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Hope's Light - Chapter 34: Departures

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Hope's Light

Chapter 34

by Erisian

Book 6

 

If you have yet to read the saga - the tale starts here:

Into The Light

Hope you enjoy!

 

Chapter Thirty-Four - Departures

 

Having become acclimated to flying the spaces between realms, the trip was uneventful and direct. Not as quick as an immediate translation, but I wasn’t ready to test such maneuvering to patterns not ingrained in both memory and heart.

Somehow both felt necessary.



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The Good Son - 2

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The Good Son: 2

by Clara
Copyright© 2021,2022,2025 Clara Schumann

 

Sometimes you're living a lie and you don't know it.
As Jack tells his story, you'll see what I mean.



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Disney Princess - 2


Disney Princess - 2

by Clara
Copyright© 2017,2025 Clara Schumann

 

Kelly continues his adventures at Disney World.



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End of month bills and once-a-year ones, too

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End of month and some once-a-year bills due, it's tight.

The loss of 2/3 of our ad revenue (~$1000/mo) is still hurting.

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Stuck in the Middle -33

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Stuck in the Middle


In this chapter, Emily struggles with the lingering echoes of her past as a haunting nightmare shakes her sense of safety. As she faces the morning, the warmth of the Blake household offers a fragile comfort, reminding her that while the past may linger, it does not have to define her.

Copyright © Natasa Jacobs. All Rights Reserved.



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Her by Angela Rasch from DopplerPress

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Ten transgender stories of explorations on the boundaries of gender by our Transmagellanic Navigator, Angela Rasch.
 

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Her
by Angela Rasch
Now on Kindle


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A bright boy in the Feminine Queendom Part 5

A bright boy in the Feminine Queendom Part 5

This story is set after the events that happened in the final Chapter of Beverly Taff's The Feminine Queendom 90
She kindly gave her permission for me to post this.



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Blue Lace Chp. 6

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Dragon's Mark ~ Chapter 1


She takes a deep breath and stares off into space. Finally, she looks back at us and shrugs. “I think you may be emitting magic.



 

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Dragon's Mark

By Shauna

Copyright© 2021 Shauna J. Rousseau
All Rights Reserved.
(Cover image designed by Joyce Melton.)
(Edited by Angela Rasch.)


 
 
Prologue

 




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Chapter 26 - All Good Things

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Typing furiously at her keyboard, tears poured down Erica's cheeks. The words she wrote were bittersweet, speaking of the love they could have had and the future denied by a single choice. The choice of one of them to give up on their love. They had overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Torn apart so young, just as their love had begun to blossom, that they then found their way back to one another after so many years of pain apart was nothing short of a miracle.



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Tales of the Angel pandemic, woodsman to woodsgirl chapter seven

After I calmed down I looked out my bedroom window.



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Babs' New Year's Resolution 87

Before I started The Feminine Queendom. I still had not finished Bab's newyears Resolution, so here is the next chapter of Babs' New Year's Resolution

Chapter 87. (Oh do stop complaining! I'm doing the best I can!)

If you can't remember the storyline just flip back through the previous 86 chapters.



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Best Wife

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Best Wife
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

I married my first wife when I was young. All my friends had paired off and had steady girlfriends, and she thought I was great, so I guess I was attracted to her for that reason. We did things with other couples, and as they got married the big question was when we were going to do it. She suggested a date and so I proposed. That was it.



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Angel of Earth: Part 12

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The Angel of Earth

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Rodford Edmiston

Part Twelve

Melody kept her word. She did not try to get back into the headquarters of The Protectorate. However, there were other places associated with them which were - hopefully - not nearly as well protected.



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Tom's Christmas (Part 1)

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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry

Tom’s Christmas  
 

A Tammyverse Prelude
Tom's Christmas
 

 

Part 1 of 2

 

 

Is Tammy is ready to step out?

 



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When Androids Visit Omaha

 
Maybe in the distant future, androids, when they gather, speak wistfully of Omaha and environs.
For all I know — for all that anyone knows —
Omaha may very well be the number one destination for time-travelers
who like to throw elaborate monkey-wrenches into other people's lives.
 



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Reluctant Diva 12

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Reluctant Diva 12
Inspired by Lipstick Discipline
Chapter 12 – A new friend



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It's a hard life for a bright boy in the Feminine Queendom Part 4

It's a hard life for a bright boy in the Feminine Queendom Part 5

This part fills in some of the events that happened in the final Chapter of Beverly Taff's The Feminine Queendom 90
She kindly gave her permission for me to post this.

Then the news came that shocked the nation. The prime minister had been arrested and General Wilson had been shot. This all happened during accusations of treason against Queen Sophia. The nation waited to see how the situation would unfold.



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Believe

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The Greatest Gifts

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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry

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THE GREATEST GIFTS

I had not been looking forward to Christmas at all. It had been a really tough year for me and I needed to just get away from everyone and clear my head.



