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Hip-hip Hooray!!
Thankyewthankyewthankyew!!!
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Faraway
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Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Faraway
Big Closet Top Shelf
Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
Me Too!
It's way too interesting to pull,
Joanne
Yay Sue!!!
Look at it this way, if there was anything wrong with it in the first place, Bob wouldn't have allowed it on Startdust :)
{{HUGS}}
Frank
Absolutely, Frank
Bob is very particular about Stardust and what he will accept. That he had no qualms with your story, Sue, speaks volumes.
BC is also a selective site due to the diligence of Erin and her happy trolls ... Um, you are happy trolls, right? I saw now signs that Erin or her *Happy TrollsTM* were offended by the story.
IMHO it was a tribute to your characters, that us? we? usen? weall? the? -- YES ! -- the readers felt so close to them that you got any negative or seemingly negative comments. We hate seeing good/innocent people hurt or we should be if society is to prosper.
You hinted in your blog when you unpublished that we would have seen the children in the experimental program somehow fight back, fight for restitution, justice to be who they want to be within the constrains of this terrible plague. They may be women now or soon will be but somehow they fight to retain the person they were in some manner. That she is obviously -- to me anyway -- telling her story to someone sometime after the fact says that in small or large measure she and her friends succeeded.
How that happens, what becomes of their lives and how it changes them, their families and society will be interesting to see. And here is always the contrast with other desperate nations. Are they really as bad as the kids were told, better or somewhere in between? The apparent drugging and manipulating of the former boys is it as bad as we fear or some ill considered but benevolently intended temporary measure, a bit like military boot camp, to break down their mental defenses so they can be remade as women? IE they, the government, really do believe this is *for their own good* to "help them adapt/cope with/ find satisfaction with their new lives and bodies.
Be it benevolent, mistaken or sinister only you know, Sue.
Bring it on! And we will read.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
There was a problem with The Chosen?
Geeze, I miss all the good stuff! Sue, your writing is great!
OK, like, well, I am unhappy about the price of Gas, getting old, taxes, and the fact that I have no husband. :(
I'd really like to see you add to it
Whew!
Okay... Never mind the mewling, pleading email I just sent you. I haven't been keeping up with the blogs! Duh. If I had, I would have known that you reconsidered the deletion. As it was, I had just popped over to Stardust to see if part 5 was posted yet, only to find the withdrawal notice!
Panic! Panic! ... Okay, so I didn't behave sensibly. Sorry.
As I said in my email, this is a fine sci-fi plot, of the type I'm generally a fan of. A good story needs tension, conflict and mystery, and this one has it, big time!
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If a picture is worth 1000 words, this is at least part of my story.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
Susan,
Thank You, very much for reposting this story. I look forward, along with many others, to reading this story as it unfolds. You have done an excellent job on it, as usual.
Have a great day,
Mark