OpossumsInTheBackyard
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"Do you always come to the door dressed like that?" Emily heard herself ask, and immediately hated it, because it had come out as though she'd noticed, when the entire point was that she had not.
"Only when someone knocks." The corner of the woman's mouth went up. "Should I have changed? You'd have waited. I'd have liked knowing you were out here waiting for me."
"Is this how it works over here? You do a favour and then flirt with the woman on your doorstep and call it neighbourly?"
"Is that what you think I'm doing? Flirting?"
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Or the one where Emily ends up letting the vampire who is great with her children drink her blood once a week for purely practical reasons. Like super practical. So practical. Please stop looking at her like that, Serena.
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06 Aug 2026
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“Wyn, what are you asking me?”
“Well—Roark and I thought that maybe you and mum would date.”
“Date?” Andy repeats, her voice much too high. She looks down at the girl. “Well that’s really sweet, honey, and I like your mom a lot, but… your mom doesn’t date women. She doesn’t like other women like that.” Her excuse is flimsy. She doesn’t deny that she does like Emily how Bronwyn is insinuating but she hopes the girl doesn’t catch on.
Bronwyn furrows her eyebrows. “She doesn’t?”
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Bronwyn is nosy and gets into Andy’s head. Emily thinks she’s bad at kissing, so Andy agrees to help her test that theory.
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06 Aug 2026
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“Two years ago, Andy came back into Emily’s sphere and became her only friend. Since then, Andy has fit squarely into the Charlton household. She runs errands, attends sporting events and recitals. She babysits and cooks and cleans and offers emotional support when any of the three Charltons is in need. Andy is the Charltons’ personal Mary Poppins, Fairy Godmother, Superman all in one.”
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After Bronwyn’s piano recital, Andy realizes she thinks she wants kid(s) of her own. To determine if she’s ready for the responsibility, she enlists the help of Emily and Emily’s children.
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06 Aug 2026
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“Mom! Mommy! This is Miss Sachs!”
Emily stops in place, frowning.
“Well, where is-”
Then, a woman rises from behind the pile of folders.
“…she.”
Oh. Well. There she is.
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Emily meets Bronwyn's teacher with no untoward personal reaction whatsoever. And again. And again. And again.
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04 Aug 2026
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late 1968, in the small town of sage hollow, emily charlton meets cowboy and aspiring journalist andy sachs, who has come to the town to write articles. emily doesn't know that andrea is just a scared little girl parading as a man to reach her journalistic aspirations in a patriarchal and homophobic 20th century wyoming.
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barmaid emily charlton is head over heels in love with andy sachs. he turns out to be a woman.
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03 Aug 2026