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Superpowers

Anyone else constantly coming across those poll questions on social media that ask "What would you pick if you could have one superpower?" and finding themselves answering "Shapeshifting"?

And sometimes people will ask why not flight, or super strength, or lightning speed, or telepathy? Like those are the powers you SHOULD want to have.

But to have the ability to change yourself? Everything about yourself physically? That's a dream come true.

Then again, maybe I've just been re-reading too many comics lately.

~ Limbo's Mistress (Samantha)

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Wayward Update

Sadly there probably will be no Wayward update this week. What with the sweltering heat and crap, I've fallen a bit behind. I've only been able to write in the morning when its cooler. Its a pain in the ass when you don't have an AC :(. So hopefully I can get a few more chapters written up again before posting Ch.4. I'll update as I make progress, probably on Discord :)

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DopplerPress BigCloset Search on Kindle

Looking for a convenient list of DopplerPress books, newest first? Here's a list of 70 of our books, the ones since we changed the spelling to DopplerPress instead of Doppler Press. :)

Click image to see our latest on Kindle:

Please, buy, or read through Kindle Unlimited, and PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW! Reviews+sales are how Amazon decides which books get recommended.

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Hi Everyone

Hi BCTSers and visitors, I’m Renee M and am almost 71. GRS 1992 with Stanley Biber; yup, I'm a Biber Babe.
Some older members might remember me; I never contributed very much, a poem, a short-short, and some Beatles songs with lyrics modified. Lately, I comment and even message a little; how I say whatever I’m trying to communicate isn’t very well constructed or clear, but I try.

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Sapphires Place is GONE

It has been taken over by Sapphires Technologies still listed as SapphiresPlace.com
They have removed all of the stories from the WayBack Machine

So many stories scrubbed and lost forever. If we had only known, I could have downloaded her whole history to a solid state HD and saved it. But then copyright and legals get in the way of copying anyone's web without permission from the owners. The last thing I want is to get into a multi million dollar lawsuit for copying anyone's site without an okay.

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let's create a third party

I was thinking about how Erin manages to keep this place civilized despite the same political divide that exists in the rest of the world. That's what we need in Washington to break the politcal gridlock. We need to start a new party, the keep it friendly party.

ERIN HALFELVEN FOR PRESIDENT!

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a testosterone antagonist called finasteride

After trying several other drugs for prostate enlargement, my doctor prescribed a testosterone antagonist called finasteride. Is this one of the testosterone blockers spoken of in these pages? It's side effects include tenderness of the nipples, and according to my doctor, enlargement of breasts that are already there due to gynocomastia.

Is there anything else I should know before taking this drug?

TIA

Liz

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Posting Help

Is there a list of color codes that can be used on this site? I have need to use two different colors but when I try using the html codes for color they won't change and I noticed that an abbreviated version is used here. I can't find anything to help me figure that out. Also what font is the default for stories as I am thinking of using it instead of what I do when I write.
Thanks
Fiona

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Of Masks And Marvels and Sapphire's Place.

Does ANYONE know what happened to Sapphire's Place? Is she okay?

Does anyone know if there are more chapters of "Of Masks And Marvels" than are listed at Whately? I've read all 28 that are posted and hoping to find more...or the rest?

Cathy.

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I've Got Your Number

Those of us who have been with Big Closet for over two decades have seen a lot of change. (I know my profile says I’ve only been here fifteen years, but that is because I left for a year when a reader said she was going to commit suicide because one of my stories made her feel so badly abut her life. She said the loving family I depicted in one of my stories was in stark contrast to hers.)

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Of Shoes and ships and sealing wax

Okay. . .there was a huge vote for LGBT rights in the Supreme Court today. Much to the surprise of some, including me, the conservative packed court voted 6-3 to acknowledge gay rights.

I’m doing my happy dance.

There’s a blog about this that has drawn some comments. I would consider most of the people who have commented to be nice people I’ve enjoyed speaking with for years. Yet. . ..

