Lt Katia in Afghanistan

By Gwen Brown

Well, my apologies for the delay in this last episode. The Schwartz was just not with me. So, I will provide a brief synopsis of the first three chapters to spare you reading it all again. I solemnly promise not to publish any more stories unless they are complete at publishing time. Here is a brief recap of the entire story.

Ch1:

Chapter 20

I was up before the sun had risen; I silently brushed my teeth using the light that was from glowing coals in the fireplace. After spitting outside, I carried two logs to the hearth, and placed them in, banking the red embers around them. I quietly stood and paused at her door, looking in, gazing upon the woman I treasured. Samantha was asleep, her golden hair fanned around her face like the warm rays of the sun. I caught my breath; her look was so serene and peaceful. It was all I could do to not approach her slumbering form and smother her with kisses. It was best that I left and busied myself with chores.

They were good friends through their early years in college, until one day Hunter asked Christine to go along on a family vacation. "The worst blizzard in 20 years" hits while they are waiting on his parents arrival. What will happen when he learns of her secret? Will he spurn her? Love her? Take a little trip with these two friends as they sort out a brief encounter with the Medallion of Zulo.

The idea for this story came from a short, inspirational email that was shared with me a few years ago. I thought the message behind it was quite lovely and wanted to somehow turn it into a story to share with everyone. It took almost two years for a story to develop where I could use it in a way to honor the beauty it was written in. If I knew of the original author, I would like to include them...but as with much that is passed around in cyberspace, they are unknown. All I can do is say, thank you for the inspiration...I only hope my story does justice to your beautiful, and uplifting message.

The spur of the moment decision to steal some money led me to a foreign country, and a future I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams.

Kelly's Journey Book 2 By Stanman63 Edited By Nora Adrienne with Special Thanks To JennaFl For Proofing and to Heather Rose Brown for the Illustration! Synopsis:After their honeymoon, Kelly still feels empty. After talking with Johnny, they agree to put hope in the idea that she is intersexed as her Aunt Debbie is. As they travel to help out with Woods Enterprises, they meet other couples like them who have their own story to tell. In meeting them, Kelly and Johnny find out that her wish is that of other women like her. Back home, Aunt Debbie marries August Shaw, son of Constable Sebastian who retires to give his son his position of Chief Constable, retiring to a log cabin near to Johnny's. Aunt Debbie asks Kelly to be her Maid of Honor and when the bouquet is tossed, Terri Lynn Moore catches it, and Constable Sebastian catches the garter belt, setting up the next wedding. Kelly gets pregnant and delivers a healthy son, only to have Linden kidnap him, causing her to anger and swear vengeance. In her fight against him, she despairs, only to have Johnny save her. Kelly is forced to confront her deep hatred of him as she overcomes her guilt for abandoning her long held Christian Beliefs. But Linden, now left without hope, has suffered his ultimate defeat, feeling Kelly's pity.

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“Alex. It’s just one night. No one will ever know but us. Please, I’m begging you, do this for me?”

I didn’t say yes. I didn’t say no. I didn’t nod or shake my head. I just let Lara slip my athletic socks off my feet and, one after the other, slide the high-heeled shoes into place.

They fit like they were made for me.

 
David buries his wife after she loses her fight against cancer. He is nearly 50, and their children are now grown up, so he breaks the news that he is going to undertake that which he wanted to do for as long as he could remember – a sex change. He had struggled with his transsexuality all his life, but his love for his wife and respect for her meant he just played the hand that he had been dealt, up to now, that is.

Meanwhile, in the USA, grizzled Police Chief John Collingwood comes to near breaking point. Stressed from his job, his grief over his dead wife, and the despair of near alcoholism, he embarks on a trip to the UK with his brother to seek out his family tree.

Two very different people find a very different future, they also find each other...

Denis Simons allows himself to be roped in to attend the 'Hen Night' of one of his workmates, but later finds himself taking a far more active role in her wedding. He goes on to find that there are new opportunities and friendships as Denise and a whole new way of life for the summer. Over the next few weeks Denise comes to terms with her new job, her new accommodation and also meets her family. She must decide whether to start dating, and discovers the joys and difficulties of being a girl before setting out on a perilous journey to full-time womanhood.

Second Chance by Tanya Allan

 
Chris Reynolds, always wanting to please his family as he was growing up, knew that something about himself was amiss: His body was just plain wrong! This sense of wrongness pervaded him and eventually sank him into a deep depression.

One fateful day, deciding to end it all, Chris wound up being caught in a freakish accident in which he was killed - only he didn't die!

Finding himself alive was the first thing he was surprised at. Finding his lifelong prayers answered, through some sort of swapping of bodies during death with another person - a girl equally as depressed as himself, and in a similar situation as he - except she had always desired to physically be a man, was simply amazing!

Chris, now Christina, pursues living life to it's fullest, but once again realizes something missing from her life. Will she find her answer?

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.

Miao Ling Grace and Siobhan Llewellyn are seemingly destined to be together. The pair learn later that Grace's brother Cretein and a girl he meets in college, Justine MacNamara, are integral to that destiny in ways that defy mere coincidence.

Though my first installment is easily acceptable to general audiences, later installments will have sections meant for adults only. That is to say:
At times, this story is not safe for work and truly not acceptable reading for those under 18.

Please enjoy my first story on Big Closet and feel free to leave comments of constructive criticism. I won't cry in my tea over some good advice. 8)

- Eclectic Kitty

Here's another Whateley fanfic that's been sitting around while I poke and prod at it, there's more to this one but I already have a chapter or two partitioned off, so here's the first one!