3 Works by QueerlyMaxedOut
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Junior year. Max's dating Esme and trying to hold Abby together while Abby drinks vodka at school and falls apart in places no one names. Abby's secretly in love with Max, but nothing about that love is simple enough to save her. Esme slips out of view in ways that don’t look like leaving.
Max writes a play to make sense of what’s unraveling while Abby draws to survive it. In the art room, Marcus, Ginny, and Esme build a zine club for the things no one will say out loud. Through her art, Abby starts seeing Esme in ways she wasn’t ready for.
Rotating POV: Max, Esme, Abby. Poly endgame. Slow-burn sapphic. Mind the tags.
Book 1 optional: quick recap in notes.
Book 0 is a non-linear archive of the women who made them (full recap here).
Series
- Part 2 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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A companion to The Break Before the Noise and Hold Me When I’m Quiet
Each chapter is a standalone story told through a different voice, POV, and timeline. Can be read as a standalone collection of character studies. Each one is a thread. Pull one, and the whole thing unravels.
Welcome to the architecture.
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- Part 3 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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Part 2: Hold Me When I'm Quiet is available now. Check the series page to continue the story or click HERE.
The summer Marcus goes to rehab and her friends disappear, Max Baker discovers there’s a mysterious French girl living three blocks away. Esme Delorme has perfect eyeliner and terrible emotional boundaries. Max is catastrophically intrigued.
A canon-divergent, post-Season 3 story about two queer girls learning to want each other without destroying themselves, and about the messy, intentional healing of their friends.
Series
- Part 1 of Portrait of Max & Esme