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Bad Karma and the Family Plan #85 (18.1) by Julie Lynn Hayes
I know it’s silly to be taken aback by something so harmless, but the memories that tiny gator invoked…. Well, let’s say they weren’t pleasant.
“Vinnie…Vinnie…”
Ethan’s concerned voice drew me back to the present. He was stroking my cheek, and the expression in his beautiful blue eyes was one of alarm.
“Sorry. Didn’t mean to space out like that.” I gave him a weak smile, but
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“Friend,” the beast scoffed. “There is so much you don’t know.”
“And let me guess, you’re just dying to tell me.” Like he was just going to take a stranger’s word over what he’d experienced with Colby, or how Mr. and Mrs. R had treated him. Sure, he’d never expected their crazy cat to claw him up, grow ginormous, and create all this magic mumbo jumbo crap he was living through right now, but still….
Who in their right mind would just accept a stranger’s vague, supposed dire warnings? Beckett had suspended a lot of disbelief, but the one thing
Memories of Newberg: Part 3 by J Ray Lamb
Where to start with Jeff. He wasn’t a native of Newberg. We got him in fourth or fifth grade from one of the bigger city suburbs. It wasn’t the suburb that was bigger as it was actually not much bigger than Newberg, but definitely more urban than Newberg.
I don’t remember him coming into town. In fact, I really don’t remember him until Junior High when his “acting out” starting to become more prevalent. If I wasn’t at home (which was often), I was out at my friend Lance’s family’s hobby farm.
It was Lance who started hanging out with…
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