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If You're Not Paying It... - 1


If You're Not Paying It...: 1

by Clara
Copyright©2017, 2024 Clara Schumann

 

Once an attentive husband, Andrew has changed. Now, he's a moody, controlling jerk. Headed
for a divorce, his wife resorts to a radical solution. This is not the sweet/sentimental
kind of story I usually write. Nothing violent, or anything, but it is not like Disney
Princess or Dusty Rose.



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A Little Bit of Change - 1


A Little Bit of Change - 1

by Clara
Copyright©2012, 2024 Clara Schumann

 

Kari is taking hormones to help them have a baby. Unexpectedly, she starts lactating
and when Dave gets a mouthful, things start changing at their house!



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Second Spirit by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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Jack thought he had his whole life planned out -- right up until the moment he woke up in a new, very different body.

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Second Spirit
by Melanie Brown
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A New Style of Education - Year Five - Part 18 - Final

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A New Style of Education - Year Five

by Karen Page

Part 18

Hayfield Music School
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Gullible Travails

A little something light to start the weekend. . . .



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Bobbi McGee by Chris Leeson on Kindle

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Rob Wescott was unlucky when it came to love. That harmless statue that his ex sent him and he left by his bed turned out to be not so harmless when he woke the next day.

Rob, now Bobbi had to make a new life for herself. But would she continue to be unlucky in love?

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Bobbi McGee

by Christopher Leeson



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I Was Promoted from CFO to Secretary

To our readers, I would like to introduce a new coauthor Cagivagurl. Do yourself a favor and check out her story page on FictionMania.

We were so impressed with her resume of stories we went out and actively recruited her to join our team. For our faithful readers you might be able to detect a more sensual leaning to this production.

We hope you enjoy this tale.
Marina and Monica

I Was Promoted from CFO to Secretary



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Song of the Switcher

 

Song of the Switcher
by Melanie Brown
Copyright  © 2020 Melanie Brown

It just wasn't Steve's day.


This is a "side-quell" to Switcher as the story takes place simultaneously with Switcher. It helps to read Switcher first -- Ed



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Aurora

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Aurora

A Short Story by Rosemary

August 2020

I was born in the lower 48, back in the 1963. My dad was an engineer for an oil company, and my family moved around a lot.

When I was seven, something happened. I began to realize that I was looking at girls. My mom caught me one day, and told me it wasn't polite. Besides, I was too young to be checking out girls.



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The Avon Lady: “Ding Dong, Avon Calling”

The Avon Lady: “Ding Dong, Avon Calling”

A teen boy struggles with a feminine side that he is trying to understand is befriended by a sympathetic Avon Lady that may have had the same struggles when she was younger. Marci wants David to have an easier time getting answers to embarrassing questions; answers about gender identity issues, answers that could make his life easier.

Prologue



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New Forms

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New Forms
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

I have to hand it to Caitlyn Jenner. She is not a person that I can agree with about much, but she certainly had the courage to transition later in life. It was her example that persuaded me to take the decision I had been putting off for years.



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Heaven and Hell 4: Balancing Act at Amazon

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Angelique is back. Along with assorted ancient gods and goddesses, a plot to unseat Lucifer from the throne of Hell, and a lot of other fascinating things. She always seems to get the 'interesting' jobs.

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Princess of Castile chapter 9


Princess of Castile

By Jennifer Reed


Chapter 9: The Princess’s banquet



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Forever the Dragon Princess -chp 14

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Forever the Dragon Princess

The year is 2024. And one of the greatest archaeology finds of all time is on display at the Smithsonian. No one ever expected to find something buried deep within the caves below Mount Fuji, Japan. Especially not a seven foot tall, fifteen foot wide, two foot thick, one-thousand pound, hand carved red lacquered, ebony wood, bejeweled sculpture of the dragon Toyotama-hime that is over 2000 years old. For 16yr old Tony Watanabe this statue held more than just your normal fascination. It held his destiny.



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An Affair of the Harte

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An Old West mining town receives an unexpected arrival and a startlin' predicament.



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Broken Wings 3

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CHAPTER 3
We spent two hours in the car park, as Rosie talked me patiently through the mechanics of riding a bike as opposed to not interfering with it from a pillion seat. There were a few niggles I could see, such as the odd speedometer and the lack of a side stand, but the little machine was docile and uncomplicated to ride.

“Down here, Debbie. This is the drain plug, and…hang on…”

She put some effort into unscrewing a black plug in the crankcase.



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Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl? - Chapter 252



Tommy
The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?

A Novel By Teddie S.

Copyright © 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Teddie S.
All Rights Reserved.

Chapter 252


All night?
The familie's here.
A laugh!
Graduation.


Burning the midnight oil. ~o~O~o~ A new experience for the twins. ~o~O~o~ Exams. Do I have to flunk him? ~o~O~o~ A full nights sleep. Is it for real? ~o~O~o~ It took Bridget to do it. ~o~O~o~ Finally the pomp and ceremony is over! ~o~O~o~ I'm sorry Naainish. ~o~O~o~ I love that sound.

 
 



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A Comedy of Errors

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Conventional step deck-unsplash.jpg A note from Rosemary: I have to admit, this only took me about 45 minutes to write. I was trying to think of something that I could write that I know quite a bit about. Naturally, the answer was trucking, but how to make it funny? This was the result.

