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Sorry I’ve not been around much!! I’ve been dealing with uni work on top of mental health so I haven’t had much of a chance to be writing my own projects

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There was the box of cigarettes as well, packed into the back of his bedside table drawer. The box was damp too, spent too many winters in the ocean air. Stunk the room of tobacco.

If Mom was still alive, Mara would have told her. She wondered if James had given her a deathbed confession of everything he hid from her as a kid. What he was hiding from her now, still, even though Mom couldn’t say anything. There were always words left unsaid with James and Mara knew, here in her brother’s room surrounded by his childhood, that there was some reason he wouldn’t come help her pack.

Those last few days, Mara had spilled everything through faulty breaths. James had been silent.

And here Mara was, without her family, having to decide what parts of their lives were important. It wasn’t the first time she’d cried, God the funeral had been a nightmare, but she could feel her throat closing up. Could feel the heat in her face, hot tears behind eyes. Something spilling out of her so loud. So loud. And in the aching bones of the house, no one could hear her.

Mara was alone.

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sorry i haven’t been very active!! most of my writing energy monday to thursday goes into my master degree (and if you’re interested I can share with you some of these pieces) but i will share with you another excerpt of Atlantis later!

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proofreading my own writing like wow.  u sure do love those commas, buddy.  what if u tried to cool it with all those commas, pal.  all those run-ons, friend.  why don’t you tone it down, my guy

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(Working) Title: Atlantis

A Summary: Mara spent her summers growing up in her family’s Long Island beach house. She hasn’t been there in years, but when her mom passes away, she has to go back and clean it out. It should only be a two-day job, but then Mara runs into her nighbour and childhood friend, Gabi Valdez. Suddenly, selling the house and leaving the beach forever seems like a bad idea.

Tags: LGBT+ fiction, coming of age, romance, angst with a happy ending, emotional hurt/comfort, grief, mutual pining, friends to lovers

Where the Story is at: currently i am writing my first draft through a mixture of planning and pantsing, this blog will give you updates about the story, excerpts and insight into the narrative. i’m currently unsure about publishing prospects, though it will probably be published for free online before anything else

(also, i stole this format from @wanderingcas, check out their blog for their novel @lahantisenovel)

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the next scene i’m writing in atlantis is a picnic scene! is there any tropes you guys would like to see?

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a fun lil tidbit: Mara usually gets nicknamed Mar, especially by Gabi who will often call her “Mi Mar”, which means “my ocean”

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just reached 6000 words on Atlantis!!

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Cheers @mj_kuhn.

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“Ah well, at least he’s not here bothering us like he used to,” Gabi shrugged. And yeah, it was nice. Back when they were teenagers, their brothers would spy on them through cracks in the door, pull on their hair like they were still little kids. It took sneaking away to coves to be able to escape the terrors of boys. Now, it was just Mara and Gabi and a bottle of wine between them.

It was better than old times.

They sat on the sandy sofas, barely an inch between them as they caught up. Talking about high school and how it ended, how neither of them wanted to stay in contact with their old friends. How nobody really got it, they didn’t understand that Mara didn’t want to go to college. All of her friends were spread around the country and she stayed in New York to write for different blogs.

“Are you happy?” Gabi asked her, tilting her mug of rosé in Mara’s direction.

“I think I am,” she replied. “I’m only taking freelance jobs until I get a publishing deal.” As if that wasn’t the plight of every author in the country.

“And I’m sure you’ll get it!”

Gabi’s smile was so bright that even in the dead of night it looked like the sun was shining. Mara supposed that being happy was the most important thing. One day she would be an author, and she didn’t have to go to college for that – even if James made fun of her for it.

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Hi There!

This is a new blog for my original fiction. The piece I am working on at the minute is called Atlantis, and is an LGBT+ coming of age story. You can find out more about both me and my story here

Feel free to ask me any questions about the story, or any other og fics I have going on, and follow me here for more updates and excerpts

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