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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
TopShelf's December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest Results 2011/01/01 - 7:47am
TopShelf's December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest Results 2010/12/30 - 5:20pm
TopShelf's December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest 2010/11/25 - 9:22am
TopShelf's October 2010 All Hallows Eve Contest Results! 2010/11/16 - 6:41am
TopShelf's Summer Romance 2010 Contest Results 2010/07/30 - 3:22pm
October TG Terror Contest Winners 2009/11/30 - 7:44am
Topshelf's Summer Romance 2008 Story Contest Winners 2008/08/28 - 3:54am
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BigCloset Retro-Classic Stories 2004/08/11 - 4:16am
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Romance We Must by Maryanne Peters Ebook Available

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Romance We Must
by Maryanne Peters
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What do you do when your responsibilities mean sacrificing your desires... your dreams... even your gender? In her 34th collection from DopplerPress, Maryanne Peters explores what it means when duty calls, and you're expected to answer with high heels on.



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Destiny's Serendipity -20-

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Destiny's Serendipity

Episode Twenty: Parting of the Ways

A Thriller - Romance - Transgender Serial

From the Limoxian Universe

By Jo Dora Webster

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Project Toxin: Chapter 12 Revelations

A young New Yorker finds himself in over his head after finding a symbiote that changes him in unexpected ways.
Toxin
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Chapter 12

I’m in a city—New York?

But it’s wrong.



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Raven's Blood: Chapter 9

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Chapter 9: Family Secrets

Raven Demarco grew up living a sheltered life. When she starts University to get away from that she is caught up in the world of the paranormal. Secret organizations, magic, creatures from myth and legend, and worst of all, her own legacy and the Demons who want her blood.

 

“There are Demons after me; they put a price on my head. I need you to teach me how to fight,” I admitted.


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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1250.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1250
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Butterscotch by Joyce Melton now on Kindle

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Maybe Butterscotch will be your favorite flavor, too!

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Butterscotch
Joyce Melton
Now on Kindle


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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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Click on the image above to order. or click here.



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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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Copyright © 2003, 2009, 2016 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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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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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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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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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1246.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1246
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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“Go wake up Donna”

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“Go wake up Donna,” I told the Turbo Toddler. “Dad, too,” I added.
“Ogay!” she agreed and sped off toward the bedrooms, squealing about ‘hopgakes!’
"That’ll keep her busy for a few,” I told Mom.
“But not quiet,” she mentioned as we could hear the uproar down the hallway.

Thanks, Erin, for giving me so many laughs by letting this bundle of energy appearing in your story!

Martina

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Jesus Calls us O'er The Tumult

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Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult
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Rebecca Anna Coleman
A Daisy Isabella Potter Special
Chapter One of Three

I was christened James Alexander Bell one cold, frosty morning in February in the historical Episcopal Church of St. Katherine's. Thirteen years later I was confirmed in the same church. Now, I go by the name of Daisy Isabella Potter. Sometimes after turning thirteen I started to think God might have made a mistake that I should have been born a girl instead of a boy.



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Astrid Jorgensen

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This may be old hat to some of you but I just "discovered" Astrid Jorgensen who created a phenomenon called Pub Choir. Here are a couple of clips to introduce the performances that she organizes:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNO-OSztM5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtM-5lhZ-yo

She also auditioned on America's Got Talent which YouTube will lead you to.

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Escaping the Cradle - Part 1

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Escaping the Cradle

by Karen Page

Escaping the Cradle - Title


(follows on from Aurora)



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Weeping Willow. Book 3, Chapter 5 of 23

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Chapter 5

There was applause, and Willow glanced to Peter to see him smiling broadly.



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Sky on Kindle

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Sure, Peaches is small and cute and makes a lovely girl; everyone says so. But Sky? More than six feet of champion male athlete and he wants to be a girl? How is that going to work? Can even Peaches help? Are Sky's hopes too high?

Sky
by Angela Rasch
Sky by Angela Rasch

Sequel to Peaches
A BigCloset/HatBox Book
from DopplerPress


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Eerie Saloon 2: House Rules by Ellie Dauber and Chris Leeson - Now on Kindle

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As the girls of the former Hanks Gang serve their 60 days at the Eerie Saloon, they begin to adjust to their new bodies and make new lives. This being the Old West, there's also a shootout, poker games, and a kidnapping.

Wilma, Jessie and Bridget have new opportunities but old ways of thinking, especially thinking of themselves as men, are hard to break. It's all a question of learning the new rules for how to live as women.

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Eerie Saloon 2
House Rules

by Ellie Dauber and Chris Leeson

Now on Kindle from Doppler Press!



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Taylor by Leslie Moore on Kindle

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From the time Taylor was five, all he could remember was wanting to be Emma’s younger sister.
 

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He loved dressing up in her hand-me-downs. He admired his older sister and really wanted to be her. Halloween was his favorite holiday because he could let his fantasies run wild and be Cinderella or Wonder Woman. And playing make-believe was always fun when he could be the cute little girl.

But, something happened when he turned twelve. He put away the dresses and costumes. The doll house went up in the attic and Taylor’s fantasies were all in his mind.

Until one fateful Saturday that changed everything. This is that story.
 

Taylor
by Leslie Moore
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