“What are you doing for Todos los Santos?” Belén trailed her fingertips through Camila’s hair. Camila had been grateful to hear that Belén’s roommate was out doing something, she’d needed a break from the sorority house. The musty brick smell of the old dorm building, quiet rain outside, and soft lighting had Camila almost drifting …
Up to her waist in hot water and soap bubbles, Briana sat back to admire the forest of suction-cup jungle animals she’d managed to stick to the tile wall. Her tongue protruded from between her teeth as she lifted Alanna – her stuffed Lioness and Knight Captain of the Kingdom of Cloudland, of which Briana …
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Monserrat hunched over her laptop in her fancy lavender-lace underwear, her mind only half engaged with the website she was filling out. The rest of her attention was on For a simple civil ceremony, there were a lot more people involved than Monserrat had initially envisioned. Her first idea was to have only her polycule …
By the ninth hole, both girls’ slushies were dangerously low. Briana wasn’t sure why she was doing her best to hold back an accident – she’d expected to spend her birthday pleasantly damp. Instead she was fidgeting uncomfortably as Ava lined up a shot through a mass of confusing neon loops. Wetting might be a …
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8 Birthday Baby Ava wasn’t sure what she was expecting when her apartment manager told her that he’d signed for a non-standard envelope, but it wasn’t a handmade envelope crafted out of pink textured paper. The slightly wobbly calligraphy – penned in purple glitter gel – left little doubt as to from whom the letter …
Camila, Ginger, and Chun stared at each other in a frozen moment that layered on the awkwardness with every second. Ginger was blushing – and on the verge of tears. Camila could feel heat in her own cheeks as well, and hoped Chun would take it for embarrassment rather than an uncomfortable revelation. “Chun, please.” …
The air park was shockingly loud. Though the noise felt like an assault on Briana’s ears at first, it soon faded to the back of her awareness as a dull roar. Or rather, an exciting roar – one that was hyping up her emotions even more than they already had been. The school quarter was …
“Rise and shine, wedding girl.” Niusha’s words sent a euphoric tremor through Jenny’s body. A smile spread across her face as Niusha stroked her hair, she curled up around her babysitter, still cocooned in her blankets. “Ushy, it’s not until tomorrow.” Jenny sleepily nuzzled Niusha’s knee. “And it’s not a big wedding, it’s just a …
Over the course of the last year, I’ve been publishing around 50,000 words per month. While I’m glad I did that, the pace turned out to not be sustainable for more than a year. For those who don’t have good context for word counts, that was me doing the NANOWRIMO challenge every month, or publishing …
6 Bubble Bri Ava paused to collect herself outside the nanotech labs, shifting her backpack and reseating her hands on her crutch handles. The sky was full of glorious sunshine and floral fragrance, perfect for taking her afternoon walk in The Grove. After a long winter, she was sick of the ABDU athletic center, no …