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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    jackie taylor is a devout mormon who really, really loves her husband and her faith. but there's a new woman in church who seems to be the opposite of everything that jackie stands for, and jackie can't stop breaking her neck to look back in the pews at her.

    or, a world where jackie and shauna meet in a church that is destroying both of their lives, and need to find a way to love themselves and each other without guilt.

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    22 May 2025

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    “I thought it could be fun,” Jackie starts, “if we went on a road trip.”

    Shauna swirls the red liquid around the edges of her glass, raising an eyebrow. “A road trip?”

     

    (or the summer after their college graduation, Jackie and Shauna embark on a cross-country road trip. Shauna has secrets. Things get complicated from there.)

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    16 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 89

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    Jackie's corpse was taken in pieces—stripped by teeth, picked clean by desperate hands, swallowed into starving bellies. They took her in, made her part of them, let her linger in their blood, in their breath, in the marrow of their bones.

    But the wilderness does not just take.

    It keeps.

    It waits.

    Now the rivers swell, the earth loosens, and roots unfurl, winding through soil slick with memory. The trees rustle, heavy with new life, and the air thickens—rich with the musk of rot and rain, of something ancient stirring beneath the surface.

    Spring is a season of resurrection.

    And beneath the soft soil, Jackie breathes.

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    16 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 26

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    The facts were these: Shauna Shipman was nine years, three months, twenty-five weeks, and four days old the day she learned she could touch dead things and bring them back to life.

    It was an extraordinary gift with consequences so frightful it became a secret stored in the deepest parts of young Shauna’s soul — the perfect excuse for keeping the world at arms length, lest you accidentally touch the wrong thing.

    Shauna harbored her secret in solidarity until she was twenty-seven years, five months, thirty-six weeks, and five days old. The day she touched the body of her long-not-so-forgotten childhood best friend and brought her back to life.

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    15 Apr 2025

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    “Because I don’t like seeing you talk to other girls.”

    The words slipped through Jackie’s parted lips like drops of honey. Except nothing about this was sweet. Nothing about this was tender. It was utter breathlessness, clutching both of their lungs, making puppets out of them.

    She wasn’t entirely sure of what she was doing until she felt her fingers pressing against the skin of Shauna’s abdomen.

    “Or anyone. For that matter.”

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    [ Or, together in NYC for college, Jackie and Shauna find themselves in a messy situationship which drives them to slowly lose their minds over the course of four years. ]

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    10 Mar 2025