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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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Destiny's Serendipity -20-

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Destiny's Serendipity

Episode Twenty: Parting of the Ways

A Thriller - Romance - Transgender Serial

From the Limoxian Universe

By Jo Dora Webster

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Project Toxin: Chapter 12 Revelations

A young New Yorker finds himself in over his head after finding a symbiote that changes him in unexpected ways.
Toxin
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Chapter 12

I’m in a city—New York?

But it’s wrong.



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Raven's Blood: Chapter 9

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Chapter 9: Family Secrets

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.

 

“There are Demons after me; they put a price on my head. I need you to teach me how to fight,” I admitted.


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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1250.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1250
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Aria - Book 2 - Trials and Temptations by Emma Anne Tate on Kindle

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Cami's adventures continue...

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Aria - Book 2
Trials and Temptations
by Emma Anne Tate
Now on Kindle


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The Big Break, Chapter 13

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Christmas at Home

In the morning we went down to the dining room and were having breakfast when one of the staff came over and told us that there were a lot of ‘young people’ outside the hotel and wondered if they should call the police.



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The Patsy Project. Book 2. Patsy Power Parts 27 and 28

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Patsy Power Part 27

I went to find the band and Riordan went to find hers while Angela went off to call Sarah at home. I found Carl and the boy’s playing cards in the hotel lounge, pulled up a chair and asked them for their attention. “Just a few minutes ago” I started, “Riordan proposed a scenario where ‘Amazon’ almost doubles in size and ‘The Party’ disappears altogether. “



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Thanks Truck-kun For Making Me A Trader - Part 14/27

Lillyn is refocusing her research on the automata of Maynard Mansion.
But, of course, nothing is ever easy for her.
Maybe one or two of her friends can cheer her up.



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Butterscotch -16- Spuma

He gave me a small squeeze. “You’re going to be killer when you get the training wheels off..."

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Butterscotch

by Erin Halfelven



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Thunder Creek Ranch Chp. 3

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Castle The Series - 0121 Thrift and Firefox, Sunwarmth

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FIREFOX AND THRIFT

“The only conclusion I have been able to arrive at is that he actually enjoys being in trouble.”

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IS IT IN THE WATER?

Lorna replied, “As far as we are aware none of the men are pregnant,”

WARNING CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SEXUAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE SUFFERED BY A CHILD, AND HER SUBSEQUENT TORTURE AND KILLING OF HER ABUSERS



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Demon Witch Cheerleaders ( part 16)

16 The whitelighter and The Death of Demon Witch



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“A Window to Your Heart” Chapter3 “A Way”

A Way



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“To Be a Different Someone” Chapter 12 “For the Love of Him”

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For the Love of Him



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Tammy Interludes: Guard of the Thistle - Part 2

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Guard of the Thistle  

Book 11: Tammy Interludes
 

 

"Guard of the Thistle"
Part 2

 



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Annie, Get Your Gun! Chapter 7 – Discovering the girl within

Chapter 7 – Discovering the girl within



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Princess of Castile chapter 8


Princess of Castile


By Jennifer Reed


Thomas meets his family again and goes for a medical appointment.
Things heat up in Castile as they prepare to bring justice

Chapter 8



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Meagan's Tail ch6 ...Royal lessons 2

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Meagan's Tail

A new Universe, a New story!

Queen's lady Meagan Ler newly changed life continues!
her linage is Queen of all the seas and mermaids!

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Broken Wings 2

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CHAPTER 2
Once more I woke to a hangover, and realised I really needed to find another pastime. It wasn’t just the headache and dry mouth, nor the puking I had been doing far too often since Mam and Dad…

Break the mood, woman. I started the process of a solitary breakfast, this time a bowl of cornflakes with much more milk than I would normally have used, in an attempt to rehydrate a bit. There were other reasons to cut back, of course, not least being the need to protect my licence and my livelihood.



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What Story - Part 10

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Kim finally left the hotel in what was for her, a rather odd mood. She wasn't sure what to do next. For someone who was generally so sure of herself this mood/feeling was becoming far too common to be good for her.

The weather wasn’t playing ball either. A brisk north easterly wind was bringing rain in off the North Sea. It was decidedly chilly and a far cry from the lovely sun of the previous day.

She was glad to get in her car and start the engine to warm up the interior. After a few minutes, she switched it off. Once again, she had no idea what to do next or where to go.



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Demon Witch Cheerleaders (part 15)

15 Canadian fight and New Secret Police of America

I saw my father and says “ I see you have notice your sister Raisa is back”. I said “ yes father I have seen her and she is headed for Hawaii and I am heading for another problem Area”. Father says“ good my beautiful daughter you are doing well”. I said “ thank you father and with Lilith and Isabella as full demons like Raisa and I ”.



