for now, at least

I'm having problems getting on line. Right now, I'm running at a screaming 21,600 bps. 28.8K seems a distant dream. :-/

As I have been requested, I have revamped Kelly's Journey, But I am retitling it so that each chapters title reflects the story within.
That includes a Title Page.

I must warn the readers that there are several scenes where you will need a napkin to dry your eyes. For me, this story has been a journey of self discovery, because in many ways, I am Kelly.

The court cases mentioned in Chapter 13 of Emerging from the Cocoon were actual cases.

Resulting from a comment made by Geoff on the latest Aunt Greta-sode, I was enthroned on the loo this morning when my somewhat over-active–for so early in the day–braincells came up with a TG Limerick.

I posted a little story here recently, titled 'Reunion' and it got slightly different reactions depending where.

In my world of trying to find a place to be me, things can seem very serious; even hopeless and oppressive at times. Something happened this morning to put it all in perspective, though it took a while to sink in.

I've heard from a few readers who have been following my tale Forever Claire about how Claire would handle male puberty and become the woman, if you've read in the beginning, that she becomes.

I had some good advice about this, but to be honest, I wrestled with even addressing it. I want Forever Claire to maintain some the form of sweetness and innocense that I've tried to portray.

Hi just wanted to say i love this site.

but as you can see I realy miss some of the storys that are gone. SK8R girls is one of them, Being Chistine Chase is another one and of course those Authors that have passed on with storys still here. I have gotten into Gaby here of late

I first want to praise all those writers and admin staff on BCTS for the excellent content which appears here. For myself, I knew nothing of this site until my friend Mellissa (prairie_girl_64) passed away. I was entrusted with looking after her estate and all her subsequent stories upon which she started and have yet to be completed and/or are completed and need editing.

This has been an unusual week. The reason you've seen as many Forever Claire Chapters? There's been a slight change of schedule, one I wasn't aware of before the week began.

I didn't realize this was the week of fall break where I take ballet classes. I hate it. I miss it.

This is another thing my son preformed, except it was live, and taped. Good quality viewing on youtube look for "Erik Carlson preforming Heartbreak Hotel at eXposure". Yep he can also dance. Arecee

I was on the M25 the other day on the way to picking up my significant other from Mummy in Law.

For those lucky enough not to live in, near, around or have to encounter the M25, it is the motorway that bypasses London. You can go all around it and pick your exit to bring you near to your destination without having to go through London.

Hello everyone,

I want to thank those who took the time to comment on the story and or send messages to me directly. There were some good, strong critics about the story's weaknesses and I thought I would try to elicit some further discussion.

I finally finished Show Me. I've sent it to my editors and it should be up on line in a week or so, yahoo. Now the waiting begins, tic, tic, tic, tic, Arecee

I finally got a minute and got onto the site and noticed that Angharad had posted a new chapter of Charlotte. (BTW, Thanks for that. I know it has been anxiously awaited by many.) Seeing it caused a scary thought to pop into my often evil little mind. I posted a couple of weeks back and made a comment about her other story line which is ongoing.

Off on vacation today.

No email except via evil blonde's laptop or free computers in motels. Off to the UP of Michigan, Minn, northern WI depending on rain and color. Might go to waterfalls, lots of them.

I recently came across this amazing guitarist that I thought I'd share with you all. The music starts a bit slow but when the guitar gets going it's fantastic. Just click the picture to full screen and watch his hands and fingers move over the instrument.

I realise that the enjoyment of music is a personal thing and it might not appeal to everyone but I really enjoyed this peice.

Who is the "you" here? That is up to you.

This is the sort of thing that pulls me back from the edge. Enjoy.

Gwen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXElWow9zRU&feature=related

I was checking "My Stories" to see if anybody had read one today. I do this infrequently, not as if I'm anal-retentive, usually only once a day (OK, twice a day) and there was a "run" on the first piece I ever dared to publish on BC. Twelve reads!! What's going on? I wondered. Then I was scrolling down and I'm in the Jewel Box for a year ago. My first effort, a year ago already.

I have to admit the wheels are a turning a good bit...

I know some authors wait until they've completely written their stories to post. I've always been one to write chapter by chapter.

Came acoross a little internet fun-type quiz thing and thought I would share :)

I've run across a couple of titles which contain explicit sex scenes for lovers of good old porn. So all of you under 18 have to steer clear of the following.

I have posted two segments of a story in PDF format, and had a couple of folks tell me they were a little put off from the format, because they had to scroll up to start the 2nd column.

It's all been really overwhelming! I'll try to give the individual replies when I get time!

A little about me:

Torey is a persona of how I'd like to see myself. She's a soccer mom with two teenagers who have her pulling her hair out, or its going to turn gray before its time.

But she loves her kids. They keep her centered. She doesn't know what she'd do without them. She's a single parent who struggles very much to get by.

On the first page of this weekend's magazine in the Financial Times is an article on Miss Vera's who runs 'a finishing school for cross-dressers'.

