I was just listening to one of my favorite tracks by Billie Joel, We did'nt start the fire:

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

This will probably make me unpopular, but...I don't like drabbles! If I'm gonna click on a story, I want a STORY...not a short article. Sorry. That's the way I feel.

Does it take talent to do drabble? Of COURSE! It also takes talent to do Rap, and I can't stand those either. Now I'm pretty much done with this mini-rant.

Sorry, but I didn't know chapter 35 was posted today and now it's gone, so what's up?

Sixteen drabbles. Wow.

In less than two days the whole 'Drabble Theatre' thing has evolved from an interesting title for a writing exercise to, I'm not sure what, but something much bigger.

Thanks Edeyn for making this possible, and thanks to those authors who found the concept as attractive as I did for the inclusion of your stories.

Melanie E.

Mahatma Gandhi has been in the news somewhat this year, the 60th anniversary of his death. I came across an interesting observation about him.
As you probably know he walked barefoot most of the time, so his feet were extremely callused. He also ate very little, which led to his frailty and, with his odd diet, gave him bad breath. This made him a super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

I just want you all to know that I never intend to start a flame war. Some times I just get too excited and talk with out thinking. :(

So, Thank you all for being nice to me even when I am wrong! :)

Many blessings to you.

Gwen

So, I ordered some books from Lulu, one of which was 'Headlights Girl'. I got the order yesterday, and everything was fine except for Cathy's book. The cover looked great, but when I opened the book the title page read, 'Baseball Pitchers: The Most Overrated and Underrated in the Last 20 Years' by KP Wee.

Good Evening Big Closet. I wil be sending Mellissa's Obituary. I will send this hopefully to Sephrena or Erin on Wednesday. It has been a crazy day as her apartment is all but cleared out. Alot of her belongings went to charities she was involved with and to 2 local woman's shelters within the city she resided in. Thanks for the support and the assistance.

A few questions for anyone who reads my stuff.

1. Where's the comments? Oh Cheers 3 feels all lonely and dejected with only 2 comments actually about the story.

2. Drabble Theatre? Good idea, bad idea? A drabble a day 'cept weekends sound interesting?

3. Two trains are on their way to Boston...

Melanie E.

I'd already been out on my new bike, the carbon fibre job, which flies like a rocket when my legs have the energy to pedal fast enough. It had been spitting rain and I wondered if I was going to get caught in a deluge, like the one which prompted me to start writing 'Falling off a bike'. But the clouds passed over.

Hi Gabyfans and other folks,

only a few of you might have noticed yet - Gabyzone.com is back! Not in it's full glory, but other then loosing the changes from February to May not much happend. So it's about time to regularly check for updates there too.

Sorry to all those who were hoping for another edition of this mayhem, I wrote one last night and thought I'd posted it. Obviously, something went wrong with the process and I went straight to bed, so I didn't check it out. I'll have to do another 318.

apologies,

Angharad.

Good evening Big Closet. I have now been informed of the funeral for Mellissa Dawn Northe. The date will be friday June 20th at 2:45. Her service will be private and with a few close to her that have confrrmed that they will attend. On a personal note. I am very overwrot with emotion here and I am hopeful that my few typo's are forgiven. I have never had to do this before.

I wish to personally thank those that have assisted me over the last few days on Big Closet. The wonderful Writers here and the admin staff have been so warm and supportive. Thanks to Sephrena, Stan, John, Holly, Cristine. There are many others I cannot off habd remember as I will over the next few days.

I wish to thank you all for your kind and thoughtful words for my freind. I shall miss her deeply too. Her life has many lessons upon which we all can learn from. Her spirit and legacy to all those that knew her will hopefully live on. I know that they will carry on with me.

Good Evening every one at Big Closet... My name I Melanie....Yes that melanie, from the Autobiography by Prairie_girl_64 AKA Mellissa N. I am sad to report that the wonderful woman whom I knew has passed away due to complications from here surgery of the liver. I am sure that she was a contributor as she waas in her life. She passed away on tuesday evening after succumbing to a heart attack.

