spoiler alert

a meteorite falls from the sky kills everyone except for the cockroaches there pretty much indestructible.

Just kidding, but you will have to wait a little longer Wren has the draft to be edited but it should be posted soon.

Cain129

My new novel is available for purchase on smashwords.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/83120

It's a comedy about a crossdressing boy and his adventures with his friends in a small town. It's not meant to be realistic or to deal with transgender issues, it's just a zany little romp with lots of off-the-wall costumes and predicaments.

We hope to have it back up tonight or tomorrow.

Hugs,
Erin

Here's a very sympathetic story from a major US newspaper about a transgendered sanitation worker. It includes a link to a video.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_barry_carter/2011/08/carter_the_remarkable_lives_on.html

Kris

Since there will be a mostly harmless shower scene, I'm probably going to raise the rating to R for this chapter, simply because there will be some description of female nudity and bathing. Nothing overtly sexual, thanks to it being from Drew's perspective, were the same shower scene written from Christina's perspective... Might have to take it up even higher ;P

So... Chapter 3 could possibly be done... maybe.

I'm having difficulty deciding whether to post the chapter as-is, with only half as many words as the other two chapters so far and most other chapters are likely to have, and this, having taking over twice as long to write. Or, switch back from Janet's perspective to Drew's and keep writing (which is what would happen anyways, but as a new chapter), probably wind up taking until late Sunday to finish, and ending up with a chapter-and-half chapter length.

I had a Critical comment left for me and I read it just a while ago. I honestly thought in my mind 'How dare you call my baby ugly" sort of thoughts. I read and re read the comment and eventually saw the commenter's point... all very good critiques and I'm sure very reasonable... I replied without heat (or not too much) and tried not to be Snarky... but I felt like someone had attacked me... now I think... who am I writing for... Me first of course... I write what I want to read... in this case, comic book stories with comic book science and physics... I'm not a scientist or engineer...

Here is the message I got from his relatives I found on Facebook to let everyone know what is Stan's health condition. I have asked where we can send letters and cards to so that he can know we care.

yes he is still in the hospital i don't know if u knew of his health conditions but he has elephantigo i am not sure if i spelled it correctly but its where he is retaining massive fluid and he went into a comma about a week ago he came to himself a few days later but they are still pulling two liters of fluid off at a time a few times a day.

Hugs,

Jennifer Boyle

Does anyone know why crystal hall is down?

OK, so yesterday and today I rode through the same exact speed monitor next to a school zone, at the same exact time. This is a 35mph zone when school's not either starting or ending. Yesterday, I get clocked going 31mph, today, 28mph. Yesterday, I think almost every single motorist who passed me through there honked at me and yelled at me to get off the road... I was going faster than your typical Sunday driver for freaks sake! Today, only ONE car honked at me and yelled to get off the road, and this was a coupla miles back before the speed monitor.

Well, I was a little bit down when I woke this morning. I struggled with the questions; "What am I doing this for? If I can't be female between my legs, what's the point?" I felt like "I'm going to die a freak, no matter what" I'm doing a bit better now, thanks to my friend Kylie, but those feelings are still there to some extent. Pray for me.

The secondary BC server, the one that handles almost all of my sites except BC and handles my mail, is under attack by spam emailers from the Ukraine. I'm trying to get a handle on the problem. I'm going to be busy with this, so if the site is neglected today, that's why.

Also, has anyone heard from Piper? Last I heard from her was early Tuesday morning. She was on the road with the truck full of servers from Bob's place and had stopped at a motel. Nothing since then and I can't reach her cellphone either.

Hugs,
Erin

So I mentioned in a comment to something somewhere around here the other day that I wrote an epic poem once right?

I've also mentioned that I've done strict milieu-driven stories with no main character - letting the reader slip into that role.

I haven't previously mentioned that I've written a lot of stories that merge science fiction and fantasy elements into one.

Anyways, the idea has entered my head, and I'm starting to think up a nice little story in which I will marry all three of the above things to each other.

The chatroom page has the wrong address, the right one would be:

http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.cyberbrats.org&channel=%...

if you use a dedicated client:

irc://irc.cyberbrats.org/#Mainroom

address: irc.cyberbrats.org

channel: #Mainroom

First off I want to Apologize for not commenting on stories. Ok... now on to the reason for this, I want to Apologize for not reading your story *sigh* soooo lost on how to put this . if it comes out wrong sorrrry . some stories I cant read here (tooo close to home or little locked door I dont want opened) sorry .some I have to try and get in the right frame of mind to read. skipper by Bev took me a year to finish. I read one offsite the link was posted here, couldnt sleep for 2 days was sooooo mad and upset I wanted to hurt someone. Yes I know it was prob only a story but its the way I am.

