Stormy Days Are Here...

It’s here! It’s here! The Kougar’s print copy of MURDER BY HAIR SPRAY IN GARDENIA, NEW ATLANTIS... kiss, kiss... smoochie, smoochie... it looks stunning, thanks to Jinger Heaston’s cover art.
Flipping through her own novel, moi was captured by her writing... always a cool feeling as an author... yeah-meow, I want to read this.
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Stormy days are here... or they were yesterday... a quiet autumn-like evening on the tame prairie tonight, meow-however... and the Kougar is not feeling real frisky, roar and phhhht, since she wanted to get lots of good penning accomplished.
Yowl, storms of every type are on the horizon, my Gorgeous Big Kittens. Tail twitching languorously, it doesn’t take intuition to know that. It’s simply a matter of looking around at what is happening.
Here’s an interesting e-article the Kougar found at Unknown Country ~

Strong Storms Hit US as Bill Becomes 'Extremely Dangerous'
20-Aug-2009

Colorado Tornado
Don't say we didn't warn you: Powerful storms crossed the central and northeastern US as Hurricane Bill became an 'extremely dangerous' storm in the South Atlantic. So far this year, the US tornado season has been relatively mild, but it threatened to increase in intensity today as powerful storms struck from Colorado to New York.New York's Central Park lost over a hundred trees to 80 MPH winds, one of the strongest storms to strike the park in years. Meanwhile, Hurricane Bill increased in strength to a Category 4 storm and was expected to strengthen further as it continues to move north and west toward the US East Coast.
Hurricane Bill has reached Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Category 4 hurricanes generate winds of 133-155 mph, and are described as extremely dangerous storms capable of causing devastating damage. The storm could cause dangerous rip tides all along the US east coast, and is expected to make landfall as a much weakened Category 2 or 3 storm in Newfoundland next week. However, if it turns into the Caribbean or strikes the southeastern US, it could evolve into a catastrophic storm.
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And!
Anchorage, Alaska had a 5 magnitude earthquake.
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BTW, why should Google have any right whatsoever to any copyrighted book or materials, unless said permission is granted by the author or the author’s estate. Books and materials still under copyright should NOT be in the e-publishing province of now-sinister-looming Google.
This Big Cat DOES NOT give permission, despite any so-called legal ruling in Google’s favor or simply because Google *says* it has the right. This fraud perpetrated on all of us with legal copyrights, by the courts and by Google, is negated simply because IT IS FRAUDULENT, given it’s common law nature.
And, no, it does not require written denial by the author or the author’s estate. This demand for a written denial is a trick since it will now enter the person into the legal purview of Google, for example, as in operating under maritime law as opposed to common law.
Every act by Google, in this matter, is absolutely fraudulent. The only thing going on is that Google is getting away with it, so far, and being allowed to get away with it.
Gee, the payoffs must be going deep.
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Just for the cowboy lovin’ big cats ~ a sneaky peekie PASSION-snippet from BRANDED BY THE TEXANS...

Dillon loosed a primitive growl that made Kylie quake inside and feel magnificently abandoned. Looping his hard-muscled arm around her waist, her Viking cowboy righted her. In the same motion he lifted her astride his thighs with a powerful ease that left her even more breathless.
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 236 ~

Sylva stared at the brass bell, then at the tall, willowy woman holding it, who reminded her of a young Julia Roberts. “Is there a problem, sweetheart?” A man’s voice boomed from a back room. “Not if everyone minds their manners.” The woman pointedly gazed at Sally. “If I ring this bell again, Stanley will be right out here. He knows where you live, Miss Hansen, and will escort you home.” Her face tight as a mask, Sally whirled around and strode hurriedly for the door, running outside. “Poor thing. It will take her time to get over you, Zeke.”