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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Alt. Universe Chapt. 22

Belle says “ ok fine but I am told the new woman name Carter was going to be a vampire she was once the male bug Declan as Feya change him into a woman”. Dawn says “ thank you Kennedy my mate and I will be here until tomorrow and we will be heading and soon back to Sunnydale”. Willow, Paislee and Layla were on their way to the palace.



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Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned File 1.2

I. Smack My Bitch Up



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“Who I Am” Chapter 12 “Faze”

FAZE



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The Change Chapter II

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In a world were there has been no rape, sexual assault or harassment in over 100 yrs. Each 16 year old child gets a letter that starts like this:

Greetings, 16 year old.


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Creatures - Part 2

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Creatures

Part 2 -- The Conclusion

by Anon Allsop

Chapter 21

It was dark by the time they had loaded both of the corpses into the Suburban, Chet and the dogs left a little while after they had found Stew. Each corpse couldn't have weighed more than thirty pounds. The skin on each was stretched tight like blackened paper, and only their clothes told the men who they once had been.

Quietly, almost reverentially, they drove back to town where the doctor was already waiting for them at his office. Holding the door, he watched as both Stew and Eve were carried in and placed upon separate gurneys.



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Carla & Julian - Chapter 8

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Carla & Julian Chapter 8

By Julie D Cole

Mums comment unnerved me a little but at the same time I didn’t feel embarrassed any more since Carla had reacted so positively. Mum wanted to call dad and tell him but she new that Carla wanted to meet him face to face and ask his permission.



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Melodies of the Heart: Jane and the Ghost Nurse

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Hospital about a day or so ago. The girl had developed a nasty case of pneumonia that had gone under the guise of a really nasty common cold for several days, slowly withering away her heat till at last her mother had enough. The woman taking the bull by the horns, barged into Jane's room, and quickly bundled her up in a cocoon of colorful, woolen blankets. She then tossed her into the back of one of the many SUV's that belonged to the house. Once Jane was safely locked away, she then climbed into the drivers side of the SUV and made a light night, bat straight out of hell and ran to St.



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Church of the Poison Mind 1

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Mystery Boy

I saw him from across the street.
He didn’t recognize me.
Who would?



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Like for Like. Chapter 4

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Chapter 4

I was in a dream, I knew it was a dream as I was floating but my body was on fire. I felt no pain, just every nerve ending was screaming. There were also sounds of speaking in my head, strange words that my dreaming brain made no sense of.



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“To Be a Different Someone” Chapter 11 “ C’est la Vie”

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C’est la Vie



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“A Window to Your Heart” Chapter 2 “Restless Heart”

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Alchemy and Essence

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An old man on a flight from Southern to Northern California tells the stranger sitting beside him about the famous movie villain that had lived next door to him when he was a boy. An actor once well known for playing pitiless vampires and raving mad scientists, but who in real life had been gentle, caring and kind. And while his fame hasn’t endured the way Lon Chaney's or Bela Lugosi’s have, at the time even the movie critics who panned the low budget films he was in would concede that this startlingly ugly man brought a rare sensitivity to the roles he specialized in. As if he knew these monsters’ private pain.

Then the teller’s story takes a weird left turn. A theory about the actor’s supposed suicide which---as preposterous as it might all sound---would be nice to believe. Saying that rather than having drowned himself on that drizzly spring day in 1941 Max Grosz may have found his way to a second chance at life, and a different kind of movie stardom that would win the hearts of a nation...

ALCHEMY AND ESSENCE
Laika Pupkino ~ 2011 (& 2020)


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America's Princess

America’s Princess
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters
A Darker take “Alchemy and Essence” by Laika

I was born on August 14th 1932 – that is to say that my body came into the world on that day. So my life now draws to a close. My second life.



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The Acceleration of the USS ACCELERATOR


The Acceleration of the USS ACCELERATOR

By Daphne Xu

The U.S.S. ACCELERATOR has been accelerating at one gee for 45 days 7 hours, and 13 minutes -- 3.914 * 106 seconds -- since its departure from the Inner Solar System.

CAPTAIN: Lefty! Do we have the latest measurements? How close are we now to the speed of light?



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TransGlimpses by Wanda now in Kindle Store

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Wanda Cunningham's TransGlimpses, a collection of her shorter fiction, is now available in the Kindle store.

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I'm with the Band by Melanie Brown from DopplerPress

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Mike wanted to be in his brother's band in the worst way, but this was ridiculous!

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by Melanie Brown

Now available from Kindle!

Copyright © 2005 Melanie Brown


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Choosing Romance by Maryanne Peters on Kindle

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Twenty more gender-bending tales from Maryanne as her heroes-turned-heroines, in the midst of crisis, choose the romantic option.

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The Handshake That Hides the Snake - by Angela Rasch on Kindle

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Your past is always there. Erik discovers that his will force him to make choices about his future and decisions about those he can trust.

But is anything quite what it seems in this tale of profit, manipulation and loyalty?

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The Handshake That Hides the Snake

by Angela Rasch

Now on Kindle



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