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WW II a plot?

While at the hospital yesterday, I listened to a program that came from either History Channel or the Military Channel about WWII, saying that the war was actually plotted by the very rich as a way to shift economic power to America. I am very deaf and require the use of powerful state of the art hearing aids that have the ability to focus on one single sound source. In spite of that capability, I could have misheard some of what was said.

New Story

It's been a while since I posted any new stories here, but my latest, Shadow of a Doubt, is up. I've entered a few local short story contests and even won one, but they were straight SF stories, no TG involved, so I haven't been posting them here. I've also been working on a TG superhero story that's been giving me tons of trouble, so I finally stopped to do a quick mystery. My goal here was to keep the story short and give all the clues needed to solve it. I'll wait a full week before posting part 2 to see if I got enough in there while still keeping it difficult.

I'm back.

So after about 3 weeks without internet im back. I nolonger live in maryland, I have moved to virginia beach which is why I didnt have any internet.i worked on "The hand we're dealt" a little bit, I have about 900ish words written for chapter 3. I love my new house its small but spacious on the in side. Im scared abo6t having a new school, jessica has only gone to one school. Now im in a new place new ppl, my whole base of support and ppl who know me for me is gone, and thats something I have to get back. Well thats all for now ill check back in l8r ttyl

Barret, Howard and the Thousand Choices

I just posted the first part of my newest endeavor. I've title it Barrett, Howard, and the Thousand Choices. That title might change if I can come up with a better one; however, it will be kept in the format of all the Cynthia Chronicles stories. This story follows very quickly after Adam and the Three Wishes which was received quite well here. I based the title on the decisions the two main characters are led to make. Some may eventually see a bit of a similarity to some recent stories Elrod has posted.

Secrets of the Living Dolls

I missed Secrets of the Living Dolls when it was shown on UK's Channel 4, but have just watched it on Catch Up. It's about those men who do the most extreme form of cross-dressing — wearing masks on their faces and bodysuits beneath their clothing to emulate sexy women. The programme is compulsive watching for anyone with an open mind.

Hello again!

Hello again all! For those who remember me, I used to post all kinds of stuff here. Sorry I've been gone so long. Kind of got burned out for a while and then got addicted to a game...where I met my fiance! ^_^ So got kind of distracted there... ;)

Anyway, all is very well indeed with me and my fiance has been prodding me for months to write again. She's a fan of Kittyhawk. ^^ So, I'm finally getting back into writing. No promises on when or how much, but, I do have 2 chapters ready to go now. First will be a chapter of Chrysalis because it links up with Kittyhawk. ^^

Reading while injured

This weekend I had real-life plans, then I took a tumble. Nothing too serious, but lots of bruises, a couple skinned knees and a sprained wrist (I landed hard). Despite the pain, I'm glad I fell; because I used my now "free" time to read the Maiden by Decree series by Maggie Finson.

Somehow, when this series came out (the Epilog came out in July 2010) I missed the opportunity to partake of this literary offering. BIG mistake.

The death and outing of Dr V. (real life events)

Today I stumbled across a article (via a article about ethics on Scientific American) written by Caleb Hannan at Grantland.com (some kind of Golf writers site I guess) The article is pretty much about how the writer investigated the maker of a new golf club, found out she had lied about her history, and education, and decided to out her to the world as trans. Oh, and she killed herself before the article was printed after trying her hardest to keep the writer from publishing it.

2013 book of the year and escaping the T

I am an egotistical person. I know that. You know that. People who never met me assume that. So, what does an egotistical person do? The put their name in google and search for themselves. And, that's what I did. In my defense, I was looking for reviews of Unreachable. Last week I sold 500 copies (which is a lot for a week) and I was curious if blogs had anything nice (or nasty) to say about me.

Then I come across this link:

http://greedybugbookreviews.com/joshs-books-of-the-year-2013/

I need to whine and get sympathy please?

I feel like a shameless drama queen tonight and really need a lot of sympathy and hugs. I know I am supposed to be this solid rock "Mom" type, but I'm having a weak moment that is about 9.0 on the Richter scale.

I'm sick, really sick, and don't feel good at all from that damnable flue. This stuff is bloody awful. Strangely, all the actual symptoms have moved on but I am just worn out, tired, discouraged, weepy, and whiny. I have been sleeping more than 12 hours a day and nothing has been getting done. All the dishes are dirty and the other room looks like a pig stye.