Zeke flashed a grin of appreciation, only a small one. Stanley’s fist was as hard as the anvil he used for his black-smithing. “You know I never encouraged Miss Sally.” Bethhanne fluttered her hand dismissively. “Oh, I know. Everyone knows that. But when a woman gets a love struck eye at that age, she can’t see past it often. Was there something special you and your bride were looking for?” Zeke waved his arm. “Everything you have is special. There’s a pink frock my Sylva took a liking to. I saw a white lacy one I want her wearin’, also.”
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 235 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://passionateink.org/forum ~
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
IT’S HERE!!! ~ *The ROOM theme*
Thursday ~ Jane blogs ~ Room to Breathe, Room to Grow ~ this is a gorgeous trip to Umbria, Italy.
Tuesday ~ Chelle blogs ~ THE ROOM ADDITION ~ how that makes a hero.
Monday ~ Bekki blogs ~ BACKYARDS as a room.
Sunday ~ Linday blogs ~ KITCHENS ~
Saturday ~ Lindsay blogs ~ The Bath-House ~ time travel back to ye olde bathhouses.
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
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THE PINK BLOG ~ THE HEROINE’S HAVE ARRIVED !!! ~
Thursday ~ Jane blogs ~ A Girl’s Best Friend ~ you must read the Pixie scene!
Wednesday ~ Keena Kincaid blogs ~ From secondary character to not-so-spunky heroine ~read her beautiful medieval excerpts. Keena’s stunning cover for her next release is featured above.
Tuesday ~ Lindsay’s Heroines
Moi’s comment mew-sings ~
Lindsay, everyone has beautifully expressed what's true about your heroines and your skillful brilliant writing.
One reason I find your heroines so appealing is because they represent their times in the sense that they overcome and live, not merely exist. And they are tough, physically and mentally, or they learn to be.
Thanks for sharing Ahhotpe. She's a wonderful anti-heroine! And she's so Egyptian. You must have lived during that time.
As women why shouldn't we write what we know... ourselves.
I have to agree with Linda. It's really tiresome when the focus of a story or a movie is solely on the man or men... which occurs all too often, imho.
Oh, big deal, who cares about fiction that constantly makes the male sex the center of the universe. Why isn't woman and man, as portrayed together, the center of their universe?
Monday ~ Chelle’s Strong Women and Helen Reddy sings.
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SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Pat Cunningham ~ STUPID THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
Wednesday ~ Guest Blogger ~ Mel Tescho ~ meet her gargoyle hero.
Tuesday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ 2013 Celebration... He grabs my waist.
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Our State Fair...
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~
The red Dobie Gillis lookalike snapped his fingers. “Curses, foiled again!”
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Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

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No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
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HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
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Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

It’s Here smoochies from the Kougar...

E-Swindling and Worse...

Ooooo, my Big Beautiful Cats, it’s stormy-rainy on the tame prairie... round after round of rain and storms. There were some humongous cracks of thunder, the kind that rips the fabric of the sky apart. And moi saw a news story about tornadoes up in Minneapolis. The Kougar’s babie doggies aren’t thrilled about being put outside between the bouts of rain... thunder rumbling nastily now...
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From what the Kougaress can tell, the e-swindling of ebooks is an ever-increasing business. Not only that, it seems to have taken a turn into downright meanness and utter disrespect for the author, her publisher and the author’s creativity... not to mention the hours and hours of hard, devoted work we authors go through just to make our stories the best we can.
This isn’t easy peasy, crank out a story stuff. This is our heart, our soul, our life experience we’re putting down on page after page. It’s lots of research. It’s staring at one word or one paragraph for half an hour sometimes, until our muse finally comes to aid us. It’s hours and hours and days and days and months and months of writing.
If you have a job, how would you feel if you weren’t paid. Worse, what if the service you performed was so disrespected you weren’t provided with any compensation whatsoever, even though, in truth, you’d done a good job.
Every time an authors work is stolen, it means she isn’t paid. It means she goes without. It means she may not be able to sustain a career as an author. Worse, it’s a strike at her soul, a swinging blade that cuts into her very being and says ‘your worthless’ to us. We have the right to steal from you. We have the right to take what you’ve nurtured and grown and leave you to starve.
This Big Cat is through with being polite or nice or in any way respectful. So, here it is ~

All rights reserved. No part of this e-book, audio book or print book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written consent of the Author or Publisher, excepting brief quotes used in reviews, articles or blogs.
IF THIS DIVINELY GRANTED RIGHT IS VIOLATED IN ANY MANNER, THE PERSON OR PERSONS WILL KNOW IMMEDIATE KARMIC CONSEQUENCES. AND SO IT SHALL ALWAYS BE. AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
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Authoress news and mews ~

Okay, my darling KitKats, the Kougar is planning on posting Pat Cunningham’s blog ~ STUPID THINGS TO THINK ABOUT ~ at SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS on Thursday, August 20th ~ this night of the New Moon. However, she may have got her claws crossed with another post... so... stay tuned.
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Just for the cowboy lovin’ big cats ~ a sneaky peekie THE LAST WRITTEN PARAGRAPHS-snippet from BRANDED BY THE TEXANS...

