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The Beer Festival

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The Beer Festival
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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Karl and I come from a small town in Germany – in Bavaria, close to the Alps. We have lived there all our lives. We went to school together and we became friends. Then we became more than friends – we became lovers. And then more than lovers – we moved in together, as a gay couple.

Voice

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Voice
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

My life changed when I was twelve. Up until that time I was just a normal boy. I played ball, I climbed trees, I caroused with my friends, we got dirty, and sometimes into trouble. I was entirely normal except for one thing – I had a talent.

The Package

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The Package
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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The problem was that my whole family knew Bobby really well, which made it hard to introduce Bobbi to them. They all knew that Bobby was a joker and the life and soul of every party, and true to form, that is where the idea came from. All I had to do was to play along and take the photos.

Amy Lives

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Amy Lives
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

It was a Sunday night - October 31, 2010 when my life changed, or maybe it began then. I had been married for less than a year to Romana, the woman I had always thought of as my best friend. We were ready to start talking about having children. I had always wanted to have children – it was a strong drive in me that I never really understood. I know now that there was a lot about myself that I did not understand, but that was going to change too.

Feminine Deportment

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Feminine Deportment
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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My mother said that if there was a male equivalent she would have enrolled me in that, but she bemoaned the fact that boys are expected to be boorish and crass. To her, that was unacceptable. There had to be a way.

White Knight

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White Knight
The Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

Jerry and I had known one another since childhood. We went through high school together and worked together after I finished college. I went into finance, but Jerry felt that he was ready to set up his own business. You have to admire him for that.

Love in Paris

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Love in Paris
From an image sent by Typsie Tinker
By Maryanne Peters

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That was the moment I fell in love with the woman who used to be my best friend. I could still see the man in that face, but when she turned to watch the shouting across the street I saw only the woman she now was.

Formula X

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Formula X
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

Nothing can prepare you for a blow like that – the day that my best friend told me that he had raped my sister.

My sister Bridget was the nicest human being in the world. Everybody loved her. She was only slightly intellectually disabled, but she didn’t look it. She was pretty, and she was always happy, even if there was not reason to be. She made our home, my parent’s home where I had my own space above the garage, a brighter place. My mother called her “the sunshine in my life”, and to her, she was.

Sexpiation

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Sexpiation
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

When the world is on fire, how far would you leap to escape the flames? That is how we looked at it. We were not escaping from justice – we were escaping from madness.

Sales

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Sales
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

My grandfather was in sales. My father regarded it as a lowly occupation, and he often gave his father-in-law a hard time about it. He said that salespeople would say or do anything to close the deal. He said that it required no qualifications and attracted people with short attention spans. My father had qualifications – not great ones, but something to hang on his wall. My grandfather had sales awards, but he didn’t display them.

Abducted?

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Abducted?
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

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It seemed as if I was just coming to terms just coming to terms with it. I am not saying that I accepted his absence and I was ready to move on, but just that I understood that his disappearance was a fact and that I needed to cope with my situation.

The Short Story

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After sending a message to Suzi in relation to my vignette posted last week, I wondered if blog readers might be interested in what I wrote on the Message Board over on Fictionmania in relation to what a writer proposed would be shorter fiction of 7500 words - a body swap story (MFC main female character becomes male and MMC female)? This is what I wrote:

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Muse

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Muse
A Short Story

“You do believe that my work is art, don’t you,” said Claude.

“Of course I do,” Blythe said. “And I only want to play a role in helping you to be that artist.”

And that is the title and essence of this story.

Funs, Buns, Guns

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Funs, Buns, Guns
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

“I can see that you work out,” he said. “You have some serious upper arm development there.”

She looked him up and down, and made sure that he could see what she was doing. He was the same height as she was, even in her heels, although they were not overly high. He had less skin exposed than she did, in a strapless top that showed off the body that many like her would have been ashamed of, but she could see that he was all muscle underneath.

Mug Shot

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Mug Shot
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

“Do you have a sister, Emmet?” said Wade. “Because the girl getting all the hype on “Mug Shot Babes” sure looks like she could be related to you?”

Sexual Healing

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Sexual Healing
From an idea by Our Lady in Twilight
By Maryanne Peters

“Sexual healing is something that's good for me …Come take control, just grab a hold of my body and mind, soon we'll be making it, honey, I'll be feeling fine. You're my medicine, open up and let me in. Darling, you're so great, I can't wait for you to operate…”

Death

Timesharing

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Timesharing
A Short Story from an Idea by Erin
By Maryanne Peters

“How good is this?” He had only just closed to door behind and cast around his first glance when he had to say the words out loud. It was as if Cherise was standing beside him, wearing something summery, and they were sharing this view. But she was not there. She was in the suitcase – and he could not wait to get her out.

The Sweetheart of Company Q

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The Sweetheart of Company Q
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

My father had me join the army. He said that it would make a man of me, because I wasn’t man enough to work the land like him and my brother. It turns out that he was wrong – about making me a man, that is.

In Charge at Last

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In Charge at Last
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

I think that for me, the hardest thing about becoming a woman was surrendering domination.
I was always a big guy, and a powerful build.
I am not saying that I was a bully, but when you are a man, size makes you dominate smaller men,
even without really trying.