Am I being stupid, that I'm actually disappointed with how few people commented on "Night Entries"?

Do you need someone to babysit, tutor, clean your house, cook meals, any-crap-job-you-can-think-of... in return for room, board, and internet access?

I am hanging from the knot at the end of my rope by my fingernails.

Last night, I ended up spending most of my shift dealing with "The Voice." Some people probably have heard "The Voice" - its the one that tells you that you are not enough - not good enough, not smart enough, in every aspect of your life, you're not enough. Pray I can drown it out, before I start feeling like I should apologize for taking up space and breathing valuable oxygen....

I have to make a decision, and I need help. See, I started working on a Ret-con origin for Commander Steel, and I came up with a unique way of dealing with the cyborg aspects of his story - without making tech that would be difficult to explain. But Lilith said it didn't really work for that universe. So the question is, do I drop that aspect, and try something else, or should i make the story not a part of that universe and keep the idea, cause its interesting? What do you guys think?

I have now sold more than 430 books, so many thanks.

Just a quick line to let those of you who may be interested, I have revised Tango Golf and published the new edition through Amazon Kindle. I have also listed the first edition on my page there for those who don't have Kindle.

Find it and my other Kindle books here.
Tanya's Page

Once again, many thanks to those who have supported my work. I hope to publish some new books soon, as well as completing some Work In Progress.

Tanya

So, as of last night the climax of the book is written. We still have to write the denouement, but that won't take long as it is already planned out. Once finished, we will run an editing pass or two, and then post the whole finale in one fairly large post. I had thought to post individual chapters, but we don't want to break the 3-post front page rule. I'm very excited about this, because it marks the first work of novel magnitude I have ever completed, with or without a collaborator, and for darkice as well.

A link to the BBC site, although it talks about experiments done at Berkley, one wonders if they'd do the same as the gay penguins did in raising a chick from a donated egg.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14479670

Hi folks

Just a reminder that the 5th International Gabycon will be taking place over the weekend of 9-10-11 September 2011 in the Dorchester area.

If you'd like to attend the weekend or even just be a day visitor drop me a line either here or to maddyannebell @ yahoo.com.au so we have some ideas of numbers. We can also point you towards possible accomodation venues.

format is as usual

Friday evening dinner
Saturday bike ride (weather permitting)with various readings - this year it will include stuff from book 8 and book 9!

I've posted part 3 of "Night Entries", and there will only be one more part. Sorry this has been so hard to read, but I think it was good for me to get out. Not to give anything away, part 4 ends on a hopeful note, so that's good.

This was mentioned as a same-sex marriage but clearly it isn't as the bride is a post op transsexual who is legally female; but apparently it's a first for Cuba.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14514240

Angharad

Wow... I've been a member for two years, where has the time gone?

Thank you all so much, for being such a wonderful, accepting, caring group of people. A true community in every important sense.

As my anniversary gift to myself, I'll post the next chapter in "Out of the Ashes" this weekend. Or... soon.

...ish :)

This is to express a new story I have in mind. It will be very short and coming in the next week or two. After that there will be a halt for a while as I'll be starting on classes and other things.
I will be adding to the Crescent City Universe created by The Professor, adding more types and some great little wrinkles that fit right in. I have asked The Professor and received permission so I really hope you like it.
This will likely end up a side story, fitting into it but not directly tying into anything with Cassie.

Those of you who have read chapter one of Night Entries can see this is not easy stuff for me to re-live. I can only assure you all that there will be some nice moments, but we have to get through the dark stuff first. Keep holding on to me, we'll all get through it together....

Just for those that are interested, Bill has been home with me for the last month and a half, close to two months.

I've been providing 24/7 care by myself, shuffling him to doctors, and dialysis and hospital as needed.

Coming out to friends triggers so many emotions. When it has the potential to affect one’s kids as well, the fear side...

Since last Tuesday the following has happened:

I've posted 8 parts of Bike
3 Short stories

which involved 19,062 words

8,785 hits*
823 Kudos*
94 comments*

I used to get "Could do better" regularly written on my school report, so I suppose, I'll have to try harder.

Angharad.

* at the time of counting.

Whee!!

I get to start classes this fall. The VA Voc Rehab people are paying for it! So I get to go back to school and learn something that might be helpful in terms of getting a job. And what am I going for? Mental Health Counseling.

