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SHORT STORY"How much farther?""A day, maybe two." Brass loosened the strap on his horse's saddle. "We aren't far."It was edging toward darkness, and the partners were readying to settle in for the night. "That mutt of yourn about?" Ruddy glanced around, but Brass was shaking his head."He's off catchin' supper. He'll be along.""I hope he-"A high-pitched scream drowned out his remark. For one horrible second they registered the sound of agony and panic, then as one man they mounted up and urged the horses into a run, rifles drawn and ready. The loud BAM BAM BAM alerted them the man ahead wasn't helpless, and they heard the frantic barking of a dog before the mutt gave a high squeal. Another panicked wail guided them through the gathering darkness, and they rushed up through a stand of trees, breaking over a ridge above a grisly scene. A broken, bloody body lay crumpled and still up against a rock. Half a dozen feet away was the lifeless form of the dog that had been barking. Center stage was a massive grizzly, brutally, efficiently killing a second man pinned beneath him.…

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A Flash Short StoryWestern Marshal faces trouble at sunset…

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Fae Rivers is on her own for the first time. Talkative, friendly, will she find herself in trouble, or will she talk her way into love?…

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SHORT STORYLabeled a coward, never motivated to do anything about it, Yella Gage finds his entire world under question when a freckly, knobby-kneed girl enters his life. She needs protection, a home, and a future, but as the town coward, can Gage find it within himself to step up to the challenge?…

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Torn from the life she always known, traveling across the country to start a life she knew nothing about, Molly Connolly had no reason to anticipate love. She was barely processing the death of her father, the loss of her home, and now must face up to the harshness of the vast wild west. **He had to be wondering at what sort of fragile creature I must be to be constantly crying. Swallowing the boulder sized lump in my throat I nodded, wiping away my tears."Yes.""Really?" Clearly startled, he stared skeptically at me."Please do not make me say it again."**He stepped into my life when I had no one else to turn to. Desperate, scared, and alone, I married a complete stranger. Could we hope for more?…

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A coming of age tale as old as the wild west.Taken from her father and her people, a young Sioux girl tries to adapt to life among the people of her mother, the 'white eyes'. Bitter, resentful, untrusting, Kimimela finds herself alone in a world where there seems to be no place for her, a half breed child of a warrior and a white woman. As she grows, is there a choice? When the opportunity arises, and she comes of age, will she return to the land of her father's people, or stay with the new life she's tried to build among the whites?http://seviolet.x10host.com/SEVioletHome.html…

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A man without a name. Without a history. Without any recollection of who or what he was. Fragments had been left behind, cut into his flesh with brutal force. Left for dead in the untamed vastness of the Australian wilderness, his only chance for survival comes in the form of a mute, disfigured Aboriginal woman. She has secrets to protect, secrets that involve more than his past.…

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A chance encounter could leave a body dead...unless he knows when to back down…

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Rin Temple could usually get himself out of any scrape he found himself in, through the swiftness of his draw or cool-headed thinking. This time was different. He found himself a badly wanted man for something he didn't do, and worse, his accuser was in desperate need of his help.…

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Western.In the old days of gold strikes, boom towns, and outlaws, Lilli finds herself alone and in desperate need of help. There's a place she belongs, one that's rightfully hers, but it's far beyond her ability to get to it on her own. One man steps forward to help, but can he be trusted? Will traveling across country alone with him ruin her reputation beyond repair, or worse?There's only one way to find out. 'Shaped lean an' tough, the stranger reminded me of a wolf, an' the well-worn gun belt with a smooth polished black ivory handle did not escape my notice neither. It was tied down, an' I felt my heart quicken. Judd had tol' me a'plenty about men who carried guns that'a way, an' I had no likin' for it. That kind was followed by nothin' but misery an' killin'. 'WARNING: There's A LOT of (') in the first few chapters of this book! A LOT. Headin', Startin' etc... There's ALSO horrible grammer. It's supposed to be there! First few chapters, then it gets better. (you'll understand when you read them) ALSO...NO GRAPHIC CONTENT of any kind. The story touches on adult themes that may not be suitable for a younger audience.…

