It occurred to me last week that since "Shoes" doesn't ever come up as a Random Solo -- Heather tacked a multipart sequel onto it a while after she posted it in 2007 -- there are probably a lot of people here who aren't aware of the story, which was a front-runner for inclusion in a Best of BigCloset anthology in 2011 that never got off the ground.
(Wayback tells me it's received 2849 hits and 88 kudos since 1/22/16, compared to 19,635 hits in the nearly nine years before that. Can't compare the kudos since there was a different system back then and Wayback doesn't show it.)
Anyway, here it is. 1500 words. The teaser:
What do shoes have to do with a teenage boy understanding some major life changes his younger sibling is going through? Read on and find out. :)
Eric
Second
A must read for Trans-identification.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
I didn't expect the impact
It's such a short piece, I didn't expect to be brought close to tears. It really does deserve an award, or at least to be better known and more widely read, especially by non-trans folk who want/need to understand.
- io
Yes!
Thanks to you three, I found it, and MUST agree!
Pity Eric didn't provide a direct link, but I went hunting, via Heather's link in the Authors List and found it (almost Heather's earliest entry, so on the last page)
The link is there
It's in Eric's post: it's the word "here". Here's a more obvious link:
Click here ⇒ Heather Rose Brown's Shoes ⇐
- io