oOlAcP Enjoyed every bit of your article post.Thanks Again. Much obliged.

Janice, you can listen to my arhecvid radio shows . I believe that the Bullying radio show referred to in this announcement is podcast in two parts and is still available on the link. I look forward to your feedback!~RJ

This is possibly one of the finest stories I have read here in this millieu. Thankyou, I enjoyed it very much. I've not read all your stories as of this writing, but have not as yet been disappointed. Another I read and enjoyed was "The Green Dress". Thanks again. All the best, with regards, Ron.

HI, I loved how you moved the story along first getting him into pretty aprons, but then as usual, the closer he got to being more and more feminine, the less you you mentioned the pretty aprons. Why can,t pretty femenine aprons be worn more in all your storys, loved your story, thanks cindy

He only wore a dress because he loves her very much, but she doesn't deserve his love. She only thinks in herself. To her, he is nothing.
This isn't love from her to him.
I'm sorry, but this is what I think!
Silvia.

Dear Margaret Jeanette,

A beautiful story. To me, this story is all about love. Just as the line in, "Brigadoon," goes, " ... when someone loves someone deeply enough, anything can happen."

I wish my wife would have been more like Sue. The characters and their backgound were all introduced nicely. The dialog is great. It's just as if the reader is a, "fly on the wall." This is how people talk to each other. The introduction of, "Swede," is a nice addition. It shows the difference between a person doing something for someone becuase they love them versus because they are forced to do so.

Back when I used to watch television, Aaron Spelling had several successful television shows. They all had the same storyline. There were three stories going on at once. He did this from, "Love Boat," to, "Fantasy Island." "Charmed," and the old, "77 Sunset Strip," did it as well.

There's one line in the story that I've said for a few years to my, "sisters," at my beloved Tiffany Club of New England. "It takes a real man to wear a dress," is great. My slogan was that, "It takes a real man to dress as a woman should dress."

I'm glad I came across your stories. You draw me into them. While I was reading this story, I became, "Gene." Your writing deals with what goes on between the ears. It's very real and you do it well.

Huggles from another, "Sue."

Susan Pauline

This was a very nice story with some enjoyable plot situations. I disagree with Danielle.  The bully subplot added to the dramatic tension and Gene's resolution of it with Swede enbled Gene to more readily accept his situation.  While I agree with Sherri P. that Margaret J.'s writing sounds like how people actually speak, (and I hope Margaret J. does not take offense), but I must also agree with Sydney Michelle that the writing was a little flat.  Obviously, Gene must have loved Sue tremendously in order to accept being put into dresses, yet I didn't feel that love or any passion during the lovemaking scenes.

Nevertheless, overall this was a good story with some interesting storylines.  

SS

Yes, I must agree, some refinement of technique would help you tell your stories and get them across the way you mean to. That'll come; I'm sure you are working on it and this kind of practice goes a long way in the effort to become perfect.

At the same time, Margaret J., I cheered when Gene's thin, perhaps sinewy, arm shot forth and grabbed Swede by the larynx. I think Pervette is right that that hasn't occurred in our literature before (recently?). Is that my masculine side emoting, or is it quite kosher for women to feel that "exhilaration of the underdog", too?

In the beginning of the story I kept waiting for Gene to rebel, and he did come close. Was Sue wise in pursuing Gene so directly? I guess as a bluff ole farmer, she knew only the direct method, but I continue to mull over some other possibilities. Them farm folk can be pretty sophisticated when they set their minds to it.

i disagree with michelle as this story isnt about gothic situations but about two people who love each other and are willing to do what they do best.  i also like the bully aspect on the story because no matter where we go in life there will be bullies, and bullies are little persons afraid to show their emotions, that is why they bully others.  i just wish the people of this world would accept as person as they are and not stereotype them or bully them.  us crossdressers probably experience the bullying more than others, women are some of the meanest buliies against cdrs.
i hope you continue this story as i think it has a sibc line. maybe sues husband/wife could run into a goose that dont like her or something like that.

I wish the writing had lived up to the story line potential. The rural setting runs counter to the common "American Gothic" stereotype.

However the writing is flat, an uninterrupted progression of mid-length, active voice sentences that come all too soon to dull the read. Emotions are rarely portrayed rather than stated, and physical sensations are almost always allusions rather than savored. Consequently the characters feel flatter than they deserve, almost remote from their own experiences.

The bully sub-plot serves to provide milieu and tension, but it was too long for the overall length of the story. It became an attempt to tell two stories with separate audiences in one.

Overall, your writing is literate and you have much potential to improve. But in this story, the prose slogs rather than dances. I would hope the story would be rewritten and expanded.

I liked this story,  but thought the story would have been better without the bully.
Otherwise a very good story with potential for a continuation(raising children)

I liked the original handling of the bully situation.  I don't recall seeing that done before.
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--Pervette

I really like your stories and I like your writing style. It isn't necessarily highly polished but it sounds like what people say to each other. I don't have such a take charge wife as some of your charecters, but the genetic females are not just mean bossy women, but they just know what the right direction their relationships should take and they guide their transgendered spouses in that direction.

I'm lucky to have a spouse who accepts me as I am!

Keep up the good work!

Hugs, Sherri