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READ THE TAGS, SWEETIES!If any of them sound objectionable, this isn't the book for you! (Seriously)He was a foster runaway looking for a place belong, only to end up a deadly mafia killer tagged Mad Dog. Through a systematic routine of punishment and reward, he grows into a specific niche with extreme anger management issues. Barely on the edge of control, Benjamin Masters was betrayed into a deep-cover government organization known only as the Agency. His life began to precariously spiral out of control when he met her.A runaway called Genevieve was at the very bottom of life's trash heap. Just escaping from a life of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution, she has no concept of what kindness and trust look like. While Masters isn't anyone's first pick for being kind, he saved her life when she's kidnapped off the street. Again. Waking up on a Colombian barge belonging to unscrupulous pirates hadn't been on his list of things to do, but now that they'd asked for trouble, he was going to show them exactly what he was capable of. What he hadn't anticipated was rescuing the woman too. Or taking her on the run. Or protecting her from everyone that tried to hurt her. Or caring about her.Now it's a race to see who gets their hands on the woman everyone wants.…

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Series Five. The epitome of scientific and technological development. A coalition of genius, invention, fantasy and determination. When A.I. first became available to the public, the world went robot crazy. Android movies, toys, heroes, books, and countless paraphernalia swept the market. Having one became a household necessity. Androids were the road to a glorious future, each series upgrade sleeker, smarter, faster, more humanoid than the one before. World demand kept the A.I. labs in full production, until Series Five. He built one prototype, a perfect, fully functioning machine indistinguishable from flesh and bone. They never expected Artificial Intelligence to think for itself. They never anticipated the need to protect themselves from their own creation.Echo Class was beyond what anyone could have imagined.…

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He was a man of humor, of violence, and of strength. When he was left afoot without horses, food, or weapons, his mind was occupied with one thing, survival. Ok, so that's not strictly true. In his care was the beautiful and tempting Magdaline Serrano. One thing held his regard for her in check. Magdaline was a nun in training.…

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I always knew I was goin' to die...I just never expected it to be like this. Blazin' hot desert, far from home, alone, ambushed, shot in the back an' left for dead- no, I'd never imagined it to be like this.Problem was...instead of dyin' right off, I got mad. A vicious, righteous, stuck in your craw, won't rest 'til justice is done kind of mad. Pa would say 'Catch a bear by his nose, you get mauled. Catch a Rivers'...that's where things get messy'.…

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From fighting in the Civil War, to marshaling a small town in southern California, to hunting down a murderer, Hel Morgan has seen more of life than most people could ever dream.…

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Soldier, wanderer, a man past his prime, Clyde Orson wasn't looking for the kind of adventure that found him at the edge of Apache Pass. But when the chips are down and the lines of right and wrong are blurred, he's not one to walk away. But will this mean the end of the trail for a man in search of peace? Take the last ride, and find out...…

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Tom carefully lit his smoke and studied the man before him with care, his experienced eyes taking in every minute detail that would mean little to someone whose life didn't hinge on the details. The man was quiet, collected, a calm look of self-assurance in his eyes. He wore gray buckskin pants and vest, homemade from the look of them, and his shirt was home spun black cotton, and reasonably new. His boots were made for walking, not riding, and were scuffed and well worn. He wore no gun, but that did not diminish in the slightest the air of confidence in him. He had large, thick hands, broad shoulders, a thick neck, a wide jaw, and the faint line of a scar from his ear lobe to the slight cleft in his chin. His coffee colored eyes were piercing and flat, utterly lacking expression."No, I don't reckon you're here to raise a fuss. Take it as a friendly warning though. I don't abide trouble makers in my town, and I don't back down." The marshal spoke with deliberate calmness.The drifter rose slowly and smoothly to his feet, his long lean frame now towering over the marshal. Tom was careful to not move, or show any concern at all. The man looked down at him, something that might have once been humor flickering in his eyes."Then I reckon that'll do for both of us, Marshal. I'm not one to back down myself."…

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Sitting in on a high stakes poker game can cost more than a month's wage. Once you're in, getting out isn't as easy as folding and walking away.…

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The law is a tricky thing. So is identifying the right man for the crime. Eureka Rivers is about to find out for herself just what the truth is when summoned to the hanging trial of her cousin.…

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Things go awry when Boston is left at home, and comes nose to nose with life and death at the hands of the Pollock boys. Making it to her Uncle Fennel was her only hope of escape. Would she make it in time?…