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Routes 5

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Our second evening was almost as good, spent in the Forth, just up Pink Lane from our hotel, because we had a visitor. We had just given our food order at the bar when Maz squealed, LC looking terrified for a few seconds as Ish calmed her, before turning to offer a hand to our new arrival after he had released Maz from his hug and finished wiping his eyes.

“Neil. Be welcome, mate. Be so bloody welcome! Carolyn?”

She started, almost as if slapped.

“Ish?”



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Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult (3)

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In the Episcopal Church, Confirmation is supposed to be a sacrament of initiation that strengthens the grace we have received at our Baptism, it is supposed to be a marking of a deepening of one's own personal commitment to a Christian life. In the bourgeoisie South it's seen as kind of a social stepping stone. A young girl's Confirmation is often seen as a foreshadowing to her own Debutant Ball. A girl from a bourgeois family would often be Confirmated at age twelve, and at age sixteen or seventeen she would become a debutante. What is a debutante?



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1256.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1256
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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Weeping Willow. Book 3, Chapter 10 of 23

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Chapter 10

As they were driving to Birmingham, where the girls wanted to visit the Bullring, Wendy asked them if they had enjoyed the party.

“It was fabulous, Mum. So many friends and so much cake. I don’t think I could face another slice.”

“Well, there is some left over, which Malcolm will probably have out as dessert tonight. Did you know that the label was going to be there?”



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Playing Marbles for the Big Blue -18-

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Playing Marbles for the Big Blue

18: Helmagian Gambit

By Jo Dora Webster

What perils wait for Amaza and her family from the Helmagians?



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Timeless Romance by Maryanne Peters on Kindle

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Maryanne's 33rd collection of Mostly Happy Endings!

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Timeless Romance
Mostly Happy Endings #33
by Maryanne Peters
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Education of a Sissy - Ch 8. Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-Jig

The magic wand gets all metaphorical.

This is probably the shortest scene in the entire story (if they get any smaller, I'm going to panic), but I think it's a rather climactic one. The rest of the scenes should all be much larger.



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part IV

Chapter 12

Friday night in Delacroix. Like most middle sized towns, there were
pockets of inactivity. Large swaths of suburban living gone dark for a



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The Angry Mermaid 96 or Y Morforwyn Dicllon 96

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On her way to contact the Celtic peoples of Corgheig in Munster, Drustina encounters a graphic example of monotheist misogyny disenfranchising women. Marag's castle is on the little island at the south western end of Lough Mahon.



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Thai Pie -- Part 2

Danny starts school and learns more about Dao being a kathoey. Will it influence his relationship with her?

Thai Pie


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Vagrants chapter 2.

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So here we are again...once again I find myself writing 10k words of a story in a few days like a mad (or madder) person. This is chapter 2, standard disclaimers apply, and more science realism than you can shake a stick at incoming.

Also, space Opras....complete with fat ladies.



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part XIII

Chapter 45

Myka sat quietly in the room, there had been some sound a minute
earlier. The buzz in her ears had started last year, just after the



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part XII

Chapter 40

Faye was frying potatoes in bacon with onions and heating the oven,
The eggs and zucchini were ready and the bread was ready to go into
the toaster.



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part XI

hapter 36

Bobbie was fighting the urge to clean Nick's car as they drove.

"So, Bobbie," Nick said, trying to make small talk. "What's your story?



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part X

Chapter 33

Heather put Kim(the bass guitar) back on the rack. She was still so mad
at Kim, torpedoing the band like that. She was no good at playing the



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part IX

Chapter 29

The bakery had been open for all of a day before Tim realized the problem
with running a food business. Waste. He kept the ones he didn't sell that



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part VII

Chapter 23

With school out, Bobbie had been going to Heather's under the guise of
being her model. Heather's mother, Betty; had come home with wild tales of



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part VIII

Chapter 25

Kim's thoughts were like the internal contents of a food processor,
with said food processor flying through a hurricane. She couldn't



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part VI

Chapter 19

"Here." Tim said, giving an envelope each to Beth and Bobbie. Looking
inside, there were two crisp hundred dollar bills in each. "It's your



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part V

Chapter 15

Bobbie was a little grumpy, but felt lighter than she had recently.
Despite cramps, she smiled some, happy to see Beth and Amber who had



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part III

Chapter 8

"WAKE UP, BRO WE'VE GOT SOME WORK TO DO," Kim's voice ripped through the
velvety blanket of sleep. Bobbie thrashed, gasping. It was Kim, pouncing
on her.

