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The Mural and the Cabinet, part 20 of 21

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“I’ll tell you when you’re older.”

 

“You mean like when we get home?”

Woman in the Corner Office - 4

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Chapter 7


Mom always told me I had a hot Italian temper like pop and I'd been on the receiving end of a lot of lectures and other less pleasant punishments for letting it get away from me. Despite that it was all I could do to not up and deck him when he said 'his perversion.' I was brought up short by Christina and he was brought to heel by his wife with just a few words.

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TURNER & OTDAY APPLÆRSHIP

Their meeting with Janet, Mistress brassière, of the seamstresses was a revelation to both of them.

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THE NEW NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS

Robert knew by the time they had returned to the Keep Madder would either be an overjoyed mother to be, or a deeply distressed woman who would probably need more help and support than he could provide.
Robert would be a very old man when he learnt how close greed and waste had taken the Earth to the very brink of extinction and how fragile its tenuous redemption by the survivors was to prove.

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DEEP ISSUES FOR THE COUNCIL

Yew looked berount the room to see faces on which were writ the same horror he felt as the reality of Campion’s exposition became apparent. “Do you have any suggestions as to how we deal with the situation, Campion?” Yew asked.

Forsythe Saga - What Every Woman Wants

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What Every Woman Wants (is a decent hairdresser)

The dust had finally settled from the purchase of the Hotel in Devon and the fallout from the fraud that many of the top people had been undertaking at the Hotel Chain. The new owners, Geo-Stay Inc had gone to the high court in an attempt to get the sale nullified but it was pointed out that Geo-Stay had almost two months of access to the fake books and their people nor their business advisors had found the errors in the accounting process. They tried and failed to sue their advisors who pointed out that they had told Geo-Stay in writing that the books looked dodgy and that they should walk away. That failed and left them with another very large legal bill to settle. It seemed that the American Company had forgotten that in the UK, the loser pays the other sides costs by default.

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 19 of 21

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“This is my mom and dad and grandma and my brother Karsan and my sister Ami,” Devi went on. “Everybody, this is Zindla and her mom Syuna. They run the shop where I first came to this world.”

Gran's Tale

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Gran’s Tale
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

Well, if you want to talk about gangs, and that kind of life, you might be surprised to know that both your grandfather and I, were involved in gangs when we were younger.

I will tell you the story if you like, but do not interrupt me. I should tell you first that the story contains sex, violence and bad language, but nothing much more than what is on TV these days. I am sure that your parents will forgive me.

The Leap

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The Leap
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

I am like that guy Hamlet. You know: “To be or not to be, that is the question”. I just could not make up my mind. I must have stood there on that cliff top for close to an hour. To be or not to be.

I had heard that the last guy who threw himself off “The Leap” had just driven there in his car with his girlfriend, ran up and over the barrier and he was gone. Dead on the rocks below within seconds. Too easy. But not me.

So along came Janet Downing. She came, and we talked. And I did not jump.

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 18 of 21

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“See,” Devi was saying, “a blue or green robe means you’re a girl, and yellow, orange or red means you’re a boy. At least for the Zyuneban. The Stasa have more complicated rules. And I guess we’re Stasa now, instead of Zyuneban like I was last time, so... anyway, pick whichever robe you feel like, if you can find one that fits you.”

Castle The Series - 0105 Council, Foresters Return, Otday

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NEWFOLK CONSEQUENCES COUNCIL MEETING

The Councilors were interested but most had no appreciation of navigation.

OAKEN RIDGE FORESTERS RETURN

HIGH FORCE FORESTERS RETURN

Neither Lucas nor Jimbo lived to return.

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THE REDEMPTION OF OTDAY (14) TURNER (34)

The motion of the waggon hurt Turner’s breasts, for at three lunes pregnant they were over twice their previous size and her apron was not much help.

This is not me - Part 9 -Finale

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It didn’t take Phoebe long to make her way from her former Chambers to Red Lion Square in Holborn, for her next meeting. This was with her old tutor from University who was according to the email confirming the meeting, right in the middle of giving a lecture on ‘Torts’ to first year law students at the University of Westminster.

