A Beginner’s Guide to Famiglia
Lily
The drive back was nice. Beautiful weather, light traffic, Audioslave blaring out my speakers, a handsome raven-haired hunk in the passeng...
2025-06-30 15:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner's Guide to Boat Stuff
Lily
I’d said it. I’d admitted it. I was a bisexual woman, and I had a wicked hot boyfriend, and he was being honest with me and he...
2025-06-25 17:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostMonth 12: June
Samantha
It didn’t rain at my father’s funeral. Instead, we got mist. A moderate fog, the last gasp of the vernal days before we all bega...
2025-06-23 16:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner's Guide to the Morning After
Crispin
For the second day in a row, I woke up to Lily DiGiacomo’s curvy, delicate body wrapped around mine as she breathed in...
2025-06-18 17:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Aaaaannnndddd here we are! The moment you've all been waiting for. Time for everything to change, and everyone to get a much-needed wake-up call. Thank you for coming with me on...
2025-06-11 17:42:52 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner's Guide to Gentlemanly Conduct
Crispin
I found Lily laying on the living room couch, curled up under a blanket and scrolling her phone with a distraught expression. Doom-spir...
2025-06-04 15:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Happy Pride Month! Hope you're hungry, because you're getting multiple chapters this week!
A Beginner's Guide to Taking the Plunge
Lily
I’d expected some...
2025-06-02 20:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner's Guide to Strategic Exits
Crispin
18 Hours Earlier
“Hey,” Sarah O’Neil said as she approached me, every ounce as beautiful as when I’...
2025-05-28 15:59:34 +0000 UTC View Postauthor's note: hello, all! Just a heads up, this is a short story I wrote for Pride Month coming up! I had so much fun with it I'll probably do more with the characters and setting in the futur...
2025-05-27 18:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: aaaaaaannnnnndddddd here we go. Fun fact: this chapter contains the first scene I ever wrote for this story. See if you can guess which one.
A Beginner’s Gui...
2025-05-21 17:52:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all! Just a heads up that I'm looking for an agent for BGC! Unfortunately, this means I have to take down most of the online version, BUT I am leaving chapters 1-5 up as a sneak-preview! Tha...
2025-05-19 17:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to Sunday Service
Crispin
The Morning of the Museum Trip
Holy Absolution was a nice church, if a bit more casual than I was used to....
2025-05-19 15:54:37 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner's Guide to Therapy
Lily
Now
Two weeks after that fateful day at the museum, I walked up to my therapist’s office in a long, sheer pink skirt...
2025-05-15 16:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: hello! Heard y'all like multiple posts per week so here's another chapter!
Also, just a heads up: I'm looking for an agent for "Beginner'...
2025-05-14 17:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner's Guide to Making Amends
Crispin
“So this is the first place on the list?” I asked.
“Ten-four on that one, my dude,” Rachel said, looking...
2025-05-13 17:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostLily
“They bought it! They really bought it! High five!” I said, raising my palm and anticipating the sensation of Cris’ skin touching mine.
Unfortunately, no skin-on-skin o...
2025-05-08 16:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostEli
A lone shard of sunlight snuck through the blinds of Samantha’s… Of our bedroom window. I still had these moments where I had to remind myself I wasn’t a guest here, that this was m...
2025-05-06 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to Parental Approval
Crispin
13 Years Ago
I walked arm in arm with Julia Henderson, humming to myself as I brought ...
2025-05-02 19:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to Makeovers
Lily
3 Years Ago
“What are you wearing?” Olivia said, eyes narrow, frown deep-set, fists on her hips.
I stood in my kitc...
2025-04-25 17:08:43 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to Childhood Friends
Crispin
Lily and I sat next to each other in Rose and Kyle’s living room. The place was homey: the walls were plastered with photos of the tw...
2025-04-25 17:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to Weathering Storms
Lily
I stared at Crispin blankly as he finished providing context for the utterly insane thing he’d said upon walking into m...
2025-04-18 16:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to the War at Home
Crispin
Twelve Hours Earlier
I woke up and started my day the way I always like to: with my head between a girl...
2025-04-16 19:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostA Beginner’s Guide to First Impressions
Lily
“Presenting Crispin Eric Winfield IV, of the Boston Winfields, and his betrothed, Lily Arianna DiGiacomo of… The Nort...
2025-04-11 16:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostMonth 10: April
Samantha
“How was therapy?” ;Bethany asked while she spotted me.
I laid on the bench-press, attempting to force a comically small amount...
2025-04-08 16:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostBriar Rose
I found Mallory’s study how I’d last seen it a few years ago: a bland, nondescript room with a mahogany desk and a truly staggering number of filing cabinets. The place had bee...
2025-03-28 16:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostKyle
I’d once thought Rose’s former bedroom at our place was the most sterile, lifeless thing I’d ever seen. Looking at Mallory’s place, it seemed my fiance came by it honestly. It wa...
2025-03-21 17:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostBriar Rose
“You realize of course that this is completely deranged, yes?” Ruth as she drank in the sight of me in a black catering uniform with a black pill-box hat covering my hair...
2025-03-14 15:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, last week I talked about how Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series handles the concept of Love at First Sight in regard to its romantic subplots, which was super fun (you should rea...
2025-03-11 17:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostKyle
I waited in the lobby of the sterile, all-white doctors’ office while Rose had her consultation. I was set to drive her back to work once her consultation was finished, and I passed th...
2025-03-07 16:23:52 +0000 UTC View PostMonth 9: March
Eli
“I’m worried about her,” I said, standing behind the counter at the shop, drumming my fingers on the surface.
“When aren’t you ...
2025-03-04 18:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post