“The thing is, cowboy, it’s starting to feel like a juggling act. And if I don’t juggle you all in the right way... well, I don’t even like thinking about the possible consequences. What if I toss Dash too high and Dono not high enough? Or don’t catch you? My head is spinning thinking about it.”
“Kylie, blunt truth is, we’re going to juggle you.” Halting at the counter, he set the tray in the sink, then spun to face her. “There’s something I need to explain to you and show you. I’ll tell you right now, you’re gonna feel like hoofin’ me in the head.”
She blinked. “What is it?” Her words charged at him like a ram.
We’re going to brand you. Dillon compressed his lips. Even though it was his nature to run straight at life, now was not the moment to tell her. “Let me show you first. Then I’ll explain.”
Tilting her head, she eyed him suspiciously. “What happens if I refuse?”
“We’ll make it so pleasurable you won’t refuse.” Dillon intensely felt the promise of his own words.
“I think my stomach is somersaulting,” she murmured.
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 235 ~

Sylva had a wild urge to simply laugh and keep on laughing. Instead, she drily replied, “I’m not from around these parts. If you know what I mean. Now, please be nice and let me do some shopping. You know, a wife does have to maintain a certain wardrobe. I arrived with nothing but the clothes on my back.” Sally blinked her big blue eyes, but didn’t indicate she was leaving. “While my husband may enjoy me in the nude I doubt it would be appropriate for me to walk around town that way. You do enjoy me, don’t you?”

Zeke didn’t know whether to bust out laughing, a hand over his gut, or play along with his Sylva. “Darlin’, I enjoy every sweet nekkid inch of you.” Sally pointed at his wife, still in her own fantasy trance. “Where’d you get them purty duds, then? If yer not from around here?” Turning toward him, his bride’s gaze questioned him about their latest challenge. “Where did you get these purty duds, cowboy?” At the rapid tinkling of a bell, they all gazed at Bethanne, the proprietor. “He didn’t purchase that outfit here. However, I surely would like his business now.”
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 234 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://assionateink.org/forum ~
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
IT’S HERE!!! ~ *The ROOM theme*
Tuesday ~ Chelle blogs ~ THE ROOM ADDITION ~ how that makes a hero.
Monday ~ Bekki blogs ~ BACKYARDS as a room.
Sunday ~ Linday blogs ~ KITCHENS ~
Saturday ~ Lindsay blogs ~ The Bath-House ~ time travel back to ye olde bathhouses.
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
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THE PINK BLOG ~ THE HEROINE’S HAVE ARRIVED !!! ~
Wednesday ~ Keena Kincaid blogs ~ From secondary character to not-so-spunky heroine ~read her beautiful medieval excerpts. Keena’s stunning cover for her next release is featured above.
Tuesday ~ Lindsay’s Heroines
Moi’s comment mew-sings ~
Lindsay, everyone has beautifully expressed what's true about your heroines and your skillful brilliant writing.
One reason I find your heroines so appealing is because they represent their times in the sense that they overcome and live, not merely exist. And they are tough, physically and mentally, or they learn to be.
Thanks for sharing Ahhotpe. She's a wonderful anti-heroine! And she's so Egyptian. You must have lived during that time.
As women why shouldn't we write what we know... ourselves.
I have to agree with Linda. It's really tiresome when the focus of a story or a movie is solely on the man or men... which occurs all too often, imho.
Oh, big deal, who cares about fiction that constantly makes the male sex the center of the universe. Why isn't woman and man, as portrayed together, the center of their universe?
Monday ~ Chelle’s Strong Women and Helen Reddy sings.
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SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Wednesday ~ Guest Blogger ~ Mel Tescho ~ meet her gargoyle hero.
Tuesday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ 2013 Celebration... He grabs my waist.
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Our State Fair...
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Rebecca Royce... it’s all about her wolves.
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~
The red Dobie Gillis lookalike snapped his fingers. “Curses, foiled again!”
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Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

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No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
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HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
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Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

Roaring-ferocious smoochies from the Kougar...

Orange and Blue... WTF?

Daniel, an absolutely stunning photo! ~ http://flickr.com/photos/danielcheong/ ~

Pardone, moi Kittehs, for the opening bad-word acronym. Let the Kougaress make it clear she adores the color blue and the color orange. Icy pale blue is one of her favorite shades... and well, she did pen the aristocratic fantasy ~ ALL SHADES OF BLUE PARADISE. Just as she also wrote ~ TANGERINE CARNAL DREAMS ~ yep, tangerine and orange were featured as vibrant sensual colors in her sci fi world story.
But what the hell is going on? Why is light blue and orange becoming a ubiquitous combination of colors... almost everywhere moi looks. Credit Card companies, Wal-Mart... orange and blue... blue and orange. It’s enough to make this Big Cat puke. Being an absolute lover of color, the Kougaress enjoys a kaleidoscope of all colors, all shades, all hues... a palette of color ranging from blush rose to florescent green.
Come on, who wants to live in a pale blue and orange world, exclusively? Nasty headache ensuing now... and eyes crossing painfully for this KitKat girl...
What? Is everyone so enamored with light orange and blue that we as a culture must display it everywhere like some sort of unconscious sign that we’re all united?
If there must be blue and orange, why not turquoise and peach? Why not cornflower blue and a blazing shade of orange-yellow?
Color like everything else is a frequency. As such it influences us all at both subliminal and conscious levels. Color is used for healing. A certain shade of pink is used to calm inmates. Color can affect us all at a deep level depending on our individual natures and the experiences we’ve had in life.
So, what is this orange and blue crap? Some sort of corporate pablum for the masses? Created by the warped minds of Fifth Avenue to guarantee allegiance to all forms of TOO BIG TO FAIL commercialism?
This inquiring Big Cat mind wants to know. Before it mentally makes her throw up every time she’s faced with THOSE TWO COLORS COHABITING. Get a room, corporate blue and orange, and stay there! Merge, if you know what moi means, and make the color black, so we all know your true color. Black as Darth Vader.
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Authoress news and mews ~

