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Emma has just picked up her hard, single-motherhood existence in New York and her daughter, Ashley, to fly over to London, England, to move in with the bad-boy rocker who swept her off her feet in the States. First, he's not there when they arrive. Then, she gets a "Dear Jane" text from him on her phone. To top it all off, he *rented out the flat* to someone else!Now she's stuck trying to save up to move into her own place, and keep her daughter from getting into trouble at her new school. She did *not* need another musician she doesn't know at all, living in what was supposed to be *her* flat with *her* daughter, bringing god-knows-who home with him and god-knows-what-hour-of the night... But oh, that Scottish accent, and the way he teaches Ashley to stand up for herself, and the way he lets them stay in the apartment when everything's fallen apart and they have nowhere to go...With her past haunting her and her future uncertain, Emma must decide if she's willing to take another chance on love with a man who may be just as unreliable as the last.…

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Mack's just trying to survive high school. Not being able to decide on a college major, being a good best friend, and hiding from her always-disappointed mother are all time-consuming enough... and she thinks she's finally gotten a handle on things. But when she and her friends find a pirate ship in the middle of a landlocked lakeshore, things really start to go off the rails: her best friend's little brother professes his undying love and then mysteriously runs away; Mack gets shade from the entire town for being the babysitter-on-duty when it happened; her best friend stops talking to her, and Mack's parents force her into therapy to "talk about it" before she leaves for college... and *right* as the freedom of adulthood is within her reach, one of the souvenirs from the pirate ship starts acting weird and strands her *in the future*!Now, she's stuck helping to recover displaced artifacts from up and down the timeline, putting them all back before paradoxes rip the universe apart... She liked history, but she never thought she'd be living it!AUTHOR'S NOTE: I started writing this story in 2015. This is the first time I've dug back into it in about five years, really, so I know it needs a lot of updating in the "modern" scenes. (I'm catching some pre-#metoo mentality, and the lingo doesn't fit, etc. Don't worry, I won't be offended if you flag things like that that you notice, since I know it needs work!) Thanks in advance for any comments, as I thrive on feedback and am desperate to finish telling Mack's story (or, really, begin! lol)...…

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A slice-of-life short about a small master stonecutter's work for a very important client in Ancient Egypt.This was the response to a college assignment, in my creative fiction class, about 10 years ago.…

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We all know the story. Hapless ensign in a red shirt goes on shore leave.He really should have read the brochures while getting his shots...…