Ch.2
I sat beside my mom in the car, and an awkward silence filled the air. I really didn’t know what to talk about, but I could tell that, like always, Mom was tr...
2025-02-23 15:35:13 +0000 UTC
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I hadn’t known how Mom would react to my showing her my chest, purple nurples and all. “Hm,” she said flatly. “I bet that did hurt.”
I glanced down. The left one still ached and mig...
2025-02-22 00:09:57 +0000 UTC
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The crispness in the air said winter was not too far off, and I thought again about Christmas and what I might get for Lee. And Jake, too. School always seemed oddly quiet this early in the morning...
2025-02-20 17:55:20 +0000 UTC
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Everyone forgot about Slutch. "Story a' my life," the man muttered after zipping himself up. He'd walked out to the entrance of the small, graveled parking lot and pissed on the signpost that held ...
2025-02-19 21:14:17 +0000 UTC
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The Fountain of Youth
By
Melanie Brown
Copyright © 2025
Part 10
“Cheerleader? Reall...
2025-02-16 19:17:54 +0000 UTC
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Phil blamed the translator, who had told him that the scroll contained a spell for discovering for oneself a girlfriend of perfection. How was he to know 'discover for' and 'transform into' were th...
2025-02-15 22:40:57 +0000 UTC
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“Are you sure you want to do this?” My dad asked me for the fifteenth time already. I can’t blame him, though. I wasn’t very sure of my decision, but I had to do this. I have had enough of ...
2025-02-14 15:36:48 +0000 UTC
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I came at our house the back way through the alley, but Mom was there, chopping at some weeds with a long-handled hoe. The back gate made of pigwire stood wide open. At least I didn’t have to get...
2025-02-11 02:19:56 +0000 UTC
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The Fountain of Youth
By
Melanie Brown
Copyright © 2024
Part 9
“Your name is Nell?” asked Joey as we walked away from the office area.
I grunted a laugh. ...
2025-02-08 15:38:00 +0000 UTC
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Maylene back in the small office behind the kitchen did not call the Sheriff's Office in De Queen but dialed instead the direct cell phone number of Deputy Dan Weathers whose responsibility was the...
2025-02-06 19:23:52 +0000 UTC
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The darkness never changes, but sometimes it smells different. After 400 years, whether my eyes are open or closed matters because it’s how I communicate. One if by land, two if I see….
2025-02-03 23:01:47 +0000 UTC
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Melanie Brown
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Part 8
“Where’s Aunt Bea?” exclaimed Riley when she bou...
2025-01-30 18:32:30 +0000 UTC
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One time, Fatboy played nine-ball for his life with some outlaw bikers from California in a roadhouse on the Oklahoma line. A woman named Maylene Wheeler owned that roadhouse and she was maybe Fatb...
2025-01-29 23:00:32 +0000 UTC
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“I’m serious, Bea.”
Beatrice looked at my curlers and laughed. “You look serious.”
I stood up and shouted, “Will you forget the fucking curlers? If you had prope...
2025-01-27 19:38:01 +0000 UTC
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One time, Fatboy played nine-ball for his life with some outlaw bikers from California in a roadhouse on the Oklahoma line. A woman named Maylene Wheeler owned that roadhouse and she was maybe Fatb...
2025-01-25 00:28:18 +0000 UTC
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Maryanne's latest collection cover preview above hints at the aura of mystery and oddness of her heroines in this volume. A little fantasy, a little suspense, but as always, you can look forward to...
2025-01-21 00:42:53 +0000 UTC
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Even televised wrestling matches with normal humans can have serious accidents. Staged matches for charity between supers could produce many casualties. What happens if the organization behind them...
2025-01-18 02:53:10 +0000 UTC
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Part 6
I stretched out luxuriously in bed. It’s Sunday, and no shopping expeditions are planned. I can just relax. I plan to stay in be...
2025-01-17 19:57:27 +0000 UTC
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Pete’s Vagina
62. Fantasy League
I fell asleep eventually. After my experience with Megan, I knew what sort of things would get my motor ...
2025-01-15 01:10:39 +0000 UTC
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2025-01-12 13:52:32 +0000 UTC
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Melanie Brown
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Part 5
“I don’t want to get my ears pierced!”
The girl holding the ear-piercing gun thin...
2025-01-10 14:53:45 +0000 UTC
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I got onto Aviation Boulevard and followed it out to the side street where we lived in a tract full of ranch-style homes built in the 1950s. The lots were bigger than more modern areas of town, wit...
2025-01-07 23:43:28 +0000 UTC
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Cami deals with crises, a realization and a loss in this final book of the Aria series.
2025-01-03 22:13:43 +0000 UTC
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Melanie Brown
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Part 4
“Hey, sleepy-head.”
“Mrrmmphgh.”
“You need to get up, hone...
2025-01-01 22:48:22 +0000 UTC
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I made it to the restrooms in the center of the park, but no one had followed me. It wasn’t that long of a run but I stood there, just inside, gasping like I had finished a half-marathon and star...
2025-01-01 04:46:29 +0000 UTC
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Melanie Brown
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Part 3
Billy drove the car up into the driveway of his and Denise’s house. Denise turned around to...
2024-12-28 18:10:14 +0000 UTC
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When I reached the basketball courts in the park, Josh was already there, playing Horse all by himself. He had his own newer ball and my old worn one lay against the pole holding the basket up. He ...
2024-12-26 07:37:21 +0000 UTC
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Melanie Brown
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Part 2
I felt myself slowly growing conscious. It wasn’t so much waking from a long sleep as it wa...
2024-12-21 22:03:21 +0000 UTC
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I took a walk around the downtown area. I went as far north as the bike shop and browsed the shiny metal and black rubber of the bikes. There was a five-speed that I just might be able to afford if...
2024-12-20 19:47:08 +0000 UTC
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Melanie Brown
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Part 1
“Uncle Neil. I think it’s time to pull the plug on your expedition,” complained my insu...
2024-12-17 17:13:16 +0000 UTC
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