Dorchester/Textnovel contest ~

CURSES WERE STRANGE BEASTS
~ Chronicles of an Earth-bound Goddess ~

CHAPTER TEN ~ Big Shot Damn Detective

Down, goddess girl, she cautioned herself. Her fingertips threatened to blaze like a monster-movie torch and ignite his precious SUV-thing.
“Don’t say that,” he snapped. Barked, actually.
Keziah balled her fists and thought of them as snow cones. She had a weakness for the grape ones, especially. “Don’t say what!? Mr. Copper... condom...”
“Fucking. Don’t say that.”
His gravelly voice interrupted her, unyielding as granite. Keziah snuck a peek at him and hoped he didn’t notice. Even his profile looked like the hardest stone in the solar system found in the mountains of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons.
“Don’t men just luv that crude lewd rude ‘word’?” she sarcastically sang...

More... http://textnovel.com/home.php ~
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It’s all about ROOMS AND ROMANCE at the HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog.
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At THE PINK BLOG the HEROINES HAVE ARRIVED and do they ever make themselves heard.
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 234 ~

Sylva scanned the woman who had halted Zeke in his tracks. She was slender, beautiful in a girl-next-door sort of way. Her forearms gleamed with a lovely tan, as if she spent summers on the beach. “Another woman you were supposed to marry?” Sylva whispered. “Zeke!” The happy excited shriek bounced from wall to wall while the woman rushed Zeke like a skinny linebacker. “I’m married, Sally,” he firmly uttered the instant she skid to a halt. Sylva doubted she’d even been seen. “Meet my bride, Sylva.” Cornflower blue eyes stared at her as if she was an imaginary object.

Zeke figured he must have used up a goodly portion of his luck finding his Sylva. Merlinda, and now Sally. What were the odds? Actually, downright favorable, given Merlinda had been waitin’ to marry him. And Sally could easily have found out he’d come to Two Springs. She’d sworn more than once she wasn’t lettin’ any other man’s lasso settle around her shoulders. Only his. “Parents in town with you, Sally?” he neighborly asked, then tucked Sylva’s arm beneath his deliberately. “No,” Sally muttered, her answer a struggle. “Where did she come from?” Hands planted her hips, she faced Sylva.
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 233 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://passionateink.org/forum ~
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
IT’S HERE!!! ~ *The ROOM theme*
Tuesday ~ Chelle blogs ~ THE ROOM ADDITION ~ how that makes a hero.
Monday ~ Bekki blogs ~ BACKYARDS as a room.
Sunday ~ Linday blogs ~ KITCHENS ~
Saturday ~ Lindsay blogs ~ The Bath-House ~ time travel back to ye olde bathhouses.
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
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THE PINK BLOG ~ THE HEROINE’S HAVE ARRIVED !!! ~
Tuesday ~ Lindsay’s Heroines
Moi’s comment mew-sings ~
Lindsay, everyone has beautifully expressed what's true about your heroines and your skillful brilliant writing.
One reason I find your heroines so appealing is because they represent their times in the sense that they overcome and live, not merely exist. And they are tough, physically and mentally, or they learn to be.
Thanks for sharing Ahhotpe. She's a wonderful anti-heroine! And she's so Egyptian. You must have lived during that time.
As women why shouldn't we write what we know... ourselves.
I have to agree with Linda. It's really tiresome when the focus of a story or a movie is solely on the man or men... which occurs all too often, imho.
Oh, big deal, who cares about fiction that constantly makes the male sex the center of the universe. Why isn't woman and man, as portrayed together, the center of their universe?
Monday ~ Chelle’s Strong Women and Helen Reddy sings.
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SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Tuesday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ 2013 Celebration... He grabs my waist.
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Our State Fair...
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Rebecca Royce... it’s all about her wolves.
Wednesday ~ Crystal blogs ~ Write What You Know... hippies included.
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~
The red Dobie Gillis lookalike snapped his fingers. “Curses, foiled again!”
~~~
Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

~~~
No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
~~~
HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
~~~

Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

All shades of orange and blue kisses from the Kougar...

