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They Aren't Mine

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They Aren't Mine

by Karen Page



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Funds are low, $6 in accounts

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We have $6 in company accounts and my own funds are low as well.

The loss of 2/3 of our ad revenue (~$1000/mo) is still hurting, especially mid-month.

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Eidolon Nexus: The Shattered Realm: Chapter 25

A group of people wake up in a video game world and are forced to work together to survive and find out how to escape.
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The group begins their journey to the Nexus and faces a new terrifying threat.

Story is finished and I’m currently working on a sequel while cleaning up the last chapters should be about 8ish more.

Chapter 24 recap



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The Girl with a Curl. Chapter 7 of 7

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Chapter 7

When I went back to the shop, I found out that they had originally been living in Queensferry, right next to the Forth Bridge, so wanted that to be in the picture, along with the family of four. Fair enough. They had a postcard of the bridge that I could use to copy, as well as a family snap.



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The Rise of a New Empire Chapter 11

Chapter 11: The New Kingdom
As I sat upon the elegant throne, a sense of warmth enveloped me, an embrace of magic that sparkled in the air like sunlight on water. More merpeople glided into the throne room, their movements a fluid dance, each figure adorned with shimmering scales that glistened in vibrant hues of deep azure and rich emerald. The light from the majestic throne caught and reflected off their bodies, casting a mesmerizing array of colors across the room.



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Home, Alone & Home, Alone 2 by Susan Brown on Kindle

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After a family tragedy, young David decides to live by himself in his home where he can be his true self, Katie. It's almost like a dream as Katie explores her new life.

But it's not easy. Where will she get money? How can an eleven-year-old deal with something as mundane as shopping when at any moment some adult may decide she needs help from police, doctors, teachers or lawyers?

It's lonely, too. Katie needs a friend, but who can she trust with her secret? That she's just a child living in her home, alone?
 

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Home, Alone
by Susan Brown
Buy on KIndle & Buy Book 2 on Kindle


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Vantier a Whateley Tale chapter 10--- road trip

Vantier a Whateley Tale.....Ancient and Powerful Vantier awakens in a foreign world, struggling to find her place in it.

In this chapter....Kyley and Becky journey to Whateley via NY city! AKA Road Trip!

He is saved from the death of his race and planet....to start all over again....but can she survive?
A human high school and being a teenager? Will she remember what was? And grow in power?

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Gene's Story or How I Gained a Cousin Chapter 25

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Gene's Story
or How I Gained a Cousin

A novel by Karen Lockhart



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A Longer War 35

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PART 3

CHAPTER 35
“Four as usual, Mr Barker?

“Aye, love. It’s that time of year again”

“We can take them… look, I don’t want to sound cheeky, like, but it must be a bit of a faff, what with bus and that. If you want, we could…”

The young girl, Cheryl her little badge said, Cheryl looked across the shop to her friend. “Pippa? Mind the shop for a bit?”

“Yeah?”

“Going for a drive in van. Be twenty minutes, tops”

“Orright”



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2929

The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2929
by Angharad

Copyright© 2016 Angharad

  
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Hannah is.. Home, sort of. [2.0]

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landing1015-airplane.jpg Home can be a lot of things, but sometimes its just the place you sleep.
The gang are back in the great US of A at last.

Events unfold including but not limited to:
Sarah giving Hannah's cold shoulder a poke
(not that it helps much)
And Hannah gets a bit too close to a mythical mountain.




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Tight Knit - Volume 1: Part 3

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Jesse experiences his
first day as a girl.

Tight Knit

Volume 1

Part 3

By Taylor Ryan
Copyright© 2016 Taylor Ryan
All Rights Reserved.


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A New Job Twist Part 3

On the surface, Michael Gorman is a very religious and studious man. But the chubby little man isn't very happy. He works for a church as a pastor, but feels underappreciated. He is invited to a very strange job interview with a corporate recruiter named Gary Nichols. Quickly, he discovers that Gary has a powerful necklace called a cryx that can transform the balding man into a beautiful woman. He says Michael can do it too. Will he take the job? How will this work with home life and work life?



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Anchored - Part 14 "School Girls"

 Anchored  

Part
Fourteen

 

"School Girls"


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Ilos Book 2 Part 6

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Enough with the distractions and setbacks, it's time for Aria to get back to work and get some good experience.

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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2928

The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2928
by Angharad

Copyright© 2016 Angharad

  
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Just Keep Rolling Part-3

Just Keep Rolling
Part Three

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Chris is now fully Christy. She's accepted this new turn of her life but now she has to convince herself and most definitely others that this is truly what she wants.

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Gaby Book 12+1 Chapter *3* Storm Clouds

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 get the complete book here! {Or here (US) -Erin}
 
 
*Chapter 3*

Storm Clouds



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Ilos Book 2 Part 6 <old>

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Enough with the distractions and setbacks, it's time for Aria to get back to work and get some good experience.

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Bian -2- Perchance

Somewhere, past the edge of dreams lies a land called...

