THIS COMMENT IS NOT MEANT TO DISPARAGE THE WORK OF ANY OTHER AUTHOR.

I have been thinking about what my favorite TG might be and my thoughts keep returning to "Captive" by Melanie Brown. In some ways parts of it parallel to parts of my own life. For me, as with the protagonist in the story adapting and accepting is what is available. It is not such a bad life. It got me out of a painful marriage with a drunken abusive woman.

I did not endure the kidnapping and torture in the story, but the end results are much like mine.

Gwen Brown

So I guess my latest story is a bit of a flop.

I had wanted to make a clever little story that would serve as a metaphor for having multiple personalities, and apparently almost nobody got that idea.

Which means I wasnt as clever as I hoped I would be. so I am very sorry.

Ok here goes boy goes to Florida for a long Christmas break as a girl ,works in Santa's work shop at the mall the family meets another family who turns out to be rich goes out with one of the sons
Also gets involved with a police action and becomes news back in his hometown so by the time he returns home she is well known and goes back to school as a girl

towards the end of the month

I'm just about to start posting a new story. It's called 'Weeping Willow' and is, as my other, longer, efforts, about a gifted musician. It will be the longest story that I've written and runs to five books of over twenty chapters, so a half a million words. Like my other long stories, it just seems to carry on in short bursts of writing. It starts with a central character a good ten years younger than I’ve normally written about. Ninety-five percent of the places mentioned are real and viewable on Google Maps.

Well, this weekend has dealt me pressure I didn't expect to face and landed me in the awkward position of disappointing readers... something I promised to never do again.

With Focal Point's start being reposted as a BCTS Classic, it's gotten people reading my long dead work all over again and sadly, many are finding out that like a lot of my work back then, it was unfinished. This wasn't intentional, but it happened and It was something I promised I would never do again.

After a thoroughly enjoyable mini break!

By a few people that I thought I could trust; people who I have always thought of as family, people that I was under the impression thought of me the same way. These are people that I care for and thought that I could trust them because they cared about me. But I was reminded of the fact that trust is a fickle and fleeting thing for some people in this world.

Over the past several months, I have been re-reading a lot of stories and books that I have previously read. This line was in one of those stories and it really hit home after the week I have had……

Please be aware of the warnings in the tags I selected. I am referencing and linking some current news reports that are highly disturbing. So if your blood pressure tends to spike at disturbing news, or if you get triggered by the same, you might want to just skip the rest of this post.

Just a quick update:

My mom has generously let me borrow her computer, so I can check in more often.

Which I will keep brief!

just so no one panics, my computer is down, so I will not be online for a bit.

everybody take some huggles to keep you busy till I get back!

I don't care about the International Date Line. Where I am it's March 15. That was the day when Julius Caesar was assassinated, but I want to celebrate a much happier event.

We're trying out a new distribution channel with our latest DopperPress release. It's called Draft2Digital and will make our books available on many different online sellers, including Amazon, Apple, SmashWords, Kobo and more!

We get a wider world footprint, more flexible pricing, more help with promotion and simpler uploading for eBooks as well as better potential for producing paperbacks and audio books.

Yep, there's no doubt about it, we are on the cusp of Spring

It has now been just over a year since I last heard from Julia. Our regular email exchange broke off in the middle of a conversation and I have to accept that she is no longer with us.

I want to provide some notes about her and what her contributions mean for the future of Anmar.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET LADY!!!

and it's even got into double figures!

Now that Mom knows....

So last night, I dreamed I was a superhero.

I had this gun that would stun someone without permanent damage.

I got summoned to join a group of other heroes facing off a group of villains.

I was doing well, when suddenly I was hit with a case of dysphoria so bad I could barely walk, and one of the other heroes half carried me to our target.

Dont ask me, folks.

So yesterday, we were getting groceries and went to the book section of the store to find Mom a new book, and she told me she would get me one too, so I looked for something that might be interesting.

I found a book called The In-Between Bookstore.

The cover blurb described the story as about a man, who moves back to his hometown, and somehow manages to meet his younger self.

This sounded very interesting, so I got the book.

And almost at the end of the first chapter (which is as far as I have read), the main character just casually mentions that he is trans.