It's all getting so very main stream. The Financial Times! Who'd have thought it. Must be all those bankers with fat purses and time on their hands.

It can be read on http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/31bf8aa2-8938-11dd-8371-0000779fd1...

Hugs,

In about a month, BC will hit 10,000 posts. That's not stories, stories+chapters will be a little over half of that because posts includes blogs, forums, title pages, announcements, links and images. But posts is the easy number to count. :) There are about 1500 stand-alone stories and 350 serials with close to 4000 chapters on BC. Exact numbers aren't really possible because of sloppy coding.

Has anyone else lost votes?

I checked my stories today to find that half a dozen or so have lost all their votes--not even zeroed, but gone completely

Has anyone else noticed this and if this subject has already been raised, my apologies.

NB

Someone said they weren't able to use the link I put in my story posting to get to the illustrated version. So, in case others are having trouble, I'm posting a link to the thread.

I'm reading Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley novels as I liked the TV series, and it's been long enough since I've seen the shows and my brain is small enough that I don't remember who done it. Anyway, one of the suspects said, "Hoist with my own petard" ("Payment in Blood" Ch 13) in response to being questioned about a previous lie that had been exposed.

Congratulations to Wales' Nicole Cooke for flying past Voss to take the World Championships and be the first woman to win both the Worlds and the Olympics in the same year.

Watch out for Ang, she's Welsh too don't forget...

...and a keen cyclist...

NB

I'm thinking of taking suggestions on the story. Well, it should be obvious where things are going or why post on BC and SD? ;>

So how about some suggestions? Like, what Drew's name should be, what should Mom's name be? They can't use their own names, even if Drew would be perfectly fine for a girl.

Haven't I read this story somewhere?

Man Sues, Says Doctors Amputated Penis Without His Consent

A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery.

Get yer minds out of the gutter, people! Rocky and Bullwinkle! You people...

Hi everyone!

I finally found my way to the blog on TS! I wanted to interact with my readers a bit more and I thought I'd start posting some information about what's going on with my story writing.

I guess I've missed some announcement but didn't the latest popular content used to be reset more or less every day?

A side effect of the mail-bomber?

Apologies if this has already been discussed.

Hugs,

Alys

I tried to get on the chat line at the Gaby Zone, but could not connect. anybody else having a problem with the zone?

Has anybody followed actress/singer "Alexandra Billings?" She is the first transgendered actress to play the part of a transgendered personn in a televison series. Check out her web site here: http://www.alexandrabillings.com/site/new/billings.html

Richard

Me being an inquisitive little devil I got to thinking again.

As I doodled away drawing matchstick men and girls on a piece of paper (not as good as Lowry, but I live in hope) whilst waiting for my digestive juices to awaken; I thought to myself a somewhat profound thought....Where do we all come from?

A few weeks ago, there was an on line GBLT survey. But I just got word of a study being done by a professor in Illinoise. His email is below. Apparently he has not had enough response to his original query and really needs us. This may not be suitable for some of you for security reasons, but hopefully some of you will respond. Enjoy.

Gwen

[email protected]

Hi Everyone

I have now got at least twenty stories in varying degrees of compleation. My muse has gone on an extended holiday and I just keep coming up with these stories and then I am unable to continue them for one reason or another.

Is anyone out there into collaborating with me?

I would love to see these stories finished.

Apologies to anyone who's waiting for the next instalment of 'On Her Own Petard' but I've been mired in office politics of my own, and just haven't felt like writing.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former Army commander who underwent a sex change operation was discriminated against by the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled Friday in an important victory for transgenders claiming bias in the workplace.

I have a few chapters of two stories: Kelly's Journey that I've rewritten and King Of The Rim. Both are posted here at Big Closet/Top Shelf.

Kelly was written for the contest. I've rewritten Kelly's Journey because readers want to know more about Kelly and her Family and friends. And I did King Of The Rim because I saw that it lacked depth.

I just noticed that in five weeks I'll have been a part of BCTS for three years. Since I'll probably totally miss the anniversary I thought I'd go ahead and reflect on it now.

Avast me hearties! Today...Me name be Long John Blackbeard Pegleg Patcheye Hook, and aye me buck-o's, I be talkin' the pirate speech. So, if'n ye wish to parley with a pseudo wannabe pirate, I be that man..uh...woman...uh..(oh whatever, you know what I mean).

Looking for new comments is addicting. They fell off all too quickly, so I grabbed a story from my [author] directory (there's more where those came from) and posted it. As a bonus, I think I figured out how to properly post the HTML stuff.

Well, sort of. It didn't like my indented paragraphs. Oh well.

Ray Drouillard <-- carrying sign that says "I Write for Comments."

P.S.

The site went down this morning for a bit and when I brought it back up it seemed to be under a denial of service attack. So, I took it down and put up an error message while I investigated. Turns out it must have been a Google crawler that got a wild hare and kept hitting the same page, several thousand times.