My only hope leaving this comment is the hopes that Crystal still comes and looks at them and sees just how many people want her to finish this story or allow someone she feels confident that they can finish it ,it's mad we have all been waiting over 20 year's for an ending to young crystal's fabulous story

I loved this story so much that I would reread it over and over many times. the fact that our hero keeps learning more and more as time goes on . she finds that life is ever changing and how you deal with the changes says alot about who you are ment to be.

YKIpvK Really enjoyed this article.Thanks Again. Cool.

I will pay you to finish your stories!!! Pretty Please! If you need help like proof reading, ideas and do on I would be happy to help!

h6YUl1 I think other web site proprietors should take this web site as an model, very clean and wonderful user friendly style and design, as well as the content. You are an expert in this topic!

It's a real shame that someone with such talent just walked away!

This is the first story of yours that I read.
I don't have your way with words and am not sure if you even see this but let me add my voice to the general chorus of people wanting you to continue with these stories.

FiJUGB F*ckin' amazing things here. I am very glad to see your post. Thanks a lot and i'm looking forward to contact you. Will you please drop me a mail?

H34pct I really enjoy the article post.Really thank you! Great.

Read your story non-stop till I got to chapter 65 and loved every minute of it. but can you please, please finish the story. I want to know how it ends. Does Crystal have a lesbian relationship, marry, or even die in an accident? please can we get some closure it has been a very long time since the last update.

I just finished reading I can't go home like this and enjoyed it until the end of chapter 65. I add my own to the pleas of a completion to this story and have emailed that request just as I'm sure others have.

I was hooked after chapter 1 all the way through 65 but was saddened that it stopped were it did. I would really enjoy reading this through and seeing Crystal win an Oscar and eventually marry Oliver.

QJcovZ I appreciate you sharing this article post.Thanks Again.

I know people are constantly asking for you to finish this amazing tale. I hope you are well and when your ready to release more to this heart warming tale I know that you will. I hope that you get a bit more into her relationships with her old friends and mentors. I admit I am NOT a fan of Cole pushing himself on Crystal and I am glad she stood up to him on that one. Hope she finds true joy when you completes her change and look forward to reading about it.

Hi C.Sprite I hope you got my other E-Mails I raely like your stly of writing.Ernie

Where can I get  to read no 66' one of the best stories I've read, had me in a trance all the way through, would like to see Crystal have a lesbian affair .
Please let me know how to get your latest episode

Xxx
Paul's

comment1,

Intresting story but I'd like to see a remake that has him use the Instant Nyannichuan (Spring of the drowned girl) & waterproof soap on himself after the breasts are removed the first time

Maybe one of us should finish it. Lets put up some suggestions for an outcome to this story. I have been thinking on these lines. Debbie owes thousands on gambling and is hurt that Crystal didn't contact as a friend so she sells Crystal's secret in a 'kiss and tell' in a woman's trash mag. Crystal retreats inside her mansion to avoid publicity but this only draws more attention. Cole and Oliver distance themselves. The world starts asking "who was Carey Ramsey?" One day the phone rings, the caller was a newsreader from Chicago. "Hi Crystal, my name is Ashley, sounds like you need a friend..............."more later

AHH good and faithful AUTHOR ...We the wierdos in my head ,  love your work and story telling ablity is amoung the best I have
read in a long time ..We would love for You to continue and get
Crystal married and winning finaly .  Thank You For Your Time And Tallent XO XO XO Rone Welles  

I know it's been awhile since you wrote this story, but please add more to it and finish if possible.  Thank you for you're great writing.

Kelly

Slam dunkin like Shaquille O'Neal, if he wrote ifnroamtvie articles.

All the women from the story, and specially Cary's mother should be arrested and sentenced to death for what they did with Cary.
Very bad and disgusting story.

After eleven years, I don't think there is going to be an 66th chapter. what a shame to, this was a truely great story.

i really enjoyed the story. it is sad that so far it as been left hanging in the 65 chapter... hope to see the story progress to a natural conclusion at some point in the future.

I've really enjoyed this storyvery much. I read it twice,and came to the end of #65 and was crestfallen, no #66 or other chapters. I've read this story over 4 times and loved it alot. So please continue it for everybody needs the saga of MISS RAMSEY to continue till the end.

Reading this story is like living with Crystal. But how good an actress is she? Of course 'Guts & Garters', 'Under the Scarlet Maple', and 'Weep' don't exist in our universe. But 'Wait until Dark' does. I urge every Crystal fan to rent or buy this movie and let your imagination flow. Instead of the brilliant and immortal Audrey Hepburn, see our beautiful Crystal in costume and wig, delivering the performance Adam Tucker dreamed of. Imagine you are at the Community Theatre mesmerised by Crystal's stellar performance, and instead of Alan Arkin you see Rick's menacing role. The movie is not far removed from the play. Enjoy.

Just another plea to add more to "I can't go home like this".  I just found it a few weeks ago and have already read it twice.  Even if it's just an outline ending.  
A Fan

I am sorry but I stored this story on my computer with out your permission.  The reason I did this is because I have noticed that this site has become very inactive so I thought it was smarter for me to grab the story that I really loved before I lost the chance.  I would love for this story to continue but I am unsure if it ever will be.  I am not the most talented person out there in writing but I would like your permission to post this at another site and to see if I can continue this to where an ending can emerge.  You got fans begging for more but it seems you have ditched this story.

Crystal,   Please, please, please continue the suspended tales.  They are great even after umpteen readings..  They are reason enough to keep checking back on the site, even after all this downtime due to reconstruction.  

Crystal, not only is this an extraodinary story, it keeps on getting better after each reading.... PLEASE CONTINUE with the storie. All three 'Texas Gal','I Can't Go Home Like this' anf 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' transport from the word go into the world of the character and I have have the privilage to become part of their world. PLEASE DO NOT STOP THESES STORIES!
THANK YOU THANK YOU

I love the story and can't wait for the end for find out does Crystal
finish the transition and get married, does she win the acadamy award...
Thanks and don't leave us handing for ever.

I am not one to read long stories but you held my atention and brought tears to my eyse of both joy and sadness for Chrystal
I am going to read more of whatever you wright I hope they will all be this good

Crystal,

This story is wonderful. I normally don't read stories that are this long, however this one has been both entertaining and inspirational. This story has inspired me to continue producing the film I've been working on, instead of continually putting it off. Please post a message here and let your fans know if you plan to finish this lovely story. I truly look forward to the conclusion, or at least continuation of Crystal's adventures.

Your Biggest Fan,
Cassie

Amazing again is all I can say. The story is gripping that I couldn't stop reading. I am so looking forward to reading the next chapters. Thank you so much, Steffany

  OK  where is chapter 66   (we) love your work ...
(thats all the weirdos in my head ) the rest of us screwballs
are waiting ..  xxxxxx please    please   please  MORE

Peace and love Rone

FINSH THE STORY we have been watting  and we need to know how it will end

Just read this for a second time and enjoyed it just as much as the first.  My only complaint and it looks like I'm not alone, is it isn't finished yet!
Don't leave us hanging! At least let us know approximately when we can expect somrthing.
Thanks for the chance to escape into this world.

Having just re-read the entire story I add the same comments as just about everyone else. It is a great story and Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease finish it!!!!!
cheers,
Catherine

Excellent story.  I only hope that you finish this one!  I can't wait to see who she end's up with!

I have to say that usually I don't read stories this long, for some reason they tend to stretch too much and lose the vision.

This story on the other hand was a joy to read, I tried to conserve the chapters but ended up doing what I normally do with good pieces of literature: I started chapter turning.

I noticed that there is a to be continued, I'm not sure if this is all that was ever written so I will look around to see If I can find it.

Thank you for this.

I'm very impressed with your writing skills.  You definitely know how to keep your audience interested in the story.  Please keep up the great work, and I will be waiting for more of your stories.  Thank you.

Kelly

Perhaps the best story I ever read. Re-reading it is quite refreshing. Crystal would forever be my best fantasy.

One more week, and we will have been waiting seven years for the promised chapter 66. Please, I, and looking down the list of comments, many others are feeling very let down; by the absence of any closure in this wonderful story.

