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So readers what next? 2025/07/10 - 5:14pm
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New Pete on Patreon for everyone :) 2025/07/10 - 8:21am
some updates 2025/07/09 - 7:58am
Don't give up the day job Maddy 2025/07/09 - 6:32am
Writing Challenge from Erin in 2008 2025/07/09 - 5:31am
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One day vacation 2025/07/07 - 5:18pm
“Go wake up Donna” 2025/07/06 - 6:14am
Astrid Jorgensen 2025/07/06 - 4:01am
No Ice In Antarctica 2025/07/05 - 8:03pm
Circle in the Sand Final Chapter 2025/07/03 - 8:35pm
Opening Doors 2025/07/03 - 12:56pm
Kern - A little help for patient readers! 2025/07/03 - 6:31am
I am sure most of you know by now 2025/07/02 - 1:32pm
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Space and Time for Romance #2 - My New Anthology on Amazon 2024/03/31 - 3:34pm
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BC Funds and the Hatbox 2022/02/17 - 3:30pm
How to Process Removing Hate Reviews from your Amazon Published Works 2021/11/11 - 8:39am
The Power of the Pen 2020/06/22 - 11:59am
Everybody Wins! 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway Contest Results 2015/07/02 - 7:16am
TopShelf's 2015 Summer Vacation Getaway! Story Contest 2015/03/12 - 10:29am
Edeyn 2013/09/30 - 6:57am
BigCloset TopShelf's 2012 Reconciliation Story Contest Winners 2012/11/29 - 11:41pm
Images 2 2012/09/30 - 3:42pm
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BCTS Summer Romance 2011 Contest Results 2011/11/30 - 5:11am
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Unpossible Me from DopplerPress

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Justin’s life took a detour when he tried to use a shortcut...

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Seems Too Good - Chapters 41 and 42

“Seems

Seems Too Good



Chapters 41 and 42

by Sofia Hammerstein

Doctor Nick Benning has worked hard to become a phenomenal surgeon. Ads for traveling to a new dimension have begun to pop up everywhere; including a billboard asking 'Life got you down? Debt sky-high? Health problems? Just needing new scenery? Visit Portal Relocations on the web to learn of your chance for a new life!' Circumstances in life change for him and the journey begins to sound intriguing despite the stories he's heard... (A Tale from the Diaper Dimension)



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1251.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1251
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Routes 2

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Our first morning in the UK was brighter, a communal breakfast taken in the conservatory and garden, bunkhouse style in the way everyone clubbed together. I still felt like shit, my usual reaction to long haul flights, but Maz and I had been woken by our daughter at about seven, Maz pretending to be asleep even after a prod from the girl. I understood why when LC finally turned to me for permission.

“Dad?”

“Yes, love?”

The slightest of twitches from her, and then that surge of confidence, or maybe hope, that warmed my heart.

“Can I play with the dogs again?”



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Dragon's Fire Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Forged in Flame

The air outside was cool, imbued with a serene stillness that enveloped the world just before midnight. A delicate layer of frost blanketed the ground, glistening like crushed diamonds under the light of the stars, which sparkled above in a vast expanse of ink-blue sky, sharp and luminous in their tranquility.



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Masks 10- Deepest Danger - Now on Kindle

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There's something in the water, no literally! Some THING huge and ugly with destruction on its mind.
It's a fight that's going to require the best the community of masks can muster -- a gathering of heroes like no one has seen before! The call goes out, the threat will be met -- for the world is in

Deepest Danger!


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And That is the Way it Happened -2-

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John continues to go to school. He and the girls plan their next project, while Janice learns more about girls on weekends.
Things don’t go according to plan... then things get really interesting.

And That
is the Way it Happened

Part 2

by Paula Dillon

Copyright © 2007 Paula Dillon
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A Reward

A Reward

by A.B. Zorro

Change to Survive



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Game Over

Game Over
by Randalynn

When Frank lost a bet with his wife, it turned out to be the beginning of the game, and not the end. Can he figure out the rules and find a way to win, before he loses everything?