Breast Cream

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Breast Cream
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

I really did not know that she would have such a bad reaction to fake face cream I whipped up for her, but she had been getting on my nerves going on about the problems on my chest. It was gynecomastia caused by late onset puberty. It is a real problem for a boy like me. Ok, so I over-reacted by trying to go out all macho, but I needed to reassert the fact that I was male.

The Perfect Life

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The Perfect Life
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

It is what I have always wanted. I love being beautiful.
I was born ugly, you see. I was born deformed. I had a growth in my groin.
I could not wait to have it removed and have the body I always dreamed of – the body
that was the perfect shape, all the way down.

A Murder Mystery

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A Murder Mystery
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

Have you heard it said that a friend is somebody who will help you move house, but a best friend is somebody who will help you move a body? That is the kind of friend my brother Dan was to Byron Marker. And I was as close to Dan as a sister could be, which was how I got to be included in their plan.

Homebody

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Homebody
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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I have always wanted the perfect home – well decorated and with a wonderful garden and a kitchen smelling of fresh baking at my hand, and a husband in his favorite chair to be loved for all he has provided. I suppose that plenty of girls want the same thing, and I wanted it even though I was a boy.

Revenge Served Cold

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Revenge Served Cold
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

“Patience is the ultimate virtue”. They are so very fond of saying that at Ms. Lacey’s School of Reform for Wayward Boys. Ms. Lacey herself says that all women must learn patience first. “A woman’s life is full of frustrations, and a woman’s life is what is in store for all of you. And frustration can only be overcome by patience”. I can still hear the words, being drummed into me with everything else. I have never forgotten those words, or how to fold napkins, braid my hair or walk in high heels.

She is Erupting

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She is Erupting
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

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It may sound crazy, but I answered the phone as her. It was my first femme week of the year, and when I was her, I tried to live her life entirely. Besides, there is something about pulling your phone out of your handbag and daintily sliding a long painted nail across the screen to green, that just keeps her voice on your tongue.

Uncle Ben Is Coming to Stay

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Uncle Ben Is Coming to Stay
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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“Now you met him last night and he is clearly comfortable around you, so he will be coming to stay with us … he is moving in tomorrow.” The face had a look of determination. Argument was pointless and potentially damaging. “I have told you that there would be changes around here and you will just need to get used to it, son!”

Uncle Ben Is Coming to Stay

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Uncle Ben Is Coming to Stay
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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“Now you met him last night and he is clearly comfortable around you, so he will be coming to stay with us … he is moving in tomorrow.” The face had a look of determination. Argument was pointless and potentially damaging. “I have told you that there would be changes around here and you will just need to get used to it, son!”

Widow

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Widow
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

The very light of heaven was slowly fading from his brain, as his penis shrank and slipped out from inside her. Something about her lit a fuse in him – his mind flashed and emptied every time. Nebraska Daly had done his share of fucking, across five states and three territories, but this was something else. This must be what love is, like in the story books.

Bull

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Bull
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

People would say that you cannot ever meet two friend more different than me and PJ Leitch. But the fact is that we grew up in the country on neighboring farms, and a bike pathe beside the road between them. We had a hand in making that path, and also our special track down to the Lohanokie River in front and other up into the Campbell Mountains behind. We loved the outdoors in those days. Hell, I still do.

Replay

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Replay
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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She knew that it was him even as his back was turned. He was wearing the blue track suit – the one without his name across the back of it, so as be in comfort and not be noticed. She knew the back underneath it – broad and black, like polished ebony and just as hard.

“Well, this is a surprise,” she said, “After last night.”

Two Men Too Many

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Two Men Too Many
A Short Western Story
By Maryanne Peters

Some say that when you are headed west and there is nothing before you except open space and hard work, that you need more young men than you do young women. But as far as the Haddon Colby train of 1861 was concerned, they had two men too many.

The New One

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The New One
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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I had come home from the party early. Walt had been talking to some of his business buddies and I was bored.

“That’s okay, sweetie,” he said. “You go home and slip into something nice and I will be along shortly.”

Going Respectable

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Going Respectable
A Short Western Story
By Maryanne Peters

My story could have been one of tragedy, but I will never allow it to be told that way. The fact is that I was able to turn all my disadvantages into advantages, and to now be spoiled for choice. How many people can say that? Moreover, how many can say it nowadays, with a new century looming and the country set to move with great strides?

Honeymoon Reveal

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Honeymoon Reveal
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

We had only been married for three years at the time and we had never enjoyed a proper honeymoon. The fact was that after we had met on a dating site and almost immediately, she had thrown herself in to caring for my young sons … and me. My sons and I had all been devastated by the loss of my first wife Marion, their mother, only a year before I met Cherise, but she helped to pull us all out of our dark mood. She said that it was all she wanted - to bury herself in a loving family.

The End of the Cold

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The End of the Cold
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

She knew what it was. The drug had that effect. One minute you are walking down the street and the next minute a sharp pain in the neck, you feel woozy, and then blackness. And then the recovery is like this was – just fuzzy images and slight dizziness and then you can focus.

It was the living room of the apartment she had rented right in the middle of the small French town. But she had been brought here – up from the street perhaps.

Bargirl

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Bargirl
A Vignette
By Maryanne Peters

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I had made some money and lost some friends and family because of it. I simply decided that I was in a position to let her loose. She was a better person than I was – Ida – the woman inside me.

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