My best friend of 20 years works in a local casino sports bar. Usually on Saturdays I go visit and once in awhile on Thursdays because she is often solo those nights. Tonight was one of those Thursday nights. One drunk patron made it, well, something or other...

So I've written a very short piece that has been festering in my head for a few days.

Looking for a specific story the only detail I can remember right now is the main character and their friend go out to dinner with the main characters mother and it’s the first time the main character is wearing a skirt it’s a young teen Story

I got asked if I was a boy or a girl at the pool today.

I responded that I was a funny looking girl.

That seemed to sasttify the questioner

7 days ago I made the decision. I'd been on Chantix for the past four weeks and I reached the point where I WANTED to quit.

I'd failed the past few times I tried to quit, but had not reached that "break point." This time almost feels like a let down, it's been almost effortless. I don't know how much good it's gonna do for my health, but it'll damned sure be a boost to my wallet. Ten bucks a pack now in stores adds up real fast.

Just thought I'd let you all know about this turning point in my life.

Catherine Linda Michel

Reflecting on yesterday, I've decided I'm jealous. Twice a month my wife and I volunteer at the food bank sponsored by our church. It's a great opportunity to give back. About fifty percent of the volunteers there come from our church and it seems like I've known them forever. I know the spouses and all their kids.

Okay I'm very LGBTQ friendly and have in the past physically defended those that I knew was gay from narrow minded bigots. But this is going way over the line. Parents, no matter what their religious beliefs unless it endangers the kids, have the right to bring their children up in the way they wish. This new law passed in Illinois is just wrong.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/456988-illinois-pas...

Howdy doody boys and girls, once more the daft blonde in Yorkshire is here.

I am a long time reader. I've been reading ever since I was able to hold a book on my own. My appetite for reading is voracious. At a very young age I taught myself to read and never stopped. By the time I was 9 years old I was reading at a college level of understanding.

Well as of August 1st 10 days ago I managed to finish another year. 41 years old and still don't know or sure, besides stuborness and the pets, how I managed to make it this far in my life.

One other thing that helped me are the communities like BC and others I am a member of, So thank you.

Lynne

Just sitting here in the very early morning wondering?

When did you first suspect that you had a girl in you too?

Just wondering actually. Nothing more.

Blessings

Gwen

There I was cruising along 20k words into book 2 when I realized I had created a plot hole you could drive a semi through. While it didn't require revising the chapters already posted it did affect part of the next part. So after drowning my 'duh' moment in the arms of my two favorite men, Ben and Jerry, I started rewriting.

I expect to post Part 2 on Sunday and hopefully at least one part a week until the finish. Thanks for all your continued interest and comments. Time to go push some pixels around. I am such a digital bully!

Dawn

Well it's the end of an emotional day for me, a day spent removing my chattels from my home of some thirty years. A day in which i've had to make some hard choices, do I take this, leave that, can I live without something or add iit to the go pile.

Yes I know its a day early but with the whole reclamation thing going on tomorrow I thought early rather than late.

Ok here is the 'Rub'.
As well those whom have followed my brief rare postings & or talk to me regularily (well socially) on social media.
You know my reasons for alot of my messed up complications, invloved with my life.
Everything, including especially including the past has left me with dissassociative amnesia>dissassociative faugue, so if my describtions seem bleak, overlapped etc I am sorry, this is eating away at me like a bad craving in the middle of the night you just cannot quench.

She fell.

Through the quiet darkness with the moon over her shoulder, she fell.

Toward the sea below, and the rocks, toward the foaming maelström between them, she fell.

She pulled her hands and arms into a point above her head, or rather below it, steering with her legs in the wind of her own passage.

Down and down and faster and faster, her breath tight and painful, not because she was holding it but because it came so fast that it could not be held.

A few days ago my computer gave a few clicks of death and decided to go into a coma. Fortunately, we've managed to save the hard drive well enough to transfer the contents to a new computer. The transfers are in progress. At this point, we think we can recover everything. Should be interesting.

It has been long enough since I wrote anything that I'm starting to wonder if this is the end for me. 10 years of publishing almost every month is a pretty high rate, so a slowdown isnt that bad, but this feels less like a slowdown and more like a complete stop.

ah well, I can still read and comment I guess ...

I just posted a new chapter for one of my stories - a relatively long one this time. And though I know it's past 11PM out there, I hope it's not too late.

I've been in the office since 8am, and have been waiting to meet with some contractors. I've been waiting for three hours now, and they're still not here. Anyway, while I waited, I started writing instead of sitting here and stewing. If they don't get here in 20 minutes, I'm gonna be calling their boss. This doesn't bode well for them being hired for the project.

Before you read on, let me start things off by saying that I am trans m2f. Figured since I mostly keep to myself on here it might help to throw that out when reading the rest of this. Carry on!

You don't hear anything from me in a while, don't fret.
Due to my own stupidity i'm now homeless so my access to - well anything is going to be a bit hit and miss for a while.
So there we are, a tale of woe. Hopefully i'll get my act in order, I kind of a have an interim plan but that will likely have to wait until - well I get my head in order.

Ciao for now
Mads

Oh for some predictable weather! One day its warm and sunny, later the same day we get biblical rainfall! I did manage to get yesterday's ride in before the rain - but only by getting up quite early to go out!

