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I'm Dying

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Well, it's time to discuss this.

I was dropped to the floor yesterday by a heart attack. I was hit by one 3 weeks ago. I have had a total of 9 since February. They are getting closer and closer together. Each time I have one the pain is getting way worse! My arteries are 92% clogged throughout the entire body so a bypass, new heart, nor stent operation will work. I told my heart doctor that I do not want to live as a cripple unable to take care of herself so my decision to live at all costs is no go, I do not want resuscitation if I go out. The medicines I'm on for my heart are only delaying the inevitable. I have already discussed this with Erin, Rasufelle, and several close authors with me.

My right shoulder hasn't recovered from the attack yesterday. The arteries in the shoulders are getting narrowed really bad. It's not loose muscles driving me batty. My right arm, it doesn't feel like its a part of me anymore - honest.

I'm sweating off an on and cannot regulate my body temperature well. At this stage I am not even sure I will make September now. I am kind of a bundle of nerves and have made peace with my life. I am not sure who Erin will appoint in my place when I go, that is up to her. At a time like this, I wish there was something that could be done, but unless all the cholesterol inside my arteries can be melted away and the arteries widened, I'm SOL.

You know, Im pretty sure taking estrogen and not being active contributed some to this situation. Take that with a grain of salt.

SO...

I would like to thank all the authors over the years I had helped and the contests I have helped generate. I really wish I could have given out more to a community so deserving of aid. I would like to thank my 2 staunchest supporters, Andrea Lena and Melanie Brown for always accompanying me throughout my journeys here. I would have been lost without them.

Bobbi Cabot, I would like to thank you as well for all the chats we have had and I apologize for this being such a sad time. Randalynn, you got me started in this and kept me safe. Stacyinlove, Tanya Allan, Tigger, Rebecca Anderson, Admiral Krunch, Richard C., Pamelapamela; I would like to thank all of them personally for the privilege to edit and post their works here for them that they so graciously allowed here on BCTS for you all to read and enjoy.

Madtech01 and Lisa_cb, our differences are not so great that we have to be polar opposites. When you reach my stage at the end of your life, you will see what I mean. Try to get along and no argument is worth losing a friendship over. Angela Rasch, rise and become someone greater than myself, for our whole community. I know you can do it.

Tara Nicole, practice html and maybe become a site Editor. Your skill is great enough to try! Andre Deviant, you really surprised me with your skill in short story writing to pictures. I loved it alot. Emma Tate, love your comments and demeanor. Impeccable!

What sticks out most in my mind was Crazypagungirl. We had a technical difficulty that she had won on, She was mad as hell at me at first, but even after winning she held a grudge against me and I was a little miffed and was gone for like a week or 2 and she passed away right after that Christmas contest she had entered. She died in the hospital. That taught me a lesson to cherish others. I wish she had lived long enough for me to know more of her. I never got the chance...

I can go on and on to all of our authors I have ever had contact with. I would like to thank all of you and I mean it. I do not have a mean bone in my body.

Even to Leila Rodriguez...whom I love more than Life itself. Especially to her!

I hope to make it to Christmas... that is my goal! I want to make sure I can pass on all of your winnings and read all of your wonderful stories! Until the moment I am taken from this earth, I will be right here with you trying to survive a really bad situation, delayed by meds.

Thank you for allowing me to be here and join you on this wonderful site that Erin has provided to us. Again, I really wish life had allowed me more financial resources to devote to here. You all are worth it. Write, Publish!, make a buck, have fun!

And as a bynote, we have BCTS's 25th anniversary coming up in November. I am sure Erin will have a surprise for you all that day and I will if im here!

Erin, I know we haven't gotten along all the time but I would like to think I contributed greatly to BCTS and to you as well! I still love you - despite punishment time. Rasufelle... take care of her too! BCTS needs her pirate Captain at the helm for many years to come.

And of all things, PLEASE, love each other! That is most important!!!!!

This picture is what I miss the most from BCTS....hehehe.
 

ps: Don't tell Erin if I come back from the Dead! I'll have to skip punishment time. :O

pss: I know this is a serious subject. That's why I ended this blog on a laugh.

A Christmas Wish

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The actual date is December 08, 2024.

For all the things we can get for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I look at all the items people buy for others and inwardly shake my head. For me, the true meaning of Christmas is not of the material, it is what we mean to others. Everyone is entitled to a wish for Christmas, as that is the day that Christ was born. If everyone else can have a wish, I can too.

Only that I know my wish will never be granted. The upstairs will never allow it to be.

My wish, if possible, would be for Leila to come back to me in my life, what little is left until they take me.

Leila

 
Leila was an author here, very brilliant, hampered by a debilitating disease. She was going blind. I so much wanted to help her, be her eyes, be everything for her. An incident occurred, and she left our site. She is free to talk about it whenever or if she comes back, but I will not say.

Since she is now blind, the chances of her ever coming back here are basically nil. So even though I have real life photos of her, I will never ever use them. What I did use, is an ai software to generate a photo that came the closest to looking like her. I can do that.

For her, I accept the wrongs both real and imagined.
For her, I take the Spear of Destiny to pierce my heart.
For her, I touch the electrodes on The Ark of the Covenant and commit myself to be cleansed of all sin, except for loving you Leila, from God.
For Leila, the one thing I know of that I cannot ever deny, is that female, or male, I desire you, I love you.
 
Forever.
 
My wish is for you Leila.
 

 
 
 
My favorite Music: Arch Angel , HD Accel World ED 2 Unite Instrumental, and Dreaming of You .

Old Friends of mine that have passed on: Chelsea "princess chelsea" Solis, Bailey Summers, Elsbeth, Alecia Snowfall, Ellen Hayes, Dawn Natelle, Karen Lockhart, Crazypagangurl, Billie Sue Pilgrim, Grover, Arecee, Cindilee, Edeyn Hannah Blackney, Beth Williams, Holly Hart, Wren Erindae Phoenix, T.D. Aldoennetti, and Darla Raspberry, Florin Tudor "Blackey" from "Everquest 2."

Friends still living: Clara Schumann, Stacy St. Clair "Stacyinlove". Tanya J. Allan, Randalynn, Andrea Lena DiMaggio, Melanie Brown, Enemyoffun, Bobbi Cabot, Avia Connor, Maeryn Lamonte, Tels, Amethyst, Tigger, Melanie Ezell "Rasufelle", Alyssa Plant "Kit", Aylesea, Tofu Cannibal, and Windosebaris and many more!

Last, but not least, Erin - Webmistress of this site. She ALWAYS left me out of the BCTS crew!
But I didn't leave her out of my heart.

 

Sephrena

My music representing me Arch Angel , HD Accel World ED 2 Unite Instrumental, and Dreaming of You .

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The Reluctant Co-Ed - BC Bathroom Anthology Edition

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

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Chrissy is no different then any other High School girl - except that she's a BOY!
Well, maybe not so much a boy. But today is the first day of her senior year in High School!

The Reluctant Co-Ed
BC Bathroom Anthology Edition
Copyright of the characters and all of this material
belong solely to  © 2015 Melanie Brown
Oh, the humanity!

 
Author's Note: Hi, This is my only entry into the BigCloset TopShelf bathroom Anthology. I do hope you like it. Melanie Brown gives her approval for this gag piece to be included into the printed anthology!

This was a rush job and was not properly fleshed out. As it stands now, it was only flushed out.

This story is not free to distribute to any site whatsoever without prior approval of Melanie Brown.
Original toilet humor by Sephrena Miller, All rights of this content and characters reserved by it's creator, Melanie Brown. ~Sephrena.

^^ Hi Melanie! it's me Sephy! please don't kill me??? pretty please? :D

Image Credit: Picture could not be purchased. Ed still owes us $50. The model(s) that we would have used would have solely been used for the representation of looks of the main character(s) of this particular story. ~Sephrena
 


 
Monday Morning
 
 
Her first day as a senior at her high school did not start off well. It began with an extremely tired teenage girl hitting the snooze bar for the third time before realizing it was Monday.

School! Oh crap! she thought as she flung herself out of bed. "Mom! Are you still here?" she yelled downstairs.

"Chrissy?" came the response. "Stop yelling in the house! I thought you had already left for the bus stop?"

Her mother, coming into view at the bottom of the stairs, gave her a really annoyed look. Chrissy gulped and averted her gaze. She had no excuse, really. She stayed up really late last night reading the latest chapter of Melanie Brown's The Reluctant Girl Series Book 5 - The Reluctant Coed!. Chapter 17 was just Oh-so juicy! And so meatily long! ...

Chrissy covered her mouth quickly as she tried to quash a giggle fit at the thought of that punchline.
 
 

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In the chapter, Chrissy was sharing an apartment with Joey at their Community College. Chrissy had just walked into her apartment with Dianne following behind visiting. Chrissy invited Dianne to have a seat on the couch while she went into the kitchenette to fix them both some lunch. Unbeknownst to the girls, Joey had left a 7-11 superlong dog with chili, in the paper-bowl plate it came in on top of the blanket that he and Chrissy shared as they watched television every evening with the hot dog partially covered by the blanket. Dianne sat right onto it with a squishy sound and something warm and getting wet spreading between her legs.

The hotdog broke in half and fell down onto the rug dripping chili down the couch onto the carpet!

Dianne shrieked. "You little bitch! You set me up!"

Chrissy, startled, turned around and saw a hotdog bun oozing chili out from between Dianne's legs with a broken weenie on the floor.

The first words out of her mouth were,"Oh my god! Your period?!" before the stupidity of what she had just said sank in.

There was pregnant pause of silence as Diane stood up and the other half of the poor hotdog fell away.

"Ummm, Dianne. You gotta believe me! I didn't do that!" Chrissy just saw the look of anger on her sister's face and immediately ran for the bathroom.

"Godammit bitch come back here! You just ruined my freaking jeans!"

Chrissy had slammed the door and locked it. "DID NOT! DID NOT! It was Joey's!"

Dianne slammed the bathroom door several times and stopped. A few seconds of silence.

"Mustard is on these jeans! Fuck!!!" Dianne was most definitely crying. "I just bought these yesterday!!! You are so goddamn going to buy me new jeans. TODAY!!!!"

Chrissy bit her lip as she tried to think of something to say.

"Dianne, honest! I didn't do it." She leaned back against the sink and stated,"Can't we just return them to the same store and say they're defective?"

Chrissy heard the door thump and a sliding noise against it as she realized that Diane was probably now sitting on the floor. Her sister's sobbing tore at her heart.

"Okay, Okay!" Chrissy gave in and unlocked the door. As she opened it, she offered,"I'll get the money from Joey and I'll buy you a new pair."

Joey was consistently broke keeping their rent, food, utilities, and car maintenance topped off for them both. The chances of him having the cash available this week was slim to none.Wait a minute! Chrissy thought, Ed still owes me $50 for that bet!
 
 

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All of the crazy antics that her favorite author had poured into that chapter made it her most favorite story on BigCloset TopShelf! Poor Chrissy! Oh yeah, duh! - poor Chrissy. Right.
 
Reality sometimes sucks.
 
 
"Christina Michael Davis!" Chrissy was startled back to that reality with her mom staring at her. The dreaded three names. "Why haven't you moved yet? Your father hasn't finished breakfast yet and you missed the bus! Let's get a move on! Hop to it!"

Chrissy, realized she had left her notebook on her desk. She rushed back into her room, grabbing it and a banana she had brought up last night but hadn't eaten yet. She chewed one end of the banana off as she rushed down the stairs and paused at the kitchen. Her father set his coffee cup down and took a good hard long look at Chrissy. His eye twitched as he saw Chrissy clutching her school books to her chest with a banana in her mouth trying to suck on it. Her hair was still tousled and her skirt wrinkled.

Her dad sadly shook his head back and forth muttering, "Isn't it a little too early for you to be thinking... of that!"

Chrissy innocently replied "Hmm?" The joke had missed its mark.

Mrs. Davis then grabbed Chrissy's arm and hauled her outside slamming the door behind them.

Her father, then picked up the paper. "...my boy... I want my son back..."
 
 
Chrissy had to listen to her mom berate her about being responsible and how she was almost an adult. They had already been forced last year to get Chrissy an orchiectomy when her doctor found some lumps on her testicles. That was life and death right then and there! With the nodules malignant, it wasn't even a choice. Her father's first words out of his mouth were, "It would have been a heck of a lot cheaper on me if he... had been born a girl to begin with! In another 2 years, freaking srs! I'm going to be bankrupt by then! Twenty thousand dollars more!"

Chrissy could no longer have kids of her own, but she thought about all the fun of pretending trying to make one. And with Joey! Chrissy smiled. Her mother's voice droned on as they drove.
 
 
Kids were offloading from the buses so Mrs. Davis pulled the car to a stop at the bus pull-in lane at the front of the school.

"I'm really sorry mom. I have some failings. I promise I will not let this happen again."

Mrs. Davis really wanted to believe that. "Okay Sweetheart. Use a tissue and wipe your mouth, you have some of that banana still all around it."

Chrissy walked over and started to blend in with the students entering the school. Mrs. Davis pulled the car out into the road and drove on.
 
 
Nikki, hobbling along with cane in one arm, her books in the other, and her left leg still in a cast, glanced up and saw Chrissy with what looked like the remnants of Oral Sex? She saw Chrissy stop off to the side of the front steps into the school and fumble in her purse for something.

Through her still wired shut mouth she uttered, "MMmiguffff.Criffy?"

Chrissy turned and looked over at her as she pulled a piece of banana skin and a bit of mush out of her mouth and threw it on the grass.

Nikki's mind raced. How could she come to school like that?!!! She sucked some boy dry!!" Nikki then rudely tried to say what she thought.

"Howf Kud yewww!" and promptly bumped the custodian that was leaning over the side of the school mower filling it with gasoline - with a lit cigarette in his mouth.

The cigarette fell right down into the fuel tank.

The sudden rupturing of the lawn mower's gas tank flashed outward, instantly frying Nikki's hair completely off and flinging the both of them into the tree near Chrissy.

School could only get better from there.
 
 
By 3rd bell, she was already late for class after the fire trucks arrived and both the police and school officials took witness reports from her about the accident. The ambulances promptly rushed both the custodian and poor Nikki back to the hospital. She hurriedly ran into the girl's bathroom. She had to go before sitting in boring Calculus!

She went into the stall, locked it and proceeded to lay a Protecto seat cover onto the seat. As she pulled her skirt up and her panties down, the toilet seat lifted up silently behind her.

From outside the bathroom door there was an initial scream and sounds of water and someone struggling. There was a loud flush.

After the water in the toilet had settled down, it was once again quiet in the girl's restroom.

A loud deep, almost burplike sound then broke the surface water in the toilet.
 
 

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FIN?

 
 

Epilogue:
Isn't it funny how sometimes art imitates life?
Or could it be real life imitating art?

Chrissy, sadly was never found.

The Reluctant Co-Ed seemed to vanish from everyone's minds, and history, shortly thereafter.

This is,

after all...

The Toilet Zone!

What really goes on here at BigCloset!

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What really goes on here at BigCloset TopShelf on any given day? Lets take a sneak peek inside shall we?

anime-pirate.png AhhHH Ha! Here we find Erin with her pc! (Pirate Costume)

Always at the helm looking for unsuspecting spammers to stick it to!

But wait?

What was that?

Theres a Ruckus on the site!

Quick! Lets Switch over to our Site Correspondent and see what is happening!


Right Sephrena! Samantha here!

I have a live feed of what appears to be Flame War in progress!

You can see the Devastation and Destruction to the front page!

Oh the Humanity.....

But wait!

Cat!

Swing that camera around fast! Who are those people coming into the room?

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Yay! Reinforcements have arrived!

Authors Angharad, Bailey Summers, Louise Anne Smithson, Megan Campbell, Teekabell, Elrod, Moongoddess, and Andrea DiMaggio start furiously posting to a beat to shove the offending material off the front page!

Whew!

But wait?

Whats going on in the backroom?

JennaFl, Run this Camera over to the back room!

What the heck is that noise????


Samantha, I just made it here and Sephy Screwed up bigtime!

She spilled coke on the server keyboard and now the server's gone down!!!!

Piper!!!!!!!


heehee.jpg Enemyoffun here JennaFl!

Piper is working furiously to fix the mess Sephrena caused.

She really should have been drinking Diet Coke.

Regular Coke just does too much damage to Drupal!

It gets into the Press and flows into memory leaks!


Meanwhile, BCTS's readership at their keyboards.

Notice they don't look too healthy.

Will our server ever come back up?

Will our readers survive however long it takes to get it back up?


Okay Erin, Forcing a reboot!

"K Piper, Im trying to log back in now.

Success!

Now to get my hands on Sephrena!"

 


 
 

What will happen to Sephrena?

Will Erin get her hands on her?

IS THIS the end of our Klutzy Site Editor?

Stay Tuned Next Week!

Same BigCloset Time!

Same Transgendered Channel!

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(Hehehehehe! Why wait until next week?
Here's a sneak peek of what happens when Erin catches her!

Don't tell the Director I showed you this, okay?)

 
 

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:O Punishment time...

Sephrena

Accel World, 2nd Ending, "Unite" by Misawa Sachika

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One of my favorite anime songs, sung and instrumental-wise, is the second ending to the anime series "Accel World." I sourced the pieces of this blog from a variety of places to bring it all together onto one page to view it as a whole - "Unite." ~Sephrena


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"Unite"
by Misawa Sachika
Accel World - 2nd Ending


Translated by Yami_Fumetsu_10

Vocals: Misawa Sachika
Lyrics: Wakeshima Kanon
Composition: Takuya
Arrangement: Chiba “naotyu-” Naoki

Youtube Video:
Full- Accel World Ending 2 ユナイト[Unite] - 三澤 紗千香[Sachika Misawa]
Actual Creditless Ending 2 HD- Accel World - Ending 2
Instrumental- Sachika Misawa - Unite (Accel World ED2) [Full Version] Instrumental


In Nippon Romaji


Nobashita te to risou wa tooku
Aoginagara nanimo tsukamenai mama

Sagashi moto miteta kotae o
Okizari ni shite minai furi o shite ita

Hitorikiri datta watashi wa mirai no
Imi o machi gaeteita
Hitei shitemo

Kimi no ude wa... atatakai yo zenbu
Hontou no ai hontou no yasashisa da kara
Kimi no ishini... kogareru no mo zenbu
Hontou no omoi hontou no tsuyosa da kara
Kono kimochi o tsutaetai

Nozonda mono ga ookina hodo
Towomawari ni kanji te shimau darou

Sekai no entoransu wa itsumo
Kibun shidai de yoku mo waruku mo naru

Kodoku o shitte watashi wa unmei to
Mukiaeta nda
Kaku shitemo

Kimi no namida... ikite iru akashi
Watashi mo onaji namida o naga shite iru
Kimi no egao... azayaka na keshiki
Watashi mo onaji you ni waraitai yo
Kono kimochi o todoketai

Kokoro nai kotoba de yume o warawarete mo
Nagai yami ni saegirarete mo
Ichido hikari o oboe shinji tsuzuke teitara
Akirame kirenai hazu nada

Kimi no naka no sunaosa ni ukareta
Maeni susunde iku koto kimeta nda

Kimi no ude wa... atatakai yo zenbu
Hontou no ai hontou no yasashisa da kara
Kimi no ishini... kogareru no mo zenbu
Hontou no omoi hontou no tsuyosa da kara
Kono kimochi o tsutaetai


In English

My ideals are far away from my outstretched hand.
I'm looking up at them, but I still can't get a hold of anything.

I abandoned the answer that I once searched for
And pretended not to see it.

I was all alone,
And I got the meaning of the future wrong,
Even if I deny it.

Your arms... are so warm.
Because all of your love and kindness are real
I am infatuated... with your willpower
Because all of your thoughts and strength are real
So I want to tell you my feelings.

It feels like I'm taking as long of a way there,
As how big is what I'm wishing for.

My entrance into the world always
Depends on how I feel, it can be good or bad.

After learning what loneliness is
I was able to face my destiny
Even if I hide it.

Your tears are... the proof that you're alive.
And I am crying the same tears.
Your smile... is such a vivid sight.
I want to smile just like you do.
I want to send my feelings to you.

Even if my dream gets mocked by heartless words,
Even if I get engulfed by a long period of darkness,
If I remember the light once more and keep up my faith,
Then I doubt I'll ever give up.

I was struck by your candid honesty,
So I decided to keep moving forward.

Your arms... are so warm
Because all of your love and kindness are real.
I am infatuated... with your willpower.
Because all of your thoughts and strength are real.
So I want to tell you my feelings.


In Nippon Kanji

伸ばした手と理想は遠く
扇ぎながら何も掴めないまま

探し求めていた答えを
置き去りにして見ない振りをしていた

一人きりだった私は
未来の意味を間違えていた
否定しても

君の腕は暖かいよ
全部 本当の愛 本当の優しさだから
君の意志に焦がれるのも
全部 本当の想い 本当の強さだから
この気持ちを伝えたい

望んだものが大きな程
遠回りに感じてしまうだろう

世界のエントランスはいつも
気分次第で良くも悪くもなる

孤独を知って私は
運命と向き合えたんだ
隠しても

君の涙
生きている証
私も同じ涙を流している

君の笑顔
鮮やかな景色
私も同じ様に笑いたいよ
この気持ちを届けたい

心無い言葉で夢を笑われても
長い闇に遮られても
一度光を覚え 信じ続けていたら
諦め切れない筈なんだ

君の中の素直さに打たれて
前に進んで行く事 決めたんだ

君の腕は暖かいよ
全部 本当の愛 本当の優しさだから
君の意志に焦がれるのも
全部 本当の想い 本当の強さだから
この気持ちを伝えたい

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Kanji Translated by animeyay



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Eerie possibility

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

 

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Reality or Fiction?
 
Story Idea?
 
 
Sephrena

 
Picture credits: Original source image located at grey alien
 
Original Idea for the image from Saphira from BCTS Main Chat Room.

The Many Faces of Harriet Potter

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Blog About: 

  • Cartoons / Comics / Manga / Anime / Art / Artists
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If Harry Potter were a girl by CharaSix
The Many Faces
 
of Harriet Potter

 
During my nightly random searching on the internet last night, I came across entering the search term for "Harry Potter Genderbent." These are some of the fascinating images I came across.
 
 

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Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy as Girls by CharaSix

 
 

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Genderbent Harry Potter by Sayaliojelly-danhwg4 on Deviant Art

 
 

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Harriet Potter by Tsuki Yue d77axyf.png on DeviantArt

 
 

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Snape's Death: Genderbent Harry by Tsuki Yue d7bfl6c.png on Deviant Art

 
 

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Genderswap HP1 on themarysue.com

 
 

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Genderswap HP2 on themarysue.com

 
 

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If Harry Potter Was A Girl...

 
 

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Genderswapped Hermione

 
 
And last, but not least, is a Youtube video outside of this theme, but unique, nonetheless: If Harry Potter were an Anime
 
 
Hope you enjoyed this :)

Sephrena

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More Faces of Harriet Potter

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Blog About: 

  • Cartoons / Comics / Manga / Anime / Art / Artists

I solemly swear that I am up to no good.
More Faces
 
of Harriet Potter

 
 


 
Here are MORE of the fascinating images that I stumbled upon last night, still on the Harriet Potter Kick, many of which I cannot unburn out of my mind.
 
 

HP Drag Round 1

 
 

Team Voldemort in Drag

 
 

Harry Potter under a Mistletoe

 
 

Harriet Potter and Cedric Diggory

 
 

Harriet Potter and Malfoy

 
 

Harry and Malfoy

 
 

Harry Potter & Tom Riddle

 
 

Harry Potter the Anime

 
 

School Outfits: Gryffondor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw

 
 
Hope you enjoyed this :)

Sephrena

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Free Dividers and Art Vector Sheets

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
  • Graphics and Illustrations to add to Books and Story Postings
  • Verified free to use and sell in your published works

I ran across an absolutely smashing treasure trove of free page divider graphics to use in stories here and to use in works you sell called Photoshopgraphics.com

If you don't know what a page divider is used for, click here and see how they are used inside my recent posting of Tigger's Story here.

I verified this site with it's owner in email and specifically asked if the Free Vectors and dividers can be used in sellable books and ebook types and posted stories.


My question pertains to the usage of your free vectors within ebooks and physical printed books for sale on Amazon.com. Is this usage allowed and if not, what must I do to secure the licensing to do so?

Specifically, the use of a few dividers for different novels to sell.

Thank you for your time and look forward to hearing back from you.

Sephrena Lynn Miller

Their response:

Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:25:25 PM
Subject: Re: Question about Free Vector Usage

Thanks for your interest.

You may use our files for that purpose without any cost.

Thanks,
Deepak Malhotra

Designersfolder.com
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So Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On this page you will see the 47 pages of free sheet sets of various artwork designing graphics and dividers on Adobe Illustrator .ai Sheets. If you have Adobe Illustrator - great! All you have to do is hit the download button and save the zip of the image. If not, I will walk you through how to save the sheets as a .jpg

Once you scroll down through the pages of vectors and you find a set you want, start by hitting the Free Download link.

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If you have Adobe Illustrator, hit the download button and save the zip of the image. If not, click on the Free Preview link.

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The image sheet pops up. Now right click and select Save As.

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Make sure the save as format is listed as .jpg. Then select your directory and folder to save the image in, and click the Save button.

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Okay, you have the sheet Image. But How do you turn it into a usable divider to put into your book? For that, we need a handy little Image Editor that is free called Irfanview. You can download it for free from here. During the Install, ensure you don't let it install google or other toolbars by unchecking those boxes doing the custom install (hate those things!!!!) Also make sure to Select ALL Images when the image types window pops up. Once it finishes it will send you to the Irfanview home page to read about it. Close that out.

Now, go to where you saved your divider sheet, right click on the file and double click it.

Your Image page is now fully blown in the window. First thing you want to do is to go to the upper left above the divider you want, holding the LEFT mouse button down and drag the cursor diagonally downwards to the lower right of the divider to select a crop box around it. Let go of the mouse button once you have the box centered just how you want it around your divider.


 
 
Then go to the top of the File menu of Irfanview, click Edit / scroll down to Crop Selection. Click Crop Selection.


 
 
Now your image enlarges and is ready to be saved. But, we have to save this image both as a .gif and transparently. So go back up to the File Menu and Select File / and scroll down to Save As. Click Save As.

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Ensure you select .gif as the format type to save it as if it doesn't pop up that way in the Save as Window where the red arrow is. Once .gif type is selected then a second window pops up. It is used for .jpg and .gif's Select the Quality to 100% which is all the way to the right on that slider bar. Make sure the Save Transparent Color box is checked and the Choose Transparent Color During Saving is checked. Now Click Save.


 
 
A final window pops up asking you to click on the color in the little image window of your Divider that you want to make invisible. Click the white or whatever the background color in the image is with the cursor. The image now saves and is ready to load up into BCTS or any other program. It will display it as the image only with no background color with the image - so it blends in wherever it is put.


 
 
Photoshopgrahics.com also has a premium site that allows you to download an unlimited number of images per year for $99 here. Both Erin and myself will join this site. I figure to give back to a site that offers so much to everyone ^^

Sephrena

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Free Story Scene Dividers Ready to Use

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
  • Dividers for Story Usage

Free dividers you can use in your story online here and in your work to sell! They are free and open public domain for publishing with.

They are from http://photoshopgraphics.com/category/free-vectors/ . Just be nice and credit them for the graphics though.

I did all the hard work to make these transparent, just right click and save the divider graphic you want and use width setting in its image properties in your html coding to resize it for like 300, 325, 350, 400, 425 pixels width (make sure to delete the entire height string portion when you adjust it: ex. height="98" <-- delete that string piece when you resize the width so Drupal can resize it correctly.

These are set at 800 pixels width to show detail. I will add more throughout the day and tonight to have a list of like 12 - 15 you can grab.

If you have a problem uploading it into your account, PM me and I will resize these to 400 widths for you so they don't get auto clipped.

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Sephrena
 
 

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How to Process Removing Hate Reviews from your Amazon Published Works

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Blog About: 

  • Authors / Stories / Books / Writing

If you find yourself with a meaningless hate directed review on an Amazon Kindle work of yours, here is how you can process it's removal.

Go to: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/contact-us

Select the topmost left item underneath "How Can We Help" titled: Amazon Store & Product Detail Page

A drop Down menu shows up and Select from the Bottom: Customer Reviews

On the right hand side a list of Amazon regions comes up. Select the Amazon region you are in. For the US its: Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/features-and-servi...

Now Select the menu for field option 1 and choose Customer Reviews. Then click the Email Button below in field 2 to contact them with.

Now you have a information field window to put in your information, links, and relevant material.

When done, press Send Email
 
 
Hope this Helps

Sephrena

2025 May Summer Romance Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2025-05 May Summer Romance Story Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • 2025 - May Summer Romance Story Contest

Well, that time of year has come around again and time for another contest. What the heck you are saying? I was dying last year? How is it I am still alive. Well, let's just say I have a pocket miracle upon me.

The theme for this contest is to write ANY love story that must include a lgbtq main or secondary character and anyone else. That depends on the point of view. This story must be totally new and never published anywhere else. AI assistance in creating it is allowed, however, editing and proofing it is still the author's responsibility. Minimum wordage is 5,000 words. Multiple entries are allowed with only 1 win per person.

Preferably, since I know for certain, that this is my absolute last contest, I would like to see an entry that has school teens trying to find a romance. Hey, just a wish story for a proper send off you know! Whatever plot that you enter is fine by me though :)

The prizes are as follows: 1st Place: 2 x $200, 2nd Place:2 x $100, 3rd Place: 3 x $50. That is the most that I can afford for the winnings of this contest. Prizes will be paid out on June 3, 2025. They will be paid by paypal. The contest runs from right this very minute until May 31, 2025.

Sorry, no time for fancy tables and pictures this last time. I have too much on my plate atm, but I still wanted to give back to the community that means so much to me. SO get those computers clacking away if you want to win.

ps: I will advance the winnings to Rasufelle so that the contest winnings will be payable in the event that I vanish in an untimely manner.

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
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May 2025 Summer Romance Story Contest Voting!

Author: 

  • Rasufelle
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2025-05 May Summer Romance Story Contest

Okay here it is!

Jah Link! to the story contest voting on Patreon.com

You can vote multiple times for your favorite stories, everyone will win, but we need to discern the best story from each author! Please vote until Thursday June 5, 2025 12:00 midnight PST.

Thank you all in advance, for the authors whom Creatively wrote the loving stories with their skill, and a huge thanks from you, the readers, whom get to vote.

If you still need time to read the entries, click here!

This is my last last contest. After Thursday, Im outta here!

See you then!

Sephrena

May 2025 Summer Romance Story Contest Winners!

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2025-05 May Summer Romance Story Contest


Okay, Here it is! The list of our May 2025 Summer Romance Story Contest Winners in order!


 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
First Place: $200
The Greatest Treasure by Amethyst

When Janessa decides to risk everything on a trip to the Ruins, the only thing that Xiria can do is to go along and keep the girl she loves safe, but what is the treasure that Janessa seeks?


Image Credit: @ArtFlow
First Place $200
I Was a Teenage Pick Up Girl by Enemyoffun

Finley's old sister likes to use him as a subject for her beauty school makeup projects. He has fair skin and soft features. He never fully complains because he knows only a few people will ever see him that way. That is until he's late for work and there's no time to take it off, so he rushes to the bus stop. There he's spotted by a visiting teenage Hollywood heartthrob who wants Finley to become his fake "girlfriend" fix his bad image and to make his ex jealous. The plan doesn't go too well for either of them.

 


Image Credit: Unknown
Second Place: $100
The Lunch Club by Melanie Brown

“Hey Tony!”

I turned to look at the source of the voice. It was Candace, a girl I know from high school. She was with her two besties, Harper and Chloe. “Hey guys. What’s up?”

The group stopped walking to turn towards me. Candace, who hates being called Candy, grinned and said, “We’re headed for lunch. Wanna come?”

There were three eating places in The Great River Basin strip mall. There was Café 44, which mainly catered to people of the female persuasion although it did offer a Korean BBQ menu, Whataburger and The Lunch Bucket, what my Dad calls a greasy spoon, which catered to the blue collar crowd. It wasn’t hard to guess where they were going.


 


Image Credit: @ArtFlow
Second Place: $100
Jasmine in Bloom by Almost Lisa

The cafeteria was buzzing with sound, as usual. Clanking metal flatware and clacking plastic trays mixed with the hum of conversation and the frequent echoes of laughter. Jeremy Joad, sitting all alone at the broken table in the far corner, didn’t hear any of it. His cheap earbuds blasting heavy metal music from his ten-year-old Android phone drowned out the world. He picked at his bland meal, hoping to survive another day.

 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
Second Place: $100
Happiness is a Warm Hound Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.

I always avoided the first part of the hill when the weather was likely to produce mud, which meant the whole of January and most of February in practice. It wasn’t the mud on the path itself, for that was why wellies existed, but the immense quantity my dogs would collect. They’re not exactly my dogs, of course, so mud meant cleaning them off before returning them to their ‘real’ owners, and I rather liked having some ‘me time’ each day and enough hot water for a bath for myself rather than two or three mud-magnet hounds.

 


 


Image Credit: Friend
Second Place: $100
System Quest: Ultimate Love by Jo Dora Webster

Will Jamie, reborn as Lyria, overcome all the quests to make her dying wish come true?

 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
Third Place: $50
Working Clothes by Columbine

Billy came to live with them when all the work that could be done had been done to their living space. He and Raven were almost identical in age and seemed to treat each other as twin brothers, and were inseparable. Peter seemed to manage being a house husband balancing his work with caring duties. When Jill got home she would take over bed time and allow Peter some more work time.

Family life is made of routines. Trips out to see the ducks the pond in the park in a double buggy, gave way to play parks, and then to theme parks and so on. The boys were supported by three parents and whilst they were very clear about whose mother was whose, the absence of Billy’s father meant that both boys called Peter … Dad.
Raven yearned for something more...


 


Image Credit: @ArtFlow
Third Place: $50
Spin First,Think Later by Aylesea

The front doors of my high school have twenty-six steps leading up to them. There is a wheelchair ramp, but no one is supposed to use it unless needed. So, it is a physical and mental workout just to get to school. Physical due to the steps and mental for the dark thoughts that it is a long way down if you trip on a shoelace or if you’re like me, just a master of clumsiness.

I attended Lincoln High School, student population, 42-squared. It was like a small city in itself with five four-story buildings connected to a larger building in the front through multiple halls. They should have had maps that read “you are here.”


 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
Third Place: $50
We Love Alex(a) by girlinthelight

"I met the most amazing girl today!"

"I met the most amazing boy today!"

Two bedrooms, one wall apart. But the person that they're really crushing on is...?


Also, since we have a total of 9 entrants, I have decided to match the prizes to a total of 9: The prizes are as follows: 1st Place: 2 x $200, 2nd Place:4 x $100, 3rd Place: 3 x $50! This is so that everyone wins something!

I would like to graciously thank Rasufelle for setting up the voting for me! A big shout out for that!
Erin will award the prizes sometime June 6 PST - June 10, 2025 PST.

