Erisian https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/taxonomy/term/14856/all en Erisian https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/72977/erisian <section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Audience Rating:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/general-audience-pg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">General Audience (pg)</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-24 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Organizational:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/title-page" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Title Page</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div align="center"><font face="Georgia" size="5" color="#DC143C"><em><strong>BigCloset TopShelf Featured Author<br /> Erisian</strong></em></font></div> <p> </p> <h2>About The Author:</h2> <p>For the price of a medium lager the locals will tell you that Erisian was found at a young age wandering aimlessly along the beach at the Edge of the Known. Ply two or more thirsty souls with additional bottles of Tequila and the crowd will reignite the endless debate over whether the Deep swallowed Erisian's parents whole with a rogue wave of Chaos or whether Erisian emerged directly from those waters whistling a tune that almost (but not quite) sounded like Beethoven.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:20:05 +0000 Erisian 72977 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Online Scammers https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/102351/online-scammers <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I've been debating this blog post for most of the week, but I believe it needs doing as a warning to folks who may need it.</p> <p>Before I go on, I must preface with a few details about my father - he's a brilliant man, a scientist, full of great heart and wisdom. He is now in his 80s and he still does meaningful work for a university. But my mom was lost to us a year and a half ago (has it already been that long??), and he is beginning to really feel his age - and at times says he feels lost in a world that has changed so much from what he's known.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/autobiographical" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Autobiographical</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 10 May 2024 03:17:46 +0000 Erisian 102351 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Time flies https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/102045/time-flies <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Realized this weekend that it's been a year since the last 'Part' of <a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/96887/light-between" rel="nofollow">The Light Between</a> was posted. Time flies! Hmm, though some of those pesky airborne black dots may have been from the sack of too-long-ignored potatoes which were tossed out yesterday...</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 07 Apr 2024 21:05:25 +0000 Erisian 102045 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Only a few days left! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/101422/only-few-days-left <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>With only a few more days before the deadline for the New Year's Resolution story contest, I want to give a huge shout out and THANK YOU to our beloved organizers: Jill, Emma, and Joanne. You all are amazing and really have outdone yourselves with this effort, huzzah! And additional thanks to all those helped fund it!</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:22:07 +0000 Erisian 101422 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Contest Story! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/101294/contest-story <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Another contest story just went up! <a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/101293/blue-silk" rel="nofollow"><em>Blue Silk</em></a> is now available.</p> <p>This entry is quite a departure from my usual writing fare, much to my continual surprise. No angels, no fae, no magic, say what?!? How'd that happen! Truly shocking.</p> <p>But I hope folks enjoy the story all the same! :)</p> <p>- Erisian &lt;3</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:14:56 +0000 Erisian 101294 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Blue Silk https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/101293/blue-silk <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-physical-or-emotional-abuse" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Physical or Emotional Abuse</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/contests/2024-01-january-new-years-resolution-story-contest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">2024-01 January - New Year&#039;s Resolution Story Contest</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">500 &lt; Short Story &lt; 7500 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transitioning" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transitioning</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/real-world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Real World</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/school-or-college-life" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">School or College Life</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/sweet-sentimental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Sweet / Sentimental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-6 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-elements/fancy-dress-prom-evening-gown" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fancy Dress / Prom / Evening Gown</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/college-twenties" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">College / Twenties</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/posted-authors" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Posted by author(s)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/blue_silk_erisian2.png" alt="Blue Silk" /></center></p> <h1><center>Blue Silk</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <p><em>This year, I hereby resolve…</em></p> <p> </p> <p>“Seriously, Joe? Are you still working on that journal assignment?”</p> <p>Cass hovered above a shoulder, or more precisely, peeked over it as they only reached a few inches above five feet even when shoved into boots.</p> <p>Whereas in contrast I could hardly fit in the chair and had to lean way over to type, seeing as how my knees would never fit below the ridiculously tiny desk standard to each small and drafty dorm room.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 02 Feb 2024 02:13:55 +0000 Erisian 101293 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Book progress and more! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/101115/book-progress-and-more <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Today was a great day for writing, woot! So I thought I'd ramble about it while still grinning happily.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:37:32 +0000 Erisian 101115 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Week of Flu https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/100543/week-flu <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Well, it's been one of those un-fun weeks of dealing with Covid sweeping through everyone at work, and therefore also myself and those at home. Not a horrible case of it for me, fortunately, just mild fever for a couple days, sinus flooding before the rainbow when the clouds parted, and now slow recovery with instant exhaustion after doing anything. </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/autobiographical" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Autobiographical</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:33:06 +0000 Erisian 100543 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Bethlehem https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/100435/bethlehem <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-5" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">7,500 &lt; Novelette &lt; 17,500 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/historical" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Historical</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/senior-sixty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Senior / Sixty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/posted-authors" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Posted by author(s)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em><center>Author's Note: This short story is intended to be read after The Light Between and before the upcoming new installment, Hope's Light.</center></em></p> <p><em><center>If you have yet to experience the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center></p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/comet2-small-erisian.jpg" alt="Bethlehem" /></center></p> <h1><center>Bethlehem</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>A Light Novelette</center></h3> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>The travelers had gathered in Jerusalem’s lower city not far from the hippodrome, the great stone-worked amphitheater built by the king to curry favor with his land’s conquerors in the hopes to placate their need for sport made by the speed of horse and blood of man.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:31:12 +0000 Erisian 100435 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Updates! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/100106/updates <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As it's been awhile, thought I'd babble on the current progress drafting <em>Hope's Light</em>. It's going fairly well so far, the draft is somewhere between a third and a half written. Still tons more to do, but it's certainly building that snowball of momentum down the mountainside which becomes the omg avalanche by the end.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:47:22 +0000 Erisian 100106 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Feathers https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/99706/feathers <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/general-audience-pg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">General Audience (pg)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">500 &lt; Short Story &lt; 7500 words</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-23" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Complete</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/non-transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Non-Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science Fiction</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/romance" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Romance</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/posted-authors" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Posted by author(s)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/feathersblackandwhite.png" alt="Feathers" /></center></p> <h1><center>Feathers</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <p>It had been a bad fight that night almost a year ago, the worst we'd ever had. The wings had appeared on our backs that morning - everyone got them, and it hadn't taken long for the significance of the colors to be understood.</p> <p>If you had been morally good, your wings were white. If bad, they were stained with black. News video of prisons demonstrated that sharply: almost all inmates and too many of the guards had wings smeared and splotched as if with black tar. Most people had a blend of white and grey - some of the patterns were actually rather pretty. You could even glide with them if they were big enough and you were in moderately good shape, and children started figuring out how to actually fly - though there seemed to be an upper limit to how high up they could get. About ten feet or so seemed to be the limit. Physicists and biologists were utterly baffled, of course. Chemists were having a field day in tremendous excitement analyzing the composition of the feathers - but that's another story.</p> <p>This is about us. Me and my wife. My wings were no better nor worse than most folks; though I could see a few splotches of darker grey mixed in. My wife, Sarah, hers were brighter than mine - except for a couple feathers that appeared rather splattered with black ink.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:21:15 +0000 Erisian 99706 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light Status https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/99492/light-status <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As it's been almost half a year (eep!) since the posting of the last part of the latest book, <em>The Light Between</em>, I'd been pondering posting a status update on the next installment, <em>Hope's Light</em>. And as this week a kind reader (hi Bibliophage!) reached out with an inquiry following up with encouragement to post about it, here we go.