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Looking for a story, from maybe a decade ago

Ok here is the 'Rub'.
As well those whom have followed my brief rare postings & or talk to me regularily (well socially) on social media.
You know my reasons for alot of my messed up complications, invloved with my life.
Everything, including especially including the past has left me with dissassociative amnesia>dissassociative faugue, so if my describtions seem bleak, overlapped etc I am sorry, this is eating away at me like a bad craving in the middle of the night you just cannot quench.

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Taking Pains -3- Write Like Every Word Is An Inevitable Surprise

She fell.

Through the quiet darkness with the moon over her shoulder, she fell.

Toward the sea below, and the rocks, toward the foaming maelström between them, she fell.

She pulled her hands and arms into a point above her head, or rather below it, steering with her legs in the wind of her own passage.

Down and down and faster and faster, her breath tight and painful, not because she was holding it but because it came so fast that it could not be held.

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Calmed down

So here we are again.

Well the initial shock of Thursday has subsided so I can be a little more rational now. Just to recap, I got home from my ride Thursday afternoon to find my home of 30+ years had been repossessed, literally at that point my possessions ran to what I was wearing and the bike! Not a good place to be for sure.

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Computer Crashed

A few days ago my computer gave a few clicks of death and decided to go into a coma. Fortunately, we've managed to save the hard drive well enough to transfer the contents to a new computer. The transfers are in progress. At this point, we think we can recover everything. Should be interesting.

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Virtually Twisted - Creature Comforts

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When Calista finds herself alone with the creature in Dr. Mansfield’s office, she finds that not at all is as she expect and that they have more in common than she would have ever guessed.


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what if this is the end?

It has been long enough since I wrote anything that I'm starting to wonder if this is the end for me. 10 years of publishing almost every month is a pretty high rate, so a slowdown isnt that bad, but this feels less like a slowdown and more like a complete stop.

ah well, I can still read and comment I guess ...

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New and Improved You Are a Meany

I have started working on a revised version of You Are a Meany. The differences in this version are I am going more into character development, giving more details on Luke youth, the sentences to be easier to read and less of simple grammatical and typing errors.

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Just posted a new chapter

I just posted a new chapter for one of my stories - a relatively long one this time. And though I know it's past 11PM out there, I hope it's not too late.

I've been in the office since 8am, and have been waiting to meet with some contractors. I've been waiting for three hours now, and they're still not here. Anyway, while I waited, I started writing instead of sitting here and stewing. If they don't get here in 20 minutes, I'm gonna be calling their boss. This doesn't bode well for them being hired for the project.

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Hello My Name Is... on Kindle

As I'm sure some of you may have noticed, Hello My Name Is... is no longer available to read on this site. I would have liked to keep the story up here a bit longer but my other books have run out of steam selling wise on Kindle and I have bills to pay.

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07VYVHP1H&preview=new...

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4.5 years

According to my account page, I have been on this site for 4 years and 6 months. So around februari 2015.

A lot has happened in that time. There was of course a reason I found and joined this site.

By Christmas 2915 I knew that I needed to do something.
And I did,
By Christmas 2017 I was legally me, Anne, Female.
By Christmas 2018 I was on hormones for half a year.
By Christmas 2019? With some luck I may have had SRS then...

Today I turned fifty years old..

Thank you BCTS

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If

You don't hear anything from me in a while, don't fret.
Due to my own stupidity i'm now homeless so my access to - well anything is going to be a bit hit and miss for a while.
So there we are, a tale of woe. Hopefully i'll get my act in order, I kind of a have an interim plan but that will likely have to wait until - well I get my head in order.

Ciao for now
Mads

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Story In This ???

So some guy asked to trace my Family History, ala Mormon style, and I told him that I didn't even care. I gave him some information and he found my purported family. Along the way, he turned up yet another person that I never heard talked about or met that I know of. In the generation I'm from, women with children had to do all sorts of things to just survive. Yeah, worse than 50 Shades, I think.

Then, I find that one of my brothers is not in the birth record under any name ???

I'm thinking that a man named RED ELK was my real father ???

Is there a story in this???

