I've just posted the next two chapters of WHY ME? on my site at:
http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip-why-me---part-2.php

I'm sure that it will be here soon.

Tanya

A friend pointed out this link on another site. It explains so much in the movie Star Wars. I hope any Star Wars fans out there enjoy this as much as I did. Star Wars Explained. (While you're at it, go watch George Lucas in Love. It explains a lot as well... Story has it that Mr Lucas enjoyed this video.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WORLD
&
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Rosh Hashana

Off to NYC for consult with Neurologist and other docs for plan of treatment. Weakness in arms and shoulders along with more shaking has my wife worried. It's in God's hands, either way, but I have to admit I'm scared. Thanks for all your prayers and support. You dear ones mean the world to me. Thank you for your friendship. And a special shout out to my little sister for all her comfort over the weekend, along with my three adopted sisters as well. God bless and see you soon! 'drea

Ok. I have the idea for the Contest and will post it and the rules on September 28-29. Until then... it's remaining a secret. But I guarantee It will be something everyone can do.

It will certainly be a first for BCTS =^.^=

Sephrena Lynn Miller
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ps: Last week both of my doctors determined my operation can be handled out of the hospital and at the Doctor's clinic outpatient wise. So i do expect pain but no long stay. The downside is I have to visit a wound care clinic a few times a week to ensure my problems close up. ^^

PCOS "Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

I stumbed upon this while looking for "paint" to spray on the part of my scalp where the hair is a mere shaddow of its former glory. :( It looks like these girls suffer with many of the symptoms that the Intersexed do, and Male Pattern balding. In short they have far too many Androgins. So, not really knowing much about medicine, I am wondering if this is just a form of being Intersexed. The incidence is very high; about 1 in 10 women, and I wonder if some day things like this will help our society to get away from the binary gender model?

Khadija

Someone recently posted some information about an Electrologist who does facial hair removal with the recipient under full anasthesia. I believe it was in the Dallas area. Does anyone recall who it was and how to get in touch with them?

Many Blessings

Khadija

I spent ages this morning trying to get Internet Exploder to download the sites I wanted to visit. For some reason it doesn't like Top Shelf. I was cross anyway, because I should have been doing a bike ride today and had to cry off because I wasn't very well. So after taking another long period to download an alternative - this being my netbook with dongle connection, which claims to work at 7.2Mbs, but is more like 5Kbs - I am now writing this with the good offices of Firefox, amazing what you can do with cheese. Thank you Mozzarella for your assistance.

Angharad

I've just posted Chapters 5 & 6 of A girl can but dream on my site
at http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip---a-girl-can-but-dream--...

Tanya

If I am right, chapter 1 of Kelly's Journey should be posting at Fictionmania. I have my M.I.B.D. Artemis The Hunter up at Storysite, and hope that I can post my stories at both sites for reading enjoyment. I have stories at T.G.Fiction.net, Fictioneer! and at Maddy Bell.com, too.

Woman wins court battle for father's approval to marry schoolfriend who has undergone sex-change operation [FtM]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/iran-transexual-...

(sounds like she has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS).)

Caster Semenya is a woman --- and a man.

SYDNEY (AP) - World 800-meter champion Caster Semenya of South Africa has male and female sexual organs, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Friday, posing an ethical and political quandary for athletics' ruling body.

Semenya's reported condition could have grave medical implications.

The Herald said extensive physical examinations of 18-year-old Semenya ordered by the IAAF have shown she is technically a hermaphrodite.

A little over a year ago, I read a story that captivated me. That story was "Tragedy of the Spirit". The Authoress was a friend whom I met years previous. Mellissa, She was a wonderful friend whom had a demeaner of strength and determination I have only seen a few times in my life. When I read "Tragedy" the first time I was overcome with raw emotion and sadness as to how the human spirit can be wrecked by such sensless acts of violence towards children, let alone human beings. I would never had imagined what Mellissa went through until I read her story.