Bian
(Bee-Onn)

by Erin Halfelven



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Project: Super Soldier - Part 6

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Project: Super Soldier

Written by Nuuan

71 year old John Dodge, retired military, now sits in a nursing home, his body riddled with cancer, waiting on the grim reaper to come for him when he is given another option.



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The Nightmare Rider - chapter 10

 

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Chapter 10 of
 
  The Nightmare Rider

 

 



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FEMAIL: Chapter 2

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by Layne Smyth

CHAPTER TWO

Colton Hughes has just signed up for the Beta Test of a lifetime. Over the next week he will begin to see changes that take him from being an overweight man in his mid forties to a hot, young college woman with her whole life in front of her. Will the changes bring him the happiness he seeks, or will he lose sight of what he really wanted?

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This story is told by email, but I promise you that it is going to be a wild ride! Each chapter will cover one day of Colton's change, with the plan taking this story up to Chapter Eight. I really hope you enjoy it!



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Anchored - Part 13 "The Highland Raver"

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Part
Thirteen

 

"The Highland Raver"


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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2927

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2927
by Angharad

Copyright© 2016 Angharad

  
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Off the Deep End 7 ~ The Little Human Part 1

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The first thing every mermaid learns is that if you see a human you're supposed to swim away as fast as you can. But the girl in the pink wetsuit was right here in front of me, and there was no way she would think she'd been mistaken about seeing me. My best recourse seemed to be to convince her not to tell anyone about meeting me, and as we talked (or rather I talked, while she typed her words on her neat little electronic message pad) this seemed to be working. But there were things Valerie was telling me here that made absolutely no sense. Either this girl was crazy or the whole universe was. Given the kind of week I'd had, my money was on it being the universe that had gone...

OFF THE DEEP END ~ Chapter 7
THE LITTLE HUMAN Part 1:
The Girl with the Gizmos
Laika Pupkino ~ 2016



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Stephanie, part 10

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“You know, you look familiar,” the cashier says to me as she rings up my items. “Did you used to be on TV?”

“Umm… You must have me mistaken for someone else,” I reply in my soft, androgynous voice.

“Huh,” the cashier says. “I could’ve sworn I’ve seen your face somewhere before.”

“…Just got one of those faces, I guess!” I giggle as I bag my purchases and head out of the store, sighing as I examine the items in my bag- foundation, mascara, two colours of eye shadow and a tube of dark red lipstick.



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Decisions - Decisions - Part 4

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Decisions-Decisions 4

Eric made the call to his son from the Managers office. It didn’t take long. When he returned he said,

“John will meet us on Thursday at 10. The problem is that we have to go to see him in Derby. That journey will need an early start.”

He was right. Living in the back of beyond has one huge disadvantage in that it takes ages to get nowhere fast. The roads in the region are crap. Full of potholes and often covered in mud from farm traffic.

I opened my handbag and pulled out the train timetable that I’d used for my trip to Sheffield before Christmas.



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What Milsy Did -2-

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Milsy learns more about the person she is supposed to be, discovering that a whole new world awaits her beyond the castle. There are near misses, changes of plan and much waiting around until the time comes to begin the deception. She is introduced to the guardsmen who will be escorting her and then she secretly leaves the castle to prepare for the substitution.

What Milsy Did

A Tale of Anmar by Penny Lane

2 - Under Cover



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Gene's Story or How I Gained a Cousin Chapter 24

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Gene's Story
or How I Gained a Cousin

A novel by Karen Lockhart



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The School Play

Ambrose grabbed the wrong costume by accident. But was it really the wrong one?



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2926

The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2926
by Angharad

Copyright© 2016 Angharad

  
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Bian -1- Los Perdidos

Somewhere, past the edge of reality lies a land called...

Bian
(Bee-Onn)

by Erin Halfelven



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No Son of Mine is Going Out Dressed Like That!

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Just for once I had managed to get away from the steel mill at 4. It was Friday after all. Coming home tired after a very bad day and opening the door I surprised my 16 year old son getting ready to go out. I was appalled! He was wearing a calf-length dress, pumps with a 2 inch heel, a necklace and ear-rings that had belonged to my departed and sorely missed wife, red lipstick and a little rouge. Where did I go wrong? I had tried to be a good parent but it hadn’t been easy since my wife passed away four years ago.



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Anchored - Part 12 "Motherly Concern"

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Part
Twelve

 

"Motherly Concern"


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Aria - Book 1 - The Holly and the Ivy by Emma Anne Tate

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Cam and Liz's whirlwind romance may be over, but Cami's adventure is only just beginning.

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Aria
Book 1
The Holly and the Ivy
by Emma Anne Tate
Now on Kindle


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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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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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Masks 3 - Template and Energia - published on Kindle

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A school for superheroes seemed like a good idea at the time. Template is on the faculty and her niece, Energia, is a student when they find out that not everyone agrees on the wonderfulness of education.

High level conspiracy? Alien technology? Is someone trying to kill off the superschool? And the supers with it?

It all started with someone launching a killer missile at Template's secret identity, Jenny’s aunt-er-uncle, Randy...

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Now on KIndle...



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