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The Dagger of Heaven At The End Of Time - Ch. 12

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©2025 SammyC




CHAPTER TWELVE



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 3470

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The Weekly Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 3470
by Angharad

Copyright© 2024/2025 Angharad

  
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Stuck in the Middle -44

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Stuck in the Middle


In this chapter, the warmth of Thanksgiving fills the air as scents of home-cooked food and the hum of conversation create an atmosphere of comfort and tradition. Amid the laughter and togetherness, Emily navigates the quiet ache of belonging, caught between gratitude and the lingering weight of the past. As the evening unfolds, moments of kindness and connection offer gentle reminders that family isn’t just about where you come from—it’s about the people who choose to make space for you.

Copyright © Natasa Jacobs. All Rights Reserved.



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Sarah book 1 part 10 The beginning

After witnessing a murder. Young Robbie Dunkirk sees his family also murdered. He calls his mothers estranged twin sister. She comes up with a plan to hide Robbie. He becomes his twin sister Sarah.



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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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A Gentle Soul - 3

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A Gentle Soul – The Penultimate Chapter

I promised to take a month between stories after the last chapter, but that night I finished the tale (in my head). The chapter after this one is all there ready to get into the computer. This chapter took a bit more work. I will finish this story before getting back to Rachael and A Second Chance: Dawn.



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The Voyage of the Visund -3-

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The third leg of their voyage sees the Visund tackle the toughest leg: upstream with no wind assistance, crossing the main current. This involves almost everyone taking an oar. Once past the obstacle, the next reach proves easy sailing, but just before they reach their stop for the following night, the lookouts spot something.

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The Voyage of the Visund

A tale of Anmar by Penny Lane

3 - Crossing the Current



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On The Run Part 20 Final Chapter

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Final Chapter



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Gaby Book 16 ~ Sweet Sixteen ~ Chapter *18* The Size Of It

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*Chapter 18*
The Size Of It

 
 
“So I get off at Lohrsdorf right?” Mand confirmed.
“It’s the first stop out of Remagen,” I pointed out.
“Should manage that.”



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Jem...Chapter 204

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Jem… Chapter 204

Angel/Jem
Jem…Chapter 204

by Bailey Summers

Copyright © 2013 Bailey Summers
All Rights Reserved.


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Love & Supernova 27 - The Last Day

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What would you do if you know that tomorrow is the last day of your life?

Very soon, the sun will go supernova. There are ten days left. The planet, Betelgeuse VII, is being evacuated. The last survivals are being rescued and moved to a new planet, Betelgeuse S, located at ten light years away.



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The Job 52

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CHAPTER 52
“I was never a real boy, and that didn’t go down at all well in Connah’s Quay. Not the done thing there; men are men and sheep bloody run away to England. I am babbling, aren’t I?”

“No, Deb. You tell it your way”

We had left the café, and the airlock room was cleared for us by the girls. I had sent Blake off to look at some more properties, just to get him out of the way while the older woman gave me her potted biography.



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Princess and the Plague: Erika goes to Hollywood 4

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Princess and the Plague:
Erika goes to Hollywood
4

by Anistasia Allreaed
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A Woman-less Beauty Pageant: It was the zipper’s fault 5

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Previously
Still sitting side by side on the sofa and casually stroking each other’s nylon clad legs Ronnie asked “What did you mean that you can ‘show me things and take me places that don’t involve travel’”? Angel replied “Let me fix your eyes first. We’ll talk about the rest a bit later”. Giving Ronnie an impassioned kiss on the lips Angel stood up, grabbed Ronnie’s hand and guided Ronnie to Angel’s bedroom. There were eyes to be done and some relief to be given. And just maybe there might be new places and things that Ronnie should see and experience.



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A Piece in the Game of Gods part 25


Jerry Tanner has a a lot of experience with games, but can he survive being caught in a game played by the gods?



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Caught In Slips - Part 13

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Caught In Slips! ...... Part 13


by Chris Myr


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Love & Supernova 26 - Three Sisters

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FireBlast is getting ill, children burning Place (non-sense words from a heavy metal song).

Once, Betelgeuse VII was a paradise for rare sexual minorities and transgender people. But now, things are changed. The sun will soon go supernova. The economy collapsed. Things like electricity, automated trains, distribution services, money or internet, are long gone. There is no institution left, the planet is ruled by anarchy.



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Burger Queen Chp. 1

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Penny's World pt 19

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Penny goes to White Gate Farm with John and the girls

Penny’s World
Part Nineteen
By
Sophie Jones
© 2018

This is the story of Penny. A closet Transwoman thrust into the outside world 24-7 when she would rather go and hide away. Perhaps the title should be Welcome to Penny’s Paranoid World…



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Tommy - The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl? - Chapter 54



Tommy
The Trials and Tribulations of a Girl?

A Novel By Teddie S.

Copyright © 2018 Teddie S.
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Chapter 54
A sacred place. And a rescue.