Phoebe waited in a Café close by the facility and remembered how she felt as a new student being away from home for the first time in her life and smack bang in the middle of London as well. It had been rather overwhelming for her at first but thanks to the help of the person she was meeting, she stuck at it.

The Chronicles of Crewman Number Six

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Ah, the Starfleet away team. Six members: the captain, the first officer, the science officer, the chief medical officer, the chief engineer...and that nameless security guard. A different guy every week...or is it?

Castle The Series - 0104 Vikki, Deep Vale, Terry, Tall Pines

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VIKKI’S (16) BABE SPEEDWELL

“I think she’ll like sausages.”

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DEWBERRY (20) & BILL (nc 16), PLOVER (22) & GARY (nc 20), HOOPOE (38) & NORMAN (nc 20)

Norman limped badly as a result of childhood polio and was, as his peers on Earth had described him, as ugly as sin.

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MY LOVE RETURNS SQUILL (36) AND TERRY (nc 43)

Vinnek asked almost in disbelief, “How do you find errors just by looking at the drawings, Terry? I can only find them when two pieces we’ve maekt don’t fit!”

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BULRUSH (40) & PAUL (nc 22), BILBERRY (18) & ROSS (nc 24), WHIRLIGIG (20) & SHERMAN (nc 19)

“You worry too much.”

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 17 of 21

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“We weren’t entirely truthful last weekend when we told you that Davey couldn’t remember what had happened during the months he was gone,” Carson said. “Davey told us where he’d been and what he’d done, but... until a few days ago, we didn’t believe him, because we didn’t have evidence, and his story seemed pretty far-fetched.”

Sprung

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Sprung
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

“It’s time”, he said.

I had only just laid down on the sliding bed that was to pass me into the MRI machine. Minutes before the two prison guards with me had been told that no weapons or anything metallic was allowed in the room while the MRI was operating. The Hispanic one had handed his belt and weapon to the other and gone inside with me, his charge. He now lay unconscious on the floor nearby. The man standing over me spoke again:

“This is it. You’re sprung. Come with me and keep it quiet.”

Castle The Series - 0103 Steve, Jude, Nathan, Ryland

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A WARM BED TO GO HOME TO

Limpet was inventing new curses to describe the thickening fog as fast as he could spaek. Once they had left the bay they sailed out of the fog, and Limpet, ordering some sail hoisted, carried on cursing the weather only this time it was along the lines of, “Now we’re safe, we can see, typical!”

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PREPARE FOR THE KNIFE OR LEAVE

The choice Box had given Ryland was not castration or deadth. It was much simpler than that, and boiled down to ‘live by our rules or live somewhere else’.

The New Recruits Part 20

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Terry brushes her hair out of her eyes as she watches as August lands the Lear Jet. The C-17 was landing on a different runway. She looks at her mother and wishes she was going with her. She slept with her mother last night. She may be a teenager and only have a few more years left before she heads off to law school. However, she wanted to sleep with her mother. She loved her mother very much and didn’t want to lose her.

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 16 of 21

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“This is going to be Sashtun’s first-ever movie, kids. It needs to be something special. Not whatever new movie you’re burning to see. Everyone, what’s the best movie you’ve ever seen?”

The Hero, The Mouse & The Cheshire Pt. 17

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Lien had gone and told her aunts what Cheshire told her. Krisha and Catlin rushed towards the window that looked out onto the front lawn. Omphile and Lien were at another window that allowed them to see the front yard. None of the girls knew the other three women outside that had shown up and were standing near Cheshire.

“Do you think I should call my mom?’ Lien looks towards Krisha.

This is not me - Part 8

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The elation from striking a deal with Samantha’s Father that Phoebe felt soon died down when they were faced with the task of moving Samantha out of her home and into somewhere else within two months. Even so, their relationship got stronger and stronger now that they didn’t have to hide it from anyone.

