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Bring it on! List your group, title, and synopsis below!! 
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Group 29: romance, a blank check, a sea captain

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An 18-year-old girl wants to prove to her father that she has what it takes to become a sea captain, but a city boy may make her prove it in the dangers of the Bering Sea.


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Group 145: ROMANCE - AN ORGAN DONOR - QUITTING A JOB

Alone Together

Tragedy forces a young woman to face her past, and gives her a chance for a new future.

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Oh, my good God. My nerves. Submitted at the very last second...

Group 111 - Fantasy / A blood feud / A bartender

The Bartender and the Chiefs

A centuries-old feud is held at bay by a fragile peace. But can a young tender of the bar make a difference and return things to as they were in the good times?
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Heat 27
Mystery, A Medical Diagnosis, A Prisinor 


The Garden Plot
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The Mystery of Who's in Charge


When a medically retired cop opens his own detective agency, only one thing 

is certain—the wife he’s neglected for twenty-seven years is going to want in on the action.



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Heat 136: Action-adventure, a rescue, a tourist
 

Caligula’s Horse

 

When a group of senior women embark on a horse camping vacation to the Black Hills

of South Dakota, they discover they ain’t what they used to be. They’re better.

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Originally posted by northernwriter northernwriter wrote:

Group 29: romance, a blank check, a sea captain

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An 18-year-old girl wants to prove to her father that she has what it takes to become a sea captain, but a city boy may make her prove it in the dangers of the Bering Sea.




Oh.  Yeah.  I remember that place well.  We parted a 9" line pulling into Adak.  40 foot seas.  Cold.
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Group 20
Ghost story | A donation | A child psychologist
The Cold Truth
Words: 2490

A child psychologist, professional and accomplished, has left her past behind in her leap into the realities of today. But that past is only postponed, waiting to be remembered, and it returns, unbidden and unwanted, to confront her.



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Pithy sayings are for the apt. For a longer message, you need a condo.

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Group 28: Fairy Tale, Repetition, a Gunslinger

Hurt No More (or, The Princess and the Gunslinger)

 

 In dreams, Madison can live any life other than the dreary teenage one she’s stuck in now. 

When that normalcy is threatened, she finds she can dream of nothing but getting it back.




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100MF2022 R1 G41 The Ties that Bind (Romance)
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Group 45: 
Thriller (meh)
Trapped (ok)
Only child (meh)

Between Heartbeats.

Cliché: the truth will set you free. Reality: can Alice survive what’s behind closed doors?

(Also Scarlet owes Steph a Coke because JINX LOL)

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