When Neva Álvarez moves to Queens, she's merely biding her time between bartending and dodging her brother's phone calls before her final year at NYU, and with the summer dwindling to an end, it's difficult not to find herself drawn to her new next-door neighbors and their wild lifestyle. Before she can stop it, Neva is plunging headfirst into a tumultuous affair with drugs, left desperately trying to navigate too many bad decisions that threaten to bring an intimate cocaine kingdom down into ice-cold chaos. || CW: Honestly, I wrote this story to process a lot of feelings and experiences. It explores addiction, immigration, and recovery through a very gritty lens. It explores distance, deportation, and family separation. It explores the concept of home. It explores a woman's right to her own bodily autonomy in a society that shames us for owning or loving our bodies. It may contain triggering elements (slut-shaming, abuse, drug use, violence, and rape). [July 2019 CampNaNo Winner]

The year is 1931. It's a hot and humid summer. Jean Mooney is seventeen, going on eighteen when a new family, the Montgomery's, move into town, taking up lodge next to the Mooney's family farm. With their airs of wealth and comfort, Jean disregards them completely. That is, until Jean began to notice the looks Mr. Montgomery gives her. And, she doesn't quite abhor the idea of looking right back. *WILL NOT BE FINISHED*

all copyrights go to jrrmint on ao3 You've known Joel Miller for years. He's practically part of the family - always by your dad's side with that dark, brooding frown. You've never really thought much of him. He's just...Joel. Dad's best friend, occasional ride home, somewhat-scowly dinner guest. Until you come home one summer, after graduating college, and suddenly - You can't think about anything anything else #8 thelastofus #14 videogames #148 tlou