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Bad Girl (Temp.) - Chapter 3 - Working Girl Romance

January - London - Mark (as Angel)

The weeks blurred into each other like smudged lipstick.

Every morning, Mark got up, put on his gym kit, and ran laps around the canals, lungs burning, legs raw. If you looked past the stares from construction workers and the old women walking their dogs, it almost felt normal. Sweat, pain, the grind. He clung to it—routine was the only thing left that felt like his.



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Bad Girl (Temp.) - Chapter 2 - Angelique Valentine

25th December - London - Angel’s Flat

Mark woke up with his face pressed into a pillow that reeked of supermarket hair dye and someone else’s sweat. For three full seconds, he thought he was hungover in a particularly shit business hotel. Then he reached for his phone and hit his breasts against the bedside table. That’s when he decided that he was really hungover and just went back to sleep



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Bad Girl (Temp.) - Chapter 1 - Mark Steele

When billionaire financier Mark Steele opens an anonymous Christmas delivery—a rare First Folio containing a strange, shimmering parchment—his meticulously controlled life begins to unravel. Across the city, Angelique “Angel” Valentine, a sharp-tongued dancer with debts, secrets, and a crippled friend to protect, is blackmailed into entertaining a mysterious guest at a corporate Christmas party. Their worlds collide in a night of lust and deception—and by morning, Mark wakes up in Angel’s body, and Angel in his.

Trapped in a life of cheap wine, bruised knees, and rent arrears, Mark must learn to survive as the woman he once dismissed. Across town, Angel revels in her new power—money, muscle, and a Manhattan skyline at her feet. But as each struggles to master the other’s world, the lines between identity, class, and desire blur. Beneath the sex and glamour lies a simple question: when you strip away money, body, and name—what’s left of the self?



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Return of the Shadow -I Wish 5- by Amethyst

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Return of the Shadow
I Wish - Book 5
by Amethyst

Shannon O’Reilly has gotten used to being a girl and a powerful Witch, but between school, modeling, and hunting Demons, she is keeping far busier than a teenage girl should.

Now things have gone to Hell in more ways than one. Can Shannon survive, reunite with her family and friends, and find a way home?



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Start Every Day with a Good Breakfast

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Start Every Day with a Good Breakfast.

Teddy opened his eyes on grey day. The thin curtains did not hide the sound of rain cascading down the window of the drab room he rented in an HMO (House of Multiple Occupation). The sounds of his neighbours were obvious through the thin walls as they got ready for work, and left.



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Holiday Romance by Maryanne Peters on Kindle

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Doesn't everyone deserve a holiday romance?

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Holiday Romance
by Maryanne Peters
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The African Masks

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Some time ago I read and liked the wonderful story by Rasufelle "This Isn't What I Wanted" and the author's opinion after it. However, a phrase in that opinion - "the fetish and non-fetish elements of the community" - stuck to my mind. Is this community limited to these? Who is part of it and who is not?



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Nikki, part 12

“Seventeen!” The assembled guests yell. “Sixteen! Fifteen! Fourteen!” I stare over at Sarah, who is smiling happily, much to my relief.

“Thirteen!” The guests continue. “Twelve! Eleven! Ten!” I look to my left at Katie and Lauren, who are both excitedly bouncing up and down in chairs.

“Nine!” The crowd yells, working itself into a near frenzy. “Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” Dannii- the most excited person of any in the packed restaurant- takes a deep breath and, in one go, blows out the seventeen candles on the rich chocolate cake placed in front of her.



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Sisters Forever~Final Chapter

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The reaction to the interview was interesting. My school were somewhat surprised at my almost miraculous gender change.

Sisters Forever ~ Final Chapter

By Susan Brown



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Mathew's Secret Desire - Chapter 4

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Author's Note: Here's Chapter Four of Mathew's Secret Desire. Sorry for the delay in posting, like Chapter Three I had to do some re-writing. I also apologise for any spelling or grammar errors as my spell and grammar checker is Canadian English.

So please enjoy and as usual constructive criticism always grateful.



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The Transit of Venus, Book 2 - Ch 39

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The Transit of Venus
Book 2 - Ch 39


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Badasses Of the Multiverse: Book 3: Chapter 04

Bob, Ed, and Boris enjoy their vacation throughout the multiverse. With them heading to places, times, and realities, that will leave readers asking. Where are they going to next?

But, all is not going perfect, some the hunt for them reignites, with a new group after them. A group far more dangerous than those that were previously trying to capture them.

Unfortunately, Bob is about the make one of the biggest mistakes in his life. He is going to enrage Revy.

And Revy is going to call in some more help of her own.

It is a Lagoon Lion Dance of insanity.

Caution: Nudity And Sexually Suggestive Scenes.



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Synergy - Chapter Two

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Synergy - Chapter 2

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I would soon learn the mistake I had made to cure my incessant boredom; I had led mankind down a road that only gods should traverse. The mistake that came from ignorance and curiosity would change not only my destiny, but that of mankind itself. But like any event there is a point in time where all the threads meet, a time when the slightest change has the greatest impact, its synergy.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2620

The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2620
by Angharad

Copyright© 2015 Angharad

  
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The Lyssa Kordenay Missions - Book 11 - The Fortress

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Book 11 of The Lyssa Kordenay Missions!
  Lyssa is still struggling post mission,
but what of the mysterious Rodrick?

WARNING: The Lyssa Kordenay Missions may be
hyper-violent for some readers.

 



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Honey Bunny: 13

Lunch in Barcelona
Ally in her Bunny outfit
Sometimes it is more important to listen to your inner voice than those around you.


