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On Monday the 14th of July. 6 hours 30 min ago
Never wear high heels to the opera!!! 9 hours 25 min ago
“Scotland is on top of England, yes?” 9 hours 39 min ago
So readers what next? 2025/07/10 - 5:14pm
I'm F*@&#D! 2025/07/10 - 1:07pm
Editorial humor 2025/07/10 - 9:27am
New Pete on Patreon for everyone :) 2025/07/10 - 8:21am
some updates 2025/07/09 - 7:58am
Don't give up the day job Maddy 2025/07/09 - 6:32am
Writing Challenge from Erin in 2008 2025/07/09 - 5:31am
Need help with the finer points in MS Word 2025/07/08 - 6:48pm
One day vacation 2025/07/07 - 5:18pm
“Go wake up Donna” 2025/07/06 - 6:14am
Astrid Jorgensen 2025/07/06 - 4:01am
No Ice In Antarctica 2025/07/05 - 8:03pm
Circle in the Sand Final Chapter 2025/07/03 - 8:35pm
Opening Doors 2025/07/03 - 12:56pm
Kern - A little help for patient readers! 2025/07/03 - 6:31am
I am sure most of you know by now 2025/07/02 - 1:32pm
Funds Low - Bills Due 2025/06/02 - 2:38pm
Space and Time for Romance #2 - My New Anthology on Amazon 2024/03/31 - 3:34pm
A Christmas Wish 2024/02/08 - 1:46am
BC Funds and the Hatbox 2022/02/17 - 3:30pm
How to Process Removing Hate Reviews from your Amazon Published Works 2021/11/11 - 8:39am
The Power of the Pen 2020/06/22 - 11:59am
Everybody Wins! 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway Contest Results 2015/07/02 - 7:16am
TopShelf's 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest 2015/03/12 - 10:29am
Edeyn 2013/09/30 - 6:57am
BigCloset TopShelf's 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest Winners 2012/11/29 - 11:41pm
Images 2 2012/09/30 - 3:42pm
Images 1 2012/09/30 - 1:59pm
BigCloset December 2011 Christmas Spirit Contest Voting 2012/01/12 - 6:59pm
BCTS Summer Romance 2011 Contest Results 2011/11/30 - 5:11am
BigCloset TopShelf's October 2011 TG Terror Contest Results 2011/11/07 - 7:39am
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TopShelf's October 2010 All Hallows Eve Contest Results! 2010/11/16 - 6:41am
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October TG Terror Contest Winners 2009/11/30 - 7:44am
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The Recoverer 6

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The Recoverer (6).
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Angharad.



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The Princess Trap on Kindle

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Teenage identical twins Allie and Cissy started swapping places just for the fun of it when they were small. It worked better than you might think, considering that Allie is a boy named Alan. Cissy loves sports and Alan loves fashion and the still enjoy playing games and fooling the grown-ups.

But things have turned serious and it looks like someone is setting up a trap....



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Ethertravelers 13.1: Chaos World, Part 1/2

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Ethertravel report #2, received February 12, 2417.

I, Johnny Tavaros, am an ethertraveler. I went out in one of the early groups in 2416.

I arrived into the world in a confusion of darkness and pressure. Was I not born yet?

I wanted to be born, and then I was. I burst out of what I realized had been an egg. I looked at myself and was surprised to see that I was myself. That is, I was still the human Johnny Tavaros. I arrived in the world fully clothed, in clothes I had owned on Earth. How was this possible?



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1252.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1252
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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Weeping Willow. Book 3, Chapter 8 of 23

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Chapter 8

The orchestra started to sort themselves out, get comfortable and tune up. The school choir came in, having stayed to the end of the day and being brought by the two people movers. When Yvonne was heading for her place, she stopped by Willow.

“I just met your driver, Sebastian. He’s quite a hunk, you lucky girl.”

“I’ve never noticed, Yvonne. He is very helpful and could be described as good looking.”

“Says the girl who he takes home at night.”

“But, Miss Yvonne, he has a chaperone in Max. We’re never alone!”



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Reset Switch by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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The Switcher virus wasn't done with Harry Grant...

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Reset Switch
by Melanie Brown
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Harry Grant at 25 fell victim to the international criminal, Ron Simon, AKA the Switcher. Poor Harry had been mind-swapped with an old man of 65. Forty years of his life stolen in a moment…



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The Last Holidays - Kindle eBook by Grover Young

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Craig is one of Earth's bio-engineered soldiers in a war against an alien invasion. Unfortunately, when he uses his powers, he turns female. Now Halcyon has to deal with invaders and with Craig's girlfriend's preference for his female self! On top of that, Earth is losing the war.... There must be another way to deal with the conflict or the world will run out of holidays—forever!

