BCTS hosts a *huge* variety of stories.

Horror. Science fiction. Fantasy. Real-world. Romance. Erotica. BCTS is home to them all.

But.

I've seen a bit of a disturbing trend popping up in story blurbs on the site, and it has me... concerned.

You may have noticed I do not post the upcoming events like I used to, last week's meeting was pretty interesting we had no less than 5 popular authors who write for BCTS. This weeks is pretty interesting just the regular members. I will keep having these meetings every week until something bad happens to me. If you are interested you have but to ask and I will send you a PM via BCTS. Stay healthy stay happy and maybe I will we will get to meet someday.

not literally but the household has been beset with Covid.

Masks book 18 is out, at:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9C8WB9G

Appeals court rules gender dysphoria covered under ADA

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/fourth-circuit-holds-ad...

I am trying to finish "Amadeus Irena" by Shawna on Kindle. I have to say that it is expertly written and a hard read. I am vulnerable to significant depressive episodes but still muddling through it. I hope to finish this week end. After that I am going to try to find some Sci Fi for teens.

Gwen

Hey everyone. This is an update and quick thank you (to be updated in the morning.).

As of right now we have met our immediate needs and that combine with a loan from a friend of BC will go a long way to some of us getting some needed sleep.

We aren’t 100% out of danger but we will likely be ok and have a better idea of what the immediate dilutive for BC looks like.

HuGs,
-Piper

There have been an awful lot of begging letters going out of late, and the most recent ones, I have to say, are solely my fault.

BCTS is probably the most important constant in my life.

Some might consider that hyperbole... but in so many ways, it's 100 percent true.

Without the community this site has provided, the outlet for both creativity and pain, the *outreach* it has allowed me... I wouldn't be here today.

Without the wonderful people here, who are so incredibly generous in so many ways, and the love and support they have given me, that I have done my best to return in kind, but know I can never truly match... I wouldn't be here today.

Without Erin.

Without Angie.

Today I have posted the story “The News”, or it could be the “The News from Ridgewick” which I wrote at the urging of Tracy Lane. In this story I was the reporter trying to get my head around “The Ridgewick Phenomenon”, with a view to picking up on other stories exploring the consequences of Toxically Induced Sexual Morphism (see Transfiction Wiki – link is on your screen above - second line second from the left).

finally have a new story up:

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/95250/when-paths-cross

Thank you to all those that read and gave kudos to my latest short story "The Assault".

I was a little nervous when I posted it, as it is about a potential rapist getting some degree of comeuppance. I know these things happen and did not want to trigger any unfortunate memories.

I can't sleep tonight and I just saw it has reached 100 kudos in just over 24 hours. I have never had that happen that quickly before. I'm not sure how it will go down on the other sites I post on. I suspect some will just delete it.

A long time ago, someone offered to edit my stories, and I was grateful. They are deceased now. The results were not good in my estimation. I don't remember if that story, or chapter ever got published. Since then I have gone over what I have written sometimes a half dozen times before I published it. Sometimes stories just go comatose on my Hard Drive because I can't get it right.

Hi everyone,

I was feeling generous

At least i'm not going to bore you with it!

Sixty-four additional convention photos uploaded to Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/116299515@N07/

For some reason I can't post to the BCTS Discord.

Progress!

Over the past couple weeks I think the last remnants of the post-covid brain fog has finally lifted, and I've even been able to start exercising again. Hooray! As a result Book 5 of the saga is pushing ahead and as of a few minutes ago the draft for Part 3 was completed. This puts the word count at just under 60k and halfway to the suspected finish line.

A few months ago Sega announced that another mini-PNP console would be released, the "Mega Drive Mini 2". It looked to be released only in Japan then a month ago they also announced the release of the Genesis Mni 2.

An extremely well written story of this title, by a Kate Dawson, was recently completed on FM.

In the UK, the Transgender Community is the most targeted group in LGBT+ community as a whole.

Apparently, In 2020/2021, 2,630 Hate Crimes against transgender people were recorded by the Police. Although it is thought that 88% of transgender people did not report hate crimes.

I can understand it being unreported. If you try to live a quite life, everything will be dragged out for all to see.

Is this true? Does this still happen to trans people?

some say that we Brits have a fixation with the weather

so, just in case I didn't have enough going on right now, someone broke the driver's side window of my car again.

I am just shaking.

not a good day today

popped my knee at the grocery store, which triggered my PTSD, and then later I had to deal with my mom going on a paranoid rant.

anybody got some spare huggles?

i'll be glad for the mercury to drop!

It's done! I've finally published Invisible, the story you've been reading here. But, the title has been changed to Being Invisible because my editor suggested that there are too many works titled Invisible.

That's the good news. The bad news is that I will be taking it down according to Amazon's rules. They say it can take up to seventy-two hours to publish, so it goes away soon. I hope you got a chance to finish it here.

Trans Twitch star arrested at gunpoint fears for life after someone sent police to her London, Ont., home

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6546015

Heya folks!

So, just wanted to let anyone who might be curious know I'm still around.

I haven't posted anything in a while... but that doesn't mean I haven't been working on stuff!

Believe it or not, I've got several stories in the works, a book on the way through Doppler when I come up in rotation, and I'm working on a few projects with a rather illustrious partner that y'all will eventually see the fruits of too!

Is now out!

Writing prompt: A small child somehow ends up in the Greek Underworld, sees Cerberus, cries, "Puppy!" and cuddles the creature.

What does Hades do when he sees this?