Official Condensed Voting Count
Happiness is a Warm Hound Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.
I Was a Teenage Pick Up Girl by Enemyoffun
We Love Alex(a) by girlinthelight
Working Clothes by Columbine
Real Love by Jo Dora Webster
Delivering Love by Jo Dora Webster
Miracle of Love by Jo Dora Webster
System Quest: Ultimate Love by Jo Dora Webster
Blindside Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.
The Lunch Club by Melanie Brown
The Greatest Treasure by Amethyst
Spin First,Think Later by Aylesea
Jasmine in Bloom by Almost Lisa

Okay all! It has been real! I really really am now on my way out the door to New Earth. This is not delusional, It is a fact. I had to finish this very last Contest myself to clear up any attachments and have said my last goodbyes to all of you. New Earth is not just a destination, it's humanity's future. You too can come here as well. The key is to look inward and also to the Prime Creator. Between those two things you too can come on up!

This last picture below should give you an idea as to who I really am.

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

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Our Final Contestants

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2025-05 May Summer Romance Story Contest


Okay, Here it is! Seems like I was premature about the Christmas Contest being my last! Bah Humbug!
Here is our new Current Contestants and their Entries for the May 2025 Summer Romance Story Contest! Voting will begin on Friday, May 30, at 12 am Pacific Standard Time.

We do Have Prizes too! Maybe... $750 worth...


 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
Happiness is a Warm Hound Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.
I always avoided the first part of the hill when the weather was likely to produce mud, which meant the whole of January and most of February in practice. It wasn’t the mud on the path itself, for that was why wellies existed, but the immense quantity my dogs would collect. They’re not exactly my dogs, of course, so mud meant cleaning them off before returning them to their ‘real’ owners, and I rather liked having some ‘me time’ each day and enough hot water for a bath for myself rather than two or three mud-magnet hounds.

 



Image Credit: @ArtFlow
I Was a Teenage Pick Up Girl by Enemyoffun
Finley's old sister likes to use him as a subject for her beauty school makeup projects. He has fair skin and soft features. He never fully complains because he knows only a few people will ever see him that way. That is until he's late for work and there's no time to take it off, so he rushes to the bus stop. There he's spotted by a visiting teenage Hollywood heartthrob who wants Finley to become his fake "girlfriend" fix his bad image and to make his ex jealous. The plan doesn't go too well for either of them.

 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
We Love Alex(a) by girlinthelight
"I met the most amazing girl today!"

"I met the most amazing boy today!"

Two bedrooms, one wall apart. But the person that they're really crushing on is...?


 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
Working Clothes by Columbine
Billy came to live with them when all the work that could be done had been done to their living space. He and Raven were almost identical in age and seemed to treat each other as twin brothers, and were inseparable. Peter seemed to manage being a house husband balancing his work with caring duties. When Jill got home she would take over bed time and allow Peter some more work time.

Family life is made of routines. Trips out to see the ducks the pond in the park in a double buggy, gave way to play parks, and then to theme parks and so on. The boys were supported by three parents and whilst they were very clear about whose mother was whose, the absence of Billy’s father meant that both boys called Peter … Dad.
Raven yearned for something more...


 


Image Credit: Friend
Real Love by Jo Dora Webster
George in VR Discovers Their Authentic Self, Will George and Lisa, forced to go on the run from Bruce and EdenVR find a way to evade them using Lisa's spycraft and disguises?

 


Image Credit: Friend
Delivering Love by Jo Dora Webster
Will Lucy be able to win over Patrick with kindness and in the process find both herself and unconditional romantic love?

Tina asks Timothy to be a temp, so that she can keep her delivery job. But Timothy has to literally replace her as a girl, so that things will go well while Tina is out.


 


Image Credit: Friend
Miracle of Love by Jo Dora Webster
A Wish to Gain Truth and the Miracle of Love Will Dora's sacrificial love overcome Pastor Mark's failings and save Hope Shelter's promise that Hope Lives Here?

 


Image Credit: Friend
System Quest: Ultimate Love by Jo Dora Webster
Will Jamie, reborn as Lyria, overcome all the quests to make her dying wish come true?

 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
Blindside Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.
“YOU A GEEZER, OR WHAT?”

Volume control wasn’t his strong suit, evidently. Thankfully, the bus was already there, so I stepped on as if he hadn’t spoken, eructated, puked, whatever. Good start to the day.

Usual start to the day.


 


Image Credit: Unknown
The Lunch Club by Melanie Brown
“Hey Tony!”

I turned to look at the source of the voice. It was Candace, a girl I know from high school. She was with her two besties, Harper and Chloe. “Hey guys. What’s up?”

The group stopped walking to turn towards me. Candace, who hates being called Candy, grinned and said, “We’re headed for lunch. Wanna come?”

There were three eating places in The Great River Basin strip mall. There was Café 44, which mainly catered to people of the female persuasion although it did offer a Korean BBQ menu, Whataburger and The Lunch Bucket, what my Dad calls a greasy spoon, which catered to the blue collar crowd. It wasn’t hard to guess where they were going.


 


Image Credit: https://perchance.org/beautiful-people
The Greatest Treasure by Amethyst
When Janessa decides to risk everything on a trip to the Ruins, the only thing that Xiria can do is to go along and keep the girl she loves safe, but what is the treasure that Janessa seeks?

 


Image Credit: @ArtFlow
Spin First,Think Later by Aylesea
The front doors of my high school have twenty-six steps leading up to them. There is a wheelchair ramp, but no one is supposed to use it unless needed. So, it is a physical and mental workout just to get to school. Physical due to the steps and mental for the dark thoughts that it is a long way down if you trip on a shoelace or if you’re like me, just a master of clumsiness.

I attended Lincoln High School, student population, 42-squared. It was like a small city in itself with five four-story buildings connected to a larger building in the front through multiple halls. They should have had maps that read “you are here.”


 


Image Credit: @ArtFlow
Jasmine in Bloom by Almost Lisa
The cafeteria was buzzing with sound, as usual. Clanking metal flatware and clacking plastic trays mixed with the hum of conversation and the frequent echoes of laughter. Jeremy Joad, sitting all alone at the broken table in the far corner, didn’t hear any of it. His cheap earbuds blasting heavy metal music from his ten-year-old Android phone drowned out the world. He picked at his bland meal, hoping to survive another day.

Please read all of these entries and formulate who you think the Top 3 winners should be?

Also, since we have a total of 9 entrants, I have decided to match the prizes to a total of 9: The prizes are as follows: 1st Place: 2 x $200, 2nd Place:4 x $100, 3rd Place: 3 x $50! This is so that everyone wins something!

Maybe even toss a comment of encouragement to them as well! Voting will Occur from Friday May 30, 2025 PST on through June 5, 2025 PST. Rasufelle will take care of the voting for me. Erin will award the prizes sometime June 6 PST - June 10, 2025 PST.

Official Condensed Voting Count
Happiness is a Warm Hound Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.
I Was a Teenage Pick Up Girl by Enemyoffun
We Love Alex(a) by girlinthelight
Working Clothes by Columbine
Real Love by Jo Dora Webster
Delivering Love by Jo Dora Webster
Miracle of Love by Jo Dora Webster
System Quest: Ultimate Love by Jo Dora Webster
Blindside Chapters 1 - 5 by Steph C.
The Lunch Club by Melanie Brown
The Greatest Treasure by Amethyst
Spin First,Think Later by Aylesea
Jasmine in Bloom by Almost Lisa

Okay all! It has been real! I really really am now on my way out the door to New Earth. This is not delusional, It is a fact. I had to finish this very last Contest myself to clear up any attachments and have said my last goodbyes to all of you. New Earth is not just a destination, it's humanity's future. You too can come here as well. The key is to look inward and also to the Prime Creator. Between those two things you too can come on up!

This last picture below should give you an idea as to who I really am.

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

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BCTS 25th Anniversary Mini-Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • BCTS 25th Anniversary Mini Contest

Okay, this is a last minute spring. For the 25th anniversary contest, you have until Friday, November 22, 2024 at 3pm Pacific Standard Time to turn in a fictional story entry showing your beliefs in a story of what BigCloset TopShelf means to you personally. Has it saved your life? How so? And showcase those beliefs into a beautifully written story for us. Story length has to be of at least 5,000 words. The single prize is $75. That's it!

If I can get any entries for it, I will judge the best of them and declare the winner Friday evening. Please don't forget to label your entries with the tag BCTS 25th Anniversary Mini Contest.

I hope this little mini contest works! Fingers crossed.

Sephrena

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BigCloset TopShelf's December 2024 Change A Life Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest
TopShelf's

December 2024

 

Change A Life

Christmas Story Contest

 

Entry Submission Dates are from now July 31, 2024 through December 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time!
Prizes currently are
1 x $200, 2 x $150, and 16 x $100 USD paypalled. Prizes are subject to go up depending on if donations assist :) .

The theme for this year's Christmas Contest will be the selfless act of a main character helping out someone, somewhere within a story. Either the main character or the one being helped has to be lgbtq! The end result should be the changing of that person's life forever in a positive way! However the author decides to develop the story and plot devices is totally up to the author. ^^
Stories can be any length and chaptered. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published already elsewhere. Multiple submissions are allowed with only the submission with the most votes of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.
 
Plenty of time is being allowed this year so that our authors can put out some really great submissions. Voting will occur from Sunday December 22, 2024 - Saturday December 28, 2024. The Winner's announcement will be posted on Sunday, December 29, 2024.
Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select 2024 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest on your Submission(s).

When you write an entry, please tag it with this in the story teaser:

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December 2024 Change A Life Christmas Story Contest Entry
 
 

The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their Paypal account names to transfer their prize awards to.
 
All prizes will be transferred very soon after the winners announcement.

 

*Because of you, my Christmas holiday is magical and blissful.
I thank you for giving my life a new meaning.
I feel very blessed to have you in my life now.
All I want
is to spend today
and the rest of my life
with you.
 
Merry Christmas.^^

 

This contest is dedicated to our great authoress - Elsbeth.
We appreciate what you crafted for us with all of our souls.
I love you so very dearly and may we meet again.
An absent friend, may your writings continue, ever on.
 
A song dedicated to Elsbeth from the Bang Dream band Roselia Fire Bird
Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image and Quote Credits: Christmas Lovers,   Christmas Messages from Wishesmsg.com/em>,   Christmas Wishes to My Love,   Sparkling Christmas Tree,   Anime Christmas Elf,   Anime Christmas Present,   Black Hair>.

 
 

Christmas Contest Update

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest

Okay, this is some bad news.

Due to some mounting Bills, the fact that I broke my foot tonight, I HAVE to reduce the Prize amounts of the Christmas Contest down from $2100 to $1200. The amount will only affect the number of 3rd place winners! If I live any longer the remainder will go to Bigcloset as I get it. I have never had to do this before in my entire history of doing contests here, but I must now do this. I am cash strapped to the max :*(

I sincerely apologize to all of the BCTS membership. *Bows head profusely!!!!!!!*

If I can find a way to eek further prize amounts into it between now and Jan 3, 2025, assuming that I live that long, I will do so!!! I promise you that!

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf December 2024 Change a Life Christmas Contest Results

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest
TopShelf's

December 2024

 

Change A Life

Christmas Story Contest
Results!

 

Everyone is standing around and wondering who won....
*Drumroll*

We had many great Entries and to me, they are all winners! However, I have the unenviable task to narrow down our top prizes. Our prize structure was set up as 1 x $200, 2 x $150, and 16 x $100 USD paypalled. So let us begin with our 16 Third Place winners! This is gonna be a doozy:

The Following authors are hereby awarded Third place prize of $100 each!
Let us give them a huge cheer for all of their prestigious efforts!

Holly Snow One Dress
Leanna19 This is Me Now! Get Over It!
JoanneBarbarella Wishes
Gillian Chambers Circle of Life
Greybeard The Lynching Tree
Suzi Auchentiber Under Re-Development
Maeryn Lamonte Suicide Survivor
Aylesea Malcom Just A Girl
Penelope Elizabeth Lane Some Christmas Magic
Gillian1968 Crossing A Bridge
Maddy Bell Passport To Life
Avia Conner Sacrificial Destiny
Andrea Lena Dimaggio We May Yet
Columbine A Crumb Free Christmas
Melanie Brown Tony's Christmas Present
Dorothy Colleen Before You

Now onto our Second place winners! Coming in at a strong second is none other than our author Bronwen Welsh with her story entitled A Tale of Three Schoolfriends!

Bronwen Welsh A Tale of Three Schoolfriends
and next, a man who needs no introductions, our famous, Enemyoffun with his entry of I Guess I'm A Christmas Date!

Enemyoffun I Guess I'm A Christmas Date

Both of you have won the second place prize of $150 each! Congratulations you two!

An now for the main prize! Our overall Christmas Contest Winner with a landslide vote total showing was Emma Anne Tate with her entry of Who Makes Intercession?

Emma Anne Tate Who Makes Intercession?

A big round of applause for Emma who won the main Prize of $200! Way to go!

The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their Paypal account names to transfer their prize awards to. These awards will be paid out on January 3rd of 2025. So Please get me the accounts to paypal them to asap.

You thought we were done didn't you? OH BUT NO WE ARE NOT! We have more awards to hand out!

Surprise!

All the remaining entries are hereby awarded $50 ea JUST FOR HAVING ENTERED my last contest!

We had way too many entries for me to award them at the exact same time as the main winners, but these will be paypalled out February 3, 2025. Our runnerups who won $50 each:

Runnerups!

Bru Death in Venice Beach
Lisa Charlene Kevin's Adventure and Beyond
Melanie E. (Rasufelle) & Angela Rasch Divine Intervention
SamQuick Frosty
Rasufelle Lights In The Dark
MaryAnne Peters Becoming Mommy
Natasa Jacobs A Gift From Santa
Jennifer Sue Christian: Faith Versus Religion
Magicshoppe The Pole Dancer
Will Hunter Dickinson Alex's First Christmas
SamanthaMDThe Bride to Be
 
All Runnerup prizes will be will be paypalled out February 3, 2025. Do not despair! I make good on all my prize awards! Also, entries missing are those extras submitted by authors who have already won a prize in this contest.

Everyone won! Hooray!

 

And with that, I close my chapter of having been on BigCloset TopShelf and having run all of these contests for so long. I appreciate the support you have all shown me and I gave my heart to our community. Please uphold our values and continue to help one another. I love you all!

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Christmas Contest Payouts for February 3, 2025

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest

Okay, all the payouts for this month have occurred and the people notified they have the money. The payouts for next month for $50 each include:

Bru Death in Venice Beach
Lisa Charlene Kevin's Adventure and Beyond
*Melanie E. (Rasufelle) & Angela Rasch Divine Intervention
SamQuick Frosty
*Rasufelle Lights In The Dark
MaryAnne Peters Becoming Mommy
Natasa Jacobs A Gift From Santa
Jennifer Sue Christian: Faith Versus Religion
Magicshoppe The Pole Dancer
Will Hunter Dickinson Alex's First Christmas
SamanthaMDThe Bride to Be

If you have not yet contacted me to give your paypal email addy or to donate it, please do! All of these authors will be paid on February 3, 2025.

Thank you all for our great Christmas Bash!

Sephrena

Christmas Contest Runner-Up Prizes Paypalled!

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest

All of the prizes were just paypalled out! Erin is holding the Prizes Monies for Rasufelle, MaryAnne Peters, and SamanthaMD. Everyone else received theirs!

I thank you for the time you allowed me to grace the site with my contests and I made my last contest an Everyone Wins Scenario. That was the gimmick from the start. I hope you all had fun. Adios Amigos!

Sephrena Lynn Miller

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Current Contestants in Our Contests

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest
Tonight is the last night of the Christmas Contest! You have until tonight, December 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to post your entries! I will list all of the current participants in our contest, Here are the totals so far:

Contest:


BCTS 25th Anniversary Mini Contest: 3
 
Maeryn Lamonte Finding Freedom
Aylesea Malcom One
Sam Quick Top of The Closet
 
 


2024 December Change A Life Story Contest: 33
 
Maryanne Peters Champion
Bru Death in Venice Beach
Lisa Charlene Kevin's Adventure and Beyond
Melanie Brown Tony's Christmas Present
Melanie E. (Rasufelle) & Angela Rasch Divine Intervention
Columbine A Crumb Free Christmas
SamQuick Frosty
Rasufelle Lights In The Dark
Holly Snow One Dress
JoanneBarbarella Wishes
Andrea Lena Dimaggio We May Yet
Suzi Auchentiber Under Re-Development
Maeryn Lamonte Suicide Survivor
Enemyoffun I Guess I'm A Christmas Date
Dorothy Colleen Before You
Bronwen Welsh A Tale of Three Schoolfriends
Aylesea Malcom Just A Girl
Avia Conner Sacrificial Destiny
Penelope Elizabeth Lane Some Christmas Magic
Dorothy Colleen A Sense of Femininity
Gillian Chambers Circle of Life
MaryAnne Peters Becoming Mommy
Avia Conner Bridge of Souls
Natasa Jacobs A Gift From Santa
Emma Anne Tate Who Makes Intercession?
Greybeard The Lynching Tree
Jennifer Sue Christian: Faith Versus Religion
Magicshoppe The Pole Dancer
Maddy Bell Passport To Life
Andrea Lena Dimaggio A Christmas Wish
Will Hunter Dickinson Alex's First Christmas
Gillian1968 Crossing A Bridge
Leanna19 This is Me Now! Get Over It!
 


I have reposted most of the older Christmas Entries already and some problems did result from it and the Christmas Retros :( I am sure you all have heard.

This is my last contest for the site. I want to thank all of our authors who have participated in entering. Sadly, time and the site won't allow me for more. I had a blast. I hope all of our readers did too. I pray someone will take up the mantle to relive the fun I tried to create.


Sephrena

K Counting up the Votes and Whatnot

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

K This is it!

I gonna count up the votes now and put up the winners tomorrow!

I am sure as heck gonna need some luck!

Last of the Christmas Contest Payouts on Feb 3 - 2 weeks away!

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest

On February 3, I will send out the last of the Christmas contest payouts! I can hardly believe I have made it this far. But I am done, I have a clear conscious that I did things the best way possible and can go.

Thank you all for having me stick around while I could. I am trying real hard to finish posting up for Clara too! She is my last pulled author from elsewhere. Someone else is going to have to take over for me.

Sephrena

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Tonight is IT! Please, bcts site members VOTE :*(

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest

The time to vote is finally here!

Please click on the story links to read any entries that you haven't yet.

Okay, This SUCKS! The pollmaker thingy will NOT allow me to make a multiple choice vote WITHOUT a pay plan. The first one was free. I used that up in the last contest. YIKES!

I am really irritated it requires a pay plan. I wanted free for everyone. Oh well :*(

Okay for this vote then, simply PM me with a header Christmas Contest and select your 10 favorite stories and PM me, Sephrena Miller.
Voting will occur from Sunday December 22, 2024 - Saturday December 28, 2024. The Winner's announcement will be posted on Sunday, December 29, 2024.

Our current entries stands as follows:


Please take your time to read the entries before voting!

2024 December Change A Life Story Contest: 33
 
Maryanne Peters Champion
Bru Death in Venice Beach
Lisa Charlene Kevin's Adventure and Beyond
Melanie Brown Tony's Christmas Present
Melanie E. (Rasufelle) & Angela Rasch Divine Intervention
Columbine A Crumb Free Christmas
SamQuick Frosty
Rasufelle Lights In The Dark
Holly Snow One Dress
JoanneBarbarella Wishes
Andrea Lena Dimaggio We May Yet
Suzi Auchentiber Under Re-Development
Maeryn Lamonte Suicide Survivor
Enemyoffun I Guess I'm A Christmas Date
Dorothy Colleen Before You
Bronwen Welsh A Tale of Three Schoolfriends
Aylesea Malcom Just A Girl
Avia Conner Sacrificial Destiny
Penelope Elizabeth Lane Some Christmas Magic
Dorothy Colleen A Sense of Femininity
Gillian Chambers Circle of Life
MaryAnne Peters Becoming Mommy
Avia Conner Bridge of Souls
Natasa Jacobs A Gift From Santa
Emma Anne Tate Who Makes Intercession?
Greybeard The Lynching Tree
Jennifer Sue Christian: Faith Versus Religion
Magicshoppe The Pole Dancer
Maddy Bell Passport To Life
Andrea Lena Dimaggio A Christmas Wish
Will Hunter Dickinson Alex's First Christmas
Gillian1968 Crossing A Bridge
Leanna19 This is Me Now! Get Over It!
 


Good luck to all of our participating authors!
Fingers crossed!

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Slight changes to the Christmas Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-12 December BigCloset TopShelf Change A Life Story Contest
Okay, I have had to change things around, just a little. (1) I am extending the Entry submission dates through December 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time! (2) Voting will occur from Sunday December 22, 2024 - Saturday December 28, 2024. (3) The Winner's announcement will be posted on Sunday, December 29, 2024.

This is a much more realistic timetable for everyone involved including myself. It makes more sense to me!

So please use this time for your entries and voting will be here before you know it!

Sephrena

Merry Christmas from the folks
at BigCloset TopShelf ...to you!

BigCloset TopShelf's October 2024 All Hallow Eve's Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-10 October BigCloset All Hallows Eve Story Contest

The theme for this year's All Hallow's Eve contest is to come up with a scary story as unique as you can make it! The story can include any literary device, any length, even multi-chaptered. The main character has to be lgbtq, but other than that requirement, the rest is up to you.
Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published already elsewhere. Multiple submissions are allowed with only the submission with the most votes of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.
 
Entry submission dates are from Tuesday October 1, 2024 - Thursday October 24, 2024 at 11:59 pm PST. Plenty of time is being allowed this year so that our authors can put out some really great submissions. Voting will occur from Friday October 25th 2024 - Wednesday October 30, 2024. The winner's Announcement will go up Thursday October 31, 2024.
The Prizes for the contest currently stand at 1 x $100, 2 x $75, and 3 x $50! They might go up depending on donations :) Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select 2024 October BigCloset All Hallows Eve Story Contest on your Submission(s).

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image and Quote Credits: Halloween Witch,   Beautiful Witch,   Mean Witch,   
The Night,   Nightime Witch.

 
 

BigCloset TopShelf's October 2024 All Hallow's Eve Contest Winners!

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-10 October BigCloset All Hallows Eve Story Contest

I am posting this up early since I will be unavailable tomorrow. Grats to Everyone ahead of time!

Well here we are again! It's fall! It's kind of cool! And it's Halloween night! But... everyone is standing around and stuff and I am guessing it's to find out who won the contest! Hehehehe!
I want to say we had some excellent entries this year with some outstanding talent! We will begin with our Third Place winners! Due to a three way tie for the third place winners, I'm tossing in an extra $100 for the 2 extra to place our Prize totals for the contest currently stand at 1 x $100, 2 x $75, and 5 x $50!
 
For Third Place, the first of FIVE of them!, goes to our Goodtime author Melanie Brown for her enticing story The Ship of Terror. Outstanding results Melanie!!! Three cheers!!! She won with 8% of the vote! $50 Third place Prize awarded!
 
for Third Place, the SECOND winner, we have Dorothy Colleen, our struggling authoress who finally made it with her story I'm Worried About My Brother. Great Going Dorothy! I am glad you made it in the Big Leagues! She also won with 8% of the vote! $50 Third place Prize awarded!
 
For Third Place, our THIRD winner, is authoress Andrea Lena DiMaggio with her entry Caught In Your Undertow. While it wasn't completed Due to medical reasons, her superb writing shone through! She won with 7% of the vote! $50 Third place Prize awarded!
 
For Third Place, our FOURTH winner, is authoress Michelle Nylons with her entry titled Promises to Keep. Her grabbing attention to detail shone through to win! She won with 7% of the vote! $50 Third place Prize awarded!
 
For Third Place, the FIFTH winner, is authoress Sara Keltaine with The Widow's Peak. A captivating story that was a really great read! She also won with 7% of the vote! $50 Third place Prize awarded!

 
*drumroll*
Our Second place Prize, the FIRST of two, goes to authoress Avia Connor for her ungodly good story The Ghost of 224 Maple Street! Major grats! She won with 11% of the vote! $75 Second Place Prize awarded!
 
Our Second Place Prize, the SECOND of two, goes to authoress's Melanie Ezell (Rasufelle) and Angela Rasch for their blazingly striking entry entitled Halloween Holdover! Grats to both of you on a Job Well Done! You both won with 10% of the vote! $75 Second Place Prize awarded!

*drumroll... again!*
For the overall winner of the BigCloset TopShelf October 2024 All Hallow's Eve Story Contest, For FIRST place prize, goes to Amethyst for her Daring Entry The Ghost of Tremont Woods! Let's have a round of applause for her story as it was a well earned win! She won with 15% of the vote! $100 First Place Prize awarded!
 

 
 
 
 
And now, our Honourable Mentions!
 
Jennifer Sue The All Mother Oak
Sam Quick Witch Way
Suzie Auchentiber Shirley Some Mistake?
Bru Thanksgiving Horror
MaryAnne Peters Planter's Moon
GreyBeard The Bargain
Su Shi The Crimson Seduction
Marriane G All Hallo's Night

 
All of you did such an oustanding job at writing and I am very proud of all of you! All of our winners, Please contact Erin for your Prize money to be paypalled to you!! Please rejoin me for my next contest,
BigCloset TopShelf's 2024 Change a Life Christmas Story Contest!

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image and Quote Credits: High School Crowd,   V for Victory Witch,   Happy Witch,   The Night,   Sparkling Christmas Tree.

 
 

The October 2024 All Hallow's Eve Contest has Ended

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-10 October BigCloset All Hallows Eve Story Contest

The contest officially ended on Friday morning Eastern time at 3 am / midnight Thursday Pacific time. I went ahead and added Su Shi's and Marianne G's Late entries to the list and voting module, but a ton of people have already voted :/ I am hoping that for my Christmas contest you will enter earlier perhaps? To let people vote on your entries? I thought I had written the rules clearly :(

I am crossing my fingers and hoping for both of you.

Sephrena

TopShelf's October 2024 All Hallow's Eve Contest Voting!

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2024-10 October BigCloset All Hallows Eve Story Contest
The time is here!
Please click on the story links to read any entries that you haven't yet. Then head on over to Poll-Maker.com to vote! To pick 6 of your favorite stories for winners. That is 1 vote for each of the 6 prizes. I'm really excited to see how this new voting module works for us as it is totally free. No sign-ups, Nada. Simple. Just vote! And that's it! The Poll results are hidden during the voting process. That was done by design.

Also the Poll opens at 4am eastern time.

Poll-Maker.com is the site I chose. And here is the voting module for the vote Vote Here!

Our current entries stands as follows:


2024 All Hallow's Eve Story Contest: 16
 
Avia Connor The Ghost of 224 Maple Street
Jennifer Sue The All Mother Oak
Melanie Brown The Ship of Terror
Sam Quick Witch Way
Melanie E. & Angela Rasch Halloween Holdover
Suzie Auchentiber Shirley Some Mistake?
Andrea Lena DiMaggio Caught In Your Undertow
Bru Thanksgiving Horror
Dorothy Colleen I'm Worried About My Brother
Michelle Nylons Promises to Keep
Sara Keltaine The Widow's Peak
MaryAnne Peters Planter's Moon
GreyBeard The Bargain
Amethyst The Ghost of Tremont Woods
Su Shi The Crimson Seduction
Marriane G All Hallo's Night
 


Good luck to all of our participating authors!
Fingers crossed!

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

February 2022 BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2022-02 February BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

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There are a total of 7 prizes: 1 x 1st Place, 2x 2nd Place, and 4 x 3rd Place. The current cash prizes are 1 x $150, 2 x $75, 4 x $25.
The Winner's Announcement is March 3, 2022 along with payouts. I will be issuing the payouts in a timely fashion same day.

I and one other person will be grading the stories in between the cutoff and and announcement. This contest will not be voted on. I and one other person will grade them on appeal to the reader, characterization, and how well the Love or Loss stories play out.
 


 
The basic requirement is that the story be of Love and Win in the end or Love and Loss of that Love for Valentine's Day - (This means that the Love and Loss can be brought down to neutral friendship level or is lost entirely by any means.) I'm giving the option as I'm open to both types of stories.
 


 
How to Submit your entry:

1. Write your story and finalize it. Any number of stories may be submitted but only one of them may win a prize.

2. When posting it up, ensure to click the Contests box and select the 2022-02 February BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest selection as an identification of the entry.

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4. After Posting your story, please pm me (Sephrena) with your paypal address for mailing a winning to should you win or an address to mail a money order to if you wish it in that fashion. I am asking for these early because of the trouble with people being away for a long time after the Christmas Contest announcements and trying to pay people.
 

Sephrena


 
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BCTS February's "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest is near!

Author: 

  • Erin Halfelven
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2022-02 February BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

This is an unofficial blog announcing the contest. I'm throwing this up tonight so everyone has a chance to think about it. The basic requirements are that it is a story of Love or Loss for Valentine's Day. I'm giving the option as I'm open to both types. The cash prizes will total between $400- $500. The payout will be on March 3.

This contest will not be voted on. I and one other person will grade them on appeal to the reader, characterization, and how well the Love or Loss plays out. I'm not going to play favorites - I'm administering the contest and payouts this time. I will be choosing someone extra to go behind me to ensure there is unity on the picks after grading.

I will have the official Contest Blog solidified and posted on Friday.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and great New Year so far! Think about what you would like to do for the contest and begin formulating a story.

See you Friday!

Sephrena

February 2022 BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Winner's Announcement

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2022-02 February BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

Okay, because of extenuating circumstances, I had had to add a 5th 3rd place winner slot for a total of 8 prizes: 1 x 1st Place, 2x 2nd Place, and 5 x 3rd Place. The current cash prizes are 1 x $150, 2 x $75, 5 x $25. I am going to tell you that this was so hard to narrow down. Every entry is a winner! In my book I wish I could give you all prizes just for having entered. The talent you all have exceeds what "mainstream media" calls great. I do not want to anyone to think ill of me if you did not make the top 8 prizes. Remember, I wish I had enough money to award all of you something!

We had 15 entrants, 14 authors and, originally, 7 prizes. Because of circumstances and how damn well one story was written, I couldn't just cut it off the list, so I made an extra 3rd place slot for it.
 


 
The basic requirement is that the story be of Love and Win in the end or Love and Loss of that Love for Valentine's Day - (This means that the Love and Loss can be brought down to neutral friendship level or is lost entirely by any means.) I'm giving the option as I'm open to both types of stories.
 


For our Third Place prizes each of these authors (5) gets an award in the amount of $25!
 

Our Third place winner - Aylesea!

 

I Don't Like You (Chap 1-5) by Aylesea

 
A complex story that fully immerses the reader in a conflict of growing up. We know its a reverse love story with April being used as a cover for Joanne but Joanne hasn't caught on. I would have loved to have seen more to finalize the state of the romance. I do realize that with the return of Anthony Riesche, Joanne's attendance at that school is ruined. The sense of ruination is what we are left with and the win of the romance was budding between Frank and Joanne. Great dialogue, Great story momentum, and a reverse surprise I was anticipating at the end (I should rephrase that, Lead to Expect :) This story needed a little bit more and had the potential to rival first place if it had!
 
 

Our Third place winner - Julie D. Cole!

 

Living Next Door to Alex (Chaps 1-8) by JulieDCole

 
Wow! A really strong story of a fight against hatred! Alex has a mess of a life and if it's true he got his nemesis Rachel pregnant - uuggh! This is coming off as a loss of love for Julie at the end. Hatred by Rachel, Hatred by Alex's parents - a hell of a way to end it. Very strong and potent in loss. A twist in the plot for sure as I did not see that coming until the very end. I personally did not want it to end that way but it was beautifully strung out the way the author wanted it and it worked great!
 
 

Our Third place winner -SammyC!

 

Princess Butterfly by SammyC

 
An excellent told story blending a dream from the main character to make it reality for the script for Paul's work. Loved the way you handled Phillip's change in life and thought out contribution back to Paul who was a godsend to her crisis when she most needed help Sammy! Having Phillip was dressed up to BE Wu Dip at the end was the clincher :)
 
 

Our Third place winner -Merior!

 

The Maid I Made by Merior

 
An amazingly well done poem! Feeling and depth of pain were crafted within it exceedingly well! The moral of the poem is not to remake yourself for someone else. If you remake yourself, do it, because it is for you! The loss was heavy and failed. But I look at it this way - the man who was the target of her just wasn't for her. I am certain that she will still find someone to be happy with as a couple of commenters have said. Touching poem! Great Job!
 
 

Our Third place winner -Gillian Chambers!

 

Too Long Apart by Gillian Chambers

 
A single romance stemming from a loss of Lewis's friend Tom. Honestly, until the end, I suspected Lewis, becoming Louise, would be getting together with Gemma. I was wrong! The story felt a little bit rushed at the end to me, but was a good one nevertheless!
 
 
For our Second Place prizes each of these authors (2) gets an award in the amount of $75!
 

Second Place Winners

 
 

Our Second place winner -Julia Miller!

 

In Love with a Tall Girl (Parts 1-8) by Julia Miller

 
A dual romance failure with a 3rd one for a win. I am kind of torn as to which of the three was the intended romance (win or lose). Robert's marriage failure was blatantly obvious and well described as a loss, including Trudy - Greek Tragedy. Sandra's loss of Karen, less described and was a quieter loss. Robert and Sandra's love, was the win for the story. However, because of the author's prominent placement of an epilogue of sorts for Karen at the end, I am lead to believe that perhaps Sandra's relationship with Karen was the more important of the three in the story since she had a glimpse of learning something at the end that changed her in a positive way and was not a bitch like Trudy had been. This story almost rang true to me like a Forensic Files Episode towards the end! I could just hear the narrator in my mind as the drama unfolded.
 
 

Our Second place winner -Patricia Marie Allen!

 

Full Disclosure by Patricia Marie Allen

 
A superb story of a crossdresser's fight to be up front honest about his hobby to a potential partner. With three fails, he was skittish about revealing to anyone else ever again. But with being honest and I think both Lori and Eileen seeing that honesty within him always, knew he could be trusted. Eileen and Ron for the win :) Exceedingly well written with the right amount of connection with the character's emotions.
 
 

And Now!... Drumroll!

 

For the Winning Prize of $150!

 

Our February 2022 BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest First Place Winner!

 
 

Maeryn Lamonte!

 

Georgy Girl by Maeryn Lamonte

 
A really well written story!! George being forced to out himself to his wife after all that time must have been painful. He hid it so they would stay together in a good way and his fear is well justified in revealing it. It could have ended his marriage. But in letting Beryl absorb just what he hid and sacrificed for her, she got to see what kind of person he was. So in buying the clothes, Beryl wanted to see George's other side and embraced it. A win win in my books :)
 
 

And now, since I have said everyone is a winner,
here are our honorable mentions with my grading comments.

 
 

Our Honorable Mentions!

 
 

Dorothy Colleen!

 

Customer Satisfaction by dorothycolleen

 
Extraterrestrials meddling in a human relationship. I bet they do it for fun too! Alex and Chelsea both went for the win at the end despite the screwup the ET's caused. It didn't need a lot of help since they loved each other deeply from the get go :) They both suffered a loss of their current state of marriage, but it remains to be seen how they continue on from this point forth as a total win. But my question to this story is why are the ET's doing this? Why humans? BCTS X-File!
 
 

Andrea Lena!

 

A Bridge to the Heart by Andrea Lena

 
A great short story of two wounded souls coming together - one reluctant (Saga), the other one wanting (Noomi). And the choice of dinner first was the realization that their relationship would not revolve around sex only. A win win for love! This story needed just a little more character fleshing out and it would have shone so much brighter. Still, It was great short story and a win in my books!
 
 

Morgan Philips!

 

Beauty by Morgan Philips

 
This fairy tale came across a much more adult one. It has emanations of being MATRIX-like (The movie series) with the story restarting with each death. More like a temporary pause between parts. In my mind it felt like an AI running a controlled simulation forcing an outcome more than as a curse. Stefan/Bella was thrown into the wringer through this story. The ending was stopped at a perfect point. But I have to ask myself, did Stefan just willingly accept the transformation? I did not see nor feel any real struggle so I am running with the theory that Stefan was always a cruel woman inside until the change of heart at the end :) So Stefan's selfish love of his life as Stefan was nowhere near as fun or as meaningful as his new love as Bella and a life with Helen - the win.
 
 

Leeanna19!

 

After Linda (Parts 1-4) by leeanna19

 
This story had a dual romance. The first, Peter and Linda's marriage ended, not failed, because of Linda's death. So this counts as a loss of love. The second, Peter becoming Petra and engaging with David was a win of sorts. It's the win with a lot of heartbreak and struggle that comes with the package. I do get that the author sort of implied that being Bi or a crossdresser was not something Peter should do - Being a woman or a man were the only choices. That is just the character of Peter, a mindset - one or the other. I just want to say that its okay to be whatever :) Either you click with another or don't. Peter was struggling as Petra learning the curve of trying to be what she wanted all along. But that just sort of eats at me because it brings up the ultimate question of the story - What was more important? Did Petra love being who she was more than her marriage to Linda as Peter?
 
 

Malady!

 

The Prince and the Maiden by Malady

 
A poem to boot! A nice swift story. The maiden got her love win in and left with her princely creation so that everyone became happy thereafter! :)
 
 

Erisian!

 

The Questing Beast by Erisian

 
A very sweet, well written dual win love story! Lief had to find a new way to live after his loss, and the old Pellinore chased after the being he loved! A very different and good feeling story. Well Told!
 
 

Maeryn Lamonte (Second Entry that couldn't place since her other Entry won)!

 

A Change of Heart by Maeryn Lamonte

 
An excellent loss and win story! Michael lost his former life but wasn't really all put out by it. By "becoming" Karen complete with a baby inside is something Michael himself said he would do without hesitation to save the baby. And by being so considerate as to include men in the foundation, the lgbt ones, showed a more caring heart. I consider this a double win for Michael, now Karen, as she is able to to be in a position to do something about the issue. The romance was of "Michael's" life before the loss of Karen. Where Michael's new life as Karen leads her, the story is at an excellent stop place for the reader to imagine.
 
 
I really love doing these contests to see the talent all of authors can produce. The amount of money spent for the Christmas contest took me 3 months of pay. I truly wish I had the money, and I know that I keep saying this, but I really want to - pay everyone as I believe you all WON!

I hope everyone sent me a pm stating your paypal addy or mailing addy for the winnings.

Thank you for the great contest and keep writing!

Sephrena

Results Delay

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2022-02 February BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

We have a relative staying over for 2 days and its way too hectic for me here to be able to finish grading the last 40% of the works until they leave Thursday morning. I need peace and quiet to analyze while reading. So please allow me until Saturday the 5th to post and pay out morning Eastern time.

Thank you. And I do apologize for the inconvenience. I certainly wasn't expecting this.

Sephrena

The Magic of the Heart Story Contest Entries are now closed...

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2022-02 February BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest

and my grading the entries is just beginning :0 The winner's announcement will happen on March 3. So lookout for it!

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Updated

Author: 

  • Erin Halfelven
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2021-12 Christmas Holidays Story Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • Cash Prize Contest
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Entry Submission Dates are from December 1, 2021 until December 23, 2021.

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between December 24, 2021 through December 31st, 2021(midnight Pacific time),
with the Winner Announcements on January 1, 2022.

Due to an increase of Prize money, the Prize payouts are now as follows: The prizes are now: 1st Place: 3 x $300 ea, 2nd Place: 4 x $100 ea, 3rd Place: 4 x $50 ea, and Runner Up's that receive a vote will be awarded a free Doppler Press Book of their choice that is currently available. The old Prize structure was: 1st Place 3 x $200 ea, 2nd Place 3 x $100 ea, 3rd Place 4 x $25 ea, and Runner Up's that receive a vote will be awarded a free Doppler Press Book of their choice that is currently available.

 

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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry

 

The theme for this year's Christmas Contest is a Wonderful
Christmas Holiday! The meaning or spirit of Christmas and
acts of kindness from the heart are also inclusive.
 
The Contest requirements are:

1.The story must be longer than 2,000 words minimum.
2. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere
else on the Internet or published.
3. Stories can use existing characters and universes as long as the story itself
is entirely new.
4. Stories may be chapterized or a single submission.
5. Multiple submissions are allowed with only the top voted
one submission of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.

 
 

How you develop the story is entirely up to you. ^^

 


Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select
December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry on your Submission(s).

 
 
 
The official code strings to identify your
December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Entry is :

 
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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry

 

There are currently 4 tiers of prizes both Erin and myself have agreed upon.
 
We have Tier 1 First Place rating with 3 winners of $200 ea,
a Tier 2 Second Place rating with 3 winners of $100 ea,
a Tier 3 Third Place rating with 4 winners of $25 ea,
and a Tier 4 Fourth Place Rating of however many stories that didn't
rank from tiers 1-3 that received at least 1 vote during the voting
process to win a Doppler Press book of their choice subject to availability.
 
(prizes and tiers subject to increase with notice!)

 

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between
December 24, 2021 through December 31st, 2021(midnight Pacific time),
with the Winner Announcements on January 1, 2022.
 
The winners will need to pm Sephrena or Erin with either their
mailing address for a money order or a paypal account to
transfer their prize awards to.
 
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very quickly after the
winners announcement.

 

 
 

I would also like to credit Bobbie Cabot for inspiring me in the creation of this contest.
Many Kudos to her!

 
 

So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image Credits: Christmas Contest Banner,   Christmas Candles,   Faerie Christmas Eve,   Christmas Couple 1,   Christmas Snow Scene,   Christmas Couple 2.

 

2021-12 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Winnings!

Author: 

  • Erin Halfelven
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2021-12 Christmas Holidays Story Contest
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Ho Boy! This past year's end was kind of traumatic for me in my personal life, and I'm responsible for it all :D So before we proceed with the Contest Winners, let me explain the Prize Structure. It was changed 2 times after the original announcement.

The Original One was:
 
1. 1st Place 3 x $200 ea, 2nd Place 3 x $100 ea, 3rd Place 4 x $25 ea, and Runner Up's that receive a vote will be awarded a free Doppler Press Book of their choice that is currently available.

Then, we added an extra $500 into the Prize Pool:
 
2. 1st Place: 3 x $300 ea, 2nd Place: 4 x $100 ea, 3rd Place: 4 x $50 ea, and Runner Up's that receive a vote will be awarded a free Doppler Press Book of their choice that is currently available.

Then, because of how the voting went, and the fact we didn't want to rob the winners of their placement, we had to place the total payouts based on the grouping of votes. While I will not reveal vote totals, I promise you they are in the correct order. Erin worked with me on this as well and we made sure everything was correct and added up.
 
3. 2 x $300 ea, 2 x $200 ea, 3 x $100 ea, 4 x $50 ea, and Runner Up's that receive a vote will be awarded a free Doppler Press Book of their choice that is currently available.
 


 

So without further ado, here are the winners!

 

The two $300 winners which were flying into the stratosphere, were:

 

Snow Angel: (Parts 1-2) By Amethyst
and
A Tale of Two Tampons - A Christmas Story By Iolanthe Portmanteaux

 

A super hearty Ho-Ho! for you both! :)

 


 

The two $200 winners which were right there next to the top with carolling-a-plenty, were:

 

“A Cracker Barrel Christmas” (1-12) By Aylesea
and
An Angel's Job By Tiffany B. Quinn

 

An awesome job to the both of you!

 


 

The three $100 winners, packing a huge punch in plot, were:

 

A KFC Christmas By Melanie Brown
and
A Marvel-ous Christmas By dorothycolleen
and
Painted From Memory By SammyC

 

Excellent, excellent! Great Job!

 


 

And our four $50 prize winners, all coming in super strong, were:

 

Happy Avalanche By Maryanne Peters
and
The Arctic Circle By Rose
and
The Camel By Beverly Taff
and
Dream Date By Morgan Philips

 

Top notch stuff!!!! You all did great!!!!

 


 

Our Runner-Up's, listed below chronologically in order to prevent vote guessing, will each be awarded a free Doppler Press Book of their choice that is currently available through Erin. These entries are every bit as good as all of the others!!!!! And I mean that!

 

Burial (Burial-Resurrection) By CTen
The Greatest Gifts By Gillian Chambers
Sleigh Ride By Gillian Chambers
The Surgeons Lodger Part 23 By leeanna19
Believe By Andrea Lena
Tom's Christmas (1-2) By Shiraz
The Secret Gift (1-6) By Teek
The Story of Billy and Suzie By Asche
A Well-Planned Christmas Vacation By MonicaS
Lucky Find By Julie D Cole
The Christmas Clown By LadyDragon623
I’ll Be Home for Christmas By Lesley Renee Charles
Golden Light on the Longest Nights: Emergence By Malady
Being Cindy for Christmas By CHERYLB
A Christmas of Confusion By Polly Adler
Sisterhood's Untold Stories: A Carol for Christmas By Deborah Kate Christopher
A True Christmas Miracle By Jennifer Sue
Life finds a way Parts(1-3) By Michelle SidheElf Amaianna

 
All of our Runner-Up's, please message Erin for your free Doppler Press book! For our top Winners, please message Erin (Erin Halfelven in the name selector box of your PM) for what you want to do with your winnings. We paypal mostly. If you need a money order for some reason, please mention that to Erin and I will issue them.
 
I realize the implementation of this contest was a bit chaotic and at times I made listing mistakes in the creation of the reading list while coding it. I own up to that. I promise that in any future contests, both Erin and myself will streamline it a bit better for less confusion and easier implementation. Whatever, and whenever it happens. We have to, its been awhile since I last ran one, and things were very pressured for us both this time around. From both Erin and myself, we wish all of you a Very Merry 2021 Christmas and a Happy New Year of 2022!!!!
 

Please, keep writing! That is what I would like as a present from all of you... to me. :)

 

 

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Voting!

Author: 

  • Erin Halfelven
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2021-12 Christmas Holidays Story Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • Cash Prize Contest
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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry

 


 
The end of the contest is here now. Now is the time for all BCTS users and authors alike to read all of our authors contest submissions. Once you do:
1. Pick your 4 favorite stories after reading through every one of them.
2. PM Sephrena with your PM titled MY VOTES, and in the PM give me your 4 favorites written in it. Each user uses only one of their BCTS accounts and only vote once please. I need as many votes as possible from our users and authors!
3. We will tally up the votes on December 31, 2021.
4. The winners announcements will be on January 1, 2022.
5. VOTE! PLEASE VOTE with the PM to me! And vote after reading ALL of our author's submissions. There are some hidden gems I came across!!!!

 
 
So to facilitate an easier way to read them all, I have assembled this list for you to go through. It is ordered by chronological submission entry:

“A Cracker Barrel Christmas” (1-12) By Aylesea
Happy Avalanche By Maryanne Peters
A KFC Christmas By Melanie Brown
A Tale of Two Tampons - A Christmas Story By Iolanthe Portmanteaux
Burial (Burial-Resurrection) By CTen
A Marvel-ous Christmas By dorothycolleen
The Greatest Gifts By Gillian Chambers
Sleigh Ride By Gillian Chambers
The Surgeons Lodger Part 23 By leeanna19
The Arctic Circle By Rose
Believe By Andrea Lena
Tom's Christmas (1-2) By Shiraz
The Secret Gift (1-6) By Teek
The Story of Billy and Suzie By Asche
A Well-Planned Christmas Vacation By MonicaS
The Camel By Beverly Taff
Lucky Find By Julie D Cole
The Christmas Clown By LadyDragon623
An Angel's Job By Tiffany B. Quinn
Dream Date By Morgan Philips
Painted From Memory By SammyC
I’ll Be Home for Christmas By Lesley Renee Charles
Golden Light on the Longest Nights: Emergence By Malady
Being Cindy for Christmas By CHERYLB
Snow Angel: (Parts 1-2) By Amethyst
A Christmas of Confusion By Polly Adler
Sisterhood's Untold Stories: A Carol for Christmas By Deborah Kate Christopher
A True Christmas Miracle By Jennifer Sue
Life finds a way Parts(1-3) By Michelle SidheElf Amaianna
 
 
PS! If your entry isn't listed, please notify me IMMEDIATELY! Some people did not tag their stories nor place the string light thingy to get my attention.

 

Sephrena

TopShelf's December 2017 Christmas Dreams Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2017-12 Christmas Dreams Story Contest
TopShelf's

December 2017

Christmas Dreams

Story Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from now through December 23, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time!
Prizes currently are 1 x $250, 3 x $150, and 6 x $50 USD paypalled or Amazon.com gift vouchered. Prizes are subject to go up!

Admin Note: This Contest may have additional prizes. Voting method, dates, and times will also be announced very shortly! ~Sephrena.
 
The theme for this year's Christmas Story Contest is the enactment of making or trying to make someone else's dream come true for the Holidays. It can be done from the viewpoint of the main character or a secondary character in the author's story. Either the main character or a secondary character needs to be trans, gay, lesbian, bi, or intersexed.


That's it.

How you develop the story is entirely up to you. ^^

The story can use any plot device, any theme variation at all: from romantic, action, horror, to comedy, etc. and any time period or setting.

Stories can be any length and chaptered. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published.

Multiple submissions are allowed with only the top submission of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.

 
 

I am looking for unusual stories and creativity from the norm in some fashion within the entries. The making of a dream come true can fail in one way and succeed unwittingly in another. The attempt and working for it are important to the theme. Almost any idea for a catalyst can used: various organizations, people who for rescue and hospital services, police, military, news, journalism, business organizations, and everyday common citizens can be involved. Use your imagination and take that road never trodden before!

We have the talent here on the site. I would love to see it shine this year like never before!

Any Genre, any device is allowable as long as the story adheres to the theme.

 

Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select 2017-12 Christmas Dreams Story Contest on your Submission(s).

When you write an entry, please tag it with this in the story teaser:

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to display your entry:

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December 2017 Christmas Dreams Story Contest Entry

 
 

Currently, I have set up the prize structure arranged to 1 x $250, 3 x $150, and 6 x $50 USD winners using either paypal to send or else an Amazon.com Gift voucher. We may be able to get additional prizes depending on what happens between now and Christmas. The winners will be selected by some means of voting which we have yet to resolve and will reannounce very shortly.

I want everyone to feel included in this contest, even if you are just a reader. This contest is about everyone and includes everyone.

 
 

The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their paypal account names to transfer their prize awards to or else email address for the gift voucher option.
 
All prizes will be transferred very soon after the winners announcement.

 

So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^

 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image Credits: Romantic anime couple,   Anime couple decorating a Christmas Tree,   anime couple enjoying a winter outdoors,   Love Stage Izumi kiss,   Winter Magical Kingdom,   Merry Christmas.

 
 

December 2017 Christmas Dreams Story Contest Results (updated)

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2017-12 Christmas Dreams Story Contest

     Okay. Here we finally are. At the winner's announcements. First of all, I would like to thank all of our authors whom took the time to actually enter this: that was an act of courage. Secondly, I have had a very hard time judging the entries. I could not use my original setup to grade the entries with and I actually had to enlist help from two friends, one of whom kept laughing at me as I was squirming to decide. It was all in good fun. In truth, she kept me on an even keel as she read along with me the entries and had me question each one the same and analyze different aspects of it.
     Another note, I did not receive any offers for upping the prize amounts, but, I felt every author deserved something for entering. I added an extra $550 as prizes to ensure coverage for all the entrants. So a grand total of $1,585 was awarded.
     Now the reason it took so long for me to finish grading these was because of on top of being sick, my spine was acting up really bad and kept me under the weather in pain. To her credit, I would like to personally thank Leila, author of The Squad, for making me fight the pain and grading when I was hurting so much.
 
     Here is the full list of entries that were submitted:

crazypagangurl - Charlie's Wish: A Fair At Christmas Time
Karen Lockhart - Bobby's Christmas Wish
Savannah Maun - For the Love of my Sister
LadyDragon623 - The Christmas Angel
StacyInLove - It's Love (11/19 only inclusive one)
SamanthaMD - The Twelve Dreams of Christmas
SamanthaMD - Dreams are what you make of them
jessicac119 - Must Be Dreaming - (2 of 2)
Shauna - Day's Christmas ~ (Parts 1 - 4)
Melanie Brown - A Girl Park Christmas
Casey Brooke - S.L.E.P. - Sacrificial Life Extension Project / S.L.E.P.- Homecoming
Andrea Lena - Theresa's Dream - 2 of 2
Andrea Lena - The Arrangement
Andrea Lena - Rey of Hope
Leslie Moore - Christmas Suite
Susanj - Love's Gift
Nuuan - The story of Meri Kris Maas
A Zesty Lemon - Christmas to Christmas
Jennifer Sue - A Punsylvania Christmas Gift
Shadowsblade - Shadowsblade: A Christmas Tale
Nagrij - ....Is you
AuPreviner - Cat Six
Polly Adler - The Answer To A Maiden's (?) Prayer Chapter (2 of 2).
Polly Adler - Christmas Presents
tigger - Change of Seasons
Nessa M - This year, for sure!.
Nessa M - Sister of my Heart
Ricky - An Accidental Meeting
SamanthaAnn - Christmas Dreams.
Jengrl - The Belles of Christmas
shiinaai - The Shut-in Santa Doesn't Want To Work.
Maeryn Lamonte - A Dream of Elegance
Ray Drouillard - Christmas Wishes Granted
 
     The authors were allowed multiple entries noting that only one of their entries would count, that being the strongest one. So, in the following categories some of the entries may not appear, and that would be because they were one of the multiples. There were fantastic ideas and it was a joy reading these. However, in grading, and making sure each entry qualified with my beginning premise: "...the enactment of making or trying to make someone else's dream come true for the Holidays. It can be done from the viewpoint of the main character or a secondary character in the author's story. Either the main character or a secondary character needs to be trans, gay, lesbian, bi, or intersexed," I had to also compare all of the stories against one another. I had to separate strong stories from the weak, Ones that clearly performed the stated premise against those that left the premise off, awaiting the proper ending to ensure it fit and whatnot. There were many questions I ran the stories by to arrive at the ranking I placed them in. I would also like to answer any questions an author has about how their particular stor(y/ies) were graded and why. Just pm me and I will discuss the issues with you at length as I did take notes on each one.
 
     Without further ado, these are the honorable mentions of the contest:
 
(12 x $25 awards)
 
Karen Lockhart - Bobby's Christmas Wish
jessicac119 - Must Be Dreaming - (2 of 2)
Andrea Lena - The Arrangement
Susanj - Love's Gift
Shadowsblade - Shadowsblade: A Christmas Tale
tigger - Change of Seasons
Ricky - An Accidental Meeting
SamanthaAnn - Christmas Dreams
Jengrl - The Belles of Christmas
shiinaai - The Shut-in Santa Doesn't Want To Work
Maeryn Lamonte - A Dream of Elegance
Ray Drouillard - Christmas Wishes Granted
 
     Once again, these honorable mentions deserve to be here because they were entries and they all mattered to me. For every contest, the stories have to be somehow grouped and ranked. And these are just as important to me as those that tiered higher. So please, even though they did not place the highest does not make their content any less in mind to read. So I urge all of you, to read these entries that the authors had taken the time to create.
 
     Now, because of a screwup, Crazypagangurl's entry had been left out of my original posting. I have read and graded her entry. It is within the Honorable Mentions category, but due to the glitch and it's subsequent embarrassment for the author, I am awarding Crazypagangurl's entry of Charlie's Wish: A Fair At Christmas Time a prize of $35 for her excellent tale of a tg girl trying to make a memorable time for a person devastated by a disease to spend that time meaningfully together while they could still walk. A last chance to make memories. Thank you for your entry Crazypagangurl and please be understanding. It was BOTH our faults for this mixup, mine too, for not going back and browsing all the stories for potential mismarked entries.
 
Honorable Mention: Charlie's Wish: A Fair At Christmas Time by Crazypagangurl (1 x $35)
 
     The next line of awards go to those stories whom I felt were what completely satisfied the requirements and in addition were executed in particular ways that made them stand out highly. The reason this next category was created is because I had too many Tier 1 entries for the initial separation of stories. I had to create a category between the top 4 entries for Prizes of 1st place and 2nd-4th with what was left. That left me with 11 entries that I felt were top tier but I didn't want to expand the ranking by numbers to show how I graded them entirely. This is my Tier 1.5 category: stories strong enough to make the cut to be in Tier 1, but due to narrowing of the the prize tier to 4 top prizes had to be placed here. For these entries, I have duly awarded a Prize of $50 ea.
 
Tier 1.5 Awards (11 x $50)
 
Nessa M - This year, for sure!
Shauna - Day's Christmas ~ (Parts 1 - 4)
A Zesty Lemon - Christmas to Christmas
Nagrij - ....Is you
Polly Adler - The Answer To A Maiden's (?) Prayer Chapters (2 of 2)
Savannah Maun - For the Love of my Sister
StacyInLove - It's Love (11/19/2017 only inclusive one of 2)
SamanthaMD - Dreams are what you make of them
Leslie Moore - Christmas Suite
Nuuan - The story of Meri Kris Maas
AuPreviner - Cat Six
 
     Now for the honor of the Tier 1 entries that made the top 4 placements. Starting with Number 4, with a story about a wily, true to earth Marine Gunnery Sgt. who made the calls as he saw them and saved Rue and his family after Rue saves him from death, comes Jennifer Sue's entry A Punsylvania Christmas Gift.
 
4th Place Winner: A Punsylvania Christmas Gift by Jennifer Sue (1 x $150)
 
     For 3rd place, we had a newcomer this year to our site family whom brought excellent talent to this contest. She wrote a tale of a person whom had learned forgiveness despite tragedy and dealing with it in a unique way. The ending was quite perfect and made me think hard about how I could try and forgive those that wrong me myself. We had LadyDragon's entry of The Christmas Angel to show us that love can be given, even to those that failed us.
 
3rd Place Winner: The Christmas Angel by Ladydragon (1 x $150)
 
     Our Second Place entry was really an almost first place entry. It was very tough to decide between these two stories for placement. Melanie Brown did a superb job with coming up with a Sci-fi tale of that allowed an old man to live his life as a woman in a machine induced dreamstate: the fantasy of living the right way and being accepted. This story was highly thought out, very succinct in execution and length of scenes. All in all a very enjoyable piece that had the right stuff. I give you Melanie Brown's entry of A Girl Park Christmas.
 
2nd Place Winner: A Girl Park Christmas by Melanie Brown (1 x $150)
 
     Now for our top Finalist. This author wrote a story that in my mind, played out as a very touching movie. A selfless sacrifice that wound up being a quest for the recipient of that sacrifice to seek out the donor. The story had a second part that was not included in the original posting that was added a day or two later that made the entire story come together. All in all, I would love to see this story actually enacted as movie. I give you Casey Brooke's story of S.L.E.P. - Sacrificial Life Extension Project and S.L.E.P.- Homecoming!
 
1st Place Winner: S.L.E.P. - Sacrificial Life Extension Project and S.L.E.P.- Homecoming by Casey Brooke (1 x $250)
 
     Well, that is it for this year. Again, If any of you have any questions please feel free to pm me and I will discuss information pertinent to your entries. All of you did a real great job and I enjoyed reading these. Thank you authors for entering this contest and to all the readers who took the time to read them. Our site is unique in that we have a family atmosphere amongst our authors and every one of your entries was important to me, no matter how they placed. It is a unique part of yourself that you had given to me to read personally. I treasure that. Very much so.
 
     So everyone who has won (And everyone whom had entered did!) please pm me with your decision to have the prize money either paypalled or money ordered to you and the information I would need to get it to you.
 
Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year!

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's December 2016 Spirit of Giving Story Contest

Author: 

  • SamanthaMD
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2016-12 December Spirit of Giving Christmas Story Contest
TopShelf's

December 2016
Spirit of Giving

Story Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from now through December 23, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time!
Prizes currently are 1 x $250, 1 x $150, and 12 x $100 USD paypalled or Amazon.com gift vouchered. Prizes subject to go up!

Admin Note: Samantha MD has assisted me in the forming of this contest and her help and ideas were crucial for it. ~Sephrena.
 

The theme for this year's Christmas contest is the spirit of giving. This is where a selfless act of kindness is shown within the story either towards or from the main character. Either the main character or a secondary character needs to be trans, gay, lesbian, bi, or intersexed.

That's it.

How you develop the story is entirely up to you. ^^

The story can use any plot device, any theme variation at all: from romantic, action, horror, to comedy, etc. and any time period or setting.

Stories can be any length and chaptered. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published.

Multiple submissions are allowed with only the submission with the most kudos of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.

 

Some possible ideas, in case people have writer's block can include: the giving of one's life, giving of an organ, standing in for someone else because of a situation, rescuing someone, a present someone dearly wanted, etc.

Some variations of theme can include various services of people not often written about: Fire and Rescue services, EMT, Police, Airlines, Military, Local Aid Organizations, Hospitals, College students, etc. Try to be different and creative.

These are not the only ones, come up with your own! Music is always a good choice too :)

 

Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select December 2016 Spirit of Giving Christmas Story Contest on your Submission(s).

When you write an entry, please tag it with this in the story teaser:

<div align="center"><img src="/topshelf/system/files/u1973/lights06.gif" width="480" height="22" alt="lights06.gif" /></div>
<div align="center"><font color='#3344ff'><strong><em>December 2016 Spirit of Giving Story Contest Entry</em></strong></font></div>

to display your entry:

lights06.gif
December 2016 Spirit of Giving Story Contest Entry

 
 

Currently, I have set up the prize structure to 12 x $100 winners, and SamanthaMD is including 1 x $250, and 1 x $150 USD winners using either paypal to send or else an Amazon.com Gift voucher of $100 for the winners. We may be able to get an additional prize or two depending on what happens between now and Christmas. The winners will be the stories with the most kudos!

The reason for the change of prize setup this year is that I wanted to try something different that was more inclusive for everyone.

 

The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their paypal account names to transfer their prize awards to or else email address for the gift voucher option.
 
All prizes will be transferred very soon after the winners announcement.

 
 

 

So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image Credits: Everyone Have a Wonderful Christmas,   Animated Christmas Tree/em>,   Woman playing the Piano,   Ballet,   True Meaning of Christmas,   Ouran High School Host Club Christmas.

 
 

BigCloset TopShelf's December 2016 Spirit of Giving Contest Results!

Author: 

  • SamanthaMD
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • 2016-12 December Spirit of Giving Christmas Story Contest
TopShelf's

December 2016
Spirit of Giving

Story Contest

Awards Ceremony!
(Drumroll)...

Admin Note: Due to the large number of entries which exceeded my expectations, I need to break the contest submissions off now. The reason for this will be explained below. If there is a submission you had ready today and were going to post, please pm me.~Sephrena.
 
In the Spirit of Giving, I was not going to run this like a usual contest. I fully intended to be able to pay ALL ENTRANTS a prize. That was my giving to our authors. I did not want to prioritize whose story was longer or who really had the most kudos - though that was along the lines when I first tried to think up how to manage this contest. I did leave a clue in a comment on the contest page that I would try my best to pay everyone who enters.

So in order to pay our current entrants, which at this time is 17 authors, it is necessary for me to close the submissions now so that the prize monies can be awarded. I did not feel that doing a normal voting contest for Christmas this time would be conducive for the health of our site because in the past, there have been some misgivings about it. We also have some new authors too that entered for the first time. So, I want everyone to WIN.

I was going to hold this off as a surprise until the very end, but the sheer number of entries kept coming in and has now hit the point I cannot pay past. I truly mean it when I said everyone who enters is a winner. And we of the site are also winners to read such top notch writing anywhere on the Internet.

So without further ado, here is the list of our Entries!

  • A Christmas Gift by Karen Lockhart
  • Ghost Gift by Dorothy Colleen
  • Gift of Fate by Shauna
  • The Bittersweet Gift by Shauna
  • Amadeus Irina by Shauna
  • The Christmas Ginie by Alys Prince
  • A Friend In Deed by Quadhouse
  • Lost and Found by Julie D. Cole
  • Bah Humbug! by Nikkie Silk
  • A Summer's Odyssey IV Chapter 8 by Jennifer Sue
  • Old friend, New love by Cheryl Bishop
  • Home is Where the Heart is by Crazypagangurl
  • Searching For Love by Andrea Lena
  • The Gift by Morgan Philips
  • A Mile in Her Moccasins by Haylee V
  • The Dress that Changed My Life by Katherine Day
  • Second Chances: A Scrooge and Christmas by Nessa M
  • Nappa’s Noël by Nessa M
  • The Immortal Gift by Frances Penwiddy
  • The Beefeater by Charlotte Dickles
  • Christmas Love by Mario Cawhern Davis
  • Apocalypse Snow by Bailey Summers
  • The Foster Mother by Asche
  • There You Are by Enemyoffun
  • Mark's Wish by TGSine

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Each author will receive a prize of $100 for entering the contest!
The paypal payments to all the authors will made on January 12, 2017 near 12 noon EST.
 
 
And now, I will need the paypal contact information from our each of our contestants:
 
Karen Lockhart, Dorothy Colleen, Shauna, Alys Prince, Quadhouse, Julie D. Cole, Nikkie Silk, Jennifer Sue, Cheryl Bishop, Crazypagangurl, Andrea Lena, Morgan Philips, Haylee V, Katherine Day, Nessa M, Frances Penwiddy, Charlotte Dickles, and Mario Cawhern Davis.
 
 
All of you are top notch authors and I do not want to rank you all or leave anyone out!
 
 
From SamanthaMD and myself,

we love you all!

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Possible delay in awarding my Christmas comp prizes

Author: 

  • SamanthaMD
  • SamanthaMD's blog

Blog About: 

  • News Item

Contests: 

  • 2016-12 December Spirit of Giving Christmas Story Contest

Just a heads up to say that there might be a delay in the awarding of my extra prizes winners for the Christmas Competition.
My 94 years old Mother was admitted to Hospital last night. The Doctors don't really know what is wrong with her at the moment.

I've read every entry at least once and was in the process of producing a shortlist when this happened.

Apologies
Samantha

TopShelf's 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • Summer 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
Entry Submission Dates are from March 15, 2015 until May 22, 2015.

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between May 24, 2015 through May 31st, 2015(midnight Pacific Time),
with the Winner Announcements on June 1, 2015.

The Prizes are: 1st Place $100 x 2, 2nd Place $75 x 2, 3rd Place $50 x 2.
(prizes subject to increase with notice!)

 

The theme for this year's Summer Story Contest is A Getaway Vacation - from One's Self! The main character should be a closeted tglib (trans, gay, lesbian, intersexed, or bi) or potentially closeted tglib character. They are miserable with their every day life and want to break out from it and see if the other side is what they want. You can use the excuse of a Spring Break, Summer Vacation, Convention, or even a staying with a friend's family if the parent's of the main character (assuming they are an underage teen) go on their vacation and that lets the teen to have the chance to try their vacation out! Any other vacation / travel device the author wishes to come up with is acceptable as long as it is the vehicle to allow the character to carry out the switch.
The character must start dissatisfied and progress forward and try the switch to the gender they feel they should be. The character may or may not wish to make the switch permanent at the end of the vacation. That is up to each author.

That's it for the theme. ^^

 

The story can use any plot device, any theme variation from romantic, to horror, to comedy, etc. and any time period or setting.
Stories can be any length and chaptered. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published.
Multiple submissions are allowed with only the top voted one submission of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.

 

Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select Summer 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest on your Submission(s).
 
ONLY 1 vote per person using ONLY 1 of their registered site accounts for voting.
 
Vote on the Flagged Contest Stories during the voting period for the ones you like best!
 
Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their votes and have us pull out the paddle of punishment!

 
 
 

The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st Place $100 x 2, 2nd Place $75 x 2, 3rd Place $50 x 2.* One of each prize will be voted on by the general site population with the second prize to be judged from the remaining entries by Erin and Sephrena.
*(prizes subject to increase with notice!)
 
The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address or paypal account to transfer their prize awards to.
 
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very soon after the winners announcement.

 
 

 

So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image Credits: Summer Getaway Vacation Contest Picture (link is external),   sad anime boy (link is external),   anime swimsuits (link is external),   San Diego Comic Con Cosplayers (link is external),   girl with glasses at the computer (link is external),   and smart girl with glasses (link is external).

Everybody Wins! 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway Contest Results

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Erin Halfelven
  • erin's blog

Contests: 

  • Summer 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)

At Long, long last, here are the winners in the 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway Contest!

We have three first place winners, who each receive $100!

1 CHEERS by Jennifer Sue

1* Spring Break Gender Break! by Drew Miller

1p Summer Secrets by Varian Milagro

We have two second place winners who each receive $75

2d I Can't Breathe by Bailey Summers

2& You Saved Me! by Jennifer Sue

We have two third place winners who each receive $50

3* Time After Time by Drea DiMaggio

3* Scott Free by Portia Bennett

And three honorable mentions who also each receive $50

H Gloriously Linda by Maeryn

H* My Summer Vacation Contest Entry of 2015 by Polyrobotics1

Hd Notta Summer Musical by Jessica C

Entries marked with a star in the first column above have already been awarded their prizes in the early version of the contest, in some cases for more than they would have won in this later announcement. Entries marked with an & won a higher level prize and so are not eligible for the lesser one.

If you won a prize, please, contact me, Erin, via PM or email, and I will send the prize to you by P**P** or via snail mail, your choice. Or you can choose to decline the prize and the money will be added to this month's Hatbox contributions.

Oh! And all winners get a free three month subscription to the Hatbox, just for entering the contest. Just login to http://bigclosetr.us/Hatbox (it's the same login and password you have here) then let me know and I will upgrade your account to the 3month subscription.

Thanks to all who entered, to all that voted via the Kudos buttons, and to everyone who just read the entries and forgot to vote, too. LOL.

And thanks to Sephrena who has been running these contests for a long time.

Any questions you want to ask, you can ask in PM or in a comment on this thread.

Hugs to all,
Erin

TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

Organizational: 

  • Contest Page

Contests: 

  • TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest

Audience Rating: 

  • General Audience (pg)

Other Keywords: 

  • Cash Prize Contest
TopShelf's
Fall 2014

Back to School
Contest

Contest Submissions are over. Voting page should be set up by Erin sometime today on the 3rd or else the 4th.


 

Entry Submission Dates are from Monday September 1, 2014 until Sunday November 2, 2014.

With Cash Prizes of 1 x $100, 2 x $50, and 4 x $25!!

Voting Dates are from Tuesday November 4, 2014 - Monday November 10, 2014.

The Awards Night will be on roughly November 10 or 11, 2014!

 
 

meganekko-coffeekizoku-75-c.png This year, I am doing a Fall themed Back to School Contest to try and include as many authors as possible. Your submissions should be about a character whom is TGLIB (Trans, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, or Bi) attending school. This can be elementary school, middle school, high school, or college. The plot should involve a transition of the character from before transition to TGLIB. Other than that, everything else is all yours to create. Length of submission - any size, all entries must be brand new material never published before anywhere. Any number of submissions may be entered, but only one, from any author, may place as a winner.

Contest Prizes are as follows: 1 x $100, 2 x $50, and 4 x $25!!
Prizes are subject to being raised before the end of the contest!

Erin and I will reserve one 2nd place and two 3rd place prizes for our picks from newer authors that did not win from the popular vote. So new authors, rejoice, there are 2 ways to win and no reason not to try our contest out this year!

Do not FORGET to properly label your submission(s) on the ++Fiction page using the contest box and select the label: TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest!

 
 
 

So come up with a story idea and show us your stuff!
 
 
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Image Credits: Back to School, Anime Girl, and Anime Couple. ~Sephrena.

TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest Results

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog
TopShelf's
Fall 2014

Back to School
Contest Results

 
 

meganekko-coffeekizoku-75-c.png All of our contestant's entries were excellent this year and ALL of them deserve to win! However, because of the limit of 7 prizes total, not everyone could place. We have a total of 7 prizes: 1 x $100, 2 x $, 4 x $25.

Our 7th place winner, also for a prize of $25, is The Second Bell by Melange

Our 6th place winner, for a prize of $25, is Kerrie's Run by Kelly Blake

Our 5th place winner, for a prize of $25, is Life Sucks! by Sue Brown

Our 4th Place winner, for a prize of $25, is Playing Her Way - 1-6 by D.L.

The 3rd place prize of $50 goes to author Maeryn Lamonte with her entry of Back to the Grind

Our 2nd place prize of $50 goes to author Bailey Summers with her entry of Hopscotch…A Jump in Life 1-30

Our top prize of First place, with a prize of $100, goes to author Amethyst with her entry of Pirouette
 
 

TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest
Honorable Mentions

 

Girl Power by bamajoe
Going to School with My Best Friend Megan by jessicac119
School Days... by Andrea Lena
In the spotlight by dorothycolleen
April Schooled 1-3 by Polly Adler
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Sue
Life is a Hoot! by Shauna
The life and times of Mackenzie Somerset 1-2 by Raff01
Three Wishes by Anansi


 
 
I would also like for all of you to congratulate our winners and our Honorable Mentions here for their hard work and perseverance in writing their entries for our contest. They all deserve a thanks and a pm from everyone!
 
 
I do need Melange, Kelly Blake, Sue Brown, D.L., Maeryn Lamonte, Bailey Summers, and Amethyst to please PM me for how you want your prizes sent to you: snail mail with US Postal Money Order, or Paypal.

 
 


Image Credits: Back to School, Anime Girl, ~Sephrena.

TopShelf's Fall 2014 Back to School Contest Voting Instructions

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog
TopShelf's
Fall 2014

Back to School
Contest Voting Instructions

Well, I do have to finish this contest and the voting module is not quite up to the task...

 
To vote, PM me, Sephrena, with your top 3 choices. You can also use the Send this author a message link at the bottom of this blog to vote with.

Two additional winners will be selected from those contestants that did not place in the top 3. Voting will be from now through November 12 at 11:59 pm Pacific daylight time. I will announce the winners on the 13th and mail out the prizes. I appreciate the patience all of our contestants have given me and I am going to deliver ^^

Please read and vote.

Sephrena
 
 

meganekko-coffeekizoku-75-c.png Here is our list of contestants and their entries:
 

  1. Girl Power by bamajoe
  2. Going to School with My Best Friend Megan by jessicac119
  3. School Days... by Andrea Lena
  4. In the spotlight by dorothycolleen
  5. Back to the Grind by Maeryn Lamonte
  6. Life Sucks! by SueBrown
  7. April Schooled 1-3 by Polly Adler
  8. Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Sue
  9. The Second Bell by Melange
  10. Life is a Hoot! by Shauna
  11. The life and times of Mackenzie Somerset 1-2 by Raff01
  12. Three Wishes by Anansi
  13. Hopscotch…A Jump in Life 1-30 by Bailey Summers
  14. Kerrie's Run by Kelly Blake
  15. Playing her way - 1-6 by D.L.
  16. Pirouette by Amethyst

TopShelf's February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Story Contest

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
  • 2014-02 February Beholden of the Heart Story Contest
TopShelf's
February 2014
Beholden of the Heart
Story Contest
Contest Starts February 1, 2014!

Updated Contest Information Inside!
Please Read!!


 

Admin Note: Due to the Hardware failure and site outages, we are extending the contest to the end of March. The newly entered dates should reflect that.

I also need all Authors to Please re-EDIT their entries and tag their submitted entries with the restored contest box link of

February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Story Contest

tag in the drop down contest box of the ++Fiction Page you submit your entry on. Some people did use the contest name in the OTHER KEYWORDS box after the database crash. I have restored the proper contest tag in the database to attach it to the contest entry page. Please remove the contest name from your other keyword box, if you are currently using it there, and tag it from the contest drop down box. ~Sephrena.

Entry Submission Dates are from February 1, 2014 - March 24, 2014.

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between March 25, 2014 through March 30, 2014.(midnight Pacific time),
with the Winner Announcements on April 1, 2014.

The Prizes are: 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, and 4th Place $75 ea.
Prizes may be adjusted upwards depending on circumstances!
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Image Credits: Boy and Girl in Love , Hands and Heart logo from 123rf.com , Harry Potter/Moaning Myrtle ~Sephrena.

Contest Rules: This year's Valentine's Day Contest has been themed "Beholden of the Heart." This idea was chosen to be the theme as love sometimes knows no bounds. The object of beauty and of love is in the eye of the beholder or in the heart of the beholden.

I am looking for a story that has at least a tglib character (Trans, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, and Bi) within it that is involved with anyone else that their heart is set upon (someone who would normally not give them a second glance or consider themself any closer to the main character than just casual friends or barely noticed). I am interested in the development of how that character makes the approach to their love leading towards Valentine's day. The approach can take a lot of time or a little. A catalyst such as saving them, or repeatedly approaching them or helping them in a time of need can be used.

The stories must be all brand new, never posted, published anywhere else before and may be parts / chapters of an ongoing serial.

The story can be any size.

The stories must be tagged with the contest link of February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Story Contest tag in the drop down contest box of the ++Fiction Page you submit your entry on.

Please also use this string of code at the very top of your story teaser to easily identify your story as a contest entry by visual sight to all our readers on the front page:
 
<font size=3 color=red>Heart of</font><img src="/topshelf/system/files/u1973/12379719-crop.png" width="40" height="40" alt="12379719-crop.png" /><font size=3 color=red>the Beholden.</font>
 

Here is what it looks like.

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Thank you,

Sephrena


 
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February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Contest Voting

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
  • 2014-02 February Beholden of the Heart Story Contest
TopShelf's
February 2014
Beholden of the Heart
Story Contest Voting!
Voting Starts now through April 2, 2014!

 
 
Due to more server issues, I am going to ask everyone who has read our contestant's entries to please PM me (Sephrena) with your top 3 picks. I will then post the results and awards on April 2 near Midnight Pacific Time.

The entries are:

  • The Parchment by Bailey Summers (1-17)
  • Pas Sans Toi (Not Without You) by Drea DiMaggio
  • Gandhi’s Instruction Leads to Kinship by Jessica C (1-3)
  • A Little Romance by Melanie Brown
  • Cat Stop Loving You by Amethyst
  • An uncertain future by AllExcited69
  • Crushing by Dorothy Colleen
  • Gr8 Green: The Apocalypse and Salvation by Jennifer Sue (1-3)
  • Luck of the Draw by Titania
  • Leap Year - Yes or No? - Chapter 1 by Julie D Cole

Please take the time to read these before submitting your vote. ^^

Thank you, and good luck to our contestants!
 
 
Sephrena

February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Contest Winners

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
  • 2014-02 February Beholden of the Heart Story Contest
TopShelf's
February 2014
Beholden of the Heart
Story Contest Winners Announcement!
Yes, yes yes! People have won!

 
 
Well the time has come to announce our winners. We have been through many hardships these past couple of months with our server melting down and so many other connection issues that have affected and are affecting this contest, it's a miracle that we are still here. So without further ado, here come the winners of the February 2014 Beholden of the Heart Story Contest.
 
 

Our 4th place winner, with a cash prize of $75 goes to...

 

Gr8 Green: The Apocalypse and Salvation by Jennifer Sue (1-3)

 
Gr8 Green

By Jennifer Sue

Heart of12379719-crop.pngthe Beholden.
 
“That brings up another issue,” Brenda continued. “Kathan, you are well into puberty as a boy. It will be difficult to reverse so I’m afraid you won’t make a convincing girl.”

“That’s why I need to get on testosterone blockers ASAP,” Kathan vehemently declared. “I know I can’t just start being a girl but I can stop being a boy. I’ll go androgynous for now.”

“Androgynous...” Brenda stated the word slowly. “So how do you think your classmates will respond to that?”

“I don’t care how they respond,” Kathan affirmed. “They don’t like us now. They already assume we’re gay. My being androgynous will not significantly change their perceptions. Look, I’m not stupid. I’m not going to suddenly go all girly. All I’m going to do for now is to completely stop pretending to be a boy. I’ll be like a die-hard tomboy... a girl dressed in boy’s clothes. I’d like to see a doctor to get the blockers but I doubt if there is any doctor nearby who would cooperate. Somehow, I need to get blockers.”
 


 
 

And now our 3rd place winner, also with a cash prize of $75, goes to...

 

A Little Romance by Melanie Brown

 

Heart of12379719-crop.pngthe Beholden.

A Little Romance

by Melanie Brown

Copyright  © 2014 Melanie Brown

Stephen was just helping a friend with homework. And then he revealed a secret.

 


 
 

Our 2nd place winner, with a cash prize of $75 too, goes to...

 

Cat Stop Loving You by Amethyst

 
Heart of12379719-crop.pngthe Beholden.

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James wants to tell Kat that he see's her as more than a friend since her powers activated and she went through her big change. He's uncertain enough about the whole thing, but when a fire at school triggers his own H Chromosomes to activate how can he possibly tell her when his own changes give him even more cause for doubt?

 
 

Cat Stop Loving You
By
Amethyst

“
“I don’t recall ever calling myself that, but yeah, I moved some people in that school to safety,” I admitted. “It was really no big deal; it must be a slow news day.”

 


 
 

And finally, our 1st place winner, with a cash prize of $75, goes to...

 

The Parchment by Bailey Summers (1-17)

 

Heart of12379719-crop.pngthe Beholden.

One. I’m Chinese. Yes I’m one of those
adopted out of China babies.

Two. I’m a girl. Well I’m a girl on the inside.

Where nobody knows...

The Parchment

Chapter 19-20

By Bailey Summers
Copyright© 2014 Bailey Summers
All Rights Reserved.

 


 
 
 
In addition, those who had entered our contest, but did not make the top four winning slots, will receive free hatbox subscriptions! I will need Drea DiMaggio, Jessica C, AllExcited69, Titania, Julie D. Cole, and Dorothy Colleen to please PM Erin and entitle the PM "Contest Entry for Hatbox Subscription." Erin will pm back the instructions to gain access to it! Congratulations!
 
For our top four winners, I will need Jennifer Sue, Melanie Brown, Amethyst, and Bailey Summers to please PM me (Sephrena) and let me know how you would like your winnings delivered: Paypal, or US postal Money Order.

I personally thank everyone who took the time to enter, read, and vote on our contestant's entries. I wish for everyone to have a happy Spring and Summer!
 
 
Sephrena

 

TopShelf's December 2013 Three Wise Men Story Contest

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Image Credits: Pictures 6403426 and 20923938 purchased and licensed for publishing from

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Gangsters Illustration Copyright © Martin Rebas at http://portfolio.rebas.se/ . Please visit his site and check out his Illustrations for sale! Amazing stuff! ^^

Character Credits: The Three Wise Guys from Randalynn's The Nick of Time.


 
 

gangsters - T.jpg "Welcome to our little Christmas get together. Oh, before I forget, I am Nick. Nick D'Angelo."

The guy on the right piped up,"He's the Claus!"

"Shut it, Paulie," the other man said, reaching over and slapping him in the back of his head. "The Boss is talkin'!"

"Thank you, Gino." The leader replied as he tipped his wide brim fedora hat up to get a better view of everyone. "Yes. I am also known as Santa Claus. Really."

Pausing, he continued, "This year, on BigCloset TopShelf, we are hosting a contest based on Three Wise Men."

Paulie smiled and quipped, "That's us!"

"Paulie, The boss is still talkin'. Stop interrupting him!"

Nick glared over at Paulie who was slowly shrinking behind Gino.

"To continue, all of you who choose to enter this contest, must develop a theme based upon Three Wise Men within the story. These can be the Olden Three Kings of the Orient, maybe Three Wise Guys (like us), or three separate encounters with wise men that assist and help the main character throughout the story. The story must occur during Christmas. The Three Wise Men must also appear and act out leading up to Christmas and / during / or after it. Okay Gino, your turn."

Gino straightens out his pin striped suit and tie. Clearing his voice loudly, he says, "The TopShelf is offering 4 $100 prizes for the Boss's Contest. Three will be chosen by registered site users voting, and the 4th will be chosen by the site admins."

Paulie peeked around from behind Gino. "That's so someone who didn't win by votin' can get's another chance ta win!"

Gino tweaked Paulie's ear. "Yeah, that's right. These stories that you all make can be historical like, futuristic, comedy, or whatever."

The leader, Nick, then says, "But please, please... write the story in the spirit of Christmas: kindness, giving, and helping. It's the central glue of this entire idea. I just hope I will get to see that in these stories."

Paulie interrupts, "Boss? Whadda about the other things you said?"

Nick sighed. "I was just getting to that Paulie. The main (or secondary character if the author writes it from the viewpoint of a non-tglib character) character of your story has to be Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, or Intersexed. These are the special people of interest in these stories. I found that life rarely treats these people well, so I have to make their Christmas extra special."

"And, as the Boss is looking for new things to read," Gino states, "These stories have to be brand new, never posted nor published anywhere before. Serials are allowed and characters from existing serials can be used ( ie: a chapter of a continuing serial can be used as an entry )."

"And, if any of you have questions," he continued, "Just message the Boss!"

Nick grinned, "Me, Nick D'Angelo."

"The Santa Claus!" Paulie howled.

The silence was so deafening after that. Nick and Gino turn to stare at Paulie.

Gino slaps Paulie upside face. "Why the Boss ever hired you - I will never understand! You always - aalllllwaaaays screw things up! You interrupt, mess things up... not to mention the Boss's blood pressure!"

Gino drags Paulie off outside and shuts the door.

Nick looks up. "The entry submission dates will be November 15, 2013 at 12:00 am Pacific time - December 15, 2013 as 10 pm Pacific time. The Voting will be from December 16 - 23rd ending at 10 pm Pacific time December 23, 2013. The winner's announcement will be on December 24, 2013. These dates did change slightly from before. Any number of submissions can be entered but only one of any author's entires may win a prize. And don't forget to label your entries with the Contest Label Box term of December 2013 Three Wise Men Story Contest"

"I look forward to reading every one of your entries. Maybe some of you can show up Michael and show him the true spirit of what Christmas is all about! From Three Wise Men."
 
 

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2013 Xmas Contest Awards

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Okay everyone! I tried and tried but beings how I can only see from my right eye and double vision from my left, I am in no0oooo way shape or form ready to do a big awards splash like I normally do. I am really really sorry for not being able too. I have too much medically going on with me.

So without further ado, here come the awards!

7th place, $30 is It's In The Book! by Susan Jean Charles !

6th place, $30 is The New Doctor? by SamanthaMD!

5th place, $30 is No Room at the Repair Shop by Drea DiMaggio!

4th place, $100 is Three Men and a Christmas Spirit by Tanya Allan!

3rd place, $100 is Come back soon…Part 1 - 8 by Bailey Summers!

2nd place, $100 is Strange Magi, Strange Gifts by Elrod!

And....

for 1st place...

for $100,

(and 100 pinches on the behind for winning our 2013 Xmas Contest)

is...

 

Naughty or Ice by Amethyst

 
 
A surprise donor at the last minute assisted in allowing 3 more winners to our Contest! Please thank our mystery donor!

I will need PM's from Susan Jean Charles, SamanthaMD, Drea DiMaggio, Tanya Allan, Bailey Summers, Elrod, and Amethyst for how they would like their winnings sent to them.

Payments by Paypal will be delayed by 1 week. US. Postal Money Orders will be delayed by at least 4 days or until the East Coast Storm settles down to where I can be driven to the Post Office.

I took the time to read all of your entries and I really wish I had enough to award everyone who entered. The Mystery Donor made this Contest even that more special!

Maybe Nick D'Angelo really did work some Christmas magic?!!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Sephrena

TopShelf's Christmas 2013 Three Wise Men Story Contest

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Okay, Christmas is just around the corner, and I am still designing the official Contest page. My medical condition has worsened and money is very tight. I am currently offering $400 in prizes as of the moment. It may increase depending on what I can do between now and the end of submissions.

Here are the basics to get you started:

The story has to revolve around the use of the "Three Wise Men" of Christmas. They have also been known as the 3 Kings of the Orient. You can also use them as 3 separately occurring encounters with them. They must demonstrate exceptional wisdom.

Twists upon this theme are allowed if the author can handle it ( such as parodies and twilight zone type encounters ). I only ask this doesn't go into any gruesomeness or macabre ( it is, after all, Christmas ).

Most importantly: The main (or secondary character if the author writes it from the viewpoint of a non-tglib character) has to be Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual, or Intersexed.

The stories have to be brand new, never posted nor published anywhere before. Serials are allowed and characters from existing serials can be used ( ie: a chapter of a continuing serial can be used as an entry ).

The prizes as of the moment are: 4 x $100 prizes. This may possibly go up in the course of time.
 
 
I do apologize for the Halloween Contest snafu. If something happens, I will extend the deadlines. I have always been flexible on entries. I had a medical emergency and I am not in great shape :(

The entry submission dates will be November 11, 2013 at 12:00 am Pacific time - December 15, 2013 as 10 pm Pacific time.

Voting: from December 16 - 23rd ending at 10pm Pacific time December 23, 2013.

The winner's announcement will be on December 24, 2013.

The official contest page will be up on Monday.
 
 
ps. I am really, really, hoping that Erin will have a voting module up for this one! Hand counting so many votes is time consuming :o

Sephrena

TopShelf's October 2013 Costumes Contest

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TopShelf's
October 2013
Costumes
Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from Friday September 13, 2013 until Sunday October 20, 2013.

Contest has started Now!

Voting Dates are from Monday October 21, 2013 - Wednesday October 30, 2013.
Contest Prizes are subject to going upwards before the end of the contest!

The Revelation Night to find the lucky authors who won is, of course, on Thursday October 31, 2013!


 
 
The Halloween Contest this year is going to be on a different theme. This year, your submissions should be about Costumes and/or Costume parties. Now the definition of Costume can be taken in different ways: Teekabell's Costumes was an inspiration for this contest. All your submission has to have is a main character whom is tglib, and involved with a costume at, near or after Halloween. Length - any size, all entries must be brand new material never published before anywhere. Any number of submissions may be entered, but only one, from any author, may place as a winner.

After due consideration, I have decided to lock the contest story setting to October and near, at, or after Halloween. Please disregard my prior comment that could allow the story settings to occur at other dates of the year!

Contest Prizes are as follows: there will be 4 x $100 winners!
Additional prizes may be included before the end of the contest.

Do not FORGET to properly label your submission(s) on the ++Fiction page using the contest box and select the label: October 2013 Costumes Contest!

So think about your story idea and get to work and show us your version of a Halloween Costume!
 
 
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TopShelf's
October 2013
Costumes
Contest Voting!

 
 
Okay!
Due to circumstances beyond Erin's control, I am going to have to initiate the voting myself. Please PM me here with your 4 choices for the winner. Please entitle your PM "October 2013 Costumes Contest" to make it easier for me to spot the PM's and sort them into a tally. Voting will continue until 6 pm Pacific time on October 31, 2013.

I will release the results of the contest at 10 pm Pacific time on October 31, 2013.

Only registered site users may vote.

Only 1 account of any user can be used to vote.

I wish circumstances for the voting could have been better. My apologies.

Sephrena
 
 
 

Here is the compiled list of submissions in the order in which they were submitted.

Please take the time to read these stupendously superb stories! The actual voting page will go up later tonight or tomorrow with the link to it.

We will be letting you choose your favorite 4 stories. Multi-part submissions will be considered a single story.

And for those who asked me to pull your submissions? (Phhhhfffft!!!!!! Neeennner Nennnnnnnnnnnnnneer!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Tough!

I read them and they stay in the Contest as entries!
 
 
Sephrena

 
 


 

The Reading List for Voting!

 


  1. Sleethr - Costume Required: A Friend in Need
  2. Rasufelle - A Pirate Out Of Water
  3. Drea DiMaggio - Happy Halloween...
  4. Bailey Summers - Masks (1-25)
  5. Tanya Allan - I Hate Halloween
  6. mittfh - Dual Controls (Rewrite)
  7. Maggie Finson - Southern Belle part I
  8. Drea DiMaggio - A Wonderful Halloween
  9. Julie D Cole - "Think Like A Woman"
  10. Jengrl - Mrs. Winston's Cat
  11. Dorothy Colleen - Halloween at the Second Story Store
  12. Torey - Magic Carpet Ride
  13. TiffQ - Oh Girl, It's Halloween Again!
  14. Julie D Cole - Something Disappeared on Flight 919
  15. Valentine - The Robin and Joey Conspiracy
  16. Desiree Jones - Fantasy Hero: Game Changer
  17. Heather M. - Oceans of Time
  18. Barbara Allan - Halloween 1972
  19. Sigh - All is Lost (1-2)
  20. D.L. - Blackmailing Biscuit (1-4)
  21. Melanie Brown - The Party
  22. Nick B - Lost Girl - Girl Found
  23. Nagrij - The Clothes Make the Man
  24. Jennifer Sue - Preparing for the Final Exam
  25. Katherine Day - Elizabeth and Billie
  26. Raff01 - A Night to be Yourself
  27. StefB - Curves Ahead
  28. Raff01 - Through the years: Halloween 1983
  29. Elrodw - It Was All a Mistake
  30. Misha Nova - We Need to Talk
  31. Jennifer Sue - Which one is a Good Fit?
  32. Maeryn Lamonte - A Fairy Tale Romance
  33. Grover - End of the World: The Last Halloween
  34. Terry Volkirch - The Lonely Mask
  35. Robin Diaz - A Happy Halloween
  36. Enemyoffun - Day One
So please, please, please!

Read our contestant's entries and keep in mind your favorite 4!

Our authors worked hard for this! ^^

 
 
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TopShelf's October 2013 Costumes Contest Results

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The 2013 TopShelf's October 2013 Costumes Contest has ended.

But who won?

Muwhhahhaahaaa! *Evil laugh*

... if you really want to know....

"YES! Tell us already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

then click the title link above... and enter at your own risk!

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TopShelf's October 2013
Costumes
Story Contest Results

by Sephrena Lynn Miller

No Copyright Intended © 2013

 


 
Image Credits: Anime Witch Render by Bookahz at DeviantArt.net (awesome artist!), Anime Witch, Blondes Witch Wallpaper, Little Witch Academy various, Little Witch Academy at Cartdriver.com, Little Witch Academy Shiny Chariot, Little Witch Academy Trigger, Little Witch Academy Akko Burning Mad, Sorceress by Chelostracks at DeviantArt.net, Akko vlcsnap, akkodiana0101, hot anime girl, Happy Halloween 2013 .
 


 

Oh!

Hello!

I bet you were expecting someone like Wicked Witch of the West or Witchiepoo?

Tee heee.

No.

For goodness sakes, it's just me.^^

I see we just had our contest posted, written for, read and everyone voted on it.

And it looks like its time to announce the winners for it!

So let me look through the voting results and see what's what.

 


 

Well! I am impressed! We had so many good entries this year it was a really tough call for everyone who voted. In fact, the judges were so impressed, we added an extra $100 slot for our judges pick along with the other 4 $100 winner slots!!!

So we have 5 winning places in all!

Wow!!!

Okay, now... for our 5th place Winner, the judge's pick between Erin and myself, I would like to congratulate...

 


 

"... was Terry Volkirch, our 5th place winner for The Lonely Mask!

Congratulations for 5th place Terry!

So sowwwweeeeee Sephrena!

My site! I get the first call!"

 


 

Wha--aaa-at?

How could you!!!!!!!

You worked me like a slave driver hand counting these votes!

And on top of that -

 


 

"...Our 4th place winner is D.L. for writing Blackmailing Biscuit (1-4)!"

 


 

Omigod! STOP!

STOP! STOP! STOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!

I am supposed to announce the winners!

I AM!

 


 

"That's right! And for our 3rd place winner, please congratulate Enemyoffun for Day One!"

Great Job Enemy!

Sephy, you snooze, you lose! Neener neener!"

 


 

My Contest!

It's MY CONTEST!

MY CONTEST!

 


 

"Of course it is dear! That's why for our 2nd place winner we have Stefb with StefB - Curves Ahead!

Excellent Job Stef!

Okay Sephrena go ahead!

Announce our First place winner!"

 


 

I can't freaking believe you did that to me!!!!

You stole my contest!

I wanted to announce everyone and you -

 


 

"Whine whine whine.

Fine, our 1st place winner, for the October 2013 Costumes Contest is Masks (1-25) by Bailey Summers!

Outstanding!"

"Now for a little something to calm Sephrena down."

*Erin waves her wand*

 


 

*Stomping my foot*

MY NOSE!

 


 

< "...and while Sephy is off doing whatever with that big honker of hers now, here is the list of runnerups that were every bit as good as our winners!"

 


 

Our Runner Ups!

 

  1. Sleethr - Costume Required: A Friend in Need
  2. Rasufelle - A Pirate Out Of Water
  3. Drea DiMaggio - Happy Halloween...
  4. Tanya Allan - I Hate Halloween
  5. mittfh - Dual Controls (Rewrite)
  6. Maggie Finson - Southern Belle part I
  7. Drea DiMaggio - A Wonderful Halloween
  8. Julie D Cole - "Think Like A Woman"
  9. Jengrl - Mrs. Winston's Cat
  10. Dorothy Colleen - Halloween at the Second Story Store
  11. Torey - Magic Carpet Ride
  12. TiffQ - Oh Girl, It's Halloween Again!
  13. Julie D Cole - Something Disappeared on Flight 919
  14. Valentine - The Robin and Joey Conspiracy
  15. Desiree Jones - Fantasy Hero: Game Changer
  16. Heather M. - Oceans of Time
  17. Barbara Allan - Halloween 1972
  18. Sigh - All is Lost (1-2)
  19. Melanie Brown - The Party
  20. Nick B - Lost Girl - Girl Found
  21. Nagrij - The Clothes Make the Man
  22. Jennifer Sue - Preparing for the Final Exam
  23. Katherine Day - Elizabeth and Billie
  24. Raff01 - A Night to be Yourself
  25. Raff01 - Through the years: Halloween 1983
  26. Elrodw - It Was All a Mistake
  27. Misha Nova - We Need to Talk
  28. Jennifer Sue - Which one is a Good Fit?
  29. Maeryn Lamonte - A Fairy Tale Romance
  30. Grover - End of the World: The Last Halloween
  31. Robin Diaz - A Happy Halloween

 
 

Please take the time to read all of our entrants works even though the contest is over.
They worked hard for this contest and Every entry was Outstanding!!!!

 
 
 
We need Bailey Summers, StefB, Enemyoffun, D.L., and Terry Volkirch to contact Sephrena by PM and determine if you want your winnings by US Postal Money Order or Paypal.
 


 
 

 
 

From all of us at BigCloset TopShelf, to all of you, have a Happy Halloween!

 
 


 

Meanie!

 
 

BigCloset TopShelf's February 2013 Valentine's Day Contest

TopShelf's
February 2013
Valentine's Day
Story Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from January 10, 2013 until February 25, 2013.
Voting Dates are from Tuesday February 26, 2013 - Tuesday March 5, 2013. Contest Award Page afterwards.
Contest Begins Now!

 


 
Image Credits: Valentine's Day Logo, Couple in Love, Valentine's Day Rodent.
 


 

Contest Prize Amounts: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25, with 2 Discretionary $25 Awards by Erin and Sephrena. Prizes subject to increase pending funding.

Come up with any Valentine's Day story involving a TGLIB main character and at least one other person of romantic interest. Any size length. Can be chapterized. Story must be brand new, never published or posted anywhere before. Existing Story Universe characters may be used. Any number of submissions may be entered but only one of any author's entries may be chosen for the awards.
 
 

Remember to identify your entries in the contest
on the ++Fiction Page in the contest selection box field:
February 2013 Valentine's Day Story Contest!

 
 

 


 

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Contest is Over
at
11:59 pm Pacific US time on February 26, 2013.

It was extended one extra day for authors to finish up their works. ^^

The list will be finalized in the morning and Erin should have the voting link up sometime Thursday. For all of you readers out there, please click here and read our contestants entries in order to make an informed voting choice when the voting page goes live! ^^

Sephrena

February 2013 Valentine's Day Story Contest Results

TopShelf's
February 2013
Valentine's Day
Story Contest
Results!
Peek inside to see our winners!

 


 

 
 

Our Winners are...

 
 

Sephrena & Erin's Pick 1

 
 

Scarlet Ribbons
by the Rev. Anam Chara✚
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The door opened and a little girl in a bright red winter coat ran straight towards Nell. So she knelt down and her little sister came into her arms.

“Nell!” Emily squealed as they hugged. “You’re wearing scarlet ribbons, too!”

“Of course,” affirmed Nell, kissing her sister on the cheek. Glancing at the door, Nell saw their father’s face turn an ashen white. She stood to greet him, holding Emily by the hand.

“Good evening, Daddy!” said Nell. “Remember me? You’ve seen me wearing this before.”

Mouth agape, Steven dropped his briefcase to the floor. He recalled how his son had modeled the same dress and shoes for him a year ago. Since Marie had passed away, even looking his son in the eye had been painful for him as a father.

“Lionel? Is that you?”

“Tonight, you should just call me Nell.”

“Mommy sent her!” Emily beamed, holding tightly to her new sister. “She’s an angel!”

 
 

Discretionary Admin prize of $30! ^^

 
 


 
 

Sephrena & Erin's Pick 2

 
 

Angel
Be My Valentine
by Susan Brown
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‘Penny for your thoughts?’

‘Oh, just thinking about my past. It’s strange how one decision can change your whole life.’

‘Like what?’

‘Well, the fact that my transitioning cut me off from almost all the people I loved.’

‘Some people can’t accept things as they are. They want everything to be as they want and not as they should be.’

‘So you think of me as?’

The question hung in the air for a moment and then he held my hand again.

‘You know the answer to that. I think of you as the prettiest woman in the room.’

 
 

Discretionary Admin prize of $30! ^^

 
 


 
 

Sephrena & Erin's Pick 3

 
 

Five Candles
by Bronwen Welsh
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This was getting so difficult. “No, nothing can be done,” I replied. I hesitated, and then it came out in a rush “The fact is I don't have a womb.”

Michael was looking so confused, trying to get his head around what I was saying.

“So you had it removed. Did you have cancer?”

“No Michael. Oh god, this is so difficult. The fact is I never did have a womb, I wasn't born with one. I was born in the wrong body.” There. It was out and finally the implications of what I was saying was dawning on Michael.

“You mean you're, you're?”

“Yes Michael, I'm a transgendered woman, and I'm so, so sorry I didn't tell you before but I didn't want to lose you. I was looking for the right time and somehow it never came.”

His hands slowly slipped away from mine as I knew that they would.

 
 

Discretionary Admin prize of $30! ^^

 
 


 
 

Sephrena & Erin's Pick 4

 
 

Haunt These Halls
by Alesha
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"Actually, he left because of you..." the unorthodox tenant spoke. "He saw nothing of me, because I am nothing to him."

Susie shook her head in disbelief.

"I will never forget what got you here today, 'Susan'. Nor will I ever let you forget."

"I knew you were just in my head... I knew I was going nuts..."

"Yes, yes. For I have a permanent vacancy up there just like I do in here, your humble home. Change is all well and good, but certain things can never be forgotten and some people will never learn how to let go."

Susie searched around her cabinet, dampening her miscellaneous bits and bobs with her falling tears. "This ends here!" She reached for something sharp...

"Go on. Do it. You will remain, I will remain, and together we will haunt these halls. Forever."

 
 

Discretionary Admin prize of $30! ^^

 
 


 
 

Sephrena & Erin's Pick 5

 
 

Kisses From Romeo
by Amethyst
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He took a long slow breath, “This isn’t just to celebrate the play. Did you know it was my idea to do a Goth take on Romeo and Juliet? And I worked so hard to convince you to take Performing Arts and take the role of Juliet, not just because I thought you’d enjoy it, but because I wanted you there with me. I thought that even if you didn’t get the part I would get to kiss you at least once.”

“You did all that just to kiss me?” I asked, completely stunned.

“Yeah I did, though I was hoping you would get the part too,” he replied, wringing his hands nervously. “I convinced Thomas to have opening night on Valentine’s Day because I wanted to plan this.”

I just stared at him a moment, my mouth agape. “You’ve been planning all this for months just to get me to kiss you and be here with you tonight? This is a date isn’t it?! I know you haven’t been dating for months, but surely there’s girls you’re interested in, I’m just your friend and roommate.”

He shook his head and took my hands in his. “I haven’t gone out with any girls in four months. I’ve had girls asking but I’m not interested in them. There are no other girls for me. The only girl I want is you. We get along great, we like a lot of the same things, and living with you the past year and a half and spending so much time with you I’ve come to realize that you’re the one I want. I want this to be a date and I hope that you do too. Jade, I love you. If you don’t feel the same we can still be friends and roommates, we’ll just have a nice dinner and call it a night.”

I could feel tears beginning to sting my eyes and worried that my make-up might run and give me raccoon eyes.

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Discretionary Admin prize of $30! ^^

 
 


 
 

Our 4th place winner, with a total of 40 votes:

 
 

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Trans. Plant. Heart.
by **Sigh**
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Aubrey’s eyebrows knitted together in mild confusion. “Mr. Brisbane … I can’t go back to work for you. Even if you forgave my lapse in professionalism, I’m still …” she choked for a minute, “… I’m still in love. With you. I can’t put those feelings back in the box. And that means I can’t objectively be your aide.”

“Oh no, my dear. I quite agree. I will not employ you again. I am generous to my employees, and in return I require the highest standards of ethics. No, that is not what I will require of you.”

Aubrey cocked her head. “Then, what …?”

“Two things. Firstly, I want you to do what Jace tells you to do when you end this visit. I’ve talked to him. He will explain in detail.

“Secondly. I require your solemn promise — promise me — that you will never, ever leave me again. I never want to experience the emptiness of soul I had when I thought you were gone forever. Legal papers ensuring your promise are being drawn up as we speak. Do not refuse me, dear. I’m a cutthroat lawyer, after all — I can make your life very uncomfortable if you do.” Grant said the last part with a wink towards her, ensuring that he meant no true malevolence.

She was still in a fog. “You want me to sign a legal contract?”

“Forgive my obtuseness. Aubrey — I’m asking you to marry me, please.”

 
 

4th place prize of $30! ^^

 
 


 
 

Our 3rd place winner, with a total of 42 votes:

 
 

Tuck (Regular) Special Valentine's Day 1998 Edition
by Ellen Hayes
Click the story title name to read it!

 
"Nicole?"

"Nnn?" She sounded so sweet, I just wanted to get in bed with her and cuddle; but I was way too sweaty.

I wasn't too sweaty to sit next to her on the bed. "Nicole? If you get up, you can eat Sunday dinner..."

She rolled over and looked at me. "Oh no..."

"What?"

She smiled lazily, "You did not..."

"You have been dating the wrong guys if you don't get this kind of treatment," I smirked.

She forced herself upright, the covers falling off and exposing her nude body, and hugged me.

 
 

3rd place prize of $50! ^^

 
 


 
 

2nd place, with a total of 51 votes:

 
 

Love and Old Books
by Bailey Summers
Click the story title name to read it!

 
But she cried anyway.

It was beautiful, post op she’s no different than any other girl I’ve ever been with…but at the same time she’s completely different. It’s slower for both of us. She needs to adjust…and we’re both shy and self conscious and even when we fit together it’s slow and tender. And there’s no ego…we both nuzzle and kiss and touch and tell each other where…and what we need.

It might not be all manly but I cry…Her and me finally together, and seeing Valerie come alive in a way I’ve never seen. Like this, like us together completed something hidden inside her and the light inside her face, in her eyes just blows me away.

This funny, odd, kooky, off beat, brazen and shy nerdy girl…

She’s the most precious and beautiful thing in the world to me.

 
 

2nd place prize of $75!

 
 


 
 

And Now!
Our First Place Winner
of the 2013 February Valentine's Day Story Contest,
with a total of 55 votes:

 
 

Missing Pieces
by Elsbeth
Click the story title name to read it!

 
Laughing I took a seat. “What, how in the hell am I supposed to pick? I think deciding whether to remain a girl should come first, we can work on the rest afterwards.”

“So why did you choose to be Erin?” Tabitha took a seat next to me.

Covering my mouth in a yawn, I shrugged. “It’s not any one thing really. Can’t say I was unhappy as Eric, the problem was I wasn’t particularly happy. The list told me many things, of the choices I had made in my life. As Erin, I made some of the same choices but also different ones. Some of them changed my outlook on life in ways I didn’t understand until now. What I did realize, was that turning back to Eric didn’t make me happy.”

“So you did it for yourself?” Tabitha leaned over, looking me in the eye.

“I did, but was it wrong that my happiness is also tied to others as well?”

 
 

1st place prize of $100!     ^^/
 
 
Congratulations!

 
 


 
 

And our Fantastic Runner-ups! who I still know to be winners only I did not have the finances to award everyone who entered!!!!

 
 

  • Powerless by Drew Miller
  • Candy Hearts by Dorothy Colleen
  • My Boyfriend and I are the Same by Jill Micayla
  • The Kiss by Julie D Cole
  • The Valentine by Drea DiMaggio
  • A Very Special Valentine by Lesley Renee Charles
  • The Artist - A Solo Story By Julie D Cole
  • The Sugar Plum Valentine by Drea DiMaggio
  • We are just Two Lovers by Jill Micayla
  • I am not asking.... by Femme Girly
  • The Usual Please - A Solo Story By Julie D. Cole
  • Valentine Sweethearts Forever (and Epilogue) by Jennifer Sue
  • Be My Valentine by Susan Brown
  • Abigails Love by Tels
  • Synergy & Blitz — Valentine’s Day by Shrike
  • He Took Two For The Team by Marina Kelly & Monica Rose
  • Kisses from Romeo by Amethyst
  • Unexpected Love by Femme Girly
  • Daniel Becomes Dana - Parts 1-2 by Allison Meadows
  • Sing A Song Mr Piano Man by Julie D Cole
  • The Girlfriend Experience by Circe
  • Working Girl~Dreams Are Like Angels by Susan Brown
  • Jigsaw pieces by Maeryn Lamonte
  • Caveat Emptor... by Drea DiMaggio
  • Scarlet Ribbons by the Rev. Anam Chara

 


 
Image Credits: Valentine's Day Logo, Couple in Love.

Scarlet Ribbons picture purchased and licensed for publishing from 123rf.com.

Be My Valentine picture by Susan Brown

Five Candles picture purchased and licensed for publishing from 123rf.com

Haunt These Halls picture purchased and licensed for publishing from 123rf.com

Kisses From Romeo picture by Amethyst

Trans. Plant. Heart. picture by Sigh

Tuck (Regular) Special Valentine's Day 1998 Edition picture purchased and licensed for publishing from 123rf.com

Love and Old Books picture purchased and licensed for publishing from 123rf.com

Missing Pieces by Elsbeth

Pictures purchased and licensed for authors by myself have been so denoted by the 123rf.com signature.

The model(s) in these images are in no way connected with these stories nor support nor convey the issues and situations brought up within them. The model(s) are solely used for the representation of looks of the main character(s) of these particular stories. ~Sephrena

 

Contest Notes - Sephrena: A special thank you to all of our participants. Your entries were all read by me. It was difficult when the final votes came in and I had to alter the prizes upwards to my financial limits because of the quality and the near tie of 3rd place. So in the end, I Upped the awards to the totals you see printed here and created a 4th place. That, and we had 4 Discretionary awards to dish out (2 by me and 2 by Erin.) A 5th Discretionary award was made at the last minute as Erin and myself debated over the quality of 2 stories and couldn't find a means to pick one over the other. Hence we had a 5th pick.
You know I am not a meanie! ^^

I also wanted to state, that since it's inception with the 2012 Christmas Contest, I will keep our contests split, how you see it now, between voting, and our choices from those who did not win. That is so that there are two different ways of possibly winning. And also, at least 1 each of our discretionary awards went to one of our newer authors (so 2 were awarded) in order to give them a chance to win in our contests and inspire more writing and more participation!

Please, If you haven't yet, take the time to read all of our contestant's stories. (there are 2 pages of entries so please page on to the next one when your reach the bottom of the first!) I know the voting and the contest is over, but they do deserve the recognition of being read. Thanks to everyone for both contributing their talent and eyes to our contest!

Thank you,

Erin and Sephrena


 
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Postscript Notes: It took me 10 hours - from 2 pm until a little after 12 am tonight to plaster this page up: from getting the winners picked out for our discretionary picks, designing it ( getting the .html template pattern constructed and placeholders for the winners), researching the characters for the photo purchasing from the stories voted on and selected, researching and scouring for the photos I eventually selected and purchased for them, Photoshopping some of the images purchased to transparentize them for posting, and editing and debugging the page.

I was going to lace Abba's lyrics for I Have Been waiting for You throughout the page in a lavendar script font and link the video but decided it was too much work with what I put in already.

The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WeO4VLcmfc Listen to it while looking over the results page. ^^

The lyrics to I Have Been Waiting For You are located here!

Loads of work. Nonstop too :*( ~Sephrena.

PS: My next Contest is the Halloween one for October. It should involve mysticism, magic, supernatural, spookiness, and all things mysterious and witchery. Get those keyboards clackin for it! I'll allow submissions to begin for it on Sept. 1, 2013.
~Sephrena.

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I have distributed the paypal awards to their respective recipients just now, the money orders will be mailed tomorrow.

I need to contact either http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/user/phoenix52581 or someone in Wren's immediate family in order to distribute 2 donated awards to. I have no idea how to do this beyond having messaged phoenix52581 and if that person will ever log back in here again :(

Thank you all for having entered!

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's December 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest

One Winter's Eve Banner.jpg
Entry Submission Dates are from December 1, 2012 until December 24, 2012.

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between December 25, 2012 through December 31st, 2012(midnight Pacific time),
with the Winner Announcements on January 1, 2013.

The Prizes are: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $75, 3rd and 4th Places $50 ea, and 5th and 6th Places $25 ea.
Prizes have been adjusted upwards and finalized!

 

The theme for this year's Christmas Contest is One Winter's Eve. The only 2 requirements is that it involve a winter snowing or snowstorm on Christmas Eve and, secondly, a LGBIT character involved in the story.

That's it.

How you develop the story is entirely up to you. You can have this story occur out in the woods, in an office, a home, a sleepover, a school party, a vacation.. anywhere or any setting that you like. ^^

 

The story can use any plot device, any theme variation from romantic, to horror, to comedy, etc. and any time period or setting.

Stories can be any length and chaptered. Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published.

Multiple submissions are allowed with only the top voted one submission of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.

 

Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and properly select December 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest on your Submission(s).
 
ONLY 1 vote per person using ONLY 1 of their registered site accounts for voting.
 
Vote on the Flagged Contest Stories during this period for the ones you like best! The top 4 voted for stories will be the winners!
 
Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their votes and have us pull out the paddle of banishment!

 
 
 

The 4 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $50, 4th place - $25.*
(prizes subject to increase with notice!)
 
The winners will need to pm Erin or Sephrena with their mailing address or paypal account to transfer their prize awards to.
 
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very soon after the winners announcement.

 
 

 

So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image Credits: Banner - Let It Snow,   Animated Candle Gif,   Perfect Christmas Eve,   It's Snowing Again,   Unwrap the Gift of You,   Sweet Couple.

 
 

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2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest Results

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The 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest is over.

But who won?

and what happened after the contest was over?

2012 One Winter's Eve
Story Contest Results

by Sephrena Lynn Miller

No Copyright Intended © 2013

 


 
Image Credits: Banner - Let It Snow, Konoha High finished by h ozuno at deviantart.com, Random Curiosity - Mouretsu Pirates - various, School Rumble Wall .

Special Thanks: go out to D.A.W for creating the long list of Story Links. Rebecca Anderson, Jenn C, Misha Nova, Sigh, Bailey Summers, Tracey Willows, Extravagance, Jenny Sugar, and Elrod for their moral support and assistance in trudging me forward through with this! I couldn't have done it without all of you!
 


 

Everyone is standing around wondering who won and stuff.

Well it looks like its time to bring on the Awards!

Let's swing our camera around and see if we can see it go up.

 


 

Well, Erin seems to be getting off work from Bairns & Nibbles.

HmMMM!

That seems to give me time try something I always wanted to do!

Hehehehehehehe!

 


 

Finally! Erin's Pirate Costume!

Yaa Haa Haa!

It does look pretty cool doesn't it?

Omigawd! She left the BCTS Legendary Artifacts out!

 


 

The Master Server Ring!

One ring to rule them all!

And the Golden Shoehorn of booting! I think I felt that on my behind once?

Ahh! The Tie Clip of Spiffiness! Always adds Charisma when worn!

I'd better change back out before I get caught!

 


 

Meanwhile... at the awards ceremony....

Erin walks up to the throne chair.

"This year we had our largest number of contestant entries in any contest we have ever had. Before I start with the awards, I would like to thank everyone involved - from the authors and readers alike! It is only by the combined efforts of all of you that we can make this possible.

Sephrena, get me the award slips."

 


 

"Starting at 6th place with a total of 38 votes, we award the prize amount of $25 to author Wren Erindae Phoenix for her entry A Lonely Christmas. Sadly, and from the bottom of my heart, I wish she was here in person to receive the award. Since this is not possible, it will be placed in trust in the BCTS server fund to keep our site alive.

Congratulations Wren on an outstanding story! Hugs."

 


 

"At 5th place, with a total of 39 votes, I award K.T Leone the prize amount of $25 for her entry of A Patch of Ice Christmas Parts 1-10. Well done, and I am looking forward to more of your writing this year too!"

 


 

"For 4th place, author Maddy Bell won with a total of 47 votes! Her entry Gabrielle Noel garnered her the prize amount of $50! Fantastic Writing Maddy!

 


 

"At..."

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Extravagance! My eyes are up here! Adjust that camera!

 


 

Extravagance cuts in and swings the camera to herself.

"For 3rd place, this Extravagant Honorable Samurai Berserker Cat-MegaTomboyauthor awards author Sigh with a vote total of 53 votes for his entry of Cruiser Lake Parts 1-5! Mega grats dear on the $50 you got! Woo hoo!"

"Extravagance! Let go of that camera!"

"You'll have to catch to me Sephy! Ha ha! woo hoo! Woo hoo!

 


 

"There's a ham on every web site!"

"Okay, Susan Brown took 2nd Place with 60 votes! Her entry, Christmas Changes Chapters 1-6, took the $75 prize! Super writing there Sue!

Okay Sephrena, you can do the top winner now."

 


 

The camera turns to Sephrena.

"The top prize of First Place for the 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest is..."

 


 

"...Antifreeze...Parts 1-8 by Bailey Summers. She had the most votes of anyone by a total of 79! She wins the $100 prize!

Sorry Sephy! Hehehehe!"

 


 

Hmmph!

"Well, we still are not done. Both of us still have 3 more Discretionary winners to pick from the list of those who did not win by voting. Each of those will win $33 each."

 


 

"The first Discretionary pick by Erin is - Song for a Winters Night by Moongoddess! The second pick is - A Home for the Holidays by Andrea DiMaggio!"

 


 

"And the final Discretionary pick, which I had done with a die roll is, Faith, Hope and Charity by Lin Dale! All 3 of these winners will receive $33 each as a prize!

 


 

"But we arent through yet! Here is the list of all our Honorary Entrants and their stories - ALL of which are winners to me!

I wish I had the money to let everyone win...

 


 

The First Queen in the Village 22 By WannabeGinger
One Cold Christmas Eve... by Dorothy Colleen
Eve's Christmas by Melanie Brown
Twas The Night Before Christmas by TGBear
Notebook of Holle by Hanna Leann Melton
Hope for Change By Tanya Allan
The Rose in Winter by Jenny Sugar
Into the Light by Elsbeth
Penny for Your Thoughts? By Drew Miller
A Good Thumpetty, Thump, Thumping by Angela Rasch
A Christmas Story - Naughty or Nice by Rebecca Fiore
A Winter’s Tale By Julie D Cole
Robin's Christmas By Robin Diaz
The Office Christmas Party By Katherine Day
A Second Christmas Miracle by Jennifer Sue
All Change for Christmas By Samantha Michelle Davies
Facades by D.A.W.
The Present by Tels
Let it Snow By Shawna Stimple
Twas the Night by Rami
The Boy Who Wasn't by Bamajoe
Mountain Drive by Nikki Thong
Gift Exchange by Beyogi
Alex in Wonderland Chapters 1-2 By Amethyst
Saving Imelda by Jenn C
Hot Dogs And Candles-Christmas At The Cabin by Susan Jean Charles
Winter Journey by Lesley Renee Charles
The Unexpected Present By Robin Diaz
Christmas Lights by Alesha
The Legend of Captain Pruett, M.D. and The Angel of the Bay by Beth Williams
One Magical Christmas Eve by Torey
Ghost Writer by Maeryn Lamonte
Of Snow, little girls and Angels by Raff01
The Christmas Ivy Bloomed (Parts 1-2) by Rachel Newstead
Every Time a Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings by Jennifer Sue
Cosplay Christmas by Roberta J Cabot
The Price to Pay - Vol. 5.04 - Celyn’s Christmas by Alys
A Weird Christmas Journey - Melissa Claus by Dark Kitten
The Mrs. Clause: The Christmas Party by Grover

"Please take the time to read all of our entrants works. They worked hard for this contest."

 
 
We need Bailey Summers, Susan Brown, Sigh, Maddy Bell, KT Leone, Moongoddess, Andrea DiMaggio, and Lin Dale to contact Sephrena by PM and determine if you want your winnings by US Postal Money Order or Paypal.
 


 
 

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Now for some scenes that were cut from the contest, but mysteriously show up here anyways

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And don't forget! Support BigCloset TopShelf by purchasing your very own Erin Doll! For only $29.95, you too can have the almighty presence of our fearless leader right next to your keyboard! Never again will you post and make a mistake! Her glance and uniform will instill within you to do what's right!

Oh, and if you order within the next 15 minutes, I will provide 10 free HD-Quality 8 x 12 photos of her at last year's FashionCon 2012 in LA! That includes the 18 x 32 swimsuit poster taken by Horst Diekgerdes!

 


 

Erin evilly grinned,"Ohhhhhh... Sephrena, just so you know, I know you wore my Pirate Costume today!"

Gulp! "Ummmmmm..."

"Don't try and make up any excuses. No one else wears that Brittany Spears Midnight Fantasy perfume of yours. You got that stuff all over the inside of my cape and outer vest. It reeks of you! Do you think I want to go around smelling you all day? You pay for the dry cleaning tomorrow."

Glumly, I admit, "I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry, just get ready for bed."

 


 

Erin moaning while laying face down on the bed. "Well, We did have a great contest this year. You do a good job of getting everyone to join in on them."

"I try. I do it for our authors. I try to inspire everyone."

"Inspire this then! I get 70% of your cut on those pictures of me you offered with that doll sale of yours. And how did you get copies made of that Horst Diekgerdes shot of me? I have that locked in my safe!"

Finishing snapping up my nightie,"I downloaded that from the Pirate Bay site and printed up 1,000 copies at Kinko's with photo quality poster sheets."

Groaning, Erin sullenly said,"You, over there tonight. All by yourself!"

 


 

Meanie!

 
 

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From all of us at BigCloset TopShelf, to all of you, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 
 


The BCTS 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest is hereby dedicated
to the brave sweet soul of Wren Erindae Phoenix. The lives of those
you have touched have been made better by your presence while you
were here on Earth. With love and hugs from all of us!

We will never forget you!

December 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest Prize Amounts

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have been adjusted upwards:

The Prizes are now: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $75, 3rd and 4th Places $50 ea, and 5th and 6th Places $25 ea.
Prizes have been adjusted upwards and finalized!

We also have 1st - 6th Places. A BCTS first!
So there you have it! Write on!

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest

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TopShelf's
September/October 2012
Reconciliation

Story Contest
Contest has Begun!
Entry Submission Dates are from [Edit changed]September 1, 2012 until October 22, 2012.

Voting on the Submissions should tentatively occur between [Edit changed]October 23, 2012 through October 31st, 2012(midnight Pacific time),
with the Reconciliation Winner Announcements on November 1, 2012.

The Prizes are: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $75, 3rd and 4th Places $50 each.

 

The time for sparking writing interest is here! With the fall comes a new school year for kids, college for teens, and business as usual for adults. Lets explore the dysfunctionality of real life occurring between a TIGLB character and either a friend, sibling, parent, co-worker, or even an enemy. Develop the story of a TIGLB character finding out about themselves before or after they split up or leave the friend, sibling, parent, etc. and then seeking reconciliation with the person(s) they split from earlier. The submission must include all three of those elements: 1) The "before the split" 2) Finding out about and becoming themselves 3) Reconciling with the person from the past that they broke from.

 

The story can use any plot device, any theme variation from romantic, to horror, to comedy, etc. and any time period or setting. Stories must have a minimum word count of at least 6,000 words (hence the longer Submission/Development period for this contest). Stories must be brand new and never posted anywhere else on the Internet or published. Multiple submissions are allowed with only the top voted one submission of any author's total submissions to claim a prize.

Some examples demonstrating what I'm looking for include:
The Prodigal, The Reluctant Girlfriend, and within Emily.

 

Please remember to label your submissions on the ++Fiction page under the heading box of Contests and
properly select September/October 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest on your Submission(s).

 
ONLY 1 vote per person using ONLY 1 of their registered site accounts for voting.
 
Vote on the Flagged Contest Stories during this period for the ones you like best! The top 4 voted for stories will be the winners!
 
Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their votes and have us pull out the paddle of banishment!
 
 
 
The 4 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $100, 2nd place - $75, 3rd place - $50, 4th place - $50.
 
The winners will need to pm Erin or Sephrena with their mailing address or paypal account to transfer to for their prize award.
 
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very soon after the winners announcement.

 
 

 

So get your Laptops, PC's, Apples, Ipads, or Smartphones geared up and start writing! ^^

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf

 
 

Image Credits: Topmost Mother & Daughter Embracing,   Abusive parent yelling at child,   Father & Son embracing,   Couple.

 
 

BigCloset TopShelf's 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest Winners

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Story Contest Winners
And now, the results! ...... *drumroll*...

 

4th Place Winner!
Tied with 3rd place with 42 votes ea

 
 
“I know at least some of you go to my school, so you already know who I am.”

“Sissy Krissy,” Josh muttered with a laugh, quickly silenced by another sharp punch from Marie. “Ow!”

“That’s so not funny,” Marie admonished, bordering on a growl. She had already yelled at someone at school the day before for saying it. It wasn’t that she cared one way or another about Kristina in particular, but being half-black and half-white, she knew the sting of prejudice growing up, even in these so-called modern times. It was her father’s hard work and her mother’s dedication to medicine that got her where she was now.

Kristina frowned though, lowering her gaze. She stared intently at the flames, as if trying to find her focus there … Or perhaps simply trying not to cry. Suddenly, she glanced up again. She had found what she sought, and knew exactly how to proceed.

“What if you were in my position, only you couldn’t do anything about it?”

“What do you mean?” Marie asked, genuinely curious. Kristina smiled. She knew she’d gotten Marie hooked at least. She stood slowly, setting her gaze on each individual gathered now, before she continued.

“What if you were a boy being forced into dressing like a girl, acting like a girl, even going to school as a girl, and there was nothing you could do about it? For some boys, that’s tantamount to torture, and that’s exactly what my story is about.” She paused for dramatic effect, and the entire camp fell silent, but for the crackling fire.

4th Place Winner - $50 Prize
The New Midnight Society: The Tale of the Demon-Sitter
by Zoe Taylor!!!!!!! ^^ (GRATS! ^^/)

 
 

3rd Place Winner!
Tied with 4th place with 42 votes ea

 
 
“I’m sorry Joe; I never meant to hurt you like that.” I could hear her sniffling over the phone.

“No, I was a jackass I shouldn’t have done that at all…honestly Polly I just should’ve have believed in you from the start.”

(Sniffle-sob.) “Really?”

(My own sniffle-smiley-sob.) “Yeah…really.”

“Are you crying Joe?”

(Sniffle.) “Yeah…I miss you Polly.”

She’s crying too. “You do!?”

“Yeah…Dammit… (Ugly grown man sniffle.)…I never…never stopped being in love with you…”

There’s crying some hard crying on the other end of the line and sniffles and I’m smiling because…because I can hear her trying to breathe.

“Joe…?”

“Can I come home…?” God…oh god her voice is so tiny and hopeful and scared and sad all at the same time and my heart is just screaming at me to just say it…just man up and say it because she just called you home you jackass.

“….yes…”

3rd Place Winner - $50 Prize
Salty Vanilla by Bailey Summers!!!!!!! ^^ (WooOOO! ^^/ )

 
 

2nd Place Winner!
46 votes

 
 
“Well then,” she answered sneering down at me. “I’ll just give you to them first wont I? Or has it occurred to you little girl that I could just turn you into a toad. Or perhaps a fat little pig and then roast and eat you! I’ve already got a crackling fire ready!”

I must admit, that HADN’T occurred to me. Though it probably should have as many fairy tales as I was raised up on, and the post graduate education I completed in trashy fantasy novels. My mind was whirling as I tried to think up a viable counter and latched on to the first thing I could think of.

“I plead my belly,” I said looking Madame Inger hard in the eye.

“Your what?” she barked back confused.

“I’m pregnant, as you well know. All those stories I’ve read, many of them talk about a magical consequence of killing the innocent. Some of them have to be true. You may be pissed enough to do something to me but are you prepared to harm my baby?”

“For a former boy, you latched on to THAT excuse right quick.” She gave me an evil grin.

“What can I say,” nodding my head in acknowledgment. “I was always quick on my feet.”

“What do you want? You’re body back I suppose,” she questioned me tersely. While looking my current form up and down.

“Justice.” I answered insolently.

2nd Place Winner - $75 Prize
Cometh The Hour Cometh The Woman by The Last Boy Scout!!!!!!! ^^ (Superbly Done! ^^/)

 
 

and now, our 1st Place Winner!
54 votes

 
 
She led him to the kitchen and pulled out a beer, which he refused, so she got him a soda.

"So, what has kept you busy for almost a year that kept you from calling me on the phone to say you were still alive?"

"A lot actually." He said and he began to tell her the story of his last run for the old company. He didn't spare any details as he told her what had happened with the girls and their sisters.

"So you finally swallowed that silly male pride of yours and went to your sister. And it looks like those girls, all four of them, are in your debt for doing what you did." She stood up and went to him, then leaned over and kissed his cheek. "Now that shows that you're a good man."

"Liz, there's more." He said. "Like I said, I can't get you out of my mind. For the past year, I keep thinking of you and this may be a bad time, but Liz, I want to start seeing more of you."

"Any time you want to come over, you can." She said, knowing what he meant, but she wanted him to work for it.

1st Place Winner - $100 Prize
Hope's Ranch by Raff01!!!!!!! ^^ (Outstanding! ^^/)

 
 

I will need all 4 of the Top Winners to please PM me with how you will want to receive your winnings by: Money Order or Paypal.

 
 

Our Runner Up's!
(in no particular order and in no less quality either!)
Really by Arecee

 

You Were Mine by Susan Heywood

 

Aftermath by Shalimar

 

The Hospital Visit by Sigh

 

‘I Feel Love’ By Julie D Cole

 

New Endings, New Beginnings By Roberta J Cabot

 

My New Miniskirt by Susan J. Charles

 

Abuse - Leaving - Escape - Xanadu = Love - Exhilaration - Xylem - Imbue or Alex = Lexi by Jennifer Sue

 

Runaway Graduate By Robin Diaz

 

Making Peace by Maeryn Lamonte

 

Burnt Offering by Jennifer Sue

 
 
I wish to thank Everyone who entered our contest! Every Entry was outstanding and the quality unmatched anywhere else! And I wish, also that I had enough money to award everyone who had entered!! I mean that! :(

I wish to thank our readers too for taking the time to read and vote for our contestants as well as supporting all of our authors with comments and kudos!

I wanted to do a different contest this year from the previous years by trying something new. I was not disappointed either in the least bit with our entries! Excellent, excellent writing! ^^
 
 

Now, for those wishing a more open contest, I'll have the official rulesheet up for the BigCloset TopShelf One Winter's Eve contest in a day or so. (Sorry for being late on this!@ >< )

The contest tag is already available to apply (December 2012 One Winter's Eve Story Contest). Unlimited story size, TGILB, Just have it snowing somewhere during Christmas Eve (try to make the snowing part meaningful to your story in some fashion.) Use your imaginations and try anything for it within the guidelines!!!

Contest submissions are from December 1, 2012 until December 24, 2012 Pacific Time.

This is the bulk of it. So Start writing now!

Sephrena

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I'm organizing the submissions for Erin to post into a voting module.

I want to personally thank everyone who entered my contest and Good Luck on the voting! ^^

Erin should have the voting module up soon.... So Please!!!!! Read our contest entries between now and the 30th! ^^

September / October 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest Entries

Ill have the Contest rules for the One Winter's Eve Contest up later tonight

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's December 2011 Christmas Spirit Contest

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TopShelf's
December 2011
Christmas Spirit
Story Contest
The BigCloset TopShelf Christmas Elves have come together to create a prize pool of presents to the top 4 authors who enter and win this month's contest! The prizes ARE:

1st Place $100, 2nd Place $75, 3rd Place $50, 4th Place $25!

Revised Note! You have until 7 am PST Sunday Jan 1, 2012 to enter your submissions!
Too much going on for New year's Eve for me to organize the voting setup tonight.

 


 


The Contest begins today Sunday November 27, 2011 and will run until Saturday December 31, 2011 at the cutoff time of 10:00 pm Pacific Time US. During the Contest, you can read our author's submissions here.

Voting occurs between Sunday Jan 1, 2012 until Saturday Jan 7, 2012.

The Big Holiday Revelation to find the winning entries, is on Jan 8, 2012!

The theme this year will focus on the spirit of what Christmas is really all about - love, acceptance, and the giving of one's self or actions for another. Some examples can include: the helping of a homeless person, giving of ones things to help another make it in life, standing up for the acceptance of a Transgender, the reuniting of a family (because one member was Transgender, Intersexed, Lesbian or Gay), or even popping the question on Christmas eve with a long time loved friend. Stories can be of any size but must include the main character or the focus of the intent onto a character that is any of the LGBIT and must be new writing that does not appear anywhere else on the Internet or published already. The Entries may be multi-part (But only the parts posted before the cutoff date can be considered for entries) and can be a continuation of an existing serial with that universe's characters. You may enter as many entries as you wish but only 1 of any author's entries may be in the top 4 prizes.
Some past examples of Christmas Stories here on BigCloset TopShelf that capture this idea may be found here, here, and here, or here.

Oops! And before I forget, please remember to label your submission(s) with the December 2011 Christmas Spirit Contest tag located in the contest selector in the +fiction page for your submission! So the earlier its submitted, the more time it has for our readers to read your submissions and form an opinion about it!

 
So have at it, have fun...
 
and I hope that you and your loved ones
have a very Merry Christmas!

 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com
 
 
Image Credits: Girl at Christmas, Anime Couple kissing at Christmas, Girl opening Christmas Presents, and Santa Reading his List, and Christmas Faerie .

 
 

This Contest is dedicated to the Loving Memory of
Robert "Bob" Arnold
 
1953-2011
 
Administrator and Owner of the StarDust WebSite and Troubleshooter Extroadinaire for BigCloset TopShelf.
 

 
 
May your soul always remember the love that we, here on Earth, have for you.

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This is the Poll/Voting page for the December 2011 BigCloset Christmas Spirit Story Contest. Please vote for your favorite stories below. You may vote for as many as you wish, but please only vote once.

  • Current date: Thu, 2012/05/31 - 1:23pm
  • Opening date: Thu, 2012/01/05 - 2:10pm
  • Closing date: Thu, 2012/01/12 - 9:59pm
116 out of 3119 eligible voters cast their ballot
Granny knows best by D.L.
10% (35 votes)
Gregory's Gift by Maeryn Lamonte
7% (27 votes)
The Marvelous Toy by grover
7% (26 votes)
Powdered Sugar...A Sweet Dreams Future Christmas. by Bailey Summers
7% (25 votes)
A Dope Slap for Christmas by Randalynn
6% (22 votes)
Pink Angel by dorothycolleen
6% (22 votes)
Another Christmas Carol - The Novelette by Andrea Lena DiMaggio
6% (21 votes)
What's Happy About it? by Tanya Allan
6% (21 votes)
Fluffy Pink Christmas Little Katie (Parts 1-7) by LittleKatie
5% (19 votes)
A Christmas Reprieve (Parts 1-6) by LittleKatie
4% (15 votes)
Cold Feet at Christmas (Parts 1-3) by cyclist
4% (15 votes)
A Gift to Keep on Giving by The Rev. Anam Chara
4% (15 votes)
A Wee Bit More O' Seasonal Fluff by Kelly Blake
4% (14 votes)
Christmas always made me think of Charlie... by Nikki Thong
4% (13 votes)
With Truth Comes Love by Katherine Day
3% (11 votes)
Santa`s Shopping Centre Surprise by Jacquimac
3% (10 votes)
Wish Upon A Christmas by Jengrl
2% (8 votes)
The Nativity Miracle by Jacquimac
2% (8 votes)
Merry Christmas Mum by Jacquimac
2% (7 votes)
Christmas Miracle by darkbeholder
2% (7 votes)
Dear Santa. by tels
2% (7 votes)
SRU: My Best Christmas by stanman63
1% (5 votes)
The Importance of Wings by TaraG
1% (4 votes)
Christmas Family Reunion by stanman63
1% (4 votes)
The Christmas Ditz by Desiree
1% (3 votes)
The Season Of GoodwIll ?? by Jacquimac
1% (3 votes)

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BigCloset TopShelf's October 2011 TG Terror Contest

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TopShelf's

 October 2011 TG Terror 
Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from October 1, 2011 until October 23, 2011.
Voting Dates are from Monday October 24, 2011 - Sunday October 30, 2011.
The Big Spooky Revelation Night to find the lucky ghouls & guys who won is, of course, on Monday October 31, 2011!
Contest Submissions are Closed! Voting to be set up later tonight or tomorrow!
Contest Prize Amounts:
1st place - $75
2nd place - $50
3rd place - $25.

The time is here to bring out the spookiness, fear, and horror of Halloween into writing! Come up with a story that deals with a character that is TG or became TG throughout its course of flow and fill it in with frightening stuff!
That simple! Any genre, any plot device, any time period.
The Contest will last a total of 3 weeks for submissions (October 1, 2011 - October 23, 2011). Any number of submissions can be entered but only the top voted on one of any author can be in the top 3 spots.

Please don't forget to Contest Label your submission(s) in the +Fiction Page for the October 2011 TG Terror Contest!

The voting will occur over a 1 week period day period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per person using only 1 of their registered site accounts. Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their vote and have us pull out the paddle! I apologize in advance to all our authors for the shortness of the duration for submissions for this contest, but due to constraints for other things, it necessarily has to be so.

Erin will announce the voting link when she has it set up.

The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25. The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address to mail the winners their money. All money prizes are awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners.

All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.
 
 

Ghoul Luck and Happy TG Terror Halloween to you all!

 

Image from theweddingreceptiondecorations.com

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

BigCloset TopShelf's October 2011 TG Terror Contest Results

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And now for the Contest Results:

We had 33 wonderful entries in the 2011 TG Terror Contest and had 144 votes cast by Site Members. Here are the Top Results.

For First Place, Winning the Prize of $75 with 50 votes is Hold the Salt by Dr. Bender. Congratulations for the very popular entry!

Second Place, Won by 35 votes for the Prize of $50 goes to What Lies Beyond Twilight by Zoe Taylor Superb Entry!^^

For Third Place, Winning the Prize of $25 with 33 votes, is A Night of Terror and Self-Discovery by Maeryn Lamonte

Even though there was no Fourth Place Prize, we had a tie for 2 authors coming very close to winning Third Place for the Prize. These were authors Sue Brown writing Strange Happenings and Enemyoffun's Life Is Precious . Well Done you two!^^

I would also like to thank, in no particular order, Lora Guy, moongoddess, bobbie-c, cyclist, Beyogi, Jennifer Brock, grover, Nikki Thong, S.L. Hawke, Angela Rasch, Ellie Dauber, zoulless, D.L., Faeriemage, Paula_D, stanman63, Chaosdancer, mittfh, Annette, nancycole, edeyn, Amy_Daemon, Andrea Lena DiMaggio, and Bibliophage for also participating and making our contest the success that it is. Without all of you, this wouldn't have been possible! I wish to thank all of you deeply from the bottom of my heart for all of the excellent entries which we had!!!!

I need Dr. Bender, Zoe Taylor, and Maeryn Lamonte to please PM with the details for mailing or paypalling you your prize money. ^^

Sephrena.

October Writing Contest

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As most of you have probably noticed, I haven't sponsored any contests so far this year because I have had to save up for a medically necessary procedure for which I was unable to get treatment for in Virginia. Now that I have flown halfway around the world and gotten it taken care of, I can now get back to putting together an honest to goodness contest for us in October.

I know October has Halloween and all, but I want this year's contest to be on a different take. I'm still plying about for some ideas and if anyone has any, feel free to pm me them. ^^

examples:

Halloween Ball, Prom Dance, Office get-together ... these are some of the ones I had mulled upon.

Anyhow... pm me any ideas you have and I'll put the contest together with cash prizes again ^^

Sephrena

BigCloset TopShelf's 2011 Summer Romance Story Contest

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VOTING!
Voting for the contest will be the kudos.
Please read the stories and use your Kudo button to vote for your favorite story.
Voting will continue until midnight PST July 9, 2011.
I'll announce the winners after that.

^^
Prizes: (3) First Place $100, Second Place $75, Third Place $50.

 


 

Theme: A Romance Story of any size that consists of a either a main or secondary character who is either TG, Gay, Bi, Intersex, or Lesbian involved with another person. For this year's Romance Contest, I'm also stipulating that the story involve either the main character on vacation in another state or country visiting and encounters the secondary character, or, having the secondary character visit from another country or state and encountering your main character. Foreign Language usage is not necessary and can be annotated with italicizing or bracket usage if needed. Default to both characters knowing English if need be. The story can take place on land, at sea, in the air, or some vacation travel destination or trip.

You can submit as many entries as you like but only the highest voted on entry of any author can be in the top 3.
 
Please do not forget to label your contest entry in the contest selector window on your +fiction page when you submit your entry/entries by choosing "Summer Romance 2011 Story Contest."
 
 
 

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Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com
 
 
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BCTS Summer Romance 2011 Contest Results

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Contest Results

 


 

Out of our many superb entries, we had one story that was entered late into the contest, yet zoomed up there on the Kudos. This is this author's first time winning our contests and I'm sure she will be thrilled to hear that she made it to the top at last.
 
 
 
Without further Ado, let me welcome Joannebarbarella to BCTS's Summer Romance Contest of 2011 First Place Prize of $100 with her entry I'm Not Sure I Can Do This ^^
 
 
 
For Second place, we had a very strong showing by this talented author of ours with a very unique entry. This entry was entered a day later than our First Place Winner and came very close in grabbing that spot as well! Let me congratulate Zoulless with her entry of Dad's Working Vacation for Second Place $75.
 
 
 
Now, for Third Place, we have a tie. Two very wonderful authors with very excellent entries. Please cheer on Maeryn Lamonte with her entry of Crossmatched and Melanie Brown with her entry of Marooned . Both will receive a prize of $50 ea.
 
 
I will Need Joannebarbarella, Zoulless, Maeryn Lamonte, and Melanie Brown to please PM me with your details for mailing your winnings or else paypalling them.
 
 
I want to thank everyone who took the time to enter our contest, read the entries, and those who voted. All of you is why this site functions the way it does and why it remains so popular.
 
 
Thank you Everyone ^^.
 
 
I will see all of you again in September to unleash this year's October 2011 TG Terror Contest!

 
 
 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com
 
 

TopShelf's December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest

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TopShelf's
December 2010
Santa's Helper
Story Contest

 

The Christmas present from me to all of our authors who entered is that
there will be 3 prizes of $25 - one each for the top 3 entries!

Please read and vote on our author's submissions here with Kudos until December 31, 2010.
The Big Holiday Revelation Night to find the winning entries, is on Jan 1, 2011!

 


 

The theme this year will focus on a helper to Santa. This could be in the form of one of Santa's elves, a reindeer, a family member, space alien, time traveler, anything or anyone performing an act of kindness in the spirit of Christmas in much the same way Santa himself would. The story focus is about the helper of Santa. Using the helper in the background while focusing on the intent is permitted. Stories can be of any size but must include the main character or the focus of the intent onto a character that is any of the LGBIT.
Be creative, try new ideas. Explore possibilities and new ways of writing when you create your submission. And remember, when writing for our contest, write first and foremost for yourself. You the author are the first intended audience to your imagination. Conjure it forth, give the images substance and breathe the magic of life into your words ^^. In the words of Hermie, "It's so simple... even a... Dentist... can do it!" rudolph.jpg
I am going to have to be strict with the Contest dates because Erin has a contest coming up in January right behind this one.
 
There is a single Prize of $25 for the story with the most Kudos.
 
Oops! And before I forget, please remember to label your submission(s) with the December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest tag located in the contest selector in the +fiction page for your submission! You may submit as many entries as you like, but only 1 story can win. So the earlier its submitted, the more time it has to garner kudos!
 
So have at it, have fun...
 
and I hope that you and your loved ones have a very Merry Christmas!

 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

 
 
Image Credits: Christmas Cabin (link is external), Rudolph and Hermie (link is external), Anime Santa (link is external), and Kashimashi Christmas (link is external) .

TopShelf's December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest Results

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TopShelf's
December 2010
Santa's Helper
Story Contest Results

 

Drumroll!.....

 


 

Well we did it again! We had a lot of very good entries and once again, the voting narrowed down to more individuals in the winner's circle than I originally allotted for. So....I have no choice but to expand the winnings to 4 authors.
 
First Place with 83 Kudos! $25
 

ELF - Extremely Livid Faerie
By
Grover


 
Inane Christmas music that some idiot had decided was the perfect Santa’s Workshop tune, echoed blandly in the noisy room. Just hours away from the Fat Man’s only reason for existing, everyone including those preposterous excuses for reindeer, were getting ready for the Visit.
 
 


 
 
Second Place with 70 Kudos! $25
 

Santa Baby
by
Maeryn Lamonte


 
Chris had a secret that was burning a hole in his soul. He’d tried to share it with his wife some years before, but she hadn’t been ready to hear it then, so he’d kept hidden and struggled on as best he could. Most of the time he did pretty well, but at stressful times like Christmas it would rise close to the surface, near enough for others to notice.
 
 


 
 
Tied Third Place with 68 Kudos! $25
 

Santa Monica
by
Jennifer Brock


 
A single mother about to spend her first Christmas alone receives the gift she needed most from an unusual Kris Kringle, who opens her heart and her mind to new possibilities.
 
 


 
 
Tied Third Place with 68 Kudos! $25
 

The Center: Christmas Comes Once a Year
by:
Enemyoffun


 

Melanie Crane goes on her first mission for the Center, to help bring in a new Emergent at a Santa's Village.

 
 


 
 

Our Runner-Ups! (In no particular order)
 
 
The Mrs. 'Clause' by Jengrl

It Was Only A Winters Tale by Maddy Bell

Sweets for Christmas by Wren Erendae Phoenix

Santa School by Dorothycolleen

Scrooge's Secret by Zoulless

Midnight Mass by The Rev. Anam Chara

A Spirited Emergence Christmas Special by D.L.

Aunt Adele's Christmas Gift by Katherine Day

 
 


 
 

TopShelf's December 2010 Santa's Helper Story Contest Honorable Mentions! (In no particular order)
 
 
Twas The Night Before Surgery by Kate Hart

The Silence of the Night by Laika

Yes, Santa Claus by Andrea Lena DiMaggio

A Fairytale of New York by Circe

My Christmas Wish by stanman63

The New Reindeer by Susan Heywood

Twas The Night Before Surgery by Kate Hart

An Unexpected Engagement for Christmas by Charlotte

A Christmas Angel by Kate Hart

A Seasonal Tale by cyclist

Reindeer Rescue by D.L.

 
 


 
 
I need Grover, Maeryn Lamonte, Jennifer Brock, and Enemyoffun to please PM me with either your legal name + mailing address for a money order for your winnings or else your designated paypal account to send the money to.
 
 
I would like to thank all who took the time to enter our Christmas Contest and write these wonderful stories and also our readership who took the time to read these works of Art and vote on them!
 

Let us hope the New Year sees us through safely, with loads of fun, more writing, and new authors and readers to join our fold!
 
 
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and enjoyed the New Year's Celebration like I did ^^

 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

 
 

October 2010 All Hallows Eve Story Contest

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TopShelf's
October 2010
All Hallows Eve
Story Contest
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Entry Submission Dates are from October 1, 2010 until October 30, 2010.
The Big Spooky Revelation Night to find the lucky ghouls & guys who won is, of course, on Sunday October 31, 2010!
CONTEST CLOSED! Please click on this link and read our entries and Kudo the ones u like best Contest Entries
New! Due to a larger amount of late entries,

I am going to extend voting with Kudos for one extra week after the deadline to give them a chance to gather votes.
Voting deadline ends midnight November 6, 2010 Pacific time. Results posted November 7, 2010.
The Entry deadline is still October 30, 2010 at midnight Pacific time.

 
 

SS_Elvira_sHauntedHills.jpg The time is here to bring out the spookiness, fear, mystery, and horror of Halloween into writing!
 
Come up with a story, that deals with a character that is TG or becomes TG, lesbian, gay, or bi throughout its course of flow and fill it in with Frightening stuff, Mysterious stuff, stuff related to Samhain - Wiccan of nature, Horror, or anything else associated with Halloween!
 
That simple! Any genre, any plot device, any time period. Stories must also be brand new and not posted anywhere else on the Internet. Also...
 
Please remember to flag your stories in the +fiction page under the contests line with October 2010 All Hallows Eve Story Contest!
 
The Contest will last a total of 4 weeks for submissions (October 1, 2010 - October 30, 2010). An author may submit as many entries as they like, but only 1 of their's may be in the top 3 - the one with the most Kudos. The sooner a story is entered, the sooner people may vote on it.
 
The Spooky Revelation Night to find the lucky ghouls & guys who won is, of course, on Sunday October 31, 2010!
 
The voting this year will occur over the entire contest period by registered site users only using a NEW VOTING FEATURE ~~The Kudo Button at the bottom of each story!~~
 
ONLY 1 vote per person using ONLY 1 of their registered site accounts for voting.
 
Vote on the Flagged Contest Stories during this period for the ones you like best! The top 3 voted for stories will be the winners!
 
Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their votes and have us pull out the paddle of banishment!
 
 
 

The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25.
 
The winners will need to pm Erin or Sephrena with their mailing address or paypal account to transfer to for their prize award.
 
All prizes will be mailed or transferred very soon after the winners announcement.


 
 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

 
 
Image Credits: Fairy Happy Halloween,   Images All Hallows Eve Rhyme,   Haunted House,   Elvira
 
 
 
Want to host a Story Challenge or a Prize Contest on BigCloset TopShelf?
PM Erin for details and time periods available ^^

 
 

TopShelf's October 2010 All Hallows Eve Contest Results!

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And Now for the Winners of the October 2010 All Hallows Eve Contest...

 
 
 
 

DRUMROLL...

 

 


 

First Place was won by one of our old Pros here at TopShelf.
She is known for her variety of talent and surprises in writing.
It's no surprise to me that she put a lot of effort into her submission.
 
Please welcome, our First Place winner...

 

First Place with 90 Kudos!!! (And this is a really good story too!)

 

Haunting Just Ain’t
What it Used to Be

by Maggie Finson

$75.00


Second Place, unlike First, was won by one of our newer authors here at TopShelf.
She is bright, has a lovely style, and grabs your attention and emotions in her works.
The Scary thing however, was that the race for Second place was down to 1 razor thin Kudo!!!
 
Struggling out to be the victor,
and with works such as
"Becoming Robin", "Shadowcraft: Aria Blade", and "One Heart to Another,"
 
it is my pleasure to introduce her,
our Second Place winner...

 
Second Place with 67 Kudos!!!

 

A Trick ... or a Treat?
by Zoe Taylor

Copyright © 2010 Zoe Taylor
All Rights Reserved.

$50.00


The struggle for Second Place was awful fierce,
yet having fought the good fight,
our Third Place winner was won by one of TopShelf's favorite authors!!!
 
She is known for her works such as
"The Price to Pay", "The Butterfly Effect", and "The Gift of the Red Planet,"
 
Please welcome
TopShelf's Third Place winner...

 
Third Place with 66 Kudos!!!

 

I was lost.

I was wet through.

The cold rain was battering my face mercilessly.

I was running for my life.

Mollies' Revenge
by Alys

Copyright © 2010 Alys
All Rights Reserved.

$25.00


But that's not all!!!

There were 3 other very close winners that came close to 2nd place in the fight of Kudos!!!
I decided that I couldn't let their struggle to win go unnoticed.
 
So I created a Fourth Place.
 
All 3 of them and they will equally get the prize for Fourth place!!!
 
So please give our Fourth Place Winners,
a warm round of applause!
 
TopShelf's Fourth Place winners,...

 
Fourth Place with 60 Kudos!!!

 

Too Good to be True
by Maeryn Lamonte

Michael’s new apartment is too good to be true. Immense, beautifully furnished and cheaper than his last place.
 
Sometimes when fortune smiles you smile back and accept what it offers you.
Other times, with Halloween just round the corner and a killer on the loose,
 
it might have been as well to ask a few questions first…

$10.00


 
Fourth Place with 58 Kudos!!!

 

Tomas remembers the blue dress that had enraptured him one Halloween and how magical it had made him feel.

Momento Mori
by Heather O'Malley

Copyright© 2010 by Heather O'Malley
All Rights Reserved.

$10.00


 
Fourth Place with 56 Kudos!!!

 

Joss Whedon portrayed it right. High school really is hell. At least mine was.
A genuine monster came to my school, and I was one of those who lived to tell the story.
Sometimes I envy those who didn’t survive….

Choices
by Dorothy Colleen

Copyright© 2010 by Dorothy Colleen
All Rights Reserved.

$10.00


 

We Need Maggie Finson, Zoe Taylor, Alys,
Maeryn Lamonte, Heather O'Malley and Dorothy Colleen
to please PM me with your mailing addresses and legal name for me to mail
or the account to send by Paypal your Cash Prizes!


And Now... for the Runner-Ups!
In no particular order

Jason Strikes Out by Angela Rasch
Fangs Ain’t What They Used To Be By Susan Brown
The Case of the Perfect Picture by Armond
Playtime by Cyclist
Why Did I Ever Agree To Do THAT? By Billiebob
Halloween: brings out the best and worst. by Jennifer Sue
Lost in the Myth of the Sleepy Eye Lights by Angela Rasch
Are We There Yet? by BillieBob
Lucy and the Ghost by Kristine Roland


October 2010 All Hallows Eve Contest Honourable Mentions
In no particular order

The Soul of Man by Jaye Michael
O My Son, My Daughter Absolom! 1 by The Rev. Anam Chara
Bewitched By Topsy
Cutting Edge by Barbara Lynn Terry
Demon of the Fallen Angels by Charlotte Dickles
Abby Normal by Jennifer Brock
A Journey Off The Beaten Path by Barbara Lynn Terry
November brings out the creeping shadows by Omri
La Suite Danse Macabre 1 by The Rev. Anam Chara
Night of the Werebabies by Heather Rose Brown
Teacher's Pets by Jengrl
Cinderella Zombie by SuZie
Caught Behind the Mask by Zoulless
Oww!!! by Lauren Renée
Everett by Lauren Renée
The Resurrection of Mary Baker By Louise Anne Smithson
October’s Bright Blue “Whether” by Angela Rasch
One of My Teachers By BillieBob
The Blood Red Tombstone by Jengrl
Need by Faeriemage
The Topshelf Mash by Kate Hart
Her Diary - 1980: November 1st by Faeriemage
This Trick's a REAL TREAT! by PattieBFine
The Halloween Party From Hell! by PattieBFine
A Trio of Terrifying Tunes Submitted by Lauren Renée
Silver Blood: The Cost By Stanman63
The Demon (Inspired by "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe) by MonaLisa
Mi Esperanza by Kaptin Nibbles
A MIRACLE LOST – A MIRACLE REGAINED BY: RAMI
S.R.U. Silver Blood: Frankenwoman By Stanman63


I would like to thank everyone who took the time to participate by submitting entries and for those who took the time to, not only read our wonderful entries, but to actually vote using our Kudo system! In every sense of the word, all of you who entered the contest are winners!!! I wish I had the funding to pay everyone who took the time and entered, but... I simply don't have the resources. This is what BigCloset TopShelf is all about! Writing, Reading, Commenting, and Participating.

I will return with presenting the December 2010 Santa's Helper Contest!

 

=^.^=

 

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

 
 
Image Credits: Images All Hallows Eve Rhyme,   Haunted House,   Elvira
 
 
 
Want to host a Story Challenge or a Prize Contest on BigCloset TopShelf?
PM Erin for details and time periods available ^^

 
 

Summer Romance Contest 2010

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

Audience Rating: 

  • General Audience (pg)

Other Keywords: 

  • Prize Money Contest
  • Summer Romance 2010 Story Contest
TopShelf's
 Summer Romance 2010 
Story Contest
Contest Closed!
Voting to Begin Monday July 19, 2010 until Sunday July 25, 2010.
Announcement of voting procedures on Monday.

Contest Submissions to Date (click here)

This year's Summer Romance Contest is going to be a little different from our past 2 years. I would like to narrow the theme down some. In this year's contest the theme will focus on the development of love between two people, one of which is either intersexed, transgender, transvestite, lesbian, gay or bi. The environment of the story should revolve around either school, work, or some sort of trip. The era should be between 1900 - 2025 (^^ Keeping things within the 20th - 21st Century). This Contest will last a total of eleven weeks for submissions (Absolutely no rescheduling of the deadline for any reason - winners need to be announced and Sephrena will be mailing the awards out to the designated winners). The voting will occur over a 7 day period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per user. The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $80, 2nd place - $60, 3rd place - $50. The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address to mail them their money. All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.
 
 
Rules for the contest are as follows:

Must be fiction.

Can be a short story, a poem, a novel, a piece of any length. To enable fairness to everyone, No chapters of ongoing serials will be allowed. This is to level the playing field for all author entries and for the readers to decide.

Any open story universes may used.

The work that is being submitted must be a NEW writing and not already posted anywhere else prior to the starting date of this contest. This contest is for new works only, and as such, please do not use anything recycled from other sites.

Contest Duration is 11 weeks - no extensions. Starting Date May 2, 2010 to the Closing Date 12 midnight Pacific time July 16, 2010.

Marking Your Story - There will be a selection in the +fiction page under CONTESTS entitled "Summer Romance Story Contest 2010" to mark your story with. PLEASE CHECK TO ENSURE THAT YOU MARK YOUR ENTRY.

Number of Submissions - Any author may submit any number of new entries that are validly marked in the contest box, but only one entry per author will be counted in the final totals, the one that gets the top number of votes from that author will be the one counted for purposes of determining winners.

Voting Dates - Voting period will be for 1 week only between July 19, 2010 until July 25, 2010. Voting is limited to REGISTERED site users only. Voting Procedures to be announced on Monday July 19

Tie-breaking - In the event of a Tie for any position, Erin, Sephrena and the involved winners will discuss a suitable resolution between the placed winners and/or issue additional prize monies. The results of the contest will be posted within 24 hours of the declared winners and all prize resolutions will be announced along with the winners.

Prizes - 1st place - $80, 2nd place - $60, 3rd place - $50. All money prizes are awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners. (For our non North American registered users - if you have a Paypal account and would like direct deposit of the award money through that, I can arrange to do that as well.)


Happy Creative Thinking and get those keyboards clacking!!



Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com


 
 
 
 
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TopShelf's Summer Romance 2010 Contest Results

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • Summer Romance 2010 Story Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)
And Now for the Winners...
 
 
 
DRUMROLL...

First Place was won by a very talented author of ours. She consistently puts out superb tales enthralling us with such titles as Royalty Consists Not In Vain Pomp, What Transpires at Night, and Either Do it right, or Don't Do it at All,
 
our very own...
 
Lillith Langtree!

 
First Place with 7 votes!

Passion and Purpose
by:
Lilith Langtree


Sasha Petrovitch has not been like other boys for the last three years.
So what happens when he meets the new girl during lunch on their first day back?


$80.00

Second Place was won by another of our very talented Authors with 4 votes. Her writing is very sensual and touching. I am very impressed with this author's team of editor and illustrator combining their talents to enhance her design...
 
None other than...
 
Kelly Blake!

 
Second Place with 4 votes!

A Second Chance

 

by Kelly Blake

 

Edited and Proofed
by Drea DiMaggio and Alison Mary
Artwork provided by
the Incorrigible Belle Meade


...I knew what had happened. As one of the cops approached me and started to speak to me, I heard not a single word. I merely saw his mouth move as tears began to fall from my eyes.


I remember little else from that evening other than finding myself in my old room, now occupied by Corie, and Kate alongside me in the bed. Owen and Meg were gone. We would never be able to speak, or touch, or laugh, or cry with them again. My life, and Kate’s, as we knew it, had come to a most bitter end.

$60.00

Third Place with 3 votes, is one of our most prolific writers on BigCloset TopShelf. She has devoted a large portion of her life in the past two years in putting her visions and thoughts into words here. With very emotional and touching words, her story was superb.
 
I am proud to present...
 
Andrea Lena DiMaggio!

 
Third Place with 3 votes!

 

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The Piano Lesson
of Linda Piontak

 
by Andrea Lena DiMaggio

 

Linda discovers that even a tutor can
learn a thing or two; especially when
love is involved!

$50.00

We Need Lillith Langtree, Kelly Blake, and Andrea Lena DiMaggio to please
PM me with your mailing addresses for your Cash Prizes!


And Now... for the Runner-Ups!




The Sweet Romance of Linda Piontak by Andrea Lena Dimaggio
Freezeframe by Kaho
Fine Print by Grover
A Bonnie Lass by Angela Rasch
Lessons Learned by Catherine Linda Michel
Military Wife by Stanman


Summer Romance 2010 Contest's Honourable Mentions




Martha by Topsy
What are the Odds? by Connie Alexander
On the Way to the Dance by Heather Rose Brown
Hiding Alice by Saless
Heat Wave by Commentator
Accidental Girl by Stanman
The Missing Lover by Katherine Day
That Summer I Found Her by Jengirl
Perfect Nails by Kelly Blake
Never Trust The Pretty Ones by Jennifer Brock
My Summer Time Romance by Stanman


I would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter for participating. In every sense of the word, everyone who entered this contest is a winner!!! I wish I had the funding to pay everyone who took the time and entered, but... I simply don't have those kind of resources. I would also like to thank the people who took the time to vote and who read the stories. That is what BigCloset TopShelf is all about! Writing, Reading, Commenting, and Participating.

I will return with presenting the December 2010 Santa's Helper Contest!

=^.^=

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

Contests: 

  • December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest

Audience Rating: 

  • General Audience (pg)
 
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TopShelf's
December 2009
Christmas Holidays
Contest

2 days left to submit your entries!!!
Submission Deadline extended 2 days!

Entry Submission Dates are from December 1, 2009 until December 26, 2009.
Voting Dates are from Friday December 27, 2009 - Jan 1, 2010.
The Big Holiday Revelation Night to find the winning entries, is on Jan 2, 2010!
 
The Holidays are here and now is the time to bring the spirit of Christmas and New Year's Eve into writing! Come up with a story, that deals with a character that is TG or became TG during the story and fill it with the meaning and Spirit of Christmas & Good Will! That simple! Any genre, any plot device.

The story entry can be a chapter of an ongoing serial, a short story, a poem, a novel, a piece of any length. The only restriction is that this work be NEW writing and not already posted prior to the starting date of this contest. This is for new works only, and as such please do not use anything recycled from other sites. Entries may be multipart (especially because of that submission length bug in Drupal!).

The Contest will last a total of 3 weeks for submissions (December 1, 2009 - December 24, 2009).

The voting will occur over a 1 week period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per person using only 1 of their registered site accounts. Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their vote and have us pull out the paddle!

The voting will be blind ballot of course and the results kept hidden.

The TOP 4 stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $90, 2nd place - $70, 3rd place - $50, 4th place - Copy of Jenny Walker's No Half Measures Volume 2.

The winners will need to pm Sephrena with their mailing address to mail the winners their money. All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.

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TopShelf's December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest Results

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest
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TopShelf's
December 2009
Christmas Holidays
Contest Results

 
 
 

And Now for the Winners of Christmas Cheer...

 

 
 
 

DRUMROLL...

 


First Place was precisely tied by 2 very talented authors. Since this was the case, I combined both 1st place and 2nd places prizes together and divided them by 2. Hence, both authors shall receive equal first prize amounts.

 
First Place with 7 votes!

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AN ANGEL WITHOUT WINGS
A CHRISTMAS STORY

By Susan Brown
 
Angel

Copyright© 2009 Susan Brown

$80.00

First Place with 7 votes!

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Forlornly, George stared out his window. The nasty frozen stuff was really coming down.
Big, heavy, wet, white clumps of snow tumbled downward until they disintegrated smashing into the ground.

A Toy’s Story

by Grover

Copyright© 2009 Grover

$80.00

Second Place was also precisely tied by 2 very talented authors. Since this was also the case, I decree both authors shall receive equal prize amounts of $40 each.

 
Second Place with 6 votes!

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Kris has been struggling with gender confusion. On Christmas Eve, in the midst of a party full of girls in holiday finery, his sister offers to dress him up to see if it will help him to understand things better. He agrees to give it a try, and his world comes crashing down around him. He needs a miracle.
Will he get one?

One Christmas Eve

by Mona Lisa

Copyright© 2009 by Mona Lisa

$40.00

Second Place with 6 votes!

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I’ll Be Home For Christmas

by Arecee

Copyright© 2009 Arecee

$40.00

Third Place with 3 votes!

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So This Is Christmas

By Maddy Bell

$25.00


We Need Susan Brown, Grover, Mona Lisa, Arecee and Maddy Bell to please
PM me with your mailing addresses for your Cash Prizes!



And Now... for the Runner-Ups!

To Sonja Henie, with Love by Katherine Day - 2 votes
Christmas Chaos by SuZie - 2 votes
Un Natale Agrodolce - A Bittersweet Christmas by Andrea Lena Dimaggio - 2 votes
Roni's Party by Maddy Bell - 2 votes
The Scoobies Do: Chapter 7 - The Scoobies Christmas Celebration by Jennifer Sue - 2 votes
'Tis The Reason For The Season by Elizabeth Marie - 2 votes
The Best Christmas Ever by Theide - 2 votes


December 2009 Christmas Holidays Contest Honourable Mentions




A Whole New Wardrobe - Dreams of a Christmas Yet to Come!      by Andrea Lena DiMaggio
Abbey's Road Home      by Andrea Lena DiMaggio
All I want for Christmas      by Barbara Lynn Terry
Between Christmas and Hell      by Beth Williams
Christmas Reunion      by Stanman
In The Pink      by Topsy
The Cycle      by Princess
TransBike-Merry Christmas Wish      by Stanman

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter for participating. In every sense of the word, all of you who entered the contest are winners!!! I wish I had the funding to pay everyone who took the time and entered, but... I simply don't have those kind of resources. I would also like to thank the people who took the time to vote and who read the stories. That is what BigCloset TopShelf is all about! Writing, Reading, Commenting, and Participating.

I will return with presenting the Summer Romance 2010 Contest!

=^.^=

Merry Christmas to All and a Happy New Year!


 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

TopShelf's October 2009 TG Terror Contest

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

Contests: 

  • October 2009 TG Terror Contest

Audience Rating: 

  • General Audience (pg)

Other Keywords: 

  • Cash Prize Contest

TopShelf's
 October TG Terror 
Contest
Entry Submission Dates are from October 1, 2009 until October 22, 2009.
Voting Dates are from Saturday October 24, 2009 - Friday October 30, 2009
The Big Spooky Revelation Night to find the lucky ghouls & guys who won is, of course, on Saturday October 31, 2009!
Contest Over! Voting to Begin Soon!

The time is here to bring out the spookiness, fear, and horror of Halloween into writing! Come up with a story, that deals with a character that is TG or became TG throughout its course of flow and fill it in with frightening stuff! That simple! Any genre, any plot device, any time period (even prehistoric!) The Contest will last a total of 3 weeks for submissions (October 1, 2009 - October 22, 2009).

Erin will be mailing the awards out to the designated winners). The voting will occur over a 1 week period day period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per person using only 1 of their registered site accounts. Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their vote and have us pull out the paddle!

The voting will be blind ballot of course and the results kept hidden. The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25. The winners will need to pm Erin or Sephrena with their mailing address to mail the winners their money. All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.
 

This contest is dedicated to my best friend in the whole wide world - Princess Chelsea.
This contest is for you dear!
I would like for everyone to try and participate!!!

Rules for the contest are as follows:

  • Theme - Any may be used - understanding that the Story should be inclusive of Halloween day/night.
  • Story Length - any length.
  • Characters - the main or a secondary character must be a TG, TV, TS, BI, Gay, Lesbian, or genderqueer (a challenging individual that shifts gender quite frequently)
  • Character Age - Any age group, but there will be ABSOLUTELY NONE of the stories allowed to contain underage sex! Underage is defined as anyone under the age of 16! Making out is different and is of course allowed.
  • Time period - any era, fantasy, sci-fi, any environment in which the author wishes to place her/his characters.
  • Fiction - Must be fiction.
  • Type of Submission - can be a chapter of an ongoing serial, a short story, a poem, a novel, a piece of any length. Only restriction is that this work be NEW writing and not already posted prior to the starting date of this contest. This is for new works only, and as such please do not use anything recycled from other sites.
  • Contest Duration - 3 weeks - no extensions.
  • Starting Date - 3:00am Eastern US time October 1, 2009
  • Closing Date - 3:00am Eastern US time October 22, 2009.
  • Marking Your Story - There will be a selection in the +fiction page under CONTESTS entitled "TopShelf's 2009 October TG Terror Contest" to mark your story with. PLEASE CHECK TO ENSURE YOU MARK YOUR ENTRY.
  • Number of Submissions - Any author may submit any number of new entries that are validly marked in the contest box, but only one entry per author will be counted in the final totals, the one that gets the top number of votes from that author will be the one counted for purposes of determining winners.
  • Voting Dates - 3:00am Eastern US time October 24, 2009 on the Posted Voting Box on the front page of BigCloset TopShelf until 3:00am Eastern US time October 30, 2009. Voting is limited to REGISTERED site users only. Only 1 vote per person using only 1 of their registered site accounts. Multiple attempts to vote using additional accounts owned or created by that person will nullify their vote and Erin will dole out the paddle for the offender.
  • Tie-breaking - In the event of a Tie for any position, Erin and Sephrena and the involved winners will discuss a suitable resolution between the placed winners and/or issue additional prize monies. The results of the contest will be posted within 24 hours of the declared winners and all prize resolutions will be announced along with the winners.
  • Prizes - 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25. All money prizes are awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners.


 

Ghoul Luck and Happy TG Terror Halloween to you all!

 

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Image used with permission from DP Ragan from deviantart.com

 
 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

October TG Terror Contest Winners

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • October 2009 TG Terror Contest

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General
  • Cash Prize Contest


 
 
 
 

And Now for the Terrified Winners...

 
 
 
 

DRUMROLL...

 


First Place with 9 votes!

Alan Jamison is the normal, logical and scientific son of his strange paranormal investigating parents.
He goes on a haunt with them on Halloween and gets busted.

Ghost Bust-ers

by Paula Dillon

$75.00

Second Place with 8 votes!

The River of Shadows
by Alyssa Plant

 
A high school senior heads to Boston to visit his sister for Halloween. A twist of fate reveals something they would never have admitted alone... and it proves to be the one thing that may keep them alive when the best laid plans of a group of college students are lain waste by a force of terrible evil and corruption that has thrived for centuries... Can Charlie Kane be strong enough to live? or will the River of Shadows claim yet another victim...?

$50.00

Third Place with 6 votes!

The Shaping
By
Maggie Finson

A house can be many things. It can be shelter from the elements, a place to hang your hat and coat after work, a haven from the madly rushing world in general, a home filled with warmth, comfort and the sounds of friends and loved ones.

But sometimes, a house goes bad.

$25.00


We Need Paula Dillon, Alyssa Plant, and Maggie Finson to please
PM Erin with your mailing addresses for your Cash Prize!



And Now... The Frightened Runner-Ups!

A Night at the Food and Fuel by Angela Rasch - 5 votes
Die Pretty by Grover - 5 votes
You've Got Mail by Edeyn - 3 votes
The Valley of the Shadow of Death by MonaLisa - 3 votes
The Library: Rewrite by Roberta J Cabot - 3 votes
Nightmare Girl by Terry Volkirch - 3 votes


October 2009 TG Terror Contest Spooktacular Honourable Mentions




A Question of Balance - All Hallows Eve by Andrea Lena DiMaggio
Eulogy by Edeyn
Deus Ex by Jaye Michael
Horror-bama by Jennifer Sue
Users by Joannebarbarella
Halloween - The House of Bamberg by Katherine Ariel
Mirror Karma-A Mirror on the Door Story by Kristine Roland
It Just Pours by Kristina L S
Bobby's Girl by Laika
Second Chances by Lost
The Witch’s Tarot by Nick B
One Dark and Stormy Night by Marli
Howling in Terror by Miranda Epidote
The Move To New Haven Hollow by Pattiebfine
Symbols by SuZie
Worse Fates than Death by Saless
Silver Blood: Vendetta by Stanman63
Infected by Taveena
The Ceilidh by Topsy

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter for participating. In every sense of the word, all of you who entered the contest are winners!!! I wish I had the funding to pay everyone who took the time and entered, but... I simply don't have those kind of resources. I would also like to thank the people who took the time to vote and who read the stories. That is what BigCloset TopShelf is all about! Writing, Reading, Commenting, and Participating.

I will return with presenting the Christmas Holidays contest starting December 1, 2009!

=^.^=

Happy Halloween!

 

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

Summer Romance 2009 Story Contest

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

Contests: 

  • Summer Romance 2009

Audience Rating: 

  • General Audience (pg)

Other Keywords: 

  • Prize Money Contest
TopShelf's
 Summer Romance 2009 
Story Contest
Please take the time to read all of our contestant's entries =^.^=

Sometime between Wed - Friday this week Erin will set up the voting page. At least 8-9 days from the day the voting page is posted will be the voting period. We are giving plenty of time for everyone to thoroughly read and decide which story to vote for. The Voting will be done by 1 vote per registered user for their 1 favorite story.

Sephrena


June is upon us, and our authors need a good swift "impetus" to exercise their minds and fingers upon. This Contest will last a total of six weeks for submissions (Absolutely no rescheduling of the deadline for any reason - winners need to be announced and Sephrena will be mailing the awards out to the designated winners). The voting will occur over a 7 day period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per user. The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25. The winners will need to pm Erin, Sephrena or Edeyn with their mailing address to mail them their money. All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.