Please find the time to continue with it soon. I think it is actually better than "Texas Gal". Which I note does have new chapters added at long last. Perhaps more here too?

Thanks for the stories anyway, but more please.

Anthony

Dear Crystal,

You haven't added any thing to 'I Can't Go Home Like This' since 2002.

Since then you have added another wonderful story, and added many chapters to your Texas Gal story. Don't you think it is about time you added a chapter or two to I Can't Go Home Like This?  

Please think about it and get her out of England's stormy weather.

Thanks DeeDee

I'm not going to nag. I just want to say two things.

1)This has been my favorite story for many years. I think it's probably the best fantasy any of us could ever hope to dream of, actually being Crystal.

2) I hope some day you add to it just to let our fantasies have a conclusion. Even if you don't have several chapters completed like you normally do when you post, a taste of something would be very filling.

Okay, three things. It's a girl's prerogative to change her mind.  ;P

3)Thanks for making me happy for a couple of days as I reread this story. It's not often that I smile, but Crystal always brings out the young girl in me and makes me actually believe in fairy tales again.

Thanks Ms. Sprite,

Lili

Dear Crystal,
I thought Texas Gal was fantastic, but you've surpassed yourself with this one. Crystal has endured a perfectly believable set of flukish incidents. You could just see it happening in real life. Imagine:
1) Unable to remove the glue.
2) Getting the lead part and not having the chance to remove the glue
etc. etc.

Could there be movies made out of your stories, possibly starring Crystal Ramsey herself ?????????????  He He He.

I love the story i cant wait untill more comes out this is a great story please add more soon

Ending with two enamoured suitors really leaves the imagination a lot to consider but I would have liked Crystal to have at least once have stopped in Dayton to visit her dads place of work.

Hi Crystal, I have just completed re-reading "I can't go home like this" for the 5th time. I find it always to be a wonderful, yet incomplete story. I was very happy to see the new chapters you did for "Texas Gal" and I do hope you will be able to continue with "I can't....." plus "Texas Gal". You are a fabulous writer and you definitely keep the readers interest. With hopes that you will one day have enough time in your life to finish your two stories; from a huge fan, lots of hugs to you, Janice Lynn

I throw my hat into the ring with the other fans and hope that you will continue this story to its glorious conclusion.

i am another one who wishes you would finish this story because it is really really fantastic and I like everybody else's curiosity and hope of what crystal will take the ultimate step and become a real girl with all necessary equipment to find someone that she could have a long lasting relationship with. but there has been many that have appeared through the 65 chapters she has put off because she has not done so. so could you add however many extra chapters it takes to make this happen for everyone who has enjoyed this story to finally find out how everything turns out for her and her family. but mostly so we can find out what she it is like for her to be  finally a woman as her sister mentioned to her that she did the ultimate act and how fulfilled she was. nad she wondered would it be like that for her when the time came when she was able to do anything about it. Please Please finish thias story soon as possible for all of us who have enjoyed very much.

Please, please finish this story

Well every one loves to put in there two cents.  I find it a bit on the annoying side that we have not seen or heard any rumors of you adding another part to this unfinish story in a time period of six years.  Everyone has thrown suggestions for you to use in order to and I know it can be hard to work through them in order to get anything going but come on please finish this one or give us something that says that your going to be working on it again soon.

Just invested the time to read the entire story and all I can say is wonderful.  The characters are well written and real and the story flows easily all in all an enjoyable read.  I hope to see more of the story in the future if Crystal finds the time and the muse to continue it.

Fantastic story. Spent almost two days solidly working through it, and I've been so impressed with the storyline. You've been able to avoid too much repetition, which is amazing given how long the story is. Its been a real cliffhanger at times, not to different from Crystal's films. Any chance of resolving the suspense? It seems a shame given how much of yourself you've poured into the story not to get finish it. I look forward to reading your other stories, but I'll keep an eye on Crystal in case there is any more.

i have read several of your stories and i love them. they are very good and i have read them twice but i found several were incomplete.
as you aren't the only author that i found to be this way, i'm not knocking it.  writers block is terrible as is too many story lines.
i do wish the chapters would come out just a tad more regular.
                           THANK YOU
                           

Oh Crystal! Thou has left us hanging in mid-air with perplexity!  Does our heroine (your lovely namesake) Crystal advance with her directing talent?  Can her muse, Mr. Tucker, inspire her to write her opus magnum to star (in)/direct?  Can she raise the capital?  Will Mom agree to use her own funds?  And certainly, Crystal deserves to resolve her most fundamental question.  She needs love in her life.  She has to have something more satisfying than her stunt double's babies to mother!  The years must pass.  Each evolution is its own challange.  She can do it all!  But she needs her literary creator to achieve all these things.  Please?  Pretty please?  The greatest success to you!  With love and admiration, Jeannie Mac

On second thought, are you open to 'fanfic'??? ;)

Nice story.  I'm with the crowd that definitely wants more.  However, I do have one concern... Things have been going almost /too/ well for dear Crystal.  When you pick things up again, maybe it's time to have her deal with some of the pitfalls of Hollywood life. (I know, you already hinted at it with the engagement ring thing...)

And if you're at a loss for how to start... maybe a little 'Quantum Leap' inspiriation... (you may use the following if you so choose.)

'Oh boy.  Or more precisely, Oh shit!'  Suddenly I had a whole new appreciation for the years of work Scott Bakula put in on his first science fiction series...

This like Texas Gal is a story that needs to be finished since both show that it dose nt matter what you have bettween your legs as much as it dose in how you act and how people see you. With that said I hope to see an update to this fine story someday

 My dearest Chrystal ,
 As you know well that you are loved in the story telling pages on the net .... this story has been a favorite of a few weirdos and screwballs and undefined things like me .... sometimes all the people in my mind love to see a story continued like this one and have the old cars restored and used to go to the ocsars and finnaly get her award for best actrress and director of a film written by her and oliver her soon to be husband , using the twins in the movie and other child actors..becomming the higest paid actress in the world..
sharing with support groups ..and being spokes women for Multible Sclelorsis MS... rasing Billions to find the cure .. just in case you need a push to get going ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
there  love you ... Kissy  Kissy  Hug Hug
.........>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   Rone  

Crystal has been standing inside the mansion for six (6) years. Aren't her legs getting tired by now? After all she was suppose to do a movie not stand around in a big house, with some one she didn't know all that well.

Please return to the action and continue the story of Crystal.

I enjoed reading this story and hope that there will be new material soon so that I can continue to follow the character and see what will happen next. Hope to see something for this story in the near future.

Very good story!!!  I certainly hope that there will be more added soon.  Like many others I feel as though I am involved with the story as well. Keep up the good work ok!?

i have said before that you are a very very good writer and i have read both texas gal and i cant go home like this at least four time. i am hoping to see you continue with these stories.  it seems like when i read them, i am part of the story.  please please continue with your great writing.

Crystal has been in that house in England for 6 years now.  Buy the time she gets out her career will be over. ALAS!!!!

i just red  your story s frist taxas gal wow relly verry good .than i looked around some and was beging to think the rest was all old storys and you was not gonna post anny thing new than i found the lovey story of i cant go home like this and i finly got all the way thro it to #65 only to finnd it not dun yet and no one has posted anny more on this why not it relly good and ilove it have a good one love n hugs awalys whildchild

I love your stories. I can't say that enough. I love your stories!!! I am very happy that your writing more for Texas girl, but I really wish that you would write more for " I can't go home like this." I love this story. I have been on many tg story sites and your stories are the best that I have seen. Please believe me on this, I'm a very picky b*****d. Keep up the good work.

Hi Crystal, I just finished reading "I Can't Go Home Like This" and I so much enjoyed it. I was going to see if there was a continuation from part 65 and much to my disappointment there is not..pout. I hope that this story is continued and I found the synposis very enlightening and the premis very good. I loved this story. I jsut located this site and am pleased with the stories I have read here and equally impressed with this story I found and read. Please let me know if there is a continuation to chapter 65 and beyond I would very much like to know how it all ends.