So some guy asked to trace my Family History, ala Mormon style, and I told him that I didn't even care. I gave him some information and he found my purported family. Along the way, he turned up yet another person that I never heard talked about or met that I know of. In the generation I'm from, women with children had to do all sorts of things to just survive. Yeah, worse than 50 Shades, I think.

Then, I find that one of my brothers is not in the birth record under any name ???

I'm thinking that a man named RED ELK was my real father ???

Is there a story in this???

This is serious and needs to be acknowledged. What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVspXqlW7_o

Earth 2.0 - My Digital Life is now available on Amazon - Yay.

Please find below the link for the Amazon page.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VT3GMYM

Hugs

Savannah

Well lets start with Gaby news.

ok, so my Windows on this computer hasn't been updating since April. after numerous attempts and tries by a computer knowledgeable friend. We are going with the Nuclear solution. I'm backing up my art and writing files to a Flash drive. He's going to loan me a removable HD to dump my music and stuff to, and then we are nuking the Drive and starting from fresh with a clean install. This means that for the foreseeable future, no Stuck in a Rut. I'm sorry. But we thought it best to nip it in the bud now, after more and more updates get released and it becomes an even greater issue.

A classic drag documentary film just re-released will be of interest to many of us. Running in 'art' theaters. - “Every one of these contestants before they come out here is a winner,” which “The Queen” makes absolutely clear.

Here's history that effects many... learn and appreciate that which has came before. It will put many things in perspective.

It is amazing how quickly time goes by. As of this month, I've been blessed to be able to post my writing here. I cannot begin to thank Erin and the lovely ladies who keep this a welcoming home and a place to share our work. I am also at a loss to express the gratitude for all of you who have encouraged me and loved me!

Well here you go, another chapter from Girl's on Fire,

I've noted a certain type of spelling error becoming very common in stories.

There are a lot of verbs that occur in pairs where the second one is the first one wioth an E on the end.

hop, hope
rat, rate
slop, slope

And many more.

There's a rule about how the past tense of these words is spelled. You double the final consonant on the ones that don't don't end in E before adding the -ed.

Like this:

hop, hopped
hope, hoped

rat, ratted
rate, rated

slop, slopped
slope, sloped

I will be publishing My Digital Life on Kindle and in order to have it in the Kindle unlimited category, I need to remove it from this site. I thought it would be nice to give advanced warning before I remove it and figured this would be the easiest way to do that. In two days time, I intend to ask Erin to unpublish all but the first two chapters. I will also be changing the name to Earth 2.0 - My Digital Life.

Happy reading.

Savannah

First, since this has been asked several times of the couple stories Shadowsblade and I have begun posting in this universe, it is not fan fiction of the Whateley Universe. Yes you will find similarities, but then both are based on fictional worlds that have magic and superheroes in them, there will be similarities due to this

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Daniel A. Wolfe

I'm reviewing some of the previous stories before I get into the meat of Masks 22. I am distressed to note the number of typos in Masks 21. I do remember that I wrote it in a hurry. So, will take my time with 22.

BTW, my photos of NASFiC 2019/WesterCon 72/1632 MiniCon/MantiCon 2019 can be found at:

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On Wednesday evenings, I run a local authors group called Taking Pains. The title of the workshop refers to one necessity for anyone who wants to improve their writing: the willingness to listen to unpleasant things about your writing. I'm going to try to reflect what we do in that group in occasional blogs here.

I've been muddling over the next story in my exemplar universe. It involves a magic sword wielding anthropomorphic cat barbarian warrior king (whew quite a mouthful isn't it?) from an alternate universe being banish to our Earth after being deposed by his human slaves. It seems to me that it might be interesting if he had to not only adjust to being female, but also a human.

Normally furry would be a no go, but since this character would transforming into a human woman I'd be fine with it. Please would you share your thoughts?

Rough time at my writing group tonight. one of the ladies brought a piece that triggered one of the other ladies, and it ended up with them both crying. Before I left the leader thanked me for my involvement with thee group so there is that, I guess.

Just finished for the second time, Daniel A. Wolfe's enormous TG Sci Fi tale called "Battle For Earth". It is well written but could use a final edit for spelling. There were not so many errors, and I told my inner perfectionist to Shut UP!

Indeed, there is an Aftermath to happenings at the 'Ring, and yes, there's food involved! So for all the Gabfen out there, click on the link!

As some may have notice --- or not. I had removed BB: Falling towards the Abyss.

Why? Because I felt it wasn't something that fit well into the overall scheme of Bikini Beach in itself. This universe was created by the works of someone else whom I greatly admire but...

Sorry for the delays in both ‘A thief’s problem’ and ‘Racing Angels’. As you know both myself and my husband are the Advisors for one of the local 4H clubs here in Garret County Maryland. For the last two weeks we have been very busy with our two teams. First was the local 4th of July parade at home. This was followed up by the Med-Atlantic Competition where my girls placed 5th as a team while the boys place 8th as a team. As this was their last competition for the year both me and my husband are extremely happy.

Some of you might have noticed I added in a dummied up newspaper article and included it in the latest chapter of Cassandra (Chapter 8).

It took me a bit of time to work out how to do it, so I thought some of you might wish to tuck this little 'how to' away should you wish to do the same in one of your stories.

Step 1 - Create Clipping
The online resource I used was https://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp.