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Christmas Hopes - Part 1

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Christmas Special!

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Christmas Hopes
An Anthology



by Andrea Lena DiMaggio


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These stories are a continuation of A Christmas Sampler
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/24777/christmas-sample...


The Last Greek Class (Reformatted)

The Last Greek Class

Ancient Greek… an unusual subject nowadays, and even unusual back then… it was compulsory, along with Latin for the “Honours” class up to Inter Certificate (Intercert), and optional thereafter for Leaving Certificate (Leavingcert). And I took the option, even though I wasn’t that good with languages; it was reputed to be an “easy honour” and I needed this to get the state grant to help with college. We were to be the last Greek Class in our School as Greek teachers were becoming hard to find.

The Spirit of Christmas

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Christmas Special!

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The Spirit of Christmas
 ©2012 Zoe Taylor

Twas the week before Christmas,
And one lost little girl
Discovers her Christmas miracle
Is about to unfurl...

Jade's Survival

*** Author's note: This is like my normal stories. This deals with child abuse, neglect, abandonment. There is also other triggering themes in this story.

Chapter 1: The Day Everything Changed

Jake walked home from school like it was any other day, his headphones blaring some angsty song about rebellion and survival. It fit the mood he was in—school sucked, home wasn’t much better, but at least it was something. A roof over his head. Food on the table. A bed to crash on.

A Summer's Odyssey - Now on Kindle

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After his mother dies the only option Kris has is to take his kid sisters to grandma's house. But Massachusetts to Maryland is a long way to travel on only $50. How will they make it, will grandma be able to keep them and what kind of life can they expect?

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A Summer's Odyssey

By Jennifer Sue

Now available on Kindle

Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneur

by Lulu Martine

They came for me during sixth-period Geometry and led me out of class in handcuffs. It was so embarrassing, but it could have been worse.

Mrs Beale asked what I was being charged with, but the officers refused to say. So there was that. I didn't know what the charge would be, but I did know what crime I had committed.

Castle The Series - 0049 Janice, Ursula, Imogen, Phœbe

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AFTERNOON JANICE (36) AND KÆN (39)

“I don’t have any possessions because I don’t need what I can’t see or even find.”

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AFTERNOON URSULA (27) AND OYSTER (33)

“And besides we both want children don’t we?”

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AFTERNOON IMOGEN (54) AND DEREK (65)

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AFTERNOON IMOGEN (54) AND WRYNECK (42)

Imogen and Wryneck liekt each other immediately, and within an hour had agreement.

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AFTERNOON PHŒBE (45) AND KNAPPS (48)

He had referred to her as a Mistress smacker, which was too close to the truth for comfort.

The Prophet Revised Chapter 10


The Prophet

By Jasmine Monica

Serin receives an offer much like the one that Patinea recieved many years ago that allowed her to take the crown from him. Serin makes a major decision that affects the course of everyones life and Edwyn forsees a conflict and prepares

Chapter 10

A Cape on the Villain Side -- Chp. 21

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She opened the door, hoping it wouldn’t creak. Judy saw the bed where their guest lay, and had a suspicious feeling about her. Five or six years ago, she would have sneaked in and poked the woman on the nose just to be sure. Sleeping people breathed differently from anyone who faked being asleep.

Life on the Run in Skirts - Chapter 22

CHAPTER 22 - My body does not define who I am. I’m still a man in my soul.

A week later they got a call the doctor wanted to see them to get the results of all the tests. George in his suit and tie returned to the doctors. The receptionist was kind enough to watch the baby while George and Ellen were in seeing the doctor.

Britney

Britney

By Jasmine Monica

Part 1
This is a cute little story that I wrote and posted today. I haven't felt well in the past few days and I have been too tired to work on my long epic story I have been writing but I hope to get back to it soon
This story is about a innocent teenage boy shopping with his sister in a girls clothing store, as her sister when they run into his girlfriend. How will she react

Feral Saga Chapter 12 - Reckoning (Part 2)

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Feral Saga Chapter 12 - Reckoning (Part 2)

by Nyssa

A Marvel X-Men Fanfiction starring Wolverine and Jean Grey

As we continue the twists of the twelfth issue in part two, Logan and Scott are deep inside Sabretooth’s hideout as they try to rescue Storm. But things are already diverging from their plans. A cloaked ship and a new mutant are also there, adding to the mystery. Unfortunately, Logan has discovered that Don has come on the mission and she now has to worry about him. What will happen when Logan finally encounters Sabretooth?