Mellissa

I am only into chapter seven and I have this to say to you. You are one good writer!  I find this story very captivating. One of those stories you know that is too hard to put down so one can get some sleep,LOL!  The other thing I enjoy is that there isn't any fould language in it like many other stories!  Clean, basically innocent and also very entertaining.  

                      Vivien

WOT HAPPEND TO PART 66 ON

Hi

I'm now up to Chapter 50 on this fascinating story. I am very emotional when it comes to good stories. This one takes the cake and, too bad for Crystal, not an Oscar for her performances. I have loved it from the moment I started reading it and with language that is supportive of the character and little of the offensive language that is so prevalent in some stories this carries the characters so well that they come alive. I really, really hope that this story will be carried thru to a successful conclusion soon. Please, Please continue it. Or are you holding out for movie rights :), because this truly is movie material maybe even an Oscar??????
With luv and Hugs
Jamie

very intersting please continue with it

Crystal, this is one of my favorite TG stories PERIOD.  Both this and "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" are absolutely phenomenal.  That being said, I have the same problem here I have with most of Wanda Cunningham's work:  this is a wonderful story that begs completion.  I've read the available chapters over and over I don't know how many times, and every time when I reach the end, I feel like I've just been dropped off a cliff.  I realize you're busy working on the site and other projects, but nevertheless, a continuation of this story is a must!  Please?  From how steady the comment stream is on this story, I know I'm not the only person who feels this way, and we as readers demand our favorite authors :P

Crystal-

I loved  the story, I agree with one person about some of the early repetiveness of the nightly rituals, and the flights, but I love the story. please, please, please finish it. I would love to see Crystal have a happy ending and marry Oliver, but I am just sappy.

Staci

Crystal, please finish your stories. I have read both the long ones and it is a shame they are not completed so we can see how they turn out. This one was even better than the first because I come from California and grew up near the environment you write about. Having known some people in the "industry" and seeing how they were affected by constantly being beseiged by unthinking fans when my friends simply wanted to be out and about for a nice day; I can sympathize with Crystal in the story. Please consider finishing up the story on her, and GO USC! Hugs, Janice

Hi Crystal.
While I enjoyed this story I wondered what has happend to part 66. Please find time to finish this

Well it's been almost two more years in your last story you explain why no one could take it over and most understood thatn now We would like something as soon as possible please this was a wonderful story please do what you can to continue it or finish it either way.

G-d willing

Dear Crystal,
I would like to add my comments to all those that have come before me. This is the first novel length story that I have ever read in this genre. I was very impressed by the high quality of the writing and I enjoyed the story tremendously.

I would like to add may prayers to those of all the others who have written previously that this story be continued somehow.

With appreciation and admiration,
Gavriel

Dear Crystal,

By searching for "ring" with Google, I landed in chapter 63 or so, and I decided to read the whole thing. I have really read the story, all 65 chapters! which shows there must have been enough suspense to have me kept reading on. Thank you for bringing me in the good mood of this series.

Will the author go for the obvious? Will something unexpected
happen? I know this is not a professional work and made to
inspire fantasies. I know it does not have to be logical or
even plausible. But ... sorry, here's what I want to say:

PLEASE FINISH IT!
(or at least give the plotlines of the final chapters to
trusted ghost writers!)

Apart from what all the other commentators wrote:
Crystal doesn't visit Pam; not after the premiere of the play
and not later. Somehow Crystal owes her all the success, at
least the chance to show her talents. Poor Pam has a compound
fracture of her left leg and she's off her feet for at least
two months. Is Crystal totally uncaring? What a chance missed
for the author!
And she feels guilty; in the David Letterman show she thinks
"Could it be Pamela Prentess, the actress who had fallen and
broken her leg on the day of the play's premiere?"
It would be nice, if there'd be some kind of reconciliation in
one of the final chapters.

What kind of books does Crystal read when she goes to the
library? It seems to be fiction, but what kind?

Crystal is mostly concerned about family and friends, never questions, always does her homework, never rebels, always keeps her promises, if she can. That's just her character. One expects to see an expansion of her caring, maybe into setting up charitable trusts or some other action for the common good.

Funny that Crystal doesn't mention any problems with the BMW
or driving on the left in London. But I guess, that's just her
growing more mature and leaving out trivialities. She's a
prodigy, after all.

I only recently learned about the tragic murder of child actress JonBenet Ramsey, which gives a whole new angle why this fictional actor of the same name does not live on. However, why not make the fictional C. Ramsey an actress we'd like to see in real life?

What about the little house at the lake - and the two boys,
Barry and Jason? I'd love to read about them again, at least in a guest appearance. Never waste a character already introduced!

Here's what might happen:
"Mum," Cole said, "this is Crystal Ramsey, the girl that I told you about. She's the girl that I intend to marry."

ch.66
From the startled look on my face, his mother could read that this took me totally by surprise. I started, "Mrs. Griffith ..."

But she only said, "Don't worry dear ..." Mrs Griffith looked like the white-haired Grandma that I never had. She had laughing wrinkles around her eyes as she continued, " ... you're not the first one he's surprised this way. But do come in ...". She wore a lavender perfume.

[and so on ... Cole is warded off at last]

filming goes on with only slight obstacles

Oliver resurfaces, maybe there is a love race between him and maybe Jason, who miraculously pops up in a movie-related profession in California? Crystal can't decide at first ...

Crystal gets her SRS - that much seems sure.
But what will her sexual orientation be,
hetero, bi, or lesbian? I suppose that she'll marry, but have a female lover from time to time. Maybe her husband even likes an occasional threesome in the end? Or he is at least tolerant, knowing Crystal's secret?

Again, Dear Crystal,

PLEASE FINISH IT!

(or at least give the plotlines of the final chapters to
trusted ghost writers!)

Or if these plotlines don't exist - open the end for budding new talents!

I really enjoyed this story. I have just re-read it for the second time. I am disappointed that you haven't finished it. You have just left us your loyal readers hanging in mid-air.

Bobbie

I'm one of your biggest fans and I'm very disappointed that this story haven't been continued yet.  I hope you know there is still alot of interest in this story.

Crystal,
I came to your story via one of those fluke web searches.  One of the search results dumped me into the middle of chapter 7.  After reading about half of the chapter, I decided to go back and start from the beginning.  The story line is very addictive and I love the characters.  I see several options written into the story for varying motives behind the different characters.  Some have been followed up on and others have not.  This tended to pull me back and forth between “Like” and “Dislike” of some characters.  The mother is one such character.  

Once I got past some of the redundant areas like the nightly and morning rituals and the commuter flights being explained in much the same detail, I was able to start empathizing with your characters.  Debbie and her new found lust for Crystal, the mother and her desire to give her children say in how they would live their lives, Oliver and how he fell in love with Crystal.

Overall, I enjoyed the story.  However I was heart broken when I found it had not been finished.  Please continue the story at your first opportunity.

Hi!
I got really stuck on reading this story, and I felt that despite the storyline involving the "rich" scene there is a lot of thoughts and other things to relate to.
I'm not often really emotionally involved while reading storys, but this one really grabbed my heart and I hope that there sometime will be more chapters available, because I can sense some happy ending behind the corner, litterally.
And that's something not to common among most stories.
Congratulations to a well written story so far, you should get a price for it :-)

I absolutely adore this story having just spent the last 2 days reading it. I do hope that you finish it, or at least continue it soon, although I see you haven't added any new parts for a few years which is a real shame.

Please keep going with this story line... This is the best I have read.  You obviously know about the business, the dialogue is terrific and the descriptions are wonderful.  Sure there are some repetitions as similar situations reoccur, but the variations make it work.  Get Crystal through these movies and past the surgery.  The story lines for recuperation are endless: community work, teaching, college and eventually she can really feel the emotions that go with her "stage kissing" instead of the drug inhibited, controlled emotions.  There are lots of possible, and normal, story lines for that too.  I hope you will come back to this soon.

Read your epic serial this weekend. Skimmed a bit fast at first but  got more and more involved as I read on.

Stong characters, Cary/Crystal plight is heart-rendering at times. The mother is so loving yet deliberately lies about the prescription 'antibiotic' he's taking. Why? The herbal teas and stuff were well intentioned and their effects accidental. The Breastform glue with the hormones was accidental. The first doctor was incompetenet or deceived. Even the surgeon misunderstood Crystal's intentions but he did try to warn her of the risks. Crytals great sucess has a great cost.