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:48:14 +0000 Erisian 99492 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf For any who may have missed it https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/97905/any-who-may-have-missed-it <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For any readers who may have missed it due to the one week allocated to the home page for multi-part stories, the fifth book of the Light series, <em>The Light Between</em> is indeed fully published! From the hit counts it looks like a number of folks who were enjoying it may not have seen that the last couple chapters indeed got posted. Thanks again to Kimmie for all her help! :)</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:25:12 +0000 Erisian 97905 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf More Light Completed https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/97725/more-light-completed <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Book 5, <em>The Light Between</em>, has finally reached its completion. For any who have been waiting until it was posted in full to go binge read, the starter pistol has now fired! Go go go! :)</p> <p>A huge shout-out and thank you to Kimmie for all her help in getting these last acts posted over the past few weeks. She's been absolutely awesome and tremendous.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 08 Apr 2023 19:41:18 +0000 Erisian 97725 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 8 (complete) https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97724/light-between-part-8-complete <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-9" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Final Chapter</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-23" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Complete</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 8 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>If you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 30 - Terminus</h4> <p> </p> <p>For more than thirty years, Deniz Akbas had given fishing tours of the Bosphorus with his small boat. With his pleasant demeanor (and perhaps due to a few missing teeth lending him a certain charm) tourists had found him trustworthy as well as deeming his white-tire clad vessel seaworthy for a day’s cruise. From his pilot’s position in the wooden front compartment, travelers to Istanbul had relaxed in the glass-walled and ivory-benched area in the back where they enjoyed whatever food and drink they’d brought aboard inside their many baskets - all while marveling at the magnificent views of the Turkish seaside and the wide bridge connecting Asia to Europe, a construction officially known as the <em>15 July Martyrs Bridge</em> and unofficially as the <em>First Bridge</em>.</p> <p>In all that time he had never been paid so much to do so little.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 08 Apr 2023 19:40:11 +0000 Erisian 97724 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 7 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97616/light-between-part-7 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 7 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>If you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 25 - Uprising</h4> <p> </p> <p>The mass of people below the balcony windows shouted and screamed, chanting with all the power in their lungs for the end of corruption and misery, for the end of the current responsible regime, calling for the death of the military dictator who many years prior had seized control. Distant gunfire echoed towards the swarm of people still filling the streets and their howling grew only stronger and defiant.</p> <p>The hotel had once held well-maintained grounds of palm trees and grass, but now its bricks sat scorched by the flames of rebellion, and each night hired security had needed to barricade the doors to keep an angry throng from setting torch to the fineries present within the lobby. The singed patches of carpet he’d stepped across when he’d arrived gave testament that the previous evenings’ defense had not always been successful. </p> </div></div></div> Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:00:26 +0000 Erisian 97616 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 6 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97550/light-between-part-6 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 6 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>If you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 21 - Limits</h4> <p> </p> <p>The nice thing about being friends with someone who just became ridiculously wealthy is a decision such as “let’s go to Jerusalem” is easily turned into a phone call to dispatch some assistant into booking flights, hotel, and ride to the airport.</p> <p>You then get to sit back, enjoy a cup of tea (or coffee), and wait for details of the itinerary to magically appear.</p> <p>Okay, so Isaiah stayed on the line so he could approve the hotel and also relay the required information from my passport. Delegation was never really his strong-point.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 17:33:32 +0000 Erisian 97550 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 5 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97478/light-between-part-5 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-rape-sexual-assault" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Rape / Sexual Assault</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 5 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>If you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 16 - Sins</h4> <p>Countless nights spent staring into a fire’s dancing flames or into skies darkened by midnight’s gloom flooded everything, twisting as a barbed arrow within the chest. Abandoned by a father whose infinite radiance had turned as cold as the snow he’d left her in, a young girl had wrestled with inner scars which seeped anew from every self-perceived failure. Even her uncle - though he had at least stayed - always bore into her soul with hooded eyes of penetrating and absolute judgment.</p> <p>Only Siabh had held her tenderly. Only the fae priestess had softly offered words of love and support.</p> <p>But some nights those hadn’t been enough. And as the long hours crept towards dawn the child had whispered the same questions over and over:</p> <p><em>Does my mother also think me worthless? Is that why she never came for me?</em></p> <p><em>Is she ashamed of me too?</em></p> </div></div></div> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 18:11:01 +0000 Erisian 97478 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Delays...Overcome! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/97472/delaysovercome <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Had a couple delays in getting Part 5 of the latest offering finished for posting (as some have noticed). One scene after receiving feedback needed a rewrite which took a couple iterations to (hopefully!) get right. Then my usual proofreader had a week or so of being too busy due to family while also not feeling too great. </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:07:37 +0000 Erisian 97472 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 4 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97241/light-between-part-4 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 4 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>Note, if you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 12 - Challenge</h4> <p> </p> <p>With the clock ticking just past six we exited the 101 freeway a few miles west of where we’d visited the DPA earlier. From there we went south instead, passing into an isolated area against the hills complete with several small lakes as well as quite a few golf courses all surrounded by enclaves of houses better classified as mansions.</p> <p>Unsurprisingly we went past these to a road marked “Private” to reach a higher plateau and its own sprawling complex that overlooked everyone else around as if to say, “You think you’re wealthy? Think again.”</p> <p>It wasn’t until we passed the transition from paved blacktop onto grey paver stones forming a wide circle around a central fountain that I realized I had an issue.</p> <p>This dress had absolutely no pockets nor did I have a matching clutch or purse.</p> <p>Dangit.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 25 Feb 2023 18:56:07 +0000 Erisian 97241 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 3 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97167/light-between-part-3 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 3 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>Note, if you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 8 - Scans</h4> <p>The Los Angeles DPA headquarters and research labs, which were actually not in the city proper but out in Agoura off the 101 freeway, hadn’t changed much since I was last there - at least from the outside. It still had the three stories worth of dark reflective windows sticking out of the hill into which the complex was embedded and also the massive open parking lot of the kind only found in the suburbs.</p> <p>While Haruko had indeed arranged for a car and driver (a limo no less!), I’d borrowed a phone to ask her to have them start the slog over the hill and meet me here at the agency. Despite being in the middle of studying for finals Kurohoshi’s daughter had already heard about the attempt on Isaiah’s life and promised to pass on the instruction to the driver. She also gave me his number so I could reach him direct if anything else changed.</p> <p>Before she hung up she reminded me that I was on the clock to be ready for the evening - all while still not giving any details of what was going on.</p> <p>Naturally.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 18 Feb 2023 21:45:33 +0000 Erisian 97167 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Updates! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/97062/updates <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 2 of the latest saga installment is up! My proofreading friend emailed their last pass' worth of suggestions earlier today, so despite fighting weary eyes after work got those incorporated and did the whole cut-n-paste from Scrivener into a text editor so it all could get dressed for posting. Hopefully I didn't miss any places where italics were supposed to go!!</p> <p>Thanks again to everyone who's commented and clicked the kudos button so far!! And of course I hope folks enjoy this new one!</p> <p>Now to go finish dinner, hooray! :)</p> <p>- Erisian &lt;3</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:51:17 +0000 Erisian 97062 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 2 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97061/light-between-part-2 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 2 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>Note, if you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 5 - Exams</h4> <p> </p> <p>“Shit!”</p> <p>First things first. Feed the starving and pathetically meowing kitty: open can, scoop into bowl, give reassuring pets. </p> <p>Skip shower, curse the hair for being short again and not fitting in a scrunchie all while struggling with a hairbrush to tame strands of wild fire.</p> <p>Give up. Clothes next. </p> <p>Strip off pajamas (were they lavender when I went to bed?), grab the folded martial arts uniform from the top of the clean laundry pile. Hop into the leggings, pull on a hopefully-clean sports bra, wrap the top of the gi around the torso before fiddling with the strings that hold it in place, slap the equally white belt around the waist and take three attempts to get the proper knot.</p> <p>Good enough. Prep complete.</p> <p>With one last (okay, a few last) scritches to the kitty I ran out the door before bounding down the stairs because the elevator always took forever. Sprinting across the wet and frost-covered campus lawn I realized I hadn’t put on any shoes. </p> <p>Oops. Oh well.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 01:36:38 +0000 Erisian 97061 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Part 1 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/96889/light-between-part-1 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-language" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Language</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between (Part 1 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p> </p> <p><em><center>Note, if you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:</center></em></p> <p><center><a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a></center> </p> <p><em><center>Hope you enjoy!</center></em></p> <p> </p> <p>Earth. Deep blue skies filled with clouds and sun.</p> <p>Returned from the desolation and horrors of Hell, Jordan finds herself again surrounded by friends, kitty, and a peaceful campus with idle moments seemingly to spare.