I do like more from a story.  This one has only really got started.  More please!

I see both Terri and Nan undertaking other duties in the company once the owner sees the what was recorded is viewed, or possibly both becoming the face of the company.

How did their engagement progress?

Did Nan share Terri sometimes being see as boy and girl and then as girl and girl?

Did Nan and Terri go out as girls with Nans other girl friends?

So many possibilities.

  Wow such controversy , I loved the story , I loved the characters ,I loved  the imagination needed  to bring such details to life , I am so glad I got to read  this I was riveted  to the screen !!! Did I mention I loved  it ???
   oh  and  I especially  love the fact  that Silvia did not like it !!!  Some one  must have twisted her arm to read it (yeah right )

Ann, this story is disgusting, horrible and terrifying.
Silvia.

In part 5, the author writes:

>>As we ate, a discussion started about men and their bad habits, and I think this group knew them all: walking out on families, adultery with secretaries, alcoholics, date rape, child molestation, etc. The conversation brought out strong emotional feelings, making me feel so bad, I wanted to crawl under the table and die. Many times I feel my sensitivity is a weakness, a curse, and I wish I could be rid of it.
...
>>Returning to the table, the girls asked how I was feeling and if they had anything to do with it.

That's the way of it, all right: in acting out of their own victimization, they are totally without awareness how they are victimizing someone else -- a gentle person, who loves his sister and has never harmed anyone.

Ok
Here's my take, as we all seems to think something :)
I'm not TG and not gay either although I find this crossdressing to be fascinating.
Why? F*ck knows :)

Haven't tried it myself.
( I would most certainly look ridiculous, I'm sure :)
So I believe myself to be reasonably heterosexual in my responses here :)

I found that this story would have won out on not having to explain and 'nitpick' on the behaviors and 'dreams' of its characters.
Also I found it irritating to see the 'stereotypes' for how males contra females were expected to be and act.

I don't mind women, be they mild mannered or argumentative, forceful or meek.
What I would mind is someone lying to me and manipulating me.

When we love someone for real that person are placed on a pedestal.
We all do that, if we don't were lying to ourself about our loving them.
Real love is very similar to what we call 'unconditional love'.
That's what you get from your young ones for example.

A lot of people treats life as a business deal.
Believing that love is something traded in for 'securities' of other kinds.
Those who do that will never learn how to live.

They only hide and defend them self from life's mistakes.
To live is to make mistakes, and try again.
Life is a learning experience.
Not a pension plan.

Cheers
Yoron.

Ps: And that is not related to any gender or 'inclination' :)

Well, I suppose everyone is different.  Personally I cant see why anyone would not like this story.  I found it enchanting, plausible, explorative, enlightening, and FUN.  Thank you Ann for sharing your imagination with us.

 Well  you did it again ...lovely story ...learning to be whole
as a person can be trying .... this is a learning experience we should all enjoy ....
thank you for your talent.....Rone

jthis again is a very good story well written&explained i was pleased to enjoy it a lot youa rare a very good writer brilliant story well described  thankyou

Once again I see Barbara has written off a terrific story before she has read it. Giggle, giggle. Her being so judgmental has tweaked my interest in her even more. I will have to go back and read more of her stories.

If I remember correctly she had almost the perfect youth for a person in this situation. I mean from school to community to family and friends she had the support and love one needed and desired. Can one judge others lives and stories when one grows up under these almost perfect conditions? My opinions? I think not.

To be fair though, she has gone through the whole shebang of TG conversion. Myself? No vagina, giggle, giggle. I just couldn't see using those dilators on myself to make my man made vagina ready to accept a man. Giggle, giggle. I mean they don't even vibrate! One small size dildo (dilator) until you can use that one easily then up to the next size. Until when? You order the next 'super sized' series? Giggle, giggle. Not only that, but there is a bit of pain involved using those things. I love women and I always have. Medically speaking I was messed up in the gender area.

