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Princess of the Duelist Kingdom

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Princess of the Duelist Kingdom
By
Rebecca Anna Coleman

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I only took it easy on you because you're a Girl! 



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Callum Becomes Cassie - Spirit In Motion

Callum Becomes Cassie - Spirit In Motion

Callum Becomes Cassie - Spirit In Motion

Chapter 1: Just Megan and Me

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the sidewalk as Callum and Megan made their way home from school, their backpacks heavy with the usual collection of textbooks and half-finished assignments. Megan's cheerleading pom-poms peeked out from the top of her bag, the blue and white streamers catching the golden light and swaying with each step.



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Matty Caff AI Comic Fantasies: 021-025

Matty Caff AI Comic Fantasies:
These are independent stand alone AI and Face Swap created comics of fantasy and some personal experience. I use my face in every comic; but AI and Face Swapping does make me look much younger



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Singular Pursuit by Stickmaker Now eBook and Paperback!

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In an abandoned island resort...

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It was supposed to be a working vacation. Vic and Michelle get a luxury vacation in exchange for teaching T.O.W.E.R. Agents how to handle superhuman opponents. Except that there's much more going on...



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Gaby Book 28 ~ Balancing Trick ~ Chapter *11*

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Gaby

Book 28 
Balancing Trick

by Maddy Bell
Copyright© 2023 Madeline Bell
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With so much going on in Gaby Bond's life, there is rarely a dull moment!
But hark, is that a hint of normality creeping in? Don't bet on it, read on for more singing, dancing and bike riding with a twist here and there along the way.
*Chapter 11*
Eleven


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Hired Girl by Joyce Melton on Kindle

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Harold needed a job so bad, he could taste it...

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Too small and pretty to be hired as a boy, Harold turns to his sister who has a plan to help him find employment.



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Starstruck! -8- Your Hit Parade!

Your Hit Parade!

Starstruck!

by Erin Halfelven



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Mission Impossible? Part 7

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Mission Impossible?

Chapter 11

Amber smiled pleasantly at the neat but slightly overweight woman behind the desk noticing her name tag read Monica. The front desk clerk quickly typed on the keyboard to retrieve the information from her workstation.

“I see Mr. Rienholt is poolside with the Birds. Are you familiar with the hotel?” The front desk clerk asked.

“No, this my first visit.”

“Diego will escort you. Diego, please escort the lady to cabana 15. Have a pleasant day Miss.”

“Thank you, Monica.”



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Too Little, Too Late? 37

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CHAPTER 37
William left after the meal, so as not to alert his mother, and John drove off home shortly thereafter. I had a little chat with him, just before he left.

“Rob, I think I shall look at your idea at the reserve.



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Another Side of My Life - Chapter 4

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Another Side of My Life
Chapter 4
by Julie D Cole
Then he turned to me and said ‘Since I told you this is my sister Debbie and not some girlfriend how about you tell me a bit about this fiancé of yours?’
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He took me back a bit and I must have looked surprised. So he followed up and asked how long I’d been engaged. I just said the first thing that came into my head and told him ‘ 3 months.’



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a tale of joy and sorrow

PART 1 OF 3 this just came to me
please read and comment.



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The Hero Part 10

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The Hero

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Jacquimac

Part Ten

The PI company that was hired was called Moriarty Investigations, all their operatives had worked for various government Intelligence agencies over the years and they had equipment equal to and some times even better than government agents.

The Head of company was told what was required and a contract was drawn up and signed, the Moriarty company also provided top level undercover security so would also ensure the safety of James and his mother 24/7 until the case was dealt with.



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Sweet Dreams-22...Sunday so Sweet.

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Sweet Dreams-22…Sunday so Sweet.

Chapter 22

I woke I think a few times I think just to be sure that this was real, that this had really happened and there’s the evidence of late last night to just before dawn this morning of me and Alex’s making love. It’s the best and yet weirdest feeling in the world to feel so reassured ay seeing the mixture of our clothes scattered over the room. Then my body catching my brain up to the after effect feelings of making love.



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Rosetta - Part 13

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Rosetta
A MORFS Universe Story
By Joreymay

Cassandra predicts another attempted attack on Rose and her family, but something is different about it. Rose acts her age. When she gets back to school, she is asked to be an unpaid translator for a brand new hybrid, to help her get through the semester finals. Life is not an after school special.

Part 13



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Daughter to Demons - 8

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Daughter to Demons

by Jeffrey M. Mahr and Levanah

Chapter Eight:
Fuel for the Fire



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Too Little, Too Late? 36

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CHAPTER 36
“You think I might be able to help someone else?”

“Yes, John”

And yourself, hopefully. “Look, I want some tea, like, so let’s get down the pub, aye?”



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1520

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1520
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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How I became a girly girl - 20

Jen

Julie's birthday party
includes a few surprises

How I became a girly girl

by Louise Anne Smithson


Chapter 20

Julie’s birthday



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Lead Shoes-3

Lead Shoes-3

Chapter 3

It was actually pretty cool even going through all the same old stuff in physiotherapy and getting my baselines of what I can do and what I can’t and what my good days are like and what my bad days are like. But it’s nothing like with Nan or my Dad.

Aunt Holly actually asks why something is the way that it is, she asks if she can be shown if any of the exercises she can do with me at home are and she is right there helping me and learning and giving a shit.



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The Blue Knight - Part 1

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The Blue Knight
Part One - In a Lifetime


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Julian 7 - John

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Sometimes a name is all you need, and sometimes its the wrong name



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The Dead Kid Returns - Chapter 2: The New Kid

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The Dead Kid Returns

Part 2: The New Kid

The new kid came into the class, and almost nobody noticed. When the new kid had first shown up, there had been the usual introductions, but almost immediately after, the new kid seemed to fade into the background, forgotten.

