{"id":7426,"date":"2013-07-22T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2013-07-22T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:15:15","slug":"readers-can-grope-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2013\/07\/22\/readers-can-grope-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers can grope too&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7427\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GropeTherapy-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7427\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7427\" alt=\"Grope Therapy by Kris P. Kreme\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GropeTherapy-cover-209x300.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GropeTherapy-cover-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GropeTherapy-cover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grope Therapy by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Max Colby, school principal, has had to call Melanie in for bad behavior. Unfortunately Melanie is also his stepdaughter, meaning he has to share a home with her and the last thing he wants is to bring the stress home. Thanks to a mysteriously successful therapy session with Doctor Linus, Max has little to worry about and Melanie will be giving an all new positive twist to being a bad girl.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/339548\" target=\"_blank\">Now on Smashwords!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00E3F08IW\" target=\"_blank\">Now on Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Max Colby has a serious problem which unfortunately has ties to both his work and home life. As the principal of the local high school and the stepfather to a trouble making eighteen year old girl named Melanie, Max is faced with a unique challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s let her get away with too much and of course the behavior would finally push too far to be ignored when her mother was out of town for a couple of weeks. He fortunately has what he hopes is the solution, a highly recommended student therapy officer for the board of education, who his school guidance counselor has called in.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Linus is supposedly an expert at getting to the root of a student&#8217;s problems and changing their behavior for the better. He approaches cases individually and unknown to Max Colby, Doctor Linus has planned a little grope therapy for Melanie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always important to feel a problem out but Doctor Linus gives new meaning to that phrase and soon even Max will be seeing all new sides to his unruly stepdaughter Melanie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/339548\" target=\"_blank\">Now on Smashwords!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00E3F08IW\" target=\"_blank\">Now on Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Colby, school principal, has had to call Melanie in for bad behavior. Unfortunately Melanie is also his stepdaughter, meaning he has to share a home with her and the last thing he wants is to bring the stress home. Thanks to a mysteriously successful therapy session with Doctor Linus, Max has little to worry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2013\/07\/22\/readers-can-grope-too\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,25,4],"tags":[73,66,63],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-readers-choice-month","category-readers-choice-stories","category-tales-from-the-kreme","tag-readers-choice-month","tag-readers-choice-stories","tag-tales-from-the-kreme","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GropeTherapy-cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iXk7-1VM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7822,"url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2013\/08\/15\/readers-get-to-see-what-gets-groped\/","url_meta":{"origin":7426,"position":0},"title":"Readers get to see what gets Groped&#8230;","author":"Kris P. 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