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    Wednesday’s lips pull back into a smile, and those lovely dimples appear again. That puts Enid at a score of three for how often can I make Wednesday smile?

    or, in which Enid Sinclair goes to college, falls in love with her friends’ roommate, and forgets to expect the unexpected.

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    29 Apr 2023

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    Ava would apologize but she’s not sorry at all: Beatrice is here, and Ava is tipsy, and the night is going great despite the fact that has perhaps possibly dug herself into a tiny financial hole betting on eight ball skills that she absolutely does not have.

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    23 Jan 2023

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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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    03 Jan 2023

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    Beatrice reaches out and taps Ava’s notebook. “Finish your work.”

    ”Yes, ma’am.” Ava tries to sand the words down with humor, smooth them into an insignificant bump in their usual conversation, but her voice is too throaty, even to her own ears.

    She feels Beatrice’s eyes linger on her for long, long afterwards.

    Ava hires Beatrice as her tutor. Things go swimmingly.

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    25 Dec 2022

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    Beatrice finds herself musing not over duty and sacrifice and God, but the truth of angels, if they can be created rather than summoned. If they can take the form of women with overeager mouths and careless limbs and eyes with a depth that beckons - a crooked finger, a spiral staircase - if they can be both human and not, both beautiful and terrifying.

    Ava asks, What do you want, Beatrice?

    (Tell me and I’ll give it to you. Tell me and I’ll build you a home there. Tell me and I’ll rearrange the universe to make it all fit, angels and demons be damned. Tell me it’s me. Me. Me.)

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    05 Dec 2022