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What snoo?

It snowed here Friday night and it has been raining since at the lower elevations. This has probably put an end to our fire season for this year, locally, though fires continue to burn in the northern part of the state.

One community near here in the mountains has suffered two evacuation orders due to fire and yesterday faced another order for flash flooding. The cold saved it, not enough rain fell on the snow to melt all of it and make a dangerous flood. This morning, the white peaks appear and disappear in the clouds that are still dropping snow up where we really need it.

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Butterscotch 25 on BC and 31 on Patreon

Kissy re-introduces herself to her friends and Rory learns about the mini-culture of gamers.

 

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by Erin Halfelven

 

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And on BC - Kisssy makes an important decision -- ice cream or lollipop?
 

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17! DopplerPress tops the list!

It may not be true for long but as of just now, DopplerPress has 17 of the top 100 books on the Kindle LGBT YA bestseller list. :)

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-Teen-Young-...

This is NOT the most we've scored there, a month or so a go we had 18 but it didn't last long enough for me to get a blog up about it. :)

Go DP!

And thanks to the authors who have put us on that list!

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FOY inc -3- Parking Lot Explorations - now on Patreon for everyone

“You need something to wear,” Gordon said as he turned the pickup into a big parking lot. “Do you know your sizes?”

“Sizes?” I said. We don’t need no stinking sizes, I wanted to say.

He shook his head, smiling. He looked at me as if measuring with his gaze. “Small,” he said. “Except—” he made a gesture at his chest.

I glanced down. I’m tiny everywhere else, and I have huge tits, I thought. “I’m going to need—” I gestured. “You know? A bra?” I blushed to say it because it was true—without some kind of restraint, I was at the doubtful mercy of my oversize accessories.

“I have no idea how to buy the right size of that. Let me get you some shorts and tops, and then you can go in and maybe try some other stuff on?”

“‘Kay,” I said. It came to me as he exited the car that he was suggesting that I go into the lingerie department and shop for a bra. Oh, hell, no. I sighed. Bra shopping looked like an existential crisis looming for someone who was convinced she used to be a man.

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Stolen! -9- Darkness - on Patreon, Patrons Only

Moose would be back and free me. “He promised,” I heard myself say aloud. It might be hours, and he was just another of my captors, but he became my hope, my wished-for savior, even as at the same time, I knew I would not have been in this predicament if he had not stolen me from the street.

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Stolen! -9- Darkness
by Erin Halfelven
On Patreon for Patrons Only

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The Infiltrator by Maryanne Peters on Patreon and Hatbox for members

Please understand—I was not a spy. But the counter-terrorism unit needed an infiltrator, a job I was uniquely qualified for.

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The Infiltrator

by Maryanne Peters

A premium novelette, available on both Hatbox and Patreon for members.

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Cuddles is gone

I took Cuddles to the vet this morning and got the bad news. The confusion, walking in circles, weakness in the hind legs: possible brain tumor.

And a fair-sized bill to find out if anything could be done -- or not. She was at least 14 and maybe as old as 16, she hadn't seemed happy in at least a year.

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Setting: The Rule of Three Senses

On alternate Wednesdays, I run a little writers' group sharing insights and critiques with other writers. I'm the most experienced there, though not the only one who has made a living as a writer, so often I am leading the discussions and providing some of the things I have learned.

The group is called "Taking Pains" as a reminder that being a writer is a craft that requires attention to detail, and too, an ability to stand up to constructive criticism. Which we try to do a lot of, and as little of the other kind as can be managed.

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Wouldn't it be nice?

It's the only holiday in August, my birthday. :) I'm 72.

I'm thankful for a lot of things in my life and one of those is BigCloset which I have been operating, with the help of friends, for almost 21 years.

It's fun and I'm convinced it helps keep me young, despite the occasional stress. :)

I'm kind of passed the age at which I expect birthday presents, but if there is anyone out there who would like to know that they made me smile, they can send a gift through the Hatbox via the links in the right-hand column of this page.

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Apple Fire

In case anyone hears about it, I live near the Apple Fire, currently burning east of San Bernardino, but it is moving east and north away from me.

I'm okay, there's almost no wind and fire travels uphill, usually; it's already 2000 feet further up the mountain than where I live.

Hugs,
Erin

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Butterscotch -15- Pizza on BC, and -21- Waffles on Patreon

It's sort of a Butterscotch feast. In Butterscotch 15, here on BigCloset, Kissy finds out if she's really on a pizza date with Rory.

While in the sneak preview for patrons of chapter 21 on Patreon, Mom and Davey—or is it Kissy?—go out for a waffle breakfast.

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Butterscotch 10 Trust on BC, 18 Cowgirl on Patreon

Butterscotch 10 - Trust is up on BC. Marjorie has made Davey an appointment with a doctor. What's that all about?

And on Patreon, Butterscotch 18 - Cowgirl is up. Rory and Kissy are parked down at the beach. What are they doing in the cab of that Toyota? Patrons Only post due to 18+ content.

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