Melissa [Prairie Girl passed away earlier this year from the bitter fact that her body finally broke down. Her best friend Melanie Dixon was kind enough to post her epilogue.

Hi folks,

It's piddling down here, grey, overcast, no sun--all that negative stuff, but am I down and depressed?

Not a bit of it.

Who's that girl has just hit 2000 and I'm really pleased that so many of you out there have taken the time to read it.

A brand new feature for BCTS starts today!

See if you can find it. :)

Hugs,
Erin

The Road To Haifa has made me really introspective.

I'm not finding Eli's reaction to Sarah strange at all. Since the devastation and smoke in my own life has begun to clear, remarks from my siblings, past aquaintances, and an old boss all point to one thing. It was always there right before their eyes; clear to them; unseen by me.

Well I've done my bit for another year. The weather driving from Dorchester to Tiverton was awful. It absolutely chucked it down. This stage of the race started at Chard, in Somerset and went on to Burnham on Sea in Devon. I was marshalling at Tiverton.

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

A few readers have asked for more on "Kelly's Journey," and to tell the truth, even though it was complete, I wanted to go back and add in the parts that had been left out.

Well, I have been working upon the revised version and I must admit that it is a challenge. I am adding in where Kelly and his Daddy are bonding and then how his death hurt Kelly.

This is perhaps a touchy subject for some, but I really want to try to learn more about the point of view of a certain 46XY Complete Androgyen Insenstivity syndrom person I know. Apparently she did not find out about the problem until she was like 17 years old. She was raised as a normal girl.

My once carefree web surfing seems to have gone extinct and I am not sure why. I am not a computer geek, but I enjoy what I get into and I love writing and reading stories. Several weeks ago Microsoft said it was going to stop supporting XP, then last week SKYPE offered me a new version.

I use BBEdit from Bare Bones Software, possibly the best programmer's editor for the Mac, but have recently learned that they introduced a freeware product they call TextWrangler, which has a considerable subset of BBEdit's functionality. It has spellchecking, of course, and can easily accommodate American, British, Candian, and Australian versions of English using downloadable dictionaries.

The nurse came today to tend to my leg. She has to unwrap the bandages and clean out the gunky padding from where the leg is draining still.

She says that the leg is looking better dy by day as the medicines work their magic.

My spouse and I were out walking our dog a couple of days ago. As we approached an intersection, a cyclist rode up on the opposite side of the street, stopped, and promptly fell over (fortunately onto some grass). She said that she was alright and had forgotten that her shoes were attached to the pedals. I know about tow clipless pedals.

To my several loyal (if somewhat mad) readers, I have to say that I am once again off to the wide blue yonder on my late summer hols.

The little darlings (kids) are going back to school, leaving the way clear for me and the better half to go exploring the hills (and pubs) of Yorkshire.

When I penned my story Kelly's Journey, I thought that it was complete as is, but from comments made, I feel that there is more to tell about her journey.

So I have a question, I completed the story for the contest and I wonder if I should expand upon the story. I can see where i can expand it and add to the story.

I've been watching a TV feed out of New Orleans, and there are some problems starting to occur with water over-topping the levees in places. Say a prayer to the deity of your choice. So far things are doing fairly well, all things considered.

OK so I just finished writing the first story I am going to publish and I need some help in the profing deprtment . I am in desprate need of the fallowing :

1X Editor
1X proofreader

And a whole lot of end audience :).

The story isn't that long ( 2,400 words or so) but I want to do it right.

So please feel free to P.M me or response here.

Lily.

This month was the anniversary of Darla Raspberry's death. Not sure what to say, just that I still think of her/him just about every day. (I am her ex-wife.) Just that I am changed forever, and so is her son. That we have learned first hand the terrible mental and physical effects that were caused, most likely, from a lifetime of living in denial.

I'm sure I'm boring you all stiff, but I have just completed another ride up the ridgeway, this time on my race bike - something a few days ago, I wouldn't have believed I could do. This bike is higher geared than the others, with only a compact chainset instead of the triple. It goes faster but takes more effort.

Some, if not many of you, don't know Scotty, but he has been an unofficial ambassador to many of the 'girls'. In the past year or two, Scotty has traveled to several of the girls homes to visit and, in a few cases, to get them out of their houses or wherever they live, and out into public for a meal, or just a drive. Some of them had never ventured out of their places of residence en femme.

Writing is a cruel mistress.

I am going to contact the ACLU about Bellsouth and see if they can put their legal muscle in play and force them to allow full access. We pay for full access and if we are not getting it, then they are in breach of contract. It is also not their place to say what we can and cannot access online as a moral issue. It is a violation of free speech.

Sorry, can't do an episode tonight - too tired, just had a friend on the phone for an hour and am absolutely knackered. Discovered I can't save the universe and write at the same time. Hopefully normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

Apologies,

Angharad & >^^< (the one who kept me awake last night!)

I know I've been a tad quiet of late, but I've been hard at writing the next part of OHOP... since I've abandoned daily parts I decided to make each new part an entire day in Stevie's life... unfortunately she packs a lot in to her days - I'm 3000 words in and it's not even tea time!

Well, after tonight, I wonder if the DOD Homeland Security Boys are getting into my Computer to get ideas for tactical scenarios.