I thought I read you'd given up on your unfinished serials. I hope I am wrong. It will likely be hard to return to them after several years but do it if time and muse permit. Either way thanks for a great and addictive read.

Semi-seriously, why not have one or more of your fellow TG writers guest/ghost write a chapter or two to jumpstart things or even have a contest between them. I can see Tayna Allen, Crystal has the operation and is found to be a fully functional and fertile woman (your own story sugests Cary/Crystal is intersexed and the herbs and teas just confused the diagosis). Happy ending. Hey why not?

Lets see now: Steve Zink would magically turn Crystal into Cat Woman complete with leather catsuit and kinky boots, Wholeman would make her shorter with gigantic breasts and lots of lesbian sex, Bob Armold, TOO dangerous. Jennifer should have been eletrocuted.

Best wishes,

John in Wauwatosa

after 16

<<   That had been the most difficult thing that I had ever done. Try standing up in front of 500 people and making a complete fool of yourself if you don’t believe me.  >>

I'm an actor. Been there; done that ... but I love it!    And if you can do it and interact with the audience, it's even better.

I feel a little sorry for Debbie, as it looks like Crystal will be a girl  rather than a shemale, (Quickly, if mom with her tea and "antibiotics" has her way.) and a heterosexual girl rather than a lesbian.  

Hey Crystal after first come here so long ago and first reading the story.  Ihave finished reading all 65 parts and would love to see you hit 100 if that is possible.  I loved it all even if it did seem like everyone pushing him into her fate.  I like how you have the story I would like to see Debbie get a chance to come and visit her maybe after the full sex change operation and have Crystal explain from the time to make it look like she was female to the point of the operation to her.I don't know who you intend to have crystal get involed with but I won't care who it is as long as you can keep to the good of the whole story as you have done so far.  your a very talneted writer and one day I would to see this story finished and published in a book formatt I know I would buy it in a heart beat when it hit the self if you ever took that route.

after 12, 13, 14, 15

<<   I mimicked Sherri and Heather by not playing up to my capability in order to let Ken and Perry look good. >>

This just went against my grain.  

<<  One day, without my knowledge, he put them all out for the garbage truck to haul away. I never forgave him for that. They were mine, but your father was an insensitive bastard at times. >>  (Mom talking about dad)

If mom is indeed, as seems more and more likely - <<   I was getting positively fat in my hips and tush compared to the way that I had been before. >> - feeding her son female hormones, isn't she as bad or worse than she accuses dad of being?  Isn't she taking something away from him without his knowledge, his manhood?  Something much harder to replace than stuffed animals, should he desire to do so.

after 9, 10, 11

STUCK by circumstances, BUT...
1)  The one time Crystal makes her own tea there is no bitter taste ???
2)  Painting rooms occurs every two years and mom paints HIS room pink for a daughter who is supposed to depart long before two years ... and does it without asking ???

What I had been thinking of as Mom's hidden agenda is beginning to seem less and less hidden.  

I am REALLY beginning to dislike mom, and I don't want to.  

Crystal has unconsciously and consciously both given every indication that she is enjoying her newfound femininity and has indicated verbally that she would like to stay a girl (a lie at the time, but mom doesn't know that) forever.  Why not talk to her about it?  If mom really does feel her son would be better off as her daughter, and if she wants her daughter to stay happy with her femininity, feeding her son female hormones without his knowledge or consent could well be very counterproductive.  Anger over this betrayal and deprivation of any voice in a decision that will affect his life when he finds out could well carry over to a unnatural dislike of femininity itself and end in his turning his back on it.  Mom could have a very unhappy child on her hands and lose any hope of a good mother child relationship whatever the child's gender/sex turns out to be.

I'm still hoping I am being skillfully led down the garden path and that this whole "Mom wants a daughter so bad she will go behind her child's back to accomplish it rather than take even the small chance that he will say no." scene is not true.

After the melodramatic chapter 8

PAM:  (from offstage - Imagine her with black handlebar mustache) I've just wrecked the play!

MR.  TUCKER:  (to Debbie - Imagine him as grandpa sitting in a rocker on the porch of the old theatre.)  You must save the play!

DEBBIE:  (Imagine her as damsel in distress)  I can't save the play!

CRYSTAL:  (reluctantly at first then boldly - Imagine her wearing a Canadian Mounty Uniform)  I'll save the play!

after chapter 7

PILLS   I now think 55/45 that you are taking the TG hormone road most traveled.  I hope I am wrong, as I am really starting to dislike mom.  If she wants a daughter, why the deception and trickery?  Crystal has given every indication behaviorilly and verbally that she wants to be a daughter permanently.  Why doesn't mom just make an honest offer the hormones as she has every reason to believe that the offer will be accepted..



Pills and SLUT WEAR -  at least slut wear when on a 14 year old! On top of the pills why is she letting Carol dress Crystal so provacatively?  I could see carol doing it; I could not see a responsible mom allowing it.

all for tonight; on to part 8 next week.

after part 6

Wonder what mom and the doc talked privately about for 45 minutes?  I sense a conspiracy.  Someone call Oliver stone.  :-)

On to part 7

after part 5 -
    Nice chapter to set up future problems and keep him in dresses longer.  Some thoughts:

No thought of carrying mace?

NONE of the distributors have any remover in stock ?   maybe these are experimental forms and adhesive sent to the theatre by mistake?  Bet when we get a few chapters farther along we'll find that Belle-Gel has gone out of business or somesuch.

Maybe nobody is at fault for the hormones in the tea.  Maybe the current batch of tea bought at the store is defective.  Then only the already poured OJ would be a red herring.

On to part 6

after part 4

Well, I'm not sticking to my one chapter a day plan, but here goes for part 4.  You are sure making it sound like they are slipping him hormones - or something - in his drinks, Crystal - the already poured OJ was particularly suspicious to my paranoid mind.  And, of course, you are setting him up to have it be by his own pseudo-wishes.  What I don't get, if this is indeed the case and not a clever red herring, is why the perpetrator feels it is necessary to deceive him.  "Crystal" has publicly stated that she wants to stay a girl forever.  Why not just say, "Would you like to take hormones to help you along?" - unless they are bound to feminize him whether he wants it or not and don't want to take even the slightest chance that he'll say, "No".  If mom is the perp, she's pretty evil, as she has deliberately lied/mislead him.   You HAVE made her a little pushy as far as getting him into feminine experiences, so she is a possibility.  Carol is a possibility.  she is eager and young, and definitely wants crystal full-time, but also seems like she really believes that this is what Crystal wants, so I would think she  would tell her about the hormones if she was the perp.  But it would also be hardest for her to get the necessary drugs, so she comes after mom.   Aunt Jess?  I don't think she would slip him the hormones without her sister's permission, but since she seems the least likely at this time, she probably IS the perpetrator, so she's #1 on the list. so far.

After saying all this, however, I'm still coming down 60/40 on the side of all these hints being a red herring by you to misdirect us readers ( But it was 80/20 after part 3  :-)  

On to part 5

after part 2

<<  Mom’s word was law in our house, plus I knew that she could easily embarrass me if I refused, >>

Apparantly he really IS afraid of his mother; apparantly he actually really believes she WILL embarass him in public if he disagrees with her.

