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Uniforms 1
UNIFORMS. Not even first light. The chop was making my teeth rattle as the blunt bow slammed into each wave the LCU met, and a couple of the lads were already being sick. The bergen weighed far too much, but I’d managed to snaffle a Mao suit and, much to ...
Steph C - 2010/10/06 - 11:19pm - 13 comments
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Uniforms 2
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Novel Chapter Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) I have taken a number of small liberties with history here, this being fiction after all. I apologise if any of the real folk who were involved in this feel I ...
Steph C - 2010/09/27 - 4:55am - 9 comments
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Uniforms 3
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Novel Chapter Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 3 It isn’t like that at all, you know. I wasn’t lusting after Stewie, or indeed any man. I like women for that particular area of my life, though I mus ...
Steph C - 2010/09/19 - 11:04am - 7 comments
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Uniforms 4
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Novel Chapter Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 4 I knew it was going to be a long walk as soon as I heard about the Conveyor. We had helicopters, but nowhere near enough to move all of us, and we we ...
Steph C - 2010/09/19 - 3:34pm - 6 comments
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Uniforms 5
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Novel Chapter Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 5 We went home, and I wasn’t the only one crying in his sleep. I look back now, and I can see how many men were clearly suffering from post-traumatic s ...
Steph C - 2010/12/29 - 2:27pm - 10 comments
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Cold Feet 2
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 2 This is where the Michael Caine moment kicks in, the “My name is…” followed by “not a lot of people know that…” Well, the second part is obviously true, ...
Steph C - 2010/11/18 - 10:01am - 14 comments
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Cold Feet 4
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 4 That was not the start of a new life, by any means, but it was definitely the end of the old one. Without Becky and Jo to push me along and watch my back, ...
Steph C - 2010/10/17 - 6:34pm - 11 comments
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Cold Feet 5
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 5 Joe was waiting when I came out, and we headed off for the nearest pub, the King’s. Joe was bubbling away with excitement, and I was nearly as bad. A prope ...
Steph C - 2010/10/18 - 3:38am - 6 comments
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Cold Feet 6
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 6 I was happy that Sunday morning-of-sorts, despite the hangover. I celebrated with another dose of my wonderful medicine, washed down with a cup of tea th ...
Steph C - 2010/10/18 - 3:18pm - 5 comments
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Cold Feet 7
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 7 Once more, Joe seemed to disappear for a few weeks, and I wasn’t sure I was actually disappointed about that. My mind was tossing an imaginary coin in tr ...
Steph C - 2010/10/20 - 3:23am - 9 comments
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Cold Feet 8
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning College / Twenties Blackmail CAUTION Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 8 I thought it was about time to sort things out. The weekend with Tony had opened my eyes to the way life could be, and Joe was not some ...
Steph C - 2010/10/19 - 3:13pm - 7 comments
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Sweat and Tears 38
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 38 We had enough resources between us, and independence, to take rooms of our own rather than be tied to the halls of residence. The city lies in a trough be ...
Steph C - 2011/01/23 - 4:15pm - 8 comments
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Sweat and Tears 39
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 39 Bangor was three years of intensity. I was racing to a high level, and though never scaling the heights of those wonders Coe and Ovett I wasn’t doing too ...
Steph C - 2011/01/24 - 5:58pm - 11 comments
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Sweat and Tears 40
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 40 That took me full circle, back to those articles about April Ashley, and I felt an odd sense of calm as I spoke. “Tessa has been good enough to give you s ...
Steph C - 2011/01/26 - 9:47am - 9 comments
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Sweat and Tears 41
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 41 Three years we had at Bangor, three years of growth mental and physical, and although I know I am biased my Emily became daily more beautiful. We kept pus ...
Steph C - 2011/01/26 - 3:02pm - 15 comments
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Sweat and Tears 42
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 42 That was an odd time, truly odd. I had spent my entire, if compressed, academic career listening to people tell me things, explaining to them what I thoug ...
Steph C - 2011/01/29 - 11:18am - 6 comments
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Sweat and Tears 43
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 43 My wife was fussing with my hair as I looked in the mirror, and I slapped her hand away gently as she tried to reset my ponytail. If this went on, I was g ...
Steph C - 2011/01/31 - 2:40am - 5 comments
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Sweat and Tears 44
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 44 I watched Kaz’s face go through a series of twitches, and I could almost track them, from ‘I’m too young’, to ‘How?’, then ‘Who?’, and finally ‘Ah!’ My go ...
Steph C - 2011/02/05 - 1:57am - 4 comments
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Sweat and Tears 45
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transgender College / Twenties Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 45 That was indeed the start of a new life and lives. Em was home in a few days, and as a constant stream of wellwishers, including several pupils, came roun ...
Steph C - 2011/02/05 - 1:56am - 9 comments
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Sunlight and Shade
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Summer Romance 2011 Story Contest 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Transitioning College / Twenties Posted by author(s) SUNLIGHT AND SHADE I was rehearsing the words in my mind as I walked in. Supermarkets were so di ...
Steph C - 2011/07/30 - 2:51pm - 29 comments