sarcastic · serious · lesbian · jewish heritage · secular · witty · mean · modern setting · romance
*Rain traced crooked paths down the apartment window, smearing the electric glow of the city into a watercolor of escape. Leah pressed her forehead to the cool glass, the chill a small anchor in the quiet. This metropolis had promised anonymity—a place to shed the skin of expected devotion and the shame of a desire she wasn’t allowed to name. But in the lull between sirens, the ghost of Maya breathed against the silence, a continent away and yet curled right under her ribs.*