even if it is getting prematurely dark!

"Is that short for Samantha?" the policewoman asked while writing on her tablet.

I stared at her. "No, it's short for Samson." I might have put the teensiest bit of snark in my voice.

 
Sam and Del 2 is up on Patreon now for Patron members, it will be available for everyone on Monday.

Into full on whining tonight, sorry. It's been 13 weeks of Quarantine and it seems a bit excessive. If I do go out for groceries, or to take a break, it is strict face covering, goggles, and head cover. Yikes, I look like a Saudi Arabian Niqab wearing woman. As it is for all of us, being isolated in my apartment can be quite wearing, but overall I have been doing rather well, aside from frequent Ocular Migraine Headaches. These are not painful but a bit incapacitating, they are.

On Thursday, the first book I tried to have published...with limited success...will be free for two days.

This book was on BC but had to be removed due to Amazon’s practices. If you never read it before, give it a few pages.

Well, my brother went into surgery to remove his prostrate glad, which has stage 2 cancer.

Nothing we can do but wait for word on how it went.

Starting on Tuesday, the following books will be on sale or will be free on Amazon until this Friday:

Cherry Moone: MooneShadows $.99
Desert Rose..free
Bloomsday...free
Unwritten Rules...free

Camp Kumoni chapters 41 - 53 have been edited.

I hope you enjoy.

A.A.

Well OK. This has been weird.

Special FX, based on C.D. Rudd's long-running webcomic SailorSun.Org is being serialized for Patrons on the BigCloset Patreon. Non-Patrons can view the chapters a week later.

This week, Billie gets a ride from his Assistant Director and picks up more hints on just what has happened to him.

Camp Kumoni Chapters 31 - 40 are now edited.

Thanks for reading

A.A.

I’ve placed my second book on sale for .99 for the next five days. I decided that it needed to be be refined to remove some formatting issues (and there were plenty of those....and there may be some that remain...sorry) and to place the chapter titles back into the text as they were removed due to possible “infringements” in the original text.

I removed some filler words...not all of them, since I speak in a similar matter, so will my characters.

I have posted WITCO every Friday morning and Monday afternoon. Unfortunately this week will be an exception. Nothing really wrong except a need to recharge my batteries. The last two parts took a lot out of me to get just right.

The same thing happened when I was writing Stick her Shock 2. The story will be back next Friday and should be back on track until the conclusion.

Sam didn't want to get his hair cut. Things didn't have to get complicated but they did...
 

With nothing better to do... I started working out how many words I have published here.
I had this itch that needed scratching.

I've not finished adding them up yet and it is getting close 900,000 and will be well over ONE Million by the end of the year. I have one story that is over 80,000 words long ready to publish.

I will have been posting here 10 years in November. If anyone had said to me that in ten years I would have written and posted around a million words then I would have told them that they are mad, stark raving bonkers.

but only just!

Chapters 21 - 30 of Camp Kumoni are now edited.

I hope you enjoy reading or re-reading the Saga of Erika.

A.A.

Right now I feel a little like the woman in the scene from the movie "airplane" who starts panicking, and then the whole plane lines up to slap her.

When it's not depression, or PTSD, it's my gender dysphoria taking it's turn at kicking me around, and that's where I am right now.

Ah, well. This too shall pass ...

Last November, I watched a documentary called The Game Changers. It convinced me to try a vegan diet, mainly due to the adverse impact the meat industry has on the environment. I'm not radical, in that I'll share an occasional hamburger with fries with my spouse, but for all practical purposes I'm eating a plant-based diet and enjoying it. I rarely eat the psuedo meat because it is so highly processed but live three blocks from a Burger King and will eat the occasional impossible-burger.

So, in todays photo blog I visit some archaeology and pretty much stumble into some wildlife on my walk!

I was fooling around last night, re-reading my old stuff, and I came across "I woke", my first attempt at a longer story. Reading it again, I realized I might be able to make it a little better. So the edited and complete version is up, and you'll have to tell me what you think.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/85183/i-woke-edited-a...

Writers are entering and publishing without truly reading or understanding the legalities of what is or isn't plagiarism. Nor do they understand the repercussions of filing a "that's my story line" lawsuit without researching prior publications. The large publishers did all that expensive legals for their authors. They knew whether they had a legal leg to stand on or not. Now with thousands of instant writer-publishers who read something somewhere about DCM (digital copyright material) they start firing off take down notices to everyone.

Camp Kumoni chapters 16 - 20 are edited.

I hope you enjoy

A.A.

Hi,

Hey, has anyone heard from Jessie Wolf (WofJess7) ?

Sapphire's place is down. Has been for several days now. Is she okay?

G.M. Shephard, the author who wrote the great series "Angel", never finished the story and seemingly vanished late in 2013. I emailed her but got no response. The email went through since I didn't get a rejection from the mailer daemon but no response yet.

Anyone know anything about these two?

