i just loved your story im sat reading again in my lovley black teady and highhells makeup and a nice black wig

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Your story had a nice start.
but you lost the track, and the ending was very bad.
I don't know why, Loraine did what she did to Andrew!
Bad story!

Another beautiful story of a mother encouraging her son to become a beautiful girl.That is not punishment in every boy their is a beautiful young girl waiting to come out.

Ho it was me wasn't it. i was the model for the story. I remember as a child looking through mothers catalogue and making those self same orders. But I never put them in the envelope. You must have taken them from my bottom drawer. Great story Loved the first two chapters but then it seemed to miss those first few months/years of innocence that I would have liked to see, before the serious boys came along. But I was captured by the series well done and the critics should put their story in

Lovely concept and nicely written... thank you for the detail that you include.... My only suggestion,  as you do the clothing part so well,  is that you might revise the story to include much more on Andrea's experiences with hair and beauty....  Soooo important, in my view,  in a transformation.... and rather ignored in the story so far.  Please use your talent for writing to expand the fantasy.  LOL WbG xxx

WHAT  A  REAL  TREAT  TO  READ  A STORY  WITHOUT  FEELING THAT I HAD TO SKIM  PAST  ALL THE  SEX,  GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE  AND TWISTED PARTS FROM SOME TWISTED MIND.   THIS IS A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION OF WOMANLINESS,  CLOTHES  AND  THE JOY AND FREEDOM OF  ACTUALLY WEARING FEMALE  CLOTHING.   MANY  CONGRATULATIONS ON A SUPER STORY AND THE CLEVER WAY IT WAS PUT TOGETHER.

After reading all six parts, I rather saw this as two stories, with the first, before Andrew, being a sweet light tale of a young adult's joyful journey into femininity, and the second, after Andrew, much darker as a selfish Loraine goes on a femdom power trip to create Andrea solely  for her own pleasure.  The fact that Andrea loves her new life really doesn't really mitigate the selfishness  I liked the sweet Loraine a lot better than the domme selfish one.  

I did think the whole accidental mailing of the catalog order form was a clever way to start the story.  I enjoyed the pics and I understand the author's explanation of writing the stories based on the them rather than adding the pics to enhance the story.  I have done the same.

Catherine Rose,
    I have seen so many silly or dumb stories that I had just about given up on finding one that was pretty entertaining.  Maybe it was two or three things you did that made yours sound pleasantly different.  First of all, it was refreshing for you to go to the trouble to include the color visual fashions.  Secondly, I laughed out loud because I could just hear in my head the sarcasm of the father in the story--(I've had to put up with a little of that).  Finally, too many stories take a stupid turn because they really are so utterly dependent on heavy-handed sexual situations rather than old-fashioned imagination, and you did not fall into that trap.  Nice job!

AUTHOR’S COMMENT: I try not to respond to any feedback, be it positive or negative, as I believe enjoyment or otherwise of anything is a very personal experience. In this case, however, I believe that this story, The Catalogue, has been misunderstood.

To understand what I was attempting to create, you would need to imagine what it would be like to be a scared little boy, daring to flick through women’s magazines all alone so he could dream up stories about becoming those girls in the pictures.

This story is an attempt to bring to life those pictures as if they had sucked the boy into the magazine to play out his fantasies in another world. As such, the accompanying images are as much a part of the story as the words themselves.

This story is therefore merely intended to be a series of favourite yet unrelated pictures that were woven into a story, rather than a story that’s been enhanced by the pictures. The fact that it stretched to 6 chapters was indicative of how a story can take on a life of its own once on a page.

I don’t expect this explanation to change your enjoyment or otherwise of this story in any way but at least you now know what motivated me to write it in the first place.

