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Homecoming: Learning Curves, Part 1 (Patreon)

Published:
2026-01-22 07:24:54
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2026-01-22 23:11:02
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Meet Cindy (formerly David). Two years post-basement. Working as a hairdresser, studying to be a beautician. Surviving on boxed wine and gallows humor. And absolutely not okay.

When Isaiah - fresh out of Bella's hell and drowning in his own dysphoria - asks Cindy to teach him how to "be a woman," she wants to refuse. Teaching him feels like collaborating with Bella. Like endorsing the nightmare.

But she remembers those first terrifying weeks of freedom. The agoraphobia. The panic attacks. The way mirrors became enemies.

So she says yes.

Fair warning: this one's got all the dark themes of Homecoming. Part 2 drops next week. I promise I'll give you something lighter after this. 😉

Thank you as always! I hope you like this side story and can't wait to read your comments. They make me so happy. 💕

P.S. - Yes, Cindy has become one of my favorite characters to write. No, I don't know what that says about me. Yes, we're all going to need wine after this one.

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Alyson Greaves

I’m already feral and I haven’t even started yet

Maggie Heels

On my way to work... I guess I'll start working a bit later today... 😅

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2026-09-14 23:00 I was waiting for this story. It's good to read it. I really like the globale vibe between those two characters. I'd like to see isayah dress as a man i'm sure he 'll pass well. Globally the serie feels like 2 broke girls, they start low but...
2026-01-22 08:43

Maggie Heels

OMFG Emory what did you do again... Everybody here knows that already but I'll tell it anyway... Emory... you DO NOT write/render fictional stories... You create parallel realms where they are as much real as ours... Quoting my beloved John Carpenter "THEY LIVE"... all your characters... ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

Ella Cherry

I love your main stories, but wow! Every time you shine the spotlight on the supporting characters, it’s fantastic. No wonder Josie is one of my faves! And I absolutely loved the angry, philosophical makeup tutorial!

Gemma

Interesting chapter great provided through Cindy inner dialogue that add a depth to her and great psychological insights into who she is and her journey. This episode leaves the reader with clearer understanding into both Cindy and Isaiah, humanising them and ensuring they no longer are one dimensional background characters. The added tutorial , even with all its cynical commentary, was an added bonus with its ‘makeup 101 guidelines.’ It is all these little extras that you provide in your stories Emory that add to the realism of this and all your other stories.

Crystal Peaches

Wow such powerful stuff. The exploration of what to feel after being altered of how to cope holds so many parallels with transitioning. Genuinely emotionally deep and hard hitting. Cannot wait for part 2.

Crewchick

I really loved this chapter. Dark as it is, it is so well written. But as I read further into it I kept hearing this in my head, "if a body catch a body comin' thro' the rye..." Cindy's inner monologue, her cynicism and distrust of society and institutions, and still there is this almost need to "catch" Isaiah, to keep him from falling into the black. I think she is your Holden Caulfield!

SYJIS

MERCI DE DEBLOKER LE PDF NOUS NE POUVONS PAS TRADUIRE,,,

Emory Ahlberg

Bonjour ! Ce n'est pas bloqué, il s'agit simplement d'un fichier image. Mais je viens de vous ajouter un fichier texte en pièce jointe !

Jade Diaz

Caulfield is obsessed with a notion of authenticity. He’s constantly calling people “phony.” This story is like the exact opposite.

Jade Diaz

It’s so interesting to contrast Cindy’s cynicism and borderline nihilism against her deep need to survive. Her story about her bottom surgery experience shows how much of a survivor she really is.

SYJIS

merci beaucoup je suis souvent dans la frustration de la traducion meme si les dessins m aident un peu merci Emory

Crewchick

That is where I disagree with you. Holden Caulfiend is a teenager calling adults and other teens phonies, but he also is a phony. He admits be is a big lire. He said he might go out for a paper but if asked might tell that person he is going to the opera. THe irony is there of someone less than genuine calling out others as phony. The story is about finding one's self amidst the loss of innocence. Holden is cynical and jilted from his experience with adults. In the Burns poem that he misremembers, he sees himself in a field of rye near the edge of a cliff where children are playing and he is there to keep them safe. To catch them before they fall off the cliff. To keep them innocent. Ironic considering the Burns poem is about a casual sexual encounter in a rye field. Cindy is cynical. She is jaded towards most of society after her experience in Bella's basement. She has experienced and undergone something most of society does not know or understand. And because of it she will never fit in to the society she was taken from. And so she uses make up, hair and clothing to try and at least appear to fit in. Not the male she was but also not fully female (for society) even with SRS. So that makes her fake. But she uses that falseness to try and find something real in herself. And she sees the falseness in the rest of society despite the fact they are "real". But even they struggle and fail at being "real" men and women. She sees this because her situation has her living in the fringe blending in enough to go unnoticed and detached. But despite her distrust and cynicism there is still an innocence and idealism that Bella could not purge from her. She helped Kris in the basement with her makeup and giving her info about the basement and Bella to help her understand her situation. And now this Holden Caulfield is catching Isaiah in the rye. Keeping him from falling into the dark Cindy experienced.

Crewchick

I am seeing the relationship between Cindy and Isaiah through the lens of Holden and his little sister. Despite her general cynicism toward the world outside, or maybe because of it, their is an instinct to want to protect and prepare Isaiah. She can't keep Isaiah completely innocent or away from all harm, like Holden envisions himself in the rye field, but she can at least ease the pain and harm to a degree and maybe help Isaiah find a space in the "middle" where there is some sense of "realness" and at least a degree of peace from the storm all around.

Robertlouis

This really gives us a sense of who Cindy is, as well as giving us an introduction to Isiah, another truly lost soul because of Bella’s unfathomable evil. And Cindy has become the hard, self reliant loner that she is because there’s been no alternative. She’s found a way to survive, and if other people get in her way, then they’ll just have to adapt too, or they’ll get hurt or lost. She’s not unlike Kris in that respect. The big difference between them, however, is that Cindy has nobody to love. Yet.

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Gemma. Cindy uses that cynicism like a shield, but it was also fun to show the cracks where her humanity shines through. More to come!

Emory Ahlberg

Thanks, Ella! I love diving into the side characters because it makes the stakes feel so much higher for everyone in this universe. Cindy has such a specific, hard-edged voice, and it was cathartic to let her rant a bit. 😉

Emory Ahlberg

"2 Broke Girls" but make it a trans psychological thriller is a pitch I would watch lol. Isiah would be pretty visible trans even dressed as a man, I think. He's had FFS and has curves!

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Maggie! I hope you didn't get in too much trouble at work, hehe. When I was writing this, Cindy's voice was so loud in my head! It was fun to just let her "speak."

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you so much, Crystal! 💕 That feeling of looking in the mirror and trying to bridge the gap between who you are inside and what the world sees is something many of us know intimately. And the "performance" of gender is a kind of survival mechanism for everyone in some way.

Emory Ahlberg

Diana, I love your analysis. Cindy really is standing at the edge of that cliff, isn't she? She knows she can't stop the fall - the trauma has already happened, the innocence (whatever she once had) is already gone - but maybe she can be there to catch someone like Isaiah when they land. I love your take on the irony of "phoniness." Cindy is hyper-aware that she's performing, that she's constructing a "fake" self to survive, but in doing so, she sees the artifice in everyone else more clearly than they do. She's authentic about her inauthenticity, if that makes sense. And you're so right about that kernel of idealism Bella couldn't kill. Despite all her cynicism, Cindy keeps reaching out to help others - Kris, Isaiah. That instinct to protect is probably the most genuine thing about her. 💕

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Robert! 💕 That "Yet" is doing a lot of heavy lifting! You're right, of course... Kris has an anchor in Alan, while Cindy has been drifting on her own, hardening her edges just to keep the scary, dangerous world out. But sometimes, finding someone else who is just as lost as you are is the first step toward being found.

Emory Ahlberg

I love seeing the community help each other out like this! Thank you for stepping up.

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Jade. 💕 Yeah, Cindy acts like she's ready to check out, but although she hates the world and what it did to her, she's fighting tooth and nail to stay in it.

Jade Diaz

Holden’s fixation on innocence is a manifestation of his quest for authenticity because adults are always hiding their true natures. Only infantilized abstractions are who they say they really are. As for Holden’s own phoniness, he’s not an adult and not self-aware enough to see that he is as you say phony in his own way. Holden is not someone who actually protects and helps, he just imagines some fantasy of reality where his good intentions are enough.

Crystal Peaches

Could not agree more and you really get that across in your work 💕

Pet Jeffery

I'm new here and didn't realise that this is a continuation of an ongoing story. I don't know quite what's going on, but my impression is of a darker version of Alyson Greaves' Dorley. The text version was small enough for me to email to my Kindle library. I wonder whether the pdf would have also been small enough if it didn't include the high resolution images at the end. I hope that issue will mean less to me by the end of today. I'm expecting a tablet from Amazon, bought solely so that I can look at your stories on something more portable than my big desktop computer.