Sephrena Lynn Miller asks us this morning to try to be positive about life. It's been very difficult in a deluge of bad things happening. But there are some good things to be joyful about. So in that spirit, I'd like to share three of them from this week.

so my subconscious has decided to let me graduate from school, and now sends me dreams of being in the working world.

For the last week or so, I have dreamed of working in a daycare, at a water park, a newspaper office, and last night, working as a manager at a restaurant.

Since I never did any of those jobs in real life I am not sure where they are coming from, or what my subconscious is trying to tell me, if anything.

My brain is weird, which probably doesnt come as a surprise to anyone here.

I know everyone is posting everything Trump does everyday up here. We have no place left to escape his insanity. All that I am asking is to maybe try to think positively, not repost what he does all the time, so that we have a sort of, safe place to be. I did vote for Harris so I am in my right to say this. I would like BigCloset TopShelf to be a safe haven for all - Especially from the wanna be king. Please?

I am begging you all.

Sephrena

A new Department of Defense memorandum "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276..." states that gender dysphoria is incompatible with the US Military.

Another brick added to the wall separating us from our rights and our existence as citizens of the United States of America. Be strong, they don't know the type of people they are discriminating against, we will not be denied, we exist, we have a voice and we shall be heard. Love to all, Emily

well i suppose i did learn something yesterday

“She seems very wise. Not from what she says, but from the fact that she doesn’t say it.”

Hugs,
Erin

Need to be real careful how I state this so I don't end up in a million dollar liable lawsuit. Most is what I have read from other sources and some is my own personal opinion and not in any way to be assumed as fact. Reality, I don't have dozens of foot notes listed here pointing to other sources and research. Forty years, six dead worn out printers, half dozen hard drives stacked in a box, thousand of pages over a foot high doesn't translate into viable medical and transgender research..., yet.

Due to having caught a case of hospital acquired pneumonia, I've had a few days to work on my stories.
I am hoping to have this one completed by the end of the week.

I have the next chapter ready...
Should I release it now or wait until the end of the week?

I honestly don't know what impression I make here. I suspect most of you see me as some combination of Happy Fun Time Huggle Giver, and Woman Who Constantly Sabotages Her Own Life and Then Whines About It.

Well, sadly, I have to do the later, and 2025 is not going well for me.

I have had several issues with my car, including repairing the undercarriage, replacing the battery, and most recently, replacing the tires, and now it seems I am not done yet, as my check engine light turned on today.

Good old Al wrote a song to help those who need to ‘up’ their writing game.

https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?si=s637RNLhPbxcpxCc

Enjoy.

with love,

HER

Once in a while, I bare my soul; more often my soles bear me.

Let us cut the bullshit.

There have been repeated reports in the past of Amazon Kindle stealing money from consumers. As well as Kindle being a proprietary and closed standard for content delivery. The underlying issue is not only restricted to Amazon Kindle, but any and all cloud-based streaming content providers.

Who controls the content that is saved on the cloud? Is it the owner of the content? Or is it the owner of the infrastructure?

From A Veteran Editor of 'Stars And Stripes'

Regulars here will know I’m not a fan of BS and half-measures. Don’t piss on my boots, and tell me it’s raining …

This has been a horrible month for anybody who still cares about America, her place in the world, and her duty to her people.

We are under attack by Donald Trump’s soulless, gutless Republican Party, and the United States of America will never be the same again.

There is nothing to worry about with Trump and Republicans in charge

-- The State Department is now not even issuing renewing passports to transgender people.

--The National Park Service (NPS), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior changed the information about Stonewall on their website. They erased four of the leaders of the riots who were transwomen and changed the phrase LGBTQ rights to LGB rights.

-- As of February 7, 2025, transgender individuals were banned from enlisting and having publicly funded gender-affirming surgeries in the U.S. military.

I just ran across this 13 minute video on road safety in Europe (and more specifically the UK) versus the development of electric vehicles at NEWS: UK Bans Cybertruck - 5 Fatal Design Flaws Tesla Can't Fix.

This is more for those techno-geeks and EV geeks out there. So you might like this FYI,