I’ve left little doubt where I stand on most issues. I’m a liberal.

Yet. . .if Erin sees fit to take down that other blog, I’m not going to be upset.

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PayPal Problems.

Hello out there,

It's me again, and do I have a story for you.

So two weeks ago I got my stimulus check and was really excited to finally have the cash to be able to get my book edited.

I remembered that PayPal had a check cashing service that puts the money directly into your account. I'm excited so I log into the app click the cash check option, take pictures of my check, and select the free same-day option. <----(this comes in to play later)

About 20 minutes later the transaction comes back as declined.

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I've given myself a project

Well I've given myself a project.

I was making another story in my "Superiors" universe (Which I used to call the "E-Girl universe") and went looking at "The Saga of E-girl for some details, and realized that I'd changed a few things in the universe other than the name. Added to that is the fact that "The saga of E-girl" was the very first story I made here, and I'd like to think I'm a slightly better author now, and I think what I need to do is totally revamp it.

Wish me luck ...

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Duck Duck Go search engine prevented from giving a discription

I use Duck Duck Go as a search engine. I did a search on T. D. Aldoennetti and the following turned up:

bigclosetr.us
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/author/t-d-aldoennetti
We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.

Does the Big Closet website really deny Duck Duck Go from displaying a description? Clicking the link took me to T. D. Aldoennetti's author page

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Rainbow Space Magic

So, next weekend I'm taking part in a free online Queer Literature convention called Rainbow Space Magic . It is a lot of Queer authors and varying styles of writing but it looks fun. There are author readings and panel discussions which should be nice. If you want to show up and listen to stories and people talk about writing, follow the link. I'm going to be reading 300 Rains and pushing it. Enjoy

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The Fall of Kruhl - Healing Factor (extended)

So, because I missed last week's update I decided to append an additional scene to this part. I hope you all enjoy!

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The Fall of Kruhl - Healing Factor

By Daniel A. Wolfe



As forces battle without, Amelia awakens within an unusual room filled with strange creatures and dark contraptions.


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Question for those following my story

As I can't sleep I thought I would get started on the next chapter. But something came to mind so I am going to let you decide. Since Susan has been given this gift of eloquence on speaking French and Gaelic Would you rather see:

A: If she is speaking in either use italics to represent that?

or

B: The actual language with translation?

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Deshima and Me

Hey everyone, it's me, your favorite passive aggressive author here with some notes on The Interview and Deshima Serendipity. You're probably wondering wtf I'm doing with Deshima. I've noticed the views going down so I can only assume that either you hate me as a person (I hate me with a fucking passion), or I'm not delivering the same type of story as before. It's the latter, by the way. Deshima Serendipity is a very different story in a few ways. First of all, it's a sequel to The Interview but it's not focusing on Astra.

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Wonder if I can use this

Ever done one of those things that was incredibly stupid, but you know you can use it in a story (if you can get over the embarrassment, that is?)

I was getting my brunch (I'm somewhat of a late riser) ready, consisting of smoked sausages and BBQ sauce (Don't judge me! LOL). I was reaching into the door of the fridge for the BBQ sauce, and I stopped myself from squeezing it onto my sausages when I realized that I had found, not BBQ, but Hershey's. Chocolate Sauce.

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New Book - NOT MY WORLD - now on Amazon Kindle

Hi

Another sci-fi/fantasy book finished and uploaded to Amazon...
WARNING > This is not TG... so my apologies, although a TG character from other books, Maxine, appears briefly at the end.

Find it here, NOT MY WORLD by TANYA ALLAN
but if purchased through this site, then this site gets a little extra.

It is around 72,000 words long and involves alternate realities.

Tanya

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Sam and Del -2- "I'm in Trouble Now" on Patreon

"Is that short for Samantha?" the policewoman asked while writing on her tablet.

I stared at her. "No, it's short for Samson." I might have put the teensiest bit of snark in my voice.

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Sam and Del 2 is up on Patreon now for Patron members, it will be available for everyone on Monday.