A lot of TG people look male, I mean all male! It is just inside they know they are female. That is a much harder road to travel! I mean how would you feel knowing inside you are a woman and knowing if all went really well all you could ever be outside was a very butch looking girl?

Many stories here are about the feminine looking child or teen. That was what I was and also Barbara. I know a few pretty boys and some are gay? I don't know if that is an apt description because these boys know they are girls inside, so that makes them straight doesn't it? Giggle, giggle. I am the gay one aren't I? I like girls! Confusing scenario is it not?

I think being so judgmental does a disservice to us all being whatever; TG, Gay, Straight, Transvestite or whatever. Our judgments of others are based on what? Our lives and experiences I guess. What else can we base our judgments on?

We have not lived the other persons life, so who are we to judge them based on our life? Our choices we make are our own. Choose to not read a story for whatever reasons you have, but don't flame a person to justify the choice you have made.

All in all I loved this story! Even the fortune cookie sayings inserted here and there. Giggle, giggle. The philosophy and insight portrayed was very interesting to say the least. It spoke volumes about the author and her mindset. I really liked that allot.

Huggles
Angel

Well I did get to the middle of part 3, but I just couldn't go on. This story not only offends my sesitivities, but borders on the ridiculous.

I've said it once, and I qwill say it again. Is this what transgenderism has come down to: Fetish fantasy? OH MY GOD!

Even though I am a post op TS, I am not perverted in my thoughts, my actions or my stories and neither do I dress in a fetish manner. I still do not understand what it is about fetishism that attracts people. To my mind it is sick and way out perverted. Every person that I come in contact with, accepts me for who they think I am. A woman. Maybe this your fantasy. To be dressed as a little girl and then tied up and shackled. It isn't mine. Thus, I give this story a no thumbs up and two thumbs down.

Barbara Lynn Terry

Sadly, the last chapter of this excellant story has been posted. I feel sorry that it is finished, it has been so entertaining and very nicely done.

Thank you Ann for sharing this with us.  

Dear Anne:
Gee what a fun story.
 So many pleasant things and yet all very believable, even if a little implausible, but still totally possible.
You have created likeable characters and given them depth and feelings.
I am eagerly waitng for your next episode.  Please don't deprive us too long.
A very sensitive and moving story.  Thanx a lot.
Applaudingly, Jan

After part 8:  I must say this story is entertaining and educational and, for the most part, enjoyable.  My only comment not based on personal preference is that I thought the suspension of disbelief was stretched by how fast it moved and that everyone approved.  He becomes so convincing in one day that he totally passes in a workplace the next day?

Personal preference:  This is not meant to be a slam on the story, just a statement of my lack of understanding.  I once did my comedy show for a bondage group, and they seemed like the same kind of people as the girls, nice people; they tried to explain the attraction/fun of bondage to me, but I still just don't understand the whole scene; how can anyone actually WANT to be and enjoy being made helpless and how could anyone who liked a person WANT to or even enjoy making that person helpless, for FUN?  They told me there are all these safeguards, like in the story, but in the story, how could TJ utter his safe word or signal his fear when they had him tightly bound to that desk with a gag over his mouth?  And they left him like that in the dark implying they would be gone for a long time - and it was, to him - and they thought it was funny! Several times the question was asked with bondage implied, "Can we have fun with him?" - "with" implying to me, anyway "at his expense".  How can it be right to take pleasure in another's discomfort, (the swing incident also) particularly when that person has done nothing to deserve being made uncomfortable?  I know the idea is trust, but things can happen to people you trust; what if they had tied up TJ in a situation where nobody else was going to come to that house for a week or so, they left, intending to come back in an hour, and something happened to them?  He could die!  I just can't see it.  I don't understand how he could ever trust his sister again.  I can tolerate bondage because of the right to pursuit of happiness, but it gives me the buried alive shivers.  

