Maybe because it was about this time of the year that the contest was getting underway, but Bianca and Marcos have been making themselves known to me again. There was so much there to work with once I went back and looked at the story "Were to start" again.

Not everyone appreciates Opera, I'm one of those people. Not everyone appreciates Heavy Metal Bands, Yep that's me again. There are so many singers (vocalists) who if they didn't have a band drowning them out, or an electronic studio smoothing out, remixing; and just generally at least change their screeching into something reasonable as human speech; they would never make it outside the sleaze joints where everyone became too drunk to care. I know it's sacrilegious but I only like two of Elvis songs and one of Michael Jackson.

It has been something of an oversight

Thanks for all the nice comments on my recent postings in this series.
As I have hinted, there is more of this series to come. I havetwo more stories under development. I wrote more than 3000 words for one of them yesterday. The other story is far more problematical. It may well see the end of the series but it is not easy to write because of the crimes involved. I had an idea pop into my head around 02:00 this morning which may make writing to a conclusion a lot easier. Only time will tell on that one but it is shaping up to be another two part story.

In my New girl in the Cheer squad story. I dont know how to solve this issue. One of my major characters will have to go away :( and I dont want her to

I was given help to make it into a single entity so it would come across as chapters but it's honestly is more meant to be like short tales (I say short but my second one is like 12k words xD) that all interconnect and explain things about MOnique's life and the mess she's found herself in. The story has been renamed to the Huntress Chronicles, with each one being labeled as Part 1, part 2 ect. So for anyone that was confused, that's the new name, sorry for the confusion

My blog "Two important days"? If it was about the entirely civil discussion betwee Jamie and myself, which mind you I did not initiate, then remove that comment. Or is somebody trying to say those two things should not be discussed. That I disagree with. Or is it just because I posted it? I'd sure like to know.

cc: Erin

And no mention on BC that I saw.

Wednesday, Nov. 20th, was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. According to one online commemoration I saw there have been 311 teansgender victims of violent criminal this year alone.

Previews of chapter 1-3 are open for everyone to read. Here's a sample of chapter 4:

Arno’s table companion called out to him and the strange Mr. Pink let my hand go and went back to his own table. But not without a parting pat on my cheek and a confidence shared in a stage whisper, “You’re going to have such fun!”

“Toodles,” Marjorie told his back and he waved at her without turning around. The man waiting at his table looked like an ex-professional bouncer who had made it big as a financial consultant, or maybe Dwayne Johnson just beginning a campaign for president.

I had this idea of creating a series called "histoies of fictional worlds" where I would look at the in universe backstories of books and comics.
but i have no idea if that would be interesting to anybody but me. what do you guys think?

Has anyone heard any more about a continuation of persaphone's series "Cassandra". I so do hope it continues and that pershpone is doing well.

Charlotte Van Goethem

It was twenty years ago this week
Erin made a friendly place to seek
It's been going in and out of style
But it's guaranteed to raise a smile
So may I introduce to you
The site you've known for all these years?
BigCloset is your friendly place!

Dream time again. Last night I had a dream and it went like this: It started with me walking through a neighborhood until I got to an elementary school. I went in, and began teaching classes. I seemed to be regarded as a tough but fair teacher by the students. The school day ended, and I left and walked around the neighborhood with a friend who had shown up. We then went back ti the school because there was going to be a play and I apparently was supposed to help the kids. But partway through the play a black goop like Venom started trying to attack the kids.

Here is a video that tells the truth about the riots in Hong Kong, not the version that's being peddled by the media.

https://youtu.be/LQx5NKAfueg

Real Life and a case of the blahs have gotten in the way a bit. Ready Reads 2 will be out tomorrow.

Melanie E.

I am trying to create title pages for my various stories
I have created a title page for the revision to the Prophet

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/81980/prophet-revision

I know some people do not quite understand what that means. I have it, and apparently, rather bad at times.

There is not specific trigger for my attacks. They just happen and they build up. Sometimes they only last for a couple mins, say 15-20. Other times they last for hours.

