I would like to take this opportunity to thank
Wkd_Macey
for her invaluable contributions to this, my first full story fit for publication. She's an amazing author in her own right, and was amazingly generous with her time in bringing this about. If you have a love for extremely well-written, fleshed-out characters that also happen to have vividly-described encounters, you need to check out her stories.
Much like WM, I am a huge fan of the build-up, so be aware that each chapter builds on the previous in terms of both story and eroticism. There's definitely going to be at least one sex scene per installment, but don't expect the main character to be on her back from the get-go right up to the end.
The story you are about to read is true, in so far as it all totally happened in my head. ;)
Transgender Games: CH 01
Taking a Chance.
So, I was sitting in this coffee bar, minding my own business, when a group of four women came in. They were laughing, joking and generally being a bit raucous. Not so loud as to disturb the other customers unduly, but boisterous enough to make themselves something of a spectacle. I looked up from my laptop and happened to catch the eye of one of their number, a tall, exotic-looking woman. She appeared slightly older than the others, but that may have just been my impression, as she carried herself differently than the others; her stride had a predatory pace, as opposed to the rest of her group who had more bounce to their steps, but perhaps I over-analysed the situation. She looked at me, half staring; it was almost a glare which made me feel quite uneasy before I finally looked away.
I had seen them in the cafè before, about a week earlier, but on that occasion they had been very quiet and I would have hardly noticed them at all were it not for the little blonde sitting among them. She appeared at first sight to be very young to be with a group of women in their mid-to-late twenties, but I was to discover that she was not only their equal in years but she also was married with two young children in middle school. On that occasion, the others were paying her an extraordinary amount of attention, and I remember imagining that they were a group of hunting lesbians and perhaps she was their latest catch. In another life, I could see myself as the exotic woman; the alpha of the pack, leading the way back to the den after a successful day of prowling the wilds, their catch in tow. In reality, though, I was only a spectator to their celebrations.
I paid them little heed at the time, other than the occasional glance up from my work to discreetly monitor their progress with the blonde. Before long, I sensed that they were also watching me, so I finished my coffee, packed away my laptop and left, taking great care not to look back in their direction as I did so, lest I embarrass myself. Even so, I believed I could feel their eyes on me. Perhaps it was just my imagination again, or maybe just a tiny feeling of guilt that I should have been bolder and stayed put. At the very least, I chastised myself, it would have been interesting to see if the blonde was a willing participant in the group's efforts to include her. Even that much, however, was too assertive for my liking. At that time, anyway.
I should really introduce myself.
My name is Janice and I work as a freelance proof reader for a small, local publishing house. The editor is Alfonso, although he hates the name and insists on being called Alf. Alf is a short, stocky little guy, almost twenty years my senior, balding, with glasses, and not particularly well endowed as I was soon to discover. He would give me manuscripts to read on all manner of boring subjects like insects, cooking with rice, railways, walking, gardening, bricklaying, etc. Anything that he didn't want to bother with himself, really. If something more interesting or juicy came in, like spy novels, thrillers, or anything the slightest bit raunchy he would keep those works back for himself. While he may not have overcompensated for his, er, "shortcomings" in the typical fashion of men in his situation, his I-get-the-best-submissions policy was far more irritating to me; if he had simply bought some obnoxious sports car or other stand-in for a more impressive tool, then life there would have been bearable, at least.
I'm on piecework and I can usually get through about three or four manuscripts a week if I put my mind to it. I say "manuscripts", but they're all in machine-readable form these days; far better as there's so much less weight to carry around. Just lately though, the stuff has been so earth-shatteringly dull that I've been struggling to do more than two a week. I needed to do more or I would starve. At first, I thought maybe he was testing me, seeing what he could have me proof that would be *so* dull that it would literally bore me to death. On the morning of the day I would say marked the turning point in my life, he forwarded on to me a work that managed to out-boring everything else he'd given me to that point; some "dead in the head" author had written about the fascinating world of mollusks. Mollusks. And I tried, really I did. It was when I found myself unable to get through even the author's preface, where he failed spectacularly at convincing me that I would be "dazzled by the denizens of the damp", that my subconscious self rebelled and before I knew I was going to do it, I had already opened the door to Alf's office, stuck my head in, and asked, "Isn't there something more interesting I could read?"
There followed an awkward moment where our eyes met as he looked up from his laptop, which, I noticed, he was operating with only the one hand. He quickly sat up, bringing his other hand into view and patting/rubbing his chest in what he clearly hoped was a casual manner. The expressions on his face started off with alternating confusion and embarrassment, but there were hints that darker expressions would take their place once his brain recovered from the sudden shock of my interruption. I could have frozen in place right then, and pre-mollusk me would have done, I'm sure. My own mind was quicker, though, and flashed a scene of my body, lifeless, lit in the glow of a screen showing pages detailing the feeding ranges of Aniva Bay scallops ("...helpless pawns in a harrowing, Russian-Japanese, territorial dispute!"), and I took control of the situation in a way I could not have imagined prior to that point.