Emma Anne Tate

Kern - 11 - Fallout and Fallback

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“Girl, if you go shooting all the cochinos, we’ll run outta dudes.”



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Aria - Book 4 - Reformer's Fire by Emma Anne Tate on Kindle

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Isolation is difficult at the best of times, but at its worst when the world around you is falling apart.

Aria - Book 4
Reformer's Fire
by Emma Anne Tate
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Aria - Book 3 - Bring Down the Curtain by Emma Anne Tate on Kindle

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It's finally here!

Aria - Book 3
Bring Down the Curtain
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Aria - Book 2 - Trials and Temptations by Emma Anne Tate on Kindle

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Cami's adventures continue...

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Aria - Book 2
Trials and Temptations
by Emma Anne Tate
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Emma Anne Tate

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Emma Anne Tate


Welcome to my home page! I’m a writer, a reader, and a dreamer. I hope you enjoy my stories!



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Kern - 10 - Challenge and Response

 

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I shook my head angrily, dispelling the memory that clung and reeked like Dace’s pinche weed. Through my still-clenched teeth I said, “I’m not seventeen anymore, and you are fucking with the wrong goddam woman!”



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A small victory

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Friends, I don’t often blog about politics. But I am writing about a victory, however transitory and ephemeral it may be, on the subject of transgender bans in the military.

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Kern - 9 - Resolutions

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I was a twisted lump of metal caught between the hammer of Abuela’s relentless, immigrant ambitions and the anvil of my parents’ broken dreams. I had no power to outrun my dark memories, nor any way to keep them buried. They were part of me.



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Kern - 8 - In Tequila, Truth

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She opened the refrigerator and pulled out a couple Buds, handing me one without asking. “She sort of blamed me for making you trans. They all did, for a while.”

“Blamed you.” My family is SO fucked up!



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Zion

 

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Marla looked at the photo again. It wasn’t her grandmother; she knew that right away. Yet the pain and loss she sensed in her Grandfather’s expression were foreign to her understanding of him. Softly, she asked, “Who is she?”



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Kern - 7 - Scar Tissue

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Not being at work first thing on Monday morning felt like a step down a path I did not want to take. Abuela’s path. “You must take care of this,” she’d told me. “Of him.”

Well, screw that.



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Someone’s Having a Birthday!


And it’s a BIG Birthday, too!

She’s an absolute treasure. A wonderful author, someone who’s succeeded at marriage for over 57 years, and always a warm, positive presence here at BC.

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Take a bow, PATRICIA MARIE ALLEN! Or maybe a curtsy. :) Happy 80th to you! May your pantyhose never sag, and your nighties never tangle!!!

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Kern - 6 - A Good Man and His Daughter

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“I think she knew there was nothing for you here. Not as a man, but even less as a woman, if that’s how you decided to live.” When I didn’t meet his eyes or say anything, he asked, softly, “Was she wrong?”



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Kern - 5 - Echoes

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“He’s doing better than me, Querida, and he’s in a coma.”



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Dawning Realization

We had to be trained to care. Tricked. They made themselves look adorable, or maternal, or sexy.

Of course, we taught them that. We did it first.



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Kern - 4 - The Brother

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I did know another number I could call. Another landline. I hadn’t used it in twelve years, but I’d had to memorize it before I ever had a cell phone, let alone one that supported a contacts list. Padre would not answer it, of course, and might never again. But Joaquim was almost certain still living there.



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Software Update

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Seven years ago, an out-of-work programmer reprogrammed his life and, with the help of his old flame Sara, became Rosie. Just how good was Rosie’s “programming?” Four BigCloset authors, invited to join Sara and Rosie for a writers’ retreat, are about to find out!



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This Honorable Court

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Sometimes, you have to bring the fight . . . even when you know you're going to lose.



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Being Beatrice

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My take on the classic "understudy steps in to save the day" story. :)



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Nocturn

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A fresh start in a new house, along the rocky coast of Maine. Well, new to him, anyway. The house definitely had a prior owner . . . .



