Hi, apologies for the wait on this next chapter of Maiden by Decree. Real Life has once again conspired to keep me from the keyboard and I know this one is short. I wanted to make sure all you believed me when I was telling you I hadn't dropped the story and it will be completed.

I can tell you that the chapter after this one is going to get really exciting and will be longer.

Ma'at, Part 4, is one of my favorite chapters. In trying to get back into writing, I've been reviewing what I already posted.

The last few pages of Part 4 have been revised to fill out the ending a bit.

Hope you all enjoy it.

Nicole ( a.k.a. Itinerant, ...)

Welcome to Volume 2 of my request for user assistance on my story Princess For Hire!

I'm working on adding in bits and bobs from Volume 1 into the story as it goes on, but while I'm doing that I had some more questions for my readers.

School is out for the summer.
I have survived the first year of nursing school, and have a B+ average.
I only have one year to go.

While I am in school, I really haven't any time to read. I try to catch up during the summer.

The one draw back of summer time is that my kids are out of school, too. That means I am not free to dress however I want.

Melody

I am really struggling to hold on to my faith right now. I have had moments of doubts before, but not like this, where the idea of a heaven seems laughable. I feel 3/4 dead, just going through the motions.

Warren Beatty and Annette Bening's 18 year old daughter is now their son, Stephen Ira [click here for story]. Dad is said to be publicly furious.

Stephen now joins Chaz Bono as one of the more famous FtM children of celebrities.

In my opinion, or perhaps just hope, such public transitions of "Inside Hollywood" -type names help to undemonize transgender issues in the public mind.

Discuss.

How many ways can I name Terri's future version, without actually calling her Terri?

Doppelganger
Lexi's mother
the other...

The problem with having a conversation between two versions of the same person is that how do you help the reader tell them apart.

Any suggestions?

Erin:

I am sorry, I could not resist posting this. I know there is nothing T about this except I really like his beard and he could drag me off to his lair if he wanted to. I'd even tickle his cute little belly! I must be PMSing this morning, been up and down all morning.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-456247?hpt=C2

K

The documentary Prodigal Suns http://www.prodigalsonsfilm.com/drupal/index.php is on Sundance Channel Monday night 8:00 EDT. I've been looking forward to seeing it for months!

{{Hugs}}

Frank

I know a lot of folks here don't go to FM anymore...however there is an excellent story on there called "Lilim Tales" two of four chapters have been posted so far:

http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyI...
http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyI...

It would come under the heading of Sci Fi/Fantasy for those who like this kind of stuff....

{{Hugs}}

Newspaper item from New Zealand:

Transgender group left with few options

“An attempt to help young transgender sex workers find new jobs outside the sex industry has been hit by the axing of a Government job scheme.”

The statistics at the end of the article make sad reading when you look at the proportion of TG folk who are working in the sex industry. The population of New Zealand is presently about 4.37 million persons.

Positions Severed

I will be away on holiday in Cornwall for just over a week from Friday, so I won't be doing any writing for a while. (Hooray, I hear you say). Thankfully, I have had my anti-Piskie shots, so I shouldn't catch anything more nasty than a hangover.

Anyway, I will be starting a new chapter of Changes soon and I would like to have suggestions regarding the name of Samantha's new boat/yacht/ship.

It will need a sense of taste and decorum as Dotty will be re-launching her with a bottle of Bollinger or two.

I will be out of communications from now until probably... well, I may be able to check in this weekend!

Won't be around for a week or so, (TBC). Going away to the med. I've been threatened on pain of death, that If I take my laptop she'll divorce me (or worse,)take hers.
Cheers for now,
Beverly.

I edit for a number of authors here, and do not ask for any notice in print, either on their stories, or elsewhere. I do it to help them with their stories, for as most will admit, And I certainly will on my own writings. The author is usually too close to the story. When looking it over, the author sees what they meant to write / thought they had written, instead of what actually went down on paper ( or in pixels on their screen). It is always helpful to have at least one extra set of eyes look at the story.

Well, that's the last of 'Martina's story' for a couple of months but I'll keep posting Sissy Farm as I work through the story prior to re-writing chapters 20 to 25. I'll be out for most of the summer savouring those couple of days a year we get without rain. Mostly on my bike and mostly around Glyn Corrwg.

By for now, I'm off for a rest.

Bev.

