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Chemo Day 2

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So, here I am on Chemo Treatment Day 2.

I got a new drug added to the cocktail, this one supposedly targets specific cancer cells, colon cancer being one of them, and draws the drugs to them to kill them. As it was explained to me, rather like a Ranger ground team Lasing a target to guide in a smart bomb. I still have to take the pump home for two days with it wired into my port, which makes for very awkward maneuvering around home. But, it beats dying so I'm not complaining.

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Documentary on Trans in Germany by DW (Deutsche Welle)

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The Deutsche Welle [DW] (literally “German Wave”, the German equivalent of the British BBC) just published a documentary on trans life in Germany. It covers the lives of three different people at three different ages.

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@Gwen-x6d

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That's me on YouTube, where I can say what I want to.

OOPs, just got in trouble on YouTube. Guess I was wrong. :(

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The Dagger of Heaven at the End of Time -5- by SammyC on Patreon

Who knew being a beautiful princess on a mission to save the world could be so dangerous?

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What a dream I had about 2 of the best British authors!

I had a wonderfully eccentric dream this week and it won’t get out of my head.

It involves 2 of BCTS best authors. (I read everything they post.)

What if Cathy Watts, (Lady Cameron) from “The Weekly Dormouse” crossed paths with the good people of Bearthwaite valley from “A Grumpy Old Man’s Tales”? The ecological and family orientations of both would be a wonderful collaberation!

So I’ll put this out to see if any others would like to see this while begging the forgiveness of both outstanding authors.

Jennifer Sue

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Voice is Important

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When we meet someone whether they are an old or a first time meeting our voice is the second thing noticed and it's usually an unconscious thought. The first thing noticed is physical appearance and that includes not only body but also attire. Do not dress like an escapee from a homeless shelter who lost all one's clothes in a flood or a fire. The Hippy Revolution was in the past and it should have been left there along with the tie dyed clothes and other bright ugly mismatched colors. Did everyone suddenly go color blind back in the sixties?

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False Memories

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Okay so last week, I had to get some cavities filled, and is always the case, they had to sedate me.

Once it was over, one of the nurses helped me get to our car, and Mom drove me home.

Except . . .

I can place myself in the driver's seat for the drive home, even though that is impossible.

And so I find myself shaken, wondering what other memories I have are fake, especially the memories I have recovered of the abuse I suffered as a child, as one of the few things I am sure of is my abuser used sedation on me.

hugs appreciated.

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Redress - A Novel

Once the current Roberta Galbraith story has finished, I will start posting a novel that I have written. It is almost complete and is currently more than 170,000 words long.
I have 4-5 chapters to write. I'm off to France for a week on 1st Aug. I'm heading down to the Ardeche region and have rented a Gite for a week. I hope to finish it then.

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Suddenly Royal 2 - Draft Complete!

Longtime no see everyone! I wanted to let everyone know that after waaaaay too long of a time I've completed my draft and first edit for Suddenly Royal 2: Royal Performer!

Life and writers block had interfered with finishing it until now, but it'll be coming soon! I'm hoping to publish the complete book on Amazon later next month, and I'll post a chapter a week on here as well.

I just had someone ask me about any upcoming books, so I thought I would share the news with you all!

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a good day

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So yesterday, mom and I got laundry and groceries done, and then we took Sam to a bookstore.

Unlike most places, they were allowing dogs to come in, probably because of the heat, so I was in heaven meeting several pups and giving them some petting.

Which made me one happy Dottie!

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Be A Screen Writer

"Dust" is a maker of internet short videos. I got curious about them, who they are, where they are, how they function and all that. I did not find out if they use sources outside their group, or if they pay them. It's just an idea but perhaps some of the better writers on BCTS could submit their work to Dust, you know, take a flyer. They might even be interested in TG content. I see a lot of TG content on YouTube nowadays.

Just an idea.

Ahabidah

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I have a miserable case of covid,

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and I'm running a fever of 103F right now. Just took some tylenol. I have more than a few of the markers for being at higher risk from covid, so keep me in your thoughts, please. I'll let you all know how things go over the next few days.

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May 2024 25th Anniversary Contest: The Results Are In!

DINGDINGDING

You hear that? That's the chiming of the bell signifying the end of voting for the contest! So without further ado...


THE MAY 2024 BIG CLOSET 25th ANNIVERSARY 'FRESH START' STORY CONTEST RESULTS!

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Looking for a story: Season of Fear book 2

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Odd that I know the Author and Title of the story, yet I am bothering y'all for help, isn't it?