"Kim, wha..."



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix Part II

Chapter 4

Robb had drained about $1200 from the bank card that bore his name. He
bought a backpack at a thrift store. He broke the card in half and



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The Platinum Chef : A Tale of Delacroix

The Platinum Chef: A Tale of Delacroix by Chefness

Author's Note. I do not own the setting of Delacroix, Delacroix High,
Delacroix Blue Devils. Nor do I own the Characters Faye, Lust, and



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Going There and Back Again 3

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The life of a physicist can be troubling, at times, as the universe doesn't always play well with others.

But even the universe can't break a true promise.



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Can I have some Brown Sugar for my Damper? Chapter 10.

Can I have some Brown Sugar for my Damper? Chapter 10.

Chapter 10.

*Before…

“Well I find you sexy in your glasses, I find you sexy in your scrubs when you’re at work, I adore you in those ratty old sweats with the holes in them you wear to do the washing and I find you sexy when your hair’s all messy and you haven’t had a cup of coffee yet.”

Oh dammit he made my jaw tremble…that was…just.

………………………………...

We pull into Sutton’s beach and my heart does this OH….This is one of those times that just drives home to me that I’m in a whole new place…and that it’s a really beautiful place.

*And now…



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Call you mommy, are you serious honey part 8

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A dad and husband comes home from the hospital after a chemical accident which transformed him into the body of a little girl. The adventure continues.

Call you mommy, are you serious honey



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A Pirate tale

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A Pirate tale



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Thai Pie -- Part 1

Young Danny moves to Thailand with his mother after his father's death.
He meets a cute young girl that has a group of guys that is bullying her.
Danny decides to defend her...

Thai Pie


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Education of a Sissy - Ch 7. A Walk In The Park

Michael is desperate to get home, so having a picnic is the obvious thing to do.



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Church One and Church Two

"Wouldn't everybody want to go to the FIRST one?" I asked.

"I dunno," Dad replied in a joking tone. "When you're number two, you try harder."



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Somewhere Else Entirely -95-

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After an overnight stop the caravan resumes the journey south. Most have remembered passing through Holville and do not look forward to doing so again, but there are surprises in store for all when they arrive, including Merizel!

Somewhere Else Entirely

by Penny Lane

95 - The Road South



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Come back soon...Part 5

Come back soon…part five.

It’s so cool what she did.

Mom…and what she shared too it’s likely the most personal mother daughter talk we’ve had. I mean not that we have had that many but still. I can imagine that she’s never really told that many people about the stuff that she had just share with me.

To actually have that for me is a bigger treasure than the things she brought me but I’ll take these things too.



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Dancing Queen: 7

My first public performance as Michelle

Ballroom dancing has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, but I didn’t realise just how important it would become in shaping my future, until I had to take the place of one of my bosses following an accident.


Dancing Queen


A novel


by Louise Anne Smithson

Copyright © 2013 Louise Anne Smithson
All Rights Reserved.


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Three Wise Men & Maggie - Chapter 1

Three Wise Men & Maggie
By
JulieDCole



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Education of a Sissy - Ch 6. As If By Magic, The Shop Keeper Appeared

Freedom! Michael is now on the way home, but first, …



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2212

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2212
by Angharad

Copyright © 2013 Angharad
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The Girl Who Saved Aunt T's by Angela Rasch on Kindle

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Eric thought he was living a reasonable life until a series of calamities broke up his marriage, took his job and put his parents in a precarious position.

When Kevin, his tennis partner in High School, reminds him of the great team they made and offers him the opportunity to turn his life around he has a critical decision to make.



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A Summer's Odyssey - Now on Kindle

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After his mother dies the only option Kris has is to take his kid sisters to grandma's house. But Massachusetts to Maryland is a long way to travel on only $50. How will they make it, will grandma be able to keep them and what kind of life can they expect?

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A Summer's Odyssey

By Jennifer Sue

Now available on Kindle



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Valor by Melanie Brown on DopplerPress

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Melanie Brown brings us one of her sexy sci-fi romps in Valor, the story of a hapless lieutenant who keeps saving the day by being turned into a bimbo by the enemy.

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Valor
by Melanie Brown
Now on Kindle


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Easy as Falling Off a Bike 8 -- on Kindle

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For the first time in months, Cathy isn't dealing with much drama in her own life, but that's okay because Stella has a whole truckload to share.

In the moments where she's not saving Stella from herself, she has dormice to protect and more opportunities of wildlife documentaries to navigate.

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