Chapter 3

We had lunch with Mum in the library café, telling her what was happening and how far we had got with the house. Margaret told her that the two of us would be at the church earlier to stand with our Uncle and Aunt. After that, we went back to the house, where I had to get shirtless and sit in the garden while my sister worked on my hair.

Ethan Martin and his mother live a simple life in a small Southern town... with a twist: She makes dresses to pay the bills and he helps out as best he can.
 

More awkward and embarrassing fun, this time with Ethan’s favorite teacher.
 

Mad scientist John Crevil and his wife swapped bodies with billionaire Jacob Astoria and his wife, but they got found out, and performed a second swap into the bodies of the Astoria’s chauffeur and maid in order to try to escape. How’s it all going to end?

The Carnival of Time
By
Rebecca Anna Coleman
A Legend of Zelda Fanfiction
I am not claiming ownership of the Legend of Zelda

Fado took a deep breath and peered toward me. I could tell she was a little annoyed. Finally though after a few tense moments she started to speak, and when she spoke it was a tone that reminded me of my mother. Indeed mother had used the same tone of voice when she wanted to explain something to me that often flew over my head.

So we were supposed to restore sanity to government here after Trump, his successors and all their lackeys imploded.

Then the aliens invaded. Creatures from our myths and old scriptures forced their way in, and their races of Good Guys are saving us from the more obviously evil ones. The aliens in ultimate charge resemble the old pantheons of gods and goddesses here on Earth. But the real threat is that their emissaries -- elves, fae, human-animal hybrids, pixies, whatever -- have replaced or converted a lot of our own family members into their new races, and they seem primed to take over, unless what remains of humanity can stop them.

Chapter 2

She sat on the swing with me and the dogs and dabbed her eyes with a tissue.

“That’s very sad. I’ve known Tom a long time, Albert as well, since Tom brought him here. I went to school with Tom and saw how he was bullied. There are a few other girls from that time who still live around the area. I have a key to this house, in case it was needed, which I’ll give you. He had a key to mine.”

“I was just given his keys. Is it on the ring?”

I handed it over and she took a key off it.

“What are you doing, now, Tony?”

Ethan Martin and his mother live a simple life in a small Southern town... with a twist: She makes dresses to pay the bills and he helps out as best he can.

Ethan has an unexpected adventure.
 

It was a crisp October afternoon in Maplewood. Golden leaves skittered along the sidewalks, collecting in little whorls around the lamp posts.

Chapter 1

I was drying myself after a shower and thinking about today. It wasn’t one that I had expected, as today was the day that I’d say a final goodbye to my Uncle Tom. Well, I say Uncle, but he was more a cousin to me in reality. He had taught me a lot in the time I really knew him and was already missing him terribly. I really wasn’t looking forward to see his coffin carried away. I suppose that I should make things clearer by going back a few years, first.

Chapter 2

“Wow, this place could use some work,” Tracey said as she walked up to Neal and Rose who were standing near the front door. A faded sign painted in 80s neon declared this to be, “Swankies Fun Center.”

There were 7 cars in the parking lot including the three that Rose, Neal and Tracey arrived in. Rose smiled and pointed towards the door, “Don’t worry guys, this is perfect, it’s the exact vibe we need, and it’s going to be cheap.”

Demands My Soul

A Transgender Heroine's Journey & Romance Novel

From THE ONE Universe

Chapter 28: The Courtroom Revelation

By Ariel Montine Strickland

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Copyright 2025 by Ariel Montine Strickland.
All Rights Reserved.

Ethan Martin and his mother live a simple life in a small Southern town... with a twist: She makes dresses to pay the bills and he helps out as best he can.
 

The Green-Eyed Maid Inn

“That’s what Avery keeps telling me, but,” she threw a hand out and gestured wildly at the air. “All evidence to the contrary. I’m homeless, half my family hates me for existing, they hate my gramma for not taking a side, they hate each other for not voting ‘the right way’. Maybe it’s not my fault but I am the match that started the forest fire.”

A Fickle Fortune

I had always been a good planner. Whenever we went on holiday, it was my job to organise a route, taking in as many sights as possible. I spent some years planning my own escape. It was forced on me by conversations I had with my parents, when we saw sexy girls and drag queens on the TV. I knew that me thinking that I should have been born female wouldn’t go down well.

Ethan Martin and his mother live a simple life in a small Southern town... with a twist: She makes dresses to pay the bills and he helps out as best he can.

Ethan and Dani eavesdrop and much is revealed.
 

Ethan Martin and his mother live a simple life in a small Southern town... with a twist: She makes dresses to pay the bills and he helps out as best he can.
 

Dani can’t get enough of her sissy cousin.
 

The Four Just Men

I was quietly working in my office, as branch manager in the bank, when my mobile phone vibrated.

“Good morning, Charles Brown at your service.”

“Charlie, can you talk?”

“Yes, Bernie, what’s up.”

“I’ve just opened up my post and there’s a summons for Jury Duty.”

“So, why did you ring me?”

“I’ve been reading the papers and there’s an interesting case coming up, where a bunch of women beat up a trannie for using the female toilet in the library.”

Where the Sunflowers Grow
By
Rebecca Anna Coleman

-5-
Benton Academy
Benton Academy was a private, mostly white, mostly protestant, Christian school that only allowed the sons and daughters of the bourgeoisie of Benton to become students. The academy had started off as a segregation academy. The academy had started when a group of Benton's leading businessmen decided that they would not send their children to the newly desegregated public schools. Among those businessmen had been my grandfather Sherman Potter.

Mad scientist John Crevil and his wife Betty have pulled off the perfect crime: They used gene-editing technology to make themselves perfect doubles of billionaire Jacob Astoria and his wife Margaret, used the same technology to make the Astorias look like themselves, and left the Astorias knocked out so they are unable to find the nutrition needed to survive the changes. Or have they? They were worried when an unknown extra person unexpectedly stepped into the fray.

Ethan Martin and his mother live a simple life in a small Southern town... with a twist: She makes dresses to pay the bills and he helps out as best he can.
 

Ethan gets a taste of things to come.