The contest officially ended on Friday morning Eastern time at 3 am / midnight Thursday Pacific time. I went ahead and added Su Shi's and Marianne G's Late entries to the list and voting module, but a ton of people have already voted :/ I am hoping that for my Christmas contest you will enter earlier perhaps? To let people vote on your entries? I thought I had written the rules clearly :(

I am crossing my fingers and hoping for both of you.

Sephrena

So I've been asked and because its not on either here or Kindle anymore, I decided to do a little treat for Halloween.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/32478/fairest

Enjoy some good old fashioned Werewolf fun in a small town called Ravencrest :D.

I only just go back on the weekend so I hope that the story I have just posted gets into the contest - does it close tomorrow?

I know that the stories are supposed to be horror tales, but "Planter's Moon" is really only a horror to the lead character.

Please post any thoughts under the story.

Maryanne

And other crap

I bought some expensive supposedly indestructible tights - I got a run in them putting them on the first time.

I just cant wear pretty things.

sighs, hugs appreciated.

The world turns upside down again!

The Dagger of Heaven at the End of Time -17
by SammyC
Read on Patreon

Erin and the other loverly fairies that manage this site, with regards to the In Memoriam block on the home page is it possible to add the year they passed?

but its neither Pontoon or summer!

Because of Patreon Rules on certain sorts of content, this chapter is behind the membership paywall.

Second Spirit -9-
by Melanie Brown
Read on Patreon for paid members

To date, in October, the Trump campaign has spent about $60 million on ads, a full third of which has been spent on anti-trans ads.

The ads largely accuse Harris of supporting the US constitution when she was an attorney general by supporting inmates' rights to needed surgery. The ads fail to mention that gender-affirming surgery was performed for federal inmates during the TRUMP administration's time in Washington.

Okay so for some reason I have noticed a change in my dreams, in terms of where they take place.

See a lot of my dreams have taken place at or near my old high school in Calgary, but lately, I have been having dreams set on my grandparent's farm, which was just north of a little town called Redwater, which was itself just north of Edmonton. I dont know if this means anything, but it is kind of interesting.

I grew up in the Imperial Valley, the southeast corner of California. Big farming area in a desert.

My dad worked for the Imperial Irrigation District as a zanjero, a ditch rider. Farmers and other water-users like cities and industries buy water, which is delivered through a series of canals, originating in the Colorado River 70 to 100 miles away. They have done this for about 100 years.

I was perusing some older stories this evening - as I often do. A comment by another reader at the end of a current story got me started looking at an older story I had not seen before, which in turn led me to going through an author’s previous works. As a coincidence, it was an author whose work I had read quite a lot of before, but I decided to go through some of her solo work I had not previously read. I tend to be attracted more to multi-part stories or serials rather than solo stories, and as such I had ignored her solo works for the most part, much to my loss.

PB, whom way back in 2008 posted Notes of a Journey Trilogy over on Maddy Belle's site, has had their pages here on BCTS recently updated to reflect that their sales, no longer with LULU.com, are now with Amazon.com! I had to redo every page! ><

Should be ready sometime this week.

Considering the complexity of this saga, readers earlier requested a listing of characters. So here's an update for Book 6! Thanks all!

Warning!

If you have not read Books 1-5 (Into The Light, Light's Promise, Call of the Light, Light and Shadow, and The Light Between) then the list below will contain spoilers!!

The tale starts here: Into The Light. Hope you enjoy!

I'm grateful to so many at BCTS. Giving it a try at never returning. I'm not Transgendered.

I've used the names Ahabidah and Gwen Brown. Some of you know my dead name.

Should anyone wish to contact me, my real email is: [email protected]

"You're writing a book?

"Many newspeople do. Most don't get published."

"I doubt there's much about me you don't already know."

"What about your time in the First World War?"

"That didn't last very long, and in most ways was unremarkable."

"You did fight in the trenches, though."

"For a short period."

"What do you remember about that? Does anything stand out?"

and a drop in temperature

Many members here say they are compelled to Cross dress. How many surgeries does it take. If you live as the "other" gender long enough, does one ever get accustomed to it?

Hey everyone, the paperback version of Twice removed is now live and available on Amazon. Order your copies here: Twice Removed paperback version.

*big hugs*

Amethyst

There were some statements made a few days ago that require some context.

Sugar, people are fighting to survive with inflation taking everything and more than they make.

there has not been an official announcement of the winners of the caption contest. I know I didnt win, but maybe there should be a shout out to the ones who did?

Comments and feedback.

I want to ask a question:

Commenters, guests, authors. What are the things that make you WANT to comment on a story? What kinds of things do you need to see, need to be able to talk about, to make commenting worthwhile?

It's a parody of the other "Indepence Day" movies. A little of "Star Wars" too.

Not bad...

