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Easy as Falling off a Bike -13- by Angharad - Cover Preview

Probably goes up on Kindle this week. :)

Wednesday Knights -9- Gumbo by Melanie E.

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 9 -- Gumbo

"We're lost."

"No, we're not," Brian assured me for the third time, the truck bouncing its way from pothole to pothole on the deeply rutted and far too narrow dirt road he'd turned off on. "It's a shortcut."

"A shortcut to where? If we'd stuck to pavement, we coulda been in Baton Rouge by now," I said, then let out a squeak of mixed alarm and pain as we bounced through another rut. I was glad we were in his truck...

Butterscotch Kindle Edition Cover Preview

Everyone's favorite flavor coming to Kindle in April!

Sixteen the Hard Way -18.2- Closet

Once home, I had the task of putting my new clothes away. Not that I really wanted to, but I couldn’t just throw them on the bed and expect someone else to do it. For the first time in my life, I contemplated what it would be like to be a truly spoiled princess. It kept my mood from going sour, and I grinned as I decided there would probably be drawbacks I hadn’t thought of.

Linda was underfoot, dashing in and out of my room with four-year-old energy. She had rushed back home from t...

2023/3 March - Abducted Contest Voting

Vote here for winners in the BigCloset 2023/3 Abducted Contest. Vote for as many as you like. Poll closes Midnight PDT 29 March. Winners will be announced on or about 31 of March.

Here's a link to the contest entries on BC if you need to reread them.

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Anyone can vote in this poll.

What Pete May Look Like in January

With a little makeup and her armpits shaved. :)

Pete's Vagina -32- Conversion

I must have driven home that morning, but I have no memory of it. I woke up in my own bed with Jordan at my door saying something that didn’t register,

“Dad wants you down at the dealership,” she said again. I’d heard her the first time but hadn’t responded. “Hunt? You alive in there?” She sounded amused. My family calls me Hunt or Hunter since we’re all named Petersen.

I made a noise. “Don’t come in,” I warned her.

“As if? Better shake it. He said it...

Wednesday Knights -8- The Family Way by Melanie E.

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 8 -- The Family Way

I wasn't sure what I'd expected of our trip shopping... but it wasn't the almost complete and utter indifference we received.

Perhaps I was overestimating my public profile. Perhaps I'd just misjudged how many folks already assumed I was a girl. Either way, I'd expected at least a few head turns or eye rolls when people noticed me, and at least one person to question why I was out looking more like a soccer mo...

Sixteen the Hard Way -18.1- Homeward

As eldest, I usually got to sit up front with the driver when I wanted to, and right now, I did because of the psychological edge it gave me in confidence. Enough confidence to say something like, “You know I’m never going on any dates,” and hope it would stick.

But Donna wouldn’t let it alone.

“What never?” she asked on a rising note from the seat directly behind me.

Oh, God. I couldn’t resist. “No, never!” I countered.

“What never!?” Mom came in...

String Theory -1- Snatched!

I reflected that I’d been warned about traveling the back roads of the Texas panhandle alone on my motorcycle. “No one to help you if you get in trouble, Smitty, cause it’s just miles and miles of just miles and miles,” Deke Morgan had said. “And the cell reception is terrible.”

I wouldn’t know about that since I’d forgotten my charging cable when I left Norman, Oklahoma the day before and had turned my phone off when it started meeping piteously at me earlier. With luck...

Wednesday Knights -7- Chocolate Chips - by Melanie E.

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 7 -- Chocolate Chips

The sound of my phone dinging with a message is what jolted me awake, but it was the smell wafting into my room from the kitchen that kept me there.

Good thing, too. The dream was already fading from my mind, but it had involved Lunea, Burg, and rather acrobatic activities I didn't want to contemplate in my waking state. I found my hands idly moving to cradle my baby at the thought and pulled them violently b...

Special FX -29- Super Soaker

“Jack, I will murder you in your sleep if you don’t tell me how you changed back into a boy after using the camera!” I squeaked, which kind of ruined the effect of the death threat. I banged a fist against the door for emphasis but didn’t do that again because it hurt. Besides, it sort of sounded like desperation.

“Are you going to tell me the truth, Jack, or am I going to have to come out there and look for it behind your tonsils?” Jack made noises but didn’t rep...

Sixteen the Hard Way -17.3- Choos

I managed to get out of there with only three new dresses and two of the skort jumpers. Oh, and two skirts to go with the tops we’d gotten earlier. “But I already have slacks to go with those,” I protested.

“Sometimes,” Donna explained, “you just really need a skirt.”

I rolled my eyes, and Mom giggled.

“You seem to be taking this better now,” she added.

“Yeah, well,” I admitted. “I guess so.”

“You did pick out your own sundress,” she...

Blink by Melanie E

Blink

Melanie E.

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Newton’s Third Law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

As such, it should have been no surprise to my friend Michelle when, after she suggested I wear one of her outfits for our night out, I promptly let out a terrified yelp and tried to hide in her closet.

“Come on, Al! It’ll be fun!” Michelle’s voice called, muffled by the door I held steadfastly shut.

“Fun?!” I scoffed from the safe ...

Pete's Vagina -31- Incomplete

I tried not to stare at Travis in his musical underwear. Why violins? my mind wondered. Did he have a whole orchestra in his chest of drawers? At least it wasn’t saxophones.

But now that I had thought of saxes, I had a hard time thinking at all.

Megan stepped in front of me, and my brain started functioning again. “We’ve got company,” she scolded her brother. “And since when do you sleep in the living room?”

I could still see him from the waist up over Megan’s ...

Wednesday Knights -6- Baby Games by Melanie E

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 6 -- Baby Games

"They have a what?!" Jonah asked, seeming on the verge of a fit.

