PRELUDE

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EXTENDED SUMMARY

victoria alvarez is starting her freshmen year of college at NYU. she's moving into an apartment with a friend. on her first night, she stumbles upon tj collins, a junior, while she's taking out the trash.

COPYRIGHT + DISCLAIMER

©️ 2018-2021 julianna violet.
all rights reserved.

this book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any matter whatsoever without the written permission of the publisher.

this book is a work of fiction. any characters, names, places, or events are used in a fictitious manner or are products of the author's imagination. any resemblance to actual incidents or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

do not take offense if a character's opinion is not in line with yours. they are young adults who are being portrayed in a certain way, so please refrain from taking any information personally.

[ respect my work pls ]

PLAYLIST

sincerity is scary, the 1975

anywhere, sigma

what's the use?, mac miller

disco tits, tove lo

NASA, ariana grande

hallucinations, dvsn

lover, taylor swift

look at her now, selena gomez

need you tonight, inxs

good vibrations, marky mark & the funky bunch

lights up, harry styles

EPIGRAPH

"what star falls unseen?"

— william faulkner,
epigraph for roberto bolano's distant star

TIMELINE

draft one:
published: july 3rd, 2018.
completed: july 13th, 2018.

draft two:
published: july 15th, 2018.
completed: N/A

draft three (rewrite):
published: january 19th, 2019
completed: january 2nd, 2020

draft four (rewrite):
published: march 16th, 2020
completed: march 16th, 2020

draft five (rewrite):
published: june 2nd, 2021
completed: june 15th, 2021

[ as you can see, i'm literally never happy with this story ]

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