During an attack I cannot think straight. My mind goes from one thing to another to another to another increasing my anxiety. Other times I focus on one thing to the exculsion of everything else, no matter how irrational it is.

Art as a book cover

A double posting today! I hope you enjoy the story.

The Fall of Kruhl - Homecoming By Daniel A. Wolfe When Amelia van den Broeke arrives in Tondzaosha she is haunted by the shadows of her past, but as a representative of AEGIS she has come to unravel the mysteries of the lost girl and the sword. What fresh hell does her hometown hold in store for her?

there were three girls with very different backgrounds

Ok. I know that there probably aren't a lot of Pro Wrestling fans here at Top Shelf, but this is, IMHO important.

AS Trans persons, we are always concerned with acceptance in mainstream society. Here's a T-woman who is breaking into the most male dominated profession in the world short of North Korea.

Nyla Rose is a M-F professional wrestler who has broken the gender barrier in a new Federation...A.E.W....All Elite Wrestling, headed by a couple of former WWE "superstars."

My sister in law who bills herself as the world's greatest bargain hunter dropped off a bag of used shirts today. I have no idea where she got them but she said to pick out any that fit me and she would pick up the rest later. Besides men's shirts there were several skirts and women's tops. We all know were this would go, right? The truth is that the woman must have been some kind of Amazon or WNBA player but in our story they would be a perfect fit for the bearded old man who just had to try them on.

Hey everyone. I've decided I want to share some news.

It's time I get back on the path to being me :)

Not that I was ever really off it, but while I had transitioned in my life previously, I de-transitioned when Kim got sick.

I was her primary Power of Attorney, and having to deal with showing my ID to hospitals and Doctors constantly took it's toll, and so I just started dressing "drab" to make life easier, and after she passed, I hit such a depressive hole, that I'm surprised I'm still here :P

I received some frightening news.

In the 15 years I've been this way, I tried to be a girly girl. Yet one time a woman said that she thought I was a Navy Seal. Another woman thought I'd done Black Ops. Not even in heels and a pink dress was I girly. :( Lately, I've decided that the transgender stuff was bunk, but there is no rewind. So now, I'm just ME, and that's fine. Still not wearing pants if I don't have to !!!

Recently I came across a book on Amazon that sounded like it might be interesting to read from the description of it. "Cinderella Boy" by Kristina Meister took a little different twist on a theme that would align with many stories on this site. Boy caught by sister trying on her clothes, sister helps him and things take a turn toward a love affair with a boy he has been crushing on for a long time. I'm not going to say much more so don't do a spoiler. It is $3.99 for the Kindle edition.

Some of us are old enough to have had surgeries to correct sexual organ issues, and did not know until later. The story came out later for me and I had to piece bits of circumstantial evidence together until the pile got too big to ignore. Later in life I found out about my genetics ... The conclusion I came to is that the Doctor had taken me in another room and done a radical Hysterectomy. I found out that I spent a while in the hospital after I was born but not what for.

Having just finished what is posted by TLBS, I am left wondering. WHAT THE HECK EVER HAPPENED TO THE LAST BOY SCOUT???

There were vague promises and intents to continue his writing, but nothing now for 9 years!!

Is TLBS still alive? If so, where is he/she? Why did he/she stop writing?

TLBS was a master/Mistress of the written word who sucked the readers into her worlds and made them CARE about her characters and their lives.

After (almost) a week of suggestions and feedback, it's officially time for the first-ever post of . . .

In this, our inaugural posting, we are tackling the weird and wacky world of adults in a theme simply called "Grown Ups."

All of the stories featured below have point of view characters or protagonists aged 19 or older, and as is the premise for Ready Reads, every story is complete on BCTS!

So, without further adieu, let's get into our reader-submitted suggestions!