I spent some time this morning reading Tips and being left with the desire to read the entire trilogy. I had never looked at my postings the way other readers at this site might find them. I must say I am very pleased with the way the behind the scenes editors/administrators have put everything together. I opened up Five Love Stories en Brochette when I realized I hadn't posted a correction to the epilog. Several readers took exception to what happened to one of the characters, and I realized there was no reason to have done what I did. That is now fixed.

I find that I am struggling with guilt in regards to my rape. I had a moment of clearity in my counsiling thursday, when i realized I actually missed my attacker after i stopped seeing him. This, coupled with the fact that i experianced pleasure on some level during my attacks has really thrown me, and I am having trouble wrapping my head around it. Sigh.

THIS IS A STORY IDEA FOR ANYONE WHOSE MUSE IS UNINSPIRED

Little Johnny was a special little child. At three he had the vocabulary of a 4th grader and had begun on the Piano; doing astonishingly well for someone with hands so tiny. At 4 he realized that his thing was an outie and his sisters, a year younger than he, had none. Hmmmm

I don't want to whine. It is just confusing how life goes some times.

I don't do bars, dope, steal, or stalk anyone. I live in a little apartment, own a little car, go to Prayer on Friday, and help anyone who asks me if I can. So, no drama if I can help it. I don't drink or do Pot. Not that I am so holy; I am just a boring person.

As the holidays are nearly upon us and you all need some vacation reading matter, for a limited period - up to June 30th 2010 you can purchase selected Gaby books at up to 30% off the usual rates!

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You got to love Florida

*****

ISLAMORADA, Fla. — Sheriff’s dispatchers didn’t know what the problem was when they got a frantic 911 call at 1:20 a.m. All the caller could do is yell his address and tell them he was “crushed.”

According to Deputy Don Dalton, the head was so heavy the man couldn’t move, but his cell phone was close enough to his hand that he was able to call for help.

*****

Call this delayed karma. The water buffalo was shot a decade ago and was given to its present owner.

Phew! It's taken long enough, but finally the EAFOAB Episode Summaries are completely up to date.

Every single one of the 1,020 episodes to date has been summarised and entered into a Google spreadsheet. I intended to complete it before we reached 2¹⁰ episodes, and I've succeeded :)

I don't know what happened to me! It is not my fault, I did nothing wrong! My intentions were pure before Allah SWT!

It was pure boredom, and in total desparation, that I turned that glass thing on in the living room, and after a short time found myself laughing until my sides split. And to my total shock found that the program I was watching was called "Friends"! OH MY! What has happened to me! I solemly swear that I never watched that program before because it causes brain damage to anyone I know who has watched it.

Some random thoughts on life:

"Life . . . don't talk to me about life" Marvin the Paranoid android

"Life is a paltry player who struts and frets his moment apon the stage and then is heard from no more. It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing." McBeth

"life is pain, princess! anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something" Wesley, from the princess Bride

"One sure thing about life. Nobody gets out alive" Annon.

"The secret to a happy life? Lowered expectations." Me

Children of lesbian couples do well, study finds
Study tracks kids of same-sex couples from insemination
Reuters
updated 11:18 a.m. ET, Mon., June 7, 2010

Being raised by a same-sex couple is no hindrance to healthy psychological development, researchers say as the first generation of children conceived by lesbians through donor insemination is coming of age.

In fact, lesbian mothers rated their 17-year-olds higher in social and academic skills, and lower in rule-breaking and aggression, than did mothers of teenagers who also had a father.

Well, the medicenter was a bust. My knees are not bad enough to qualify me for help on that basis. I am still going to the appointment on thursday, but i am not hopeful. Trying to keep my chin up, but its starting to look like a full time dorothy is a pipe dream. sigh.

Rawr! Okay, so here's the deal with book two of Becoming Robin

So, "Princess For Hire" seems to be doing well, no? Well, one thing I'm hoping to make a regular thing as I write this story is asking for reader input. While I know where it's going, there's still plenty of room to add in things people might be interested to see, and if it helps me flesh out the story a little more, well that's all the better!

So, to start with, I've got a couple of requests myself.

Oh dear...

The Labour Party's Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transsexual Society were in the Greencoat Boy pub in Westminster, central London, when a row broke out. The duty manager is alleged to have refused them service and said that had he known they were a gay group he would not have accepted their booking. Punch Taverns, which owns the pub, has launched an investigation.

