As I mentioned in am email to Charlie, my stomach gave a lurch when Tim 35 showed up in my mailbox to review, because as much as I was looking forward to the next chapter, knowing that the last installment was done and I wouldn't have that particular bright spot in my life to look forward to anymore was and is obviously hard to take. But, unlike in the movie of the same name, there's really no such thing as the neverending story.

'Tim' has been quite a ride. It's an incredible story and no amount of words here can express my admiration of and gratitude to Charlie for writing. To answer Charlie's question in the end notes to 35, yes, I hope that there are some re-visits to Tim's universe at some point in the future.

To all other writers I say this: I hope at some point that you too will write my story for me. Each person that has written it has brought something special and different to the story.

Tim is uniqely Charlie's even though I gave suggestions on possible plot developments and gave some advice on what characters might be feeling, or what their motivations might be. However, if you don't believe that Charlie made the story his own, read 'Andy' and without a doubt you will recognize Charlie's generous heart and gentle soul in both series.

I know there are at least a couple of versions floating out there yet. Androboy still has to post the rest of his version, which is completely awesome - he has it done, and I have read it, but he's only recently started posting it to the Archive.

Paolo is working on a version - he's written several chapters - that I hope he delves back into at some point once he recovers from his masterpiece, Xyn, which took a lot of time and energy.

Bottom line is - there will never be another 'Tim' - which is the great thing about writing and the Archive - there doesn't have to be. Every story has it's own merits and each contains a bit of the writer.

I am proud to have worked with Charlie on 'Tim' - it's one of the finest stories anywhere on the web, bar none, on any topic.

Thank you Charlie, and thanks to everyone else who has and will take on the task of exploring why a teenager would want - need - to have a penectomy.

This is a great story! There's just words to describe it.

Charlieje, I think you should look into publications.

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Bboy, you're too kind! But thanks again for the ride, as you phrased it. It really was a good one.

Paolo, thank YOU too! As for your comment on publishing, been there, done that. I actually got a book in print in 2000, only to have it go out of print 6 months later when the publisher went bust.

Actually I have been seriously thinking of posting that book to the Archive, with appropriate modifications. As published there was no sex and no body mods or any sort, though there were lots of hints. It is simply a story about three boys who find themselves homeless and all the hell they go through.

As originally written there was some sex and a lot of pretty extreme body modification (castration, nullification, even snuff) but it had to be "sanitized" for publication. I am going to dig around and see if I still have a copy of the original.

As for publishing again, I seriously doubt it. Anyway you cut it, it's a financially losing proposition unless you make it big, and that's not my goal anyway. I consider it adequate payment to know that readers are enjoying it, and hopefully being affected in some positive way by what I have to say.

Thanks Charlie for a wonderful story

Charlieje,

What can I add that has not been said? Nothing, really. Like that flamin' nun, I can't wait for the next one.

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Yes indeed. I'm going to miss not having Tim and the gang to look forward to. This was a super story.

Just one more comment... (well. two)...

First of all, THANK YOU to all who have commented here and privately by email. I learned long ago that I learned as much teaching as I ever did as a student, and after having written Tim I've learned more about things I had never considered before than I ever thought I would.

Second point, and I am going to regret putting this pressure on myself, but here goes. In browsing some writings I'd been tinkering with before I started Tim, I ran across a story I'd been working on, not really knowing what I was going to do with it. Now having re-red what I'd written, and in consideration of some of the recent postings on Eunuch Central, I've decided that is what I want to post next.

This story is unlike anything I have done before... it's really in honor of all the Transgenders I met during my own process of seeking castration ( a much more detailed explanation in the first part of the story). It is about an 8 year old boy who discovers quite by accident that he should have been born a girl. and his journey down that difficult road.

Once again I am determined to finish the story before I post the first chapter so I can post another part almost daily, so it will be a little while yet before I start. But I am excited about it, and I sincerely hope all you TG's (well, others too) enjoy it.