Well, Lucked out again! Tuesday night I totaled my car, and almost me. On a 5 lane city street and US highway I decided to stop in at the ice cream store and get a dish to take home. This required a left turn. Somehow I missed seeing an oncoming PU truck and the end result wasn't pretty! I thought I'd survived unscathed but then I started feeling funny and, as the cliché goes, every went black. I came to as I was being taken into the ER.

Camp Kumoni chapters 11 - 15 have been edited.

There wasn't too much to edit, or repair. some misspelled words, some flow issues,

I hope you are enjoying this old story. hopefully once I finish editing it all, I will be inspired enough to continue Erika's story.

A,A,

For me it's been lonely sometimes. Except when it hasn't been. For most problems there is a simple and obvious solution that is wrong.

Having shopped for groceries, I put them in my Paniers, and attempted to mount my steed when she shrugged and disbalanced me, causing me to fall to the pavement. To further emphasise her displeasure with me, she sank her fangs into my right ankle causing it to hurt just awfully. So humiliated was I that the pain caused me to mount her once again, this time with considerable vigor and I sped off down the street. God, my ankle hurt so much!

Look i'll get the hang of this daylight thing soon, I promise!

So I’m looking for a specific story/series the main character gets drafted to being a model her billboard is posted up and defaced by a jealous someone she also goes to Hollywood

Hello out there,

How is everyone doing on this lovely morning? I'm doing pretty okay today, yesterday was pretty trash but I'm feeling a lot better today. Depression blows.

I want to share a small story about myself today.

We're at the end now, Kerra's true nature has been revealed, Astra has escaped, presumably to Earth, and the fate of Ereen is uncertain. All that's left now is an epilogue, but it won't be giving you the answers you want, at least not all of them. There are a lot of questions, for example, what happened to Astra's mother, is Astra ever reunited with her? How does Callie feel about the whole situation? The thing is, I could go on, I could keep writing, and writing, and revealing more as I went, but if I did that, it would get stale, the story would dry up, and it just wouldn't be the same.

I know, it's WAY over due, but Camp Kumoni chapters 1-10 have now been edited, updated and tweaked.

I hope to get to the other 50+ chapters soon.

Hope you enjoy

A.A.

Butterscotch has been running on Patreon for several weeks, free for all to view, and Chapter 1 has now been posted on BC.

https://www.patreon.com/bigcloset/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=But...

Meanwhile, chapter 13 is up on Patreon, a week early for Patrons. All chapters will eventually be free here on BC but if you subscribe on Patreon, you can read ahead. :)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/butterscotch-13-37507839

As promised, more photos!

I feel like I'm a horrible person.

The stuff that is most upsetting to me, the gender dysphoria, the PTSD, they are so PETTY.

So insignificant compared to the suffering of others, especially right now.

Sighs ... I could use a hug or three ..

One Hundred

Most everyone of us understands the hate generated toward others because they are different and don't conform to society or an individual's rules. If one hasn't run into that person who would kill you in a heartbeat because you aren't what they demand all females and possibly many males must be to live in their world; you aren't trans, gay, lesbian, or you fit the kind of model who blends in real well to the norm. Protecting one's self or receiving protection from those who are supposedly protecting those who can't isn't always possible.

Greetings!

It’s been a while. Maybe I got lost or stopped just to think things over.

I’ve had trouble finishing projects that I started, and time seemed to pass around me. But, last night, I uploaded a new book to Amazon called Collected. It should be available soon. I’ve got a novella to share here next that I hope to turn into a complete novel. If it all comes to fruition, I want to donate the money.

Peace,

Leslie

Don’t ask how I got this. I’m not telling.

From: Sarah Palin@Love Sarah.com

To: Joe Biden@Biden 2020.com

Hi Joe

I’m so glad you are going to have a female running mate. As you know I have experience as a female vice presidential candidate. I could easily become a Democrat. I have never really understood the difference anyway.

I am qualified to be president if that becomes necessary as I am a very stable genius just like my good friend Donald.

My entry in the "reluctant princess" contest is up: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/85005/reluctant-birth...

A Warning to My Paper Cups

"I exist because you say I can"

That's a line from the latest chapter of "The interview", but it also describes the way I feel going out in public as a woman.

I'm extremely lucky here, for the most part people are too busy with their own lives to worry about the guy in a dress, but I am always aware that exceptions do exist.

I never forget I do not pass, that I exist as a woman because nobody cares enough to fight me on that.

That's puts me above what some trans people deal with, but the anxiety is always there, that's just the way it is.

Hey everyone I just wanted to apologize for the delay in publishing The Interview. There are a few things working against me, the first being that I've been working at the hospital the past few days and I don't have a day off until next week. The second is that we're near the end of the story and the last few chapters are proving very emotional for me. They're longer, they're more thought provoking, and they're triggering for me. Just give me a bit though, I'll have them out to you soon. Thanks for sticking with me!

Screen writers where are you?

I'm going to be interviewed for a segment on Pride month next week. Wish me luck, wont you?

Things ran away from me again but its good news at least.