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S T O R Y    T E A S E R S

Mission to save: the Stan part 4-to battle

We revisit an old story and get back tot he action of the Twins long after their time at Whateley

I have to ask for some input....what to do next when they go to the CIA headquarters?

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The Lucky One: Luck Be a Lady Part 2

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Last time: Fluke, Sarah, and Yaddie have gone into an alternate reality to deal with a chaos wave. They met a girl named Jean Grey who also was a superhero called the Phoenix. Now, they’re dealing with an alien invasion and the arrival of another Phoenix from yet another alternate reality . . .



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Taking Care of the Boss

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Taking Care of the Boss
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters



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Gaby Book 28 ~ Balancing Trick ~ Chapter *5*

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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 5*
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Curse of the Fountain by Melanie Brown from DopplerPress

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Neil wanted to be famous in his old age for discovering the Lost City of Zed with the Fountain of Youth, according to legend. Now she wants to discover the perfect nail color to go with her prom gown.

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Curse of the Fountain
by Melanie Brown
Ebook Now Available from DopplerPress



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Murder at the Shapeshifters' Ball by Rodford Edmiston now on Kindle

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Worlds where being different ISN'T your biggest problem!

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Murder at the Shapeshifters' Ball
by Rodford Edmiston
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Stickmaker's collection of classic SciFi Transformation Tales leads off with a great detective yarn!

Everybody who can be anybody is at the party, including someone willing to kill a beautiful elf!

Thirteen stories set in about ten different worlds deliver mystery, suspense and adventure. With a few important transgender transformations among the furries, aliens and fantastic creatures!

There's a sample of the first story after the break!



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So, Here I Am - Chapter 5

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So, Here I Am
by Hilltopper

CHAPTER 5

I took the move to Indiana as a sign that I was a failure at being a boy. Of course, I knew that I really wasn’t a boy. But, at the same time, I was not a girl either. That left me a nothing; just an empty shell wandering through time. I certainly felt empty.



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The Chosen~6

Suddenly I felt very tired and slipped off to sleep,
wondering vaguely if the medication that I had been given contained some sort of sedative…

Angel

The Chosen
By

Susan Brown



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Tranquility-Sorcerer/ Sorceress C-12-37

Chapter 12

Andrew carries Alice out of the meal hall. Alexandra links to the Percoin garden following the arrival of the SaVannah sisters and everyone quickly crosses, then she drops the link.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 930.

Wuthering Dormice
(aka Bike)
Part 930
by Angharad

Copyright © 2010 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Aunt Arethusa's Legacy

"OK, Osbert. When are you going to admit it?"

"Where are we being admitted? Do I need a ticket?"

"Darling, you are an exasperating bastard, but I love you. When will you abandon your male ego and admit you are lost?"

"When I'm lost, I suppose. Is there a reason for this conversation?"

"Only that we have been driving through the same landscape for half of eternity by now. If we have a destination shouldn't we have found our destiny by this time?"

"I suppose it must be your circumscribed upbringing that's at fault."



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The State does not make mistakes -15-

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The State does not make mistakes

15 - The Grand Tour

by Penny Lane



After the trainee Shepherds tour the facility, Marion finally learns what happened at the accommodation block and remembers someone who might be able to help her residency problem.



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Ovid 09: The Private Eye


Ovid IX: The Private Eye

by The Professor (circa 1999)

Jeff Riley comes to Ovid looking for a man who absconded with thirty million.
He winds up as an attractive black woman with a husband and child.
Solving the case proves to be more dangerous than she imagined.

Ovid


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Skipper! Chapter 22

Skipper! by Beverly Taff

 

Alterations are started at the cottage as the 'family' grows. Chrissie finally gets the okay from the doctors but there's an interesting little wrinkle.