</p> <p>Yet relaxation and inner peace remain elusive, as unanswered questions flit across thought and dream. After all that she has endured a quiet life as a simple school student feels like a mighty jest - one with a waiting and deadly punchline.</p> <p>For time, even for angels resurrected in the light, does not so easily stand still.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:41:28 +0000 Erisian 96889 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between - Dramatis Personae https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/96888/light-between-dramatis-personae <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <p> </p> <p>Considering the complexity of this saga, readers earlier requested a listing of characters. So here's an update for Book 5! Thanks all!</p> <p> </p> <h2><center>Warning!</center></h2> <h3>If you have not read Books 1-4 (<em>Into The Light, Light's Promise, Call of the Light, and Light and Shadow</em>) then the list below will contain spoilers!!</h3> <p> </p> <p>The tale starts here: <a href="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1" rel="nofollow">Into The Light</a>. Hope you enjoy!</p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:21:52 +0000 Erisian 96888 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Light Between https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/96887/light-between <section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Audience Rating:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-24 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Organizational:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/title-page" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Title Page</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">TG Universes &amp; Series:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/LightBetweenErisianSmall.jpg" alt="The Light Between" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Light Between</center></h1> <h2><center>Written by Erisian</center></h2> <h2><center>Inspired by stories by Erisian &amp; Ahron</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 5</center></h3> <p>Earth. Deep blue skies filled with clouds and sun.</p> <p>Returned from the desolation and horrors of Hell, Jordan finds herself again surrounded by friends, kitty, and a peaceful campus with idle moments seemingly to spare.</p> <p>Yet relaxation and inner peace remain elusive, as unanswered questions flit across thought and dream. After all that she has endured a quiet life as a simple school student feels like a mighty jest - one with a waiting and deadly punchline.</p> <p>For time, even for angels resurrected in the light, does not so easily stand still.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 01:13:49 +0000 Erisian 96887 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Drafted! Omg! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/96596/drafted-omg <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It's drafted! Book five, The Light Between, is finally drafted! </p> <p>If I had more energy, I'd go run about like a lunatic yelling, "Eeeeeee!"</p> <p>Other than one lunch and errands run on Wednesday, this whole week Monday until now morning to night was dedicated to finishing it before the New Year hit. Omg! Made it! With one day to spare!! I couldn't sleep at all last night due to brain being stuck in high gear on all the details and planning out the final set of scenes completed today. So I may be somewhat loopy at the moment. :)</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:44:47 +0000 Erisian 96596 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf One year https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/96153/one-year <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I realized today when looking at the site's list of my postings that it's been exactly a year since the last set of chapters for the fourth book 'Light and Shadow' was posted. Yikes does time go zipping past!</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:46:33 +0000 Erisian 96153 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Consequences of Life https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/95742/consequences-life <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A consequence of life is the existence of its counterpart: death.</p> <p>Yesterday my mom passed away.</p> <p>As I've posted before, she's been in and out of the hospital more times than I can count over the years due to her long struggle with pain-inducing autoimmune issues (fibro, rheumatoid, etc.). This past year her gall bladder made that worse with many gall stones. A week ago bacterial infection got out of control and into her blood, and now she's gone.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/autobiographical" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Autobiographical</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:59:54 +0000 Erisian 95742 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Synchronicities https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/95361/synchronicities <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The past few days I've taken time off from work to plow ahead with the writing for this extended weekend. Progress has been slow per day but steady, and I'm pretty happy with how it's been going. </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 04 Sep 2022 03:04:36 +0000 Erisian 95361 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Halfway! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/95200/halfway <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Progress!</p> <p>Over the past couple weeks I think the last remnants of the post-covid brain fog has finally lifted, and I've even been able to start exercising again. Hooray! As a result Book 5 of the saga is pushing ahead and as of a few minutes ago the draft for Part 3 was completed. This puts the word count at just under 60k and halfway to the suspected finish line.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:51:14 +0000 Erisian 95200 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Another Update https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/94793/another-update <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Been a little while since the last update, so here it is:</p> <p>Covid sucks and impedes writing.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 17 Jul 2022 02:36:21 +0000 Erisian 94793 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Fireworks https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/94361/fireworks <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We've once again come to the time of year which reminds me that while I love almost everything about where we bought a house, there are still a couple things that annoy the ever-living crud outta me about the area.</p> <p>Like fireworks.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/pets-animals" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Pets / Animals</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 08 Jun 2022 01:42:16 +0000 Erisian 94361 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Progress, albeit slow https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/94275/progress-albeit-slow <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>With the whole discussion regarding unfinished works, I felt that perhaps a status update for book 5 of the Heaven's Light Saga should be put up for anyone curious. It's been a wacky year so far between more work changes and things with family (such as my mom being in and out of the hospital five times since Christmas), so the book hasn't made as much progress as I'd hoped. However Part 1 is almost drafted, needing just one fae party scene (whee!) to finish it out, and the framework for the rest of the major beats through to the ending are mostly figured out.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 30 May 2022 22:41:30 +0000 Erisian 94275 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf BCTS "Magic of The Heart" Story Contest Entry https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/93245/bcts-magic-heart-story-contest-entry <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Decided to sit down today to finally get the idea for the BCTS story contest out of my head and onto a page. In spite of many many breaks to go play with an insistent kitty it somehow got written, and therefore posted. Said kitty brought me a shoestring and a fishie as bribes for attention out of desperation when her ceaseless meows were being ignored (due to music played even louder on the headset). Needless to say, she was rather difficult to say no to.</p> <p>Anyway, hope folks enjoy. It's called 'The Questing Beast'. :)</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 21 Feb 2022 03:27:51 +0000 Erisian 93245 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf The Questing Beast https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/93243/questing-beast <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-referenced-discussed-suicide" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Referenced / Discussed Suicide</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/general-audience-pg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">General Audience (pg)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/contests/2022-02-february-bcts-magic-heart-story-contest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">2022-02 February BCTS &quot;Magic of The Heart&quot; Story Contest</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fiction</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">500 &lt; Short Story &lt; 7500 words</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-23" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Complete</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/wishes" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Wishes</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/college-twenties" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">College / Twenties</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/posted-authors" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Posted by author(s)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="/topshelf/system/files/u1973/12379719-crop.png" width="40" height="40" alt="" /></center><br /> <center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/kindpng_3014807_mod.png" alt="The Questing Beast" /></center></p> <h1><center>The Questing Beast</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <p>All who have ears to hear know the tales of the great King Arthur and his knights, their stories filling hearts with enchantments and glamours while leading many to again hope for the return of justice and the true faith of men.</p> <p>But few know the story of Sir Leif and the Questing Beast, of how he met his end and also his beginning.</p> <p>His tale starts not with his childhood as the only surviving child of his father and mother’s lineage, training diligently every dawn until sunset in the ways of knighthood as befit the son of a duke who had bravely died in service to his king. Nor does it commence with his many victories at Arthur’s side - though his sword was indeed mighty, for countless foes fell to its sharp blade as wielded by an arm stouter than oak.</p> <p>It begins instead around a campfire.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 21 Feb 2022 03:19:23 +0000 Erisian 93243 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Time flies https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/93146/time-flies <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It's amazing how time goes fwoooosh. The older I get, the quicker that arrow zips on past.</p> <p>And thus I realized today when looking at posting dates that four years ago is when I finally decided to be brave enough to quit being a (long time) lurker and toss the two books I'd written out onto BCTS. Four years! Can hardly believe it. I remember being incredibly nervous about doing so too, having debated with myself for months on end. Though admittedly with each additional installment of the story since those nerves still flare. They shouldn't but, well, yep.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 02:51:50 +0000 Erisian 93146 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Merry Christmas! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/92591/merry-christmas <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!</p> <p>Hoping for all to have a safe(!) holiday. I'll admit to being rather bummed by most of my family deciding not to come out and visit due to concern for my Mom, as her health hasn't been good for over a score of years. Understandable and likely the wise course of action, but some of them I haven't seen now for two years and I'd really been looking forward to finally having everyone together. Instead we'll just have to continue holding 'em all in our hearts.