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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:38:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Reading it to my son! Can't remember much from last time I read it - perhaps a decade ago, but is good to share.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:36:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[There are some books that change you, haunt you. This is one such - for me, and for kmany of the friends who encountered it either during A levels or doing their degree.<br/><br/>When I came to this book, I knew very little about slavery in America - being in the UK, we don't get much of that taug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81064853">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[I have a story in this one, but to be quite honest, its my least favourite tale in the anthology. There's some absolutly brilliant, strange, imaginative fairy tales in here.<br/><br/>The best ones by far have modern settings.... the girl who has conversations with male genitalia stays with me, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80393845">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:21:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a short, intense tale about cross dressing... a pretty boy dressed as a very pretty girl for a college party, a laddish group of soccer players looking to get laid - it's a dangerous game, the kicks, and the risks are equally huge.<br/><br/>If gay, transgrassive, and gender games are your ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80324097">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the downsides of my friends and family knowing I write smut, is that they buy me books. I think this one came from my father. <br/><br/>It's not the sort of thing you can sit down and jsut read your way through, it being an encyclopedia. As you might expect, it's fairly lurid and bi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80322976">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:06:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Years ago I was part of a druid grove, and one of the women told me about a vision she'd had at Rollright. I asked for her permission to borrow it for a story. It took several drafts to get this one right - at first it was a fairly gentle pagan romance thing, but it evolved.<br/><br/>Reincarnation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80322351">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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