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Too long ... too short ... just right?

So I was wondering if perhaps I make my tales too long. I've always heard the axiom that a story should be only as long as it needs to be, but I find myself incapable of weaving chapters of less than 4,000 words. Sometimes I'll be done with a chapter of my story and realize that I've managed to throw almost 9,000 words at it. Then I go through and cut what I think is unnecessary. However, it still ends up being a lengthy piece.

I want to keep people entertained with vivid imagery and description, but I don't the audience to get bored with all the prose.

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Demanding I resume Psychotropic Drugs.

Into full on whining tonight, sorry. It's been 13 weeks of Quarantine and it seems a bit excessive. If I do go out for groceries, or to take a break, it is strict face covering, goggles, and head cover. Yikes, I look like a Saudi Arabian Niqab wearing woman. As it is for all of us, being isolated in my apartment can be quite wearing, but overall I have been doing rather well, aside from frequent Ocular Migraine Headaches. These are not painful but a bit incapacitating, they are.

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dream time once more

Okay, its dream time again. Last night, I dreamed I was in a warehouse, trying to help put things where they needed to go. But for some reason, I was dressed like an Old Testament prophet, wearing a robe and carrying a staff.

The people working there would gently shoo me away from the area they were working in, so I went form area to area, looking for a way to assist.

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Comments

Hey there everyone
Every so often I look at the listing of my stories on the sites where they are posted. I do so to see if there are any new reviews/comments. This is even with me writing for myself. The feedback for older stories helps me so much. It is nice to know people are still reading the stories, Plus, it reminds me to look at how far my writing came along since I wrote that stories.

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“the best damn thing” for free

It’s on the site, but, starting Sunday the 7th of June until the 11th, the ebook for “the best damn thing” will be free on Amazon.

Not a lot has been changed from the version on the site, with the exception of some naming and grammar errors.
I am trying to work on the plot points for the continuation, “Sweet, but Psycho” (a sample of it is here on BC)

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To Be a Different Someone...sale

I’ve placed my second book on sale for .99 for the next five days. I decided that it needed to be be refined to remove some formatting issues (and there were plenty of those....and there may be some that remain...sorry) and to place the chapter titles back into the text as they were removed due to possible “infringements” in the original text.

I removed some filler words...not all of them, since I speak in a similar matter, so will my characters.

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For ten weeks

I have posted WITCO every Friday morning and Monday afternoon. Unfortunately this week will be an exception. Nothing really wrong except a need to recharge my batteries. The last two parts took a lot out of me to get just right.

The same thing happened when I was writing Stick her Shock 2. The story will be back next Friday and should be back on track until the conclusion.

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What my girlfriend wanted me to become

Fiction

It all started in 2002 I was 15 and I was going to school that day. On the bus the kids were doing dares. I joined in and was dared to wear a girls bra for the rest of the day. I had accomplished it no problem. The girl that I borrowed the bra from soon became my girlfriend.

She came to my house one day and asked my mom wear I was. My mom told her I was in my room. My girlfriend then came in and locked the door and closed the blinds. She told me that I was going to be her BFF. I told her sure. But that was a huge mistake.

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thank you for your help

I want to thank all the readers for taking the time to read the first two parts of my novella, Taylor, and offering wonderful constructive criticism on how to make it better.**

When it's finished here, I will start again and make it a complete novel before I present it to Erin and the wonderful folks at Big Closet to publish and receive all the receipts. It's my way of saying thank you to Big Closet for everything they do to promote authors.

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Oh my word (and lots of them)

With nothing better to do... I started working out how many words I have published here.
I had this itch that needed scratching.

I've not finished adding them up yet and it is getting close 900,000 and will be well over ONE Million by the end of the year. I have one story that is over 80,000 words long ready to publish.

I will have been posting here 10 years in November. If anyone had said to me that in ten years I would have written and posted around a million words then I would have told them that they are mad, stark raving bonkers.