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A Marvel-ous Christmas

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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry

 

A Marvel-ous Christmas


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It's a hard life for a bright boy in the Feminine Queendom Part 3

This is Part 3 of a story about a bright boy living in Berverly Taff's United Queendom. Recent events have caused unrest. Peter and his mother are affected. With the end of Beverly's amazing story . This is my take on what some of the events may have looked like from someone living in the UQ.

As before I will edit or delete the story if Beverly doesn't approve. My ideas are guesswork into what may have happened.



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Angels and Demons

John Doe was as average as you could get except when it came to being bullied. Bullying became a lot worse when Troy transformed into his angel form. Coping in a world with even more powerful people was going to be tough.



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The Heaviness Of The Badge Chp. 15

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Jack’s Private Lear Jet:
Bree was asleep and had her head on Aylin’s lap as they enter Montana airspace. They had been woken up in the middle of the night and driven to a private airfield. Even Jester was contacted and brought to the airfield.

When they boarded the plane, Tizzy, Lien, Ikaika, and Omphile had been on the plane. After a few hours of flying, they landed again and picked up Cheshire. Lien had been excited that her grandmother was coming with them. She was asleep on Cheshire’s lap as well.



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SNAFU part 46

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Story Copyright© 2010 & 2021 Angharad

SNAFU Part 46

by Angharad
  


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Angel of Earth: Part 11

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The Angel of Earth

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Part Eleven

That tactic seemed to work. The thing stopped, then the part sticking above the tall grass scanned back and forth a bit, as if looking for her. Through the weeds Melody saw that the automaton was segmented, and could fold like a carpenter's rule. The thing unfolded the part with its, well, head further, sending the main sensor array higher. Melody knew that some of these devices responded to motion, and held still.



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Chapter 25 - Yours Always

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The two were startled awake by knocking on Faith's door.



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A Cracker Barrel Christmas Chapter 6

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December 2021 Christmas Holidays Story Contest Entry


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Glyph 4: Putting Pen to Paper part 4

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Ever since Bianca inherited the mantle of the White Lady, she has learned many valuable lessons and faced numerous challenges. Now, she has to hope that she's learned enough to conquer the challenges to come.

https://whateley.academy



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Lonely

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Lonely
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

The cabin had been a place full of people when he was a boy. It had always been a place of joy. She never saw it that way, but she went with him because he loved the place so much. Now that she was gone it seemed that it was just empty.



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The Voyage of the Visund -52-

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The Norse have defeated an ambush and mounted an expedition to deal with the remaining renegades, capturing the farmstead and those within. However, the outlaws at the other farmstead are concerned and mount their own expedition - against the village of Bakhrad.

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The Voyage of the Visund

A tale of Anmar by Penny Lane

52 - Day of Reckoning



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The Joiners pt 7

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Last Concert

Please note that this story is not tagged “Advanced Bru readers”.

I knew it was a big mistake to go on stage again after I had stopped touring when Covid-19 struck. The last two years had been the best of my life and I had absolutely no wish to resume my stage career as Daisy Sweetheart, the soppy singer/songwriter. Especially since it was obvious that this concert would be a disaster. I hesitated before going onstage but my manager gave me a shove and I walked out there. If only I hadn’t swiped that book from my sister five years earlier.



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A Grumpy Old Man’s Tale 33 Shopping

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‘Use the best techniques and materials, Son. Old or new, it makes no odds, just stick with the best, but don’t take anyone’s word for anything; try them all for yourself. Smithcraft is the same as everything else, it’s full of charlatans. Make your own mind up.’



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Neighbourhood Terror to Sissy Pt.39

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Chapter 44

Marcy was counting the stock with Stephanie, a most humiliating tasks as she saw the full extend of what the CC boutique had on offer. There were so many outfits, too many, even each one just as embarrassing and impractical as the next. They came in a wide variety of colours, mainly pastel colours, yet pink in all shades remained the dominating colour. Her main problem was that she could very well imagine herself in all of these outfits with how similarly embarrassing they were to the ones she already owned.



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The Feminine Queendom 90

Final chapter



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Esperanza - A Halloween Tale - On Kindle

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Almost Halloween, on a rainy day near Buttonwillow she stole a ride...

Esperanza

by Lainie Lee

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The stowaway hitchhiker called herself Kelly, or maybe Esperanza. She seemed to be haunted by the ghost of an old man…but was the true story even stranger?



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Heaven and Hell 2: Ways of Power on Kindle

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Being a succubus can be fun, but it ain't no walk in the park. Unless the park is in hell.

From insubordinate Hellhounds to Hellish Bureaucracy, Lorelei is learning to deal with The Ways of Infernal Power. It ain't easy, in fact, it can be hard as Hell. And that's just for starters!



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The Station's Late Nite Princess

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The Station's
 
Late Nite
 
Princess

 



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Prometheans by Joyce Melton & Lainie Lee from Doppler Press

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Doppler Press's offers a compilation of the Promethean Metaverse stories previously posted on BC.

Prometheans



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