Well, on the sites I have found, this story (book 1 at least) was presented by tiger, on his web site and here on BCTS as:

Seasons of Change
Book 8 - Season of Fear
Seasons of Fear
Book 1

by Ediolon90 (Eido)

Ok, so I read to the end of the document, and found a link to:

~Season Of Remembrance~
Book 9 - Jamie's Visit
Seasons of Fear
Book 2

by Ediolon90 (Eido)

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Things Bigger Than Gender

2:00 AM PDT my time. Just finished watching outsider Russian movie called "Attraction". It is about 2 hours long and in my opinion very good. It is worth your time. It came out before the Ukraine/Putin war. It makes me realize that there are things that are more important than gender.

The English dubbing is flawless, though a bit stilted.

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Just an update

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Well so far my gall bladder removal is healed well. Kinda ruined my summer plans so far but eh.

Have been out cycling. Finally made the custom axles and nuts for my hybrid raliegh. Front quick release is gone and now has a solid axle and nut, good thing too one section was somehow getting worn. Gonna have to give it a service so I’ll replace rear then too. Next job will be to replace the one on seat.

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Resurrection?

EAT SUMMER.jpg So, I popped onto the site this morning see a slew of comments on stories I hadn’t read. Then my eyes bugged out, because some of the comments were from the amazingly talented Maggie Finson. Talented . . . and much missed.

Alas, it was not a sign that Maggie has returned to us. But is there a reason why the comment board is suddenly flooded with comments posted over a decade ago?

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38 years ago

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38 years ago it was a Monday morning when I went into my office as a woman and everyone was very helpful. I've had a few difficult days since then including coming to terms with a stroke and the finite quality of life. I've lost my son, my marriage had already broken up, but he took his own life in 2014, a week after I'd celebrated 28 years of being me. The surgery took longer than anticipated but gave me time to know it was right for me. I just got into the fast track applicants to the Gender Panel, so after 16 or so years as female, I actually got legal status as one.

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minor issues with the new computer

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I have been trying to set up my new computer, and for the most part I am happy with it, but I do have some minor issues I have not been able to fix. its mostly the keyboard, as somehow when I try the key for the apostrophe and the quotation marks, I get this instead: è È.

I have tried to reconfigure the keyboard, but so far, no luck.

It is not a major thing, I can live without them, but it is kind of annoying, and it has slowed my writing.

Ah, well,

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Horrible

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There is no excuse for substituting violence for political discourse.

There us no excuse for doing things that result in death and severe injury.

Those two statements aren't debatable in a civilized society.

However, those who are clutching their pearls on Sunday morning TV are those who have excused January 6th as a free speech exercise.

Killing someone is an irrational act. Those who are pointing fingers need to be more rational. That would help.

Jill.

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Are We Experiencing the GOAT?

I'm in my third decade as a BC author.

During the last six months BC has been on a tremendous UP!

Not to disrespect a great group of departed authors, but it just might be that fifteen of the top twenty-five BC authors of all time have posted since January First of this year.

I would include in that group: Rasufelle, Jenny North, Jenny Walker, Laika, Erin, Bru, Emma Anne Tate, Erisian, and Melanie Brown. . .without giving it too much thought.

Who would you add to this expanded Mt. Rushmore?

Jill

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my dreams would make a blockbuster film

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I swear, if you could somehow film my dreams, you would have a blockbuster. Like last night, I dreamed I was a police woman in a small town with a sexist boss when something made people in the town go crazy and I had to keep people from hurting each other.

See what I mean

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New Posting - Novel serialization - first three chapters

 
Image Credit: From Adobe Stock Photos - Three women in vintage attire with braided hair, posing for a selfie. By Irina Kozel
 

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Chemo: Day 1

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So, day one of chemo.

Got to say, I'm having second thoughts about it after the lecture and Environmental Protection Suit I was given to clean up spills, if any. To include, if more than a small amount gets on your cloths, put them in the bio-hazard bag and bring to us for DESTRUCTION. And this is stuff I'm putting INTO my body intravenously! I mean, I get where Paracelsus was going when he said, "All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison,” but still!

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Allison Zero - Clean Up - eBook

Allison Zero has reached a major turning point. I've been talking about this in both blogs and the comments on the story for the past few parts. The story is not done, and will continue, there's a lot left to be told, it's just, as the readers will know, reached a point where there's a significant change to Allison's life (beyond gender.) Certain "discoveries" have been made, which readers have commented on in the last part of the story.

