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Playing Marbles for the Big Blue -05-

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Playing Marbles for the Big Blue

05 The Theft

By Jo Dora Webster

How will Rasctan and Sela penetrate Alban Kai's planetary cloak?



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Raven's Blood: Chapter 6

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Chapter 6: Testing

Raven Demarco grew up living a sheltered life. When she starts University to get away from that she is caught up in the world of the paranormal. Secret organizations, magic, creatures from myth and legend, and worst of all, her own legacy and the Demons who want her blood.

 

“I’m beginning to think they’re here just to annoy me, “I retorted, “that or for comic relief.”


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Romance We Must by Maryanne Peters Ebook Available

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Romance We Must
by Maryanne Peters
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What do you do when your responsibilities mean sacrificing your desires... your dreams... even your gender? In her 34th collection from DopplerPress, Maryanne Peters explores what it means when duty calls, and you're expected to answer with high heels on.



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Dear God, Who Am I? -12

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Dear God, Who Am I?

by Natasa Jacobs

Chapter 12


College is supposed to be the start of something new. For Riley, it's something else entirely.
Set in the 1990s, this is a quiet, slow-burning coming-of-age story about friendship, identity, and the questions we don't always have words for.

Copyright © Natasa Jacobs. All Rights Reserved.




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Monkey Business by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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Randy loves nothing more in life than motorcycles. When his friend Nick gives him the opportunity to join in as monkey during a sidecar race, he jumps at the chance -- even if it means wearing pink leathers.

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Monkey Business
by Melanie Brown
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M.I.B.D. - Artemis The Hunter - Part 3

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M.I.B.D. Artemis The Hunter Part 3
By Stanman



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Note to Kenny

“What the hell...?”

He knew that he hadn’t seen that piece of paper before, and it hadn’t been in his locker when he closed it up the previous afternoon. Someone had shoved it between the venting slats after he left the previous day or before he arrived that morning.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 317

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Easy As Calling On A Mike.
by Ang-thingumyjig
part:317.

The afternoon was a complete mess, I wasted time by being unable to concentrate on anything I needed to do. I was about to give up and go home when the phone rang. It was Pippa.

"Cathy, can you take a call from Des?"

"Of course, thank you."

"I hope he can help," she said as she put him through to me.



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Marcie And The Amazons: 2. The Secret Passage

"No, it wasn't that..." I hesitated. "It was Ms. Gifford..."

I wasn't sure how much I wanted to say. The real reason I was upset was all the media attention... what it might lead to. What it would have to lead to, if it kept up. If the reporters started looking into my life, they'd find out pretty quickly that I used to be a boy.

Marcie And The Amazons by Kaleigh Way


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Rhapsody, Chapter 7 - Allegro Con Furioso

Rhapsody, Chapter 7 - Allegro con Furioso

Detective Johnson looked thoughtfully distracted for a moment before finally replying, “We’ll set up a trap for him at your apartment.”

“But how?” I asked, confused by the sudden change in position.



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Dr.Who Meets Gaby-1: Meeting of the Minds

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Dr.Who Meets Gaby-1: Meeting Of Minds
By Stanman63


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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 316

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Easy As Flying In A Saucer.
by Bonzi (The baddest cat ever!)
part: 300 plus all Bonzi's toes.

"I am so sick of smoked salmon," said the complaining voice down the phone.

"Send it to me then, I love it."

"The bread is sticking to the phone."

"Pity, can't you digitise it and send it by email?"

"Nah, haven't got a 'puter in 'ere, 'ave I?"



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Lisa's Dream

LISA’S DREAM

By Susan Heywood

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Robert Pemberton answers an advertisement in a contact magazine. The resulting changes to his life are the stuff of dreams.



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Boyfriend and Girlfriend - Part 1

BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND

by Lana Lund

 
Lana and Nina only had met recently and ever so briefly. Now the relationship is about to grow into a High School romance with a twist!



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Ms Frankenstein Part 2

Credence continues to search for clues about her past life. Fred becomes a much larger force; friend, protector, confidant. Will he be a lover? She begins to see that the evil forces in her life persist.



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Mia - Chapter 6

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Six

Mia woke up with sunlight streaming into her eyes. She flinched and rolled over. Robin was asleep next to her, laying on his back snoring like a freight train. The sound was immensely loud, reverberating in her ears. She covered her head with a pillow and snuggled into him. HE wrapped his arm around her and adjusted a little in his sleep. Her head ached, and her stomach was very sour, but she felt good about what they'd done...well, what she could remember at least. Some of the antics after four AM were kind of fuzzy.



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Orphan ~ 18

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‘No, I can’t have been that good!’

‘Yes you were dear; quite amazing. We have one or two swats here, but judging by this test, you will give them a run for their money. You must have known how intelligent you are?’


 
Orphan 18

by Susan Brown



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Coward?