I am dissapointed that  so early in the series he finds himself enjoying herself.  I would have liked to see more of a fight or more of a sense that at this point he is just enjoying the act - being a good sport so to speak..

after part 3

<<  Later, we all sat and talked as we drank the chamomile tea. It tasted a little bitter tonight. It was the first time that I had had it when wearing lipstick, I wondered if that was responsible for the slightly different taste. >>

If the author has taken the TG fiction road most traveled, then, obviously, the bitter taste comes from female hormones slipped into Crystal's cup, probably by mom.  HOWEVER, I am betting that Crystal, good writer that she is, has taken the road less traveled and that that is not the case.  We shall see.

after my part 1comments
    OK, sorry about the rant.  I should know better than to write comments late at night.  This is very well written and  I am looking forward to reading part two.  I think I will limit myself to one chapter a day to stretch out the enjoyment.

after part 1
  The story lost plausability for me when two adult females pressured a young man into letting them shave his body without  getting parental permission, and then they pierce his ears again without parental permission!??!   I can't believe that a theatre that has the costuming and props of the one in this story doesn't have a pair of clip on earrings.  What would they have done if mom had been a normal careing mom and raised holy hell over what they had done, particularly the ears?  Could be Lawsuit time .  But then mom and the ladies show their true colors when they all sit around laughing at him.  Then  they move his stuff without his knowledge or consent and the final and worst indignity is mom  forcing him to go out to a boy/girl party as a girl.   It doesn't seem that she has a clue to his feelings, or she doesn't care; doesn't seem to be much love for him here if she is willing to make him feel humiliated, uneasy, and embarrased.  This would be different if they knew he was stuck for a long period of time, but they all think it will be over Tuesday or Wed.  On the other hand, he doesn't seem to be arguing much; is he that afraid of his mom?.

Hi Crystal,
I have to say that this story is infectious. I have just finished reading it for the 2nd time and found it just as wonderful.Please make the next installments available soon.Are Crystal and Oliver going to be an item or are you going to keep us in suspence.

Luv Rose.

i really enjoyd the story and was wondering why it stopt at chapter65 and that there ist no continuation as it says at the end of the chapter
i would not be surprised if she marrys oliver and does get an oskar

hope to hear from you soon

luv
carpediem

Hi Crystal,
       I really love this story and am looking forward to the next chapters when they come.

Another great story like Texas Gal but again it remains unfinished.  I am almost reluctant to read another of your stories for fear that it also will be unfinished. You clearly have such a good talent with great starts but several unfinished stories tell another story all in themselves about the writer not necessarily good. You are better than this.

Hi Crystal,

I just adored your offering of "I Can't Go Home Like This". The first 65 chapters, as many others have said, are addictive.

You have managed to weave a very special story about a marvelous event through several years of development. It is especially nice to get away from the sex aspect that too many authors feel is mandatory.

I shall anxiously await the next chapters and only hope that this saga goes on and on and doesn't suddenly wrap up in two chapters.

Crystal is too wonderful to place on a shelf somewhere. Please keep her alive and growing.

An anxious fan.

EllieAnne

Hi again. I found this one story to be relaxing to read at night. But unfinished stories turn me off when not completed. Otherwise the story is great and I recomend it to your readers along with Texas Gal.
Good luck in the future. If you think this is a little harsh I proof read my roommates books before they get published and I could give a worse comment than this.

i have read your story and it does not seem to have an ending. I see such passion in your writing and dedication to Crystal that i wonder were it would end.  please consider giving it a proper ending.   i have read some of the other stories but non are as good a this one......   please continue if you can or at least let us know if you can no longer continue with this story.    thank            

i really enjoyed reading texas gal and just wish that i could read the rest of the this great story.  i think it is one of the best stories that i have read in a long time.

I just finished the series...in three sittings!!  I could not break myself away from it!  Crystal, PLEASE ... pretty please finish it!  I'm dying to know what happens to our beloved Crystal.

Keep up the wonderful work on the site.  Someday I hope to contribute myself, been throwing around several ideas!

Love ya!

I love this story I see your a bit busy with the site but we do all hope that you will be able to post another part of it soon.  It normally a bore to have to wait this long between parts but I understand due to site activite.  And Normal day run of the Mill stuff.  Take care and try to post soon please!

I love your storys. Keep up the go work.

Just finised rereading this story.  Any Idea when a new chapter will be out it has been a long time since the last chapeter.

Crystal,
I love your writing style. This a great story. The characters are so real. Is there any chance that this story will continue?

I love this story, she seems very real. Keep up the great work.

   "Please, can I have some more.

Thanks so much for this story and Texas Gal!  You're a great writer and I hope you can continue this series.  It's been a long time!  Anyway, I love this story and your site, too!

I love this story Crystal I see what type of work you have to To keep this site up!  IF you want help I think I can help you I down loaded the story so I could have more time to read it on my own I saved it in word and found there where a few grammer and spelling problems I fixed the stuff I knew that needed to be fixed and left the stuff that I could tell that were meant to be the way they were though I only edited part 1 I be willing to send you it if you wanted to revise your story!  Also Please send Part 66 when you can sense your busy I know it takes time but you go a lot of people begging for it in the Comment area!

I love it!  I love it!  I love it!

Brenda

I was never one to just sit around and read but after finding this site and this story I could not stop myself from wanting to read it every chance I had. I felt let down in a way after the 65 chapters were done and there was no more with the story so far from over "what a tease". I hope to see more of this story soon and more of your work.

Great story I hope to see more new chapters posted soon.

Mary

P.S. IT OLIVER SHE LOVES!

More Please...

Big eyed small person stares sadly into her bowl.

Crystal PLEASE PLEASE add to this excellent story.

I have been plotting the intervals between your publishing either “Texas Gal” and “I Can't Go Home Like This”. The longest period is around 10 months. So I have hope for something soon.... What would be cool for Crystal to produce her first movie. It title could be “Baroness”. It would be the story of the rise of the industrial power house “Darla Anne Drake”. Crystal should get “Fruit” working on script. I think Crystal will have to direct to get the story told HER way and Carol would have to edit.

story as enjoyed reading tonight as the first time.

Small person with big eyes and bowl in her hands
looking up. "Please more!"

Dear Crystal,

You are to blame for keeping me away from writing my own stories over the last few weeks as I have been studiously and obsessively working my way through this epic saga.  Shame on you! ;)

No seriously, I have been drawn in to this story hook, line and sinker. I love the sensitivity with which it is written.  I love the caring characters. I love the attempt to write a 'real' story.

However I do have a criticism: the story is not finished and I am left hanging! After reading 65 chapters in like 2 weeks I will now be in withdrawal and looking at the posting dates it has been 9 months since the last additions to this noble tale. Please, please tell me that that means 10 new chapters are sitting in cyberspace just waiting to be launched upon your crowd of fans who are sitting in suspense and holding their breaths to shower you with their adulation for another batch of wonderful chapters in this classic story.

I hope that my simple and inadequate words both convey to you the appreciation that your writing has created in me and also the encouragement to continue this tale. It cries out for completion and closure and so do we.

Love,

Jenny

I to wish to encourage you to write some more about Chrystal Ramsey. I look forward to seeing something soon.

I change servers recently and lost the information on the four boys in the haunted house. One of my favorites stories of yours.  You told me how I could get it back and I lost it. Can you tell me again. Please.

Love DeeDee Clark

I love this story, I hope you continue it soon.

I know you are really busy but I just wanted to say I hope you are able to write more to this tale soon.  I just love reading about Crystal and her life, I think I love it so much because I would love to be Crystal so much.  I haven't transitioned yet but I hope when I do I am able to blend into society like Crystal does in this story even though she hasn't claimed to be TS.  Anyways I really hope you are able to post more soon but no pressure.  

I love this story. Don't stop it yet, please!

Will you ever write more for this?  If so when?

Dayna

Crystal, I have really enjoyed reading your stories.  And, I have to agree w/ Tina:  NOT Cole!!!  She loves Oliver!!!  -

Really loved the details, the exploration of little things, & the suspence!

NO NOT COLE! ITS  Oliver SHE LOVES
I cant wait for the next chapter

What a wonderful story. It is so nice to read a story that revolves so little around casusl sex, or humilation. I love the first 65 chapters.

could you tell me about when chapter 66 will come out. this is the first time I have read this kind of stories, I realy enjoy this one,also texas gal. Very enternaining, Thank You.

Crystal,

It becomes increasingly difficult to wait for the next installments to both of your outstanding series.  Since Texas Gal has some chapters go onl line in November, we can expect Can't Go Home to be released next.  I'm happy to have found your site and your stories,  by far the best on your Story Site.

Happy Holidays!  Please do keep up the good work and these marvelous stories coming.  

Hi Crystal.

Please write more of this story soon.

Dayna.

I have really enjoyed the story so far...

I got HOOKED!!! I read the whole story in about a week.

