Welcome to Winterfaire 2010
The Winterfaire spreads out as far as the eye can see. Some booths show streamers of red and green, while others sport blue and silver. All of them offer treasure after shining treasure. Music fills the air with lyrics of Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and Yule. From the Wordsmith's Forge comes the bright chiming of words being hammered into
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In The Bohemian Girl and Other Stories,
either the narrator or a central character of each story is transsexual or intersexed.
Cisgendered people reading these stories have said that their understanding of their own gender/sexuality
has been changed by them;
Transsexual people reading them have appreciated the sensitivity with which they are presented,
and pretty much everyone finds them tastefully written.
In The Nothing That Is and Other Stories,
either the narrator or a central character is a cisgendered lesbian,
although gender and sexuality are not always made explicit in the stories.
These stories, too, are consistently found to be presented in good taste.
The narrator in Your Stef's a Detective and Other Stories
is a stealth transsexual homicide detective in Omaha.
These are not your typical crime stories.
All three of these are sold, printed, and shipped by amazon.
They are also available at amazon.uk (£8 to £11).
The Bohemian Girl and Other Stories and The Nothing That Is and Other Stories
are available at amazon.fr and amazon.de (€ 29)
About meStacy Stephens was born in Omaha's Near North Side, spending much of her early childhood in the same neighborhood where Malcolm X had spent his. However, she spent her adolescence in Gerald Ford's old neighborhood, her family having moved out of the aptly misnomered Pleasant View Housing Project.
Like Henry Fonda, she graduated from Omaha's Central High School, where she attained the rank of Cadet Corporal in Army JROTC, and got good grades in the classes she liked. During and after High School, she worked a number of food service and telemarketing jobs, finally settling into a retail position at a locally owned pharmacy, ultimately becoming manager of retail merchandise, beverage alcohol, and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products before marrying, having a child, and divorcing.
While raising that child, she attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she was elected to Student Senate three consecutive years, made Dean's List twice, and was selected for membership in Omicron Delta Kappa. She majored in Secondary Education Language Arts, graduating with a 3.08 GPA. Her formal writing classes included Journalism as well as Poetry and Fiction Studio.
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