Why should a smelly room full of half-naked boys be a problem to me?

I was going through Neflix last night and came across a gender role reversal film. I Am Not an Easy Man 2018.

it is a French romantic comedy directed by Éléonore Pourriat. If it is dubbed it is done very well.

Synopsis

I'll be having a zoom meeting this Sunday Aug 7 4:00 PM Texas time. This meeting is for trans women only. Feel free to invite others, if you have an invite. It is international. Past attendees have been from Great Britain as well as Germany.

https://www.time.gov/
Britain 10:00PM
Germany 11:00PM

Obviously you can tell by the title I am NOT happy about this and for multiple reasons. As someone who prefers buying physical for the superior presentation of the product and the fact that Funimation(owned by Sony) is severely OVERCHARGING to draw people to buy the digital product especially when they cut deep sales on Xbox Live(and likely other places). A product that is questionable that you have ANY right to ownership now given how Sony will be removing Studio Canal digital titles from people's purchased library.

Where I grew up it was used to insult boys "don't be a sissy, stop crying, etc." I have never called anyone a sissy, but I have used it in my stories. This was mainly due to being asked to write about the subject. What I thought of as an insult, I realized some crave to be called and act like "sissies".

The way I see it is, that someone wanting to look, dress, and act in a hyperfeminine way, but not actually want to be perceived as a woman. Possibly a lot of humiliation is involved.

My "sissy" stories do ok on FM, and do well on Literotica. Not so well on here.

and of course that means its raining!

Sorry For the delay in the next chapters of Elven Question and Black Sword. It is that time of the year again. The county recently. The last week has been not stop work with the 4H kids. The boys just finished showing their draft horses this afternoon. The girls showed off their work with the horses they've trained for police work. I haven't had much time for writing. Tomorrow the boys will be pitting their draft horses against tractors in a pulling contest. (*evil giggle* My money is on our boys for the win)

I had been friends with someone here for many years and she helped me through times when I was Suicidal. We used to PM and use SKYPE a lot. I even drove hundreds of miles to visit a couple times. Then she decided to get married and suddenly it was just off and completely so. When I asked questions, suddenly another member here felt obligated to be mean and blunt with me, treating me as if I am a idiot. She even asked if she needed to spell it out for me? Then another member with no knowledge of the situation from across the pond was similarly acting like a YOB.

Yesterday, England won the 2022 women's European cup.

What made it sweeter was it was against Germany. In England's footballing history (Soccer for those in the USA), Germany always end England's dream of winning anything. Often in a penalty shoot-out. The men's team lost to Italy in the final on penalties last year.

So, Watched Thor Love & Thunder this weekend. And I truly enjoyed it, regardless of reviews both good and bad.

But there was just One scene that as a creative person was just awesome.

It was like 'Stranger Things' was doing battle with the 'Justice League' during the middle of one of those old iPhone/iPod/Macintosh commercials (the ones where everything is shadow/silhouette except for the headphone cable). Very very well done and fun. I can't wait to try to put it to proper prose for reference for my books! (Not the exact scene. Just the style)

I post this as a warning to other users. A couple of weeks ago I decided not to renew my subscriptions to McAfee and Norton for protecting my computer from malware and viruses. I did this because another provider was offering the same services for less than half the price that the two former outfits were offering.

I’ve been to Texas many times. Other than the men trying to convince each other who’s got the biggest penis -- they seem to be quite normal.

So why all the hateful trans laws?

The other night I was watching CNN. They aired a report that seemed to answer that question. The report slipped into CNN jingoism but contained a lot of information that led to sound conclusions.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-poli...

Something strange happened last night.

just as Mom and I were headed for bed, we got a call from Sharon. When Sharon is angry, her accent and speed of speech make her hard to understand, but from what I could gather, she had a "feeling from God" about some kind of evil coming into the house, and went to check on Sam, who was playing with her cell phone

Sharon asked to see what she was doing, and Sam refused, and Sharon lost it, and she had called us to take Sam for the night because Sharon couldn't have "a dark spirit" around.

Well it's Friday again and for some of us it is the Time for the ladies get together, this Sunday at 4:00 PM Texas time we will be having yet another get together. Last week was pretty good we had two well known authors from Britain and a German attendee and of course me.

https://www.time.gov/
Topic: Ladies GTG
Time: Jul 31, 2022 04:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Dorothy has entered her story into a contest here:

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/romance/933177

Let's help her out 'for a win'. The prizes are worth winning.

Please give her story a read. Then click a Like and write a review. Many reviews are only few sentences. Mine was 'really long', at not quite a screen-full.

Something I would like to ask. The only real novel length work I have written is The Surgeon's Lodger.

I am in the process of re-writing it and tidying it up. Should I cut the sex scenes and just make a reference to making love, but not include detail?

It is a trans romance. When I wrote it, a year ago, I still had the idea that everything I wrote had to have sex in it. I though people wouldn't read it otherwise.

Hey everyone,

I was hoping to get back into a regular posting schedule by now. even if it was bi-weekly instead of weekly. That plan kinda went tits up with the new job keeping me so damn busy and catching a terrible cold twice in the last month . My immune system sucks, and while I have people making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking vitamins, I can't wait until I can get my medical stuff for Ontario sorted so I can see a doctor about my hormones and anxiety meds. Work has kind of been stressing me out and pushing my anxiety so it might be contributing to things.

There was a story with Mermaids, rather lethal ones, and it disappeared.

What happened.

Gwen