More details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10249335.stm

Hey! I just posted Career Day part 3 over at StarDust. This ends vol. one. It's a complete story but I have more of Lee's tale that I'm working on. So despite my hyperactive muse I hope to get all of The Career Day Saga completed before trying to finish up way too many older stories that needs completion.

http://stardustr.us/content/career-day-wheels-bus-go-round-a...

Next Weekend I'll post part 3 here at BC. I can't promise I'll have vol. 2 ready or not. We're preparing to move at the end of the month and so things are starting to get a little hectic. Wish us luck!

Well, I went to work at Midnight Friday for the Sat shift, and the boss informed me the company had hired two new peple to work with us. We had been working 12 hour shifts on the weekends for coverage without driving people into overtime stats, and we were getting along just fine. Then the company decided (the lady in charge of the area office) that she didn't like the 12 hour shifts, and she hired a thrid body and cut us to 8 hours. That meant myself and the other guy were only getting 16 hours a week....not enough for either of us.

Strange. I don't seem to be getting any reviews for Sissy Farm. I suppose it's because everybody's read it on FM.
Shall I soldier on with it I wonder, being as everybody seems to have read it.

There is a very nice story at Kristen's Site by Krystle Glass. I'm not very familiar with the author; however, this story is worth the read.

http://www.asstr.org/~Kristen/67/phoenix.txt

Portia

John Wooden, noted philosopher and author passed away today at 99. He was also known for his work in the area of sports.

My story Exitus Acta Probat is based in part on his writings.

I'm not sure where this came from originally. It's in the format of the series of motivational posters.

If one looks at it, one can see, perhaps, a TG element to the resulting screen.

Well, its been a frustrating week. I have been trying to get a letter from my doctor regarding my physical health so i could qualify for the assitance to go back to school, but no luck. Then today, I tried to get it from the local medi-center, and instead they sent me for an x-ray, and i have to go back monday. I am starting to fear that I could end up not being able to get it, and the whole dream of going back to school and maybe transitioning is going up in smoke. sigh.

and the reasons are...well, many I guess.

Mainly though, at the bottom of it all, is one simple thing.

I've spent my whole life searching for "the one." I've looked everywhere and she seems to be either hiding, or I'm just too damn old and ugly for anyone to care about in "that" way.

Well here's a bit of news for everyone. Ugly people need love too!

Or, "As easy as charging up your mobile phone"

Imagine (for whatever reason) you're going on a long bike ride, but your mobile phone is running low on charge. Evidently someone at Nokia thought that the power generated by a dynamo sandwiched between the frame and wheel could do more than illuminate darkness...

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/06/03/nokia_bicycle_charger_...

A little while ago someone sent me a link to trusted therapists who are not only experienced with, but actually WANT to deal gender issues. I can not for the life of me FIND that link. I'm about to resort to sorting through every comment on Becoming Robin as well as my blogs in order to find that blasted link once I finish watching Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Thanks Melanie! ;-)).

I just received this email:

Just a reminder that this Saturday is the fourth annual South Bay Pride Shabbat. Please include this information in your community news section or forward to interested congregants. Many participants in previous years are not GLBT themselves but straight allies or family members.

Congregation Shir Hadash, Temple Emanu-El, and Congregation Emeth invite you to join us for the 4th Annual South Bay Pride Shabbat. The service will be held on Saturday, June 5th, at 10:30 am at Congregation Shir Hadash, 20 Cherry Blossom Lane, Los Gatos.

Today(June 1st) is the sixth anniversary of my first shot of Estridiol Valerate and the 20th anniversary of my graduation from High School. I can't believe it has been that long. I can say that I feel truly blessed to be here living this moment now. It took me 33 years before I started, but I can honestly say, I wouldn't trade this journey for anything. I have wonderful friends here on BCTS and wonderful long time friends from High School that are still with me for this. I consider myself to be a very blessed woman indeed. Thanks for being there with me. Here's to many more wonderful years.

Tomorrow, June first is my birthday, but we celebrated it today. Three of my children were here and so were five of my grandchildren. I barbequed two chataubriands and a butterflied leg of lamb. All came out perfect, medium rare. The day was perfect, with the exception of no sunshine. I didn't mind because, don't say it, my kids were all the sunshine I needed. Being part of this community is the icing on the cake. I love you all, Arecee

Well, I got most of what i need to do to go back to school done. If I can get my doctor to sign off for me wednsday, I will be as ready to go as I can be. I just wish I felt better, but I was due for a chemical down anyway, so now is as good a time as any, i guess. ah, well.