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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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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1254.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1254
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Threads of Truth -05-

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Threads of Truth

A Transgender Coming of Age Romance

From the Harmony Aspirant Universe

Chapter 5: Sanctuary Secrets

By Ariel Montine Strickland

How will Kiki and Julian connect over the sanctuary project? Can Kiki cope with the news she receives from her mother?

Copyright 2025 by Ariel Montine Strickland.
All Rights Reserved.



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Routes 3

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“Friend of ours. Lives near Gatwick, but I know her and her husband by way of climbing”

“Ah! Peak? Lakes? Snowdonia?”

“Peak and Eryri. They’re mates of Penny and Keith”

Al nodded in understanding.

“Yeah, we assumed you’d end up heading that way. Anyway, Jimmy’s basically doing tonight in return for a few pints and a place to kip. I suspect he’s fully aware of…”

He stared at Maz for a few seconds, then put his tea down.



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Weeping Willow. Book 3, Chapter 9 of 23

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Chapter 9

When Willow and the conductor followed the orchestra after the tuning, she saw that the place was as packed as it had been on the two previous nights. For her, it was sit and repeat; for the audience it was all new and wonderful. There was good applause with each item, and her passage back to the Yamaha was much easier without all the cables.



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Eerie Saloon 2: House Rules by Ellie Dauber and Chris Leeson - Now on Kindle

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As the girls of the former Hanks Gang serve their 60 days at the Eerie Saloon, they begin to adjust to their new bodies and make new lives. This being the Old West, there's also a shootout, poker games, and a kidnapping.

Wilma, Jessie and Bridget have new opportunities but old ways of thinking, especially thinking of themselves as men, are hard to break. It's all a question of learning the new rules for how to live as women.

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Eerie Saloon 2
House Rules

by Ellie Dauber and Chris Leeson

Now on Kindle from Doppler Press!



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Sara's Magic Crayons SRU - Chapter 3

Sara's Magic Crayons
Chapter 3

by Maggie O'Malley

When Sara was growing up, her "magic crayons" helped her escape the pain. Now as an adult and the world famous Art Angel, can they help her to find the life she's always dreamed of?



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A New Style of Education - Part 16

The mystery man is revealed and the school performs the first of the two concerts.



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Cat and Mouse

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First episode of a comic book without pictures. Cat is a woman possessed by a rather nasty demon, while Mouse is a very small detective whose clients suspect him of being a cross-dresser. Believe it or not, they're going to become a superhero team. Warning: extreme violence.



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 6 Revelations

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Rhod/Mfanwy Finds out the truth about what has been happening. Will this change things? For the better?



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 5 Keeping Up With The Jones's

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WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I’m totally confused. Mr. J gets angry about me being a girl, Sandy looks like she is getting chewed out, I find Sandy in the apartment by herself crying, her mother isn’t saying anything, and keeps referring to Mr. J, Miss Bell is being evasive and is upset I came here as a girl. Why is everyone so upset? God did I blow this big time? Am I going to be in serious trouble? Why is there such a big issue with me being a girl? I mean, after all, Look at Sandy she a big girl and me being a girl, I’d of thought that was more desirable. What gives anyway?



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Sara's Magic Crayons SRU - Chapter 2

Sara's Magic Crayons
Chapter 2

by Maggie O'Malley

When Sara was growing up, her "magic crayons" helped her escape the pain. Now as an adult and the world famous Art Angel, can they help her to find the life she's always dreamed of?



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Bobby's Rainy Day Adventure: Chapter IV

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In chapter four Bobby has fun playing 'Mommy and Baby' with Cori until Terri bursts into Cori's room with some shocking news.



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 4 The Grottoes

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Rhod finally arrives in Grottoes Virgina. There is a little welcome party planned were all the exchangees will meet up with their host partners. Rhod has no idea who his host partner is except his name, Sandy Jones. He is the replacement for Dan Martin that freaked out when he discovered Rhod was Mfawny. Dan was removed from the exchange program. How will Sandy react when he meets a girl instead of the boy he was expecting? (Even though she is that boy.)



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 3 The Arrival

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Will Rhod make it through American Customs? They are just about to touch down in Washington International Airport. Will Mr. Pilling and Miss Cowlishaw fill Drew and Rhod in on what is going to happen?



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 2 The Flight

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Rhod has some tight moments, will he be able to make people see he is a girl? Will he be able to carry it off? Will his classmates twig there is something amiss? He still has a male passport, what will happen if he makes it to the American Customs?



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Rhod`s Trip To America ch 1 Departure

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This takes place in Maddy Bell's Gaby universe. Rhod, a 13 year old boy, is best friends with Drew Bond, also a 13 year old boy. Drew sometimes gets mistaken for a girl. Rhod a part time girl himself, due to circumstances beyond his control, finds out that he wants to be Mfawny (Em), a Welsh girl, full time. A foreign exchange program gives him the opportunity to do so. Chapter 1 starts the trip going to America.



