In 1993, I joined an online email group that we called TS Lesbians. We wished to avoid patriarchal language, such as he, him, his, etc. being default pronouns (used where the gender of the person referred to by the pronoun is unknown).

Use of she/he, him/her, etc. seemed literally correct, but awkward and wordy. Using they, their, etc. for third person singular, although it has been done for centuries, brings problems of whether other parts of speech in the sentence should be singular or plural.

I know it doesn't mean much to anyone else, but wow, who'd a thunk it.

Hey is something going on at Star Dust? I can't seem to log on this morning. All I get is site not found. Hope its nothing serious. :)

grover

I was already to have an editor take a look at Desert Princess 3 this week and when I went looking for it, it was gone! I simply can not understand what happened to it, though there may be some chance of getting it back when I go back to Portland and hook up to my external Hard Drive.

Writing for a character that seems to have a mind of her own is a hoot. It's some of the most fun that a writer can have. Drew/Annie in TIP is such a character. One of the funniest things about writing for her are the things she seems to think but isn't willing to write down. After all, she's supposed to be telling the story and some things are just too embarrassing. ;>

I've got the next one almost done and plan to post it Thursday or Friday. And for the furriners who don't play baseball, well, stay tune. ;>

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Wanda

Just a quick update on my story writing goings-on. I am working on a story for the All Souls Day Contest and I'm hoping to have it up within the week. After that, I have some older stories I wrote a little while back and I'm thinking of posting those -- unless a new idea creeps into my head, and that does happen!

Cheers,
Lisa

Hello all,

Sorry about the delays since the last chapter for Jason's Story.

"What's the point?" To quote one of my autistic children when things have gone wrong for him.

This is a test, to learn how to imbed an image into a story. (Yes, I've a new story on the way, and it will have a few pictures in it... So, I've got to learn how to do this. Sorry.

There's is a new drug known as "strawberry quick".

Thursday 16th of October. I got an E-mail from a member on here requesting me to consider posting on this site. Well I have been a member for over three years and in that time I had not even considered posting. A short while ago I got in a discussion With Maddy Bell. The result was I sent her some of my fan fiction. From this you may realise I like the Gaby series. I also Like the Tucker-Valerie by Ellen Hayes and have quite a few fan-fiction in that series not sent in anywhere yet. Other peoples work I like are the Education by Karen & Penny. Christina Chase.

I'm posting this for reference and discussion. It's quite a conflicted article, showing the unhappy sides of two opposite approaches to treating gender dysphoric behavior in young children and raising doubts of the value of either.

for now, at least

I'm having problems getting on line. Right now, I'm running at a screaming 21,600 bps. 28.8K seems a distant dream. :-/

As I have been requested, I have revamped Kelly's Journey, But I am retitling it so that each chapters title reflects the story within.
That includes a Title Page.

I must warn the readers that there are several scenes where you will need a napkin to dry your eyes. For me, this story has been a journey of self discovery, because in many ways, I am Kelly.

The court cases mentioned in Chapter 13 of Emerging from the Cocoon were actual cases.

I just redid my story "The Legend of Sara Reid" I did this in response to the advice that many people have given me. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for all of your input.

Hugs,

Jen

The Harvest Mouse is the smallest of the British mice being only a couple of inches long. See more on Wiki.

Just a general FYI, the GabyZone.Com domain is currently down due to DNS issues that are beyond my control (I host the website, but not DNS for the domain). They GabyZone Chatroom is still available via standard IRC access, and from the web through http://www.cyberbrats.net .

-P

P.S. I will post an update if/when DNS is working again.

As I bask in the warmness of having written another chapter of Kidnapped (subtle advert...or what?) my mind turns, as it often does to my stomach. My S.O is, as I write, slaving over a hot microwave and I drool at the thought of my up and coming repast.

For those of you who like to read my serial concerning the life and times of Kylie Mosse, I have some bad news. The next one will appear sometime in the next few days, once it's been proofed and I re-edit it.

I thought I'd better warn you, in case you wish to leave the country, now.

hugs,

Angharad.

Piper has been upgrading the IRC software for the Cyberbrats.org servers (hosts #gabyzone). Most access is now restored.