Honey Bunny
Chapter 13

by Louise Anne Smithson

Copyright © 2015 Louise Anne Smithson
All Rights Reserved.


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The Transit of Venus, Book 2 - Ch 38

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The Transit of Venus
Book 2 - Ch 38


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No Ticket

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No Ticket

By

Gwen Brown
Actually posted on Facebook

To: PORTLAND, OREGON PEOPLE!

The Morrison Bridge, all of it, is now 25 MPH!

While crossing the Morrison Bridge, I got pulled over by a totally HOT male cop driving an ATV with all the lights and sirens, who I thought said "I'm going to write you a ticket". I asked him if he expected me to believe that ATV he was driving was a police car?", and not in a respectful manner.



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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2619

The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2619
by Angharad

Copyright© 2015 Angharad

  
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Charlotte, part 10

My heart is racing and my palms are clammy. My mouth is bone dry from not having eaten in 24 hours and I'm shaking like a leaf.

"Okay Miss Burke," the doctor says as he injects a syringe into my IV drip. "I want you to count backwards from ten. Can you do that, please?"

"Ten," I whisper hoarsely. "Nine, e-eight, um, seven..." My head starts to spin as I find it harder and harder to keep my eyes open.

"Six, um, six?" I ask as my brain fogs over and my entire body feels like it's made out of lead.



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A New Start in Life part 25

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A New Start in Life Part 25

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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.



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Alibi Omnino - 02 - Posterus

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by Julia Phillips

02 - Posterus


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Here Comes the Sun - 6

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Here Comes the Sun
a series of Vignettes celebrating transgender romance
through the songs of George Harrison*



by Andrea Lena DiMaggio


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Little darling
It's been a long, cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun,
and I say, It's all right





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Shocking Developments - Part 2


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Terrael grew up in paradise, until the Fomorians showed up. Now Humans, Hypers, and Fae all face extinction and Terrael is their only hope. Can he get used to his own changes and make the one change that can save them all?

 
 

Shocking Developments
Part 2 of 3
Strange New World

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Amethyst

Bailey stared at me for a moment before grinning. “Let me guess, you need to throw that ring your cousin is wearing into the heart of Mount Doom. I should warn you though; One does not simply walk into Mordor. Ow hey!” he turned to glare at Becca who had slapped him upside the head.


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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 2618

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 2618
by Angharad

Copyright© 2015 Angharad

  
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Caught in the Act - 5 More to It

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Caught in the Act – 5
More to It


You do realize Tami and April might be looking for some signs of Jessie… Suzie was complimentary, “Jeff, I can even see your resemblance to your Mom who is very attractive. “would you kiss me with lipstick on, I’m wanting to be your best girlfriend.” I take half a step back to ponder what she’s saying, and I smile as Tami holds up a stick of lip gloss. It is way too tempting… Max noticed, “That’s kind of embarrassing when it happened, but I lived.”



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Land of My Heart - Chapter 29

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Land of My Heart

A novel by Bronwen Welsh

The sequel to 'A Foreign Country'


Chapter Twenty-nine   The hour of the wolf

Tuesday



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The Transit of Venus, Book 2 - Ch 37

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The Transit of Venus
Book 2 - Ch 37


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In Tandem Orbit: Chapter 11

Photo representing how I imagine Iris and Rianna, only Iris has purple eyes and the girl in this pic does not.

(I'm no good at Gimp or Photoshop, you'll just have to imagine that Iris has thistle-colored eyes. Though I do now have an anime-ish avatar depicting Iris.)



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Secondhand Life - Part 27

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I headed back to L.A. the next morning. I was beginning to feel comfortable traveling unescorted. I was about to say alone but Katherine was never really without 'people' ...handlers, aides, assistants of one kind or another. I began to realize how many 'little people' the celebrity industry employed and found myself wondering what these people would be doing for a living otherwise. I even began to think of the paparazzi and their role in the ...ecosystem.



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Tamara's Diary - Easter 2015 Part 1

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Tamara's Diary - A Tommy & Tamara Interlude


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Somewhere Else Entirely -128-

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After the evening meal Garia has the difficult task of telling a select few about the Beings and what they have proposed. This results in further revelations for all concerned.

Somewhere Else Entirely

by Penny Lane

128 - The Impossible Choice



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Seasons of Bailey: Spring - Part 3

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Never expect a happy ending...

Seasons of Bailey
Spring
by Taylor Ryan
Title image and story Copyright © 2010-2020 Taylor Ryan
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The Transit of Venus, Book 2 - Ch 36

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The Transit of Venus
Book 2 - Ch 36


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Eerie Saloon 3: Dance with Me by Ellie Dauber and Chris Leeson - Now on Kindle

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Life has a way of happening when you stop paying attention to your troubles. The transformed women of the Hanks Gang have served their sentences and now must build new lives for themselves.

There are restaurants to run, poker hands to deal, blacksmiths and ranchers to...consider?

Eerie Saloon 3


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Like for Like by Marianne Gregory from DopplerPress

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Three arresting stories from Marianne G!

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Like for Like
by Marianne G
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Masks 1 - Template on Kindle

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"I don't want to be a superhero!" There was surprising heat, there; some deep emotional mark, most likely.

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Masks 1


by Rodford Edmiston

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Arctic Fox Book 2 by Rosemary Howell now on Kindle

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A whole new adventure begins for Marcia, the Arctic Fox, and her family!

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The Arctic Fox
Book 2
by Rosemary Howell
Now on KIndle


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