8 Works by macbethisms
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The dress was a gift from an auntie: too small, in an unsubtle hint for Ma Xiuying to lose weight, flimsy teal polyester that would be knee-length if she ever put it on, which she hasn’t. Instead she shoved it in the back of her closet because she would’ve felt guilty about throwing it out, and somehow it’s followed her from the house in Chuzhou all the way back to Beijing, where it now hangs, questioning, in Wang Baoxiang’s hands.
Ma Xiuying, between selves.
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The two of you are waiting for his friend/acquaintance/brother-in-law to appear so you can have a threesome with him before he goes back to Anyang. All of this was arranged twelve days ago. You gave the name, Ouyang someone, to the doorman so he’ll be able to come up unchallenged — the fewer questions about this visit, the better.
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reason to repent by macbethisms
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
25 Mar 2025
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The Prince of Henan brings a girl into his household.
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Her consolation is that it’s still her funeral. She is next of kin. Blood. Ouyang got Esen alive, but she gets him dead, and one of those things will last much, much longer than the other. Yeah, it’s a hollow victory, but what in Baoxiang’s life hasn’t been?
The funeral of Esen-Temur, with live commentary.
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windy afternoon by macbethisms
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
30 Nov 2024
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“What did you say?”
Aggravatingly, his eyes flick down; you try to follow them and get nothing but a hard twitch of his collarbones, his shoulders curving in around him. Then he looks up again, only half at you, and says, “Call me a girl.”
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like everybody else does by macbethisms
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
02 Sep 2024
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You take a bite of pajeon and glance at the time: almost ten. "I'm going out," you tell her.
That brings her head sharply back toward you; she frowns, her eyebrows pinching together. "What, again?"
Like there's so much to do in this stupid apartment. She's a hypocrite; she hates it here as much as you do. "Yeah," you say, and head for the door.
Or, a family visit.
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- Part 2 of losing momentum
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Zhu thinks, sometimes, about the people the ghosts might have been, the ones that eddy around the stairways and corridors of her apartment block. About how many ways there are to die in the city, how quickly a person can go from alive to not.
Zhu sees ghosts at the supermarket.
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you've got to get it settled by macbethisms
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
02 Aug 2024
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You’ve never been inside his apartment — or wanted to, for that matter. You’re only picking him up because he doesn’t have a car and you refused to let him take the bus on general principle.
“What are you waiting for?” he asks.
Nothing. “Nothing,” you say, and start the car.
Or, the two most annoying people to have at your poetry reading.
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- Part 1 of losing momentum