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.

Matty Caff AI Comic Fantasies: These are independent stand alone AI and Face Swap created comics of fantasy and some personal experience. I use my face in every comic.

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.

Authors Note: Hi, it's me again. I'm very aware this book probably doesn't really fit in here. I found Big Closet through Maddy Bell's Gaby stories long ago. I recently created a chapbook from the first 8 chapters and would like to get it out in the world somehow. I've always thought self publishing and zines are cool. If you have any ideas where I could send one let me know. This chapter is pretty intense, stuff happens. As always thanks for reading and I hope that 2026 is our year!

Chapter 12 September 26, 2025

My Land is an island. The locals call it ‘Land’ because it is all the land most of them know. It is some hundred miles off the coast of a rather disreputable South American country where the rule of law was haphazard to say the least. It is about 20 miles long and 16 miles wide.

A rough hand probing where no hand should be...

Ursula settles in to life in the Clinic. Eriana seems a little calmer and recognizes that something must be wrong with her. Events mean that Ursula has to spend time talking to Hanida.

The Voyage of the Visund

A tale of Anmar by Penny Lane

106 - Explanations in the Wet

Walking the Blue Line.
Every rookie police officer knows the dangers of the job by the second week under their training officer. By the end of their training every rookie understands that there are something they can’t control, and not all crimes will be solved. Though all rookies share the same dream. Their first assignment following training. For 21 year old Officer Joe Cartwright of the Baltimore PD that dream is to be a member of the Mounted Patrol. What he got would lead to a life changing path.

The Green-Eyed
Maid Inn

Band Rehearsal:
Tessa arrives at band practice in her 2002 Black Ford Mustang. When she arrived, she saw that Lucas, Nagisa, and Jessie were already there. She parks her Mustang next to Jessie’s car and grabs her guitar from the backseat. She was feeling a little sore from Barbara/Bob using the strap-on on her before she left.

Chapter 25 – The After Party

By the time the night cycle began aboard the Queen’s Rage, the mess deck had transformed from a sterile cafeteria into a celebration zone. Fluorescent lights had been dimmed and replaced with soft golden hues, casting a warm glow over the crowd. Streamers and makeshift banners—scavenged from storage and splashed with squad colors—hung between bulkheads, fluttering with each vibration of the ship’s engines.

Two marginalized college students, Sam and Pat, get revenge on cheerleaders Talia and Megan by using the Medallion of Zulo to copy their bodies and film themselves kissing and making out. They post the photos and videos on Keyhole, an online subscription community. The plan works but at what cost when the students must return to class as themselves.

Demands My Soul

A Transgender Heroine's Journey & Romance Novel

From THE ONE Universe

Chapter 26: Higher Court, Higher Power

By Ariel Montine Strickland

Will Delores let Lambda Legal appeal the appellate court decision to the Georgia Supreme Court and make new case law?

Copyright 2025 by Ariel Montine Strickland.
All Rights Reserved.

Matty Caff AI Comic Fantasies: These are independent stand alone AI and Face Swap created comics of fantasy and some personal experience. I use my face in every comic.