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 25 Dec 2021 20:22:36 +0000 Erisian 92591 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Cleanup on Aisles 1, 2, 3... https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/92336/cleanup-aisles-1-2-3 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A BIG thank you and shout out to Kimmie for diving all the way back to the beginning of my 'Light' saga and sifting out the abused homophones, tortured commas, and the embarrassingly abundant malformed verbiage! </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 03:26:47 +0000 Erisian 92336 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Completed! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/92118/completed <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Thanks to a few more proof-read corrections from a friend, the last part of Light And Shadow is up! Whew! So anyone who may have been waiting to binge read the entirety, now you can go for it!</p> <p>There's still much to tell in this saga, and many questions (evilly and sneakily) left unanswered to explore in the next installments - so I'll have to get busy on it as poor Jordan has a lot to figure out. I also have a feeling there could be a couple short stories around some of the other characters that may need to be written before the fifth book gets finished too.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:06:10 +0000 Erisian 92118 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 8 (complete) https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/92117/light-and-shadow-part-8-complete <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-referenced-discussed-suicide" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Referenced / Discussed Suicide</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-9" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Final Chapter</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-23" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Complete</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 8 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 37 - Citadel</h4> <p> </p> <p>Krux led me through hospital corridors full of a mix of demons, devils, and souls - some were patients, some staff, and all very organized. Other than the eclectic collection of body-types, skin tones, and random number of limbs, the place had that same frenetic-yet-focused feel of most busy hospitals I’d been in. Bureaucracy blended with function all mixed together as white lab coats, suits and ties, and professional skirts.</p> <p>I stood out like a sore thumb or an outcast from one of those medieval historical re-enactment groups as I pushed past them all. The armored breastplate and feathered kilt felt all the more primitive as compared to the security stationed at the glass doors which exited to a landing platform. They stood there complete with modern body armor and elegant-yet-nasty rifle-sized blasters packing a punch orders of magnitude higher than the agent’s pistol. While the demons among them only had five to six souls suffering at their cores, their equipment likely made up for the lack of raw potential and then some.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 13 Nov 2021 22:54:39 +0000 Erisian 92117 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf One Day Early! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/91936/one-day-early <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>As the previous installment was a day late, posting this next one an entire day early! Woot! Part 7 of 8 is up in which more things are revealed and things are set up for the ride to the finish...</p> <p>Thanks to everyone who's been reading, and especially to all who comment or message! I'm looking forward to getting the last bit of book done and posted, and then comes the fun of re-reading the whole thing and laying out the rest of the story arc for the next few books. </p> <p>Hope all who read enjoy!!</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:05:22 +0000 Erisian 91936 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 7 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/91935/light-and-shadow-part-7 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-referenced-discussed-suicide" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Referenced / Discussed Suicide</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 7 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 32 - Plan</h4> <p> </p> <p>Boston police were waiting for them at the gate when they landed. There had been an awkward stand-off while Diego called the DPA to confirm that the detectives were actually on assignment as opposed to being there due to possible unseen influence from mind-controlling angels.</p> <p>Assurances were received and soon Isaiah and the wizard were delivered to a brick police precinct sitting alongside a narrow Boston street. Being Californian all Isaiah could think of as they were ushered past the windowed doors facing the rear parking lot was that a single earthquake could level the entire structure. Given the number of brick buildings they’d passed on the drive there, the entire city had better hope against such seismic events.</p> <p>Or, say, powerful geo-magic.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:58:51 +0000 Erisian 91935 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 6 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/91782/light-and-shadow-part-6 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 6 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 27 - Justice</h4> <p> </p> <p>Isaiah’s head thrummed as if someone was using it instead of a kodo drum. As much as he wanted to blame the shifting pressure from the passing storm, he knew the pain wasn’t due to an external cause.</p> <p>He sat in a small conference room, bare except for a large monitor on one wall sitting in front of a simple four-legged table. Around it were six of those plastic office chairs which usually last for maybe six months before the adjustment lift and tilt mechanisms snapped. Indeed one had already been shoved aside to a corner, its mesh backing listing at an odd angle. Staring at it he decided that whomever in finance was responsible for such cheapness should be cursed to use nothing but. Certainly not whatever luxury leather chair likely adorned their own office.</p> <p>That would be justice.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 17 Oct 2021 20:04:08 +0000 Erisian 91782 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Slight Delay, but now up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/91770/slight-delay-but-now-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Slight delay in getting Part 6 of <em>Light And Shadow</em> posted. After discussions with my awesome proof-reader it was realized that the division of the Parts needed adjustment to pull in one more chapter to better round out 6's complement. Hopefully they will get to that chapter tomorrow and I can post the now-extended Part 6 up by the evening.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:04:48 +0000 Erisian 91770 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 5 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/91595/light-and-shadow-part-5 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-rape-sexual-assault" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Rape / Sexual Assault</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 5 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 22 - Power</h4> <p>We were wet.</p> <p>We were tired.</p> <p>We were hungry.</p> <p>In other words, we were soldiers.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 02 Oct 2021 21:43:56 +0000 Erisian 91595 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Insomnia and Inspiration https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/91490/insomnia-and-inspiration <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While laying in bed in the middle of last night and not sleeping as one does, the muse decided to sprinkle her fairy dust upon my rest-deprived noggin. Thus came a realization that the new book currently under editing for its later chapters was missing a scene which, in the much-abused and paraphrased words of The Dude, really tied the book together. Where to wedge it in was even included in the moment of 'well-duh!'.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 25 Sep 2021 02:37:26 +0000 Erisian 91490 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Next part of Light and Shadow is up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/91416/next-part-light-and-shadow-is-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The middle bit of Light And Shadow is up! Halfway to the finish, wherein various things are indeed revealed!</p> <p>Please do mind the trigger warnings though. There are a few darker subjects in this one.</p> <p>Thanks to all who've been reading, can't wait to get the rest of this book posted! We're getting to the good stuff! ;)</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 02:10:09 +0000 Erisian 91416 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 4 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/91415/light-and-shadow-part-4 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-physical-or-emotional-abuse" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Physical or Emotional Abuse</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-referenced-discussed-suicide" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Referenced / Discussed Suicide</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-suicide" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Suicide</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 4 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 16 - Goddess</h4> <p> </p> <p>The eyes of a hundred kneeling demons were upon me. The fight had chewed up a lot of terrain and we’d moved within field-goal distance of the crowd before it was done. As much as I wanted to just fall over and lie there in the dirt that was not an option. Instead I slowly forced myself up. Thighs, calves, and even pinky toes protested, sending agony up every available nerve to decry the idiocy of such an action.</p> <p>I couldn’t afford to show weakness. Not here. Not now. By the rules of the duel I couldn’t be immediately challenged by anyone else but that didn’t matter.</p> <p>The soul-sucking bastards needed to fear me. Or else they would never accept my commands.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 02:02:10 +0000 Erisian 91415 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Part 3 of Light And Shadow is up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/91240/part-3-light-and-shadow-is-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 3 of latest book posted! Thanks again to the help of a good friend who caught quite a few gooberisms with their final check-through. They had to suffer through with me sending many updates over the past week as I kept poking at it, even after I had said I was 'done'. I'll have to be better about that for the next one, lol.</p> <p>Now to use the rest of this holiday weekend plowing through the text of Part 4!</p> <p>Thanks to everyone who reads as always, and especially those who comment! Hope y'all enjoy!<br /> - Erisian &lt;3</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 04 Sep 2021 21:11:43 +0000 Erisian 91240 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 3 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/91239/light-and-shadow-part-3 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 3 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 10 - Trumpet</h4> <p> </p> <p>Outside the tent where Vance slept peacefully, Yaria was setting up a tall tripod-mounted bronze spyglass. Hank and Twitch were inside with Ruyia preparing lunch from the not-as-small-as-it-looks tent’s well-stocked larder. After I’d grabbed the wrong ingredients for a third time Twitch had pushed me gently aside and taken over as Ruyia’s assistant, much to Hank’s amusement.</p> <p>Hey, I never claimed to be a chef and furthermore the spices and herbs available in Hell were completely different from anything on Earth. Having spent most of my time living off hard tack from the back of a wagon it’s not my fault I didn’t know the difference between a ‘kyrish root’ and a ‘draxo leaf’. My wife had done all the cooking in our house before cancer stole her away, after that there was a lot of frozen pizzas, tuna, and sloppy joes.</p> <p>And tacos. Man, I missed tacos.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 04 Sep 2021 21:02:11 +0000 Erisian 91239 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow Part 2 posted! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/91065/light-and-shadow-part-2-posted <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After a marathon edit session today between me and a good friend who's acting as editor in exchange for future cookies, Part 2 of Book 4 <em>Light And Shadow</em> is posted! </p> <p>Tomorrow continues mad editing on Part 3! After groceries. And housework chores. And playing with neglected kitties. (Okay, they're totally not neglected, just spent half an hour with a kitten chasing a dangled shoelace...)