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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.

That's who I am as Torey. I've struggled with gender issues all of my life, although I've tried to hide it as much from the world as possible.

I've got two passions, ballet and writing. I take three adult ballet classes a week. They help me cut down the stressful of a busy job and two wonderful kids (I've already mentioned them above). I also enjoy being around my teachers and friends from class.

I already have one completed work that I've just started posting here: Emerging from the Cocoon. It's posted at Fictionmania, but my favorite author, Jan. S., suggested I post it here. To be honest, I'm not entirely pleased with it. The beginning is short, as is the ending, which I left hanging for a long time.

Forever Claire is a work in progress. I've had the idea in my head for a while.

My stories generally are coming of age stories. I like them as innocent as possible. I'm not into forced fem or a lot of "fetish" type of issues. Part of my stories are based on my past life experiences, especially the gender identity issues.

I'm also a very romantic at heart.

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Welcome to BCTS

Angharad's picture

a much nicer place than the one you mentioned, thanks to our web-mistress, the blessed virgin Erin.

Angharad 8)

Angharad

I think,,,

Frank's picture

she's not really a virgin...

Hugs

Frank

LOL!!!

erin's picture

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Welcome to BC

You'll find this to be a friendly place. The hopeless romantic in you will like the fact that we tend to see more 'sweet/sentimental' and less fetish type stories.

I definitely share your liking for uplifting stories, though I'm not above torturing my characters on occasion.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of your writing.

Ray

Ray, are you mad?

I quote:

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You'll find this to be a friendly place.
>>

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!

Here at BC we are a bunch of rabidly sadistic, evil people. I mean, Aug with her AEAFOAB series has been pounding our brains with subliminal messages in her near daily saga for over a year and I have the most bizarre *urges* now.

Alys has many snared in a four-inch thick door worshiping cult.

Nick B and Sue Brown have the American economy on the point of collapse waiting for them to complete their multiple ongoing serials.

Grover does strange things with small furry animals in his stories and that John in Wauwatosa is a right pervert, writing about these mutant teenage girls with inhuman powers and Centerfold bodies …

-- Oh C**P! With luck no one noticed this –

John in , um someplace you’ve probably never heard of just west of Milwaukee

P.S. Welcome to BC

John in Wauwatosa

Uh, John . . .

According to your sister, you've had those urges for years! Had your eyes checked lately? ;-) Did you forget? That's alright, just take your medicine dear.

Just a reminder: "(M)utant teenage girls with inhuman powers and Centerfold bodies" doing
"things with small furry animals". "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain", eh?

KJT

"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

John in where?

Yah, that John in Whatevertahosa place is strange, but at least his mutant teenage girls don't have tails or kitty ears or slitted eyes. Talk about doing things to little furry animals!

And then there is this pixie that keeps getting in trouble by picking fights with hummingbirds, hawks, and even frogs.

The Evil Doctor Ray [insert maniacal laughter here]

Hey!

terrynaut's picture

I do not pick fights with animals! Uh ... well, except maybe gray squirrels. I did have a go at scaring a couple that were dumpster diving today. And then there was that stupid owl that attacked me a couple years ago. Other than that though, I'm clean! C'mon! :p

- Terry

Well, now that you mention it, Ray ...

There will be this younger girl, Carla, making an appearance in Timeout 5, probably chapter 5 about mid July 2007 timeline-wise who is just the cutest little pre-teen cat girl. The subtitle for that story is tentatively MCO-oh!

She and Joanie first meet in Boston in early July and it does not do well. Their second meeting goes much better. A brief excerpt,

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Ms Carson was sitting at her desk, a woman in her upper fifties to lower sixties and a young girl sat next to each other. The girl was ten or eleven at most, just entering puberty and, well, cute. She was also a mutant, well duh! Her being a cat-girl cinched it; the furry tail and the cat ears were a bit of a give-away. Her facial features were Eurasian with an emphasis on the Asian. The woman with her was likely her grandmother as there were similarities in their faces though the older woman was of northern European stock, likely of German or Polish descent.

The cat-girl’s ears and tail were covered in dark, almost jet-black, silky fur. Her skin tone and modest size fit with her mostly Asian origins. Her most striking feature were her intense, violet cat-eyes. Otherwise she was a normal adolescent girl, no whiskers, pointed teeth, claws, obvious extra breasts or the like. She would likely be quite attractive in a few years, an exotic mix of human and cat features.