"A baby store," Maria said calmly, trying -- and almost successfully -- to keep the evil glee from showing on her face. "Right next to the magic shop."

"Excellent!" I crowed, bouncing happily in my seat. "I want to go in and take a look around."

I watched the purple tone rising in Jonah's face, and, just for a moment, worried I was pushin...

Cover Preview for Maryanne's Book 19

Should be out later this week. :)

Sam Valentine - The Knight of Cups - 1.0

The bright blue Vespa puttered through the early morning alley called Buchanan Way, stopping in back of a broad garage-style door with a sign saying Serpentine Motors. Somewhere a cat complained about the scraps offered in the dumpster behind Moe Joe Pork’s BBQ Cafe. A crow disputed with a seagull over the corpse of a roof rat. The smell of the city began to awaken.

The heat of the day wouldn’t arrive for hours, and Sam wore a business suit that made the pre-dawn chill bearable. The...

Sixteen the Hard Way -17.2- Cute

“Sweet!?” I protested, but that only made them giggle.

Mom suggested “Adorable!” as an alternate description, so I just went back into the booth to take the lovely, sweet, adorable garment off. Easier said than done, I’d forgotten the hook-thing at the back of the neck and managed to unzip the top of the dress before figuring out something was wrong.

“You need help?” Donna offered from the hall.

“No!” Last thing I needed just then was my sister to deal with...

Wednesday Knights -5- Proud Mama by Melanie E

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 5 -- Proud Mama

"No way in hell!"

"But mija, you look so cute! Oh, wait," Carmen said, reaching back into the same bag that had held the torture device I already wore and pulling out another, smaller bundle of cloth. "Go put this on too."

I took the object she handed to me, then groaned. "Aunt Cici!"

"Now now," she said, stepping forward and wrapping me in a hug. "Trust me, okay?"

"But..." I looked at t...

Elevator by Melanie E

Elevator

By Melanie E.

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Arnie frowned.

He was good at frowning. In fact, it was one of his favorite pastimes. Some days, he would do little more than stand in front of the mirror in the small, cramped bathroom in his small, cramped apartment building and practice frowning, just to make sure he didn’t lose his touch.

This frown was extra special, though. It was a frown of a magnitude he saved for only very specific things: telemarketers, Jehovah’s Witnesse...

Sixteen the Hard Way -17.1- Blue Dress

I took the blue dress down from the hanger and looked it over more closely. “How do I even put this on?” I asked.

“Undo the snap at the neck in the back and unzip it,” Mom suggested. “Then just pull it over your head like a t-shirt. Get it settled around your waist and come out here. We’ll zip you up.”

“Yeah!” Donna agreed.

I puffed out a sigh. An enthusiastic Donna was not less annoying than a sarcastic one. But I followed instructions. The dress was less ...

Pete's Vagina -30- Open Receiver

“You mean gynecomastia?” Megan suggested. Had Dr. Verre mentioned the word? I didn’t remember. Somehow I did know what it meant so I must have heard it somewhere. Breast growth on a boy. That really wasn’t the situation, but right at that moment, I would have stammered if someone asked for my name. I sure as hell wasn’t going to try to explain anything.

Coach pointed at Megan, “Yeah, that! Three-dollar word for five-cents of panic. It always clears up before it’s a real pr...

Wednesday Knights -4- Plans and Alterations by Melanie E.

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 4 - Plans and Alterations

I basked in the feel of the icy air coming out of the vent over my head, grateful to whoever had arrived early and turned the temperature controls in the studio to something between "arctic circle" and "absolute zero," even as I dreaded seeing what it would do to the electric bill at the end of the month.

Streaming? Fun. Playing games with friends? Fun. Being self-employed? Stressful, but usually pretty ...

The Darker Side of Melanie Brown - on Kindle soon

Some people fall in love with the darkness...

Sixteen the Hard Way -16.3- Lovely?

I stood there trying to swallow my panic.

I wasn’t going to be able to get out of this. I might as well be a girl if I were going to look like one and have to dress like one. I looked down at myself again. No one was going to believe I was a boy, anyway.

I didn’t start crying, though it was a near thing. I knew if I started, I wouldn’t be able to stop until I had cried myself out.

“Joni?” Mom’s voice came from outside the changing booth. “Are you okay, honey?�...

sick

I've been sick and preoccupied with what passes for real life around here. Regular posting should be resumed soon. Sorry for the lack of content.

Hugs,

Erin

Wednesday Knights -3- Fans by Melanie E.

"I've given up on reminding them I'm a guy..."

Wednesday Knights

By Melanie E.

Chapter 3 - Fans

"Damnit!"

I tapped furiously at the respawn key, even though I knew it wouldn't get me up any faster than if I just waited for the timer to run down. It was better than doing nothing.

"Hey, Ollie! I got flattened. Can you get Marill over to cover aggro while I respawn and try to get back?"

"Sure thing, Sprit...

Pete's Vagina -29- Over-Inflated

I sat there paralyzed, watching Coach make his way to the side door of the gym. I really didn’t know what I was going to do. The incidents at the cafe had shaken my confidence that I was a boy named Pete and not a girl named Gayle.

Megan fidgeted beside me, my uncertainty evidently affecting her, too.

Coach put the duffel he had been carrying down beside the door while he fumbled with some keys. I still sat there behind the wheel of the Mom-mobile, trying to reach some conclusio...

Sixteen the Hard Way -16.2- Skort

I didn’t expect to have to fight to keep them out of the changing room, but they both insisted on going in with me! “No!” I told them.

“But we want to see you in the clothes and make sure you actually try them on. And you might need help!” said Donna.

“If I need help, I’ll holler,” I told her. “But you guys have to back off a little, or I will just melt into a puddle of hysterics.”

“Uh,” said Mom. “I think she means that.” She was looking me right...