[After reading Part 8:]
The story keeps getting better & better.  And I have to say--
anybody who plays Rachmaninoff and Barber when upset, or for any
reason whatever, has a *lot* going for him/her.
.
--Pervy

"3.1416," ROTFLMAO

The (mis-)quotation "Once more into the breach, my friends" is drawn from Henry V (Shakespeare), not The Charge Of The Light Brigade (Tennyson).  

This continues to be very good as a read and in the way that he is being treated. Ann continues to give us very good writing and detail.

Ann, Thank you for sharing this excellant story with us!

Gosh, Ann, such a WONDERFUL loving story.

I am eating it up!!!!!!

But I have always loved your writings.

"Velut luna!!!"  How nice to run across the Carmina in a story!
I hope, if T.J. ever gets in the sack with a man, we'll hear her
saying, "Tibi totam subdo me"!  ("I give all of myself to you")
.
--Pervy

Annie,
I like this story lots but really love this latest chapter.
You have just made my heart sing.
Hugs and as my sister likes to say "a gentle kiss on the cheek"
Chrisl.  

I'm loving this story so far, Ann. Can't wait to read more.
Keep up the great work.

A very well written thoughtful and thought provoking story. Another very good effort from Ann.

   well done, enjoy storylines w/ mature late-teen girls in control. even better if platonic friendship prior to exposure.please continue.

I like it.
This seems as-it-happens writing; TJ is learning things faster than they can be properly recorded *and analyzed*, and his mind can't always keep up. As for the bondage stuff, if *I* got raped, I'd be paranoid around anybody who looked, acted, or gave me feelings close to what I'd felt then. The bondage (following _safe_ protocols, as all consenting bdsm should, with the exception of when he was gagged) is a way to control the interaction with males, so they don't panic or overreact. Overly insecure, like other similar sayings, has no absolutes: if nothing ever happened to you to cause a reaction that severe, it seems overly insecure. If it did, you might call it 'under-reacting', not 'over-'.

Just my 0.02 money-unit.
KR
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Hi Annie O,

I'm enjoying this quite a bit, and it looks like it could go on for quite a while. I really like the comfortable feelings from all the characters. I do hope that TJ gets to experiment with a good variety of the CD/TG variables, and always in a safe and sane manner. Maybe you are writing the story that I was aksing about on the Cyberboard.

Anxiously waiting for more,

Frilliette

Is there such a thing as overly insecure?  Annie O more or less provides the answer with defensive rebuttal comments to her own story's reviews.

This particular story lacks any plot, and exhibits a sort of pathology, intrinsic throughout, of absent or indifferent men (fathers, brothers, etc.) leaving, of course, only kind or at least accommodating women to fill the void.  All that would be fine if there were some semblance of a plot.  This obvious failure is not made less burdensome to the reader by tedious recitations of what the author undoubtedly considers proper sissy-wear.  Perhaps this is something the author needs to express out of personal need, and we can only hope that she eventually 'gets it out of her system' and starts writing a story.

To Jezzi:
 The bondage was play, not meant to be destructive or harmful. It was done in a private setting, with people he trusted.
 His sister plays at being a lezzie, to keep jerks away.
 Please, readers, fun must always be a part of any relationship, and that fun is a two-way thing.

This is shaping up into a very pleasant adventure. Just a little
touch of domination, but well protected by safewords. I imagine
any one of us would be happy to be in T.J.'s heels.
.
--Pervy

I like the story, but why the bondage stuff?  Terri is willing to be feminized and cooperative.  Also, I thought it was made pretty clear in part 1 that he thought his sister was a lesbian; in part 2 it seems like he just thought of that.

Great, such an articulate teen age boy.  keep going please...

Very nice store so far cant wait for more.
Heather

I'm Liking how this is developing.  Keep it up!

A very nice beginning to what could or should be an interesting story of exploration.

Very nice story so far. Thank you for placing it on the story site.