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The Bender Of Gender

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There is a site that is new to me on YouTube called "The Bender Of Gender". So far, the first entry looks to be some four hours long. It is all voice and perhaps a Cross Dressers dream. I'm into it about ten minutes, and have it paused to make this blog. It remains to be seen if I will be able to keep getting into it for the whole four hours.

So far so good.

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The Dagger of Heaven at the End of Time -3- by SammyC on Patreon

“If it’s more compliments about my beauty, that can wait until tomorrow....”

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Some kind soul willing to be an editor?

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Hello all,

Is there some kind soul who would be willing to be an editor for an attempt of mine to write a story? Preferrably a native English speaker.

Caveats:

1. It is big - almost 100k words.

2. Its English is awful (non-native speaker here, please don't kill me, that is my best)

3. It is trans-ish stuff, but I'm not trans (hence in there might be plenty of unintentional idiocy, outside of that of some of the characters)

4. It re-uses an idea that already has been used (but hopes to both amuse and tell new things)

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A new persona for commenting

I've been wanting to comment more here, but I realized that I am so much better at communicating when I write fiction. Being my bland self feels tedious and really I want to write. I want my writing to be free of constraints and liberating (to me at least). Much like how some of my stories seem to liberate some of my characters from the contents in their pants. Consequently, I've decided to take a stab at creating three personas when I comment.

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Spanking Badly Needed

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It was still about 95 Degrees F (35 c) at 1:00 am this morning and though my apartment was 76 F or so, I woke up with cabin fever and stepped outside to get away from the noise of the chiller. As I sat there, I could hear a woman on the street screaming hysterically. She sounded close enough that I decided to see if calling the Police was in order. She was actually about 2 blocks away, so walking as fast as I could it took less than 5 minutes to get to her.

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Peerage for Hilary Cass

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Hilary Cass, who wrote the recent report on care for trans children for the UK government, is to be made a peer:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84975xgdwlo

This means she will have a seat in the UK House of Lords and have a vote on UK laws - for life.

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May 2024 25th Anniversary Contest - Voting Is Live

The poll is now live for voting!

Check it out here!

Voting officially ends at midnight PDT on July 15th!

Melanie E.

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Of Topshelf and Personal Things...

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Hey everyone,
Sorry, I've been so quiet lately. Things have been happening.

Today, we started an aggressive process to fix what I've been calling the "phantom logout issues." No one is logged out; just some part of the system serves you a "stale" logged-out page from the cache in a few small places.

We have disabled much of the caching setup to try to figure out what's going wrong, and things seem to be better, but I need more data before I can start rebuilding.

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TG Techie - Blog - 00 - Final Blog

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Oh, right! I started posting chapters again. Just not on this site. I probably won't post here again.

There are reasons, I'll let you speculate wildly. Meantime you can read the new chapters on TG Storytime

https://www.tgstorytime.com/viewstory.php?sid=4279

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Jamie Farr Is 90 Today

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Jamie Farr played Corporal Klinger on M.A.S.H.

Klinger was trying to get discharged from the service during the Korean War and often dressed in women's clothing to show how crazy he was.

It was "hilarious."

Of course, it was a cringeworthy moment for some of us every time he wore a new outfit.

Does anyone else remember him?

Jill

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Getting Published

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After reading this, I'm guessing most will be more than grateful to the ladies running BCTS. Here writers and authors may publish their stories without an agent, or a NYT Best Seller pitch behind them. It is almost too easy as many don't realize the meat grinder of getting published in the cut throat business of selling a story. I want everyone to think what will happen if Erin and the girls can't keep the doors open? Will you open your own domain or possibly find another site to post on? Lots of luck as hundreds, possibly thousands of those sites have come and gone.

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Erin & crew

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Just letting you know that when I clicked onto the site and had to log in, it didn't return to the home page but went to a page with just the stories and every time I try to log back in, it does the exact same thing.

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facing hard truths

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I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with my brother.

I think I can finally admit I've been jealous of him pretty much my whole life.

As a kid, I wanted to be able to catch up to him in school, to be competitive with him at ping pong, or play the guitar like he did.

And even when we became adults I always felt like I was not as good as him. He managed to overcome his issues and succeed at college, and get a good job as a programmer, while I failed three times to get a higher education and barely managed to get a certificate as a Nurse's Aide.

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more adventures with dentures

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so unfortunately, I have had a setback with my dentures.

I started having pain, but I'd promised my aunt I'd drive her to her doctors, and so went without them,

When I got home, I discovered the reason why - I have a couple of bones making their way from under the surface of my gums.

I will have to go see the dentist, and see if they can do anything, and because of the long weekend, I'll be making the call on my birthday.

