you all in good spirits, for those suffering, afraid, or in pain, please know I'm praying for you. And that by simply living you are pushing back. Now, I owe everybody here an apology, I've not been as active as I want to be, I've not been leaving comments as I should. For that I'm humble sorry and I ask your forgiveness.

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Looking For A Story

The Protagonist does online investigations for a fee until "they" graduate college. They found a remote cabin in the Rockies and stayed there to do the investigations. They go into town for groceries at times and eventually go to a family gathering where "gramps" offers him the ranch.

I hope this is enough

Ahabidah, Gwen Brown

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Help

Hi all
A few years ago l read the first 4 chapters of a story by Lorraine B on crystals storysite entitled the alien within or holy crap there's an alien in my bed at the time she said the story would continue with part 5 war children which i later discovered on another web site.
After re reading the story this weekend and trying to find the 5th chapter l am coming up with nothing does anybody on this site know where I can find this chapter or did anybody else copy and save it if you did could you let me have a copy.
Many thanks and hugs in advance.
sim1cats

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The Future of Fake it.

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Well... I guess Holly's gone and done it, as per usual!

'Fake it Till You Make It' has been wildly more popular than I ever expected, and for that I am eternally grateful to all of you who have read and commented on it. As we head toward the final chapter of the book, I have some news... and thoughts I would like to share with you, my wonderful readers.

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I finally finished my Halloween story tonight

Truthfully, it's disturbingly gory. So much so that I couldn't continue it until now. If it took me over two months to be able to handle one image, I'm not sure about subjecting the unwary to it. How should I tag something like this, maybe a warning at the beginning and a spacer after that or should I just hold on to it. It shares the first several paragraphs with the lynching tree to let you see where the gore is coming from.

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February is Short Story Month!

'Tis the month to be succinct, to get to the point, to tell your story in enough words but not too many!

It's not a contest, there are no prizes, but everyone is encouraged to write something short and sweet, from pithy drabbles to picaresque novelettes, a standalone polished gem, or a diamond in the rough side story to a longer work, Let's Be Brief!

Hugs,
Erin

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My Summer in Pantyhose Epilogue (final post) is up

I've just posted the final post of "My Summer in Pantyhose" It's the epilogue. It's short because, summer is over and the title of the series limits the story to that summer.

Is this the end of Jamie’s story? Are there no more adventures for Jamie, Tabitha and Mike? And what about Megan?

Obviously not. Jamie and co. have their whole life ahead of them. Where will Jamie end up; will he and Tabitha become a lifetime couple; what will Megan do after? Dear readers. Turn your imaginations loose and fill in the blanks that are the rest of their lives.

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Another New Story

Here's another new one from me.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/105374/cheertastic

Also in case anyone was wondering, The Season of the Witch is back up on site for a little bit :)

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/33939/season-witch

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My Summer in Pantyhose Chapter 43 is up

My Summer in Pantyhose Chapter 43 is up. This it penultimate posting in this series. This Thursday, I'll post the epilogue.

Hope you have all enjoyed my efforts to finish Jeremy's fine work.

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Looking for another story

I cannot remember much about this story except from a few facts no specific order

medieval type fantasy

witch/sorceress believes she is wronged by king, curses a royal child

curse can only be broken by a selfless act

monarch's magic is life of land

A friend of MC runs a clinic that soldiers burn to ground with patients still inside

another character saves MC from making bad mistake, and turns MC's life around, think is mercenary and teaches MC swordsmanship

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Crazy Daisy

I'm going to have a go at a continuation to this story with some glossaries of dance terms I downloaded. Thanks all who commented on parts one and two your encouragement is very helpful. Unfortunately, they don't have a term for a Smudge cat who launched herself off the floor with forepaws patting together as she tried to catch a fruit fly. It looked as if she was saying her prayers in mid-air. It was really quite amusing to watch.

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Looking for a story

I am looking for a story,

Magical? gender change, Grandmother dying, mother last of the matriarchal clan, son changed.

I say "magical?" as I cannot remember if magic is involved

I can however remember the clan is a clan of were's and they are big cats, Lion, Tiger, Puma, Panther type big cat.

I think he gets injured in a car accident, before change

also I seem to remember he was at college/university studying forensics (CSI), which also helps when members of another clan in the town begin to reappear dead

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Up a day late, sorry

"My Summer in Pantyhose Chapter 41" is up a day late. Sorry. The three day weekend threw my perception of what day it was. I didn't realize it was Tuesday until I went to bed and contemplated the next day being Wednesday.

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My Summer in Pantyhose posting error

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Mea Culpa...

In my master document, i misnumbered chapters resulting in two chapters 37. As a result of that, the second Chapter 37 never got posted. That resulted in a continuity error. A new member, maerga galva, called my attention the continuity error; thank you Maerga.

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What next for Toni? BCTS Loyalty Edition

I've been busy for a while since my last story/chapter went up. I have two ongoing stories on the site at the moment, Toni With An i and Allison. Last summer I paused things for a house move but the house turned out to need more work than anticipated. A few months ago I got sick of only house stuff and started something I've said I'd do, which is work up my stories into novel format.

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