Not What We Expected - 20

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Not What We Expected

by Tiffany B. Quinn

All in all, the emotional and social issues of middle and high school were the biggest challenges, which was why I stayed there in the first place. The school work, for the most part, required little effort. School would have been boring if it wasn't for my friends, volleyball, and the social challenges. I was glad that I had my college courses and work with Tom to challenge me intellectually during these years.

Chapter 20

Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl? - Chapter 213



Tommy
The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?

A Novel By Teddie S.

Copyright © 2019 Teddie S.
All Rights Reserved.

Chapter 213


A new circuit?
A new project from Los Alamos.
No! Great Spirit, please not again!
Two teachers from Ohio.

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The first legal notice is published. ~o~O~o~ Finally a new project. ~o~O~o~ I tell the Dean about our plans. ~o~O~o~ Kai, what is this all about? ~o~O~o~ Naainish, I can't do this again! ~o~O~o~ I help his granddaughter.

 
 

Bikini Beach: Glenn Matsumoto Visits

Bikini Beach: Glenn Matsumoto Visits
By Daphne Xu

Teaser: This is another excerpt from my still-incomplete sequel to "A Bikini Beach Summer", and is set immediately before "Bikini Beach: Ellen's Daughter Visits". Attorney Glenn Matsumoto has to consult with Bikini Beach's Grandmother for professional reasons.

A Cape on the Villain Side -- Chp. 20

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“Isn’t that—?”

“Yes.”

“Shouldn’t we call—?”

“No.”

Jeff stood in the kitchen with Mary and Kyra while the new guest was taken upstairs and treated by Wyatt. Mortar Mage and Walter were up there with them in case she woke up during Wyatt’s treatment. Jackie walked in, in full costume.

Princess of Castile chapter 1

Princess of Castile
Chapter one
By Jennifer Reed

This story is set in the world created by Rikki in the Marriage of Martin Hastings that he began some time around 2010. These events in this story occur around five years prior to the events in Rikkis story.

An innocent and efeminnant man finds he has been sold and delivered to a very powerful noble in another country.

A Woman’s Voice 1/3 - Living With Two Natures

I’ve been having strange dreams of late. My Lord pays a bounty on every proven wolf kill. The right ear is what the Master of his coffers pays two pieces of silver for. In my first such dream I had an arrow nocked and the bow string drawn with a wolf in my sights. That was when I noticed it was a nursing bitch. Now I may be a killer, but I’m no monster. All mothers have the right to rear their offspring. There have to be some wolves to maintain the health of the deer and ensure they don’t overgraze their range and subsequently starve. I loosed the tension on my bow and put my arrow back in my quiver. I heard a woman’s voice behind me say, "Thank you, Gervaise," but when I turned there was no one there.

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BRONWEN (41) AND FOREST (26)

“Now we are married, I don’t care who sees me holding your hand.”

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OPAL (34), SPICE (32) &VINCENT (45)

“Make sure he doesn’t behave himself then you have him, Dear.”

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KATHLEEN (45) + NIALL (13), BLUEBELL (11), SOPHIE (2)

She felt aggrieved she had become pregnant when she couldn’t even remember having had sex.

The Mad Adventures of Suzie Lavender - A visit with Dr. Pandora

It’s the last day of November and Judy is picking me up from school. We’re going into Daisy City again but not to do aerobics or see Thelma, who redid my nails yesterday. Now my fingernails are a glittery fuchsia color. My toes will be done the same way tomorrow. I can’t wait.

But today, I have an appointment with a Doctor Emily Pandora who will doing my operation. It’s a consultation and she will be explaining the procedure with me.

Girl Singer - 1. Dead Wrong

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Girl Singer

1. Dead Wrong

Lulu Martine

I woke up, shivering, the room still dark. Searching around for my covers in the darkness did no good. I wondered what had happened to my nightlight. Since I turned seventy, I had found my night vision fading and very little help during my frequent trips to the restroom.

A Cape on the Villain Side -- Chp. 19

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Mary and Kyra didn’t have a dining room table. They barely had any sitting furniture. When it came to dining of any sort, they had eating-ware that could be flung off the bed at a moment’s notice. They had made plans to buy more at some point, but it wasn’t a priority for the two of them.

Today, they enjoyed breakfast in bed. The dirty dishes were on a tray at the foot end of the mattress. The only clothes Mary and Kyra had on was their underwear.

