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Submitted to Contest #209
A little love letter to Midwest emo. - Sean and Valerie have just crossed the Ohio border, and they are not in love. They were, once, Sean thinks. He isn’t sure exactly when or for how long. It could have been when they first met in middle school, when they had not yet chosen the names they use now, and for the first time they had each found someone like them—though, at the time, they did not know what exactly that meant. Or that one summer late in high school, when a night of fooling around ended with Valerie’s realization that she was no...
Submitted to Contest #191
Author's note: I apologize for any formatting issues. I kept trying to fix the paragraph indents in Reedsy's editor but they just wouldn't save for whatever reason.It was ten in the morning, and Trader Joe’s was packed to the gills. The electric heat from outside seeped in through the automatic doors, and the sheer amount of people inside the store didn’t do its climate any favors, either. Darren had been waiting in line for a good fifteen minutes now, wondering how such a popular store in this part of town could be so woefully understaffed...
Submitted to Contest #186
CW: internalized homophobia, substance use, mental health issuesDidn't end up being fragments so much as vignettes, but I've been wanting to submit something for months and need to get into the habit of doing it. So here's this. It's a start, I guess. Also, it's not finished, as you can probably tell by how disjointed the first two sections are from the last. I ran out of time before I could fill in the gaps. But again, I needed a start.I. Head Over HeelsOn a summer Saturday morning, Matt wakes up in his twin-sized bed next to James and feel...
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