Another ShapeShifting Monday...

It’s been raining on the tame prairie the past couple of mornings. The clouds and thunder roll in and the raindrops saturate the needy ground. It’s a good thing, my Big Beautiful Cats, except for the Kougar’s plaguing allergies. Still, moi wouldn’t have it any other way. She adores the rain and what it does for Mother Earth.
Yep, meow-indeedy, another shapeshifting Monday. This Big Cat has penned another two flashes for the NEW BULL IN TOWN ~ to be featured at SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS on Tuesday, August 18. So, take a peekie if you want a bull-charging X-good time.
Yep, the Kougar is writing away on BRANDED BY THE TEXANS and havin’ a western-good time... with everything leading up to the ‘branded’ scene.
In the back of moi’s renegade brain... Kandace and her Halloween Hellhound Heroes are coming to life... too bad, since it will be too late to try to submit for Halloween... even if the Kougar does get it written.
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Just for the cowboy lovin’ big cats ~ a sneaky peekie THE LAST WRITTEN PARAGRAPHS-snippet from BRANDED BY THE TEXANS...

“Now, we got a fourth.” Dono set the table in the center of the room. “If you play, Kylie.”
“Depends on the game. You all probably play poker. I’m lousy at it.”
None of them spoke, the silence nearly deafening.
“Strip poker,” Dash crowed, then moved to the table and set the tray down.
“In that case, I’m wearing three times as many clothes. No, at least, four times.” Kylie’s voice dared any of them to make her do otherwise.
Dillon chuckled to himself as he eased her onto the floor, then stood behind her.
“You can wear as many clothes as you want, sweetheart.” Dono busied himself placing the chairs.
“Given your sweet-ass luck at cards, you would say that,” Dash fired back. Quickly, he set out the plates, then the glasses of milk while Dono shot a frown at him.
Pivoting, Dash presented a formal posture. “May I seat you, Princess Kylie?”
She hesitated a fraction of an instant before walking toward Dash. “You may, handsome cowboy Prince.”
The sway of her hips trapped Dillon’s gaze and he knew why men fist-pummeled each other over a woman. Hell, what was he going to do? Start fighting his brothers out in the barn over her, after he’d reprimanded them.
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 233 ~

Sylva studied her cowboy’s eyes, glinting like brandy set in sunlight. “Is this such a good idea, walking around? You look worried.” He gave her a smile that should have melted her into a puddle. “Then, we’ll go inside. You show me what you like. And I’ll show you what I like.” Sylva smiled back, then flirtatiously teased, “And what if we both like the same thing?” Lowering his face closer to hers, he rasped, “That’s an automatic purchase, don’t you think?” Sylva slid her fingertip beneath his string tie and twirled. “I think I like how you’re treating me.”

Zeke slowly palmed his woman’s shoulders drawing her close for a moment. Their breaths mingled before he brought her beside him, escorting her into Bethanne’s Finest Women’s Wear. Once inside, the familiar fragrance of honeyed vanilla surrounded them. Before he could think, Zeke froze. Sally Hansen, her blonde pigtails askew as usual, stood at a round of picnic frocks. The teenager had done everything but strip off her clothes in front of him to get his lustful attention and entice him into courtship. He’d never laid a finger on her, except dragging her back to wherever she’d tied her horse.
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 232 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://passionateink.org/forum ~
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
IT’S HERE!!! ~ *The ROOM theme*
Monday ~ Bekki blogs ~ Backyards as a room.
Sunday ~ Linday blogs ~ KITCHENS ~
Moi’s Mew-sings ~
Linda, what Lindsay said.
How silly to think Kitchens can't be romantic places. If a couple is preparing food together that can be utterly romantic and a wonderful way to learn about each other.
I've used the kitchen in one of my books and just used it in a scene. The heroine doesn't know much about the hero, but because of circumstance they're together at his ranch. How people relate to each other over food and caring for each other is often key to the development of their love for each other.
Saturday ~ Lindsay blogs ~ The Bath-House ~ time travel back to ye olde bathhouses.
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
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THE PINK BLOG ~ THE HEROINE’S HAVE ARRIVED !!! ~
Monday ~ Chelle’s Strong Women and Helen Reddy sings.
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SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Our State Fair...
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Rebecca Royce... it’s all about her wolves.
Wednesday ~ Crystal blogs ~ Write What You Know... hippies included.
Tuesday ~ The Kougar ~ My Prince of a Stallion
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~
The red Dobie Gillis lookalike snapped his fingers. “Curses, foiled again!”
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Weekly Angelic Forecast from Volcano

Straight from the Carnal Cherub himself...

