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Category: Changing Lanes

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Coffee Meeting

On August 27, 2019February 15, 2020 By Kat RedfernIn Changing Lanes, StoryLeave a comment

This is the first of the prequel pieces to The Wooden Chest and an early warning this story was getting ready to run away with me. The next scene (chronologically) was my first warning the characters had a lot more to share than a random shopping encounter in a field. Ally breathed deeply as she …

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The Wooden Chest

On August 23, 2019February 15, 2020 By Kat RedfernIn Changing Lanes, StoryLeave a comment

This story has a few episodes in it already, it sort of took off when I wasn't looking and I have a weird situation where I wasn't sure which scene to post first. I've gone with this one as it's the first one I wrote and has the prompt that kicked the whole thing off, …

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