</p> <p>Hope people enjoy! If you do, feel free to leave a comment! Thanks!! :)</p> <p>- Erisian &lt;3</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 22 Aug 2021 02:46:50 +0000 Erisian 91065 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 2 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/91064/light-and-shadow-part-2 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 2 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 5 - Ransacked</h4> <p> </p> <p>We found what was left of the captain lying in the corridor leading from her quarters to the main cavern. The walls gave evidence to a fierce and moving battle, deep chunks of rock had been ripped from the walls with stony fragments scattered everywhere. Her caved-in head, spine, and most of her ribcage were all that remained. They had stripped her clean: armor and boots, soul orbs and meat, all had been taken. Only bloody bones and small scraps of muscle and tendon remained.</p> <p>Just like they had done to Biff outside and all the other guards.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 22 Aug 2021 02:42:47 +0000 Erisian 91064 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Book review ratings extortion schemes?? https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/90938/book-review-ratings-extortion-schemes <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Stumbled upon this article about authors on Goodreads getting extortion threats or else their books get review-bombed: <a href="https://time.com/6078993/goodreads-review-bombing/?utm_source=pocket-newtab" rel="nofollow">Time Article</a></p> <p>Good grief. Literally. :(</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Thu, 12 Aug 2021 02:50:37 +0000 Erisian 90938 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/90896/light-and-shadow <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Here we go!</p> <p>Part 1 of Book 4, <em>Light And Shadow</em> is posted! Hopefully between me and a friend who's read it over a couple times we didn't miss any critical errors. If there are any typos or oopses, please let me know in DM so I can get 'em fixed!! </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:08:12 +0000 Erisian 90896 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow - Part 1 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/90895/light-and-shadow-part-1 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-violence" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Violence</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/science-fiction/other-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Other Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow (Part 1 of 8)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 1 - Duty</h4> <p> </p> <p>The most annoying thing about hunting demons is the smell. The one in front of me naturally yielded no exception.</p> <p>Green ichor of a most aromatic sort spurted generously from the stumps of the several tentacles I’d just managed to shorten, the foul mess splattering the walls of ice and rock around us as well as my best (and only) cloak. The vapors assaulting my sanity were, shall we say, worse than a raw sewage overflow from a center for the treatment of Crohn’s disease. FEMA would have posted signs declaring the bespoiled canyon a superfund site before themselves evacuating in a bureaucratic rush.</p> <p>Yeah, it was that bad.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 20:55:26 +0000 Erisian 90895 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light And Shadow https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/90894/light-and-shadow <section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Audience Rating:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-24 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Organizational:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/title-page" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Title Page</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">TG Universes &amp; Series:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/single_star_mod_0.jpg" alt="Light And Shadow" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light And Shadow</center></h1> <h2><center>Written by Erisian</center></h2> <h2><center>Inspired by stories by Erisian &amp; Ahron</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 4</center></h3> <p>Hell. Gehenna. Sheol. By many names have the shadow realms lurking below been known. Having lost her niece and been blown past those horned gates of eternal damnation, the newest-born angel Jordan Emrys finds herself trying to carve out a quiet existence amidst demons and the damned spirits upon which they feed. Because it’s over, it’s done, and she must now accept the sorrows of this cruelly fated end.</p> <p>But back on Earth the fanatical sorcerer who instigated her transformation endeavors to recruit those whom he believes can achieve the impossible: the saving of her soul. For despite Jordan’s beliefs, he knows that her destiny in the light is far from complete.</p> <p>Indeed from his perspective it has only just begun.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 20:37:45 +0000 Erisian 90894 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Draft completed! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/90738/draft-completed <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Welp, after taking far too long due to dealing with the pandemic, and also with two job changes (promotions of sorts!) at work, the draft for Book 4 'Light and Shadow' was finally completed right on time for dinner today! Sitting at over 135k words and split into seven parts, it now shall enter the 'Editing Zone' and hopefully the first part can get posted sometime soon, for which I'm rather excited.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 25 Jul 2021 04:14:51 +0000 Erisian 90738 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf That moment when https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/90146/that-moment-when <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>That moment when you wrap up another chapter in the current book under development and realize that oh hey, this book isn't going to be finished in six parts but rather seven. Otherwise that 'sixth' part will be over 40k words all on its own which is getting a bit silly in length. Trying to get this book's draft done so it can be edited and posted, but the muse is sitting there laughing with unexpected (but cool!) twists which are gonna make getting to the ending take just that much more.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 30 May 2021 23:11:51 +0000 Erisian 90146 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf So many words https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/89986/so-many-words <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Was working on the current book today (only a few more chapters to go to finish the draft! Whoohoo!) and on a whim highlighted all the text of this one and the previous three within Scrivener to do a total word count. Went 'whoaaa' at the result of 507k. I know many authors here have a lot more than that, but still - only a few years ago the thought of even finishing one book was horribly daunting and felt ever out of reach. Passing 500k really feels like a milestone.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 16 May 2021 23:25:54 +0000 Erisian 89986 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Stories not coming up? https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/89426/stories-not-coming-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Trying to click on some stories, but they are all coming up as 0 words long. Is this happening to anyone else? I've tried different browsers with same result. Even my own story submissions are returning this way. Blog posts though appear to work...?</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:32:04 +0000 Erisian 89426 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Hard to say goodbye https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/89396/hard-say-goodbye <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Yesterday I had to say goodbye to my little tuxedo princess kitty, ripping a hole from my heart. She had been with us for over twenty years, a kitten acquired from a shelter to give to my daughter when her illness unfortunately re-occurred. The poor little thing eventually became 'my' kitty, latching herself to me and needing me in her sight at all times possible, even crying out if she woke up to find I'd moved to a different room. But her advanced age finally caught up to her beyond what could be treated and we had to let her go. </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/autobiographical" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Autobiographical</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:50:28 +0000 Erisian 89396 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Just want to say thanks https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/87943/just-want-say-thanks <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Just want to say thanks to whomever it was that marathon read through my stories this past week and clicked to give 'kudos' on every posted part, even though the books have been posted for awhile. It may not seem that big a deal, but for me anyway (not to speak for other authors out of hand here) seeing someone do that really helps maintain motivation to write that next chapter bouncing around in the ol' noggin - especially after a tough mental year (for everyone!) where the temptation to just go 'blah' and binge watch more Netflix or Youtube has been a lot harder to fight off.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:23:45 +0000 Erisian 87943 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf In Limbo https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/86440/limbo <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Spending today in limbo. My mom, who was in the hospital a couple weeks ago due to severe stomach pains (ulcers as if turned out) went back in last Friday as she'd become non responsive. Dad called my sister yesterday to let her now and for her to call me. They think Mom has pneumonia, and her lung function was already horrid due to her many other health issues. She's been on oxygen and bedridden now for too many years.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/autobiographical" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Autobiographical</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:14:04 +0000 Erisian 86440 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Another short https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/86411/another-short <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Just put up another short story, one rather lighter and not as 'noir' or heavy as the one from last week (Raquiel). This short can also fit in the Light saga - which I am totally now tempted to start calling 'Dawn of Light' as coined by Nyssa! It may even have a hint of future issues for poor Jordan to deal with... ;)</p> <p>Hopefully folks enjoy this one! As always, thanks for reading - and especially for any comments!!</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:33:18 +0000 Erisian 86411 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Truth in Tears https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/86409/truth-tears <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/general-audience-pg" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">General Audience (pg)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">500 &lt; Short Story &lt; 7500 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/posted-authors" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Posted by author(s)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/feather-967367_1280%20%28640x400%29.jpg" alt="FeatherTears" /></center></p> <h1><center>Truth in Tears</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <p>My dad was never one to go to church, nor one to talk about what he believed. As a teenager I asked him once if he believed in God and even now I remember his reply. He looked at me carefully from behind those antiquated black-rimmed glasses of his and said simply, “Doesn’t matter if I believe or not, son. God is either there or he isn’t. But this life, well, this life is mine to live as I choose.” At the time I was frustrated that he didn't answer the question; it wasn’t until much later that I realized he had in fact answered something perhaps far deeper.</p> <p>He was like that, my dad.