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Sara's Magic Crayons SRU - Chapter 1

Sara's Magic Crayons
Chapter 1

by Maggie O'Malley

When Sara was growing up, her "magic crayons" helped her escape the pain. Now as an adult and the world famous Art Angel, can they help her to find the life she's always dreamed of?



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Wendy's Birthday Wish

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Wendy's 50th birthday party is a sad affair until she blows out the candles on her cake and gets her greatest wish fulfilled.

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Wendy's Birthday Wish



By Maggie "Kitten" O'Malley



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No Obligation, Part 9

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Becca's vow to protect Heather runs straight into a complication she hadn't seen, and a limitation she can't avoid. With time running short, can The Advocate do what must be done -- without using her power?

No Obligation
Part 9

by Randalynn

"Saving the Day, or Daddy's Goin' Down"


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The Deep Dark Secret

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The Deep and Dark Secret.

By Susan Brown

It was on Paddington Station in the heart of London that their eyes met across the crowded platform.

Susan’s heart missed a beat when she saw him glance at his watch and then look up at her. He smiled handsomely; his gleaming white teeth brightened her day and most of the platform.

She went wobbly at the knees. He was at least 6-foot tall, wide shouldered, about 29 years old, blond hair with liquid blue eyes. Testosterone appeared to be oozing from his body as he walked over to her and said, ‘Where have you been all my life.’



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A Soft Safe Place

A Soft Safe Place
By Tyrone Slothrop

Shock:
a. A violent collision or impact; a heavy blow.
b. Something that jars the mind or emotions as if with a violent unexpected blow.
c. The disturbance of function, equilibrium, or mental faculties caused by such a blow; violent agitation.



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Genomorph

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Lt. Commander Brandon Anderson is grievously wounded during a special operation in the Iraqi desert. After two years of surgery and therapy, and facing a lifelong disability, he accepts an offer from Dr. Susan Covington to participate in an ambitious test of the alien artifact he helped recover from the desert. The results are something neither anticipated in their wildest imaginings and Brandon embarks on a journey to discover the woman, and weapon, he has become.



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Genomorph Part 3

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Synopsis: A Navy SEAL is transformed into a sexy female super soldier by an alien machine. After escaping from a secret lab, she sets out to learn who she is. Now back in LA, Brandi finds trouble, friendship and just maybe something more…. Part 3 of 5.



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A New Style of Education - Part 15

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Will the Barnes parents find Wendy and Jessica? A school treasure hunt with a twist and a very familiar building.



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Follow Your Heart

In a familiar future, while villagers are en route to a new home world, a girl finds the magic to fulfill her dream, but will she be allowed to use it and at what cost?



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A Perfect Life

I am not writing this myself. I have finally convinced someone to do it for me. She promised to post it on the Internet, but only as fiction. I suppose it is a bit unbelievable.



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The Black Dog

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This is my first post here.
This is a tale from the husbands pov as his wife seeks to address his emotional troubles by sugesting an alternative to his current life.
There is one nasty scene toward the end, though not overtly graphic.



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The Road to Jericho

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A modern day slant on an old parable. Beaten, robbed and left on the roadside, a church deacon learns a lesson about unconditional love from an unlikely source.



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Amazon - Part 09: Dancing Queen

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Back in Los Angeles again, and close surveillance begins of our heroine; family revelations begin, and there are the evils of -- DISCO.

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Amazon - Part 9: Dancing Queen

By Itinerant
Edited By Amelia R.

Biographer's Note: This is Nicole's story. It covers those events and people she finds notable in her life and chooses to share. If you have problems with it, take it up with her. I'm just a glorified stenographer.



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Serendipity

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A story about pleasant discoveries...



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A New Style of Education - Part 14

It is time for the field trip. A great time for any student to learn in a nice relaxing atmosphere...lol

A New Style of Education

by Karen Page



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Deadpan Again

They're back, just in time....

Deadpan Again

by Erin Halfelven



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Thirty Million Reasons -11-

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...Anna Maria began laying out the clothes she'd picked for me to wear.



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Karma part 12

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A funeral for a friend.



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Forget-Me-Not

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Seventeen-year-old Brian Anderson hated having to move from California to a rinky-dink mid-western farm town. There was no way they could make him stay, or could they?



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Like for Like by Marianne Gregory from DopplerPress

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Three arresting stories from Marianne G!

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Like for Like
by Marianne G
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No Substitute for Romance by Maryanne Peters on Kindle

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If you can't be yourself, be someone else!

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No Substitute for Romance
by Maryanne Peters
Book 22 in Mostly Happy Endings
Now on Kindle


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The Frozen Balance - by Persephone - Kindle Edition

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Sometimes sacrifices have to be made to save the world from war...



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The Last of the Fey by Denise Anesidora Trask on Kindle

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The Last of the Fey

by Denise Anesidora Trask

Dennis is a stunt man, er... boy, er... young adult. Being of slight build, although muscular, he didn’t get into sports when in middle and high school. No, he was far too deeply involved in the motion picture business by then. It all began when he was less than a year old and snowballed from there.



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