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Kern

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Carmen Morales has a good job, good friends, and a future full of promise.

But she also has a past.



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Maximum Warp

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A distinguished professor of linguistics sets out on a hiking trip that takes him where no man has gone before!



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Strange Manors

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Luigi's father renounced a title and fled to the new world. He never said why . . . .



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Decision Matrix

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The world you inhabit is unreal. What you see in the mirror, what you feel with your fingers . . . an illusion. A lie. You feel it. Sense it. It torments you, like shrapnel in your mind, burrowing deeper whenever you move. But still, you have to move. Because you know the truth is there, waiting to be discovered, just beyond sight . . . .



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Kern - 3 - The Matriarch

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My treacherous brain served up a picture of his face, distorted by shock, rage, and disappointment. I have no daughter. And YOU are not my son! The last thing he’d ever said to me.



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Gullible Travails

A little something light to start the weekend. . . .



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Kern - 2 - Kelsey

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It was the smell of childhood. Once, it had been the smell of “home.” Even now, the odors, so familiar, were triggering an avalanche of memories.



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Kern - 1 - Summons

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Carmen Morales has a good job, good friends, and a future full of promise. But she also has a past.



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Seeking input on a challenge idea

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Hey BC Family! I was kicking around the idea of starting the New Year off with a running challenge for our authors, which would work as kind of a daisy chain. Let me know what you think.

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Zora and the Greek

 

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The first three knew better than to play for money when Zora had a cue stick in her hand, and they’d been kind enough to warn Biggo off before he learned the hard way. Which is to say, the expensive way.



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 8 of 8 (Final)

 

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“So, you don’t think he’s got a problem with it all? Girly you, cray-cray me, us, kinda strangely put together lesbians?”

Gabe laughed. “No, I actually think he’s going to be okay with all that weirdness.”



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 7 of 8

 

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“Well, speaking of lesbians,” Haley said.

“Were we?” asked Kiko.

“We were. Anyhow . . . Does your mom know about you and Gabe?”



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 6 of 8

 

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Gabe searched her father’s face anxiously. Desperately wanting to say something, but unsure of what. “You came.”



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 5 of 8

 

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The door cracked open and Kiko peered in. “Wardrobe malfunction?”

“Zipper’s stuck. I think.”

Kiko smiled, came in and closed the door behind. “It’s what girlfriends are for.”

“I’m also ugly.”

“Yeah, we’re good for that problem too, mostly.”



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 4 of 8

 

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She leaned back in her seat and her eyes narrowed. Oh, don’t you dare, young man!



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 3 of 8

 

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Just ‘cuz she’s got perfect blonde hair and cornflower eyes and big freakin’ bazoombas. AND long legs, the bitch.



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 2 of 8

 

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He couldn’t find words for a response. This is a disaster!



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Who Makes Intercession? Part 1 of 8

 

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Author’s note: I made the mistake of promising a complete Christmas story by December 21, but it kept expanding until I ran out of days. I intend to post a chapter each day for the next eight days, but I will keep the postings a reasonable size. You’ve all got lots of contest stories to read — and other stories, too!



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Jim’s Enterprise

The bridge crew looked at him, concern radiating from every face. The young woman at comms was first to find her voice. “Captain? Orders?”



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I Love Mondays

Who do I want to be today? Should I be demure? Laid back? Casual, but fun? Pretty? Alluring? How should I do my hair? My makeup? How tall should I be?



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Neva Eva, Evan

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Five friends and a drinking game . . . . What could go wrong?



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Resurrection?

EAT SUMMER.jpg So, I popped onto the site this morning see a slew of comments on stories I hadn’t read. Then my eyes bugged out, because some of the comments were from the amazingly talented Maggie Finson. Talented . . . and much missed.

Alas, it was not a sign that Maggie has returned to us. But is there a reason why the comment board is suddenly flooded with comments posted over a decade ago?

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Uplift

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When all your troubles roost at home, where do you go for refuge?



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