I am going to throw my proverbial hat into the ring with this year's October contest...
A girl is cast into the nightmare world of a new high school and the terrors within.

Well folks, the editing and proofreading of Hope's Light is going great, thanks to our very own Kimmie going (again!) above and beyond while her Inbox gets filled with updates! One proofreading pass has completed, and we're doing (well, Kimmie is doing!) the second round!!

Yep, its taken a decidedly cool turn!

Since yesterday was my laundry day, and most of my non-winter pants were already in my laundry basket, I pulled out a skirt, and because it was a bit cool, I also put on a pair of pantyhose.

Now, despite what my friend Jaci says about me being a girly girl, I do this far less often than you might think, but yesterday I found myself wondering why that is.

Because I felt good.

Tension I didn't even realize I had left me.

I simply can not say how this happened. All the Medical Provider will indicate to me is that I have a Blood infection of of unspecified origin. What with all the different strains of Covid mucking around it is not surprising. For years doomsayers have been preaching the end of Earth through various means.

This isn't surprising to me. There are three major hospitals near to me and a half dozen others.

It's gotten to the point that any time I go out, I wear a mask. Thankfully, I found some pretty flowery masks that do not look quite as awful as most.

of summer! Farewell September, hello October.

I woke up this morning with needing to deal with SOMEONE, Goofle once (again ???). Perhaps what happened is merely a minor disturbance in the force. Their little ARMY was simply "Being All They Could Be". I'll get over it.

Hi all, can anybody tell me if there is a web archive where I can read stories from long defunct tg story site's for example stardust.
I do hope somebody can help.

HUGS
sim1cats

After sharing some helpful channels for mental health issues, today I received a recommendation for help with gender dysphoria.

Many of us who struggle with gender identity also struggle with many other emotional issues and even neurodivergence. There is PTSD, ADHD, OCD, autism spectrum, depression and anxiety, to name some of the heavies. That list is most definitely not exhaustive, but it contains the issues that are most prevalent and/or that cause the most collateral issues for us.

I was really hoping to have an entry for the Halloween contest, but my brain has decided to douse me in depression, which has cut off my writing spoons.

maybe I will get lucky and it will lift in time for me to finish the story, but I just dont know.

Much of the so-called "News" items being published at the moment is being sourced from The Dailly Mail. You should know that this paper is no friend to the LGBT+ community and is politically extremely right-wing, including backing the UKIP party at recent elections. That is Nigel Farage's organization.

They are posting a lot of "news" about the USA elections. Treat with a very large grain of salt.

I hope this doesn't contravene the site's restrictions.

Community is always important, whether that is our community here, or the broader trans community as a whole, and today we have a chance to help another part of the community in need.

It seems that hardly a week goes by without a request for money.
Come on people, open those purses and wallets. Erin and her team need our support.
I've donated $200 this month. I've had to put off getting a replacement tyre for my bike until next month.
If we don't support the site then it will go away and will be a huge loss to the community.
Dig deep people.

Please...

Samantha

Hey, everyone,

I'm happy to announce that Twice Removed is now available on Kindle and will soon be in paperback as well.

You can get it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHV4Q7QG

*big hugs*

Amethyst

If an author has disappeared (i.e. passed away, hasn't posted an entry on the website or any other reasons) who has permission to legally take over another authors' story if a person has ideas to continue a story.

A big thanks to everyone who entered the contest: we got some fantastic stories submitted, and we appreciate every one of you.

Some time over the next couple of days we will be posting a poll on the BCTS Patreon for voting on people's favorite caption story. That poll will run until the end of the month, and we will announce the winners in early October (2024)!

A few years ago, Facebook maintained that my password was not as I remembered it and locked me out of my Facebook page. In order to "prove" that I was who I said I was and entitled to access my page I need to pick four friends from a list of six that Facebook supplied who could be sent a code and forward it to me outside FB. I could then list those codes and regain my FB page.

One of those listed was Wren Phoenix. So meant I needed to get four responses from only five possibles. I could only manage responses from two and so remained locked out of my FB page.

I want to talk about choices for a moment.

See, I dont really trust myself, so when faced with decisions, I tend to turtle and try and avoid the situation. Of course, not choosing is in fact making a choice, and can have consequences.

But there is a more subtle way this works for me, and that happens if someone is offering me advice on the choice.

I find myself wanting to just hand the choice over to them, so I dont have to deal with it.

I just ran into a bunch of Mad Naked Bike Riders. Both genders. I had been asked to join them but am not a STRIPPER. Looking at the news this is almost world wide. They want people to stop using oil from the ground.

I've done my bit. I do not own a car, nor do I rent or drive one.

My incidental use is minimal...whatever the bus uses.

Come on. Do your part.

Gwen Boucher.

The AACD Caption Story Contest officially ends Saturday! We've already gotten some great entries but we'd love to see even more!