On our first full day at the cabin, we’d hiked to the fire lookout tower and met Paul Goodfellow, the fire lookout. In talking to him, we found that he had heard of something northeast of the tower. He’d given us a map and shown us the approximate location of where a special place was rumored to be.

After a thunderstorm had rolled through and we’d been visited by a bear, Amy and I had taken a hike. The hike that had proven fruitful, we think we found the trailhead of the trail that might, just might, take us to the sacred place that Naainish had told us about.



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The Angel of Chicago: Part 18

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The Angel of Chicago

Part Eighteen: Aftermath

by

Rodford Edmiston

There were no empowered healers who could get there quickly. None, in fact, were known who could be there any time within the next several hours. Malak and Blackpool were both out of touch, but expected back soon. Meanwhile, Arielle would have to depend on mundane medicine.



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The Job 51

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CHAPTER 51
I won’t belittle the real pain and suffering we were told about, but it became routine after a while. I don’t mean that we got blasé, rather that each case Paul brought us went through what was becoming a very smooth and practised system.

Each one was, in the end, similar, and as the similarities piled up, so did the list of ‘further to’ charges awaiting Dai Pritchard, Bob Evans, one call-centre worker and two civilian employees in Cardiff and Swansea’s control rooms.



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TG Techie: Chapter 30: Palpate

Mr. Glome’s Follow Up

(<(<>(<>.(<>..<>).<>)<>)>)

I made it through all the Monday classes. Worked on what was becoming a full page colored pencil drawing in Design, failed to come up with a monologue in Drama, Played Exploding Kittens (SFW edition on NSFW cards) at lunch, and managed to give as well as I got in English.

I should probably mention something about Intro to Physics. Yeah, I should really get around to that.



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Nora Midnight Part 10


Nora Midnight



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The worthless story

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A teenage boy with golden hair, green eyes, and a body and face of a Greek statue stands on a massive rock above his allies. He paces on the giant rock, anxiously in front of his friends and girlfriend.



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Ginny's Story Chapter 58

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Ginny's Story

A novel by Karen Lockhart

Copyright© 2018 Karen Lockhart
All Rights Reserved.


 


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A Starlight Summer Part-3

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A Starlight Summer
Part Three

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MacKenzie Hodge has lived a life of secrets and lies. Chief among them is his, it, or her true gender? Now faced with an important decision, Mac has to decide what kind of future they want. Fortunately for Mac, there's a whole summer to decide.




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A Gentle Soul - 2

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A Gentle Soul

I gently teased Erin the other day when she posted a new Bian chapter a year after the last. Then I realized that I have a series that had gone dormant. This one is my secondary series, and will only be updated at a monthly level (roughly). I hope you enjoy it. It was fun to write: Dawn.

A Gentle Soul 2 – The Entwives



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A Gentle Soul

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This is the landing page for A Gentle Soul, an occasional series that I will be posting. It rips off the Grimm Brothers (who actually appear in Part 2) and J.R.R. Tolkien, the master of all epic fantasy. If you've seen The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies, but not read the books, get yourself to a library or bookstore and read them. I liked the movies, but the books are glorious.



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The Job 50

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CHAPTER 50
I rang Deb as Blake drove, and she was on form.

“They been buried yet?”

“Not yet, Deb. But we’ve issued the shovels”

There was quite a pause,

“Will my girls be safe?”



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Politics is... pretty international at times. [2.2]

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Politics is like a river... no, that’s not right?
Politics is like a cess pit... closer, but no.
Politics is... is...
I have no idea, I guess?

Maybe we’ll get an answer to that question eventually, huh?

Events unfold including but not limited to:
John screaming,
Metal walls being dented badly,
and Hannah gets distracted at a bad time.




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Never Anger a Cat and Two Wolves Part 15

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Liger picture: Photo Courtesy of Myrtle Beach Safari
Two Wolves: Published: MARKO



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Aviinas Story - Chapter 2

Chapter Two
 



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Julina of Blackstone - 085 - A Long Way on a Long Day

The Journey starts with something of a rush

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Julina of Blackstone
Her Chronicles, Book 3

by Julia Phillips

085 – A Long Way on a Long Day


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The Legion

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A raindrop falls directly onto a boy in an ebony black leather tunic with hems and seams of shiny silver. He wears a belt of silver with a belt buckle of an eagle with fists crossed into an X behind. On his chest is a Velcro patch of a red shield. His face was smooth and pretty, and his body so small and petite that the tunic he wears was a baggy on him. He wasn’t always that way, but due to recent events. His body is turning that way.

The man in front of him wears the same tunic and belt. Only on his chest is a silver shield with silver fists crossed X, and a star on the top.



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Arctic Fox Book 2 by Rosemary Howell now on Kindle

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A whole new adventure begins for Marcia, the Arctic Fox, and her family!

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The Arctic Fox
Book 2
by Rosemary Howell
Now on KIndle


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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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I Was A Cheerleader For The FBI By Melanie Brown on Kindle

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Paul Peterson would do anything for his country… right?

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I Was A Cheerleader for the FBI
by Melanie Brown
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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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