📚 10 Parts · Dual POV · Bilingual • Queer Island Summer • Short Story
💬 #MidnightCitrus
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Lucia has been living in the background since her mother died - overlooked in her own home, passed over in her own life. She's learned to stay small, to let things go, to keep her head down.
Then Trix appears. An outsider with eyes that never leave her. She says little, but she listens. She offers small kindnesses, subtle provocations, and a pull toward something Lucia has never dared explore.
Every shared look, every unspoken word feels like a door only they can see - one that could lead anywhere.
Midnight Citrus is a story for the reader who lingers on what's unsaid - a quiet, bi-curious spark told in prose, meant to bloom in the space between the lines.
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Lucía ha vivido en un segundo plano desde la muerte de su madre: ignorada en su propia casa, ignorada en su propia vida. Ha aprendido a ser pequeña, a dejar pasar las cosas, a mantener un perfil bajo.
Entonces aparece Trix. Una forastera con una mirada que nunca la abandona. Habla poco, pero escucha. Ofrece pequeñas muestras de cariño, sutiles provocaciones y la atrae hacia algo que Lucía nunca se ha atrevido a explorar.
Cada mirada compartida, cada palabra no dicha, se siente como una puerta que solo ellas pueden ver, una que podría llevar a cualquier parte.
Cítricos de Medianoche es una historia para el lector que se detiene en lo no dicho: una chispa silenciosa y bicuriosa contada en prosa, destinada a florecer en el espacio entre líneas.
Nicolás Velez is done with casual sex.
Listen, yes, he might've slept with everyone in his flat within the first week of living in halls and had a respectable run on Grindr, but what eighteen-year-old wouldn't? He's almost twenty-four now, though, and hooking up with people who can't pronounce his name is, as his best mate would say, "not cute, baby girl".
Problem: Nikki sucks at dating. With only disasters to show for his efforts, he decides to take a break from it all.
That is, until he meets Josephine Rawlins.
GENRE: romance, pan man x bi woman
TROPES: workplace romance, friends with benefits, mutual pining
COMP TITLES: Entergalactic, Take A Hint Dani Brown
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