In between house hunting, Samantha continued with her plan to add some panache to Phoebe’s life and especially her appearance. Gradually her stock of ‘lawyer drab’ diminished and was replaced by clothes that were much more vibrant in colour and style. They were all what was regarded as ‘retro’ in style but Phoebe started to see that there was a certain elegance and charm in that. The downside, at least in Phoebe’s eyes was that the style really demanded at least some sort of heeled shoe. She’d eventually come around to the opinion that ballet flats were really only for teenagers to wear with elegant clothes. That was totally the opposite to how she’d been before she’d met Samantha.

The Lyssa Kordenay Missions - Book 46 - Butterflies in the Fields of Blood

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Book 46 of The Lyssa Kordenay Missions!
  The DemonWraiths' final test: Kill Zone
  Lyssa ventured deep into Africa before and returned
  Now she must go back to the Bloodfields, but with more
  on the line than just herself this time.

WARNING: The Lyssa Kordenay Missions may be hyper-violent for some readers!

 

Golden Days

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Golden Days
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

The winter of 2009 took my sweet wife Margot. It was an infection, we knew that much. We put her body outside in the snow to preserve her. I had not wanted to let go, but Carson made me see the sense in it. When winter broke, we were able to take her body in to town and confirm the cause of death. It was such a minor thing, just a small wound from a can of spam, but when you are isolated, even with modern communications, there is nothing you can do.

Castle The Series - 0102 Beth, Neil, Robert, Jake

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FEMINISING HERBS FOR BETH

“I’ve never been a boy, so I can’t return to being one.”

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SAIL SAFE RETURNS WITHOUT NEIL (32)

“It looks as if Neil was unwinnable, and the Folk had the best out of him in the end.”

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STORM RIDER RETURNS MADDER (28) AND ROBERT (nc 35)

“Do you mean that, Madder?”

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ELLIOT (nc 18), JAKE (nc 20), PARIS (nc 19), ROSEBAY (24) & SHERIDAN (nc 22)

“Jake explodet, he turned into bits, I seeën them fly away.”

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 15 of 21

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“We can sell it as a retirement package,” Carson said. “An eighty-year-old man might think it’s worth the... inconvenience of becoming a woman if he can be forty again.”

Castle The Series - 0101 Theresa and Therese

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THERESA AND THERESE ARE BIRTHT

Theresa and Therese were conjoined twins of two natures. Jermor the midwife considered easing their passing was the appropriate action to take, but Cwm and Lunebeam wouldn’t hear of it, and it was Cwm’s decision to make.

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ZEEËEND, ZRINA AND ZLOVAN FOUND AUROCHS WATCH

Zrina, Zeeëend and Zlovan were triplets, female, of two natures and male respectively. They were also agreäns in a marriage of three. The Valley of Aurochs they discovered and settled in was a truly awe inspiring sight.

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WELL COME HOME SON

Meld said to Frogbit that night in bed, “It looks as if we’re in for an interesting few tenners, my love.”

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COUNCIL MEETING

"Nettle was telt Tarse had been stabt through the heart in his bed."

Masina

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Masina
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

He thought that she looked athletic. She was clearly the biggest woman in the room, but there was no belly on her. Her cocktail dress clung to her curves showing her perfect breasts and her ample but tight, butt. Her long dark hair hung down her back clipped away from her perfectly made up face by a single clip with a flower on it. She wore no jewellery. Her skin was golden. He was unsure of her ethnicity. The hair was straight and swung about her as she moved. She was a vision.

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 14 of 21

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After supper, when she returned to her hotel, she felt so lonely that she broke down and decided to call Carson or Amanda, even at the risk of annoying them. Perhaps she could ask them to let her speak with Davey? But when she got out her phone and tried to use it, nothing happened.

Castle The Series - 0100 Bekka, Turner, Ruby, Lilly

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BEKKA (16) AND BURDOCK (28) AND A SMART PHONE

Burdock had been astonished by what Bekka had telt Cranberry, and said, “Was that true, Bekka, you wisht me badly enough to be jealous‽”

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TURNER AND OTDAY

“ I haven’t had more than thirty-two days between lunetimes since I was fourteen and thisday is day thirty-three. I’m certain I’m pregnant.”