The Last Holidays



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Office Bet by Melanie Brown now on Kindle

Harry thought he was just making a little joke, but the women in the office weren't laughing.
So they made a little bet and Harry would win if he followed the women's dress code for a month.
How hard could it be?

by Melanie Brown

Office Bet by Melanie Brown
Copyright © 2004, 2017 Melanie Brown
From DopplerPress - A BigCloset HatBox Kindle eBook


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The Reluctant Cheerleader

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Melanie Brown's Reluctant Girl Series continues with The Reluctant Cheerleader now published on Kindle through DopplerPress!

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Book 2 - The Reluctant Cheerleader

Now available on Amazon Kindle!
Christopher is now in high school and has tried to bury his being Ed's reluctant girlfriend in the past. But now his school is one cheerleader short...

The Reluctant Cheerleader

by Melanie Brown
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Mercedes by Morgan Preece on Kindle

She knew how to treat him - exactly as he deserved...

He made his living meeting women and giving them what they wanted. But what did the woman in the Mercedes want and would he be willing to give it? And if he did, what would he become.

An erotic tale of lust, greed and transformation on the Gilded Coast as a young man looking for a sugar mama finds out what life is like as an object of desire.


Mercedes by Morgan Preece

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Jem...Chapter 128

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Jem… Chapter 128

Chapter 128

*Before…



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Leigh Wilde

Leigh Wilde
by Angela Rasch

“Leigh Wilde” was written as a Hatbox Premium for BigCloset TopShelf. It examines the change in one person’s life during a crisis.



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On Monday the 14th of July.

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It will be an anniversary of my transition, 39 years ago - told you I was old. I'll be dragging myself up to the hospital for a diabetic eye test so won't be celebrating, not that the cats are very much partygoing types, they don't even drink milk prefering water from the toilet pan although I give them clean every morning. Since that day, I don't know how many posts I've made here, more than anyone else by quite a margin. I've been reading some of the back issues of Bike that Sephie posted and continued on.

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So readers what next?

So readers what one of my characters to write next?

Vantier
Meagan's tail the mermaid
The Drow twins Shadowsblades
in high school
or as adults?
or the adult twins VS the CIA?
Warriors way-The Amazon with the greek armor

I am kind of lost and lacking feed back on what you all might like?

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I'm F*@&#D!

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So recently, I had two "new" to us servers deliverred to the datacenter. They weren't directly for the BigCloset Cluster but by moving things around and giving me room to do some maintenance, they will improve performance at BCTS.

The problem is, that our car (My 2005 Ford Escape) died at the end of last month, and a friend gave us a 2013 Sonata that had been sitting for a while. The Sonata needed 2300 in repairs that they helped us with and we are paying back, but on my way to the datacenter today it died.

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Weeping Willow. Book 3, Chapter 7 of 23

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Chapter 7

He took them upstairs and showed them the large office that overlooked the car park and the road, with toilets, a storage room and lunchroom. It was all dusty from lack of use.

“If you want to use this and we have closed the office downstairs, we can give you a key and code. The other buildings are open all the time except public holidays.”

Then, they went outside to the back building, where they were told to stand to the edge of the open area in case a forklift came in. It was a large open space with plenty of light.



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Seems Too Good - Chapters 39 and 40

“Seems

Seems Too Good



Chapters 39 and 40

by Sofia Hammerstein

Doctor Nick Benning has worked hard to become a phenomenal surgeon. Ads for traveling to a new dimension have begun to pop up everywhere; including a billboard asking 'Life got you down? Debt sky-high? Health problems? Just needing new scenery? Visit Portal Relocations on the web to learn of your chance for a new life!' Circumstances in life change for him and the journey begins to sound intriguing despite the stories he's heard... (A Tale from the Diaper Dimension)



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1249.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1249
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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some updates

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I wanted to pass on a few updates:

My brother is doing better thanks to the pacemaker, but is still having breathing issues that we don't know the cause of.

My ex is taking her near-death experience seriously, and has started to look for a cheaper place that Sam could have going forward, but she is showing signs of a deep paranoia that is quite worrisome.

As for me, I've been trying to do a deep dive into understanding my manic phase, but I still got a lot of work to do.