I wear skirts most of the time, usually well below the knee, though I do have some rather trashy minis. I feel as if I am gradually finding my moral compass and am perhaps realizing that I should be getting away from such shameless displays of my "astonishingly hot legs!". Attached to them are this body that is very questionably "hot" or NOT HOT, as you wish.

I submitted a story to the 2008 Summer Romance competition. I don't know why. I have never entered a contest here before and I certainly did not expect to win. If I bought all the tickets in a chook raffle I think I could manage to lose. However, as the days rolled by I was surprised and delighted by the reception my story got,not spectacular but respectable (by my lights, anyway).

I saw this and was thinging this might have the seeds of a good story in it, but don't feel much like trying myself.

In the last few weeks I came to deal with a major issue in my life : my small amount of friends . As far as I can remember I only had 5-6 friends and one or two really good ones.The problem is that I always feel that in some ways I am never one of the group , even with my friends ( when were around other people) it seems to me like everybody is giving me the odd look.

This Friday Oprah's Show is on Families where one of the parents has been Transgendered since or after the marriage with kids that are teenagers now or older.

Well, wise or not, the article about my experience with the Muslims went on the stands today. I wish I had a husband to blame for allowing me to do this. "What will I do when they come for me"? Will I "fly like a butterfly and sting like a bee"? Am I "dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight"?

I gave serious thought to killing Evi Westcott off this time. Her diary just won't quit, there are more characters than War and Peace, and she hasn't even started college yet. All the friends could have come to her funeral and said what a swell girl she was. Anyway, I tried out some scenarios on my friends, one of them (the scenario, not the friend) shamelessly plagiarized from la Traviata, but no one was buying it. So here's Part VI of Balthasar's Extract. If you like it, drop me a note and tell me why.

Hugs, Daphne

I was trying to check my transliteration of Roman text back into Cyrillic and my obviously inept translation of the following two Russian phrases:

O Lyubvi malyu otchayanno (I pray for love desperately)
-- О любви молюсь отчаено

V krayu dalyokum, chuzhie ne nuzhny. (In distant lands, a stranger is not needed)
-- В краю далёкому чужие не нужны

Well, well, well.

Give and you shall receive.

Certainly happened here didn't it.

The Sight is at an end, but I didn't say the story was.

As I was working on the third and final chapter of my "Changed by Aliens", I began to remember some details of a Science Fiction story I'd read some years ago. The similarities to that other story were purely inadvertent. So, now I am faced with what to do now.

I have to say that there is a reason why my wife and I were able to celebrate our 21st anniversary last evening.

How did we spend the evening,

The British Lion has roared at the track cycling in Beijing, a medal in every event so far plus a gold and silver in the Keirin and the same assured in the women's 3000m individual time trial. As a member of British Cycling; I am overjoyed. I presume I can stand down now, as they look as if they can cope without me. 8)

If you go this address on MSN there is a story and picture of the transgendered model:
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx/?news=326953&GT1=28103&sil...

Richard

Due to being distracted by homework and internet woes, Dear Diary -- and anything other than Shortcuts!, really -- will have to wait for now. Sorry.

Paula Nickerson, who was introduced in Chapter 11 as Kristal Ball's best friend, has a different Christian name. Paula seemed rather dull for this particular girl, and I was wondering if she should be called Eva instead, when suddenly inspiration struck!

I haven't been too sympathetic to T girls who do dumb things, like walking around in the city at 2:00 AM. Oh, I have felt the pain of their passing; it being so unnessessary, but I've felt that some actions are passive suicide. I just wish that someone would have loved them enough to talk some sense to them.

I must apologize. Today I have started to read most of the Topshelf Summer Romance 2008 stories. I did not realize that I might have crossed some boundry by one of my characters name. So I must once again apologize to the Lady Nexus and her fans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26180154/from/ET/

This is just not good when the term "Tranny" is now morphing to encompass drag queens.

A happy blog entry, just for a change!

As some of you may know, from a chatroom we often hang out in together, I've been having some really great breakthrough experiences lately! I've somehow made friends with a few of the staff of a local lesbian bar. Pretty good friends, too. I feel like I'm in a dream at times!

There was a segment on ABC Primetime tonight about women with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). Unfortunately, I forgot all about it. The video is available on the ABC downloads website at ABCnews.go.com but I lack a highspeed connection. However, I might be able to gain short access and download it.

But Birthdays have been a pretty miserable time most of my life. They've either been completely without any kind of celebratory anything, or else turned out badly. There was a single exception to this.

Now, while the first few birthdays I don't remember exactly, I have vague "snapshot" pictures in my brain of some things that I've had explained to me over the years. WARNING! Some of this stuff is pretty horrible, and may trigger people with any kind of sensitivity to child abuse, rape, etc.

Happy Birthday Edeyn! May you have a terrific day and great year!! Don't forget the cake and ice cream!

Happy Hugs!

grover

PS: If I'm wrong than have a great day anyways!!!! :)

This is one of main favourite stories. I thought I'd check its date to see if it would make the 1-, 2-, or 3- year list, unfortunately it misses out by a couple of months.

I recently picked up a two decade best of SF omnibus, of the stories I have read so far, none could match this work by Aardvark.

If you haven't come across it before then give it a try.

I just saw the headlines on Yahoo, and the fine print shows that Angharad's countrywoman has won a gold for the women's road race. Congrats to Ms. Cooke.