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Virtually Twisted - One-Trick Pony

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Though her visit with Dr. Clark is done with, it seems there are still a few more surprises awaiting Calista at the Spiral Clinic.


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BAD news.

ok, so my Windows on this computer hasn't been updating since April. after numerous attempts and tries by a computer knowledgeable friend. We are going with the Nuclear solution. I'm backing up my art and writing files to a Flash drive. He's going to loan me a removable HD to dump my music and stuff to, and then we are nuking the Drive and starting from fresh with a clean install. This means that for the foreseeable future, no Stuck in a Rut. I'm sorry. But we thought it best to nip it in the bud now, after more and more updates get released and it becomes an even greater issue.

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Taking Pains -2- Do you do an outline?

Yes. No. Maybe. Sometimes.

I almost never do an outline for anything shorter than 10,000 words because I can write the story faster than I can do a good outline.

And I frequently start even much longer works without a written outline. Currently, I am writing the serial Jane and I do not have an outline written down even though the story is already 32,000 words and is planned to be in excess of 40 or 50K. I have an outline in my head, but I don't have it written down.

Why not?

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"The Queen" a new 4K restoration of the 1967 Drag film

A classic drag documentary film just re-released will be of interest to many of us. Running in 'art' theaters. - “Every one of these contestants before they come out here is a winner,” which “The Queen” makes absolutely clear.

Here's history that effects many... learn and appreciate that which has came before. It will put many things in perspective.

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Stick Her Shock

It's been a hell of a week for Jack Hanover. GLOOed into his lifelike appliances life has taken a turn for the worse as he tries to adjust to his new reality. Despite it all he's determined to make the best of things.

As book 1 ends the major players have been introduced, massive changes have taken place and now Jackie faces a new tomorrow with uncertainty.

Next month Book 2 will introduce more problems, reveal secrets and possible solutions to Jack's Stick Her Shock.

Thanks for reading so far. Back August 1 with Stick Her Shock 2.

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Kelly O'Meara and Me

It is amazing how quickly time goes by. As of this month, I've been blessed to be able to post my writing here. I cannot begin to thank Erin and the lovely ladies who keep this a welcoming home and a place to share our work. I am also at a loss to express the gratitude for all of you who have encouraged me and loved me!

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Glaucoma

Hi Everyone,
To all that are following Harriet's story, I am currently recovering from surgery for glaucoma and it's hard to read and write since my vision is fuzzy. I'll post again as soon as I can. My advice is get your eye pressures checked even if you have no symptoms. Increased fluid pressure in the eyes damages the optic nerve and the change cannot be reversed. The changes are slow and pain-free, you won't know it's happening. I've been on eye drops and laser treatment for years, but finally an operation was the only option.
Best wishes to you all, Bronwen

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Spelling tip

I've noted a certain type of spelling error becoming very common in stories.

There are a lot of verbs that occur in pairs where the second one is the first one wioth an E on the end.

hop, hope
rat, rate
slop, slope

And many more.

There's a rule about how the past tense of these words is spelled. You double the final consonant on the ones that don't don't end in E before adding the -ed.

Like this:

hop, hopped
hope, hoped

rat, ratted
rate, rated

slop, slopped
slope, sloped

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Publishing My Digital Life on Kindle

I will be publishing My Digital Life on Kindle and in order to have it in the Kindle unlimited category, I need to remove it from this site. I thought it would be nice to give advanced warning before I remove it and figured this would be the easiest way to do that. In two days time, I intend to ask Erin to unpublish all but the first two chapters. I will also be changing the name to Earth 2.0 - My Digital Life.

Happy reading.

Savannah

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Sorry no Bike this weekend

It's the anniversary of my son's death and I've been up in Wales. He used to work in the Brecon Beacons National Park so we go up there to feel near him. It's also a place of amazing scenery, wild life and geology and very popular with walkers and hikers. Today, the weather was very clear so we were able to see Pen y fan, the highest point in South Wales, the neighbouring mountains of Corn Du and the Crybin, all of which are over 800 metres and the Monmouthshire Black Mountains to the east.