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RUBY GOES ABILBERRYING

The children had finished the day exhausted, fruit stained, full of berries and happy.

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ACCEPTANCE THE ARDOL MINERS RETURN

“I am an effeminate homosexual,” he began,

This is not me - Part 7

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Phoebe and Samantha met up again the following Friday.

“How was your week?” asked Phoebe.

“Wednesday was good. Well, waking up next to you made it a good start and the company liked what I’d done to their website.”

“I sense a but coming?”

“Are you sure that we haven’t been together for ten years?”

They both laughed.

The Odd Squad -1-The start of the Odd Squad

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I prepared myself for my first day back as a detective with North Yorkshire Police, after an extended leave of absence. Most of the women detectives went into work in casual or practical clothes, trousers and shirt/blouse with comfortable flat shoes, but I had decided that I needed to make a statement and was dressed to the nines in a Scarlet shift dress with black bolero jacket and with 3” heels. I had my hair cut, coloured, and styled the previous Saturday, along with a full beauty treatment, waxing, eyebrow shaping, nails shaped and polished a bright red to match my dress. Content with how I looked, I picked up my shoulder bag, took a deep breath and went down to my car to start a much changed career.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Chapter 12

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Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Chapter 12

The same accident that caused the loss of his leg at age six also stimulated the latent genetics that ran in his family to trigger a mutation. Although becoming one of the ‘exo-humans’ the government monitored would prove to be the least of his worries once he stumbled upon his family’s secret.

Brought to you by the warped mind of Nuuan

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 13 of 21

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He didn’t dare go through it himself. He’d seen how Devi grew into a ten-year-old boy and Sashtun aged into a woman into her forties; if he went through, he could be well over a hundred, too feeble to walk back through under his — or her — own power, and prone to dying of old age at any moment.

Castle The Series - 0099 Kæna, Morgelle, Vikki, Carley

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TWO SCANDALOUS STORIES

Ivy had kissed her and remarked, “When I first seeën the size of your bosom I knoewn you’d be good for trade, but I’m glad to see even under stress you keep the interests of the family first, Love.”

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SMOKED WEÄLTH

“Smokt eel? No, I’ve never hearet of that being doen. What’s jelly eel?”

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VIKKI (16) AND BUCKWHEAT (33)

Buckwheat’s kin were euphoric at the acquisition of a heavily pregnant and willing mother of more of their clansfolk.

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CARLEY (19) AND DUNLIN (19)

“I shouldn’t like you to believe it is only because you are pregnant I wish to marry you.”

The Hunter, Becomes The Hunted Part 9

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“Tammy?” Becky looks at the text message she just received from Stanley.

She couldn’t believe that Kat and the rest of the team were on their way to their location. All the message said, was that a pissed off Kat was on her way to them. When she responded about the rest of Kat’s team. She was informed they were heading to Walker, Kansas to stay with Kat’s sister.

“Tammy, where are you?’ Becky couldn’t find Tammy anywhere and the next thing she hears is the sound of a gun.

“Guys, Tammy is under attack.” Becky heads towards the sound of the gunshot.

Masks 23: Part 5

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Part Five

Vic's manager at the local office the Bureau of Special Resources maintained in Detroit was Bruno Drake. Though their office was tiny, in both physical size and number of personnel assigned to it, Drake took his job very seriously. He was a grizzled man in his late fifties, with short, grey hair and a conservative manner. This included his way of dressing; he was very fond of bowties, for example. Vic found that as a manager he was a good boss who cared about and for those under him.

The Mural and the Cabinet, part 12 of 21

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“And even if his story is untrue, it’s not necessarily a sign of mental illness in children his age to make up strange stories. So I’ll refer you to a child psychiatrist, but I suggest you keep an open mind and check that mural in Davey’s bedroom from time to time to see if it exhibits any... strange behavior.”

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