Although I'm a bit bothered by the naivete of Crystal character (do people really believe that a kiss is just a kiss?).

It also bothers me that with so many awards out there today you would focus only on the Oscars... ¿what about a Golden Globe, a Blockbuster Award, an MTV Movie Award, a People's Choice Award, a Teen Choice Award? ... ¿What about the Cannes Film Festival and so many other events that are happening out there...?

I hope my input is of some help.

Please give us some new chapters soon.

Dear Crystal:
Please, please, please write another 65 chapters today!!!    Oh Ok, maybe only 10 or so tomorrow???  

Unlike most of the others, who have written, rather than either Oliver or Cole, I would like to see a return of Jason who we met early on at the Lake, and who went away to college while Crystal was beginning her career.  It seemed that in their romantic interactions, Crystal's reactions were the most intense compared with any other guy.  She seemed to actually be eager for some of the romance with him.
Any intention of expanding on Carol's character?  I can forsee her as being vital to the eventual transition, and she is a rock of support and love for our girl, as well as having the common sense to see clearly Crystal's true nature.
I love the way Crystal is becoming more and more ready to make the final change, and I hope we soon see her through the transition.  Anything but a very happy ending for her would be a crime.

With much gratitude for a terrific story, many wonderful characters and one magnificent heroine.
Love,
Jill  

Well, another story which drags out for ever with no ending and a waste of time on graphics. Instead of shortening the chapters and making three times as many chapters end the story.

 
Hello Crystal. I just finished reading the last posted chapter (65), of this incredible story.  I'm glad I was so patient to wait as it was well worth waiting for.  
  You have a knack for telling of these tales that is beyond compare.  I had almost given up hope on seeing the completion of this saga,  please excuse me for ever doubting your talents. I should have not discounted your "God like abilities" to accomplish this...please forgive me.
 
    I'm very inqusitive over the development of the "boy friends" issue that is begining to develope here. Two love rivals on the horizon both with the same goals, could prove to be quite interesting.  You also do a very fine job of portraying the emotional ride that Miss Ramsey is on, with out going over board, I must add.   The indecision, or better yet the refusal to admit that Crystal is who she is and accept that, is a delicious dilemma that is begining to see-saw back and forth quite frequently.
  I am looking forward to more of story as  soon as you allow it.
     Thank You ...Sincerely: Rebecca Anne  (rast)

I too am glad you resumed writing the exploits of Crystal and Company! I just now downloaded them, but will wait to read the new chapters at my leisure....

Thanks again for the new stories!

About time!!!! :o)

I love your stories and I always look forward to the next installment of this and Texas Gal. One small problem though, I think you got yourself caught up in Texas Gal in part 65 as Del greets "Miss Drake" after Cole drops Crystal off.

I, too, am rooting for Oliver here...

Crystal,

Well you hooked me again.  I started reading last week at about episode 60, went back and read the preceeding ones in two days and now you've quit posting.  I am in serious withdrawel.  Please contiue this story soon.  Anything but a happy ending for all will not be forgiven.

Looking forward to seeing more soon.

DAMN-hosed at the Oscars again!!!

Things are sure shaping up in Crystal's little Hollywood life, count them , not one but TWO males dying for her to become their wife.  Me I'm pulling for Oliver.  If fact I'm dying to see what happens when Oliver hears about this.

Thank god Crystal has at least said she wants to be female and is now working to completing that dream.  

Now that she has missed out three times at the Oscars one has to wonder if this will led to an interview with her by a Hollywood reporter. I also think it would be fun to see someone picking up Carol's little movie and she a review of it in the Hollywood papers.

And lastly.  I want Babs to become well known for her dresses.  Hell she doesn't have to move.  If her designs are so great I'm sure a few actress out there would fly hunderds of miles for a dress made by Babs.  

Here is to hoping that a fourth time at the Oscars gains are little gal one of those statues.

-J-

Crystal-

I hope you know I have been a big fan of this story since way back. As to this newest installment, I want you to know I slapped my hand against my mouth, gasped and said very unladylike things when I read the last line of Chap 65. That was a very mean place to leave off, lol. I get the feeling that you are trying to cliffhang every episode ... hmmm?

Reguardless, I am very happy Crystal has come to some decisions finally and hope there are even more in the next few installments. CoughGetEngagedToOliverCough. It feels like you might be ready to let her reveal her secret to him soon, but that may just be me.

Keep writing them and I will keep reading.

Yours
Heather

I'm sorry for commenting so much Crystal.  This latest part kind of depressed me.  It's so sad that Debbie and Crystal can't make time for each other which I understand but oh well... Also there phone call seemed so ackward on both sides.  I didn't realize until this part how much I have missed Debbie.

Wow she got the ring off, I didn't expect that.  I hope things get cleared up.  I like how you talked about her feelings towards both genders.  She really don't seem to have passion to anyone.  I hope things change for her.  I just want her to be happy.

Damn Crystal is too real in my mind. hehe!

I really thought Crystal would end up snuggling with Oliver in the bed.

Anyways I shut up now...

I trust you Crystal but I'm not sure about where this is leading.  It seems like Crystal will be trapped into being engaged to Oliver and probably end up liking it.  I already see the media seeing the ring and then it being reported Crystal is engaged, and then somehow she will be trapped into that situation like she was with Brad.  I know I should trust you and maybe I'm totally wrong.  I'm just nervous that Crystal will be trapped again because of the ring.  Oh well...

I feel even stronger now than in the beginnings that Oliver is a F2M TG.

When the 2 of them open up, there will be some really interesting effects.

As far as Cry and her Dad, what is now in place is the mechanism to protect her when the media learns about her first 15 years while she was 'mis-lableded'.  Close to the same literary trick you used in Texas Gal.

For example, Does anyone really talk about Jamie Lee Curtis?

Crystal,

Thank you for the latest installments.  I'm a "lurker" who is a big fan of yours, and enjoys read all of your work.  Just letting you know that your latest work is much appreciated.

Anonymous

Crystal,

WOW!! A double whammy of I can't go home like this!!  Both chapters have the same fun all the others have, making one smile and laught at some parts and get a touch misty eyed at others, hoping all works out for are gal.  I agree with others that the car buying was by far some of your best work.  And how can you go wrong with those sexy little X-mas uniforms.  I too enjoy and hope we get to see more of Cry and Carol together.  Those sisters sure seem like they have fun together!  

You've hinted to and I hope soon it happens in when Crytal visits her Pops at his home.  And it is great that her Dad now seems to come to terms with the fact he never really had a son.  I'm sure he will be there for her even more now.  

She has my vote for best actress!  And I can't wait to read about the outfit Babs makes for her.  

-J-

Crystal  -  Why do I forsee bad things occuring to our heroine now that the pressure is off her father?  He can now make a slip about her identity with no pressure due to the fact that it was a medical condition - not his fault.

Oh my, your trying to make me cry huh? I love the interaction between Crystals Dad and herself.  I think is one of the better parts because of this interaction.   It's nice to know her Dad is there for her and Crystal doesn't have to worry about him accepting her.

Also I love the interaction between Carol and Crystal.  I guess because I never had such an interaction/relationship with my own sister.  I hope someday if I ever able to transition that my sister be as comfortable around me and think of me as her sister.

Anyways I shut up now, I love this part and I can not wait for more.  Your brillant Crystal. :)

Everything becomes Crystal clear when a new episode is posted.

Very funny segment about auto dealers.  How true.

61 segments and still very much a page turner... mouse clicker???

Love

Jill

What a pleasant surprise this morning. After giving up on ever seeing more of Crystal, without fanfare the chase begins again.I'm not sure why but this story has an intensity that matches a movie career. Maybe its being greedy but we anxiously await more.

Dear Crystal,
            thank you, it's been a while but the funny thing is as soon as I started reading chapter 61 I was back in this stories world as if I had not been away.
This story is brilliant, the thing I like most is the fact that you have made me really care about our Crytal.
                          hugs Chrisl.

part 61 one of my favorite parts.

Please Crystal, do some more on 'I can't Go Home Like This' It has been nine months. Please, please, write some more about our teenage dream girl.  DeeDee

Your stories texas gal and I cant go home like this are wonderful i expcially like i cant go home like this it makes me wish i had a sister and mother like them when i was growing up.any idea if your going to finish it and if so when? thankyou for the great stories there wonderful.

