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Decant

The cork came out with a sound like a polite cough, the kind you give when you're about to lie.

650 10 min

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---unless you want the rain to start again

Her palm was a flat, hot weight against my sternum, and for a second I forgot how to breathe, how to be anything but clay.

140 13 min

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Lapse

I watched the rain smear the Louvre into a grey thumbprint, wondering if you still kept that silver flask tucked in your tuxedo's inner pocket.

512 16 min

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I Told Him My Room Number Twice

My skin feels like it’s been sandpapered by salt and expensive linen, a raw, thrumming reminder of what we did near the service elevator.

576 19 min

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Don't Look for the Coast

Julian watched you lean over the railing, your spine a sequence of perfect, unedited verbs that he had spent ten years trying to conjugate.

559 16 min

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We Only Came for the Wine

Her thumb traced the rim of her glass, catching a stray drop of Sangiovese like she was wiping a secret off my lip.

270 12 min

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Wait for the Solo

The air in the club was thick with the kind of expensive dust that only accumulates in places where the gin is twenty dollars.

468 16 min

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Thursday, 11:32 PM

He didn't touch my hand so much as he redefined the space where my skin ended and the flour began.

110 13 min

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The Vapor Room

The condensation on the glass doesn’t just blur the view; it rewrites the physics of how I’m supposed to look at you.

343 13 min

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The Nicked Edge of a Silver Flask

She didn’t just sing; she pulled the oxygen out of the room and replaced it with something that tasted like copper and old secrets.

59 31 min

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I Probably Owed Her an Apology Anyway

Her back was arched against the bathroom door, and for a second, the only sound was the radiator hissing like a disgruntled extra.

214 18 min

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I Still Have the Contact Sheets

She stood there in that ridiculous desert light, smelling like expensive sage and cheap gin, waiting for me to fail at being professional.

50 18 min

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