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*WINNER of the XOXO Connects flash-fiction contest for a publishing contract with Pocket Books.*What's your deepest, darkest desire? Shelby Weeks is a six out of ten on a good day, but her brains and ambition make up for her woeful lack of allure. Nick Farmer, on the other hand, is a handsome, charismatic man who happens to be her boss. They're also both happily married . . . to other people. Shelby can't help to daydream about her undeniable attraction, but she'll never make a public confession about her feelings. There's really no need. She knows that to keep her idyllic life, all she can do is look, but don't touch.This flash-fiction piece is under 2,000 words and was written for the XOXO Connects contest for the theme "confessions". A huge thank you to everyone who voted between October 19 and 21, 2015 to get this story into the top 5. After the editors read the finalists, this story ended up winning the contest!(c) 2015 All Rights Reserved - R.S. Kovach…

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What if you could make travel planning effortless? This collection contains my entry for the Marriott #travelbrilliantly contest that was chosen as a Top 10 story, along with some other one shots related to travel.…

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A family vacation ends in heartbreak as Jen learns that sometimes it's better to pay attention to what you've already got instead of wishing for the one that got away.* * * * * (c) 2020 - All Rights Reserved RS KovachWritten for the prompt "The One That Got Away" from the Wattpad Paid Stories [@paidstories] profile.…

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Darcy and her friends spend every summer at the beach. When she meets Ben the weekend before Independence Day, she thinks he'll just be one more fling before Senior year. But Ben isn't an average hunk who really likes the ocean, and Darcy shouldn't pack for home just yet.…

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Having reached legal adulthood, eighteen-year-old Matthew must now participate in his first National Women's Empowerment Day. In present-day America, this is an annual, twelve-hour event of legal and social role-reversal between genders where men temporarily experience one, waking day of these things that women have to live with the other 364 days.This is a sample entry for the contest sponsored by @Hulu and THE HANDMAID'S TALE.…

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Off-the wall folk tales from the Carpathian Basin featuring princes, paupers, anthropomorphic animals, devils, and a whole lot of weird.The relatively small, Central European country of Hungary has a rich tradition of folklore stemming from its colorful history of occupation by Celts, Romans, Slavs, and Ottomans before a brief period of rule under the Austrian Hapsburgs. The Kingdom of Hungary itself once stretched from the Adriatic Sea to parts of modern Czech Republic and Moldavia. While the land this country occupies is now just a fraction of what it used to be, the Hungarian (Magyar) language is one of the most difficult in the world (stemming from the Finn-Ugric language family shared only by speakers of Finnish). This made widespread literary access to these stories quite rare before the 20th century.In the late 1890s, a group of scholars led by the Rev. W. Henry Jones and Lewis L. Kropf translated over fifty Hungarian folk tales into English and published it in 1899 by the Folk-Lore Society, London. This collection - one per week over the course of 2018 - will be posted to Wattpad thanks to digitization by Project Gutenberg.…