A Comedy of Errors

A short story by Rosemary

August 2020



Doug North and his wife, Carol, were truckers. For many years, Doug had pulled flatbed all over the country, while Carol stayed home with the kids. Now that the kids were out of the house, Carol traveled with Doug.

On this particular day, they were in a backwater town, somewhere in the middle of northern Idaho, having just loaded up some treated fence posts. Doug was throwing a strap over the load when out on the two-lane highway, a car blew a tire.



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“A Window to Your Heart” Chapter 7 (Final) “Give It Away”

Give It Away



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“Who I Am” Chapter 17 “”Most of All”

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MOST OF ALL



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Ignorance is No Excuse for Hating Someone Part 20

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“Mom, can you drop me off at the mall on your way to work, please?” Arabella watches as Gina gets dressed.

Gina didn’t mind Arabella sitting on the bed and watching her as she got ready for work. She was running a little late because she gave Arnold a quickie before he left earlier. She looks over at her daughter as she lifts her panties.

“Sure, what are you girls going to be doing today?” Gina makes sure her thong panties are sitting right on her.



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Father of the Bride

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Father of the Bride
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

“Dad has every right to bring a partner to my wedding, having paid for all of this,” said Sonia, waving her hand around the reception area.  There were hours to go before the ceremony, but they had already been to the hairdresser and she wanted a final inspection of the facilities.



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Soixante-Trois Airlines: Sophie, part 9

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“Honestly, there were times I thought this day would never come,” Sophie said as she fidgeted nervously in her smart blue pencil dress and matching designer heels. “And I definitely never pictured it being under these circumstances.”

“Well, regardless of the circumstances, you definitely deserve to feel proud,” Amy advised her friend, who smiled in response.



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Where Will The Next Jenny Lind Sing?

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Sometimes you can’t appreciate what you have, until it’s gone.



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Broken! - Chapter 1

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After a severe beating by his father, Alex was left in a coma and broken. Will his memory return and what will it mean for him if it does?



 

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Broken!

By Shauna

Copyright© 2020 Shauna J. Rousseau
All Rights Reserved.
(All images and artwork are property of and copyrighted by Shauna J. Rousseau.)


 

Chapter One

 




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Butterscotch -18- Cowgirl

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"We were face to face, me sitting in his lap, sort of sideways. “Damn,” said Rory.

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Butterscotch

by Erin Halfelven



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A Minority Of One : 2 / 9

 

“Is there really cake?” I asked.

 



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Cousins in arms 2(5)

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Cousins in arms 2(5) Little drummer boy



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Gaby Book 21 ~ Summer Loving ~ Chapter *40*

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*Chapter 40*
Plink!


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Gaby Book 2 ~ Summer Girl ~ Chapter *19*

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*Chapter 19*
School’s Out for Summer!


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To Not Let Go 3.5

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Chapter 3.5

N21_Station.png It had been three weeks since Rashda had gone downstairs to see what happened to Belinda. He had never confirmed what I thought occurred to her, but his statement referencing The Godfather made it seem likely.

I had spoken to John about it, and he agreed with me. We had watched the movie a few times, but now I felt like removing it from the ship’s archives. I didn’t think I could ever watch it again.



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Like for Like. Chapter 6

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Chapter 6

Back in my office I got stuck in to sorting out the problems. I was sure that the company would appoint a new Finance Manager and they would probably not want me around as I was now tainted.



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Marta

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Spring! What a beautiful time of year! Everything is green. The grass, the new buds on plants. Even the Tamarack trees are producing green needles again.

So it was with buoyant hearts that the couple planned their wedding.



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Girl Friday

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Girl Friday
Adapted from “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe
By Maryanne Peters

CHAPTER XIV



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Raquiel

Raquiel

Raquiel

by Erisian

Light flickers across the café table's turquoise checkerboard and the cigarette's smoke curls upward, mixing with the scent of coffee and the coming rain. Voices bubble all around to fill the evening air with bursts of laughter and camaraderie, but to them I do not listen.

Instead I stare.

My gaze is fixed upon the plain white envelope resting upon the fake marble tabletop where it sits next to an ignored saucer and cup. Yet my eyes see past it to a place so very far away, beyond the reaches of this world. To a place whose name could best be translated as the Edge.

The Edge of all things.



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Castle The Series - 0122 Peppercorns and Anvils

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00463010

DONE. I’LL TAKE THE LOT

“I can definitely trade that. I take it from what you sayt you have not as yet put a price on it?”

CASTLE THE SERIES – 00497010

THE ANVIL

“I can’t even let you see it yet, for it’s buryt under a few thousand weights of hot foundry sand.”

WARNING CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF MURDER AND EXECUTIONS BY BEHEADING



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Poison by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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Dave was looking for a pleasant day out touring college campuses with his son. But there was one small problem....


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Poison
by Melanie Brown
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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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Eve by Melanie Brown on Kindle

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Eve, born Evan Nichols, lived a lie for 28 years before finally deciding to do something about it. She knew becoming a woman would cause pain and emotional distress, but you can't prepare for everything...especially not romance.

Eve on KIndle

Eve

by Melanie Brown

Click to buy now on Kindle!



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Accidental Romance on Kindle

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Bobby went to an old school buddy for a job and got more than he bargained for!

Accidental Romance by Melanie Brown on Kindle
Now on Kindle!

Accidental Romance

by Melanie Brown
Copyright 2012, 2017



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