Yeah, it was all the pizza's fault, first I had to make it (well load it with goodies at least), then I had to cook it and lastly I was forced to eat it! by the time I'd finished dessert that was an hour gone. Of course, if I'd got back earlier, if I hadn't uploaded my ride stats before eating, well you might've seen this a bit earlier, but I did so you didn't.

I dont know if you guys heard, but apparently they are going to use CGI and motion capture to reserect James Dean for an upcoming movie. I guess its only a matter of time until this happens: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/77/marilyn-blue

I don't know the exact title, but this story deals with a General who puts his son in a private school and he comes out as his daughter. It could have been a Military school? It could have been one of Nancy Cole's stories, and perhaps she reworked it?

At any rate, I have not found it and it is likely that I'm not getting the details right.

Ideas?

Thanks

Gwen

I wanted to tell two paralell stories and I tried that in the first version and it ended up to become a mess that many readers told me that it confused them.
So im considering tell them in two separate separate tales with two different titles of a dark edwyn and a good edwyn thats allied with the light

Sorry about my lack of posting this week and the fact that I likely will have to put off posting new chapters of both Twice Removed and Syryn's Song until next week. This week has just been extremely busy and I'm just sooo exhausted right now and lack of sleep due to nightmares and insomnia hasn't been helping. I haven't had time to write anything, and I barely even had time to post the latest chapter of I Wish. Then on top of my laptop dying earlier this week, my mouse died yesterday for the desktop and I had to find a replacement, killing what time I did have for writing. :(

I can totes see dorothy as a young girl wearing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y00fN6s2ljs

This is an appeal to the Geeks here:

When writing, I will often listen to music on my Computer. That has been seamless and trouble free, but with the new Google, YouTube, and Facebook policies things have changed. It is now common that I am listening to Music at lets say 3 db, and suddenly the volume will jump by 6 or more db for an advertisement. This is very distracting.

I've tried software volume limiting before but they somehow defeat that and it is not easy to manually adjust.

I did set out to post this at least two hours ago

There is a current article on CNN about the Mahu ("Third Gender") . The revealed injustice is angering to me because those who try to control the Transgender conversation have got it all wrong, in my opinion.

The Native Americans have something similar (Two Spirit) (Not the LGBT one) In Southern Iraq there was a marsh tribe that treated the gender nonconforming as normal. Children could adopt either gender. No surgeries, or hormones. Can't remember what they were called. In India, I think, they have Hijra.

There is so much good work on this site that I have long been frustrated by my inability to discover it, primarily because of the problem of not being able to see the wood for the trees.

I've spent this evening composing a little tale which I share with you all here.

Brassick, from brassick lint, rhyming slang for skint, ie lacking reasonable funds, moolah or however you wish to describe money, is a tale of reflection with a slight twist. It isn't meant to be deep or a fairy tale but just the lowlights of a life.

Please comment

Mads

If your looking for a NaNoWriMo buddy my username is Elsbeth!

-hugs-

Elsbeth

The fifth part of Call of the Light is up!

Due to a mandatory evacuation at work I was able to sneak in an extra day and a half of editing this week, whee! Next up to get edited is the steam-rolling conclusion to book three; part six is the longest one so may take a bit to get edited. I can't wait to get it done so everyone can read, and then get to work on book four!

Thanks for all the wonderful comments! They really help the motivation to keep plowing through the editing phase! :)

- Erisian

Posting late that is.

Today I've spent some 12 hours pretty much solid, working on a new edit of The Anime Days, which was first released waaaay back in 2003!

I just wanted to announce that my latest story, Federal Astral Transfer Agency is now an open universe, If you have an idea that would work, let me know.

And in other news I have another story ready for a beta test, if anybody wants to be my victim I mean volunteer.

PM me if you're interested in either idea.

Ok, I'm finally breaking down and asking for help.

I'm trying to find a story that I read here before, the problem is I cannot remember the Author, Story Name, or characters.

What I can remember from it is the protagonist get a family (I think) ring that allows them to use a mirror to transport them to a different realm, also giving them power to form crystal buildings and such. I believe there are 3 books in the series but I'm not sure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated