New story is up:

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/105167/my-grandmother...

for riding or much else!

My Summer in Pantyhose Chapter 39 is up.

On Wednesday of this week (tomorrow in my timezone) I will become homeless. My landlords have sold the property I have spent the past 8 years in and served me with a no-fault eviction order 2+ months ago. Quite separately my daughter decided to leave after 14 years with me, including her transition from girl to young woman. I, myself, transitioned almost 2 years ago after a long gestation.

Some will already be aware of this much.

My biggest issue has been the lack of affordable housing near me. I also needed to downsize drastically.

but no more!

I started using Grammarly, https://www.grammarly.com , three years ago as a spelling checker for my Apple computer. It was cumbersome but effective. As time has passed, it has become streamlined and works everywhere I write.

or more accurately here in Brizzle, Fahrenheit 32!

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My Summer in Pantyhose Chapter 37 is up... on time for a change. ;o)

let's hope it's a good one.

I've been endeavoring to learn how to do organizational pages. I'd like to thank Sephrena for patiently tutoring me in that effort. She walked me through the organizational page for the, "If It Was Your Husband," page, helped me when my boo-boos made me tear my hair.

"If It Was Your Husband," was a practice session for me. What I really wanted to do was organize "My Summer in Pantyhose." Jeremy Chandler did 24 chapters listed on his author page and I took up the story and have completed another 19 chapters plus an epilogue.

We had a great Christmas Day at my daughter's house marred only by the fact that my grandson and his new wife were ill and couldn't make it. We got home shortly after 10 in the evening. I was just catching up on the goings on here on BCTS when the first power outage hit. It was a minute later that it came back. Not to unusual for my little town that only has two feed lines from the electrical grid. Then about five minutes later, we heard a loud boom and the lights went out. No doubt, a transformer blew.

For those who have wondered about the inspiration for the Prince of Speed in my Masks stories, look here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziCd4sXSR4

I am very happy to have a 16mm print of this. In an envelope Jittlov doodled all over. :-)

To all of you who were anxiously waiting for the next chapter of "My Summer in Pantyhose," mea culpa, mea culpa. Christmas Eve got away from me. It's a big cooking day and a lot of prep going on.

I should have posted in the morning before the rush of the day hit. But I remembered that there were a few things that didn't make it onto the shopping list and the Sentry Market in our town has a habit of closing at noon on Christmas Eve. So after breakfast I headed to the store.

Three generations of Robisons seek out the history of Anna and the Joel family.

I am hoping to have the entire series finished in February.

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.

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.

Yep, we are just 7 days away from the 'big' day!

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.

Yep, its time for some bike action from our tiny songbird!

Experience tells me that things written in one session like this need extra editing and maybe a rewrite, but I'm committing to posting before the 21st. I ended up writing it using the opening page of an attempt at a Halloween story. That's why you never throw out failed stories.

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.

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.