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    Ruffles and Lace
    Ruffles and Lace
    Ruffles and Lace
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    Ruffles and Lace

    By Guy Winters

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    What happens when someone in your life turns it upside down then suddenly disappears from your life, leaving you behind to pick up the pieces. Jodi finds himself wandering through life having made decisions in the past that force him to make painful compromises in the present...until he meets Erica, a woman who becomes more than a partner but someone to truly love. Ruffles and Lace is a gender blending adult romance of a different kind looking at love from a unique perspective.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuy Winters
    Release dateDec 13, 2017
    Ruffles and Lace
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    Guy Winters

    GUY WINTERS is a writer, playwright, artist, who spends his days working in Virginia and his evenings writing. Other novels by GUY WINTERS: Stray Cats Sleeping on the Terrace Dark Places A PERSONAL NOTE FROM GUY WINTERS: Most of my work explores the often misunderstood world of the inter-sexed person. If you are unfamiliar with the term "intersex" Google it, you'll find it very complex and complicated. The Wikipedia entry is very thorough although my work should never be considered clinical. I've moved on from the intersex question to explore the often misunderstood issues that surround the gender blended individual. "Ruffles and Lace", "Her Best Friend Forever", and "A Simple Cloudburst" are titles that explore this issue, there will be more. I try to make my characters believable and the world they inhabit relatable (well I suppose a world that contains vampires is a bit of a stretch but that story was just a lot of fun to write). If you have the chance, please review my work. Your feedback is invaluable to me as an author, it spurs me to create deeper and richer characters in complex situations. Your words inspire me and I appreciate it very much. Thank you...gw

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      Ruffles and Lace - Guy Winters

      Ruffles and Lace

      By G. Winters

      © 2017

      Offered by Buckhorn Publishing at Smashwords.com

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A Note from the Author:

      The author copyrights this novella. The reproduction of any part of Ruffles and Lace without the written permission of the author is expressly prohibited. This story is a work of fiction. All of the characters, their names and the places they visit, are purely from the imagination of the author. Any resemblance to persons, places, or things is not intentional and purely coincidental.

      Erica Scott rode the bus nearly every day she didn’t have to run errands. It was so much easier, no worries about feeding the stupid parking meter in front of her store either. The bus transfer was easy, with very little wait time, and it dropped her only a block away from her store.

      She usually sat further back near the rear of the bus; it made it easy to jump on and off. It also allowed her to people watch, a favorite pastime. But today was Saturday; it seemed to be ‘old lady shopping day’ and the bus was full, loaded with wire-framed shopping carts and handbags large enough to carry a medium-sized dog. She was forced to sit up front because her favorite seats in the back were taken.

      Over the past few weeks she rode the bus, she noticed a man taking the same bus route, but usually further up. His nose was forever buried in a video game of some sort. He had a nice complexion, soft blonde hair and gentle eyes. There was something about him that kept drawing her attention. What was it? His mannerisms seemed a bit effeminate but that could mean he was either gay or just a gentle soul. She hoped the latter, but she couldn’t, for the life of her, understand why that would make a difference?

      She’d had such a rocky road with men in her life. High school was a nightmare; it always is for girls with a big chest. It wasn’t her fault she developed early. The high school boys were just an ugly bunch of gropers; she’d heard her friends talk. So she waited until college for her first date, Mr. Macho, she called him, but not to his face. He turned out to be a total ass, more interested in her assets than her ideas. The thought that maybe wolves had raised him, or maybe jackasses, made her smile even now.

      The bus jostled everyone as it rumbled over a series of potholes, making all the shopping carts rattle. Once things settled down and handbags and shopping carts were realigned, she continued with her reverie. After Mr. Macho, what followed was a string of, as she looked back on it now, bad decisions leading to an engagement that could have been disastrous, if she followed through with it. Once she discovered her asshole fiancé fucking one of her bridesmaids in the coatroom at the Marriott where they held the rehearsal dinner, though, it was all over.

      She sighed, girls were better, at least the gentler ones. Speaking of gentler, the man she’d been curious about just stepped onto the bus. She wondered who he was and what he did? Did he have a girlfriend? He wasn’t married, no ring on his finger. He certainly liked his video games, it seemed that nothing could distract him. Today, however, he was forced to stand and hold onto a strap or fall over,

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