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    “So how's living together?” Camila asks, “You haven’t killed her yet?”

    Beatrice huffs, “Why does everyone seem so certain that Ava and I living together will end in murder?”

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    Beatrice's best friend is moving in with her and it is absolutely not going to change the entire trajectory of her life.

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    01 Jan 2024

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    'the lights are bright and the grass is damp and fast and perfect. the crowd roars your name. there's kickoff and then the game — the beautiful, perfect game — stretches out before you, and you see it all. people ask why you love football, and you don’t know how to say that you feel in your body, in the palms of your hands, that you understand the truths of the world on the pitch.

    and ava — ava silva, with the ball at her feet — is a miracle.'

    or: football au

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    21 Jul 2023

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    She tells the darkness that she wants to build a life with Ava, says Ava’s name so softly and reverently that her hope begins to make light, sparking a flame. She imagines every grand detail, and every small one, too: going back to their place in the Alps, holding Ava’s hand in the broad openness of their town, drinking with her on Friday nights, kissing her hello and goodbye and for no reason at all.

    She wants to carry Ava home after a long night. She wants Ava in her clothes, Ava in nothing at all, to never feel shame again. She doesn’t think she could; she could never be ashamed of loving Ava.

    Come back, she thinks as the sun starts to rise, as she feels enough peace to close her eyes. Come back. There is so much I can’t wait to do with you.

    And maybe it’s all the years she spent between pews, or all the times she’s fallen to her knees, or maybe it is just simple truth, however idealistic, but Beatrice really can’t help but think that Ava hears her.

    (or, when Ava goes, Beatrice's family steps up for her as she learns to stand again. Beatrice growing after Ava is gone and after Ava returns to be with her – how they learn to live together, to be alive, and everything that it means.)

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    18 Jul 2023

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    “I made a list!” Ava trills.
    “A list.”
    “Yeah!” Oh no. Ava’s grin is wicked. “Of all the things that turn me on when I’m with a boy.”
    Jesus Christ. Good thing Beatrice lowered that bottle.
    “Care to explain?” she groans.
    “I call it the to do list. I figured if I do all of this stuff with a girl and I get turned on, it means I’m also into girls.”

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    12 Jul 2023

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    Rising indie-pop band HALO is on its second tour, and Beatrice Young has a massive crush on lead singer Ava Silva. This is all fine and good (the internet says get in line), but being her bandmate and best friend does make things a lot more complicated.

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    07 Jul 2023

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