The Manx Missile makes it two in a row at the Tour of Missouri, and his twenty third win of the season - including six stages of the TdF.

The downside is that I won't see him next week when I marshal on the Tour of Britain, because he's in the US. However, Bradley Wiggins is riding so that should be good. Remember he came fourth overall in the TdF and gave Lancie boy a bit of a fright.

Angharad

A nameless Council official in Flintshire in North Wales has decreed that Spotted Dick is unsuitable to appear on council canteen menus and that it must henceforth be called Spotted Richard!

True to Life End of the Summer Essay? I've been up all night crying, although I wouldn't describe it as a cruel fate like one of my stories. I debated with myself about whether to discuss my health, since I don't want to make it more of a focus than it already is. Yesterday was Labor Day, and I attended the obligatory end of the season picnic with my family. What could have been horrible turned into glorious.

Sorry, but I just did not get to the computer in time to write an episode of Working Relations tonight, I will try to write one twice as long tomorrow.

Thanks for your patience

DD

I have just posted the start of another WORK IN PROGRESS to my site. It is called The Rats Of Hell, and it will be posted here soon.
You can see it now at: http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip-rats-of-hell-part-one.php
Also the second part of Badger's Set
http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip-badgers-set-part-2.php
Tanya

I was really hoping to never miss a day of Venus Cursed!, but that's out the window now, isn't it? Sorry about yesterday, things didn't go quite the way I expected. I went to a flea market with some relatives and didn't get home until four or five, which was as I planned. Not unexpectedly, I wasn't able to get much writing done on the way over and back, either. But I'd planned on spending most of the rest of the day writing. But things kept cropping up to interrupt my plans until eight or nine, and by then I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open!

Hi,
I've just posted more of Work in Progress (WIP) - A Girl Can but Dream, on its own page on my site at http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/wip-a-girl-can-but-dream-par...
Enjoy

Tanya

Well it's great to be home. I just got back from my sisters house in alabama last night. Man it was boring down there. I took my nephew to school and back every day. Round trip it was an hour and 40 minites. Other than that I could not do much. I was broke. No money to spendy. Then my sister only had dial up for interner and her computer is like 10 years old. It took 10 minites to check my email. I went to a books a million store to use their wifi and it cost me $4.95. I had to keep entering my password for the day. it sucked.

Please excuse my youthful exuberance in commenting twice on the same story; it was exquisite, though, wasn't it? Also, I added some things and edited some things in my latest chapter of Providence - The Valley to make it more cohesive and read better, I hope. My apologies to those who have already read the piece, and thank you so much for supporting me not only through my literary endeavors but my health problems as well.

Ear Bug warning?

Now, I don't want to seem too paranoid on this and I know that there is no proof yet. I recently got one of those Cell Phone Ear Bug thingies, and I just love it. Today, I went to lunch with a girlfriend who got one much before I did.

At breakfast, she saw my Bug and told me that she did not think it was good to wear it all the time because hers caused earaches. I said ok but left mine in but just a few minutes ago, I developed an ear ache.

Admin Note: Sephrena I have disabled commenting because this thread is spiralling towards argument. It's best to leave this be and agree that some cannot agree on this issue.
 
 
Sometimes, I kinda doubt my femininity. I mean, I grew up with images of women who were just as strong as the men they loved, but to be honest, I think I’d have to call myself a Warrior woman if I’m any sort of woman at all. Think Red Sonja, except more militantly feminist.

I suppose today at the dollar store would be a perfect example of what I mean.

I have been having the itch to write for a few months but nothing really gelled in my mind.

I have gone back to school and I have my GPA up to over a 3.7. I am trying very hard to get a *real* job instead of the dead-end mistake I have now.

So, since I am home recovering from a UTI I decided to start hashing something out.

Working Relations is just a springboard to get into a good story. The transgender aspects fall in later.