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Time to be me

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Its time to be me

Its my hope that you wont be upset
Because of the truth I have said
Hope you will be ok with what I do



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Jacqui - Part IV The Parties

Jacqui

By

Karen Anne Summerfield and Kelly Ann Rogers
 © August 2002

Part IV - The Parties

"Well, aren’t we special?" she replied, sarcastically. "Poor little Jacqui was kissed by a boy and she’s not happy about it. Perhaps she should become a nun."

"Jacqui, I’ve noticed a change in you over the past few days. Want to tell me about it?"

"I shall take Jacqui to the ball then," he said.



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Changing Cal: Chapter 8

Cal is a 16 year old boy who has been chasing the girl of his dreams almost all his life. When some pesky nanites infect Cal and turn him into a girl how will he deal with it? Will he still be the same person or will he become someone else when the girl now in him takes over?



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 929.

Wuthering Dormice
(aka Bike)
Part 929
by Angharad

Copyright © 2010 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Karaoke Girl

My name is Keane Smith.
I like to sing.
I like going to bars with friends.
I did not know I would like the new life these pleasures introduced me to.



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Drabble: Reunion

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Drabble: Reunion
by mittfh
Copyright © 2010 Ben Norwood.
Creative Commons License

I stood nervously in Arrivals, butterflies in my stomach. Why had I ever agreed to this reunion in the first place?



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Jacqui - Part III New Uniforms and Corsets


Jacqui

By

Karen Anne Summerfield and Kelly Ann Rogers
 © August 2002

Part III - New Uniforms and Corsets

Normally, no more than a four inch reduction is recommended for new figure training.

It had been one of the most humiliating days of my entire life.

I didn't need to look to know what I would see. There would be a cute, submissive maid and a strong, dominant mistress.



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Becoming Monica - Chapter 16

Becoming Monica
Chapter 16

by Closetdrsr

Copyright © 2010 by Closetdrsr


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Jamie and the Peach - 03

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This is a new occasional series that takes its basis and some of its storyline from the cancelled Tokyopop Manga, Yubisaki Milk Tea by Tomochika Miyano. It’s a great series and well worth looking out, it’s a mystery why they cancelled it. For my version I’ve changed the setting from Japan to England and of course the names, then I’ve added some new characters and situations to produce Jamie and the Peach. The original series was cancelled before completion but I intend to take my version somewhat further!

Maddy Bell, February 2010

Jamie and the Peach

Chapter 3

by Maddy Bell
Copyright © 2010 Maddy Bell
All Rights Reserved.


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Little Girl Found

Little Girl Found


Who are you, O little one,

the man asked the girl on the floor.

I'm the little girl you used to be,

until you left and walked out the door.



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Duty, Honor, Country, Family - Part 19

“You won’t believe who we just see in the lobby, Ryuku-san,” Said Sadao Koba.

“Who is that?”

“The dancer, Kristi Yamaguchi. She was just here.”

“Sadao-san, you are mistaken. That was not Kristi Yamaguchi who we just passed,” Ryuku said. ‘Hung over men and their fantasies.’

“Man say she with FBI,” Sadao said insistently.

Tsuki tried correcting her friend. “No, they say she from February.”

Hokusai View of Fuji off Kanagawa Province and Yokohama
Chapter Nineteen

Synopsis- As Agent Ripley makes her move to Hong Kong she begins to re-think her Swan Song assignment.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 928.

Wuthering Dormice
(aka Bike)
Part 928
by Angharad

Copyright © 2010 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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The Way Things Happen - Part 8

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The Way Things Happen{Highlight to read} Part 8
By Jennifer Christine

Continueing the Jenny Holland Story

The next few days felt like travelling through a tunnel, both more and less sensational. If one sense was flooded another was diminished. Not enough energy to go round.



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Jacqui - Part II Jacqui Becomes a Maid

Jacqui

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Karen Anne Summerfield and Kelly Ann Rogers
 © August 2002

Part II - Jacqui Becomes a Maid

Our uniforms were quite plain, with white pointed collars and cuffs on the short sleeves. The moderately full, above the knee skirts were pouffed out some by the gathered cotton petticoats we wore.

