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    Encounter: Victorian Delight
    Encounter: Victorian Delight
    Encounter: Victorian Delight
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    Encounter: Victorian Delight

    By Alice Gaines

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    Because sometimes a vegetable can be a girl's best friend...

    Cheeky Changeling Encounters -- two to six page short stories from Changeling authors. The rules are simple. One encounter -- and nothing that will get us arrested. And best of all, they're free!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChangeling Press
    Release dateJul 28, 2013
    Encounter: Victorian Delight
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    Alice Gaines

    Alice Gaines likes her fiction hot, hot, hot. Alice has a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She shares a house in Oakland, California, with her pet corn snake and a stray cat that lives in her yard. When Alice isn't making up stories in her head, she spends her time cooking, gardening, and listening to her favorite band, Tower of Power.

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