Rules for the contest are as follows:

  • Theme - Romance (sweet, sentimental, both, or bittersweet)
  • Story Length - any length.
  • Characters - the romance must involve at least 1 character who is a TG, TV, TS, BI, Gay, Lesbian, or genderqueer (a challenging individual that shifts gender quite frequently)
  • Character Age - Any age group, but ABSOLUTELY NONE of the stories are allowed to contain underage graphic sex! Underage is defined as anyone under the age of 16! However, kissing, cuddling, holding another in their arms is allowed in the underage Age group.
  • Time period - any era, fantasy, sci-fi, any environment in which the author wishes to place her/his characters.
  • Fiction - May be fiction or non-fiction.
  • Type of Submission - can be a short story, a poem, a novel, a piece of any length. To enable fairness to everyone, No chapters of ongoing serials will be allowed. This is to level the playing field for all author entries and for the readers to decide. Any Universes may used as Fanfics for submission as well. The only restriction is that this work be a NEW writing and not already posted anywhere else prior to the starting date of this contest. This is for new works only, and as such, please do not use anything recycled from other sites.
  • Contest Duration - 6 weeks - no extensions.
  • Starting Date - 3:00am Eastern US time June 12, 2009
  • Closing Date - 3:00am Eastern US time July 27, 2009.
  • Marking Your Story - There will be a selection in the +fiction page under CONTESTS entitled "Summer Romance Story Contest 2009" to mark your story with. PLEASE CHECK TO ENSURE THAT YOU MARK YOUR ENTRY.
  • Number of Submissions - Any author may submit any number of new entries that are validly marked in the contest box, but only one entry per author will be counted in the final totals, the one that gets the top number of votes from that author will be the one counted for purposes of determining winners.
  • Voting Dates - Have yet to be determined as Erin will create the voting module as soon as the contest ends, and the Voting period will be for 1 week. Voting is limited to REGISTERED site users only.
  • Tie-breaking - In the event of a Tie for any position, Erin, Sephrena, Edeyn and the involved winners will discuss a suitable resolution between the placed winners and/or issue additional prize monies. The results of the contest will be posted within 24 hours of the declared winners and all prize resolutions will be announced along with the winners.
  • Prizes - 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25. All money prizes are awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners. (For our non North American registered users - if you have a paypal account and would like direct deposit of the award money through that, I can arrange to do that as well.)



Happy Creative Thinking and get those keyboards clacking!!



Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com


 
 
 
 
Pictures provided by:
Rose - free usage license at www.batkhela.com
Butterfly - free usage license at www.free-nature-animal-butterfly-wallpaper.com

Summer Romance 2009 Contest Winners

Author: 

  • Administrator
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog


TopShelf's
 Summer Romance 2009 
Story Contest Winners

Hello Everyone,

I apologize for what marred my otherwise beautifully run Summer Romance Contest for 2009. Lessons have been learned and we will improve. Because of what happened, I looked at snapshots of the totals daily for everyone since day 1 for voting and found 4 stories led the entire pack during each day. Since 2nd and 3rd place cannot rightfully be determined because of this incident, I decided to up the prize amount so that each of the four top winners will receive $40 each. That is the only fair way I can see for awarding the prize money.

Secondly, Everyone who entered, was a winner! I mean that. I wish I could afford to reward everyone who did write for the contest because I feel they all deserve something for their time and effort.

Thirdly, the winners are, in no particular order: Saless My Summer Mutation, AshleyTS Ashley's Magical Summer, Jesse Rabbit A Man Among Vikings, and Melanie Ezell (Rasufelle) Dear John. If each of you would PM me with your contact information and please let me know how you would like your prize money delivered (Money order or Paypal), I will distribute the prize monies this week.

Fourthly, I run these contests to spur creativity, not popularity. I mentioned this last night on the voting page, but it no longer exists.

Lastly....

The next contest that I will host is The TG Terror Contest in October. I will post the rules in September as this contest will be much shorter than the Summer Romance one in order to fit within the month.

Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
TGLibrary.com

 
 
 
 
Pictures provided by:
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Topshelf's Summer Romance 2008 Story Contest

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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Contests: 

  • Summer Romance 2008
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TopShelf's
 Summer Romance 2008 
Story Contest
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Voting Dates are from Tue August 12, 2008 - Sunday August 24, 2008

July is almost upon us, and our authors need a good swift "impetus" to exercise their minds and fingers upon. The Contest will last a total of six weeks for submissions (Absolutely no rescheduling of the deadline for any reason - winners need to be announced and Sephrena will be mailing the awards out to the designated winners). The voting will occur over a three day period by registered site users only and only 1 vote per user. The 3 top stories will be awarded a prize designated as follows: 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $35, 3rd place - $25. The winners will need to pm Erin, Sephrena or Edeyn with their mailing address to mail them their money. All prizes will be mailed the day after the winners announcement.

This contest is dedicated to our sister writers who have passed away in the past year: Darla Raspberry, Kim Em, Nanomage, Prairie Girl. We will never forget you.

Rules for the contest are as follows:

  • Theme - Romance (sweet, sentimental, both, or bittersweet)
  • Story Length - any length.
  • Characters - the romance must involve at least 1 character who is a TG, TV, TS, BI, Gay, Lesbian, or genderqueer (a challenging individual that shifts gender quite frequently)
  • Character Age - Any age group, but there will be ABSOLUTELY NONE of the stories allowed to contain underage sex! Underage is defined as anyone under the age of 16!
  • Time period - any era, fantasy, sci-fi, any environment in which the author wishes to place her/his characters.
  • Fiction - May be fiction or non-fiction.
  • Type of Submission - can be a chapter of an ongoing serial, a short story, a poem, a novel, a piece of any length. Only restriction is that this work be NEW writing and not already posted prior to the starting date of this contest. This is for new works, and as such please do not use anything recycled from other sites.
  • Contest Duration - 6 weeks - no extensions.
  • Starting Date - 3:00am Eastern US time July 1, 2008
  • Closing Date - 3:00am Eastern US time August 12, 2008.
  • Marking Your Story - There will be a selection in the +fiction page under CONTESTS entitled "Summer Romance Story Contest" to mark your story with. PLEASE CHECK TO ENSURE YOU MARK YOUR ENTRY.
  • Number of Submissions - Any author may submit any number of new entries that are validly marked in the contest box, but only one entry per author will be counted in the final totals, the one that gets the top number of votes from that author will be the one counted for purposes of determining winners.
  • Voting Dates - 3:00am Eastern US time August 12, 2008 on the Posted Voting Box on the front page of BigCloset TopShelf until 3:00am Eastern US time August 24, 2008. Voting is limited to REGISTERED site users only.
  • Tie-breaking - In the event of a Tie for any position, Erin, Sephrena, Edeyn and the involved winners will discuss a suitable resolution between the placed winners and/or issue additional prize monies. The results of the contest will be posted within 24 hours of the declared winners and all prize resolutions will be announced along with the winners.
  • Prizes - 1st place - $75, 2nd place - $35, 3rd place - $25. All money prizes are awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners.

Happy Creative Thinking and get those keyboards clacking!!

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Temporary Contest Entry List

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  • Summer Romance 2008

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I would like to thank all of the authors who worked so hard and entered in their life's blood in the form of novels, novelettes, short stories, and chapters of serials. This is a temporary list of all the entries. I realize there are a few entries in this list (in the form of chapters) that are inclusive and not properly marked on the story page yet). That will fixed tonight. Please take the time to read these entries in the meantime while we are all waiting for Erin to set up the voting page.

ONLY registered users can vote. Only 1 vote per user for the one entry that user likes most (For purposes of voting, the multipart chaptered stories such as Camp Kumoni and First & Ten and Pretty Please! count as a single vote each for the cluster of the chapters needed to tell the romance for each particular author).

Of Special Note: When one glances at the compilation list, you can see a heavy amount of entries by those authors whose names begin with the letter A or S. Interesting.

Here is the Summer Romance Contest 2008 Pre-Voting Compilation List:
 

Come On You Girls by Aardvark

April and June by Alexis

Autumn Leaves by Alys

'Reader, I married him.' by Angharad

Totally Insane 12-Redemption by Angharad

Camp Kumoni by Anistasia Allread (Chapters 41-47)

My Special Day by Anistasia Allread

Surprises All Around by Annette

Show Me The Money! Chapter 41 by Arecee

Yellow the Leaves of the Rowan by Fleurie

A Poetic Journey by Heather O'Malley

Colleen by Jennifer Brock

Are We Still Friends? by Joannebarbarella

Things Just Happen by Kristina L.S.

Joey: A Transcendental Love Affair by Liobhan

Kerry,Libbi and Lynzie by Mona Lisa (Parts 1 & 2)

Possession by Mona Owens

First and Ten by Nancy Cole (Chapters 6-13)

Newe Gyrlgyden by POLYROBOTICS1 (Chapter 41)

Star Crossed by Sarah Lynn Morgan

Pretty, Please! by Sasha (All Chapters)

The Guardian of Sharon's Rose by Shalimar

Making New Friends by Sharon Parsons

Kelly's Journey by Stanman

Sasha by Stanman63

Gone With The Wind by Susan Brown

The Hostess, The Octopus and The Doctor by Susan Brown

You've Got Mail by Susan Brown

Doctor, Doctor by Susan Heywood

There's Life in the Old Dog Yet by Susan Heywood
 

Topshelf's Summer Romance 2008 Story Contest Winners

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Contests: 

  • Summer Romance 2008
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TopShelf's
 Summer Romance 2008 
Story Contest Winners!
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And Now... for the Winners......

Hello Everyone!

And now for our Grand Illustrious winners for the contest!


First Place Prize Goes to
Anistasia Allread
Camp Kumoni - Chapters 41-47
$75

 

Thank you so much Miss Allread for your outstanding Entries!

 


 

Our Second Place Prize has been awarded to
Jennifer Brock
Colleen
$50

 

Thank you so much Miss Brock for your hard won Work!
 


 

Third Place Prize Goes to
Arecee
Show Me The Money! Chapter 41
$25

 

Thank you so much Mr. Arecee for your super written Entry!

 


 

Our Runner-Ups for those that came so close to placement!

 
Autumn Leaves by Alys
Star Crossed by Sarah Lynn Morgan
First and Ten by Nancy Cole (Chapters 6-13)
Totally Insane 12 - Redemption by Angharad
Come On You Girls by Aardvark
Things Just Happen by Kristina L.S.

 


 

And now, for our Honorable Mentions!

 
Kerry, Libbi and Lynzie by Mona Lisa (Parts 1 & 2)

The Guardian of Sharon's Rose by Shalimar
Gone With The Wind by Susan Brown
Joey: A Transcendental Love Affair by Liobhan
Pretty, Please! by Sasha (All Chapters)
My Special Day by Anistasia Allread
Surprises All Around by Annette
A Poetic Journey by Heather O'Malley
'Reader, I married him.' by Angharad
Kelly's Journey by Stanman
Are We Still Friends? by Joannebarbarella
Possession by Mona Owens
The Hostess, The Octopus and The Doctor by Susan Brown
There's Life in the Old Dog Yet by Susan Heywood
You've Got Mail by Susan Brown
April and June by Alexis
Making New Friends by Sharon Parsons
Newe Gyrlgyden by POLYROBOTICS1 (Chapter 41)
Yellow the Leaves of the Rowan by Fleurie
Sasha by Stanman
Doctor, Doctor by Susan Heywood

 


 
All money prizes have been awarded in US dollar value via money order mailed to the designated winners. (For our non North American registered users - if you have a paypal account and would like direct deposit of the award money through that, I can arrange to do that as well.)
 

This contest is dedicated to our sister writers who have passed away in the past year:
Darla Raspberry,
Kim Em,
Nanomage,
and Prairie Girl.

 
 
We will never forget you!
 


Thank you and have a Wonderful Romantic Summer!




Sephrena Lynn Miller
BigCloset TopShelf
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Interview of The Transgender Woman Arrested in Florida for Using Womens Restroom

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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  • News Item

here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEFJNDIrEKc

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Made a Patreon Account for Voting

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • 2024 October and December Story Contests

Okay, Okay. I finally broke out and did a bad thing. I made a Patreon account so I could post voting over there with a simple and secure system. Beats having to tally stuff by hand so hey! :) So both the October and December Contests will be using them for voting. I hope this satisfies most of my critics and makes things easier!

October Contest: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/103132/bigcloset-t...

December Contest: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/103160/bigcloset-t...

Im looking forward to it!

Sephrena

A Head's Up...

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • Clara's Stories

I am currently down to 4 stories of Clara's left to post: If You're Not Paying It... and A little Bit of Change to finish up. Then the Disney Princess, The Good Son, and lastly - George and Martha. That will conclude all Clara's currently posted works. I have been assured BCTS will get the first exclusive to her next story sometime in the very near future, so there is that to think about!

Posting the stories has not been without it's trauma on me from others, but I have survived. I hope you all have enjoyed her stories and savored the literary taste of greatness. I am in awe of her.

Sephrena

Clara's Already Written Stories Done

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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I have finally finished posting all of her already written stories. When she is ready, Clara will post her newest stories up :)

I thank her for the privilege of having been allowed to host them here. And I hope Clara will post as soon as she can.

Thank You Clara.

Sephrena

I am a goner

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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Between cvs and humana I am unable to obtain my jardiance medicine. It's too expensive: $500 for a 30 day supply. Never mind the fact that I need it for my heart. I have exhausted all avenues. It would take Elon Musk or Trump to intervene to make it possible. So, I will not go that route, okay? It doesn't look like I can get it anymore. So, this is the beginning of my end. The protection that it gave me will wear off me this morning, so I am prepared for a heart attack and going. I made it this far huh? Thank you all for allowing me to have been here at the end. I will see you all on the other side - for those that make it.

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A Partial List of Mandela Effects

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • Mandela Effects

This list was cultivated from Mandela Effect List. This was done to preserve the list in its entirety without it vanishing from the web altogether.

Updated List of Some of the Most Well Known and Some of the Less Well Known ME's for all time through 2018.

  1. The Challenger Explosion was 1984/Is Now- 1986 (historical change)
  2. Before- Berenstein/Is Now- Berenstain (Book title spelling change)
  3. Before- “Mirror, Mirror on the wall…”/Is Now- “Magic Mirror on the Wall…” (movie dialogue change)
  4. Before- “Luke, I am your father”/Is Now- “No, I am your father” (movie dialogue change)
  5. Before- “If you build it, they will come”/Is Now- “If you build it, he will come” (movie dialogue change)
  6. Before- Smokey the Bear/Is Now- Smokey Bear (Fictional character name change)
  7. Before- “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”/Is Now- “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood” (Lyrical change)
  8. Before- “The lion shall lay down with the lamb”/Is Now- “The wolf shall lay down with the lamb” (Bible scripture change)
  9. Before- dilemna/Is Now- dilemma (spelling change)
  10. Before- “You say tomato”/Is Now- “You like tomato” (Lyrical change)
  11. Before- Looney Toons/Is Now- Looney Tunes (TV show title change)
  12. Before- VW logo was solid/Is Now- separated (Logo change)
  13. Before- Fruit Loops/Is Now- Froot Loops (Product spelling change)
  14. Before- Jiffy/Is Now- -JIF (Product disappearance)
  15. Before- “Beam me up Scotty”/Is Now- -never existed (TV/Movie dialogue disappearance)
  16. Before- “Hello Clarice”/Is Now- -never existed (Movie dialogue disappearance) *Note-I’ve seen dialogue saying “Good afternoon, Clarice” and “Good morning, Clarice.” I will need to re-watch the movie thoroughly, as I’ve now also seen reports of Dr. Lector simple saying “Morning.” So, I guess I’ll find out what it is as of right now.
  17. Before- Oscar Meyer/Is Now- Oscar Mayer (Product spelling change)
  18. Before- Gordon’s/Is Now- Gorton’s (Product spelling change)
  19. Before- Cheez It’s/Is Now- Cheez It (Product spelling change)
  20. Before- Van De Camp’s/Is Now- VanCamp (Product name change) *Note-questionable due to Van de Kamps frozen fish
  21. Before- Mike’N’Ike/Is Now- Mike and Ike (Product name change)
  22. Before- “Taste the sensation”/Is Now- “Get the sensation” (Product slogan change)
  23. Before- Brussel Sprouts/Is Now- Brussel’s Sprouts (Food name change)
  24. Before- Tumeric/Is Now- Turmeric (Food spelling change)
  25. Before- Payless Shoe Store/Is Now- Payless Shoe Source (Store name change)
  26. Before- OxyClean/Is Now- OxiClean (Product spelling change)
  27. Before- Depends/Is Now- Depend (Product spelling change)
  28. Before- O’reilly’s/Is Now- O’reilly (Store name change)
  29. Before- Victoria Secret/Is Now- Victoria’s Secret (Store name change)
  30. Before- Proctor & Gamble/Changed to Proctor Gamble/Then Became- Proctor & Gamble/Is Now- Procter & Gamble (Company name flip)
  31. Before- Noxema/Is Now- Noxzema (Product spelling change)
  32. Before- Jane Goodall worked with gorillas/Is Now- Jane Goodall worked with chimpanzees (Historical change)
  33. Before- Madonna was born as Maria Louise Ciccone/Is Now- Madonna was born as Madonna Louise Ciccone (Celebrity name change)
  34. Before- Ed McMahon was the spokesperson for Publisher’s Clearing House/Is Now- Ed McMahon was the spokesperson for American Family Publishers (Historical change)
  35. Before- Jerry Lewis died 2015 (approx.)/Is Now- Jerry Lewis died August 2017 (Celebrity death change)
  36. Before- Times Square/Changed to- Time Square/Is Now- Times Square (Famous place name flip)
  37. Before- the JFK assassination car had 4 doors/Is Now- the JFK car had 6 doors (Historical change)
  38. Before- the Smithsonian Institute/Is Now- the Smithsonian Institution (Famous place name change)
  39. Before- the Monopoly man had a monocle/Is Now- the Monopoly man has no monocle (Fictional character change)
  40. Before- Converse shoe emblem on outside of ankle/Is Now- Converse shoe emblem on inside of ankle (Logo placement change)
  41. Before- only the Energizer Bunny existed/Is Now- the Duracell Bunny exists also (Character that never existed, now does)
  42. Before- Energizer Bunny battery on back/Is Now- Energizer Bunny battery on side (Fictional character change)
  43. Before- John Deer/Is Now- John Deere (Company spelling change)
  44. Before- Roman numeral IV/Is Now- becoming Roman numeral IIII (Writing change) *Note-I have noticed plenty of examples of this changing, but I also still see the old “IV” in many places. This one still may be up for debate.
  45. Before- Curious George had a tail/Is Now- Curious George never had a tail
  46. Before- the Last Supper, Jesus had a chalice/Is Now- the Last Supper, several small, clear cups placed all along the table (Historical art change)
  47. Before- the Thinker, tight fist was to chin/Changed to tight fist to forehead/Is Now- loose “fist” with knuckles pressed against chin and part of mouth (Historical art flip) (Got to see this one first hand at the British Museum where a replica is displayed…all changes appear to reflect in the museum replicas throughout the world as well.)
  48. Before- the Vitruvian Man showed six arms at different positions/Is Now- the Vitruvian Man shows four arms at different positions (Historical art change)
  49. Before- (Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo) God’s hand higher than Adam/Is Now- God’s hand level to, slightly lower than Adam’s hand (Historical art change) (Got to see this one first hand over the summer – their hands are even, God’s slightly lower – though the perspective is odd due to looking up so high at the ceiling of the chapel.)
  50. Before- liquify/Is Now- liquefy, liquify gives me spelling errors, but is listed as alternative spelling (spelling change)
  51. Before- alot/Is Now- a lot (spelling change, word disappearance)
  52. Before- barbeque/Is Now- barbecue, barbeque becoming reckognized (spelling change)
  53. Before- marshmellow/Is Now- marshmallow (spelling change)
  54. Before- parmesean/Is Now- parmesan (spelling change)
  55. Before- “Fly my pretties, fly!”/Is Now- “Fly, fly, fly!” (Movie dialogue change)
  56. Before- Scarecrow unarmed/Is Now- Scarecrow was wielding a pistol (Movie change)
  57. Before- C3PO all gold/Is Now- C3PO has a silver leg (Movie change, character change)
  58. Before- a movie called Shazaam starring Sinbad as a genie/Is Now- -never existed (Movie disappearance)
  59. Before- Ricky Ricardo said “Lucy, you got some splainin’ to do”/Is Now- -never existed (Movie dialogue disappearance)
  60. Before- a famous line in Casablanca “Play it again, Sam!”/Is Now- -never existed (Movie dialogue disappearance)
  61. Before- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb wore hats with propellers on top/Is Now- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb wore hats with flags on top (Movie character change)
  62. Before- Carmen SanDiego wore a yellow coat/Is Now- Carmen SanDiego wore a red coat (character change)
  63. Before- “It’s a hard knock life”/Is Now- “It’s the hard knock life” (Lyrical change)
  64. Before- “Do you feel lucky? Well do you punk?”/Is Now- “Do I feel lucky? Well do you punk?” (Movie dialogue change)
  65. Before- Timmy fell down a well and Lassie went for help/Is Now- -never happened (Movie/TV plot changes)
  66. Before- The Rum Diaries/Is Now- The Rum Diary (Movie title change)
  67. Before- You Got Mail/Changed to- Got Mail/Is Now- You’ve Got Mail (Movie title change)
  68. Before- Mighty Mouse had an M on his chest/Is Now- Mighty Mouse has nothing on his chest (Character change)
  69. Before- Tinkerbell wrote out "Disney" and dotted the "i"/Is Now- never happened (Historical/Commercial/Logo change)
  70. Before- "Keep your eyes on the road, keep your hands upon the wheel"/Is Now- "Keep your eyes on the road, keep your hand upon the wheel" (Lyrical change)
  71. Before- "You've been hit by, you've been struck by a smooth criminal"/Became- "You've been hit by, you've been hit by a smooth criminal"/ Is Now- “You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by a smooth criminal (May still be changing as of December 18, 2018) (Lyrical change)
  72. Before- “The way you make me feel, you really turn me on”/Changed to- “The way you make me feel, you really turn me good”/Is Now- “The way you make me feel, you really turn me on” (May still be changing as of December 18, 2018 (Lyrical change)
  73. Before- “How wonderful life is now that you're in the world”/Is Now- “How wonderful life is while you're in the world” (Lyrical change)
  74. Before- “Sweet dreams are made of these”/Is Now- “Sweet dreams are made of this” (Lyrical change)
  75. Before- Kidneys in the lower back/Is Now- Kidneys in the middle back protected by rib cage (Anatomical change)
  76. Before- Eye sockets were open in the back/Is Now- Eye sockets are covered in the back with a small hole for nerves (Anatomical change)
  77. Before- Face of skull only had holes for eyes, nose mouth/Is Now- Six more holes called foramina (Anatomical change)
  78. Before- Heart was more toward the left side of the chest/Is Now- Heart is now in the center of the chest (Anatomical change)
  79. Before- “God created the heavens and the earth”/Changed to- “God created the heaven and the earth”/Is Now- “God created the heavens and the earth” (Bible scripture change)
  80. Before- “God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven”/Is Now-”God's will be done in earth as it is in heaven” (Bible scripture change)
  81. Before- “There shall be a husband and wife in one bed, one shall be taken...”/Is Now- “There shall be two men in one bed, one shall be taken...” (Bible scripture change)
  82. Before- “Neither do men put new wine into old wine skins”/Is Now- “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles” (Bible scripture change)
  83. Before- There were not couches in the time of the bible being written/Is Now- “They brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches” (Bible scripture change)
  84. Before- There were not banks as we know them in the time of the bible being written/Is Now- “Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank” (Bible scripture change)
  85. Before- “And the gospel must be preached among all nations”/Is Now- “And the gospel must be published among all nations” (Bible scripture change)
  86. Before- “Whereas thou hast searched all my possessions”/Is Now- “Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff”
  87. Before- “...and could not for the crowd because he was little of stature”/Is Now- “...and could not for the press because he was little of stature” (Bible scripture change)
  88. Before- The Statue of Liberty had never been attacked/Is Now- The Statue of Liberty, Jersey City is bombed by Germany in 1916 (Historical change)
  89. Before- Earth was in the Sagittarius Arm, toward the outside of the Milky Way Galaxy/Is Now- Earth is on the Orion Arm, exactly in the middle (between the outside and center) of the Milky Way Galaxy (Galactic location change)
  90. Before- The top of Minnesota was relatively flat all the way across/Is Now- The top of Minnesota has a finger-like protrusion into Canada (Geographical change)
  91. Before- Thanksgiving was the third Thursday of November/Is Now- Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November (Holiday change)
  92. Before- Stanford, Conneticut/ Is Now- Stamford, Connecticut (Geographical spelling change)
  93. Before- Cup'O'Noodles/Is Now- Cup Noodles (Product name change)
  94. Before- No islands off of the coast of southern California/Is Now- Several inhabited islands off of the coast of southern California (Geographical change)
  95. Before- Australia was the southern-most continent in the Southern Hemisphere (not counting Antarctica)/Is Now- Australia has moved north and New Zealand is on the continent Zealandia (or Oceania, frankly, it's become a little all over the place) and is now further south than Australia (which is also part of Oceania???) (Geographical change)
  96. Before- Shirley Temple died long before the 2000s/Is Now- Shirley Temple died in 2014 (Celebrity death change)
  97. Before- Will and Jada Pinkett Smith divorced after 10 years of marriage/ Is Now- Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are still happily married (Celebrity/Historical change)
  98. Before- Haley's Comet/Is Now- Halley's Comet (Astrological name change)
  99. Before- “Nobody does it like Sara Lee”/Is Now- “Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee” (Product slogan change)
  100. Before- “You like me! You really like me”/Is Now- “You like me! Right now, you like me!” (Celebrity quote change)
  101. Before- Captain Morgan's/Is Now- Captain Morgan (Product name change)
  102. Before- Marshmellow/Is Now- Marshmallow (Spelling change)
  103. Before- Lil' Ceasar's/Is Now- Little Caesar's (Company name spelling change)
  104. Before- Narwhals were made up animal like a unicorn/Is Now- They exist (New animal)
  105. Before- There were not rainbow trees/Is Now- Rainbow trees exist called Rainbow Eucalyptus (New plant)
  106. Before- There were not rainbow flowers/Is Now- Rainbow flowers exist called Rainbow Chrysanthemums (New plant)
  107. Before- There were not rainbow mountains/Is Now- Rainbow mountains exist in China, as well as a rainbow geyser in Nevada (New geography)
  108. Before- Deer were herbivores with no need for nor did they have fangs/Is Now- Several species of “fanged-deer” now exist (New animal)
  109. Before- Brawny paper towel man had facial hair and an ax/Is Now- No facial hair, no ax (Fictional character change)
  110. Before- Grainy, low resolution photos during the 19th century/Is Now- High resolution, color photos during the 19th century (Historical changes)
  111. Before- Lindbergh baby never found/Is Now- Lindbergh baby was found dead (Historical change)
  112. Before- Hillary Clinton/Changed to- Hilary Clinton/Is Now- Hillary Clinton (Celebrity name spelling flip)
  113. Before- “Houston, we have a problem”/Changed to- “Houston, we've had a problem”/Is Now- “Houston, we have a problem” (Movie dialogue flip)
  114. Before- “If you build it, they will come”/Is Now- “If you build it, he will come” (Movie dialogue change – this one actually flipped from they to he, back to they, and now back to he again)
  115. Before- Jesus never instructed anyone to commit violence/Is Now- “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring them hither and slay them before me”- Luke 19:27 (Bible scripture change)
  116. Before- The US was only attacked one time during WW2 at Pearl Harbor/Is Now- Oregon was attacked by the Japanese on June 21, 1942 (Historical change)
  117. Before- This just didn't exist/Is Now- A field of giant Presidents' busts deteriorating in a field in Virginia (Historical change)
  118. Before- Saturn was the only planet with rings/Is Now- Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter all have rings (Astrological change)
  119. Before- Jupiter was larger. Earth could fit into its “Great Red Spot”/Is Now- Jupiter is only 11 times the size of Earth (Astrological change)
  120. Before- Earth was around 36,000 miles in circumference/Is now- 24,901 miles (Geographical change)
  121. Before- Lakes were generally not pink/Is Now- There are a handful of pink lakes (Geographical change)
  122. Before- Mickey Mouse had suspenders and no tail/Is Now- Mickey Mouse has no suspenders and a tail (Fictional character change)
  123. Before- Turkey's capital was Istanbul/Is Now- Turkey's capital is Ankara (Geopolitical change)
  124. Before- Australia's capital was Melbourne/Is Now- Australia's capital is Canberra (Geopolitical change)
  125. Before- Brazil's capital was Rio De Janeiro/Is Now- Brazil's capital is Brazilia (Geopolitical change)
  126. Before- Israel's capital was Tel Aviv/Is Now- Israel's capital is Jerusalem (Geopolitical change)
  127. Before- King Tut's head piece had one snake only/King Tut's head piece has a turkey next to a snake (Historical change)
  128. Before- Tardigrades did not exist/Is Now- Tardigrades exist (New animal)
  129. Before- Bioluminescent fungus and coral did not exist/Is Now- Bioluminescent fungus and coral do exist (new plants)
  130. Before-The Corvette and Ferrari were only made as 2 doors/Is Now- The Corvette and Ferrari have both always been available as 4 door station wagons (Product change)
  131. Before- “Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear”/Is Now- “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” (Standardized warning change)
  132. Before- These elements were not in the periodic table/Is Now- Einsteinium, Californium, Krypton all exist (New elements)
  133. Before- “What if I you everything you knew was a lie?” quote from Morpheus, The Matrix/Is Now- “What if I told you...” quote was ever said by Morpheus in the Matrix (Movie dialogue disappearance)
  134. Before- Doritos was never spelled “Deritos”/Is Now- There is a bag of “Deritos” in the movie The Karate Kid (Product name discrepancy)
  135. Before- Daniel's headband in The Karate Kid had a rising sun on the front/Is Now- Daniel's headband just has a bulbous starburst pattern on the front and the sun is missing (Movie change)
  136. Before- Coelacanth was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  137. Before- Bermuda Petrel was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  138. Before- Chacoan Peccary was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  139. Before- Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  140. Before- Monito del Monte was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  141. Before- La Palma giant lizard was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  142. Before- Takahe was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  143. Before- Cuban Solenodon was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  144. Before- New Caledonian crested gecko was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  145. Before- New Holland mouse was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  146. Before- Giant Palouse earthworm was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  147. Before- Large-billed Reed-Warbler was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  148. Before- Laotian Rock Rat was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  149. Before- "I see a red door and I want to paint it black"/Is Now- "I see a red door and I want it painted black (Lyrical change)
  150. Before- Eastern Quoll was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  151. Before- Nelson's Small-Eared Shrew was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  152. Before- Arakon Forest Turtle was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  153. Before- La Gomera Giant Lizard was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  154. Before- Madagascar Serpent Eagle was extinct/Is Now- Alive (Lazarus animal)
  155. Before- Great Wall of China was the only “Great Wall”/Is Now- The Great Wall of India (New Historical Landmark)
  156. Before- “E.T. Phone home”/Is Now- “Home phone” (Movie dialogue change)
  157. Before- Tidy Cats/Changed to- Tidy Cat/Is Now- Tidy Cats (Product name flip)
  158. Before- Syd Barrett died after a long struggle with solitude and mental illness years ago/Syd Barrett died after a long struggle with solitude and mental illness, July 7, 2006 (Celebrity death change)
  159. Before- South America was south of North America/Is Now- South America is 500-1000 miles further to the East...making it now Southeast of North America (Geographical change)
  160. Before- Rice Krispies/Changed to- Rice Crispies/Is Now- Rice Krispies (Product spelling flip)
  161. Before- Fats Domino died years ago/Is Now- Fats Domino is alive as of September 2017 (Died October 24, 2017) (Lazarus celebrity)
  162. Before- Jerry Lee Lewis died/Is Now- Jerry Lee Lewis is alive as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  163. Before- BB King died in the 2000s/Changed to- BB King is alive in August 2017/Is Now- Died May 14, 2015 (Lazarus celebrity flip)
  164. Before- Doris Day died years ago/Is Now- Doris Day is alive as of December 18, 2018 Lazarus celebrity)
  165. Before- Julie Andrews died years ago/Is Now- Julie Andrews is alive as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  166. Before- Dick Van Dyke died in the 2000s/Is Now- Dick Van Dyke is alive as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  167. Before- The Neverending Story had a character that appeared called “The Childlike Empress”/Is Now- The Neverending Story has an empress who is only brought up at the end of the movie (Movie change)
  168. Before- “Take me out to the crowd”/Is Now- “Take me out with the crowd” (Lyrical change)
  169. Before- “Tear down that wall”/Is Now- “Tear down this wall” (Presidential quote change)
  170. Before- “Hello, is there anybody in there?”/Is Now- “Hello, is there anybody out there” (Lyrical change)
  171. Before- Harry Houdini died during a stunt gone awry/ Is Now- Harry Houdini died from an issue with his appendix (Celebrity/Historical death change)
  172. Before- “Who will save your soul”/Is Now- “Who will save your souls” (Lyrical change)
  173. Before- Clockwork Orange/Is Now- A Clockwork Orange (Movie name change)
  174. Before- Bats were nearly blind/Is Now- Bats have good to excellent eyesight (Animal change)
  175. Before- Interview with a Vampire/Is Now- Interview with the Vampire (Movie name change)
  176. Before- Kurt Cobain was famously pictured with a lush, fuzzy pink sweater/Is Now- (closest find) Kurt Cobain is pictured with a fuzzy animal print jacket (Missing celebrity photos)
  177. Before- Plural of beef was beef/Is Now- Plural of beef is beeves (Linguistic change
  178. Before- Kit-Kat/Is Now- Kit Kat (Logo change)
  179. Before- Shaggy had an Adam’s apple/Is Now- Shaggy never had an Adam’s apple. (Fictional character change)
  180. Before- Ford logo had no pig-tail/is Now- Ford logo has a strange, curly, pig-tail (Logo change)
  181. (Meant to mention much earlier) Before- Thinker Statue’s elbows on separate legs/Is Now- Thinker Statue’s elbows are awkwardly over-top the same leg. (Classical art change)
  182. Before- Billy Graham died while George W. Bush was President/Is Now- Lived until February 21, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  183. Before- Capricorn was a goat/Is Now- Capricorn is a goat-fish (Zodiac change)
  184. Before- Svalbard was small or non-existent/Is Now- At least as large as the UK and a great place to see polar bears. (Geographical change)
  185. Before- Arctica was called the Arctic and was the land mass where the North Pole was located/Later Became – There was never an Arctic land mass/Is Now- Arctica was an ancient continent in the Neoarchean era. (Geographical change)
  186. Before- Tony the Tiger’s nose was black/Is Now- Tony the Tiger’s nose is blue. (Fictional character change)
  187. Before- Cedric the Entertainer died of a heart attack several years ago/Is Now- Cedric the Entertainer is alive as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  188. Before- Dolly from Moonraker had braces/Is Now- Dolly from Moonraker never had braces. (Fictional character change/Movie change)
  189. Before- There was a diet soda called Coke Zero made with Splenda/Is Now- Coca-Cola Zero and was always made with Aspartame (Product change)
  190. Before- Easter Island heads only consisted of hatless heads/Is Now- Easter Island statues of heads, full bodies, and heads with hats. (Relic change)
  191. Before- Scategories/Is Now- Scattergories (Product name change)
  192. Before- Donald Duck had a red bowtie/Changed to- Donald Duck had a white sailor scarf/Is Now- Donald Duck has a red bowtie (Fictional character change)
  193. Before- Tony Bennett died several years back/Is Now- Tony Bennet is alive and well as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  194. Before – Scary Movie contained the line “I see white people”/Is Now – Never happened (Movie change)
  195. Before- The Diary of Anne Frank/Is Now- The Diary of a Young Girl (Literary change)
  196. Before- First car phone was in the 70s-80s/Is Now- First car phone was in 1910 (Technological change)
  197. Before- Famous James Bond line was “The name is Bond, James Bond”/Is Now- “My name is Bond, James Bond” (Famous movie quote change)
  198. Before- No feeding tube in the Exorcist/Is now- The possessed child has a feeding tube (Movie change)
  199. Before- Niagra Falls/Is Now- Niagara Falls (Landmark name change)
  200. Before- Uncle Sam’s hat was striped/Is Now- Uncle Sam’s hat is white (Fictional character/mascot change)
  201. Before- Weird/Changed to- Wierd/Is Now- Weird (Spelling change)
  202. Before- Tim Curry died a little while back/Is Now- Tim Curry is alive and well as of December 18, 2018. (Lazarus celebrity)
  203. Before- The Statue of Liberty was on Ellis Island in New York City/Is now- The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island in New Jersey (Landmark location change)
  204. Before- None of The Wizard of Oz characters carried weapons/Is Now- All of the yellow brick road protagonists (except Dorothy and Toto) carry weapons. (Movie change)
  205. Before- No such thing as a Hammer Headed Bat/Is Now- We now have a Hammer Headed Bat (Mandanimals)
  206. Before- There was only 1 manned moon landing/Is Now- There were 69 lunar missions, 6 manned landings, and 23 unmanned landings (Historical change)
  207. Before- There were 2 presidents assassinated/Is Now- There were 4 presidents assassinated (Historical change)
  208. Before- Moses didn’t have horns/Is Now- Moses has and always had horns (Biblical and classical art change)
  209. Before- Jet engines were under jet wings/Is Now- Jet engines are far out in front of jet wings (Engineering/technological design change)
  210. Before- During the 9/11 attacks, only 3 of the World Trade Center Buildings (1, 2, and 7) were destroyed/Is Now- All 7 were destroyed (Historical change)
  211. Before- During the 9/11 attacks, less than 50 people were killed during the attack on the Pentagon/Changed to- Many people recall zero people dying in the Pentagon attack and remember that it was fully evacuated before the plane hit/Is Now- 125 people died in the Pentagon (not including those onboard the, very sadly, doomed flight) (Historical change)
  212. Before- Nelson Mandela died in prison/Is Now- Nelson Mandela lived, and after leaving prison, went on to become the Prime Minister of South Africa and was key in ending apartheid - In this timeline, he died on December 5, 2013 (Historical change)
  213. Before- Whitey Bulger died in prison/Is Now- died October 30, 2018 (Lazarus famous criminal/celebrity)
  214. Before- Bob Barker died several years ago/Changed to- Bob Barker died this year (2018)/Is Now- Bob Barker is alive and well AGAIN as of December 18, 2018 (forgive me, just stumbled upon his second resurrection and I’m a bit floored by it) (Lazarus celebrity)
  215. Before- Bob Newhart died years ago/Is Now- Bob Newhart is alive and well as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  216. Before- Wilford Brimley died several years ago/Is Now- Wilford Brimley is alive and well as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  217. Before- Angela Lansbury died a few years after Beauty and the Beast came out/Is Now- Angela Lansbury is alive and well as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  218. Before- Sand (beach sand) was generally somewhere between white, black, or various shades of tan and or brown/Is Now- Sand is now found in the colors red, pink, orange, purple, green, brown, white, and black (Geological change)
  219. Before- MD 20/20 was short for Mad Dog 20/20 – the brand name of a cheap red wine/Is Now- Was never branded as Mad Dog 20/20, was always just MD 20/20 (Brand name change)
  220. Before- This just didn’t exist/Is Now- A large, UFO shaped, Buddhist temple exists in Bangkok, Thailand called “Wat Phra Dhammakaya” (Famous structures)
  221. Before- Chapstick/Is Now- Chapstix (Brand name change)
  222. Before- Sketchers/Is Now- Skechers (Brand name change)
  223. Before- The Village People were made up of 5 people: a policeman, a chief, a cowboy, a biker, and a construction worker/Is Now- The Village People were made up of 6 people: a policeman, a chief, a cowboy, a biker, and a construction worker, and a military man (Band change/New band members)
  224. Before- “We’re gonna need a bigger boat”/Is Now- “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” (Movie dialogue change)
  225. Before- Pikachu had a yellow tail with a black tip/Is Now- Pikachu has a yellow tail, no black tip, and brown shading near the base of the tail (Fictional character change)
  226. Before- Robert England/Is Now- Robert Englund (This one is up for debate, possibly a flip-flop, and hotly contested, but I remember England personally) (Celebrity name change)
  227. Before- This just didn’t exist/Is Now – A cold medicine that has existed since the 30s and is still available to purchase now called “666 Cold Preparation” (New products)
  228. Before- Stan Lee died about a year or two ago/Is Now- Stan Lee died on November 12, 2018 (Lazarus celebrities)
  229. Before- Chic-Fil-A/Is Now- Chick-Fil-A (Brand name change)
  230. Before- Dr. Dolittle/Changed to- Dr. Doo Little/Is Now- Dr. Dolittle (Movie name flip-flop)
  231. Before - "What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me?" /Is Now- "What would you think if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and walk out on me?" (Lyrical change) -Thank you Traway84 :)
  232. Before- Daylight Savings Time/Is Now- Daylight Saving Time (Ummm, Spelling change?)
  233. Before- Chartreuse was a shade of red-maroon/Is Now- Chartreuse is yellow-green (Color change)
  234. Before- There was a painting of Henry VIII holding a turkey leg/is Now- The painting has never shown Henry VIII holding a turkey leg (Classical art change)
  235. Before- The Great Pyramid -the one in the middle – was the largest of the Pyramids of Giza and they were all lined up with the Orion constellation/Is Now – The Great Pyramid, in the center, is not the largest of the Pyramids of Giza and they are not lined up, nor have they ever aligned with, the Orion constellation (Historical landmark change)
  236. Before – The Mona Lisa was not smiling/Is Now- The Mona Lisa has a smirk on her face (Classical art change)
  237. Before- Nobody new who Mona Lisa, of the famous painting was…this was a longstanding mystery/Is Now- Her name was Lisa Gherardhini, wife of Francesco Del Giocondo who requested the commisioned work by Leonardo Da Vinci (Historical change)
  238. Before- Sex in the City/Is Now- Sex and the City (TV show name change)
  239. Before- Febreeze/Is Now- Febreze
  240. Before- The Flinstones/Is Now- The Flintstones (This has flip-flopped for many who remember it originally being “The Flintstones” and it temporarily changing to “The Flinstones.” I remember it being, originally “The Flinstones”) (TV show name change)
  241. Before- Charles Schultz/Is Now- Charles Schulz (Celebrity name change)
  242. Before- Ghandi/Is Now- Gandhi (Celebrity name change)
  243. Before- Volvo’s logo was a circle with “Volvo” written inside/Is Now- Volvo’s logo is the symbol of masculinity with “Volvo” written inside
  244. Before- Tom Cruise wore a white, button up shirt, briefs, and dark sunglasses in the dance scene in “Risky Business”/Is Now- Tom Cruise wore a pink button up shirt, briefs, and no sun glasses (Movie change)
  245. Before- the Tiananmen Square protester “Tank Boy” was run over by the tank/Is Now- The Tiananmen Square protester “Tank Boy” was never run over (Historical change)
  246. Before- Hitler had brown eyes/Is Now- Hitler had blue eyes (Historical change – not gonna’ call that monster a celebrity)
  247. Before- Franklin Delanor Roosevelt/Is Now- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Celebrity/Historical name change)
  248. Before- The hands of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial were both relaxed/Is Now- One of Lincoln’s hands at the Lincoln Memorial is now clenched in a fist (Historical landmark change)
  249. Before– Military ships were never covered in strange, striped, camouflage/Is Now- Razzle Dazzle ships where covered in black and white, dizzying stripes in order to try to camouflage them at sea during WW1 (Historical change
  250. Before- “Dearly beloved…We are gathered here to celebrate this thing called life”/Is Now- “Dearly beloved…We are gathered here to get through this thing called life (Lyrical change)
  251. Before- Eli Whitney was a black man/Is Now- Eli Whitney was a white man (Historical change)
  252. Before- Bruce Lee was shot on set by accident (or not) which was a strange coincidence that was later linked to his sons death in the making of the Crow/Is Now- He died of cerebral edema, possibly caused by a reaction to a painkiller (Celebrity death change)
  253. Before- Lay-Z-Boy/Is Now- La-Z-Boy (Brand name change)
  254. Before- “It puts the lotion on its skin”/Is Now- “It rubs the lotion on its skin” (Movie dialogue change)
  255. Before- Fruit of the Loom’s logo contained a cornucopia/Is now- Fruit of the Loom’s logo never contained a cornucopia (Logo change)
  256. Before- There was never a hanging Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz/Is Now- There is a hanging Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz (Movie change)
  257. Before- DEA stood for “Drug Enforcement Agency/Is Now- DEA stands for “Drug Enforcement Administration” (Government agency name change)
  258. Before- HIPPA stood for the “Health Information and Patient Privacy Act”/Is Now- HIPAA stands for the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” (Law acronym change)
  259. Before- Henry Winkler died years back/Is now- Henry Winkler is alive and well as of December 18, 2018 (Lazarus celebrity)
  260. Before- “Elementary, My dear Watson” – Sherlock Holmes/Is Now- Was never said (Famous quote changes)
  261. Before- Laughing Cow (Laughing Cow Cheese) had a golden nose ring/Is Now- Laughing Cow (Laughing Cow Cheese) never had a nose ring, but has always had ear tags (Logo change)
  262. Before- Roy Orbison was blind/Is Now- Roy Orbison was never blind (Celebrity change)
  263. Before- Target logo had 3 red rings/Is Now- Target logo has 2 red rings (Logo change)
  264. Before- Judge Judy had a gavel/Is Now- Judge Judy’s never had a gavel (TV show change)
  265. Before- Oxy Clean/Is Now- Oxi Clean (Brand name change)
  266. Before- How Deep is Your Love, by the Bee Gees, lyric “I really need to know”/Is Now- How Deep is Your Love, by the Bee Gees lyric “I really mean to know” (Lyrical change)
  267. Before- The evil gremlin from the movie “The Gremlins” name was Spike/Is Now- The evil gremlin from the movie “The Gremlins” name was Stripe (Fictional character name change)
  268. Before- Pillsbury Dough Boy had a blue scarf/Is Now- Pillsbury Dough Boy has always had a white scarf (Fictional character/Logo change)
  269. Before- First fax was sent in 1964/Is Now- First fax was sent in 1846 by Alexander Bain when he sent the first ever image using electricity via wires (Historical/Technological change)
  270. Before- The sun on the Raisin Bran cereal box had sunglasses/Is Now- The sun on the Raisin Bran cereal box never had sunglasses (Brand/Logo change)
  271. Before- Gilligan’s hat was white on “Gilligan’s Island”/Is Now- Gilligan’s hat was tan (TV show/Fictional character change)
  272. Before- The Tunguska, Siberia meteor explosion of 1908 killed 100s-1000s of people/Is Now- Nobody died even though the damage from the incident stretched 830 square miles (Historical change)
  273. Before- Bananas grew from the stem down/Is Now- They grow upside down, from the stem upward (Plant change)
  274. Before – The Union Jack’s white lines were symmetrical/Is Now- The Union Jack’s white lines are asymmetrical and off-centered (Country flag change)
  275. Before- Christopher Reeves/Is Now- Christopher Reeve (Celebrity name change)
  276. Before- “She took a midnight train” and “He took a midnight train” in “Don’t Stop Believing”/Is Now- Only “He took a midnight train” is ever in the lyrics (Lyrical change)
  277. Before- Gibraltar was an island between Spain and Morocco in the Straight of Gibraltar/Is Now- Gibraltar was never an island. It is a small landmass that shoots off of the Southern tip of Spain and is attached (Geographical change)
  278. Before- Al Pacino line was “You’re out of order! This whole courtroom is out of order!”/Is now- “You’re out of order! This whole trial is out of order!” (Movie dialogue change)
  279. Before- Stouffer’s Stove Top Stuffing/Is Now- Kraft Stove Top Stuffing (Product change)
  280. Before- Gene Wilder died several years ago-several times/Is Now- Gene Wilder died August 29, 2016 (Lazarus celebrity)
  281. Before- JC Penny/Is Now- JC Penney (Brand name change)
  282. Before- American Gothic showed a man and woman staring blankly forward (or into “the camera”)/Is Now- The woman is looking off to the right and into space while the man stares forward (and into “the camera”) (Historical art change)
  283. Before- We are the Champions “Of the world” was sang at the end of the song/Is Now- We are the Champions “Of the world” is sang in the middle of the song, but not at the end (Lyrical change)
  284. Before- 52 US states/Is Now- 50 US states (Geographical change)
  285. Before- There was a large island to the west of Australia/Is Now- There was never a large island to the west of Australia (Geographical change)
  286. Before- Darth Vader’s helmet was all black/Is Now- Darth Vader has a silver nose (Fictional character changes)
  287. Before- Porshe/Is Now- Porsche (Brand name change)
  288. Before- China had the only “Great Wall”/Is Now- Great Wall of Pakistan “The Great Wall of Sindh” (this is in addition to the “Great Wall of India” (New historical landmarks)
  289. Before- Cruella Deville/Is Now- Cruella De Vil
  290. Before- Knight Rider – Kit’s voice box was in the center console/Is Now- Kit’s voice box is in the dash just above the steering wheel (Fictional character change)
  291. Before- Alaskan Airlines/Is Now- Alaska Airlines (Brand name change)
  292. Before- White Out/Is Now- Wite Out (Product name change)
  293. Before- Traffic lights were ordered from green on top to red on bottom/Is Now- Traffic lights are ordered from red on top to green on bottom
  294. Before- Hamlet line “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well”/Is Now- Never existed (Famous play quote)
  295. Before- Snoopy’s tail was a black line/Is Now- Snoopy’s tail is white (Fictional character change)
  296. Before- There was no newspaper “precog” report in 1937 outlining the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor/Is Now- There was a detailed US NATIONAL newspaper report in 1937 outlining the coming attack on Pearl harbor (Historical change)
  297. Before- John Lennon’s suit in the “Imagine” video was white/Is Now- John Lennon’s suit in the “Imagine” video was black (Music video change)
  298. Before- Mike Tyson bit off all or at least a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear, and then spit it out during a televised match/Is Now- Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear, but never bit any portion of it off, nor did he spit it out after (Historical sporting event change)