Sighs, hugs please?

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Very. Slow. Progress.

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It is now just over five weeks since I had my heart bypass operation. I haven't been ignoring you folks because there was nothing to say; rather the opposite, there is (very slow) progress but I just haven't had the time or energy to document it.

Time to put that right.

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May 2024 25th Anniversary Contest: Catching Up

Once again, sorry for the delay on this!

The voting for the 2024 contest starts on Monday, so if you're looking to make sure you know what's what, here's your list!

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Proud of my daughter.

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My daughter was in Cardiff the other day when a woman approached her and handed her a flier about the preservation of woman-only spaces, against transwomen. My daughter quickly scanned it and then gave it back to her saying, "These spaces should be open to all women, however they became so, as they are all women and they are all equal." She said she felt very angry that people should be prejudicial, it annoyed her feminism. I was very proud of her.

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The board is set, the pieces are moving...

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So, saw the Oncologist this week and we went over the results of my PET scan.

First the good news. All of my organs are cancer free, lungs, liver, kidneys, the whole smash. That's the good news. The bad news I am Stage IV. The PET Scan showed:

There are several small left sided peritoneal nodules measuring less than 1 cm in short axis diameter, image #240-254. There are a few small sub-5 mm right-sided peritoneal nodules which show no significant hypermetabolism, image #249-253.

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How do I get listed as an author

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I posted on here nearly two weeks ago and soon realised that there was no edit button I did some digging and found that only listed authors get such perks, I don't want to post anything more here until that's resolved but I don't even really know the process or anything. If anyone could please help I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

still having trouble logging in

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Today, I have logged in three times. Each time, I have been taken to Part 25 of a story instead of arriving at the BigCloset Topshelf webpage. If I then click on the Topshelf icon, I arrived there logged out. If I log back in, as I have done three times now, I arrive back at Part 25 of Ian's story.

What is going on?

charlie

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Looking for a story

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Looking for a story and author. May only be available on Kindle now. A deputy sheriff has a heart attack saving a ET child from a flash flood. The ET commander feels he owes a debt of honor so he has the deputy revived, but to cover up what happens he transfers the consciousness of the deputy into a female body that can't be connected to the deputy. The Air Force gets wing of the woman and is trying to track her down for her extra abilities.

There are at least two books about her, the second I know is only available online, not sure about the first.

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grad party hijinks

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yesterday, we went to a graduation party for my daughter's friend Jason.

And while there, I was introduced to a 4 year old girl who apparently decided I needed a hat to complete my look, and gave me hers.

We traded the hat back and forth, and then she upped the ante by giving me not only the hat but a small suitcase filled with her toys.

The whole thing almost made up for being called "Todd" the whole night.

Almost.

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Life imitates art

I've been thinking about this since I first found out. As mentioned a couple of blogs ago, my grandson got married on the first. While at the wedding, I talked with a lot of family members that I don't often get to spend a lot of time with.

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Random writing question

Oh hey! It's been a minute.

This seems really random, but do y'all think that the name Isskalt Abyss a little on the nose as a name for an artic region in my story? Isskalt means freezing cold in Icelandic, but I just thought it made for a funny pun because it sounds like "Is cold" when it's pronounced in my American accent.

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The Dagger of Heaven at the End of Time -1- by SammyC on Patreon

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There may be only one way for the prince to save the world... make that princess!

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Chapter One
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lynn conway passes away

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Lynn Ann Conway—a computer scientist, electrical engineer and a trans-rights activist—died in Jackson, Michigan on June 9 of heart trouble. She was 86.Conway was fired in 1968 when it became known that she intended to transition. IBM later apologized for that action. That same year, Conway consulted Dr. Harry Benjamin and became a patient. She completed her gender transition, also in 1968. In a divorce, she was denied the right to visit with her then-minor children.

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Progress On Light Book 6

Prompted by a query from an eager reader (hooray for those!!), I thought it time to post another 'here's where it's at' progress statement for Book 6 of the Light Saga, Hope's Light.

As of an hour ago, the draft just crossed 100k words. There's likely at least another 20k to go to wrap up (maybe more?), but it's on the rapid slide to the ending as things all come together. Current plan is to finish the draft by end of summer, and by end of autumn have the entire work proofread and ready to start posting on a regular schedule.

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Happy Solstice!

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The solstice marks the beginning of summer on our calendars, but back when people thought about these things differently, the longest day of the year was called "Midsummer." Whether you call it Litha or Midsummer (or, for my antipodean friends, the start of THAT season), I hope that yours was lovely.

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