"Are you two really maids?"

"Yes, we are really maids," I found the courage to reply, even though I was still trying to understand what that meant.

"Melissa," I screeched. "He tried..."



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 927.

Wuthering Dormice
(aka Bike)
Part 927
by Angharad

Copyright © 2010 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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I Woke, Part 2

I Woke
Part 2
By Dorothy Colleen

 

I slept. While I slept I dreamed. I saw images, snapshots. An accident. Being taken to the hospital, feeling my spirit leave my body. Going into the next room where more doctors and nurses were working.



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Sarah Carerra - 1.25 - 5 Songs for a Daughter

"There is one other option," Dad said, providing me with a ray of hope in the gloom that had settled into my heart.

"What is it?" I asked warily. I knew the look that he had on his face. It usually meant I would be doing something that I didn't like doing.

Sarah Carerra
Chapter 25 - 5 Songs for a Daughter
by Megan Campbell
Copyright  ©2010 Megan Campbell
Released: March 8, 2010


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TransBike-Megan's Wish

TransBike-Megan's Wish

By Stanman63


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Football Girl ~ Chapter 35

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Life continued as normal for a very short while after that disastrous match at Trillingam...
 
 
Football Girl
Chapter 35

By Susan Brown

Copyright © 2010 Susan Brown



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Tranquility-Sorcerer/ Sorceress C-11-37

Chapter 11

Andrew and Alexandra leave the children at their meal hall explaining to them that they will return for them in a half hour's time. If they finish before Alexandra returns, they are to wait at the benches outside the meal hall. Now they go to the Sister's hall for their luncheon and while there discuss together the afternoon lesson plan then order many more honey cakes, milk, water and wine for the afternoon.



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Jacqui - A Maid's Story


Jacqui

A Maid's Story

By

Karen Anne Summerfield and Kelly Ann Rogers
 © August 2002

In 2001, I read a very brief version of this story, essentially the first chapter, that Karen had written. I wondered what would happen after that. Eventually Karen Anne and I decided to co-write this story to find out. While there is a terrific narrative, mostly generated by Karen, this version is also character driven. Jacqui, the maid, and the other key character each have their own voice and we get know what they are thinking and feeling as they interact with each other, change and perhaps grow.

Like other stories of mine, this is a story about becoming, about how we deal with situations that may be beyond our control while still trying to maintain our core values and fundamental humanity. And while this story has high heels and corsets, Karen just can't live without a little kink, it is not one that is about sex. It is about Jacqui and how she makes her way in a not always friendly world.



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The Outsider's Way...

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The Outsider's Way...

Have you ever been to outside,
Beyond the well trodden byways?
Have you ever marked elapsing time,
And watched the world pass by?



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Who hasn’t had a bad day? But Capt. Wainright’s rapidly went downhill after answering a distress call only to wake up from suspended animation in the wrong body—that of a 15 year old girl! His ship now overrun by heavily armed troops, he (or she), will just have to soldier on—it’s going to get worse before it gets better!

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Game of Spies
by Melanie Brown
Now on Kindle


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Who Do That Hoo Doo?

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George returned back to where he grew up still seeking that one place where he fits in. Never did he expect to find himself in a messy tangle of dark magics, ancient promises, and a power hungry hoodoo doctor. Just maybe if his crazed luck can just stay with him long enough, he'll finally find his place under the sun.

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Dragon's Fang by Shauna Rousseau now on Kindle

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Book 2 of Shauna's Dragon Saga!

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Dragon's Fang
by Shauna Rousseau
Now on Kindle


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Easy as Falling off a Bike -25- by Angharad on Kindle

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Cathy's adventures continue!

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Easy as Falling off a Bike -25-
by Angharad
Ebook available from Kindle

As someone from Professor Agnew's life continues to make things difficult, someone from Cathy's past turns up at Danny's school and reopens some old wounds. Can Cathy navigate all these new twists and turns, can she keep her family safe, will she ever experience the simple life?



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