Where the Sunflowers Grow
By
Rebecca Anna Coleman

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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.

Chapter 1. Arrival

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 another job posing as Emily and encounters his archnemesis.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Colleen’s favorite model takes another step toward fame.
 

Chapter 10: Auras and Amulets

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.

Stoned

“Miss Harrigan, because of your age, I hereby sentence you to six months in the Secure Training Centre. Your vandalism was of the most heinous kind and will cost many pounds to repair. Take her away.”

I heard the words, trying not to cry. It was not what I had hoped, although my lawyer had told me that it was likely. Here I was, fifteen and now with a convict record. I knew that the STC I would be going to was almost worse than proper prison, as I had met several on the streets, who had been there and bore the scars.

Where the Sunflowers Grow
By
Rebecca Anna Coleman

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My Will

I took a deep breath as I peered toward the glowing television screen. I was back home now, mom had called me before I'd had a chance to venture into girlhood. Mom did not feel safe driving home in a blinding rain storm. So we cut our little trip into Jackson short. I was a little disappointed. But I guess I just had to wait patiently and deliberately for the right opportunity to act, rather than acting on impulse.

The Green-Eyed Maid Inn

I caught a glimpse of both Emily and Claire standing near the back offices, and Nick was on duty at the front desk again, too. If these walls had ears, they’d probably wish they had hands instead, so they could shield themselves from the coming bloodbath.

Demands My Soul

A Transgender Heroine's Journey & Romance Novel

From THE ONE Universe

Chapter 27: Mobilizing Faith and Love

By Ariel Montine Strickland

With Delores approving Lambda Legal to appeal the appellate court decision to the Georgia Supreme Court, how will all involved get ready for their day in court?

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