We were just informed by Enemyoffun's brother in Discord that Enemyoffun's appendix had burst and he is in the ICU. That is all we know of at the moment. Please pray for him.

Edit: He is possibly out of surgery. Still awaiting an update from his brother.

Looks like Matthew aka "Enemy" will be spending some time there over Christmas. I'll see about the gift shop tomorrow to send him a stuffed animal. BCTS doesn't forget its authors. :)

Sephrena

Emma has gone missing since posting Pretend Princess Chapter 16 on December 1, 2024. She lives in Nigeria and shortly after that posted Nigeria had a Muslim insurgency that kidnapped a bunch of women again. I am worried for her. :(

Has anyone heard from her? her title here is cemma2035.

Sephrena

Okay, this is a last minute spring. For the 25th anniversary contest, you have until Friday, November 22, 2024 at 3pm Pacific Standard Time to turn in a fictional story entry showing your beliefs in a story of what BigCloset TopShelf means to you personally. Has it saved your life? How so? And showcase those beliefs into a beautifully written story for us. Story length has to be of at least 5,000 words. The single prize is $75. That's it!

Okay, this is some bad news.

Due to some mounting Bills, the fact that I broke my foot tonight, I HAVE to reduce the Prize amounts of the Christmas Contest down from $2100 to $1200. The amount will only affect the number of 3rd place winners! If I live any longer the remainder will go to Bigcloset as I get it. I have never had to do this before in my entire history of doing contests here, but I must now do this. I am cash strapped to the max :*(

The contest officially ended on Friday morning Eastern time at 3 am / midnight Thursday Pacific time. I went ahead and added Su Shi's and Marianne G's Late entries to the list and voting module, but a ton of people have already voted :/ I am hoping that for my Christmas contest you will enter earlier perhaps? To let people vote on your entries? I thought I had written the rules clearly :(

I am crossing my fingers and hoping for both of you.

Sephrena

Google is now phasing out Manifest V2 support from Chrome and V3Manifest support will be even less. I am for abandoning Chrome before then forever since it seems to be focused to force ads onto your pc.

All script and ad blockers will cease working before November.

Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024

I cleaned up Tiffany Shar's Bear's Know Best story from all of those little OSC squares from 2010-2012 when BCTS was NOT as stable as it is now. Also, I removed the lulu.com links and placed the amazon store page address there for you to purchase from as well. The author will have to change the included text for ea chapter to reflect this as well.

Well, it's time to discuss this.

We have a relative staying over for 2 days and its way too hectic for me here to be able to finish grading the last 40% of the works until they leave Thursday morning. I need peace and quiet to analyze while reading. So please allow me until Saturday the 5th to post and pay out morning Eastern time.

Thank you. And I do apologize for the inconvenience. I certainly wasn't expecting this.

Sephrena

There are a total of 7 prizes: 1 x 1st Place, 2x 2nd Place, and 4 x 3rd Place. The current cash prizes are 1 x $150, 2 x $75, 4 x $25.
The Winner's Announcement is March 3, 2022 along with payouts. I will be issuing the payouts in a timely fashion same day.