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Focal Point - Chapter 20.5 & 21

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Michael Cohen's dream was to protect and serve as a police officer.... That job didn't satisfy him, until one day,
when people without names came to visit. He wanted to make a difference, but he didn't expect it to make a difference to him, too...

Five for Fifty (Chp.5)

Cierra closed her eyes and drew in a breath. When she released it … the life in her body seemed to leave her. When she opened her eyes the sparkle had faded and the blue was almost grey. Her voice was barely more than a whisper.

“I … I’m sorry. I … I just wanted to try … to try extra hard ‘cause … ‘cause now I understand … and … and well … I just think I could get there you know. I think if I tried with … with all that I am … that I could make something happen."

Five for Fifty
Chapter Five: Lifting the Little Toe

by Maggie the Kitten

The Younger You Look The Longer You Will Live

Study: Looking young may mean living longer
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LONDON — Those baby-faced people now have another reason to be smug: a new Danish study says looking young apparently means a longer life.

Research published online Monday in the British medical journal BMJ suggests that people who look younger than their years also live longer.

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Content

In the past week we had 101 stories, chapters, poems (and one article) posted on BC. Twenty or so of those were standalone stories. We also had 43 blogs, topics and links posted in the same period.

No other TG site had half that much content and I'll put the quality of BC's content in the scale with anybody's, regardless of genre. A few pro-sites may have a better average quality but their best is little better than our best, if at all.

Content, as someone has said, is King. Or in our case, perhaps, Queen. :)

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Erin

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Football Girl ~ Chapter 27

‘Susan! How goes it, girl?’

‘Fine thanks. Look, I want to thank you for your support at the TV station.’

‘That’s all right, honey. You have to know what is going on in these situations. Mike is a slime ball and he needed taking down a peg or two. You did me a favour, actually.’

 
 

Football Girl
Chapter 27

By Susan Brown

Copyright © 2009 Susan Brown

Play Fair

A huge part of marketing food is obtaining shelf space. Big corporations have been known to actually pay to have their products displayed by grocers at the right height and in a large enough amount to suggest huge consumer demand. Coke and Pepsi have gone to the mattresses several times over shelf space wars.

What I'm going to suggest is only logical since we are talking about a limited resource. (I have an economic degree and will use it to justify my premise if needed. You are warned.)

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Sarah Carerra - 1.12 - The Pop Star, the Consultant, and the Wardrobe

It wasn’t until I saw the shocked look on Mom’s face that I realized I was changing in front of two women. But I think she was more shocked to learn that I had been wearing panties to school!

Sarah Carerra
Chapter 12 - The Pop Star, the Consultant, and the Wardrobe
by Megan Campbell
Copyright  ©2009 Megan Campbell
Released: December 14, 2009

an impressive short memoir

i thought this was an uncommonly well-written piece about being t*, and having a partner who doesn't deal with it any better than most. there are a few places where it's over-written ("amsonia-blue") but it's definitely worth checking out. it's quite odd, which is, i guess, the reason i enjoyed it.

http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg/pdf/09_11.2Peters.pdf

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Shopping with St. Nicholas (With apologies to Clement Moore. And, well, everyone.)

T'was a week before Christmas, and all through the mall,
I searched for a gown for the Yuletide Ball.
The crowds were oppresive, and surly, and mean
As the Muzak blared 'O Holy Night' o'er the scene.

Something Feels Strange... the next chapters

For those who've been concerned about the future of my offering on this site: I am committed to completing the story. Unfortunately, however, it will take some time. I never intended it to be this long, but it's taken a life of its own. My real life work is such that I'm extremely busy during the school year with a number of activities which really hamper my ability to get any serious writing done. We also have some intense family things happening as well.

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Standing Up

Tommy Browder from Beyond Fashion is back! On a walk back to his aunt's house from downtown, a chance encounter brings Tommy face-to-face with an old enemy and a new friend, and gives him the chance to show Tony DeFranco what it really means to be a "stand up" guy.

Standing Up
A Tommy Browder Tale
by Randalynn

Cowboy Caramel Custard

You need a large pot, preferably one with a metal rack for the inside or one that will fit a metal rack you have inside it. I've done this without the metal rack but it's more controllable with one.

Ingredients: one can of sweetened condensed milk, unopened. Eagle is a common US brand name. Don't open the can, just remove the label.

Put the unopened, labelless can on the rack inside the large pot. Fill with water to a level two inches or more above the level of the top of the can. Add a pinch of salt to the water.

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Once the Hero

The first 5 chapters of my newest story, "Once the Hero" is up now at Stardust. Several months ago, my loved one and I were watching Zoom’s Academy for superheroes. Frankly, the movie was very uneven in its direction, and could not decide what kind of movie it was supposed to be. The script needed an overhaul, and some of the casting wasn’t any too hot.

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Houston elects first Gay Mayor.