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:27:03 +0000 Erisian 86409 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Short story https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/86226/short-story <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Since the next book in the Heaven's Light saga is taking so long to write I thought I'd start posting a few of the short stories collecting dust to the side. Hopefully folks will enjoy them while I try to get what's in my head for poor Jordan to have to deal with out onto the page. I feel like I need another vacation from work to just focus on writing, maybe I'll do that in a few weeks. The first short, 'Raquiel', is now up. </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:26:25 +0000 Erisian 86226 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Raquiel https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/86225/raquiel <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-referenced-discussed-suicide" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Referenced / Discussed Suicide</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">500 &lt; Short Story &lt; 7500 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic/fantasy-worlds" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fantasy Worlds</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/posted-authors" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Posted by author(s)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/shield-with-wings-sword.jpg" alt="Raquiel" /></center></p> <h1><center>Raquiel</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p>Light flickers across the café table's turquoise checkerboard and the cigarette's smoke curls upward, mixing with the scent of coffee and the coming rain. Voices bubble all around to fill the evening air with bursts of laughter and camaraderie, but to them I do not listen.</p> <p>Instead I stare.</p> <p>My gaze is fixed upon the plain white envelope resting upon the fake marble tabletop where it sits next to an ignored saucer and cup. Yet my eyes see past it to a place so very far away, beyond the reaches of this world. To a place whose name could best be translated as the Edge.</p> <p>The Edge of all things.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 02 Aug 2020 16:17:10 +0000 Erisian 86225 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Psychology of Writing https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/85007/psychology-writing <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Came across this article today, thought some here may find it interesting:</p> <p><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-psychology-of-writing-and-the-cognitive-science-of-the-perfect-daily-routine?utm_source=pocket-newtab">https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-psychology-of-writing...</a></p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 23 May 2020 18:07:11 +0000 Erisian 85007 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Dresden Files Continues! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/83723/dresden-files-continues <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Amazon today popped up with the ability to pre-order the next book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, "Peace Talks"! Coming out mid-July, woot!</p> <p>Fans have been waiting six years since the last full novel in this series came out, barely getting by with the release of some short stories in various anthologies. So every time as an author you feel guilty about taking too long publishing the next part of your epics, remember that Jim has us all beat on that score! ;) </p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:39:43 +0000 Erisian 83723 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Chilling Speach https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/82713/chilling-speach <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I came across this article today and it caused me to go 'wait, what??':</p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/3a8nv3/quebec-author-yvan-godbout-charged-with-child-porn-over-hansel-and-gretel-retelling?utm_campaign=sharebutton&amp;fbclid=IwAR04mQMfkMJDbq_b2RXT7MtujqTVgsbjth7wtCWaMvkWU2Y2cU7vG_86tTQ">https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/3a8nv3/quebec-author-yvan...</a></p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/news-item" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News Item</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:17:58 +0000 Erisian 82713 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Stress and Anxiety https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/82430/stress-and-anxiety <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>While I've had my share of moments of being over-stressed and freaking out, I've known too many people who suffer from full-blown anxiety attacks and who's stressors leave them barely able to function when they hit. Randomly I stumbled across the article linked below and felt like sharing. It's by someone who wrote a book about 'Peak Performance' who (much to their surprise) afterwords developed stress/anxiety mental illness. It's a good reminder that such issues can afflict anyone, and for those of us who don't suffer such I hope it'll remind us to be more understanding of those who do.</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/science-and-medicine" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science and Medicine</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:44:46 +0000 Erisian 82430 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 6 is done! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81976/call-light-part-6-is-done <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Call of the Light part 6 is up and thus is complete! Whooo!</p> <p>Apologies for the greater gap in getting the last bit finished, got knocked out for over a week by a nasty sinus infection (which still lingers, ugh). But it's finally done! </p> <p>Now to start laying the framework down for Book 4! :D</p> <p>Hope everyone enjoys!! Comments are always treasured and are huge motivations to get off my lazy butt and back to the keyboard! Thanks to all who have also sent me such encouraging messages! Massively appreciated!!</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:47:29 +0000 Erisian 81976 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 6 (complete) https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/81974/call-light-part-6-complete <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light (Part 6 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 23 - Sacrifices</h4> <p>The California sun had hours ago slipped below the evergreen-lined mountain peaks to the west. Leftovers from his lunchtime foray into the local town still sat mostly uneaten on the square patio table, sandwich and partially consumed plum resting on a plate. The porch-light remained off as stars twinkled into view between the wispy clouds hanging in the sky, leaving him as a motionless dark shadow resting on the wooden bench before the cabin.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 17 Nov 2019 23:41:44 +0000 Erisian 81974 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 5 is up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81734/call-light-part-5-is-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The fifth part of Call of the Light is up! </p> <p>Due to a mandatory evacuation at work I was able to sneak in an extra day and a half of editing this week, whee! Next up to get edited is the steam-rolling conclusion to book three; part six is the longest one so may take a bit to get edited. I can't wait to get it done so everyone can read, and then get to work on book four!</p> <p>Thanks for all the wonderful comments! They really help the motivation to keep plowing through the editing phase! :)</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:58:43 +0000 Erisian 81734 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 5 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/81733/call-light-part-5 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light (Part 5 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 19 - Counsel</h4> <p>The person on the other end of the phone didn’t even give me the chance to say hello first.</p> <p>“Aradia. We need to talk.”</p> <p>“Uh, hello? Who is this?”</p> <p>“Hang on.”</p> <p>The cordless handset suddenly shrieked loudly in my ear. “Gah!”</p> <p>“Sorry. All phone lines at the Academy are being monitored by the military. We’re now secure.”</p> <p>“How did you—oh.” Girl voice, check. Tone weirdly older than pitch, check. Able to do hacker stuffs, checkmate. It had to be Erica. But she was obviously sticking to using codenames. “Hi Fields.”</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:51:18 +0000 Erisian 81733 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Dramatis Personae https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81610/call-light-dramatis-personae <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks to reader feedback it was thought that listing all the characters might be useful considering how complex things are getting. So below is a list of characters for Book 3 Call of the Light! Wasn't sure where to put it, but thought a blog entry would be safe.</p> <h2><center>Warning!</center></h2> <h3><center>If you have not read Into The Light or Light's Promise then the list below will contain spoilers!!</center></h3> <p> </p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:28:46 +0000 Erisian 81610 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 4 is posted! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81595/call-light-part-4-is-posted <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The fourth part of Call of the Light is up! You'd think after posting two books and two-thirds of this one the nerves before clicking 'submit' would chill out, but nope. Always nervous each time. That happen to everyone else or does it ever go away?</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 27 Oct 2019 02:46:14 +0000 Erisian 81595 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 4 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/81594/call-light-part-4 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light (Part 4 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 15 - Wisdom</h4> <p>One of the first things I did after Kami put me up in some fancy hotel near his club was to call Danielle. Her phone didn’t even ring, a recording kept repeating that all circuits were busy and to try again later.</p> <p>Kami had recommended I get some sleep, but yeah that wasn’t going to happen. I was far too keyed up. Besides, without the circles in my bedroom acting as their usual anchor I might slip out of the world again.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 27 Oct 2019 02:34:57 +0000 Erisian 81594 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 3 is up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81391/call-light-part-3-is-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 3 of Call of the Light is up! This one took a bit more editing than expected, several scenes needed slight re-writes. But this completes the first half of book 3 of what I've mentally been calling the 'Heaven's Light Saga'. This part bears witness to the attack on Whateley (oh no!) and a small peek into the beginnings of Heaven's history...</p></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 13 Oct 2019 21:42:36 +0000 Erisian 81391 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 3 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/81390/call-light-part-3 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light (Part 3 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 11 - Choices</h4> <p>“Dammit August! Tell me where she is!”</p> <p>Snow and wind assaulted the far corner of the cafeteria where August liked to eat quietly away from everyone else. Today that peaceful solitude had been bulldozed by a rather agitated young fae.</p> <p>The plate of creamy chicken alfredo sadly offered no defense.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 13 Oct 2019 21:21:45 +0000 Erisian 81390 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 2 is up https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81164/call-light-part-2-is-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 2 of Call of the Light is up!</p> <p>Wherein certain mysteries are revealed and more hinted at. :) Hope folks enjoy.</p> <p>Thanks to all who read! And please let me know what you think in a comment or message!</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:26:49 +0000 Erisian 81164 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 2 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/81163/call-light-part-2 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light (Part 2 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 6 - Rooftops</h4> <p>Louis found me as I was sitting on the roof.</p> <p>The sun had started the day playing hide-and-seek behind several wispy clouds much to the entertainment of the many crows raising a loud ruckus from the trees lining the paths below. The kids scurrying to the cafeteria and their classes were bundled up tightly in school sweaters and coats to fend off the crisp autumn-chilled air. Not that the cold bothered either me or Louis. I could easily ignore it and Louis, known as Fubar to the kids, wasn’t really here.</p> <p>His presence was after all only an astral projection.