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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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01 Jun 2026
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University AU where Francesca is supposed to be in a perfectly loving relationship with her boyfriend, John, with a sensible future of marriage and children on the horizon, right up until John's cousin, Michaela Stirling, returns from a sabbatical abroad and Francesca finds herself, suddenly, hopelessly curious about another woman in ways that are utterly nonsensical.
Now Francesca finds herself unable to stay away and trying very hard not to think about why telling Michaela she and John are dating feels like it would ruin everything. Surely keeping that little detail about her relationship status cannot be seen as lying if Michaela never asked. Right?
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Or, finding the courage to be yourself before it's too late.
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Doesn't love make us all a little crazy though? Or is that just Francesca?
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25 May 2026
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Maize, March Madness, and An Innocent Mistake Made by Michaela Stirling by suburbanhoodrat
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 May 2026
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two nights after an "almost kiss", francesca bridgerton attempts to make her feelings for michaela clear by inviting her to an important basketball game.
but things go left when michaela brings a new friend.or
“All this talk about Sasha, if I didn't know any better I would think you were jealous,”
“I am jealous,” Francesca voiced bravely, “What now?”
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24 May 2026
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“I barely remember what it’s like going down on a lady. Whitaker gets more ass than me lately,” Trinity whines. “And our walls are mad thin.”
A chorus of hoots and hollers is drowned out against Mel’s earplugs. She winces a little, but the distraction makes her feel safe enough to blurt out, “I’ve never had that happen to me before.”
An addition to the conversation between her colleagues at hand—her experience, or lack thereof lately, with sexual relationships. But Trinity makes a strangled sound from behind her glass, brows furrowed as she swallows her coughs down frantically. She resurfaces, wipes the stray liquid from her pink mouth. Her eyes swivel to Mel. They’re glossy in the bar lighting, face flushed from the alcohol.
“You’ve never been laid?”
Mel shakes her head. A simple curt gesture as her thick brows furrow. “No one has ever performed oral sex on me before.”
or, Trinity offers Mel a proposition. Mel can't say no. (It spirals from there).
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08 Feb 2026
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Victoria slams to a halt in the middle of the floor, feeling like she’s been sucker-punched in the stomach by a brick wall with hands. She can only stare, because holy shit. Because that is Cassie McKay, and she’s here at Blue Moon, at the lesbian bar, the bar where lesbians go, holding a can of Diet Coke and leaning casually against the wall as she smiles down at a pretty, dark-haired girl who looks twenty-four at most.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
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22 Jan 2026