Emory Ahlberg

Welcome, Pet! You definitely jumped into the deep end of the pool here.💖 I take the comparison to Alyson’s work as a high compliment! She’s a friend and an incredible storyteller. But, yeah, big difference in tone. While this is the same sandbox of basements, kidnappings, and transitions, Homecoming leans harder into psychological horror. Bella isn't trying to "redeem" these men. She’s a sadist. She breaks men because she enjoys it, and because she thinks those who "use" women deserve it... at least that is her excuse. If my characters end up stronger (and the ones we follow usually do), it’s in spite of her torture, not because of her guidance. To give you the roadmap: This saga actually has roots going all the way back to February 2018, and I began remastering and continuing it in October 2021. The main story follows Christopher Bowman, who is kidnapped, transitioned by Bella, and released years later as Kristine with a gun to her head. She has to find a "replacement" victim or everyone she loves dies. The specific story you just read here focuses on Cindy (originally David McBride). She’s a major supporting character who went through the same nightmare as our protagonist. This side story fills in the gaps of what she's doing "off-screen" - trying to help another victim, Isaiah, learn the ropes of survival in a body that doesn't feel like home. But, wow, I'm seriously honored that you picked up a tablet just to read these! The art is a huge part of the storytelling, so it should look great on there. To catch up from the very beginning of the main saga, check out the Homecoming collection here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/50592?view=expanded It's not as epic as Jack & Jill or Half Sisters, but I think that intimacy (and relative brevity) helps set it apart. I hope you enjoy it! .💖

Pet Jeffery

Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble of responding to my message. Your summary of Homecoming is clear and illuminating. Having started on Half Sisters, which seems less dark than Homecoming, I think that I'll continue with that. Buying a tablet specifically to look at your work probably seems more natural to me than it would to a younger person. I come from an age when each device did just one job. For example, although I could take photos with my phone (or, I gather, with my new tablet), I don't do so. I use a camera for the purpose. (A compact digital camera; I'm old but not a troglodyte.) So, a device specifically to view your work doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. The tablet cost less than £100. (Although, when I add a protective case and adapters so that I can attach a USB flash drive, it must be more that £100, but no matter.) Its Barbie pink suggests that the tablet is intended for little girls, but that's good, and probably means that it's less technically perplexing than something aimed at whizz kids. Your work looks brilliant on my computer monitor (a big twenty-one and a half inch monitor). It looks great on the tablet, too. I have a couple of problems with the tablet. One is that it doesn't display the episode numbers for Half Sisters, just "Half Sisters - Ep" for each of them. This is compounded by the other problem, that it sorts the episodes in a stupid way, starting with 1, then 10, then 11. Episode 2 is between 19 and 20. I can see why it does that, but it is stupid. I have a solution, to rename the episodes so that the first begins with 001. I can do that easily enough on my computer, but have no idea how to do it on the tablet, so I'm going to have to send them all to the tablet again (fortunately, I've only sent the first 25).

Pet Jeffery

Thank you for that Emory. My gut feeling, though, is that my computer would struggle with such enormous downloads. I've just looked at Half Sisters episode 26, and can't see a link to a pdf. I could read it on this computer, no doubt, but couldn't send it to my tablet.

Emory Ahlberg

How strange! It was missing. I re-uploaded it just now! 😊

Pet Jeffery

Thank you! I imagine that, like everything else, internet posts are subject to entropy.

Helena Grace

Finally got around to reading this and I'm glad that i did, because there's part two just waiting for me. Cindy is absolutely amazing, not only rolling with the punches but on her feet and ready to knock life on it’s ass. Poor Isiah, much like Chris he was set up, because someone wanted one of Chris's old friends to find him. It's interesting how many people Bella takes that doesn't seem to fit her criteria. Is that part of her camouflage or something deeper? *the pit* is probably my favourite bit of the entire segment. (Minus all the wine Cindy's drinking) Lovely as always, Em.

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you so much, Hel! Nothing beats a good binge-read! Cindy really is a force of nature. She treats life like a bar fight... she didn't start it, but she's definitely going to finish it. Bella's criteria seems chaotic at first glance, doesn't it? But Bella is nothing if not meticulous. Taking Chris's friend wasn't just about getting another body, it was about isolating Chris even further, cutting off another lifeline. Writing about "the pit" gave me goosebumps. 💕