how we became lonely two-legged creatures
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Seven Years by Teanna
Rated PG-13 | 7K
He has seven years on CJ, and it took her seven years to get over that.
Aleph-Tav by International Princess
Rated PG-13 | 39KB
If he could find the right words, maybe he would use them, but he's spent the better part of a decade and worked his way through several languages and he hasn't found them yet.
All That Never Happens by Cinnamon
Rated PG-13 | 6K
She looked into the glass, liquid surface showing that they were melding.
All The Words That I Know by AJ
Rated R | 7KB
"and the way the rain comes down hard/that’s how i feel inside . . .”
And Maybe Alcoholics by Not Jenny
Rated R | 18KB
She's good in bed, and it's far from a secret.
Another Feminist by Amerella
Rated PG | 13KB
"I can't get over California."
Athenaeum by Katrina McDonnell
Rated PG-13 | 8KB
We wear our lives on our skin.
Atonement by Tahlia
Rated PG-13 | 9KB
She has to pretend it isn't bothering her the way it is.
Bills, Postcards, Marriage by Teanna
Rated PG-13 | 10K
They were married, once.
Bliss Of Another Kind by Cinnamon
Rated R | 7K
What it means to be made for you.
The Book, When He Wrote It by Ellen M.
Rated G | 3K
It was not about human suffering, was not about loss, or falling out of love.
Breathing by Luna
Rated R | 89K
Breathing the fallout in.
Buried Treasure by Angie
Rated PG | 11KB
The world spins on and so does she.
Cadence Of The Hours Before Dawn by International Princess
Rated PG-13 | 20KB
The easy mistake to make, he realizes, is to think that she broke when they left the White House. She didn't. She'd been disintegrating for years.
Cliché by Scooter
Rated PG | 12K
New and old ways to say the same thing.
Collapse by August
Rated R | 29K
She fell into this.
Cuando Tú Conoces by Ellen M.
Rated R | 14K
The truth is inbetween the first and the fortieth drink.
Disco Ball Heart by Amerella
Rated PG-13 | 6K
I got me a disco ball heart/Guess I should grow out of this/Before it's too late. - Edie Carey
Days In Between by CGB
Rated PG | 25K
Who knew they could screw up on such a grand scale?
Ebenezer by Penelopody
Rated PG-13 | 15K
This, then, is the place where she stands
Ebonized by Oro
Rated PG-13 | 5KB
He bled his parentheses underneath her nails, her movements setting the rhythm and rhymes of his verse.
Everything They've Ever Said About New York City Is A Lie by August
Rated R | 5KB
She leaves him a hundred times in her head, a hundred times, easily.
The First One Hundred Days by Luna
Rated R (language) | 97K
We'll fix it in post.
Flight Path by Jae Gecko
Rated PG | 29K
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water.
Gone Without Leaving by Luna
Rated R | 35K
The dance depends on the distance between us.
Green on Gray by Lyman's Might
Rated PG-13 | 24K
This is the solstice, when his world is mostout of balance.
The Importance Of Knowing by AJ
Rated R | 3KB
She knows: She isn't a fairy tale, won't ever want one; regardless, will always struggle with a definition of what they are.
Insubstantial Pageant by Delightfully Eccentric
Rated PG-13 | 35K
In the aftermath of his divorce Toby seeks out someone he hasn't seen in such a time that back then he still loved his wife.
Invidious by CGB
Rated G | 5K
"We could be very sensible here," she said, and he agreed.
It's A Long Way Down by Penelopody
Rated R | 11KB
No one says goodbye any more.
L.A. Donut Day by Teanna
Rated G | 3KB
Donuts leave a sugary trail
Leaving Fingerprints by August
Rated R | 21K
"Every time you feel wonderful, baby, I feel bad." - Magnetic Fields
Life's Rich Pageant by Luna
Rated G | 8K
We are young, despite the years.