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Identity

There are many different ways to die.

By Karen J. Taylor

Copyright 2007

This story deals with what has been a controversial topic, if you can’t read it with an open mind, don’t read it at all. You’ve been warned.

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Being Christina Chase | Chapter 1: Missed Messages

        Christopher Chase stared at the tiny clock in the computer's taskbar. 8:45 PM. "I'm the last one again," he said aloud, the sound of his voice echoing through the old factory building. Chris regularly worked late; it was just part of the job. At the age of nineteen, with only a high school education, he felt lucky to have the job at all. Still, being a full time support technician, aside from his role as an unofficial and underpaid junior programmer, gave new meaning to the phrase "low man on the totem pole." He was more like the guy who waited on the park bench across the street from the totem pole, praying for the day they decided to make it just one face taller. That would only help him if the three guys on the bench with him would quit or drop dead before that day ever came.



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Nothing Stranger Than Life, chapters 8 - 10

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My powers continue to grow.

Whistles are disturbing.

Will we ever learn Fargo's gender?



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Don's Response

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Don's Response

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Just prior to Jezzi's story Darling Dainty Donna and the family ganging up on Don for being mean to Bobbi I thought this story could be inserted instead. There is no meanness, no underhanded ploys, just a boy reaching out for answers from a family that he feels he has lost.........



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Sometimes Justice Just Works

An incident on a hiking trail through a swamp leads a solitary man to new companionship, a new point of view and a new appreciation for justice at work.



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Nothing Stranger Than Life

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Hi again! I have not written anything in a long time. I hope you enjoy this. The story is strictly from my own mind, for better or worse, but a lot of the basic beginning theme come from real life. How weird, huh? Don't forget to comment and expect regular episodes often!



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 34 The Judgment

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Em is asked to come to Miss Bell's office to identify her attackers. She really doesn't want too, for she doesn't want any enemies. Sandy convinces her to do it, for If it wasn't her, then it would have happened to someone else, and they could of ended up in the hospital. Reluctantly Em agrees to do it.



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Timeout 4- Reel to Real - Chapter 1

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Timeout 4, Reel to Real: A Whateley Academy Fan fiction

Joanie tells the bittersweet news about their parents to the Smith twins. A sleep-over is held, pizza ordered and a card cheat uncovered. The farm rehab progress smoothly at first. Joanie gets a surprise invitation to perform and great news from the Senator. And her farm house blows up. And you thought there would be typos in the synopsis, ha!

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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Hookups

Hacker slice-of-life: an introspective moment with someone who got a lot more than she expected from his old equipment.



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So, A Man Walks Into A Bar...

Julie O's So, A Man Walks Into A Bar... 

... but this tale is no joke.



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The Toilet Seat

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The Toilet Seat

by Danielle Leigh-Anne O'Bryan

A mini drabble of misunderstandings and consequences.

Exerpts from Life



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Tarja 1-9

The story of a boy who discovers happiness as a girl...

Tarja

by TG Sine



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Fleet Commander - In The Line Of Fire - Part One

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"Fleet Commander - In The Line Of Fire - Part One" By Cathy Dee

The Universe is a big, unexplored place, with a LOT of surprises. Think that you have got what it takes?

(From the universe of the sci-fi movie "Wing Commander")



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And That is the Way it Happened -1-

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John Daniels is a boy that loves to tell stories. He has hopes of being journalist. He has three friends that would do anything they could to help him...
but John has a problem that could sidetrack all his efforts.

And That
is the Way it Happened

Part 1

by Paula Dillon

Copyright © 2007 Paula Dillon
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Girlery -1- Is She Or Isn't He?

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Only her witch knows for sure...
Is She or Isn't He?



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Game Theory 2.30-2.38

Omnibus edition of this week's releases of Game Theory.

