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Today might have been Valentine’s Day, but love was not in the air for Ronan St. Clair. Yet, a belligerent Cupid by the name of Henry Walters, who happened to be his roommate, refused to put his arrows away, hell-bent on piercing Ronan’s stony heart. It all started with a matchmaker survey. Henry had worked on it for their university, and would not stop advertising it to the poor people walking around cam...
We were seventeen, when the world seemed dipped in liquid gold. Too old to be kids and too young to face our futures, we lived in what we had in front of us: clandestine hookups in cars, crappy alcohol in red plastic cups, muggy summer days ripe with possibility. Fear was for suckers. We were invincible. That was, until the killer started slashing us up. No one knew who he was, or if he even lived in...
“H-hello? Is something wrong?” “Sorry if you were asleep. Actually, I’m not, haha. I don’t know what time it is. I’m on the grass right now, and it’s so dark outside right now. Mmm, blackberry brandy tastes so good.” “Oh my god. I’m ending the–” “Wait, don’t gooooo! Do you remember the very first time we got drunk? It was six in th...
vintage tea, high heels on cobblestones, black lipstick, auroras, sad prose.
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