Angelic Forecast ~ #50

This week is about highs and lows within the context of the Unraveling. Ride them out with as much equanimity as you can. That is, rejoice in the highs, but know it is temporary at best. The same is true with the lows. Feel the experience, yet know it is temporary.
Currently, certain forces have not yet solidified. Thus, the week has a murky quality to it. Still, there will be opportunities to move your dream forward. Do it. By doing so you will benefit others as much as yourself.

Angelic blessings from Volcano & Sedona

MORE...Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

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No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
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HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
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Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

More shape-shifting smooches from the Kougar...

Flashing with Pop-Ice & Moon the Balloon

It seems, my fancy dancy felines, the residents of Port Huron on the Canadian side of the border were PO-ed over a spy camera test done via blimp or balloon by the US military over their city. So, in an act of defiant creativity, they dropped their pants, their shorts or lifted their skirts *mooning” the balloon. Yay and yowl for those brave people! May we all so brightly demonstrate our refusal to cooperate with Big Brother.
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The incomparable Mima was the hostess for Flash Fiction Sunday at the Liquid Silver SEx blog. Pop-Ice was the theme, a frozen summer treat this Big Kitty has never tasted.

Still, here’s moi’s flashie ~

“What are these?” The Third Princess of Wyquariuss held up the bag that imitated a frozen rainbow.
“Pop-Ice, Princess...”
“I can read ‘any’ language.” The Princess razored her voice over him.
“It’s a gift from my recent assignment on Earth, Princess. I thought to entertain your interest in the trifling whimsical preoccupations of heathen populations.”
“Then, it’s a sex toy. How is it used? Did you bring one of those two-dimensional instructional films they utilize?”
“Oh no, Princess. I believe those instructions are banned. However...” Commander Zrokulv allowed himself a quick smirk, “I can perform a demonstration for your pleasure.”
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Earthquakes ~ Magnitude 6.8 quake off the coast of Japan
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 232 ~

Sylva couldn’t help gawking at the ultra-feminine dresses that reminded her of thirties/forties summer frocks. “Earthquakes? I know there was a major Earthquake on the New Madris fault in the early 1800s, actually a series of quakes. They were so powerful the Mississippi river ran backwards... those are beautiful, especially the pink one. All of them are lovely, though.” Zeke caressed her shoulder, then claimed her neck in such a sexy way Sylva swooned and leaned against him. “1811, that happened here. No, these quakes occurred half a century later. They were considered to be bad medicine by the shamans.”

Zeke protectively slid his arm around his wife, keeping his gaze trained on the reflection of a man who was dressed all in black. From a distance there was some resemblance between him and Ranson. “Bad medicine?” Sylva repeated. “I can understand why people would consider earthquakes a reason to move away. Find another home.” She whirled toward him. “What is it?” Zeke watched the man stride toward the bawdiest saloon and enter. It wasn’t Ranson. Heaving a relieved breath, he focused on his bride. “As it turns out, nothing to worry about. You said pink, darlin’?” He cupped her face.
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 231 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://passionateink.org/forum ~
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
Sunday ~ Linday blogs ~ KITCHENS ~
Moi’s Mew-sings ~
Linda, what Lindsay said.
How silly to think Kitchens can't be romantic places. If a couple is preparing food together that can be utterly romantic and a wonderful way to learn about each other.
I've used the kitchen in one of my books and just used it in a scene. The heroine doesn't know much about the hero, but because of circumstance they're together at his ranch. How people relate to each other over food and caring for each other is often key to the development of their love for each other.
Saturday ~ Lindsay blogs ~ The Bath-House ~ time travel back to ye olde bathhouses.
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
Wednesday ~ Bekki blogs ~ Happily Ever After Beyond the Story
Monday ~ Serena Shay guest blogs ~ What Almost Killed My Happily Ever After?
IT’S HERE!!!
The ROOM theme is on HEA and is anything about rooms - your own inner space and psyche, the rooms you inhabit in your imagination, a room that holds a pivotal place in one of your novels, the room where you write, a room where something romantic happened to you or yours or one of your characters. Your own favourite room. Whatever you fancy. It could be a perfect room that you devise and share with us.
Whatever you fancy!
Cheers, Lindsay
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THE PINK BLOG ~ HEROES HAVE THEIR PLACE ~
Sunday ~ Cheryl Pierson ~ Plotting the Wounded Hero
Saturday ~ The Kougar blogs ~ Eight Reasons His Future Wife Refused Him
THE HEROINE’S ARRIVE SOON
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SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Rebecca Royce... it’s all about her wolves.
Wednesday ~ Crystal blogs ~ Write What You Know... hippies included.
Tuesday ~ The Kougar ~ My Prince of a Stallion
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Going Viral... the good and the bad
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~

The red Dobie Gillis lookalike snapped his fingers. “Curses, foiled again!”
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Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

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No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
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HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
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Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

Pop-Ice kisses from the Kougar...