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I have to say, the lack of entries so far has broken my heart. :( I cannot try any harder to get any entries. For my December contest, I only have 1 entry. If it stays like that, might have it clear all $2100 of the prize money :/

I am so sorry, to the entire community. I don't know what else to do. Contest started July 31. Here it is almost the end of September.
I wish you all a merry Christmas.

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Patrick Dale Kaneko
(August 11, 1975 - February 4, 2013)

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Patrick Dale Kaneko (aka Edeyn Hannah Blackeney) of State College, Pennsylvania, formerly of Cassville, passed away Monday, February 4, 2013, in Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College.

He was born in Wichita, Kansas, August 11, 1975, the son of Robert “Bob” and Eupha Rose (Lakey) Kaneko.

He is survived by his fiancée, Lisa Baas of Melbourne, Australia; mother, Eupha Galyen of Dodge City, Kansas; father, Bob Kaneko of Lanikai, Hawaii, sister, Summer Galdamez and her husband, Luis of Dodge City, Kansas; half brother, Liwai Kaneko of Hawaii; step-sister, Mary Galyen of Seligman, Missouri; nephews, Christian Galdamez and Luis Galdamez Jr. both of Dodge City, Kansas and niece, Isabella Galdamez of Dodge City, Kansas.

He was preceded in death by his step-father, John Galyen (2006) and his brother, Michael Galyen (2007).

Patrick graduated with honors from Cassville High School with the class of 1994. He was salutatorian. He continued his education at Missouri University of Science and Technology at Rolla, Missouri and took online courses as well. He moved to State College, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a sandwich artist for Subway. He enjoyed his job, meeting new people, writing short stories, reading, making people laugh, juggling and telling stories to his many friends from all over. Patrick loved spending time with his fiancée, whom he loved very much. They had planned to make Australia their future home after they were married. He/She will be greatly missed by all.

Memorial services will be held at 11:00 A.M, Saturday, February 16, 2013, in First Assembly Of God Church, Cassville, Missouri. Reverend Robert Day will conduct the services.

Cremation arrangements were under the direction of Fohn Funeral Home, Cassville, Missouri.

FOHN FUNERAL HOME Cassville, Missouri 417-847-2141

Ellen...

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It has been so long, and my time here is short.
There is no need to hide.
We accept you for you.
I wish for you to be here with us.
Please.

Like a brilliant star on a dark moonless night.

Sephrena

Google Ending V2 Manifest support for Chrome - Killing all Adblockers

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Google is now phasing out Manifest V2 support from Chrome and V3Manifest support will be even less. I am for abandoning Chrome before then forever since it seems to be focused to force ads onto your pc.

All script and ad blockers will cease working before November.

Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Google Chrome changes June for extensions will affect to Brave?

This is necessary: Google is killing uBlock Origin in Chrome, but this trick lets you keep it for another year

This will work in meantime but it is nowhere near as effective: Ublock origin lite

The element hider was its most effective piece in the V2 Manifest :*(

Sephrena

I know I have tried...

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There are only 20 days left in December and a few from here before the contest closes on December 20th, 2024. I have been tossing out past Christmas stories daily in the hopes it might inspire some thought for an entry. I have begged for entries, shown potential entries and entries from the past with the BigCloset Retro Classic Christmas Specials.

I have done my part: Put out the Contest, the Prizes, shown entries... I wish I could have done more to inspire you all. I cannot bring a multitude of our deceased authors back. That would be bloody brilliant if I could huh?

This is my last contest, I wanted to go out with a bang. Lit up Christmas Tree, Light strings galore, presents under the tree for all of us! The works! Even Santa Erin passing out our holiday treats and presents... *sigh*

I guess a whimper is good enough... ><

Sephrena

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Instead of Fighting Trumpism with Violence, Use Love

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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With the world descending into hate and violence against us, let us instead focus and shift our energies to help ascend us out of this violence and hatred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XETwOydEsYM <-- This one is important!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qnmxQBX10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKw8YBHz6U

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOVDqYEbd4

I encourage all of us to spend maybe 45 min a day to meditate and use tonal music such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7e4SNjGBM to help push our minds higher and to help free us. Surrender to the prime Creator to free us.

After all, a little good never hurt us anyways? But to them! ... they will get what they deserve.

Sephrena

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Love, Peace... and freedom for all our members.

Looking For Emma - Missing Authors 411

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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Emma has gone missing since posting Pretend Princess Chapter 16 on December 1, 2024. She lives in Nigeria and shortly after that posted Nigeria had a Muslim insurgency that kidnapped a bunch of women again. I am worried for her. :(

Has anyone heard from her? her title here is cemma2035.

Sephrena

Bailey Summers - Missing Authors 411

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Does anyone know if author Bailey Summers is alive or not? The last posting from Bailey we have is a story named Vows dated 2023/05/30 - 8:21pm. No contact since. I am worried :*(

Sephrena

Author Enemyoffun now in Hospital!!!

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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We were just informed by Enemyoffun's brother in Discord that Enemyoffun's appendix had burst and he is in the ICU. That is all we know of at the moment. Please pray for him.

Edit: He is possibly out of surgery. Still awaiting an update from his brother.

Looks like Matthew aka "Enemy" will be spending some time there over Christmas. I'll see about the gift shop tomorrow to send him a stuffed animal. BCTS doesn't forget its authors. :)

Sephrena

PB's Notes of A Journey Trilogy +1!

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PB, whom way back in 2008 posted Notes of a Journey Trilogy over on Maddy Belle's site, has had their pages here on BCTS recently updated to reflect that their sales, no longer with LULU.com, are now with Amazon.com! I had to redo every page! ><

The Plus 1 is Book 4 Never My Love (Gaby and Maddy's Honeymoon.)

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Click on the picture to take you to Scott Hemsley's Amazon Page

Sephrena

My music representing me
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Sad State

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You know, since I began here at BCTS, I have seen a gradual changeover of the readership. It's in the tastes of the types of fiction that they like. We went from one day being a site that had readers starved for fiction, to one where now something barely even gets read much less commented on.

The authors here are not demanding anything for their works except that occasional kudo and comment. It cannot be that hard to comment. What about that story made you feel good? Or bad? Anything?

But the sad truth of the matter is that we have already lost authors due to a lack of commenting. We have lost giants in the field of TG Fiction. They went out our door and began to self publish. While I wholeheartedly support that for them, another part of me is crying that they left us.

So what I am trying to say to our readership is please please please... comment! Say something to our authors who come here daily to publish.

If you don't say something now, they will not be here tomorrow.

...And neither will we.

Sephrena

TG-Harmony.com

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  • Sephrena Lynn Miller

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  • General Audience (pg)

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  • 2024-09 September - TBFS Caption Story Contest

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  • 500 < Short Story < 7500 words

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  • Transgender
  • Crossdressing
  • Transitioning

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  • TG Romance

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  • Posted by author(s)
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TG-Harmony.com

A Vignette

by Sephrena Lynn Miller

 


 
To say that I was nervous wreck would be the understatement of the year. I stared at the computer screen at the website. I had a feeling of guilt run through me as I read the webpage; TG-Harmony.com. Why do I feel guilty? I am no different than other people. I want to find a match for me too. Seriously. But does this site discriminate like the others? I guess I would have to sign up to find out.

I blinked a couple of times and clicked the sign up button. As I began to fill out my profile information, the jingle of the commercial filled my brain...

"...I was skeptical about anything on the internet," I ran through my mind as I completed my name, birthdate, and address. "With TG-Harmony, they bring the matches to you! When you are answering those questions,"I gulped. "You are thinking about who and what you really are."

Yeah, a mtf transsexual. No surgery yet, but on hrt and living the real life test for two years. My biggest stopping point had been the cost of the surgery - some $40,000. Money that seemed like a lifetime away for a poor tg like myself. A pity. I sighed. Here it is. Question #1 What is your employment and list some of the positive and negative things about your current job. This was a huge question. Joy!

Okay. So I began typing out my answer. I am a writer. I write fiction for a living and get paid by the story. I describe my work as regular person exploring life through the eyes of various people and their situations. Sometimes they go through good things, sometimes, not so nice. Most of my characters tend to come out at least slightly better than when they started having gone through the gamut of trials and tribulations that was their story. The positives included exploring life situations and people through the medium and the downside is never to have met them face to face. It was all too true.

I then uploaded a three different photographs of myself in different profiles.

"...It's not like you have to go through a thousand pictures to find out who you are attracted to." Yeah I know how that is. Question #2 What sort of person do you seek? Particulars, Quirks, and little things. What about them attracts you? Whoa! That question is loaded! Geez. I actually had to stop and think about this one.

Brainy? Mmmm yeah. I like females more than males so yes. A brainy chick. She has to like music, things like a little classical, and soft rock. Background music was my favorite as I could clearly think while listening to that. My favorite background anime music, movie music, all of it really, tied together to enhance what I thought while I wrote stories. She did not need to be rich, yes I could probably support her off of my writing check, but I was saving for the operation :/ Hmmmm. I guess if I had to, I could push the operation back to make ends meet. Meeting who I dreamed of for a partner was worth more than the operation. The question is, Could she wait for me? That would be the key.

"...They have your profile, they have someone else's profile, and they match them!" Question #17 If you had to sum up your faults, what would be the most tragic of all and which would be the least? OMG really? They need to know THIS? sigh. Most tragic huh? I guess it has to be my shyness. It has kept me confined most of my life. I am not inclined to go out to meet others as it keeps me afraid of what others think of me. Yeah. This is what is so tragic. This is why I came to TG-Harmony in the first place. To meet someone. The least tragic of all... let me think. A fault. Well, that would have to be my apologies. Least tragic of all, I usually apologize for things, even when the situation clearly demands that it isn't my fault. Yeah, that's the least tragic of what I consider my faults.

"...At TG-Harmony we use the scientific system of 29 questions to help you find someone who is someone like you!" Great! I think? Question #24 Name some of your favorite movies, genres in the media industry and what about particular films strikes your fancy? Ummmmmm. Seriously? Youch! Okay. Favorite Movies... Okay Harry Potter, Avatar, Terminator, Last of the Mohicans, Titanic, etc. Genres, that is easy. Romance, Sci-Fi, Anime, Fantasy. I also jotted down some sentences for each movie and why I liked it and what was notable about it. I wasn't sure about mentioning Anime, but I said to myself, whoever it is I am searching for, I guess, they would need to like it also as it would give us something to talk about as well as connect with.

"...For the first time, I found someone that I can truly communicate with." Yeah, I would hope that someone is like me. Oh. Question #29 What gender term best identifies yourself and how do you see others? I chose lesbian and then female. The form actually allowed me to click on both answers and kept them so I went along with it. How do I see others? Well, depending on the person, I would like them to express their feminine side to me mostly because the male side is so, alien? Maybe foreign? Okay I will settle and use the term for "different." Click. The Webpage closed out. A screen said, "We will now analyze your statistics and begin running through the matchup process. You will be notified by email when we have gathered up several matches for you to select from." Great! I think?

I know on the other dating sites, they screen out people who might be tg and exclude them from being sought after. I was desperately hoping this dating site would live up to its name. God I Hope so! Sit back. Relax. Do some typing work. And check back nightly.

Most of the day sauntered on by while I was working on a long science fiction project and nailing down an entire chapter in the process. Several times during the day though, I felt like I was being watched and peered through my window outside at the woods and stared intently trying to see if someone was watching me. I couldn't shake that feeling, but, I never did see anything. Finally, being annoyed, I closed the blinds and pulled the curtains too.

A week later, I received an email back from TG-Harmony.com. Excitedly, I clicked it. They had come up with 11 matches with the most prominent up top. A woman who says she likes other women and mostly the same stuff that I do. Amazing! Her name is Leila Sanchez. They gave me a link to send her an email to accept and find a mutual meeting place. It also says that she is also over in a nearby city. Okay. I clicked the email and filled out a time and a few restaurants to potentially meet at. After a couple of email sends, we agreed upon meeting at an Outback Restaurant. It's a fairly common restaurant with a varied bunch of appetizers, so it should have something we both would like to eat. The date was setup to meet the day after tomorrow there. Well, now its time!

I had taken a bath and done my hair up the night before and proceeded to get ready for my big date tomorrow. My hair was below my shoulders so it did require extra maintenance. I kept it long, smooth, and no split ends! My face looked normal and set for me to apply makeup just before heading out. So all I had to do was dry my hair tonight. Hair today, gone tomorrow. Or so the saying goes.

Driving up to the Outback, I pulled up into a normal parking spot and parked my GMC Envoy. Yeah, I am the type that drives an sports utility vehicle. Bite me. I double checked my make up, and satisfied, snapped my purse shut and entered the establishment. The waitress greeted me and seated me in a window seat. I left her with the instruction a woman would enter asking for Miller, party of two. She left. I began to look around.

The restaurant was basically empty except for a couple of people and a biker whom was sitting a few tables away. The waitress came back with my iced tea and a menu. I began to look at it. I was basically sitting with my back to the door so whoever it was that was coming would really surprise me. I started perusing the menu. Burgers, Steaks, Crab, Lobster, salads... lobster? okay yum! Can add a lobster tail to a dinner for an extra $20? I think most likely, I would like that.

"Is this seat taken?"

I looked up. A Brunette latina with very slightly curly bangs and a feminine business suit with slacks stood beside my table. She had a faint smile and her perfume had a cherry jasmine sort of essence to it, like some sort of fruit. It smelled really nice!

"Ummmm..."

"Am I your date? I believe that I am. Leila Sanchez?" The photograph I had of her on file did not do her justice as she was an absolute model. I smiled as I tried to get out and stand up but she put her hand on mine. "It's okay. I can sit down. I appreciate the thought, however!"

Yes. This person was an absolute brain.

"So,"she began,"How have you been today?" She looked at me as she settled down her purse and pulled a menu closer to her to look at. She was all of 5' 5", very well dressed, and a brimming attitude.

"I think my day has gotten fantastic. I went from zero friends, to at least one." I felt a shy smile creep upon my face and kind of looked down. "And I think your dress suit is absolutely gorgeous. A sort of business attire?"

"Well thank you Ms. Miller! I wear this style of clothing to work as an FBI analyst,"she continued."I did not have much time from getting off work to meet you here, so I came unprepared."

I look up at her. "You are totally prepared in my book. You can dress up like that every day as far as I am concerned. Style suits you. Light beige colors? All you. You accent jewelry? They fit the image. Your perfume? Its a cherry, umm slightly pepperish cashmere?"

"Wow. You are almost right," she laughed. "It's "Juliette Has a Gun." It has cherry, pepper, cashmere and a jasmine like note. You were nearly spot on."

"Love it."

"It's supposedly for women of power." She non-chalantly laid out with a smile. Oh. She is layering her opening for me. She now looked down at the menu. Her personality really tugged at my heart.

"I can believe that." I commented. "I write stories all the time from Science Fiction to fantasy. I have fifteen published works and I make a living from their sales."

"Oh? I also write in my spare time. I write alternative stuff for an offbeat site as a hobby. BigCloset TopShelf? Ever heard of it?"
Ummm yeah. Just yeah. I know that site. I actually partially run it! Ummmmm. What do I do?

"Ummm, yes in fact I do. I kind of partially run it as a Moderator."

"You do? Seriously? So cool!" The way she phrased cool made it sound like she dragged it out vocally in shock. Actually, I am more than shocked that she posted there at all. I decided that later on tonight that I would look her up on site and see her hobby. We looked over our menus and I decided on a lobster tail and six ounce steak dinner. Leila decided to go for the oriental chicken salad. Between us both, we settle to try a Samuel Adam's Summer Ale to split between us and our teas. The waitress left.

Leila looked up at me and began,"I have a closet as big as a room. Inside it I keep all of my clothes. Like six racks. I haven't been through them yet to decide how to pare them down, but at some point, I will have to. It's a hobby of mine also. I spend on clothes."

"A fashion Czar. Wow."

"Absolutely! Women have to be proud of their clothing. I am with mine!"she giggled.

It was now that I had to explain quite a bit about myself and my work to her. She seemed to like what she heard and stared into my eyes. It was captivating. We both had an amazing dinner. I came to find out she earned a ton more money than I did. She dabbled in various TG tales on the site and one of the titles she mentioned I do remember seeing before. Her job, her hobbies, none of that really mattered to me really. I was so smitten that I would do whatever it took to support her. That is saying something!

Anyways, that lobster was just so scrumptious with the butter oil, that I savored the taste long after my last bite. Leila gingerly bit down on her salad, which seemed to be way more than she could possibly eat. She took dainty bites. And the Summer Ale, a distinct unique beer flavor to go with the meal too. It was just an amazing experience. I listened on as she described her family, family life, and work life. It seemed so fulfilling to me. Mine, well, I was a little on the pale side as I described mine.

She was a normal woman, yet powerful in her projection of herself and quality. I did find out that she had signed up for TG-Harmony to try for an alternative relationship as well. This entire experience had a sort of magical quality to it: that extra "something" in the air? It was electric and special. I got it. I felt it. I am quite sure Leila did also, as when we finished, she was extremely happy and eager for another go.

I quickly paid for the meal, leaving a 10% tip and escorted Leila to the door. We settled to meet again Friday night closer to her place at a Starbuck's. That sounded like a great place to meet as it was built inside a Barnes and Nobles. I waved her goodnight and it was then she surprised me. She leaned up close to my face and kissed me. She had taken the initiative and grabbed it. She took our first kiss and smiled.

"I like you Sephrena. I believe I do like you. See you Friday."

"Bye Leila!"

She opened her car door and looked at me. "Be seeing you."

She then drove off in her Volkswagon Jetta. Wow. I am still reeling.

Later that night, I looked up Leila on our website and did see in fact that she did belong! In fact, she wrote a teenage tale called "The Makeup Squad." Her writing was top notch. OMG! How did she get on our site? How had I never seen this writing before? Unbelievable! She had a quality that matches StacyinLove's writing with the realism of Tanya's tales of transitioning. I could get to like this!

Anyways, I brought the browser back to TG-Harmony.com. I thought about the site. Yes it lived up to its potential! It did deliver! And it does work! The other dating sites were kind of shallow compared to this. How could I not like the results TG-Harmony delivered?

Somewhere, in a store shop's backroom, a man in a bathrobe sat at his pc. He stared at Sephrena Miller's profile and Leila Sanchez's.
His latest victims!
Or... customer's.

He closed out his browser.

He would decide later. After all, he was a wizard at this.

That was not Elsbeth

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Caution: 

  • CAUTION

It was me going through her Lost Queen and Beyond the Pale story chapters cleaning up mistakes in the comments. Elsbeth is dead.

I am sorry.

Sephrena

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Elsbeth's avatar from Fairy Fencer F

Tiffany Shar's Bears Know Best

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • General Audience (pg)

I cleaned up Tiffany Shar's Bear's Know Best story from all of those little OSC squares from 2010-2012 when BCTS was NOT as stable as it is now. Also, I removed the lulu.com links and placed the amazon store page address there for you to purchase from as well. The author will have to change the included text for ea chapter to reflect this as well.

Man this was a heck of a lot of work. Removing those squares requires a special program and constant back and forth of copy/paste, copy/paste.

Sephrena

Working on Kit's Stories

Author: 

  • Alyssa Plant
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
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Taxonomy upgrade extras: 

  • Stories being fixed

Currently, I have merged Alyssa Plant's former Identity of Belladonna into her new account of Kit. Then she arranged her stories in a new format. Now I am currently running the OSC debug through her older stories to bring them back to life. For anyone reading them tonight, you will notice the little squares in her works vanishing slowly. That's me.

I am behind the scenes fixing her stories now.

Sephrena

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just suffered another heart attack

Author: 

  • Sephrena Lynn Miller
  • Sephrena Lynn Miller's blog

just had a wallop. my shoulders are killing me. nothing anyone can do. make it to tuesday.
took pain killers

sephrena


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