“Dad? Can we get some maple sugar to take to Tomas and I have a friend I might be meeting down there too.”
He grins and takes a couple of blocks from the deepfreeze. “We’ll get some Canadian stuff from the dollar store too okay. I’m not paying the prices that they want at the airport.”
“Sure!”
We get into the car and we head out with dad driving and putting in one of his CD’s and we’re listening to some of his music as we go. I’m not a big fan of Bon Jovi and all of that one size fit’s all glam rock stuff but it’s okay.
It’s okay because Tia came up for air today.
I have a name.
I have a name!

*And Now…

“Should anyone here present know of any reason why this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony,” the vicar says with a warm, happy smile, “speak now, or forever hold your peace.” Sarah and I- both dressed in identical, beautiful wedding dresses, our hair tied into elaborate matching hairdos and our make-up immaculately applied, stare at each other and smile, but almost immediately, the silence in the church is broken.

This is a gentle coming-of-age story about a college-aged boy becoming the girl he knows he truly is.
With the help of his two girl friends he becomes Susanna as they teach him all about life as a girl.
Please note this is a gentle, sentimental tale and although there is some sexual content it is inferred, NOT graphic and tagged where it occurs.

The Girl Most Likely To ... - Part 52
by StarPrincess a/k/a Barbara Lynn Terry

Chapter 1. At Reneé's house.

Naomi and Reneé stopped the car in their driveway. After getting out of the car, they ran the ten feet to the house, because the windchill was only sixteen below zero. After getting inside the house, they took their boots and coats off, and settled down to tell the others in the house what had happened while they were visiting the "Home".
Ruth Watkins was in the living rooom when they entered the house.

Garia finally has a one-on-one with the latest arrival from Earth and they swap stories. Later, the War Council inspects the most recent additions to the Allies' armory.

Somewhere Else Entirely

by Penny Lane

126 - Maralin

A boy has finally become a man. And as a man, he craves adventure. And he is about go through more adventure than he hoped for.

As a boy, he was known as Bobby. As a man he is known as Bob.

This story story is about Bob, and friends he makes along his journey.

One second, Bob was at his job, and the next thing Bob knew, he was on a terraformed Mars, colonized by humanity, in an alternate, future reality.

And the clock is ticking. He has less than forty-eight hours to cross the two-hundred and forty million mile distance, from Mars to Earth. And the mileage is the least of his concerns.

The locals call such a trip, a Comet Run. He is going to call it a miracle, if he can pull it off, in time.

Bob is going to have beg, borrow, and pray, if he hopes to make it back to Earth, on time to return to his home reality.

Unfortunately, he is going to attract attention from all the wrong people. From rock and roll space truckers, to crazy bounty hunters, to corrupt cops.

But, if Bob can keep his wits about him, he just might make it back to Earth, right under the wire.

The horror show is over folks. Now, here is the beginning of the adventurous, fun, third act.

For this is chapter one of book three, “The Student, The Hacker, and The Soldier.”