Oh, the High Strangeness of Synchronicity

Pic from~ http://wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/images/2008/06/16/cowboysbetter300.jpg ~

A lovely summer evening on the tame prairie, my Beautiful KitKats, the Kougar just like this pic. Meow and lots o’ yowls, the days become stranger, though. Everything has a feeling of discombobulation about it... as if nothing is truly right, anymore.
Ever know anyone who was a congenital liar? For whatever reason, the person lied about everything whether it was necessary or not, as far as getting into trouble.
That’s how the general condition of the world feels to this Big Cat girl. Nothing makes sense and nothing feels real, anymore.
Only the Kougar’s personal life feels real ~ her love for family, her friends and her doggie babes.
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Oh, the High Strangeness of Synchronicity, my darling Big Cats. Bob Dylan showed up three times. First was the news story of Bob Dylan being unrecognized by two young policeman. After that, George Noory of Coast-to-Coast am played his harmonica along with Bob Dylan’s song, Blowin’ In The Wind.
Thirdly, on the same day, a strange Google Alert for the Kougar ~
Down in South Texas The Geometries of Bob Dylan
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... song that he very recently recorded in a Savannah Georgia Baptist Church. ... A man with freshly trimmed gray hair nods and smiles as the Cougar sings ...

Does the universe work in high-strange ways, or not?
What does it all mean? The only answer moi has right now is that she’s penning the POV of her hero, Dillon [not spelled Dylan] ~ in the current chapter of BRANDED BY THE TEXANS.
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 231 ~

Sylva felt her brain do a back flip. “Weren’t there Indian wars in your Old West times? I mean with white settlers moving into American Indian lands.” Zeke waved to a man across the way in a friendly fashion, but didn’t stop their progress. “What do you mean wars? Fights over land?” Sylva thought about how to explain. “In my history American Indians lost most of their land and were forced onto reservations. Though, I can’t tell you the detailed history or the timeline.” Easing her across the hard-packed dirt street, Zeke escorted her up two steps. “Reservations?” he asked.

Zeke attempted to wrap his brain around what his Sylva was saying as he brought her to the women’s finery store his mother and sister frequented. “Reservations are areas of land that were set aside for different Indian tribes. Supposedly the land belongs only to them, theirs to govern.” Eagerness in her step, his bride stepped close to the display window. “There were skirmishes at times, over land, but no major wars. Certainly, no indigenous people were forced onto an area of land. European settlers did pour into vacated lands. Later, it was discovered there’d been a series of earthquakes.”
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 230 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://passionateink.org/forum ~
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HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
Saturday ~ Lindsay blogs ~ The Bath-House ~ time travel back to ye olde bathhouses.
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
Wednesday ~ Bekki blogs ~ Happily Ever After Beyond the Story
Monday ~ Serena Shay guest blogs ~ What Almost Killed My Happily Ever After?
IT’S HERE!!!
The ROOM theme is on HEA and is anything about rooms - your own inner space and psyche, the rooms you inhabit in your imagination, a room that holds a pivotal place in one of your novels, the room where you write, a room where something romantic happened to you or yours or one of your characters. Your own favourite room. Whatever you fancy. It could be a perfect room that you devise and share with us.
Whatever you fancy!
Cheers, Lindsay
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THE PINK BLOG ~ HEROES HAVE THEIR PLACE ~
Sunday ~ Cheryl Pierson ~ Plotting the Wounded Hero
Saturday ~ The Kougar blogs ~ Eight Reasons His Future Wife Refused Him
THE HEROINE’S ARRIVE SOON
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SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Rebecca Royce... it’s all about her wolves.
Wednesday ~ Crystal blogs ~ Write What You Know... hippies included.
Tuesday ~ The Kougar ~ My Prince of a Stallion
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Going Viral... the good and the bad
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~

The red Dobie Gillis lookalike snapped his fingers. “Curses, foiled again!”
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Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

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No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
~~~
HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
~~~

Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

High Strange smooches from the Kougar...

Quiet, is it too quiet?