Except one girl, who watched the new kid move, and wondered.

Her name was Bethany Ann Cooper, and she was regarded as a bit odd, because she once said that she remembered a time when a dead kid had come to the school, and even claimed to have given this dead kid a kiss.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1519

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1519
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
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Wine Can't be Pressed into Grapes, part 14 of 22

“What's your custom here in Niluri?” Kazmina asked. “Is a woman normally allowed to ask a man to marry her? It's hard to judge from Tsavila or you what women are normally expected to act like here; even in Setuaznu, enchantresses are allowed more privileges than mundane women, and as for you...”



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You Have it All Wrong Three - Part 37

You Have It All Wrong Three

By SaraUK

 

Part 37



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Somewhere Else Entirely -38-

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Gilbanar makes an intriguing suggestion to Garia before she is confronted by Marlin, who tries again to offer marriage. It leads her to re-evaluate her course of action and makes her doubt her decisions. Later, the second steam engine demonstration goes off as planned and leads to some interesting suggestions.

Somewhere Else Entirely

by Penny Lane

38 - Resistance is Futile



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Legacy of the Anari - 5

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LEGACY OF THE ANARI

by Ashleigh Blayze

Chapter 5



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Harrelson's Custom-Fit Boots: A Miss-Matched Pair

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Harrelson’s Custom-Fit Boots
A Miss-Matched Pair

by
Anam Chara

Although Henry Harrelson may always perfectly match the customer to the boot, the delivery can still go amiss. However, due to his long experience in the business, he knows that such problems have their own ways of working out.



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Sweet Dreams-21...Sunday so Sweet.

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Sweet Dreams-21 … Sunday so Sweet.

Chapter 21

I think I’m in shock or whatever the hell that you’d describe it. I sort of passed out after I had this huge screaming match and fight out in the driveway with and I just lost my control and said things that I shouldn’t have said to him, admitted to him and gave him lots of information to do me some real damage.

Which I think that I partly knew and that pushed me over the edge into nervous fucking breakdown land. It got too much and things got…

Was I imagining things?

Did ADAM…actually carry up the stairs and pass me to Alex?



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Sweet Dreams-20...In the Main House.

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Sweet Dreams-20 … In the Main House.

Chapter 20

He walked back outside after he had handed her off to his son. Adam only paused to grab the pint of Johnny Walker red label out of his golf bag and up capped it and took a swig and lit up another cigarette and paced in the driveway still keyed up and on edge from the heated exchange that the had just had.

He took a sip of the scotch and let it burn slide down his throat as he did he followed it up with a drag of his smoke and another and another until when he exhaled it was vaguely dragon like.



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Absinthe, Opium and Honor...Chapters 17 & 18

Absinthe, Opium and Honor… Chapters 17 & 18.

Chapter 17.

The girls and I go through classes together having such a good time. There’s a lot of just girl talk about hair and make-up, clothes and I’m actually able to hold my own. But as much as I can relate and hold my own there’s this great feeling of getting immersed in the world of girl in a way outside of the things Sasha was teaching me.

Oh and they really enjoyed the coffee’s that Tommy bought us.



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First time 9.......


First time…..


Musings from WannabeGinger


Experiences live with us for ever. It’s only when you write tracing back your earlier days that you feel what you felt then.

I felt lonely.

Chapter 9



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Too Little, Too Late? 35

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CHAPTER 35
He called us over. “This is really very, very good. It’s like a book of mnemonics, and all that James has to do now is make sure he remembers the real names of everything”



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First Draft - The Opposing Fates - Chapter 1

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This is the first chapter in a story I never finished. I now consider it out of date and won't be updating this storyline specifically, but instead will be working on a rewrite of it! I don't know when or if it will ever come out, but for now, this dusty draft will be kept online for the foreseeable future.




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I Wish -Book 3- Sisters Forever by Amethyst on Kindle

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Shannon may now be a magical being but she still has to deal with the more mundane aspects of life such as settling in at school and working as a model! But danger is still out there, whether it is high school drama queens, disgraced ex-cops or malevolent supernatural forces. Shannon has to deal--but she does have her sister to help!

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Sisters Forever
I Wish Book 3
by Amethyst
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TransGlimpses by Wanda now in Kindle Store

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Wanda Cunningham's TransGlimpses, a collection of her shorter fiction, is now available in the Kindle store.

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Princess Warrior by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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John was pissed that he died on the beach at Normandy.

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It was June 6, 1944 and to say Private John Burton was unhappy would be an understatement. Even though he had heard General Eisenhower's speech on the radio, he really wanted to be elsewhere. Not that he wasn't a red-blooded American and not that he didn't grasp the importance of the mission. It's just that he was convinced there was a German bullet with his name on it. It was a feeling he just couldn't shake. All the trouble his parents went through to raise him, scolding him into good behavior, getting onto him to make good grades. And then all the money and effort Uncle Sam went through to prepare and train him for this exact moment, everything his life was moving towards would come to a wasted end on a beach in France he'd never heard of. He just knew it. And he was mightily annoyed about it.

Being annoyed couldn't describe how John felt when not even ten feet from the landing craft onto the sands of the beach before being cut down by German machine gun fire. Talk about being angry as he fell onto the sand...

And then even more angry when he woke up in another time and place as a naked teen girl...
 

Princess Warrior
On Kindle!
by Melanie Brown



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Masks 9 - Business as UNusual - Now on Kindle

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"Wh-what?!" said the man, scandalized. "That's outrageous! We're not child stalkers! We're agents of the US government, here looking for known lawbreakers you're sheltering!"

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Masks 9 on Kindle


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