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Writing Challenge from Erin in 2008

Greetings Top Shelf Writers and Readers,

I wanted to bring back from way back in the Big Closet a writing challenge that Erin made way back in 2008:

"What might happen to such a person {'a troll'} who ran a foul of some of the mythical beings who lurk in the back of the BigCloset? :)" ~ Erin Halfelven

I take joy in being a part of this website as it has served transgender readers and writers. I answered the challenge back in 2008 with my story From Troll to Triumph . I would love to see what can be done in 2025 with this classic prompt from Erin.

Talk among yourselves.
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That's enough.

Now go forth and write!

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Need help with the finer points in MS Word

Somehow I've got an autocorrect thing going on that I don't want.

When I type -- 'll, it autocorrects to -- 'all.

I've gone to the options selection; selected proofing and the autocorrect options. Scrolling through the list presented I can't find it to delete it.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can get rid of this?

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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1248.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1248
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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Ellie's Voice 7

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Ellie's Voice

© 2025 by Grace Ann Hansen



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Ellie's Voice 6

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Ellie's Voice

© 2025 by Grace Ann Hansen



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Broken Orbit 4

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Chapter 4: “A Closed Delivery”

Descent to the Surface

Desert moons always smelled like rust and regret. CL-9C, if the nav log was right, hadn’t seen rainfall in thirty years. Maybe longer. The air shimmered with heat rising off the cracked concrete surface, the dust swirling like a heat haze, a gritty, almost suffocating blanket that clung to everything. The rhythmic thump of the Indira’s engines, a steady pulse against the desolate silence of the moon, vibrated through the floorplates, a constant, almost physical reminder of our precarious existence.



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Seems Too Good - Chapters 37 and 38

“Seems

Seems Too Good



Chapters 37 and 38

by Sofia Hammerstein

Doctor Nick Benning has worked hard to become a phenomenal surgeon. Ads for traveling to a new dimension have begun to pop up everywhere; including a billboard asking 'Life got you down? Debt sky-high? Health problems? Just needing new scenery? Visit Portal Relocations on the web to learn of your chance for a new life!' Circumstances in life change for him and the journey begins to sound intriguing despite the stories he's heard... (A Tale from the Diaper Dimension)



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Weeping Willow. Book 3, Chapter 6 of 23

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Chapter 6

Willow was still sitting at the kitchen table when her parents arrived home. She was swept up in hugs and kisses from both of them.

“Fantastic show, darling. It was a real treat. I saw the Bishop with the Russell’s and the Head, and they all had big smiles. The comments that I heard from others was all positive. A lot were shocked but excited by the last song. Did everything go all right with you? What did Gina think of her outfit?”



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One day vacation

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Heads Up!

Melanie and I are going to be staying in a motel tonight, and we may have to do it again in a few days or a week. I no longer feel safe trying to use our shower; we've got someone coming Friday to take a look at installing a more accessible bath.

So, I'm going to take a one-day vacation from the site. I'll have my laptop with me, but may not turn it on, who knows. Piper will be watching for problems, and we should all be fine.

Play nice.

Hugs,
Erin

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The Girls Are Back To Play Book 1, Chapter 4

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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1247.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1247
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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Masks 19 - Keeping the Peace - A Disturbance of the Peace on Kindle

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The world turned upside down!? Famous superheroine accused of murder! Lawrence Hawthorne and his lovely, talented, and dangerous assistant/bodyguard, Sally, must use their skills, powers and experience to track down and stop the real murderers (and the people who hired them) before a mysterious doomsday weapon can be unleashed.

All this amid a backstory of alien invasions, political, corruption, and corporate wrongdoing at the highest levels.

This latest in Rodford Edmiston's intriguing Masks saga combines science fiction, superheroes, swords, noir detectives, cyber sleuthing, and transgender shapeshifting with intricate plotting and tense action!

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Keeping the Peace
Masks 19 - A Disturbance in the Peace
By Rodford Edmiston
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Unpossible Me from DopplerPress

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Justin’s life took a detour when he tried to use a shortcut...

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Frills by Snowfall at Amazon

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Larry Bekins has problems, but maybe he can cook up a way to have things better.

Now available on Kindle through Snowfall's Amazon page:

Kindle



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The Last of the Fey by Denise Anesidora Trask on Kindle

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The Last of the Fey

by Denise Anesidora Trask

Dennis is a stunt man, er... boy, er... young adult. Being of slight build, although muscular, he didn’t get into sports when in middle and high school. No, he was far too deeply involved in the motion picture business by then. It all began when he was less than a year old and snowballed from there.



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