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The Hekawi Universe:

First, since this has been asked several times of the couple stories Shadowsblade and I have begun posting in this universe, it is not fan fiction of the Whateley Universe. Yes you will find similarities, but then both are based on fictional worlds that have magic and superheroes in them, there will be similarities due to this

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Virtually Twisted - Doctor's Visit

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At last, Calista sees the doctor, and she learns what a visit to the Spiral Clinic really entails.


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Finally freed some time up

I know its been six months since my last chapter ( To whoever was following my story, I deeply apologize for that), but I finally was able to start writing again this morning. The last six months had been so overwhelming, my writing and even just my laptop had to be put on the backburner. This morning marked only the third time I even booted my laptop up since my last update in January... I didn't realize it had been that long I had been so busy.

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Masks 22 Notes

I'm reviewing some of the previous stories before I get into the meat of Masks 22. I am distressed to note the number of typos in Masks 21. I do remember that I wrote it in a hurry. So, will take my time with 22.

BTW, my photos of NASFiC 2019/WesterCon 72/1632 MiniCon/MantiCon 2019 can be found at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/116299515@N07/albums/72157709761755531

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tough day

so a very stressful day. Was running errands with my ex, and first I had an anxiety attack and had to go sit in the car for a bit. Then while we were just about done, we got a phone call saying my ex's best friend's mom had been in a car accident not far away. We went to see how she was, and although not hurt, she was clearly in shock. Then while we waited with her two different towing guys got into a fight about towing the car right in front of us.

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Taking Pains -1- How 2 Rite Gud

On Wednesday evenings, I run a local authors group called Taking Pains. The title of the workshop refers to one necessity for anyone who wants to improve their writing: the willingness to listen to unpleasant things about your writing. I'm going to try to reflect what we do in that group in occasional blogs here.

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Thoughts on Furry to human?

I've been muddling over the next story in my exemplar universe. It involves a magic sword wielding anthropomorphic cat barbarian warrior king (whew quite a mouthful isn't it?) from an alternate universe being banish to our Earth after being deposed by his human slaves. It seems to me that it might be interesting if he had to not only adjust to being female, but also a human.

Normally furry would be a no go, but since this character would transforming into a human woman I'd be fine with it. Please would you share your thoughts?

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A treasure........

Several years ago, I was truly blessed to stumble upon a work of art called Easy as Falling Off a Bike. Over the next several weeks, I binged on it - reading more story with my every free moment, going short on sleep, and in the process getting to know the author, a very special woman whom I like to think of as a friend.

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A Victory for my 4H kids

Sorry for the delays in both ‘A thief’s problem’ and ‘Racing Angels’. As you know both myself and my husband are the Advisors for one of the local 4H clubs here in Garret County Maryland. For the last two weeks we have been very busy with our two teams. First was the local 4th of July parade at home. This was followed up by the Med-Atlantic Competition where my girls placed 5th as a team while the boys place 8th as a team. As this was their last competition for the year both me and my husband are extremely happy.

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Author's tricks of the trade - Newspapers

Some of you might have noticed I added in a dummied up newspaper article and included it in the latest chapter of Cassandra (Chapter 8).

It took me a bit of time to work out how to do it, so I thought some of you might wish to tuck this little 'how to' away should you wish to do the same in one of your stories.

Step 1 - Create Clipping
The online resource I used was https://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp.

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I thought it would be more painful?

Catchy title huh? unfortunately also the cold hard truth.

An explanation? Back in November I went to my doctor with this feeling of a pulled muscle that wouldn't go away. It wasn't that painful, just a bit uncomfortable at times, it happened to be located in my left chest area. Yeah, yeah I know but heart attacks are supposed to be really painful right?

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New Book - 'Dragged Up' - in English this time.

Been busy...
..now up on Amazon - Kindle edition to be followed shortly by a paperback edition
.. a return to my original story type - coming of age under difficult circumstances.

DRAGGED UP
My thanks, as ever to Tom P. for his proofing.

Tanya

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Rapid sex change

Good news:
Behavior change in minutes.
Secondary sex characteristics change in hours.
Total sex change, including gonads, in ten days.

Bad news:
We're talking about a fish.

But Professor Jenny Graves is studying it. Will she figure out how to induce the same changes in another animal, perhaps a human? Who knows?

