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When Mirriam moves to a cottage in a village to improve her health, she gets more than she bargained for. Westfarthing has secrets, and those secrets will soon close in on Mirriam's life.…

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Stream of thought about a robot lady from dram12's world of Common. I hope dram enjoys my little attempt to join in his storyverse!…

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Short Stories and Writing Prompts for 2020…

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Kelsey's senior year of high school looks like it's going to be a total bust. Her mom just died of cancer. Foster care sucks. She could have already graduated two years ago if her mom would have let her skip some grades. But no, she's stuck doing the same old boring thing until she turns eighteen and can leave it all behind. Because apparently, socialization is so important for non-neurotypical nerd girls like her! Enter Kaiden, stage right. Football jock, track team star, second chair trombone, rich professional parents. He's got it all going on. Why would he even talk to a girl like her? What does he want? Kelsey's not sure she wants to find out, but her tricky brain can't resist the puzzle.…

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Home for the holidays isn't going to work out quite as planned this year."No Place Like Home" first appeared in Undead Embrace, an anthology by Under the Moon publishing, 2011. Any similarities to actual people, places, or happenings are coincidental and should be firmly ignored.…