Great loved the story

Catherine, I really like your story's and would like to see you close the loop on this one.  Hope you weren't turned-off by the criticism of others--seemed very valid remarks.  With your talent, it shouldn't be very difficult at all to get back on track.  Really love all your story's--Sharlee

almost had to re-read the early stories to recall how the whole thing start since it been awhile but still a well enjoyable story. Especially since I did remember how it started before I went back to re-read the first parts.

This isn't really a forced fem story.  If we recall, the idea was to let Loraine be herself without upsetting her Dad.  So the bit about Dad also likes to wear dresses, shouldn't have been introduced.  Why would Dad be upset if his son liked to wear dresses if he himself is a crossdresser?

a delightful wonderful story that is the type of force fem enjoyment all force fem stories should strive to do. Love the descriptions of the outfits in the images.  It was well written.

Still an enjoyable story... But the occasional borrowings from fem-dom style stories (worthless appendages, threats of humiliation etc.) jar a bit with the generally upbeat tone of the first two parts.

Please, not the Dad too!  Your story was going so well.  The, oh, by the way, your Dad likes to wear dresses too shows up and weakens the story.  The father understanding that his son has a gender identity disorder is to be applauded although all too often in the real world it doesn't happen.

I really like stories where the crossdresser dresses simply because he wants to, and the accidental ordering from a catalogue is a nice original idea.

The images are cute too. I love the outfits. Catherine has nice taste...

I take it that Cathy was our hero(ine)'s name before the rewrite?  Please do continue, but add more detail.  There were no details of the makeup and worse, no mention at all of the hair.  Did Loraine take a bubble bath?  Shave her legs?  Etc.?  DETAILS!  (I was glad to see, though, that there was no tired old masturbation scene.)  I'd like to see Dad say that since "he" came down in Loraine's sleepwear, Loraine had to go to school.

i have always wanted to wear girls clothes just to feel what they are like I have been caught a couple of times but been able to get out of it a brilliant story most enjoyable I have often had a fantasy about this pity this didnot happen  to me when I was young

Delightful! Is there more of Cathy's adventures? I certainly hope so. Don't let it end here.

Barb

I really enjoyed this story, however, I was a little disappointed in that it was rather short.  I very much related to going through mail order catalogues.  I spent many long hours going through womens wear catalogues dreaming that I was not only wearing the beautiful dresses and skirts etc. but also that I was as pretty as the models themselves.  Perhaps this story could be continued, I would love to hear more of Cathy.
Patti Allison

A delightful rendering of the forced to do what you most desire theme.
Daddy was an awful pill though.  WOuldn't it be nice if he leaves the family so Cathy is free to becoem totally, totally femme under sister's guidance?

Loved this story.  The punished-by-being-dressed genre is always
enjoyable (enough so that I've worked the vein myself), & it's
unfailingly interesting to see how each new author approaches it.
I liked your approach very much.  The only problem was the question
of the father's reaction.  He was so hostile throughout (which was
believable--fathers who acquiesce too easily are hard to believe),
& at the end Cathy announces that Cathy is here to stay.  So what
does Dad do?  Go postal?  Undergo a mysterious conversion?  If it
hadn't been for that, the story would have been perfectly self-
contained; as it is, something more is called for.

Pervy

I think your story is delightful and cleverly written.  Well done!  Just enough to wet the appetite for more...perhaps a sequel.
Best of all, it is so credible.

Yes, I agree, It was a nice story even though the boy liked it (which is usually not my thing).

I also agree that the story was MUCH too short.  You needed more detail---indeed you did not describe the MAKEUP and its application at all.  And shouldnt he have worn a bra with his nightwear?

But for the most part this was a well thought out and original story that only needed to be longer.  I enjoyed it even though a protag liking the transformation is not quite my cup of tea.  A good rule for minimum story length should be between 20 -30 pages leaning closer to 30.  Two dialogue exchanges in each scene will tend to fill out any story nicely.

M12

I really liked this storey. Although a little on the short side, it was lively, humorous and did not go into the realm of the unbelievable. I hope to be reading more stories from you in the near future.