A rarity in these parts.

Castle The Series - 0047 The Squad, Mercedes, Judith’s Family

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FORMING THE SQUAD

“I believe you to be saying they need the influence of a male who will hurt them if they behave inappropriately?”

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MERCEDES (29) AND FEN (25)

“I suspect the three of us shall all be lærer beekeepers with Jessica who is only sixteen.”

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JUDITH, STORM & FAMILY

IOLA (13), ALWYDD (8), HEIDI (7), ROCK (6), STEPHANIE (4), MATTHEW (2)

Iris asked Judith, “We’ve herbs that will bring your milk in, would you like one young enough to require nursing?”

Hot and Steamy - Part 2 of 5

The next morning and thanks to a delay on the subway, I arrived in the office only 5 minutes after the Wall St Market had opened.
As I walked across the floor and people started to stand up and applaud me. I stopped by the desk of one of the other traders and said,

“What is this for?”

“Don’t you know?”

“Know what? If I knew I’d hardly be asking you, now would I?”

“Your book is already up sixteen and a half.”

I was flabbergasted. It meant that my trading book was already up sixteen point five million. It must have been the trades I executed on Tokyo the previous day.

Susie Sundays

Not What We Expected - 19

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Not What We Expected

by Tiffany B. Quinn

If I thought that living with a pregnant woman was a challenge during Sandra’s first pregnancy, I soon found out that dealing with a couple of hundred girls going through puberty all in one place was probably worse, if not its equal. Throw in approximately the same number of boys going through their own puberty and you have a real hotbed of hormonal emotional turmoil. I don’t know how my mother had dealt with kids in this state of being for her whole career. I NEVER want to be a middle school teacher.

Chapter 19

Things had to change - Chloe

It was time to get in touch with my sister Chloe, we had always got on well and she deserved to know that at least I was still alive and well. I had completely disappeared and no doubt Josie had given her all the details, or her own version of it. Since her marriage to Robert, we had drifted apart, I never really got on with him or he with me, so we had all kept our distance.

A Cape on the Villain Side -- Chp. 18

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Walter found Jeff directing some construction work. He waited for the opportunity to arise to approach his friend. Years ago, when they had met, trying anything of the sort was deemed suicidal, and a good way to end up cleaning toilets and floor tiles alike with only a toothbrush. Oddest of all, those were simpler times, Walter recalled.

“I haven’t seen you around Striga Island all that often,” said Jeff.

My Super-powered Diary: Chapter 9

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My Super-powered Diary
Chapter 9
Brave

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When Maddock Ainsley gets involved in a rescue operation with his unit things go horribly wrong and his life is forever changed. Can the newly minted Merida cope with being a girl and a teenage super hero?
Please tell me tha' I dinnae sound tha’ bad,” I groaned in complaint at one point.

Castle The Series - 0046 Janet, Gina, Alastair, Joan, Judith

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JANET THE DINNER GOWN

Janet asked, “And what of those who are more generously bosomed or nursing?”

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GINA (36) THE HEALERS MEETING

The healers’ was a craft with no time for cynicism, scepticism yes, cynicism no.

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ALASTAIR (19) AND THE REMAINING FILES

“Alastair has been, in the words of the incomers, poppin’ pills.”

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JOAN (26) AND BRÆTH (28)

“Bræth was taken with you wasn’t he?” Nell said to Joan.

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FAMILY PLANNING JUDITH AND STORM

“If we adopt a large family, and I presume you weren’t joking when you sayt six lastnight, Judith?”

You Are a Meany Chapter 4

The kitchen in the Walha’s household smelled of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ginger. The kitchen counter was a little bit of a mess. There was some flour, spices and sugar on it. Renee just finished mixing the batter and was pouring the batter in the cake pan. As she was handing the pan to her dad, the first-time baker could not be prouder of herself. Renee was going to be able to say she made the cake when she gave it to Luke.

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Moxie (Texas Belles #2)

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The sequel to Melanie Brown's Texas Belles is now on Kindle!

Moxie

by Melanie Brown

Ayumi did it before, can she do it again?

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She stayed in Japan after the breakup of her first J-Pop band, Texas Belles. The other American members went their own ways, some of them back to the states.

But no one in Japan ever knew Sam, the American bass-playing boy who joined his sister’s band and helped make them a hit. Sam is Ayumi now, as real as a girl can get. And she wants to keep doing what she does best.

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