That's right I am going to shrink heads! And I wonder what I am going to focus in. :) Our community could always use another shrink, right? Besides, I can work on getting published and take classes. It will be awesome.

A quick summary of recent history, so those of you that don't think like I do can understand my slight cause for concern.

First, there was the unrest in Egypt that brought down the ruling party there. i think it safe to assume that most of us are at least passingly familiar with what all went down there. Then, like a contagioun, the unrest spread through out the Middle East. Some places there was no voilence. Others... Well, look to the current situation in Lybia as an example. not there is this:

It's been a tough 4 or 5 years. Let's see, I told my kids I was transsexual, my church refused to renew my pastor's license, One of my children informed me in no uncertain terms that he wished I HAD killed my self about 3 or 4 years ago. And, it grieves me so but I have to admit, if only to myself (Okay, and all of you!!) that my marriage was shattered years ago, what little is left has been held together my my love, my unwillingness to give up, and a barrel of superglue.

Whedonfest was awesome. I think we raised about 800 or more for charity, but it's too soon to tell. Once the final accounting is done we will have a better idea. Great people, lots of fun, and some fun cosplay. One I figured everyone might get a kick out of was a friend of mine dressed as Mal, if Mal was a hot girl instead of a guy. Same shirt and suspenders, same gun, but the short shorts were epic. Very fun outfit and she looked good in it. My FtM friend Dorian dressed as Tony Stark, Simon Tam and Spike from Buffy. Lots of fun.

Now I can hopefully get my brain back and do some writing.

Well, here I sit in my finest skirt and top reading BC/TS trying to force myself to make a decision. Do I stay at home and enjoy 'Kerry Time' or go play on the stock market? Quick check of the figures, the stock figures, not mine. Not looking like much encouragement to work. Oh well, decision made and unfortunately someone out there needs my help.

Enjoy the day it can only get better.

Kerry

We're working on the servers at Bob's place today so Stardust and other sites on Bob's servers may experience some outages. Like right now. :)

Things should be back up soon, the spaghetti monster behind the servers is making things difficult.

Hugs,
Erin, Piper, Sapphire and Lani

Too late to be useful for anything, but just FYI:

http://www.genderodyssey.org/

"Join Us For a Thoughtful Exploration of Gender"

Well, just when things started to go well, my mother got a notice from her bankruptcy lawyer. Apparently, she has not been paying him, nor has she been doing what he told her to do. So now he is suing her to get a garnish on her wages to make her pay. I'm trying to get her to talk to a professional counselor, its clear she's not making good decisions, but I'm not having much luck. She told me the reason why she has kept this from me is because she thought I was too fragile myself until very recently when I started working as Dorothy, by which point it was too late for me to help much.

Hi, I'm having sporadic computer issues (I think I overloaded it) so while it's up, I thought I would let anyone looking for me know, I'll try to be on, but I'm downloading a bunch of files to DVD discs so that I can free up some memory. I have a 500G backup, but I don't know how to use it!

When going back in the parts I'd written, I noticed parts that I forgot to fix before posting. So please not there may be subtle changes, nothing too big, spelling. Names and some simple sentences that made no sense and others that were just wrong and had no baring on the story,

AsI sit here alone celebrating my 47th birthday I know why I have become somewat alone.

I do not belong in society. Always on the outside looking in. Never able to commit to a relationship.

Too much of a coward to take my own life.

Counting the days down for death all because I never had a chance to live.

No danger here. Just a faux boy wondering "what if?"

Learning to live in my own skin.

for oodles of useless descriptions of fieldwork - I'm dormousing tomorrow - simply for research purposes of course, then cycling on Sunday - more research, naturally.

I shall probably be exhausted after the weekend (if not before) but it's been a very busy week work wise, so doing something different should be good - and those little furry critters are so cute - no not cyclists, dormice - duh!

And I guess it went okay. I was rated a 3.25 out of 5, so above the minimum, but not as good as I hoped. I'll have to try and do better by the next evaluation.

Another birthday come and gone
I still stand alone in the crowd
Standing still in time watching life pass by
Friends get married, have kids, divorce, and try again
For me there’s nothing
The piece that doesn’t fit

The Good,
The Bad,
and the Not So Attractive...

Okay, my day is better, well a bit. I took my daughter to the SSA to get a replacement SS card and while I was there I decided to talk to them and see if I could get my gender marker changed. The woman initially asked if I had my birth certificate. I did not but I explained that I was a MtF who had undergone transition and that this had caused problems with jobs in the past. She talked to her supervisor and came back and said that they could just change things for me. I was blown away. So another legal thing taken care of with no fuss. YAY!!