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It's a good story!
I liked.
Silvia.

The narrative of this story confused me, at first. This much was clear, that the author was addressing th reader directly. The second sentence, "No – I don’t mean what you think," elicited my usual response to such statements: "How do YOU know what I think!?" It took a few paragraphs (quite a few), but then I finally got it. "Oh, *I* sees... I'm not just the audience, the person to whom you are telling this story; I'm one of the *players*. I'm supposed to be BRUCE!" This is another shining example of why second person narrative mode is usually reserved for user manuals ("Your new product has the following features..."), "how-to" guides ("Here is a list of tools and materials you will need to complete this project..."), cook books ("First blend all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl..."), and guided imagery meditations ("You are sitting by a lake..."), and not generally used for story telling.

At least, the unusual narrative mode is congruent with the peculiar blend (mish-mash?) of story elements. It's sort-of like a refugee from Ursula LeGuin's /The Left Hand of Darkness/ (If you've never read this SciFi classic, you're missing a serious treat) meets the smoking fetishers. (Other than just making a stink and poisoning the atmosphere at the beginning of the story, the smoking is an unused element that need not have even been included.) Once the air and the confusion have cleared, though, what I find myself left with is not even a complete story, but only one scene from a story -- albeit a pivotal scene. I suppose we readers are supposed to infer the rest, since we are fast-forwarded to the conclusion at the same time that we are dropped into a standard first person narrative ("Oh gee, I'm not Bruce anymore?"). A most peculiar mish-mash, indeed.

I found this accidentally and I loved it. I can only wish that there would be more of this.
hugs!
grover

This was a wonderful story even if I had read it before and never posted a reply before.  I agreee I would love for that ability to change genders.  You did some excellent work here with story I would love to see it as a book.

Great story.  I enjoyed the photos, even though I am not convinced they are of a crossdresser.  Some fun, tho!!

Wow. I love this story. Great job. Honestly, if I was in Bruce's place, I don't have any idea what I'd do.

Would loooooove to have Lyle/Lisa'ssability to be male or female though. :D

Great story! :)

I loved this sweet and sensitive love story and look forward to more like it. Two of my stories on Storysite also involve magical transformations and true romance, Willow Tree and Stress Reaction by Farah Daye.

Great story.

A little hard to read becaise of the way you worked the narration in with the text (separate paragraphs for separate speakers, please), but very well done.

Good pictures, too.

Ellie

This is one of the best written stories I have seen in here for a long time, Rachel.  Well done and well thought out.  A bit hit-and-miss re the use of inverted commas or in leaving the narrator's voice as "ethereal" and a couple of awkward bits in tense changing, but then you've chosen a very difficult formula for telling this story in this fashion and by and large it works really well.

I look forward to reading more of your tales and that from someone who is currently rationing her reading to scarce minutes per day.  I'm glad I clicked on to see your first effort.  Good luck.

Jenny Jane Pope