Since you read this on BCTS you are familiar with my situation.
I wore a skirt to school ONE day to see what would happen. At the time I was known as Toby. Well, it was supposed to be only one day. Things snowballed. Being tagged as a girl. Cheerleading, ballet, standing up to bullies, assigned to the girls’ locker room. Even a boyfriend. Ending up as the popular girl, slayer of bigots, savior of damsels in distress (perhaps not the last). The Prom Queen ruling the school.
The problem is that while everyone else is convinced that I’m a girl I have just been dragged out to sea in the undertow. I never wanted nor intended this. So now I stand here looking at myself in the mirror. I can’t deny that I look good in my prom dress. But I can’t help asking myself.
Toby or not Toby? That is the question.
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2 stories from you in 1 day!
This was so Bru! I had to laugh, after reading "Why Not?" to come across this one kind of made my day.
Thank you
Finding my balance
After writing a 5000 word story I needed something to balance that.
Whether 'tis nobler...
on the body to suffer the slings and narrows of outrageous fashion, or to take silks against a sea of polyester, and by embroidering mend them...
Sorry, couldn't help myself. :)
In stitches
I'm not sorry.
ah, the age old question!
thanks for 2 bits of silliness today, I needed the giggles.
A story a day ...
:)
Great silliness
Thanks for the laugh. You are the best Bru.
>>> Kay
At least Toby wasn't put to the question
Semper leviculus!
Where
Was The Spanish Inquisition?
They never called themselves that :)
But possibly they were on the Spanish Main.
I presume
… that you wrote your first draft in pencil.
2B or not 2B?
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Crayon
Why use a pencil when you can use a crayon?
A pink one of course
In my high school we had classes grouped according to study programs. About 25 in each group, labeled (from the first year in high school) 1A, 1B, 1C etc.
We had a great English teacher who was "somewhat" influenced by a certain 16th century author.
One year I was in group 2B. The phrase was often used when he was wondering whether we were responsible for some mischief. It could have been worse though.
When my older brother had been in that year he was in group 2D. The teacher then used a heavy scottish accent.
And that year…
…he was studying the Scottish Play, which they did to death.
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You Can Tell
By the jug ears.
Jughead?
Why stay at the ears.
The Question:
How the heck did all that happen as a consequence of just one experimental day? I guess things happen.
I got the reference, of course. At least two movies are titled, "To Be or Not To Be", and the reference was obvious. Another movie from the 1980s is "Outrageous Fortune". I only found out from something I read that that title was also a reference to the same soliloquy.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
For someone who couldn't spell his own name he made quite a name
Shakepeare references aren't exactly uncommon. I have made more than a few myself over the years here.
In surviving documents signed by the bard himself he spelt his own name in various ways.
Very punny
Keep them coming, please .
You are to be blamed for this story
An earlier comment of yours triggered this idea.
Toby!
Skirts are the in thing for a Bru-tal story such as yours. They flare. they go up and reveal, they tease.
Much fun!
Sephrena
"Aramus, what is your profession?"
"Artisian."
"You, what is your profession?"
"A blacksmith sire."
"Hmm." "And you, your profession?"
"A baker."
"So, you said you brought some warriors to join us then? SPARTA, what is your profession?"
"WAR!!!OOOOO! UMMMMM!"
Leonidas smirks. "It seems I brought more warriors to the fight then?"
Message brought home today
when I went shoppig in one of the short, wide and rather ligthweight skirts I prefer. It's a windy day today.