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Extra Time 25
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 25 Ellen stood there, jaw hanging open, and that was how it described itself to me in my head, Bethy’s use of cow for her mother seeming so apt. Ian stood up ...
Steph C - 2012/08/15 - 12:20am - 4 comments
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Extra Time 26
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 26 Unless you are peculiarly lucky, work is something that serves to highlight the pleasure of what you prefer to spend your time doing. If it weren’t for wo ...
Steph C - 2012/08/21 - 10:00am - 13 comments
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Extra Time 27
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 27 I looked at his expression, and sighed. “Bethy, Larinda’s in the kitchen sorting some food, so…” “Yeah, yeah, let the olds talk” As soon as she was gone ...
Steph C - 2013/10/14 - 2:41pm - 4 comments
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...and we danced
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Music / Songs / Singers Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) I started my 'career' here with a story about a painfully shy transwoman finding love and life in a festival at Shrewsbury. ...
Steph C - 2012/11/15 - 8:52pm - 9 comments
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Moving On
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Posted by author(s) The wind was a sod. Why did she have to pick February? It blasted across the church yard, swirling past the corner where the new wing was glued inappropriately to the old, concrete to stone. My ra ...
Steph C - 2012/09/13 - 11:39am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 28
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 28 We made an odd little group as we rode the train up to Victoria and then by tube to Lambeth North. Larinda had collared John and Alec, as planned, but the ...
Steph C - 2012/08/27 - 12:36pm - 7 comments
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Home Match
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Teenage or High School Posted by author(s) The teacher was calling the register. “Anne” “Here!” “Yvonne” “Sir!” “Geraldine” “Yeah” And then… “Adams” “Yes!” “Cartwright” “Sir!” And so on. Alway ...
Steph C - 2013/05/13 - 12:25pm - 11 comments
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Extra Time 30
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 30 It seemed my lover had moved things on beyond what she had admitted to me, and rather presented me with a fixed and fully prepared package. She had been i ...
Steph C - 2012/09/13 - 11:39am - 5 comments
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Extra Time 31
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 31 Steph was waiting for us at Gatwick this time, and of course she had to inspect our rings, and hug, and all the usual little touches that aren’t actually ...
Steph C - 2012/09/13 - 11:39am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 32
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 32 It was Larinda who reacted first, once again showing who was stronger in our partnership. Ian had cut me off to ring Ralph, Neil, any others who he could ...
Steph C - 2012/09/18 - 1:26pm - 2 comments
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Documentary found by chance
Author: Cyclist Steph C's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) transitioning I have had a few bad days, with some nastiness from colleagues based largely on being different. For the first time in years, I threw a 'sickie', ...
Steph C - 2012/09/18 - 12:45pm - 10 comments
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Extra Time 33
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 33 In the end, it was Eric who came through with a result. Kate knew the right administrators to approach, but it was a man I hardly knew who moved and shook ...
Steph C - 2012/09/20 - 1:14am - 8 comments
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Half a century of monochrome tints
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: Mature Subjects (pg15) I don't know if the same 'publishing phenomenon' is sweeping the Colonies, but there is apparently an ins ...
Steph C - 2012/10/24 - 3:40pm - 5 comments
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Extra Time 34
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 34 I returned with the three parcels, and caught my wife’s eye as I approached. When I reached them, Hays was partway through a declaration of how old she wa ...
Steph C - 2012/09/27 - 11:19am - 11 comments
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Extra Time 35
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 35 Why did I agree to sleep in a tent, in December? I was awake for one very simple reason, and that had been the impact of my wife’s sub-Arctic knees agains ...
Steph C - 2012/10/02 - 9:51am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 36
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 36 We worked our way through the graveyard, following the old habit of looking for the oldest stone, the youngest and most tragic death. There, on the edge, ...
Steph C - 2012/10/09 - 10:33am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 37
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 37 Morning, cold and dry, a skin of hoar frost on the tent’s fly sheet. I did the necessary after the night’s beer and found my wife emerging for her own das ...
Steph C - 2012/10/16 - 10:21am - 6 comments
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Extra Time 38
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 38 “Aunty Jill, where’s the spare loo roll?” “Under the sink in the wooden cupboard” “They’re all wooden!” “The one that LOOKS like wood, Bethy!” “Oh, ri ...
Steph C - 2012/10/24 - 11:26am - 7 comments
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Extra Time 39
Cyclist Mature Subjects (pg15) Fiction Transitioning Mature / Thirty+ Posted by author(s) CHAPTER 39 It went on. I dropped in when I could, as the first session tore his health to shreds, and he would be there, silent and grey, staring into space. There w ...
Steph C - 2012/10/31 - 10:33pm - 6 comments
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Nasty bots
Steph C's blog Author: Cyclist Blog About: Autobiographical Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) I have been attacked by a nasty little bot that tried to steal my e-mail account. Unfortunately, my 'password reset'e-mail address ...
Steph C - 2012/11/15 - 9:12pm - 5 comments