TRANSVESTIA

"What?" Mrs. Mallett didn't fully understand. "Oh, yes," she said, bewildered. "Whatever you like."

As the pair left the room, she headed straight for the cupboard she kept her "medicinal" brandy. Her hand was shaking as she poured herself a glass. Well, Erica obviously had her mind made up. She took a deep draught of the brandy. She was into her fourth when she saw Erica excitedly showing Peggy the grounds. Peggy turned back to- wards the window. Her soft angora blue sweater showed off her rounded breasts. She tossed her blonde hair and held onto her skirt as the wind threatened to blow it upwards. Erica was laughing. Mrs. Mal- lett could hear the sound thrugh the glass, and she saw Erica point to her own pant suit. The wind gusted harder, exposing the stockings, black suspenders and blue frilly panties that Peggy-Dave was wear- ing. Mrs. Mallett turned away and thought as carefully as four brandies would allow. She'd have to go along with it for now. Erica was surely besotted with him. But she'd encourage them not to get married for a while. If Dave could be persuaded to stay with them permanently, she could try to feminize him so much that Erica wouldn't want him.

Yes, that was the key, she thought. Then she could introduce a few nice eligible men to the girls. Set up a few parties, perhaps. She looked out at the laughing, giggling girls in the orchard. Yes, she thought. They'd surely accept that.

NEW PRICES

In this issue of TVia there is a new, revised price list. Please consult it when you are about to order any of the merchandise because these are the items that have had to have their prices changed. All these items are either bought from others or are made from bought materials. You are all aware that prices of almost everything have gone up, thus the prices of the things I buy to resell or to process for sale have been raised to me and I have no choice but to pass them on to you.

I have so far managed to hold the price of the printed items where they have been in the past even though computer typesetting, printing and platemaking, paper and bindery charges keep on rising. I may have to go back to unjustified right margins and plain typed manu- scripts or possibly reduce the number of pages. The alternative would be to increase the prices. I don't want to do this if it can be avoided. So for the moment, with your help on the postage, by adding 10 percent to the bill, we'll try to hold the line.

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