A Glass Half-Full (Chapter 4)

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Absolutely wonderful!

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I loved this story when I read it the first time, years ago, and I'm loving it all over again. You're very talented, Kristin -- your people are alive with personalities and problems, David/Dawn is a complex hero/heroine with challenges to overcome, and the dialogue and action leap off the page and make you care.

Like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series, Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan books, and Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld novels, you pull us into another world and keep us there. I look forward to each repost.

Thank you for the gift. *hugs*

Randalynn

Lovely, PAINFUL and overwhelmingly unfulfilled

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Hi Kristin - Kristin... Much prettier than Chaos or even Chaosdancer,

Although some of the later part of this chapter will need further exploration to be completely comprehensible, the scene outside the car on the interstate nearly tore me to pieces. If you keep this up you will be getting a bill for my tissue purchases.

Thank you for posting. Please do not keep us waiting too long for the next episode?

with love,

Hope

with love,

Hope

Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.

Half-full

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I have finished reading all four of the chapters you have up now. I loved it! The urban fantasy theme is very popular but you've given this your own touch and pardon the pun, it's a magical one. The characters are wonderful and you've done a good job of bringing them alive. This is as truly captivating as anything I've gotten addicted to off the shelf at Barnes and Noble.

I'm waiting for the next installment with my tissue box handy!

hugs!

grover

Depth

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This story has a lot of depth. The characters and their world come alive for me. *sigh*

I love the non-linear time theme. It seems to be cropping up a lot for me lately. Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something. Hmmmm.

I also like the hint at consensus reality. Scoffing the evil boy to death inspired some cool images. :)

Thanks and please keep posting. Okay?

- Terry

Dawn Has Found

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Friends. The old warrior is truly learning.
May Your Light Forever Shine

    Stanman
May Your Light Forever Shine

No to magic

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I don't like magic stories. I really don't. I love this story!!!!!!

Now that I know the name used on Sapphire's to post this, I've gone ahead and read ahead a bit. Like I'm partway through Chapter 9. I won't be a spoiler and tell what is coming up, but one thing I do have to say. Partway through Chapter 7, that scene is cruel. Cruel! Do you hear me? Any self-respecting lesbian is going to go totally ga-ga over that scene, and I was actually at work when I read it this afternoon. Had to quickly excuse myself and head for the restroom.

Think I'll read it again tonight. :-)

Karen J.

BTW, I think Chaosdancer is a pretty and descriptive nom-de-plume. I've seen something like it before, but can't find it on the currently functioning fiction sites I've checked. Maybe it was FM?

Please, please, take good care of D & D. I think they are two very important reasons why I like this so much. They deserve each other.

"Life is hard. It's harder when you're stupid."
Sir Charles Panther

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

*Giggle*

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The lesbian part is just frosting of course. I cherish it even more so due to the scarcity of lesbian trans stuff - most stories are the ones where the tranny after changing gets her ashes hauled on the end of a penis. I am not saying there aren't some men that are tempting in some ways but 99.99999% of all men are not so why waste time ?

Kim

True that

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It's unfortunate that most cultures make their men into insensitive brutes who do not care about their women. But what that does is make the search interesting, not a waste of time. If you can find the one in however many that should make up for all the effort that you put into finding him. I know from some of your other posts that you've had some VERY bad experiences but please, don't write us all off because of them. Some of us care, more than you seem to think. I wish you all the best whichever way you swing.
Happy Life to you
Chris in CA

Chris

The scene with Diane and

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The scene with Diane and Dawn... just awesome. David/Dawn is just unbelievable. How can you spend your life like that?

But like so many smart kids, hiding from the pain and anger and fear also insulated me from the compliments and positive things. I knew, all too well, that I had flaws… so compliments seemed to be dishonest ways of insulting me. Love and joy could lure me into being trusting which could open me up to the things I'd spent so much time escaping. And then I could be betrayed and hurt. So I hid from all of it. And like so many men, by the time I'd grown old enough to understand what I had done... the walls built so high and strong to protect me, and the world around me; the only release was more than society would accept. I couldn't break down and cry and I couldn't scream my curses to an empty sky.

This is eerily familiar. Reminds me too much of myself :( But very very very well written.

This chapter was just awesome, one of the best TG-stories I've ever read. Hell, this is better than most mainstream fantasy stories.

Thank you for writing this captivating story,
Beyogi

Insightful

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On all previous occasions when I’ve heard the question asked, it was always in the form of, “Do you see the world as a glass half empty, or half full?” You are the first I have heard to ask, “Do you see your self as a glass half empty, or half full?” That strikes me as being a most essential question.

Having done my own share of dream work in my journey toward wholeness, I love to hear of the dreams that others share, whether in fiction or real life. Dreams, imagination, the artist’s muse…they all come from the same source. Once while in a meditation-induced trance, I had a spontaneous vision of that source as a mighty ocean without borders. I could sense more than see the murky shapes that moved just below the surface. I swore myself a mighty oath :D that I would swim in that ocean and live in it like a fish (“like a dolphin” would probably have been better; “as a mermaid” would surely be the ultimate… :D). Well, I don’t know if I will get there in this lifetime, but hearing, sharing, and talking dreams reminds me of the quest, and makes me feel connected to the journey.

Many dream sequences in fiction feel very contrived to me; nevertheless, I still appreciate the effort. Of course, it is so much better to read an authentic one that clearly came from the Source, with all the energy and wonder that it brings. The eponymous dream sequence at the end of this chapter, upon which your novel clearly pivots, with its rich and vivid imagery, was clearly one of the latter.

Is it enough?

Yes, I think it was…much better than just “enough.”

You are the first I have

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You are the first I have heard to ask, “Do you see your self as a glass half empty, or half full?” That strikes me as being a most essential question.

The eponymous dream sequence at the end of this chapter, upon which your novel clearly pivots, with its rich and vivid imagery, was clearly one of the latter.

Thank you for the very generous compliments. :)

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