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    Every night, at 8:30 pm, Rey and Ben get on stage and pretend to be in love with each other. At 9:15, they walk off stage and the actual fireworks begin.

    Or: "60s country singers who hate each other (but not really) and find themselves in an only-one-bed, huddling-for-warmth type of situation."

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    01 Oct 2024

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    -Can we please just go back to cordial indifference and pretend like this never happened?

    -No, I don’t think so.

    -What? Why not?

    -Going back to cordial indifference would require feeling cordial indifference in the first place. I’m not indifferent to you, Rey.

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    On the night of her 21st birthday, college student Rey drunkenly sexts her brother’s friend, Ben.

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    28 Sep 2024

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    Her palm is warm against his, and when he looks down he sees how easily his big hand engulfs her smaller one. He looks up, and she’s looking back at him with a mischievous smile still playing about the corner of her lips.

    He either just made the best decision or the biggest mistake of his life. He wishes he knew which.

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    Ben rents out his basement in exchange for sex.

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    27 Sep 2024

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    Ben isn’t at all prepared for what he sees when this girl, who introduces herself as Rey, shakes his hand.

    His family calls it a gift. Ben thinks of it as a curse, and it’s made him into something of a misanthrope. The only reason he’s here among people right now is out of loyalty to his fraternal affection for Rose.

    He hates the moment his skin touches another person and a swooping, jolting, gripping understanding of their entire lives ahead unfolds before his eyes.

    Most people won’t get the future they think they want. Some people don’t have pleasant futures. Some have rotten futures. And some don’t have futures at all.

    He’s never seen any future like Rey’s, because he’s never been able to see his own — until now.

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    05 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 77

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    Ben is a famous flamenco guitarist roped into coming back to his life to play for some nobody dancer — a nobody who may just be the best dancer he's ever seen...and the missing half of his soul.

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    05 Sep 2024