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TILL OUR FINGERS DECOMPOSE (ONC 2024)

TILL OUR FINGERS DECOMPOSE (ONC 2024)

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It is when the bar is in complete silence that the barkeeper is the most content. That is until another companion comes to them in death and they are reminded of what they are still there for: memories of love.***A woman who spent all her years in anger, but wants to spend her last minutes talking about her sister. A lover who remembers the one that got away. A man recounting the reconnection to his baby brother. A mother. A teenager. A barkeeper. TILL OUR FINGERS DECOMPOSE tells the stories of the ones who have passed on in conversations between the dead and a barkeeper who is only interested in hearing about their love.(ONC 2024 entry)โ€ฆ

Call Me When You Get This / ๐˜„๐—น๐˜„ (COMING SOON)

Call Me When You Get This / ๐˜„๐—น๐˜„ (COMING SOON)

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(COMING SOON)In 1994, Kathy falls in love with Amina. There isn't much to tell except she is gentle and beautiful and bad at picking up the telephone.Seven years later, Kathy is leaving her unanswered voicemails. She isn't sure how they got here, but she knows that there is no going back from it.โ€ฆ

It Starts Here / ๐—ฏ๐˜…๐—ฏ (โœ“)

It Starts Here / ๐—ฏ๐˜…๐—ฏ (โœ“)

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Felix smiles when Ares asks with an anticipating look sent Felix's way, "Do you like it?"Felix glances at him and Ares looks so excited to hear what he has to say, so happy that Felix almost tells him right there and then.๐˜ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ๐˜ด. Felix feels the words in his mouth. ๐˜ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ.But writing about two girl dinosaurs falling in love and wanting to be friends with a boy who's gay are two different things, Felix guesses, so he chooses to leave it at, "I loved it. It's one of my favorites."And Ares smiles so brightly that Felix's heart starts to ache.***Felix Vuong meets Ares Sanchez when they're both eight years old. At age thirty-one, they're still in it together.They love each other for twenty-three years.โ€ฆ

LEMONS / ๐—บ๐—น๐—บ (โœ“)

LEMONS / ๐—บ๐—น๐—บ (โœ“)

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Kalen couldn't stop himself in time, before he asked in a whisper, "What are you so afraid of, Hwan?"And it felt like hours passed before Hwan spoke. "I don't want to be alone," he said then, and Kalen thought it looked like it physically hurt him to say it. "But I'm not sure...if I deserve not to be."***Or, Kalen is in love with the taste of lemons and the scent of rainy summer days and kind hearts.Suddenly he sees everything he loves in Hwan.โ€ฆ

Vines Around My House / ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ-๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€

Vines Around My House / ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ-๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€

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"Why won't you write when you are in love?" Maji will want to ask. After a year of begging, she finally does.Haru is looking at their intertwined fingers when Maji asks this. "It will not be pretty if I do," she says like Maji asked her for a manicure and not raw, heart-wrenching art."I want to know what you think of me," Maji admits, "when you think I am not listening."***A collection of short stories I have written about queer love.โ€ฆ