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:21:33 +0000 Erisian 81163 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/81081/call-light <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 1 of Book 3 'Call Of The Light' is up!<br /> Apologies for this one taking so long! Between job changes, moving, and dealing with plumbing (ugh!) things kept interfering with proper writing time. But the entire book has now been drafted so new parts will go up as each part gets edited!<br /> Hope folks enjoy! (And that I didn't miss too much during edits!!)</p> <p>Thanks to everyone who reads, and especially to everyone who comments! They really do mean a lot!</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 21 Sep 2019 23:13:00 +0000 Erisian 81081 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light - Part 1 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/81080/call-light-part-1 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light (Part 1 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 1 - Loss</h4> <p>He had been there long enough to establish a regular routine.</p> <p>Early mornings were Turkish coffee sipped ever so slowly at the corner table in the hotel’s small cafe with a breakfast of cheese, bread, and olives followed by a small confectionery. After a perfunctory nod to the proprietors it was out to wander down by the beach in a battered beige coat with more pockets of various size than fashion sense would ever allow. Safely out of earshot those he passed by would whisper that he must be touched by the Jinn for clearly he was no tourist as he took no pictures nor troubled anyone for directions to the local sights. At dusk he would walk the Black Sea’s coastline without regard for the rain falling from dark clouds nor for the magnificent view when the sun broke free and shone its glory across the waters.</p> <p>He paid their odd glances no mind for his was entirely elsewhere. And besides, if he had bothered to consider their commentary he would have immediately agreed with them.</p> <p>Nicolas ‘Nick’ Wright, erstwhile demonologist and magical consultant, was indeed touched. But not by the fabled fiery Jinn.</p> <p>His problems lay entirely with angels.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 21 Sep 2019 23:08:10 +0000 Erisian 81080 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Call Of The Light https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/81079/call-light <section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Audience Rating:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-24 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Organizational:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/title-page" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Title Page</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">TG Universes &amp; Series:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/u122444/images/Pyramids-at-Sunset.jpg" alt="Call Of The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Call Of The Light</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 3</center></h3> <p>With the craziness in Syria appearing to be safely in the rear-view mirror, Jordan had hoped to settle in to the routine at school and take the time to understand who she had become.</p> <p>Such as what did it really mean to be an angel? Or even being a teenage girl?</p> <p>Events however had been set in motion leading to threats not only to her closest friends and family but to the entire world. When destiny calls how each answers will shape the entire future to come.</p> <p>For Jordan, worrying about makeup, bras, and things like fitting in at school would simply have to wait.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:58:08 +0000 Erisian 81079 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - completed! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/73406/lights-promise-completed <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Last part of Light's Promise is up. Wow, serious editing blitz this week, even rewrote a couple scenes that needed them.</p> <p>Hopefully was all worth it! And that people enjoy it, the combat scene was a lot of fun to write. Not to mention the reveal / cliffhanger at the end... -evil grin-</p> <p>Now to get going on book 3... so many ideas to sort through! </p> <p>Thanks to everyone who reads, and especially to everyone who comments! They mean a lot, each and every one!</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 04 Mar 2018 03:48:03 +0000 Erisian 73406 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - Part 6 (complete) https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73405/lights-promise-part-6-complete <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise (Part 6 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 21 - Aleppo</h4> <p>Fred hit a ramp that veered off to the right and the helicopter swung around to be seen clearly from the passenger window.</p> <p>“Hey, the chopper is the other way!” I said more shrilly than intended. </p> <p>Derek snorted. “Fourteen kilometers of proper highway versus eleven through the Old Quarter and possible crowds? Chill. Fred knows what he’s doing.”</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 04 Mar 2018 03:44:15 +0000 Erisian 73405 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise part 5 up! whee! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/73345/lights-promise-part-5-up-whee <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 5 of Light's Promise is posted!</p> <p>Hopefully this will help everyone forgive the big cliffhanger in part 4... and not mind too much the one at the end of this part. :D</p> <p>Thanks to everyone who reads, and especially to those who comment!!! ;)</p> <p>- Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 03:35:48 +0000 Erisian 73345 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - Part 5 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73344/lights-promise-part-5 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise (Part 5 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 17 - Song</h4> <p>It wasn’t working.</p> <p>Trying to infuse the book with more energy just caused the pages to flake more quickly and fall away. The hills surrounding the lake rumbled and cracked, colorless fractal lines spreading outward.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 03:31:50 +0000 Erisian 73344 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Aziz! More Light! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/73291/aziz-more-light <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 4 of Light's Promise is up! </p> <p>Where a touch more gets revealed, and it's learned that an angel's wrath may best to be avoided... ;)</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:51:36 +0000 Erisian 73291 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - Part 4 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73290/lights-promise-part-4 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise (Part 4 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 13 - Beacon</h4> <p>Tsáyidiel knelt upon the stone with two sets of dark wings covering an otherwise bare and human back. The air was warm, and the bright sunless sky stretched above with fluffy clouds hinting at towers and walls. The grass tickling at bare toes was the first indication that my attire had changed.</p> <p>One look and it was decided that if the subconscious had chosen this outfit, me and her were going to have a chat. At length.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:44:12 +0000 Erisian 73290 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise part 3 posted! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/73200/lights-promise-part-3-posted <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 3 is up! That completes the first half of the book, now on to the second! :)</p> <p>Hope folks enjoy!</p> <p>&lt;3 Erisian</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:10:09 +0000 Erisian 73200 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - Part 3 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73199/lights-promise-part-3 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise (Part 3 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 8 - Memories</h4> <p>Once the stomach agreed to at least a temporary truce, I’d gone back to the hospital to sit with Danielle. Now that I knew her spirit wasn’t there all I could sense was the hollow absence. Her body lay in the bed, heart pumping and lungs moving, but it was empty like a still life painting where the fruit bowl’s contents had been cruelly ripped from the canvas. What was left was only a blank outline of where Danielle’s spirit should have been.</p> <p>It was wrong. So very wrong.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:08:17 +0000 Erisian 73199 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise part 2 up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/73156/lights-promise-part-2-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Light's Promise Part 2 posted!</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:22:42 +0000 Erisian 73156 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - Part 2 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73153/lights-promise-part-2 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise (Part 2 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 4 - Price</h4> <p>“Jordan, perhaps you can elucidate to the class how the emergence of powered individuals has disturbed the foundation and premise of the law and structure of the United States?”</p> <p>Rabbi Kirov was picking on me again. When I had received my schedule I’d discovered that he had wedged his own class onto the list: <em>The Ethics of Super-powered Beings</em>. Now we were at the end of the second week and he already had established to everyone that I was some sort of teacher’s pet. He kept selecting me non-stop to answer questions or to reiterate the passages in the assigned reading texts. It had gotten out of hand, and I was so going to yell at him at our private magic practice session come Monday.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 04:25:15 +0000 Erisian 73153 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise part 1 up! https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/73101/lights-promise-part-1-up <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Part 1 of Light's Promise, sequel to Into The Light is up!</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-26 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Blog About:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/blog-about/authors-stories-books-writing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Authors / Stories / Books / Writing</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:35:45 +0000 Erisian 73101 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise - Part 1 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73100/lights-promise-part-1 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise (Part 1 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p> </p> <h4>Chapter 1 - Brotherhood</h4> <p>A cool breeze hinted at Autumn’s approach being only weeks away, although the direct sun had yet to relinquish its warm grip on Summer. The campus had been busy with the rush of vans and cars signaling the arrival of students both new and returning in a frenetic dance of luggage, computers, personal accessories, and even some fancy stereo systems. Almost all attendees had moved into their respective cottages and gone through the required orientations for the upcoming school year. I say ‘almost’ because we were missing one very important student.</p> <p>My niece, Danielle, had yet to arrive.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:28:56 +0000 Erisian 73100 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Light's Promise https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/73099/lights-promise <section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Audience Rating:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-24 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Organizational:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/title-page" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Title Page</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">TG Universes &amp; Series:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-394376mod3.jpg" alt="Light's Promise" /></center></p> <h1><center>Light's Promise</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3><center>Book 2</center></h3> <p>Having survived gryphons, demons, and wearing skirts and pantyhose, Jordan thinks she is ready for the upcoming term at Whateley Academy, school for mutants, metas, and apparently angels.</p> <p>Now if her niece Danielle would just arrive.</p> <p>But the legacy of Heaven has only begun to toss her life around like a leaf in a hurricane, reaching out from the past to shove Jordan beyond the world into ancient struggles beyond her comprehension.</p> <p>Between corrupted mutant-hunting agents, manipulative fallen angels, and deadly Fae Queens, Jordan has her hands full trying to keep one step ahead of events threatening to crush her heart.