Scents of Sense

Commodore Sally Fleet Naan Battle, a highly decorated naval officer who’d originally worked her way up through the ranks as a marine, was entirely in agreement with the Ayce legislation concerning the criminals of space. She’d told the assembled pirates, “Let me be quite clear about your future, you are going to die, all of you. All you have left to do is decide the manner of your deaths. If you tell me what I wish to know I shall grant you a quick and painless death. If you make things difficult you will be summarily executed by whatever means is most convenient to my marines, be that knife, sidearm or the vacuum of space. If you refuse to talk I intend to allow the mothers of the youngsters you brutalised and tortured for months to deal with you. They have promised me that they will not kill you till I tell them that I have all the information I require to wipe out all your colleagues and their bases. It’s entirely up to you, and lest you be concerned regarding the legality of my actions, we are in currently Ayce space and under their legislation.

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

Getting to see her ladyship proved easier said than done. The estate manager took an immediate dislike to Josie. Thankfully, his boss was at her office desk when he called her. A few words from her to the manager were enough to let her pass.

WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES
A Satire

August 2029

In the UK General Election, Adrian White of the Make Britain Great Again Party becomes Prime Minister. He immediately awards himself a knighthood. A week later, unprecedentedly high rainfall combined with record spring tides cause widespread flooding in London and the Houses of Parliament are evacuated. White declares a State of Emergency and suspends regular democratic processes.

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.

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’s resume gets an update.
 

Ethan stared at the yellow sundress as if it might lunge at him.

Mad scientist John Crevil has figured out the perfect crime: Use gene-editing technology to swap places with billionaire Jacob Astoria and his wife, and set them up to die after putting the Astorias’ into their own guises. What could go wrong?

Where the Sunflowers Grow
By
Rebecca Anna Coleman

-1-
Boulevard of Broken Dreams

The mall was filled with shoppers this rainy afternoon. From where I was sitting, on a wooden bench under a planted palm tree that seemed odd out of place in Mississippi I noticed that every one of them held some kind of bag. Delightful smells drifted down from the food court. The smells caused my stomach to growl, reminding me that I'd skipped breakfast and the hamburger steak I had for supper last night had long since left me.

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 15: Tides of Power

Chapter 7 — “Forged in Fire and Friendship.”

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?

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