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getting pummeled by dysphoria

Right now I feel a little like the woman in the scene from the movie "airplane" who starts panicking, and then the whole plane lines up to slap her.

When it's not depression, or PTSD, it's my gender dysphoria taking it's turn at kicking me around, and that's where I am right now.

Ah, well. This too shall pass ...

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Feedback is Food

Has something happened, or is it just me?
I seem to be getting no feedback at all.
Unashamedly I cry out for it, but I am getting a lot of silence.
I have also contributed to a couple of blogs but I am not sure how they work.
Do they just die after a few hours? Or are the authors notified?
The recent one "Sigh, amateur (sic?) writers and laws" sparked my interest.
A big subject worthy of wider discussion but how do I know if my contribution mattered?
Maryanne

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One Person's Vegan Results

Last November, I watched a documentary called The Game Changers. It convinced me to try a vegan diet, mainly due to the adverse impact the meat industry has on the environment. I'm not radical, in that I'll share an occasional hamburger with fries with my spouse, but for all practical purposes I'm eating a plant-based diet and enjoying it. I rarely eat the psuedo meat because it is so highly processed but live three blocks from a Burger King and will eat the occasional impossible-burger.

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It's been a long time...

I have been busy with university but my module sort of finished a few days ago, I have to wait for the results to see what happens next. With this lock-down business, I feel like I've been in a strange place but I shall be returning to work for a couple of months before retiring altogether. In a way the lock-down has given me an insight to that and I'm quite looking forward to it. I was hoping to do all sorts of things to my house but the stocks and shares ISA I had is now much reduced so that's a bit of a pain.

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WITCO -Part 20

Please read Part 20 before reading this.

I just wanted to pass on my thoughts about the story so far.

Back last September when I wrote the first few chapters I had three storylines in mind. You readers made it impossible to use two of them.

The first was based on this being an ill-fated love affair. It would have ended with Part 19 and a short epilogue where a distraught Christina returns to San Francisco.

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Revising an old story

I was fooling around last night, re-reading my old stuff, and I came across "I woke", my first attempt at a longer story. Reading it again, I realized I might be able to make it a little better. So the edited and complete version is up, and you'll have to tell me what you think.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/85183/i-woke-edited-a...

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Sigh, amature writers and laws

Writers are entering and publishing without truly reading or understanding the legalities of what is or isn't plagiarism. Nor do they understand the repercussions of filing a "that's my story line" lawsuit without researching prior publications. The large publishers did all that expensive legals for their authors. They knew whether they had a legal leg to stand on or not. Now with thousands of instant writer-publishers who read something somewhere about DCM (digital copyright material) they start firing off take down notices to everyone.

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Authors and sites MIA

Sapphire's place is down. Has been for several days now. Is she okay?

G.M. Shephard, the author who wrote the great series "Angel", never finished the story and seemingly vanished late in 2013. I emailed her but got no response. The email went through since I didn't get a rejection from the mailer daemon but no response yet.

Anyone know anything about these two?

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The Fall of Kruhl - Straight Fight

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The Fall of Kruhl - Contact

By Daniel A. Wolfe



After summoning the RPR assembly, Ashley makes her way into the home to investigate the mysterious energy readings, but what she finds inside turns out to be far stranger than anything she expected.


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Daniel A. Wolfe

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Survived Again

Well, Lucked out again! Tuesday night I totaled my car, and almost me. On a 5 lane city street and US highway I decided to stop in at the ice cream store and get a dish to take home. This required a left turn. Somehow I missed seeing an oncoming PU truck and the end result wasn't pretty! I thought I'd survived unscathed but then I started feeling funny and, as the cliché goes, every went black. I came to as I was being taken into the ER.

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Surreal

I can understand the anger.

The riots are two miles from me in one direction and four miles in another direction.

If I hadn't been watching the coverage on TV nothing would seem amiss.

I don't condone the destruction but . . .. The county attorney who hasn't brought charges yet is a long time jerk. His dad was governor and Agri Sec in JFK's cabinet. These riots are on his hands.

Jill

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