In her acceptance speech, she said, in essence, that this was a new beginning for Gays, Lesbians, Bi-sexuals and Transgendered people and that was going to be the focus of her term as mayor.
Houston biggest US city to elect openly gay mayor

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AP — Houston Mayor-elect Annise Parker, center, celebrates her runoff election vicotry at a campaign party …
Slideshow:Mayor-elect Annise Parker
By MONICA RHOR, Associated Press Writer — 19 mins ago

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Prostate Screening and the Transgender Community

It is a sad fact that prostate cancer can and does affect transsexuals. My song was a lighthearted musical treatment, more as a tag along to Laika's and Kate's songs, but the risk for prostate cancer is very real. I've included a links to websites explaining the need for proper and regular screening for prostate cancer for anyone born male, including MtF transsexuals.

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The Scoobies Do: Chapter 6 - School Daze

Douglas Deaper was found in his bloody bed. His limp hand clasped the grip of the Colt .45 in his limp hand, the barrel was in his mouth. Hickstown chief of police Seth Poole was indicted for conspiracy and promptly resigned. The remaining junior/senior high phys-ed teachers, while not guilty of abuse, were implicated...

The Scoobies Do
Chapter 6 - School Daze

by Jennifer Sue

Copyright © 2009 Jennifer Sue

Roni's Party

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(Exclusively on BigCloset TopShelf!)

“We wouldn’t mind a lift to the S-Bahn.” Roni allowed giving me a hug.

“No probs, I get a few more minutes with gorgeous here.”

Yuck — I think? He is kind of cute if a lad who stands nearly twenty centimeters taller than me can be cute? Anyway, I’m not interested in boys am I, I am a boy - I think?

Roni's Party
- a Gabysode

by Maddy Bell

Copyright © 2009 Maddy Bell

Sis Boom Bah

“It is in our idleness, our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes it way to the surface.”
---Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

Sis Boom Bah

by Ginger Collins

Copyright © 2009 Ginger Collins

My stories

So i haven't wrote a iota about anything those last days. At least not on my stories here, and very little on those other story's I, stupidly enough, promised to finish elsewhere. A promise made?

But those story are becoming sooo big (It's definitely the stories fault, not mine. They just don't want to finish. Yep, I think they are 'fighting back'?). And as I only use two fingers writing I'm expecting them to soon enough just be stubs of their former existence, the fingers that is, well maybe the stories too? If I don't continue writing them that is.

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Promising Scientific development for self-produced HRT

I just found this article in The Independent newspaper which may be of interest to readers:
From Minnie to Mickey (and all they did was turn off a gene)
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The gist of the article is that a group of scientists have developed a simple genetic-based (a modified virus?) technique which can convert the oestrogen producing cells in an adult female mouse to producing normal male levels of testosterone.

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'Pinkstinks' campaign.

The attached link to the Daily Mail is about a campaign to boycott 'pink' toys for girls, they claim stereotyping has held girls and women back for generations.

Personally, I'm more concerned about sexually objectifying young women - but what do I know?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233779/Parents-urge...

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Little Pink Pills, Part 25

Little Pink Pills

Part Twenty-Five, by Michelle Wilder

In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away

Late last night the rain was knocking at my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we're all standing on the border

(On the Border, by Al Stewart)

Cold Case

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Cold Case
 
by Penny Lane
 
Copyright © 2009 Penny Lane

 

A senior detective makes a visit to a lonely marshland cottage while following up a new lead in a 30-year-old murder case. Needless to say, his visit does not go as he anticipated.

How to mark spoiler text as invisible until highlighted

A new "spoiler" button has been added to the mini-editor. It's marked S and is between the H-Headline button and the Y-Byline button. Select your text, then hit the button and it will be given a text color that is invisible until highlighted.

Also the Headline button will now make text bold as well as extra large and red Verdana and the Byline button will italicize as well as other changes.

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Erin

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8350 Stories!

I just got curious and did a count of stories on the site. Counting Full Stories plus Chapters, Drabbles and Poems but not counting Storylinks to stories on other sites or Title/Author Pages or stories that are currently unpubbed -- we have 8350 Stories on BC as of this writing. That means that sometime in the next 70 to 90 days we will go over 9 thousand stories and over 9 million visits. :) This time last year we had about 5200 stories and 6 million visits At the rate things are going we will have almost 12,000 stories by Christmas 2010 and more than 12 million visits!

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Posting my Stories

Hopefully I'll have two fairly long stories that will post soon. Because of their length they'll be in chapter sized chunks. Also because I want to help support Bob's Star Dust they will be posted first there. I guess I'm just sentimental because not was my very first story posted at Star Dust but Bob was the very first person to comment on one of mine.

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Grottoes-11

Grottoes-11
A Gaby Fan-Fiction
by Stanman

Synopsis:What exactly happened to the students and faculty of Augusta High School, Bigg's Manufacturing and Erin's Cyclery after Drew and his friends went back home to Warsop at the end of the Cultural Exchange Program? This story will attempt to answer those questions.


From http://maddybell.com/Grottoes5.html

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