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Coward?

He sits there, trapped by his fear, his cowardice.
He's afraid to do anything that might draw attention to himself.
He's afraid to meet with his co-workers off hours.
He's afraid that he won't be able to bluff his way through all that guy talk.

He's afraid that he'll have a bad time.
He's afraid that he'll have a good time.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 315

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Easy As Falling Off A Step
by Tripwire Bonzi
part: 315 (which is 21 x 15 for 15 or 21 fetishists)



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Marcie And The Amazons: 1. What Ms. Gifford Said

This is really the story of a vacation I took in the South Seas, or mostly the story of my South-Sea vacation. Susan would say that it's ostensibly about my vacation. Don't worry if you don't know what "ostensibly" means... it will all become clear once I get underway.

Marcie And The Amazons by Kaleigh Way


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Bravery of the Nameless

Eric Niklisel was the pride and joy of his parents, so much so that his older sister was treated almost as an afterthought. But when he shrunk away from his duty to defend his people from the invading forces of Prince Jandl, she saw an opportunity to steal away with his honour and glory.



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Myself

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Myself
by Renee M



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 314

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Easy As Falling For a Bike (I did last week!)
by: Angharad wyth-beiciau.(Hope it's grammatical).
part:314

I rode home as hard and fast as I could, I had a lot to do to regain my previous fitness levels. I was hot and bothered when I got home, Tom was there working on his computer. He looked up at me and asked, "What happened to you?"

"I got attacked by a fruit salad, why?"



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Born Twice - Chapter 16

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Born Twice
By Alyssa Plant

'She had asked herself that question many times since this had begun. Only now did she finally have an answer…

Because I’m not normal…

Rebecca turned and ran before they could say another word.'



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Timeout 4- Reel to Real - Chapter 10.5 AKA 11

Joanie's jury duty ends spectacularly. She makes new friends and enemies, maybe. The spring session ends. Joanie makes plans for summer. A new woman will be joining the staff in July, from Egypt. Carson gives out details. Joanie brushes up on her Steve Martin tunes. She and Suzy ride a train and tease the boys.

Andy Warhol said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." What if your 15 minutes came late in life, and fame decided to never let you go? Could you survive the circus your life would become?



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Madam Martinique's Finishing School - Part 5

While things have been going better than expected for Billie, he's still planning on running away from this strange new school. Will he escape? How will his new friends react?

Madam Martinique's Finishing School - Part 5
Copyright 2008 by Heather Rose Brown
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S-Idol - Part 11

Presents

S-Idol - Episode 6 (The Babies goes to the park with nanny)  



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Sister's Pet - 3

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Sister's Pet - 3
by Heulwen
  

"I loved it," I said, almost beaming at the memory," except the bit at the beginning"

"Yes, your sister is a bitch sometimes," he said, " do you want to go again?"

"I'd love too," I replied and moved discretely close to him and briefly touched his hand.



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Balthasar's Extract - Part 5

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(The Titanic Era Diary of Evelyn Westcott)


Evi Westcott (born Edward Tucker) is a turn-of-the-20th Century Alpha female, impatient with the roles polite society has assigned to women — including accidental women like herself — and in a hurry to set things straight. Evi is eighteen. Touring Europe with Auntie Enid, she’s learning about Life in its astonishing diversity and seeking the key to a safe future for herself and the rest of ‘Tottie’s Girls’ — the dozen gender-dsyphoric youth who like Evelyn depend for their happiness on a secure supply of ‘Balthasar’s extract.’

1911 is a fine time to be young. The world is full of new things — the automobile, the aeroplane, social consciousness, moving pictures, mental hygiene and ragtime. Women are dumping the corset and demanding the vote, kicking over the pedestals upon which Victorian Sensibility has placed them. It is a time of creativity and experimentation in the natural sciences, of rapidly growing comprehension of how ‘internal secretions’ regulated human physiology.

Join Evi as she and Aunt Enid arrive in Vienna — sophisticated, elegant and decadent to the core. Of, if you are new to this series, begin at the beginning (some 75,000 words ago) or go to the end of this chapter for a very short synopsis of the story so far.



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All Things Denied 10 - 'A British Cowgirl'

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Notes of a Journey Trilogy
Book 1
All Things Denied

Chapter 10 - 'A British Cowgirl'

A Gaby FanFic by PB

As our heroine rides off into the sunset . . . "Wait! That's not a bicycle!"



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Game of Spies by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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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
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The Reluctant Cheerleader

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Melanie Brown's Reluctant Girl Series continues with The Reluctant Cheerleader now published on Kindle through DopplerPress!

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Mindful by Beverly Taff on Kindle

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Now in a DopplerPress edition, Beverly Taff's classic:

MINDFUL by Beverly Taff


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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!"

Buy Masks 9 on Kindle
Masks 9 on Kindle


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