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    The fall is longer than Natasha expects.

    It’s tears cold on her face, teeth bitten all the way through her lip and the taste of copper in her mouth; she’s falling and falling and then, bracing for impact—she wakes up.

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    15 Dec 2019

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    You could tell her about New Year’s, offer that as a compromise. But Monica’s worth more than another broken promise, even if you’re sure you won’t break it. // or: five times monica didn't realize how much carol sacrificed + one time she did.

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    01 Dec 2019

  3. Public Bookmark 63

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    A lot of stories start with "a man walks into a bar", but these days a lot of stories that start that way end pretty badly.

    Steve tries not to think about that too hard as he approaches the door off the alley just past the corner of 55th and Broadway. The alley smells like grease and garbage and everything else a New York City alley usually smells like, and when Steve opens the swinging door there's nobody in the storeroom of the deli.

    He takes a left at the canned peas, and the second door is there, right where his source said it would be. He tries the knob, and it turns easily and opens into a dingy staircase that nobody's cleaned in a long while. It's dark, and Steve wonders for a minute if they're open, but then he hears it - the clink of a glass, the low murmur of conversation. He's in the right place.

    It's not exactly reassuring.

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    02 Nov 2019

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    There is a tap on the table top and a quiet, “Scusatemi, signorina,” and she looks up. There is a boy there, no more than twenty, and he is undoubtedly American, though his Italian is so polished that even she would be unsure if not for his hesitant slouch— discomfort, it says I am out of place. His gaze is not demanding. It is not cold, either— but intelligent, distant. Not assessing, but calculating. As if she is made of code, and he is reading her.

    “I speak English,” she tells him, “better than Italian.”

    He slumps with something akin to relief. “Oh- that’s. That’s cool. I’m really sorry to ask-“ and he looks it, wincing and pulling his own fingers, “-but would it be okay if I sit with you? My mamma is in a formaggeria across the piazza and I desperately don’t want to stand in there and smell cheese for an hour so I was gonna grab an espresso but every other table is filled and I don’t want to impose but—?” He looks at her. He is sharp, ardent with a wisdom that puts her teeth on edge. No young man should look like that: as if he has stared straight into the barrel of a gun and laughed at the bullet, swallowed it whole.

    He looks old for his age. He just. He looks.

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    30 Sep 2019

  5. Public Bookmark 25

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    Clint was thinking that they'd have to wing it and then put the kid in therapy when he was eighteen or so, like every other preschooler out there who'd just had their world undone.

    (Or, the Bartons, after the last Snap.)

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    15 May 2019