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    Robin reaches for her. She slides a tentative hand towards her, palm up, knuckles skimming over Nancy’s thigh, the tips of her fingers twitching ever so slightly. 

    Nancy stares. And stares. 

    She wants to tell Robin, don’t offer your hand to me. If I hold it now, I might never let go. 

    She wants to tell herself, religion has taught you to be merciful. So be that. Let her go. Don’t take her hand when you might rip it clean off. 

    or: Robin is Nancy’s safe place.

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    Ava drifts, flitting from one formless place to another, catching glimpses of vaguely familiar faces, hearing things she has heard before—please don’t leave me, I don’t want you to die.

    Beatrice so rarely asks her for anything, and Ava hates that she couldn’t even give her this one thing. The least she can do is go back.

    Preferably alive.

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    15 Dec 2025

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    “I was told I would be able to meet with the chef this afternoon,” Beatrice says, as politely as she can manage. She’s meant to start working tomorrow and she hasn’t even met the executive chef yet, outside of traded emails where she was swayed by the promise of full autonomy into leaving her position as pastry chef at one of the only restaurants in the city with three Michelin stars for a fledgling fusion tapas joint sandwiched between a pierogi stand and a vape shop on the lower east side that got an upstart Michelin star in its first year of operation.

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    17 Sep 2025

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    21 Aug 2025

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    The first time Ava saw her was during the summer heatwave of '62.

    Ava had worked at Sal's Diner since she was sixteen, and after three years of slinging hash and pouring coffee for truckers and locals, she'd developed a sixth sense about customers. The regulars who'd tip well. The ones who'd camp out for hours nursing a single cup. The handsy jerks who thought a waitress uniform was an invitation.

    But her? She was something else entirely.

    It's 1962 in the middle-of-nowhere Pennsylvania, and Ava Silva's life runs on diner coffee and routine—until Beatrice Bennett walks in with her fancy camera and turns everything upside down. A professional photographer with stories in her eyes and a habit of disappearing, Beatrice becomes Ava's favorite irregular regular. But when two years of silence follow their summer together, Ava thinks it's over... until the bell above the diner door jingles one rainy night in '64, and there she stands.

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