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breathedout ([personal profile] breathedout) wrote2019-01-23 06:56 pm

Ficlet: "Cusp"

Story #3 for the Passchendaele ficlet cycle (more information here), run in concurrence with [community profile] femslashficlets Janelle Monáe lyrics prompt table challenge.

Title: Cusp
Fandom: Original Work
Pairing: OFC/OFC (Rebecca Landry/Katherine Llewellyn)
Rating: Teen & Up
Prompt: "She'll have you falling harder than a Sunday in September"
Word Count: 969
Tags: Young Love, O Canada, Childhood, Adolescence, Romantic Friendship, Author is glad she is no longer 14 years old
Summary:
Antigonish, Nova Scotia: September 3, 1875

Is this what grown-up life would be? Had she untold years of it before her? Swelling, bursting with happiness, to be riding in a buggy in a white dress, the whole peninsula rolling away beneath her and the sea coming up to meet her and her best, her beautiful friend—


Rebecca's headspace in this story makes me mutter "Oh, kid" in a heartbroken voice and simultaneously physically manifest as this Maggie Smith gif:


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