But it would make great fodder for a story.

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-secrets-sex-changing-fish-reve...

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First German Title - Entirely Blank - Komplett Gelöscht

Hi there

This is to announce my first attempt at breaching the German Market with one of my books
My thanks to Monique S. who has taken enormous pains to ensure the translation flows and stays loyal to the original.

it is available on all Amazon sites, but I thought it prudent to advertise the Amazon.de site here as if you are reading this in English, there is little point in buying the German version unless you have German as a first language.
Komplett Gelöscht

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Where has Casey been?

Just thought I would drop everyone a quick note. I am alive and well. It has been a while since I last posted anything. I’ve not been idle. I have a new story that’s about 80% completed and a dozen others 25-50% done. I’m also working on a non-TG tech thriller novel that I hope I can publish and share some of my writing with my family for the first time.

Hope you are all enjoying the summer.

Casey

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The Real Jessica Rabbit

Sometimes things I'm not even looking for seem to come my way providing information. At times the info is relevant and other times just more mind clutter. This came up on google in an unrelated search. I guess I needed it to fill in more of the stories I had written???

https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/09/20/the-real-jessica-r...

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Who Wears The Kilts?

I mean this entirely respectfully towards the troops of Canada, Scotland and any other country involved.

So, was just watching a YouTube Video called, "The Devil's Brigade. Here come the Canadians", and now I have questions.

In the clip when the Canadian troops marched into the base, The Bagpipes were in front, about 16 of them. Then came Male troops in Kilts, about 20 or so of them. Then were perhaps 100 Troops in battle pants and blouses.

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A friend came out

So an old school friend of mine went on Facebook today and announced that they have just just changed their name and they are now transitioning from male to female. Of course I am happy for her and wish her all the luck and happiness in the world but I'm not sure I can see them again. I am afraid of what it will mean for me. I have been so deeply in denial and shoving these feelings down for so long that I am afraid of what will happen if I meet them. As it is the post has shaken so many things loose that my emotions and feelings are all over the place.

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July isn't my favorite month of the year.

Getting asked for divorce y my ex, practically tossed out of the house my mom and birthday getting closer again without reaching anything. And not mentioning all the rest of the day to day struggles. Urgh hate how depressing I feel. How lonely I feel.At least I have the pets ...

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Virtually Twisted - The Clinic

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Calista's first visit to the Spiral Clinic seems to be going well. So why then is she on edge?


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Money Woes

Next year will mark my fiftieth year in business. The first fifteen years I worked for large corporations. The last thirty-five years I've owned my own business.

Owning a business is a lot like home ownership. You say "you" own the business as if that is first person singular -- when, in fact, the pronoun is almost always PLURAL.

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Been busy

Life currently has me busy. I live in Oklahoma so you, whoever decides to read this, should know about the flood last month. Then there's the fact that I have been working 6 to 12 hours over time every week for the last four weeks. I am tired. But my stories are still moving. One or two lines at a time. I hope to have something ready by the end of the month. Just please be patient with me.

Thank you for reading.

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Summer Story

Working on a new story for the summer. I hope to start posting it here very soon. Its something quick and fun. It will be shorter than Hello My Name Is... and in very similar to my DarkRealms stories, you could almost call it a DarkRealms Alternate type story. The universe feels very similar. I want to make sure that I have at least 5 chapters written before I start posting, I'm almost done with ch. 3 now :). So stay tuned :).

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Never Finding A Love.

I've felt, BEEN so guilty because of my changing gender and for that reason it seemed that the only way to avoid even more condemning guilt was to refrain from any relationship with a man whatsoever. This is a hard, lonely road, as some of you well know.

Tonight I was out on my bike and stopped to call in a broken electrical box. When I finished and went to move on, I forgot to secure my purse to the back of my bike with the elastic sproingy. It promptly wrapped up in my rear sprocket cassette, and threw debris at me.

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Envy

Have you ever felt envy for one or more of your characters? I wouldn't admit it either! It would be easy to do if a character had too good a life.
The reason I ask is I would like to suggest a movie along these likes. The movie is "Simone" (2002), starring Al Pacino. Just about anything I say about it could be a spoiler except: see it!

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