</p> <p>If only she could have stayed home and held her cat instead.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:24:32 +0000 Erisian 73099 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light - Part 6 (complete) https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73059/into-light-part-6-complete <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Into The Light (Part 6 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 20 - Power</h4> <p>Saturday and Sunday were a blur. True to her word, Jenna escorted me to each meal plus all the exams they kept throwing at me. In addition to the ones on Friday, they assigned World History, U.S. History (yeah, they made them separate tests), Chemistry (ugh), Biology (double ugh), Physics, Theology, and even Computer Science. Yes, they added a few to the original list Rabbi Kirov had previously rattled off.</p> <p>By the time I finished the last one I was readily convinced I was an ignorant idiot. Whoever was organizing these damn things was expecting college graduate level knowledge as far as I could tell. And theology, really? Why bother giving me that one? Other than general knowledge from reading the Bible in high school and whatever myths I had enjoyed in my role-playing game years (alright, so at least I had some passing familiarities with a few pantheons), I was fairly lost when it came to the finer questions regarding various sects and their unique interpretations of whatever scriptures their groups had declared to be holy. My exam booklet was entirely blank across vast sections other than a comment I wedged in the middle of a question about Sodom and Gomorrah where I wrote, ‘Angels are real. I met one. She was nice’.</p> <p>Let’s see them grade that, ha!</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 09 Feb 2018 02:07:47 +0000 Erisian 73059 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light - Part 5 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73040/into-light-part-5 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Into The Light (Part 5 of 6)</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h4>Chapter 17 - Manifestation</h4> <p><em>Impenetrable fog surrounds everything, deafening all sound, all sensation; walking yet going nowhere, for within the clouds there is no path.</em></p> <p><em>A distant voice’s call; a response choking upon the barrier of thickening mist threating to suffocate all…</em></p> </div></div></div> Thu, 08 Feb 2018 02:01:38 +0000 Erisian 73040 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light - Part 4 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73022/into-light-part-4 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-25 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-physical-or-emotional-abuse" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Physical or Emotional Abuse</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/caution/caution-rape-sexual-assault" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">CAUTION: Rape / Sexual Assault</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h2><center>Into The Light (Part 4 of 6)</center></h2> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3>Chapter 14 - Patterns</h3> <p>A nurse lent me a spare t-shirt she kept on hand ‘for emergencies’. The wreckage of my outfit qualified, and as I really didn’t want to streak across campus I quickly took it and thanked her. Speaking of clothes, Jenna and I both needed to get back to the gym before we could fulfill her ice cream desires. She needed to change out of her gi, and I needed my shoes and socks.</p> <p>Arriving back at Laird Hall we discovered that Brendan had put my things aside - I think he had been hoping to use my footwear as an excuse to come visit me later. After thanking him, he again reminded me about the movie event at Emerson tomorrow night - but this time Jenna heard and declared that of course we both would attend. Brendan awkwardly affirmed that, sure, she could come too - which made her all kinds of happy.</p> <p>After changing clothes, Jenna spent our entire walk to the cafeteria teasing me about how she had never seen him have such puppy eyes for anyone before. She thought he was being ‘adorable’.</p> <p>The more flustered I got, the more she poured it on in an attempt to outdo the rain cascading upon us both. I’m sure my face matched the color of my hair by the time we got to the entrance.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:07:22 +0000 Erisian 73022 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light - Part 3 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/73003/into-light-part-3 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h2><center>Into The Light (Part 3 of 6)</center></h2> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3>Chapter 10 - Transit</h3> <p>I was in the back seat of yet another SUV. This time it was a green one being driven by Colin Forsyth, the Lieutenant from the phone conference between Director Goodman and Mrs. Carson. Mrs. Shugendo, a tall Asian woman, sat up front. Poor Khan was stuck once more in his travel cage and I had to admit I did feel grateful to Soren for the scope of the scholarship I was sure he had arranged for me. It had included paying for all sorts of details, as one would expect from a scholarship: books, school supplies, tuition (including room and board), and uniforms. To my (and the Director’s) surprise it also covered all related expenses for bi-annual transport to and from the school via chartered plane out of the closest airport to the school.</p> <p>Don’t get me wrong, though - Soren still deserved a boot to the head for what he’d done. I’d thank him for the money after.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:59:38 +0000 Erisian 73003 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/72994/into-light <section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Audience Rating:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-24 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">Organizational:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/title-page" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Title Page</a></li></ul></section><section class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-teaser"><h2 class="field-label">TG Universes &amp; Series:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></section><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod2.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h1><center>Into The Light</center></h1> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <p>With the city overwhelmed by mutants, magic, and general mayhem, Justin Thorne just wanted to get home after a long day’s work to order pizza, ignore the heavy metal blasting from his niece's room, and feed the cat. Extended evening plans included a glass of sherry and playing video games until the ol’ carpal tunnel kicked in.</p> <p>However the apocalyptic traffic clogging the freeways was the least of his worries. For when fate comes knocking on your door it comes as a tornado sent by a mad wizard to kidnap your niece and turn your lives completely upside down. You know things are beyond crazy when being told by the experts that you might not be precisely human pales in comparison to the insane changes already smacking you from the mirror.</p> <p>Hunted by creatures straight out of legend, Justin and his niece must fight to survive a destiny which every day grows stranger still as it slowly encompasses not just this world but them all.</p> <p>That sherry is going to need a bigger glass.</p> </div></div></div> Mon, 05 Feb 2018 06:17:52 +0000 Erisian 72994 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light - Part 2 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72987/into-light-part-2 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-8" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Serial Chapter</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h2><center>Into The Light (Part 2 of 6)</center></h2> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3>Chapter 4 - Homeward</h3> <p>As Danielle and I seemed physically fine, Mark pushed to get us released from the hospital the next day. Dr. Kirov however kept trying to make excuses for us both to stay longer. Apparently Danielle’s blood would simply dissipate after a few minutes once collected, and my own blood was described as ‘exceptionally and unusually clean’ - without any proper explanation of what they meant by that.</p> <p>His argument had mostly to do with the potential risks of burnout after manifestations, but neither of us exhibited any symptoms so the doctor had a hard time making it sound persuasive. Especially seeing how they weren’t finding any mutation markers in my DNA which meant I was a meta-human of some kind, and Danielle had originally manifested her mutation ten years ago.</p> <p>Still, he did force us each into an ‘enhanced’ MRI scanner which not only was loud and uncomfortable, but had these weird multi-colored ‘magical energy’ crystals adorning it that were supposed to do some kind of resonance scan. The damn thing made me nauseous - I was told that was normal after I got out. Whatever the results of it all had been, they weren’t anything medical that would prevent us from traveling to a different facility. Mark even tried to reassure Dr. Kirov that the DPA facility had a full medical staff and emergency equipment in case anything happened.</p> <p>It wasn’t until the afternoon that I’d finally had enough and carried through on my threat to call a lawyer. They may have thought I was bluffing earlier when I had mentioned it, but Isaiah, my best friend of many years, was an attorney and I had planned on calling him soon anyway.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:18:53 +0000 Erisian 72987 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf Into The Light - Part 1 https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/72974/into-light-part-1 <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-8 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/author/new-author" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">New Author</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/author/erisian" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Erisian</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/audience-rating/mature-subjects-pg15" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature Subjects (pg15)</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-7" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Novel &gt; 40,000 words</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/publication/publication-8" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Serial Chapter</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transgender</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/genre/transgender/transformations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Transformations</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/genre/magic" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magic</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/accidental" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Accidental</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/topshelf/tg-themes/age-regression" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Age Regression</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/character-age/mature-thirty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mature / Thirty+</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-7 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/tg-universes-series/whateley-academy-maggie-finson-et-al" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Whateley Academy by Maggie Finson, et al</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-11 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/topshelf/permission/fan-fiction-posters-responsibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Fan-Fiction, poster&#039;s responsibility</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-teaser"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><center><img src="https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/system/files/pexels-photo-417094mod.jpg" alt="Into The Light" /></center></p> <h2><center>Into The Light (Part 1 of 6)</center></h2> <h2><center>by Erisian</center></h2> <h3>Chapter 1 - Emergence</h3> <p>When most people think of Los Angeles they think of traffic. Lots of traffic, with cars jammed onto the numerous freeways all creeping along like ants stuck in molasses trying to get every which way at speeds that cause everyone’s gas mileage to suffer horrible degradations. When just one of the main routes from the ‘westside’ to ‘the valley’ underwent construction that required its closing, the news media dubbed those weekends of closures ‘Carmageddon’.</p> <p>Tonight’s traffic was infinitely more deserving of that name.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:05:30 +0000 Erisian 72974 at https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf
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