Loveliest Kittens, it’s been a quiet Friday for the Kougar after several stormy-type days. With summer winding down for some, especially those with kidlets, moi wishes the Big Beautiful Cats a happy weekend.
Well... meow, there was the awful cologne incident today, shortly after the Kougaress awakened. Every now and then, those who do missions for their church find moi’s lair . Holding their bibles they come to what looks like a front door.
So, this time it was a woman and man. The man was drenched in cologne. Thus, an instant allergic reaction for this Big Cat. She was about to go down for the count while struggling for breath, but managed to say she was allergic and had to get her ‘stuff’.
Okay, that was one way to end a conversation moi didn’t want to have... yet, it took several hours to recover and the headache is no fun.
In fact, the Kougaress hasn’t encountered that much cologne in a long time on her shopping and hunting excursions. Thank you, Bast. Yep, not all of us Big Cats can handle perfume and cologne... one reason moi lives out on the tame prairie.
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Authoress news and mews ~

The July flashies of COURTSHIP ON ANOTHER EARTH are now at THE ROMANCE STUDIO FORUM ~ Savanna Kougar ~ the Fantasy Lair ~ http://theromancestudio.com/forum ~
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Now ~ FIRST! just for the big cool cats ~

Happy Courtship on another Earth

X-Serial Flash in Two Hundred ~ Sylva and Zeke’s story continues....

Part 230 ~

Sylva figured she could go several directions with what Zeke had said. She settled for asking, “Is that so?” After assisting her onto the lovely wood plank sidewalk, obviously coated by some type of weatherproofing, her cowboy guided her toward a large storefront. “Yep, that’s so. Looks like I’ll have to prove it to you.” Around her, were low-slung buildings made out of rosy-colored brick. Barrels acted like planters. Some of them overflowed with annuals she knew like marigolds and zinnias. Others were incredible cactus gardens. “Is this typical of towns here? The design? It’s different than what I’m used to.”

Zeke eyed the position of the sun, sliding behind the worship center’s spire. A couple more hours until sundown. Quelling the tension growing inside him, he focused on his Sylva. “Typical of the towns in this area... from the Kansas prairies on west. Though, southwest towns and cities are mainly adobe and always have a central plaza with a fountain. Cultural and historical influences make every town unique. Two Springs began as a waystation in 1875 for those moving from the East to settle the open lands. Many of the indigenous populations suddenly perished or traveled to the northern territories.”
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TO BE CONTINUED...
~~~~~~
Part 1 - 15 ~ see blog ~ January 15th Cometh, then Part 15... and before...
Part 16 ~ 229 ~ see the Kougar’s prior bloggies... or the Passionate Ink forum, the FREE READS page ~ http://passionateink.org/forum ~
~~~~~~
HAPPILY EVER AFTER blog ~
Friday ~ the Kougar blogs ~ Romance and Rooms ~ It’s the open road. It’s the sky. It’s the galaxy.
Wednesday ~ Bekki blogs ~ Happily Ever After Beyond the Story
Monday ~ Serena Shay guest blogs ~ What Almost Killed My Happily Ever After?
Coming soon!
The ROOM theme is on HEA and is anything about rooms - your own inner space and psyche, the rooms you inhabit in your imagination, a room that holds a pivotal place in one of your novels, the room where you write, a room where something romantic happened to you or yours or one of your characters. Your own favourite room. Whatever you fancy. It could be a perfect room that you devise and share with us.
Whatever you fancy!
Cheers, Lindsay
~~~
THE PINK BLOG ~ HEROES HAVE THEIR PLACE ~
Sunday ~ Cheryl Pierson ~ Plotting the Wounded Hero
Saturday ~ The Kougar blogs ~ Eight Reasons His Future Wife Refused Him
THE HEROINE’S ARRIVE SOON
~~~
SHAPESHIFTER SEDUCTIONS blog ~
Friday ~ Serena blogs ~ Inquiring Noob, Wants To Know...
Thursday ~ Guest blogger ~ Rebecca Royce... it’s all about her wolves.
Wednesday ~ Crystal blogs ~ Write What You Know... hippies included.
Tuesday ~ The Kougar ~ My Prince of a Stallion
Monday ~ Francesca blogs ~ Going Viral... the good and the bad
Saturday ~ Paris blogs about ‘Something Different’, the ugliness of commercials
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For the next part of the Never-Ending Story ~ RomanticSynonmous ~

"The Big Guy?" Kallyn asked, fear and dread swirling around her. Please don't mean whom I think you mean...
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Volcano’s Angelic Forecast for this week ~ Siren-BookStrand blog ~

~~~
No! Internet Two... Resistance is victory...
~~~
HATE!!! > DTV> it’s a ripoff.
~~~

Have a Happy Summer...
May your most romantic dreams come true...

Lazy Saturday smooches from the Kougar...