Little Girl by Ellen M.
Rated R | 11K
Much later, she said, "I could've done this in California."
Little Things by August
Rated R | 5K
"We only fuck when we're drunk."
The Luckiest by AJ
Rated R | 15KB
And she’s nothing but a star on stage.
Mall by Pares
Rated G | 3K
The kid caught his eye, and he knew he was screwed.
My Back Pages by Delightfully Eccentric
Rated R | 47KB
"Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now." It's his book launch, and their picture's in the paper.
Never Too Clean by Ellen M.
Rated R | 11K
She wakes up in his shower.
Not Happy by August
Rated R | 2K
There is an ending, somewhere, in all this.
Nothing Until Now by Michelle K.
Rated R | 3KB
Solutions aren't found.
Number The Days by k.
Rated PG-13 | 7K
"You don't know what day it is." He smiles a little and puffs on his cigar.
On The Seventh Day by Liz Barr
Rated R | 3K
Nothing happens on Sundays.
One Drink Too Many, and a Joke Gone Too Far by International Princess
Rated PG-13 | 3KB
It's the small deceptions.
Out Here On The Border by Meghan Reilly
Rated R | 18K
"Out here on the border, ain't nobody asking questions/No, I don't need a miracle, but I could use a push in the right direction."
Parallax by Shaye
Rated PG | 12K
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."
Retina Burn by Penelopody and August
Rated R | 53K
That summer, this thing, this unending catastrophic thing, began.
Revelation by Luna
Rated R | 53K
Though there is no cure, he seeks one.
Rub Until It Bleeds by CGB
Rated NC-17 | 6K
She is coccooning, building up walls.
The Same Day Every Year by Penelopody
Rated R | 8KB
She was expecting him.
Scribbling by Charlotte Unsworth
Rated PG | 4KB
She doesn't know if he writes for fun anymore.
Shades Of by Katrina McDonnell
Rated R | 14KB
She needs to be somewhere else. A place where she's the professional.
Something About The Open Road by Oro
Rated PG-13 | 25KB
You can never be lost if you don’t know where you’re going.
The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Luna
Rated R | 17K
No matter how we breathe, or count our breaths.
The Space Taken Up By Silence by International Princess
Rated PG-13 | 4KB
She closes her ears.
Starved For A Look by White Star 2
Rated PG-13 | 6K
Between them, they'd accumulated enough kinky sex to last them a lifetime.
Sunset by Liz Barr
Rated PG-13 | 5K
The sin and this mess we're in. The city sun sets over me.
Tacet I: Night by Marguerite
Rated PG | 9K
"Tomorrow she will belong to the cameras, to a nation that will think it's a shame someone died and then go back to their breakfasts."
Taking Notice by k.
Rated PG | 4K
This, she thinks, is the good part.
The Third Day by TheStylus
Rated PG-13 | 11K
Their thing was, of course, never going to work.
Tinseltown In The Rain by Teanna
Rated PG-13 | 5KB
She thinks that when the road forks she'll take the turn that feels the least familiar and just drive on.
Ultraviolet by Cinnamon
Rated R | 3K
Baby, baby, baby, light my way.
Unthrown Punches by Julian Lee
Rated PG-13 | 17K
We are trying to be more than our ghosts.
The War Against Silence by Lydia
Rated R | 69KB
In the end, of course, a true war story is never about war.
We Are Not Perfect by Cappuccino Girl
Rated G | 8KB
You used to believe in second chances.
When The Earth Moves by CGB
Rated PG-13 | 33K
It's all over bar the shouting.
Where No Sun Shines by Jenny McD
Rated PG-13 | 6K
And the silent night will shatter from the sounds inside my mind.
Words Beneath by CGB
Rated NC-17 | 7K
His voice in her head. His argument, her response, her argument his response.
The World In Solemn Stillness by Luna
Rated R | 32KB
He can almost see it, this future full of give and take.
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