There Are several authors that have written superb stories posted at other sites yet are not posted here. These authors were and are pioneers of T.G. fiction.

I have read their stories at the other sites and have often wondered why they have not availed themselves of the chance to post their stories here?

It is theft. Just because one lacks any creative capability, is not a reason to lower oneself to being a thief and a liar.

Yes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery -- but mockery is not.

'Oh, Cheers Part 3: WIN!' concludes the main story and should be up by Monday at the VERY latest. I'm gonna take a break before finishing the gaming breaks to start my next work of genius, 'Hollywood'! More music, more confusion, three more months before the next 'Echoes', you get the picture.

Melanie E.

Oh, yeah- anyone wanna help me write cheesy teen idol pop songs? I'm gonna need 'em.

This morning I had things to do and wanted to enjoy a 10 -20 minute read of a complete story before starting them. I read a synopsis of one and there was nothing in it to indicate it was anything other than a complete story, although length was not indicated. I read it within my time frame but found it to be what certainly seemed to be the first part of a multi-part story.

There was a local outage last night. Sigh. So I'll be back in a couple of hours with the stuff I wanted to post yesterday and the stuff I want to post today -- getting ready to head out to lunch right now!

…but not on her BMW 1200R!

Wowee! Aunt Greta's Homework has now topped 3000 hits.

Auntie reckons it's worth celebrating in a spectacular way. Some sexagenarian!

The BC core software has been upgraded to version 5.7. This should make very little difference in operation of the site but will enable easier future upgrades and will protect against a few exploits that could be attempted on the earlier software (though we have never had such an attempted exploit here). There also a few minor bug fixes, a few of which may cause minor problems.

If you like to listen to music while working on your computer writting your great stories - check out this web site from San Diego, CA Radio 105.7 FM web site for streaming music from 1955 thru 80's Rock & Roll Hits = www.walrusfm.com then click on flag for "To Listen Live". I'm sure you will enjoy it! Richard

Could a story like this happen in real life? Yes!

Would it progress in the same manner? Probably not, but it could if the people around boy were as open minded as most of the ones so far in this story.

Okay, I'll tell ya what I'm a'gonna do...

Starting tonight, there will be two updates to the Diary per evening -- but only until we mesh the day of the week. So Wednesday night we'll fall back to only one entry per night. The date and such will still be shifted a bit over 8 months, but it will then be synced up with the day of the week it's written on.

Okay. The recent limerick thread caused me to respond in kind. But it gave me 2 ideas for twisted Arthurian tales... one set in modern times in the US... and the other set in the standard Arthur setting of Camelot, of course with all the twists and turns I can manage.

There once was a fellow named Lance,
Who could not find a date to a dance,
So he put on a dress,
Strapped some boobs to his chest,
And went with a buddy named Chance.

Melanie E.

Yeah its lame, but I was bored. Got a better one?

Peking, June 6, 1989:

As many of you know Tieneman Square was crowded with people early in the day. They were peacefully demonstrating and demanding liberty for their country. Suddenly tanks rolled in to break up the demonstration.

Two words that say it all when it comes to excuses for missing the Dear Diary entry tonight.

I'm away from tomorrow and haven't had a chance to pack yet, so I'm afraid I don't have time to conceive and write 'Bike' tonight. I'm away for a week.

Sorry to disappoint any readers/bike addicts.

Hugs,

Angharad.

Now, I had originally not planned on this series. But, as folks seem to like it, it'll continue. How it continues, however...

Okay, I will endeavour to post one entry per day. The question I have for folks is do they want this 1 per day to be the standard or an "at least" situation?

Yesterday, around 7 am, I was driving home from work and I made a huge mistake and I hit a school bus in the rear end. I hit my head pretty good and I was having neck pain so they took me to the hospital. I had x-rays and a catscan, they thought I might have a fractured neck. Don't worry, I'm fine. I'm just going be be very, very sore for a few days. I totaled the van.