Apologies for the pause in Girl Lost - Girl Found

Hi folks and sorry I haven't been keeping up with my latest story Girl Lost - Girl Found. I haven't even been able to find the time to update the blog

The truth is, I have got tangled up in RL. Work beckons both on the house and earning a crust, which leaves little time for me to be creative. Right now I have the bathroom to finish tiling and building the airing cupboard to, and soon, I will be building a thirty chicken chicken coop for a customer nearby - no mean feat, I can tell you.

Drive Failure

We had a drive failure on the BigCloset server. We're limping along right now but we've ordered a new drive and will attempt to get it installed as soon as it arrives in Denver, probably tomorrow or Saturday.

Since this is the boot drive for the main server, this will cause a certain amount of outage time, estimated 4 to 30 hours, depending on how quickly Denver gets the new drive imaged with the right version of Linux, etc.

Writing smut

For the most part, I've avoided writing any graphic sexual content. It's not that I don't think that there is a place for it, just not in my writing. Mostly it's been because I write about kids and that's just icky and wrong. In the past if I wrote anything sexual it was to show the true horrors of sexual abuse and was never intended to be for arousal.

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Car Problems

I Just got a new job that is to start on the 27th of this month. While was on my to a backup interview just in case something changed in the status of a job then my car died on the way. I am trying to get it towed to a repair place and have it fixed which looks like it was an alternator issue.

I am hoping my sister can help get it towed for me and pay for the repairs until I get a paycheck then buy a another car because this one is in reposession status.

My new job pays well over 60,000 a year but I need the car to last until I get the first check then get another car.

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Must be doing something right

Had an interesting moment at work last night. I was talking to a co-worker about the trans thing, and she told me that the first time I mentioned it, she couldn't believe it - I was far too feminine to have ever been a boy ...

Must be doing something right, no?

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Another Story Done

Well, almost done. I’ve one more run to make on ‘The World Turned Upside Down,’ before I am ready to release the finished product on an unsuspecting world. It has been an endevor that has taken me over three and a hald years to complete. It is, however, a story I can say I am proud of and enjoyed writing.

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Is there interest?

So, before I tackle another major novel I am writing a smaller piece (which will soon get away from me and be a mid sized novel). But, is there any interest in this community to see a mtf/ftm romance. I am currently working on one, but mostly it's so Felix doesn't feel left out of my writing (which he doesn't read anyway, so that goes to show how good of an author I am, I can't get my own BF to read my work).

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good news about my foot

Well, I have some good news about my foot. My doctor had sent my information to a foot clinic, and I went there today, and the doctor there assured me that the growth isn't cancer, that its just scar tissue, and gave me a steroid shot to help start the healing process. I will need at least a couple more of these shots, one every two weeks, and hopefully, that will be the end of that.

I'm super glad.

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I have to give major Kudos and Aww to All You Authors.

I had contacted Authors and universe Creators about writing in there universe when I had the down time at work. I had High Hopes and lots of Solid Ideas, but when I put my self down to write my muse refused to cooperate every time. For those of you that your muse will feed you ideas and help you write stories I have to tip my hat to you. My muse no matter how much I tried to cares it cox it and reason with it would give up ideas but would never help me compose those ideas into stories that people could read. I miss my High School days when it did but now it does not.

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And there was rejoicing!

It's been about a month and my book, "Heroes of Justice" available on Amazon Kindle has reached my estimate in sales. About 25 have been sold. Of course I hoped for more, but that was my realistic expectation.

I'm trying to get my next Kindle project, 'Once the Hero' cleaned up to be posted now, but if you have purchased a copy of HOJ please leave a review! Each one helps seperate my work from all the others in that popular genre.

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Havens Salvation 2-3

I have just posted the next segment of Havens Salvation. I am hoping that this is an original story not based on any others work. It is hard to know for sure beings I have read so many stories both here and in other circles but a extensive check of my memory I can not find any thing like this elsewhere.
I am trying to bring the characters alive for my audience giving the people you read about warm flesh and blood reactions to there environment and to each other. You my audience will be the final judge of that.

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Katie and Arin move on

I was saddened to read that the famous se-change couple Katie Hill and Arin Andrews had parted. It was a wonderful story whilst it lasted of a boy who became a beautiful young woman and a pretty girl who became a handsome young guy. Having said that they are young and it shows how Katie has blossomed and is now very content and living as normal a life in university as other students. I often feel the younger generation is more accepting of situations and I hope Katie finds happiness and future success since she was very brave.

