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As the game started, Jackie tried to focus on her own team, but her eyes betrayed her. They kept darting back to Natalie. The way she moved—fast, feral, like every inch of her body was tuned to the game. Her legs slicing through grass, her arms braced and strong.
Jackie caught herself thinking, absurdly: She could lift me with one arm. Haul me over her shoulder. Push me, yank me around—and I wouldn’t even mind.
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- Part 1 of Short Stories
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08 Sep 2025
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Jackie Taylor is the kind of person Natalie Scatorccio hates. Jackie Taylor is the kind of person Natalie Scatorccio would keep a secret from her friends.
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08 Sep 2025
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Nat could swear it was real, she wasn't delusional, or insane.
Shauna Shipman was flirting with her girlfriend, in plain sight, for everyone to see.
And god damn it, her girlfriend -stupidly pretty, nice and sweetly distracted - Jackie Taylor, was leaving the door open for it.Series
- Part 2 of Short Stories
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28 Aug 2025
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Everyone knows Wednesday and Enid have been dating for months now.
The only problem is, no one thought to let Wednesday know.
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14 Aug 2025
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“You have to come here right now,” she hissed the second Van picked up.
“Hello to you, too, Nat.” A pause, then: “Why?”
“Jackie is in my apartment.”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
“Jackie. Jackie Taylor. In my kitchen. Making actual eggs:”
“Like…fried?”
“Like whisked. In a bowl. There’s salt involved, Van.”
There was a pause. Then the dry scrape of Van’s voice: “Yeah. The Jackie that we ate and then shat out is making eggs in your kitchen, sure.”
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Or, Nat copes with her trauma through journaling, a suggestion from her mandated therapy. But instead of writing about the wilderness, her thoughts spiral back to Jackie– what could have been if the crash never happened and if Jackie were still alive. It starts as harmless fiction. Healing, even. Until Jackie shows up in her apartment, alive and seemingly pulled straight from the pages Nat had been writing. Inspired by the movie, Ruby Sparks.
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13 Aug 2025