I have returned from a semi successful surgery on my liver, the surgeons removed approx 80 % of my liver and have now placed me on a wait list for a liver transplant. I am at a point of a slow recovery here in the hospital. I have a private room and therfore have access to my laptop.

When stanman63 mentioned in a comment on the latest chapter of my story, Madam Martinique's Finishing School, how it reminded him of a combination of Aunt Jane's Season's House (the original story appears to have written by Joel Lawrence) and Karen Page's SPA series (aka A New Style of Education, it got me curious.

I will bet that my stories leave some of you chilled and for many years I have felt ashamed of my "perverted" desires. Some perhaps fear that I could be a danger to children and small animals but let me assure you that aggression against others has never been even considered.

I'm so glad some people actually like the story I'm currently working on for Big Closet. I've wanted to try my hand at writing some TG fiction again, to try and get the bad taste out of my mouth from the last time I posted something on Fictionmania. Luckily for me, this time, People are not tearing the story up for having smoking content (yet).

Please everyone, PRAY to whomever or whatever you believe in, or even if you don't believe. Pray for Kim and PRAY for her to come home.

-Piper

Kim Updates @ Piper's Blog

Whenever I have tried to gain access to the Tucker Spawn Forum, I haven been unable to. The system says that it is taking too long to respond. Am the only one with this problem? Has the server gone down? Funny thing is that Ellen Hayes site is still up.

Why doesn't it feel like love?

I just had this exchange with my Son. I imagine that it is nothing new to some of you. How do you put an end to this?

Dear Dad,

When I left home to join the Navy, I thought I was getting out
from beneath authority so I could be my own boss.... "At last,
FREEDOM!!!", I thought. I didn't hate you, but I thought I could do

Ever since I was very young I have told myself stories before going to sleep (though sometimes I get so involved in them they keep me awake). For the last couple of decades many of these have been about the two Bloomacre brothers - one a musician/composer/instrument maker and the other a mathematician turned mercenary - set against a fantasy background similar to Europe's wars of the reformation, where a church based on magic oppresses those who eschew it as a perversion of their faith.

Siss International
You have Miss International. We have Siss International. This is the next Dauphin Interactive project. It includes you.
You will present your Sissy and decide what he wears and what he looks like. You will decide what country he comes from and even what he says. Then Dauphins readers will vote Eurovision style on who is Siss International 2008

The radio spot went off with nary a hitch. The interviewers asked insightful and intelligent questions, and never once strayed from that format. I think I got at least some of our message out, as well as promoting our stories and writers.

I offer this as a diversion. I was going to post it at the end of June when I returned from holiday but as times seem a little troubled I thought it would be best brought forward as a sort of affirmation of my belief in this site.

At the bottom of the page. We have had over 3,200,000 people to come and view things here.

I do not know if that means totally new visitors or if it is counting everybody that comes, but that is an impressive number.

Erin has created quite a site here at Big Closet and I want to thank her for all of her hard work as well as the many authors and editors that make this place so special.

IF it were taken down I am not sure what i would do. ONe thing i do know is that i would be filled with sadness. BUt i do understand how Erin feels. She puts alot of her effort into running this site and we need to appreciate that. SHe wants it to be peaceful and atmosphere where we all feel welcome. So lets please try to keep it peaceful here and show erin how much her effort is appreciated.

I'm really considering pulling the plug on BC. It seems many people are unhappy with my attempts to keep this a friendly place to read, write and discuss TG fiction.

Recent blogs seemed to be going well then people started quitting because of remarks in the blogs. So I pulled the blogs and now more people are quitting.

Well, today at 9:30 A.M. I go on the air with one of our local radio station, live, for an interview about the book, the signing, and my being TG. Am I nervous? You bet your bippy I am! Then, as if that isn't stressful enough, at Noon I go to the Chautauqua Mall for a television bit about the signing!