“Joanie, this is Ms Henke and her daughter Carla.”
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As to your pixies, Ray, sounds like that former boy, now a pixie is pixilated. See Mr Deeds Goes to Town for the proper definition of pixilated.

John in Wauwatosa

P.S. See, Torey, we're perfectly normal people here at BC

John in Wauwatosa

Again, Welcome

laika's picture

Yes welcome, Torey. Back in my rabid prostelytising days (a year or so ago),
trying bring authors I liked to this site, I e-mailed you about posting
Emerging From The Cocoon here. Then after I sent it I discovered
to my horror I had called you "Tobey". Oops, that's some real
paying attention. Apologies, and...
~hugs, Laika

.
"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU

Welcome Torey

I hope that you find friends and fans here.
May Your Light Forever Shine

    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

Welcome!

Well Torey you're not alone struggling with that gender thing and for that matter certainly not the only romantic at heart here at BCTS. Have Fun and Welcome aboard!

hugs!

grover

Great to meet you, Torey

It's always a red letter day when we get a new author here. You will find we're a friendly bunch and have strong UK participation, with at least one of our Welshwomen posting daily.

I enjoyed your first posting so much. Looking forward to the rest.

Hugs,

Gabi

Gabi.


“It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Thomas Hardy—Far from the Madding Crowd.

Welcome Torey

I too started posting at FM first before I learned about this site. You'll find the reader feed back is much better here, and that's why everything I post here goes up a week earlier that at FM. You will find the stories here are much better written and there isn't as much of the stuff that turned me off about FM. I will say though that if it wasn't for FM, I would have never started writing. Good luck and I'll watch for your stories, Arecee

Welcome Torey

terrynaut's picture

We've exchanged private messages but we haven't been properly introduced.

I'm Terry! Nice ta meetcha! :)

Ya know, I've never blogged a bio for myself here and I've been here over a year now. Perhaps I should. Does anyone care to read it though? I've left a lot of comments. Is that enough to know me? Hmmmm.

Anyway, welcome Torey.

Hug

- Terry

Welcome

Torey: Welcome to Top Shelf this is a great site and myself I like reading good stories here that are not trashy! Richard

Richard

Bienvenue, wikommen, welcome

Hi Torey,

Nice to have you here. I can identify with your life story, though I was only a single parent for three years and took ballroom instead of ballet. Writing didn't become anything like a passion for me until I stumbled across this wonderful site where I finally felt safe doing it in public. And my coming-of-age story (my one and only so far) is only as innocent as I was when "coming of age," which is to say, in some ways totally, in others, not so much. :/

Also I've only got one teenager, but my three kids are spaced so that as soon as one goes off to college (knock wood) the next one enters teen-hood. I'm not sure if I'm smart for having set it up so I only have to handle one at a time, or incredibly dumb for having stuck myself with having to live with teenagers for at least fifteen consecutive years. ;)

Anyway welcome. I hope you find a home here and find the people as warm, welcoming, and supportive as I have. I've never come across anything like it anywhere else.

three kids

but my three kids are spaced

My three kids are spaced out, too.

No, wait. It's their daddy that's spaced out.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.

Ray in Tustin (which is smaller and warmer than Wauwatosa)

You spaced your kids?

You may consider yourself the "captain" of your space ship, but still - spacing your kids. Isn't that a bit drastic?

Annette (who's been known to twist someone's meaning a time or two...)

I told them...

I told them that if they didn't clean the life support system properly, that I would give them a taste of what it's like to breathe nasty air. So, after feeding them a pot of beans, I put them in their space suits and sent them out the airlock.

The Evil Captain Ray
(who is sane. Really.)

It wasn't me

It was the navigation computer. "Hal? Open the pod bay doors, Hal."

"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that."

Not sure why it said that--none of them were named Dave....

Disclaimer: No actual children were harmed in the making of this comment.

Always wanted to take ballroom

Just never wanted to go to a class without a partner. Our party parents' dance in the Nutcracker last year had elements of ballroom and it was really fun.

I don't know whether to eny you or pity you for having your children spaced apart...lol

Mine are 18 and 14 (well soon to be 15).

Hugs,

Torey

Oops

Meant to just write that comment to justme...lol

Torey,It's OK

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They're not violent. They may slobber and drool now and then, but if you scratch them behind the ears they are quite affectionate and eager to please. Welcome and enjoy the place and its inmates. Some of us are sane, hee-hee-hee-hee,
Joanne