Hi again Crystal,
    I have read this story so far 3 times since I have downloaded it for reading. I have enjoyed this one very much. In this story I have laughed and cried. This story was very moving at times. This is the 3rd time also that I have read this story also. You are a very good story writer. Is this for sale in a book or pamphlet? When are you going to continue your stories? I wish you luck with your writing. If Texas Gal and this one is for sale please let me know?
Sincerely, Mary Anne

You've painted poor Crystal into a rather tight corner. It has been fun trying to figure how she is going to respond to Olivers request. Keep up the great writing, and I hope we will see more of the story soon.

This is one of the best stories I have read. I just wish you would write the next chapter to it. Its been to long now. The suspense is killing us.

Yes, I like the story too. But I'm very, very puzzled as to how long it has supposed to have taken from the start to where it is now. Has it been over two years, three years or more? She seems to have done a lot of movies and television shows - shouldn't the sister be in college by now?

can't wait for the next chapter.  Execlent story must have more.

Crystal- I just love all of your stories, especially the I can't Go Home Like This one. Please let us have another epesode soon.

Crystal,

I just read ICGHLT.  It's wonderful!!!  Thank you so much.  I'm so looking forward to the nest chapter!

Crystal, your writting skills are impressive to say the least.  Each installment you can be assured is awaited by all your readers eagerly.  Even though they may be time consuming all of your stories can not be released fast enough.  Just keep up your very good work as they are a joy for us all.

What can I say?  This story just keeps getting better and better.  The twists and turns are always enjoyable, and the end of this episode is a real "teaser." I can honestly say that this is one of the few stories I would pay to read, but my original complaint still stands:  The descriptions of the feasts are awfully hard on my diet!

Crystal,
You just had to do it.. Each chapter is a ZILLION times better then the last.. I love the story and hope it never ever ends..

Crystal, This story is great, you are a fabulous writer, for I feel like the part of Crystal in your series. I am looking forward to reading more. This would make a great movie. It is a fairy tale that is most impressive, and very desirable for any one. Keep up the good writing.

Hugs
Joni

Crystal - Keep up the great work. Your writing has inspired me to try my own hand at it. I'm finishing up a large installment of an adult novelette 'In Spite of Them' which I will be sending in soon.

Thanks for the enjoyable sagas - am looking forward to new installments.

Dear Crystal,

Once again, you have written another enthralling installment in the "Life" of Crystal.  I am not normally an avid reader.  However, when it comes to "I Can't Go Home Like This" and "Texas Gal," I find that I stay up reading much later than I should(1AM or later).  Mind you, I have to get up a 6AM to go to work.  So, the last couple of days, I have been drinking a lot of coffee!

However, this is something I happily do.  I really enjoy reading about Crystal and her life.  I look forward to your next installment, just like "Texas Gal."

Kind regards,

Lester Lee

Thank you Crystal for many hours of GREAT entertainment. Both through your maintenance of this superb website and the spinning of stories that amaze, confuse, draw tears and belly laughs and keep us all coming back for more. (BTW - I LOVE the "Spell Check" option)

Just finished part 11.  I am in a quandry.  I want more of "I Can't Go Home Like This" but I also want more of "Texas Gal."  Very good fiction on the internet, like these stories, is rare.  The added spice of a TG thread adds a frisson of naughty that I love.

I finally finished "I can't go home like this".

This is an epic. To me it is right in there with Anne of Green Gables.

Nice Job Crystal.

Credence

There is very little *good* trans fiction on the web but this is one of the best I've seen. Just downloaded Part 11 and going to read it later - I can't wait. Hope it's as good as the rest.

I think the mother is just being supportive, I remember lots of chapters the mother as Crystal what she wants to do.  The mother encouraging her to think about it, what it means to Crystal.  The mother have been very concerned for Crystal but Crystal has pushed for this.
Also the David Letterman thing was a big thing.  If rumors are spread now, it would really revealed Crystals secret fast and I don't want Crystal to be hurt like that.
Anyways Crystal's mother always been worried about Crystal, especially the earlier chapters, she really concerned. She still is.

Crystal is doing this because she wants to.  She actually enjoys acting.

Crystal is a strong woman who wouldn't let anyone control her.  Crystal is doing this. :)  

It's a nice story but things are going too easily for Crystal - could you introduce some setbacks and risks to him/her? Surely by now, someone from the theater group would be spreading rumors. For myself, I miss Caryl and wish that he could come back - and I STRONGLY dislike the Mother. As far as I'm concerned, she is exploiting her child for money to his/her long-term detriment and maybe physical harm.

Crystal.....

....as always, this chapter is as great as the others!

I really can't figure out how you find the time to maintain this site and write such wonderful stories, not to mention the length. You take my breath away from moment to moment trying to guess what is going to happen next. Thanks for many an hour spent in front of my monitor being entertained by your visions.

I reread the whole story this weekend.  I can't express how much I truly love this story and all the characters.  Crystal you have such a talent for showing your characters and making them so real.  I love Part 10, I have narrowed it down somewhat.  Anyways I love this story, I hope you get time to keep on working on it. :) I can't wait for more but I will try to wait patiently. hehe! :)

Thanks for such a beautiful well written story.  

This is so well written I can only echo what others have said. Cliffhangers are for rock climbers, not people who devour whatever you  write whenever you write it.

All I can hope for is that you will find time from Real Life(tm) and maintaining the site to continue ICGHLT and Texas Gal. I like them both, with an edge to Texas Gal. May you Live Long and Prosper.

KR

Crytal, "I Can't Go Home Like This" has evolved into a really good story.  I wish you could come up with a new name for it someday, as the present title evolved from something that happened very near the beginning, and that was so long ago one has to stop and try to remember where the title came from!  But, with a little thought, we do.  Mainly, the characters are well developed, but I do have a problem with our "heroine", Crystal.  Not with her handling of her new gender, but with her degree of sophistication.  Nobody, but NOBODY, who is a teen ager and still in high school (until the one that just came out) can possibly act as sophisticated, well mannered, and business like as "she" does.  Her mom helps, but Crystal herself seems to come up with the logical answers.  When I graduated from high school, quite a few years ago, I was wiser than I ever was, and have ever been since, but not nearly knowlegeable enough to handle all the situations she has, remaing as calm and cool throughout.  In addition to being a great "natural" actress, she's a great "natural" business man, too.  But, despite this "character flaw" I'll wait with bated breath for the next installment.  Hope it doesn't take too long.  This story could go on for years!  I may not live that long.

Crystal,

I agree with everyone else who have already posted.

One thing I would like to add, though.  While I understand the principle behind a cliff hanger, you do have a loyal following for Cary/Crystal.  Do you think we would not read your next installment fo this wonderful story?  My answer, like several others is we can hardly wait!

Please continue this series(as well as your other wonderful series, Texas Gal).

Kind regards

The wonderful Crystal Ramsey saga continues. Chapter 10 is fast paced and action-packed! Crystal's movie career appears headed for stardom! Crystal is living the American Dream! But, does anyone ever live happily ever after, except in fairy tales? Will a scandal ruin everything?

Argh!  I can not wait for Part 11, I know your busy but I hope you get some time to work on it.  Part 10 Cliff Hanger is one of the biggest cliff hangers ever.  I'm still in shock, not sure if your teasing us or not.  I loved it so much! Please post more soon!

Crystal... I hate you. How can you write this good every single blasted time. And what's the big idea with the mondo cliffhanger...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArggggggggg!

So you are posting part 11 tomorrow, right...right...grrrr.

Just read chapter 10, what a nailbiting end. I simply love your writing. Thank you for the pure pleasure of reading this story.

Hi,

I just finished chapter 9, GREAT STORY. I can't wait to read the next
chapter.

The longer stories are such refreshing change from the usual short works. It allows for so much more growth and and character development, you just don't get that in a page or two.

Keep up the good stories.

Love ya,

Stacie

I have done nothing in my spare time but read this story. I Love the caught between two genders angst. Please write part ten soon.