I've now caught up - that is, this release is only about three thousand words behind where I've written up to, but I'm busy clacketing away to stay ahead... :-}

P.S. I've been increasingly unsure if my genre-tagging is accurate, and have fallen into the dilemma of certain aspects of the plot that maybe should be signposted in the tags but haven't been, largely because they only emerged - even in my own mind - as the story progressed. (But also, in some cases, because to do so would be a massive spoiler. :-}) But I do worry that the tagging may no longer accurate and would welcome feedback on this.

P.P.S. <geek>I switched to Scrivener partway through this week's work, and with it to a different way of exporting to HTML. You should only be able to see the join if you view source. :-)</geek>



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Making Friends

Bernie the Junkman made a decent living fixing and selling bots and droids out amongst the asteroid miners. He was basically content, sure his life wasn't perfect and he was a bit of a loner, but despite that he didn't mind being Bernie. Then from a broken robot he learned what could make him even more content.



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Circle of Friends

The old magic abides. For six friends, that means new experiences in each others' lives, as new magic is spun and a web is woven.



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Curious Awakening Part Two

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A Curious Awakening Part II: New Location

I stood angrily facing them. "What the hell have you done to me?" I
said in my new feminine voice, which still contained an element of



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Curious Awakening Part One

Curious Awakening
By Dudette

I opened my eyes, I wasn't sure where I was. Mentally I felt around my
body, nothing at first but it soon became apparent that my arms were



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In the name of the Lady 5

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In the name of the Lady,  © 2007 by Kimby

The story of Frank and what happened to him when God got irritated.



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The Silver Ghost. Book One Complete

The Silver Ghost

(Full Length)

Danielle Leigh-Anne O'Bryan

BOOK ONE

Chapter One:

Introductions



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Passing Tones, Chapter 9

I stopped dead in my tracks. Standing there across the essentially empty lobby was the woman I loved; looking at me with what I desperately hoped was forgiveness in her eyes. Her face started to brighten when she saw me, but then she quickly suppressed that reaction as she tried unsuccessfully to appear disinterested.
Passing Tones
Chapter 9

by Jillian Marie



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In the name of the Lady 4

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In the name of the Lady,  © 2007 by Kimby

The story of Frank and what happened to him when God got irritated.



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In the name of the Lady 3

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In the name of the Lady,  © 2007 by Kimby

The story of Frank and what happened to him when God got irritated.



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In the name of the Lady 2

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In the name of the Lady,  © 2007 by Kimby

The story of Frank and what happened to him when God got irritated.



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In the name of the Lady

In the name of the Lady,  © 2007 by Kimby

The story of Frank and what happened to him when God got irritated.



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She Like Me - by Angela Rasch on Kindle

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He had to find out: what do women think?

She Like Me
by Angela Rasch
Now on Kindle
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Faced with the need to pick a thesis topic, amid the turbulent sixties, Gerald looks to solve the mysteries of the female gender by disguising himself as one of them. In a world faced with the assassination of Martin Luther King and the Southeast Asia Conflict, can a man successfully pretend to be a college co-ed and discover the secrets of how women think? Gerald has read all the pertinent sociology textbooks and has a list of questions he will seek to answer, but is he asking the right questions? And, once he understands women, what decisions will he make about himself?



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What If?

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What If on Kindle

A story of heartache and pain, sins, misadventures, curses, a gods wrath and finally redemption.

What If?

by Monique S.

What if even an ordinary mortal could alter history? There are so many theories as to what time is and what it would mean if you could alter history and create an alternate timeline in a parallel universe.

Being interested in extreme Astrology and a technician I have always rejected such theories, just until I woke up in HER bed and found myself changed ...



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Easy as Falling off a Bike -19- by Angharad on Kindle

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Life continues to confound Cathy while her foster children continue to create new challenges.

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Easy as Falling Off a Bike
Book 19
by Angharad
Buy on Kindle



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Blue Moon - Worldwide Kindle Sale!

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On the night of the Blue Moon, the Devil in Drag walks the Earth granting wishes and causing trouble.

Two young roommates deal with moonlight, music and magic in a gender-bending,
heart-stopping, romantic romp through Hollywood.

Blue Moon



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