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  1. The Steam in the Mirror, the Fog from the Sea (part 1)

    Maybe it's just a question of an inch or two Yes: I see you nod. ...

    - 2008/03/26 - 6:03am - 1 comment

  2. The Steam in the Mirror, the Fog from the Sea (part 2)

    The fountain that my own fingers recall, nothing like this: Drawn from a pond, a puddle. But, oh, how I felt an ocean of you crashing in. Ocean: warm saltiness of life, thick with potential, humming with energy barely contained, condensed of beating heart ...

    - 2008/03/26 - 6:02am - 4 comments

  3. The Steam in the Mirror, the Fog from the Sea (part3)

    Maybe what keeps us on our course is fearing how the shock of change will shake the people whom we know. ...

    - 2008/03/26 - 6:01am - 1 comment

  4. The Steam in the Mirror, the Fog from the Sea, part 4

    I try to shape my days now by my work. Numbers in charts, words battered out of a keyboard, spit out from a whirring printer: Let's say it is work like that I do, work meant for grey-walled cubicles under flickering fluorescent lights. ...

    - 2008/03/26 - 6:00am - 3 comments

  5. The Steam in the Mirror, the Fog from the Sea, last part

    Halfway across the river, the ferry turns. The gulls, as always, surprised by the boat's movement now wheel and dive, complaining cries as they take up their stations once again. The turn means a breeze from a fresh direction can ruffle hair, feather ...

    - 2008/03/26 - 6:10am - 5 comments

  6. To see

    Matti Mature Subjects (pg15) 7,500 < Novelette < 17,500 words Transgender Transformations Magic Adventure Mature / Thirty+ Language or Cultural Change Voluntary Identity Crisis Posted by author(s) Sometimes, despite a breath of breeze across the ink ...

    - 2008/03/26 - 8:00pm - 4 comments

  7. To Touch a Palm, part 1

    It was getting dark when I got there, and I'd managed to get off the wrong exit, too, guessing downtown was where it wasn't, as I always do. It meant an anxious tour through the dark and empty streets down by the river, looking for a place to st ...

    - 2008/03/28 - 8:20am - 2 comments

  8. To Touch a Palm, part 2

    You always worry, can they see? Is there something, maybe the way you've let your hand relax or your wrist bend, despite all the times you've caught yourself and clenched your fingers, straightened the curve. Something-- the way you hold a hand ...

    - 2008/03/29 - 5:52am

  9. To Touch a Palm, part 3

    By late afternoon, I was feeling pretty sure I'd called it right to come up here. I phoned the boss, reported not quite as optimistically as I felt and told myself that I was clocking out. The evening rush home had started, horns and rumbling of moto ...

    - 2008/03/31 - 5:05am - 2 comments

  10. To Touch a Palm, part 4

    It's not as simple as desire, not just a layer, or even two. It's art. Perhaps it was when I lifted my foot, to untie my shoe, and pants rose just enough to show the smallest band of smooth and newly-shaven skin, that we decided on a painting, n ...

    - 2008/03/31 - 5:11am - 1 comment

  11. To Touch a Palm, part 5

    I watched deep blue lighten to gray, felt that extra stillness, extra quiet of a weekend morning in a strictly-business downtown. Standing by the hotel window, I stared down the long, straight, empty streets of this place I didn't know, at all the ho ...

    - 2008/04/01 - 4:49am

  12. To Touch a Palm, last part

    A half an hour, 45 minutes outside town, the hills begin to lift, and if you know just where to look, you see the first blue line of mountains reaching towards the sky. That's where he left the highway, dipped and swooped through steepening hills, pa ...

    - 2008/04/02 - 5:00am - 4 comments

  13. Ozma's story

    Matti General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Magic Body, Mind or Soul Exchange Romantic Identity Crisis Fancy Dress / Prom / Evening Gown Posted by author(s) In the sequel to the Wizard of Oz, Frank Baum tells us the Wizard made the ri ...

    - 2009/11/20 - 1:40am - 14 comments