Samantha (irc gabyzone net admin)

Here are some of my thoughts regarding the trials and tribulations of using another person's characters and universe.

I first want to praise all those writers and admin staff on BCTS for the excellent content which appears here. For myself, I knew nothing of this site until my friend Mellissa (prairie_girl_64) passed away. I was entrusted with looking after her estate and all her subsequent stories upon which she started and have yet to be completed and/or are completed and need editing.

This has been an unusual week. The reason you've seen as many Forever Claire Chapters? There's been a slight change of schedule, one I wasn't aware of before the week began.

I didn't realize this was the week of fall break where I take ballet classes. I hate it. I miss it.

This is another thing my son preformed, except it was live, and taped. Good quality viewing on youtube look for "Erik Carlson preforming Heartbreak Hotel at eXposure". Yep he can also dance. Arecee

Here's an interesting one from the Guardian. It seems that a guy named David Williams has written a children's book titled "The Boy in the Dress." This piece is about a shopping spree with a reporter while he's wearing a frock and having to deal with papparazzi, etc.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/05/celebrity...

Xaltatun

Is Tom and Cathy's survey too late? See below from the BBC website.
Angharad.

Mammals facing extinction threat
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Barcelona

At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.

I've seen you. sometimes, popping up in the online users list. And while I know there's lots of private issues and concerns which prevent you from publishing more of Christina, I can't help but wonder if you _ever_ go publish some more chapters of Christina.

Just to give some advance warning, I'm away for a week from monday 20th October. I'm going to Menorca where I hope to do lots of walking and birdwatching (as in ornithology!). It's a favourite place of mine, although I'm going on my own this year - it does mean I can do what I want every day.

I found this joke on the web. There was no author claimed, but I thought that you would enjoy it.

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Hi you all. After watching Gwen's recommended song on You Tube,I figured what the heck and would like to recommend one of my own. It is on You Tube and is titled "Erik Carlson There U Are". He's my middle son and is trying to become a singer that makes money. I hope you'll take the time to watch it and others he has on line, Arecee

Well, I'm late posting the next Incognito. It's done but I want to be an episode or two ahead when I post. Plus, I'm aiming for longer posts, around 2000 words instead of 1200.

But the story is going nicely for me, Drew is easy to write. And the suggestions last time of names for girl-Drew sparked some ideas. ;>

I read a story tonight on this site that got me thinking what if...it was fiction, it was so real.

It doesn't take courage to put on your sister's dress when you're eight and when no one else is looking...

It takes courage to ask your mother if you can wear that dress on Halloween...which is something I wanted to do, but never got the courage to do...

This story has been expanded from its original posting. I decided to expand it when several authors said that I was getting better, and I wanted to show that they are correct. I do feel that I am improving, but i needed others to confirm it so that I would not get a swelled head about it. There's nothing worse to me than somebody who believes they are perfect.

I've run across a couple of titles which contain explicit sex scenes for lovers of good old porn. So all of you under 18 have to steer clear of the following.

Okay, the October 2008 Story contest starts tonight!

On Michael Buerk's programme The Choice this morning Michael talks to Dylan More, who was born a girl but always knew she was a boy inside. The interesting thing is he decided to have a baby before he completed the change to a man.

For logged in members, all the advertising on BC now has off switches in your |My Account| tabs. At least, all of it does if I did it right, I'll be checking.

Hugs,
Erin

See for yourself in the link below on UK MSN.

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=9...

Angharad.

Yay!

Thanks to Erin, I have a way to share PDFs! Hopefully this won't have any browser issues. Anyway, if you want, you are welcome to have a peek. This is probably not the final version. At the very least, it will have a cute little cover and all that. Again, I would love an editor as well as general criticisms/critiques, so if you are so inclined, please drop me a note or share here:)

I hope people are following the "Skin Horse"* comic I now syndicate at the bottom of the blog pages. :) Today's fan-drawn episode features Tip, the crossdressing hero(ine) of Skin Horse and Wil Smith as MiLBDs so I've added it to the bottom of the front page, too. :)

Hugs,
Erin

OK, it's intermission time. Go out to the lobby and get your drinks. The lines are still short at the WC. I am going to work in the garden for a while.