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A different take on SRS

My wife of 47 years is currently fighting a re-occurance of malignant melanoma, which has metastasized to her brain. In order to combat it the Drs are going to try Brain Surgery. Thru all the discussion etc. they frequently referred to the procedure as SRS surgery. When we got home, wanting to know more about it, she Google d SRS, and was very amused to find that the only references to that she could find were to Sexual Reassignment Surgery, which she does not think she is a candidate for. She finally found it on a medical reference web site as Stereotaxic Radio-graphic Surgery.

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Informal poll - which Op Rescue story was your favorite?

I know the reaction to Op Rescue: In Plain Sight has been very significant (judging by comments and kudos). That makes me wonder if the audience as a whole considers this better than, on par with, or less than Op Rescue: New Co-Ed. The main reason I ask is that while New Co-Ed has a lot of hits, it has few kudos. That makes me wonder if it was as good as my latest effort, or worse. Or is it an artifact of posting a link to a PDF file (as opposed to a 450+ page story in the form!) so the kudo button wasn't accessible? Was it because New Co-Ed was too long for most people's tastes?

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I'm going slightly mad.

So I sent in a story to amazon...4 weeks ago. No response yet other than the automated response letting me know they got the submission. I know supposedly they have 2 more weeks or so to go before I'm supposed to worry, but I can't help myself.

To add to this, a fan recently edited RiH 10. The editing job was very well done, very professional and I in no way mean to imply that I don't appreciate it. However the editing did make
clear the astonishing number of grammatical flaws inherent within my writing style... flaws I'm positive the story I submitted a month ago shares.

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Christmas Fairy Queen

I read a story by Robyn Hoode over on TG Storytime called "Christmas Fairy Queen" which she claims to be not sufficiently good to be posted here. She's wrong and needs to be shown the error of her ways. This is definitely a BC level story. Let's raise a little bit of Cain here ladies,

Joanne

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Problem with the Home Page after logging in

I have now tried in Firefox and IE, but once I log in, the home page no longer shows the options under a heading of my user name. You know the list saying Home, Add A Story, Category Browser, Forums etc etc etc ending with Log Out.

I have to select my name from the list of who's online, or from the authors list, before I get the panel.

Just sayin'

Cheers

Joolz

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Saw an interesting commercial

Just saw an interesting commercial. It was regarding a drug proscribed for several mental conditions like ADD, and apparently it had the side effect of growing breasts on men. Why do I feel like this could be a story here?

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Almost completed new short story

I have "sort of" completed a new story and universe. The working title is "Here Be Dragons", I am unsure if I should give it a few days or post "as is" so to speak and make any changes based on your suggestions.

Happy New Year,
Sunwolf

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Sarah's place takes a battering

This is a video of what the weather has done to Aberystwyth, home of Sarah's university in 'Cold Feet' and 'Sisters'. At the end of the video, you get a look at the hill they go up in the panoramic railway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25604697

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The Family Girl #070: Brrrrrrr!!!

The Family Girl Blogs
(aka "The New Working Girl Blogs")

Blog #70: Brrrrrrr!!!

To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link:
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

Ma just called. It's past noon back home, but I guess she doesn't realize it's about 1:30 in the morning here. Sassafrassa...

She called to say we should postpone our delayed visit yet again as Winter Storm Ion is gonna be bringing extremely cold (dangerously cold, in fact) arctic air to most of the U.S. Northwest for the coming week.

Ma says the East Coast will not be too affected yet but it's best to stay put here in Manila.

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Saved a ton of money on SRS

I always thought that Sexual Reassignment Surgery would be out of reach for me because of the cost. Thankfully that problem was solved and I was able to get a majority of the surgery done at no cost at all. Thanks to my job, while delivering the papers last night I froze my balls off. Now, I'm half way there.

Brr.

I'll be here all week.

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Questions about a human hair braclet of all things

I've heard of jewelry and bracelets made from human hair before, but I have no actual experience with them. I know they were popular during the 18th (maybe 19th) century, but a lot of people have never even heard of them in these modern times. I don't ever intend to make such a thing or wear one, but I'm thinking of using one in my story. The tale itself is set in a dystopian future Earth where most of humanity has been enslaved by a malevolent race of aliens.

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