Lisa

This is a story that many readers would like to live. Changing from a teen geek to a successful movie and tv star is the American dream. Crystal's ICGHLT deserves two big thumbs up!

How great you finally got an other chapter ready.
Just love this story about Crystal. Altough the fear about being discovered as a boy is gone.  Maybe you could get the tension back, that would be wonderful.
And maybe debbie and her boyfriend could come back into picture some more. And please don't let Crystal out of her corset, it is so nice to see , she still has problems with that, maybe miss Boyer the teacher could chaparonne Crys and Carol, see how she handles this boy/girl.
But I just wan't to say, keep on writing, your work is one of the best.
Thanks, Susan

A fascinating story but I fear that the storyline and plot are getting a little bogged down in the day to day journal of activity. "The limo came at .."  You've already prepped us for up to 5 more years of Crystal's work, but I think we need to see the development of the Crystal / Cary dichotomy in favour of the day to day acting activities.  Debbie's discovery of Crystal's breasts, dad becoming confused, mom trying to do the "end of the job" thing can all be developed a lot more ... not to mention the fact that Crystal is showing few signs of late teen behaviour except in her love life!

The concept of the story is great .. it just needs some pace.

It's still hands down one of my fave stories here though!

Crys, Everytime I read another chapter in this series, I fall in love with Crystal all over again. We should all have lives this fulfilling, happy, tragic, and exciting. Thanks for your continued efforts in keeping ICGHLT alive in our hearts and minds. I look forward to number 10. Love ya!

Its the mental changes that makes this serise so compelling.  It's to bad you aren't a Hollywood writer I have the perfect young actress to play the lead (and she shares your name).  Where your story turns right when I would have turned left just makes the reading that much better.

Part 9 is my favorite so far. You're writting is very visual and worth checking out.

Hi, I just wanted to say that I enjoyed your story emencely. It is very well written and I got emotional at times reading the story. I hope you get the next chapter done very soon (9). Keep upp the good work. P.S. Is this for sale in paper back form by you or anyone else? Good Luck.

I have enjoyed reading "I Can't Go Home Like This" so very much! Cyrstal's constant worry about being discovered is so much like my own experiences for the 4 years before my SRS! You are a wonderful writer and story-teller. I feel as though I know all the characters. You have developed them so well! I have read published authors who can't bring their characters to life anywhere near as well as you do.

So, what happens next? Will Debbie turn Crystal's head? Will Brad ever "get to 1st Base?" We know Crystal will do well in New York. Who will she meet there? All these questions and more await Chapter Nine!

Thanks again for a lovely story!

Love,
Diane.

 I have read this story two times and enjoyed it both times, I hope to be able to read more soon but understand that it takes time to write and that you have other stories you are working on. Good Luck and please keep them coming

I really, really liked the first episodes in this series, but the latest one was a bit of a disappointment. It merely repeated episodes similar to the earlier ones (such as the play) so inevitably the element of surprise had gone. Although I like Crystal I also liked the young kid Cary and am sorry he has been obliterated by "Crystal". Now the story seems to be developing no differently than if Crystal was a natural-born actress. I think also the element of danger has gone - even if Crystal is discovered, then so what. She might lose her career but she would still be a beautiful woman, and her older sister could still go to College, even if it wasn't the one she preferred.

I have not commented before ,buti must this time.This is a very good story written in depth  and a well thought out story.Please let there be a new  eposode soon.keep up the good work.

I have not commented before ,buti must this time.This is a very good story written in depth  and a well thought out story.Please let there be a new  eposode soon.

I have not commented before ,buti must this time.This is a very good story written in depth  and a well thought out story.Please let there be a new  eposode soon.

I feel truly privileged to have Crystal's permission to post her story on my new site. She is one of only a few who have a gift of writing. We all await new tales of Crystal in her endeavours to become a successful actress. Thank You Crystal.

Ufff... The story is just great, I just couldn't stop reading it once started, I loved it. If it was printed and published, I would be one of the first to get the book for sure.
This is the first time I write a comment to a story anywhere, but I feel the story deserves it.
Thanks Crystal.

I thouroughly enjoyed reading the exploits of Cyrstal.  Please, bring Crystal back for our enjoyment.

I can't seem to get away from the computer when I'm reading one of your stories. Once I get started  reading one stories, I'll not leave the computer til I have finished the story. I just finished reading " The Spirit is Willing" and I really enjoyed it. Keep up the good work

This is one of the first stories I have read since finding the site and if the others are even half as compulsive, I'm in for a treat. Thank you, Crystal.

Thank you Crystal,
I love this last chapter (and the rest of you of course), I hope you will post another chapter soon, I can't wait.
I hope Miss Boyer gets more in charge of Crystals cloths with her love for corsetted waists. Mabye Miss Boyer goes on an working trip with Crystal to France as her French teacher, and gets in complete charge.
But whatever you write, I now it is going to be great to read.
Thank you,
Tony

A wonderful Christmas treat for all!!  I enjoyed the return Crystal's ever expanding adventures.  Again you draw us into the world of this young actress and delight us with her everyday life.  At the end of part seven I was broken hearted to see the TV show cancelled and hoped that part eight would bring a new job (which is does but only as a teaser at the end...shame on you :) )  Still this little break from her professional career did give new light to her normal life and my favorite part of this chapter was the outfits at X-Mas the girls put on, I'd kill to see a image of that!

Again a great addition of a wonderful story and I'm looking forward to seeing what is in store in the next chapter.

Merry Christmas

Jake

What a wonderful treat for Christmas!  I thoroughly enjoy your light, feminine touch and your basic decency and concern for your characters.  I always wait until I have enough time to read these episodes in their entirety because I love to take my time and savor every word.  My only complaint is that your descriptions of the girls cooking the meals always makes me hungry.  It's terrible for my diet and it's just not fair -- MY waist is nowhere near 19 inches!
 

Crystal, you have done it again.  Your latest chapter was satisfying
and pleasing to read, but significantly increased my hunger for more.
Please keep up the good work.

It might be interesting to see what is happening from Carol's point of
view.  Like maybe if a situation came up where Carol needed to start
wearing a corset.  Her "sister" Crystal would be the naturel person to
assist her.  It might give them both a much improved respect for how
much they mean to each other, and how much Crystal's life changes have
affected those around them.  Oh well, it was just an idea...

The only other thing I need is my Texas Gal fix.  I mean the cliff you
managed to leave Darla hanging on has been torture for quite a while
now.  I hope that is the next on your list.

Crystal, from your comments on your cyberboard, it would seen you do
not consider yourself as an author.  Maybe in some strict literal
sense you are not.  You are something better.  You are a story teller.
An author pushes words aroung for Money.  A story teller pushes them
around for Love.  I don't mean story tellers cannot get money, I mean
Love of the story, of writing or something is the main driver for
them.  Their love flows through the work to touch the characters and
in a lesser way even the reader.  This makes the characters and
situations more real and events more personal.  An author can only
touch the readers mind, a story teller can touch the readers mind,
heart and soul.

I'm not just trying to stroke your ego here.  It really bugged me the
other day when you belittled your talent on the cyberboard.  You are
one hell of a story teller so have a little faith in yourself.

This is a very amazing story that I always end up smiling and crying from when I read it.  Thank you Crystal for writing and I so look forward to Part 8 of this tale.  It it amazing you still only have a rating of G when so many authors feel the need to have content which causes there story to go up to a R or above.  Thank you for a wonderful, sweet, touching tale of Crystal.  One of my fav. parts of this is the sibling relationship they have.  Also I really like the struggle of Crystal trying to find out what gender she is, what she is becoming.  Thank You So Much!

Crystal, you've got to write some more.
I know it's got to be rewarding to improve the
site and all, but we need ur writing skills too.

So pretty please?

Joan

Crystal Sprite shows her talent in the two stories 'Texas Gal' and 'I Can't Go Home Like This'.  And the best part is that neither of them are complete.  I am looking forward to their continuation.  Crystal knows how to write a positive adventure, where the subject grows with the story.  In this, when we identify with her protagonist, we feel good about ourselves.  If she has a fan club, I want to join.

--CMB

I enjoy your gentle approach to story telling - thanks for a very entertaining tale!