I've just posted the title page for a new story I'm working on. I know, I know, what about the other ones that have been languishing? Well, I'm still trying to get to them, too. Venus Cursed! is taking up more time than I anticipated, especially since I've got two side stories going now! I'm not abandoning POWYHL or KittyHawk, really! I'll try to alternate or something and get something out on each over the next few months. I can't promise anything, of course, but I will try!

I'm not a real doctor; I only portray one in my stories, but if I were, I would recommend to those walking wounded around here (especially to mi sorella Sephrena) to follow this prescription. Drink plenty of fluids, get plenty of rest, take two tabbies and call me in the morning!

Just a quickie to let you know that I am on holiday until 13th of September and I won't be posting much before then.

I hope to get back into the swing of things as soon as I get back.

Hugs
Sue
XXXX

When I started reading TG stories on the web many years ago every story I read was interesting since I had never read stories with TG protagonists before. Finally someone I could identify with who was dealing with things that mattered to me.

After a decade or so this identification is still important so I still read TG stories but now the story has to provide something beyond the mere basics - the tropes of TG fiction such as self-discovery, the process of acquiring the clothes and paraphernalia, the salon experience, the shopping trip, the talk with the parents, the visit to the shrink... You know the list.

I now believe that in order to please long-time readers such as myself there are three main ways to make a TG story interesting.

Good News Bad News Good News. First, the Good News: Essential usually means "Gotta have it," but in my case it means Essential or Familial Tremors, which apparently is what I have. My difficult morning was not a surprise to the doctor, who explained that the more stressed I got from the initial tremors, the more it exacerbated the tremors. I've been prescribed another medication that is expected to be of immediate help and eventually mitigate the condition, but I also dealing with some sleep issues which we'll be dealing with as well. Second, the Bad News: It doesn't go away.

See Part 6 of ITS WHAT I WANT at http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/its-what-i-want-part-6.php

Tanya

The pellet with the poison is in the Flagon with the Dragon, and the Chalice from the Palace has the brew that is true. Oh no...the Flagon with the Dragon broke. The pellet with the poison is in the Chalice from the Palace and the Vessel with the Pestle has the brew that is true. Or something like that - Rent or buy the Court Jester with Danny Kaye!!!

"She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones!" Dio ti benedicta! 'drea

I realise that this blog is way off-topic and has no direct TG connections, but today seventy years ago is very memorable for many London kids of my generation.

The WW2 “forces sweetheart”, Vera Lynn, is back in the Top Twenty at the age of 92.

Just did a search and couldn't find my site on Google. It only came up with my site when I put in very specific keywords that I knew couldn't be in any other combination on other websites. But things like "Transgender fiction" didn't list me in the first three hundred returns. Same for "transsexual fiction", "transgender stories", "transsexual stories" and then combinations of stories with only story.

Damnit.

PART 5 of It's What I Want is now up on my website (which has gone through yet another colour scheme change) http://tanyastales.yolasite.com/its-what-i-want-part-5.php

Um, hello.

How ever I had been on a trip overseas recently and I injured myself over there. I ccame back in alot of pain in my back. That has prevented me from sitting at the computer and typing. I am finally getting back to my stories which I totally intend on finishing, when I am able.

I posted a very short one for you all tonight and I hope it is good. It was all i could do for tonight as it hurts to sit in a chair for any long period of time.

Before the British arrived upon the scene, there was only Winter, as detailed in the tiny slice of British history Churchill missed, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

For those of you here who liked the series, I have moved the "Mindy the Slave" series to my weblog. I also just added another chapter tonight.

Just FYI.

http://i-know-i-know-but.net

Hi everyone.

...would cycle if it wasn't for other motorists!

The irony of the article posted on Cycling Weekly is wonderful, reporting a survey undertaken by the Institute of Advanced Motorists.

The Fourth Plinth is the name given to the empty plinth in the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square in London. It was originally designed by Sir Charles Barry and built in 1841 to display an equestrian statue. There were not enough funds available at the time to create a statue and so the plinth was sometimes referred to as the 'empty plinth'.

Her stuff appears to have been pulled. Any ideas as to what the problem is?

Sue