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So Freya\u2019s Bower<\/a> (one of the veteran epublishers in the landscape) has this annual anthology called Dreams and Desires<\/em><\/a>, where the proceeds from it go to a charity. This year\u2019s charity is A Window Between Worlds<\/a>, a non-profit organization that provides art supplies and training for art as a healing tool free of charge to battered women\u2019s shelters across the United States.<\/p>\n Marci Baun, Freya\u2019s Bower\u2019s Perpetrator In Chief, asked me to contribute a story to the anthology, and because it\u2019s a) for a good cause and b) for the #1 cause on my personal list of good causes, I said SURE! The result? Short story Twenty-Dollar Rag<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n For fans of the Dunham series, the hero in this one is the weird kid from Stay<\/em><\/a> (who wears kilts and sleeps in trees), Vachel Whittaker, all grown up and possibly more normal than the rest of the Dunham men. Lo, there is no religion or politics in it.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the blurb for Dreams and Desires<\/span>:<\/p>\n True love, freedom, self-worth, security \u2026 Dreams and desires of the ordinary woman, or man. From a thirty-something, single woman who wants a baby to a jeweler who finds love with the least expected man to a widow who wants to finish her degree and find love to a young, futuristic woman who\u2019s still searching for herself to an 18th century saloon girl whose lost hope but still dreams of love to a man who has escaped his abusive lover but has lost himself. This collection of nine stories celebrates the attainment of all one can dream or desire. Which one do you secretly yearn for?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And here\u2019s the blurb for Twenty-Dollar Rag<\/span>:<\/p>\n One night. One man. One dress.<\/span><\/p>\n Regina Westlake sees nothing wrong with her clubbing lifestyle until the gorgeous guy cleaning her pool refuses to play her games. When he\u2019s hired to be her arm candy for a formal event, he makes his disdain for her clear by re-dressing her in something far more appropriate than what she had worn to the party.<\/p>\n Shattered, she takes his contempt, his dress, the memory of his kiss\u2014and rebuilds her life from the ground up. She never expects to see him again, but when she does \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Buy the collection, have a few hours of entertainment and help somebody out at the same time. Win-win!<\/p>\n Like, by somebody else. (Inorite?) So Freya\u2019s Bower (one of the veteran epublishers in the landscape) has this annual anthology called Dreams and Desires, where the proceeds from it go to a charity. This year\u2019s charity is A Window Between Worlds, a non-profit organization that provides art supplies and training for art as a healing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[577,318,551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-to-lovers","category-tales-of-dunham","category-tropes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22540,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/22540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDreams and Desires<\/em><\/a>
\nTwenty-Dollar Rag<\/em><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"