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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ready for Seven Day in June to emotionally destroy me. I've heard such promising things and the wonderful folks at Minneapolis's Tropes and Trifles highly always meet my absurd requests with great recs. #booksky #Romancelandia

A blue and red book cover with a Black man embracing a Black woman. It reads Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's #WIPSnips is personal to me because I've used this very excuse about my own mania. I also wanted to show Hannah and Luke very codependent because this is the chapter everything falls apart in. This is when that dynamic blows up in their faces. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A blue green ocean with foamy waves meets a clean sandy beach. It's empty. Cream text reads:

“You’re manic,” I told him. I knew he often knew well before anyone else, but I needed to hear him say this wasn’t that.

He scoffed. “Hypomanic at worst. Just excited.” He squeezed my leg. “This isn’t that. I just realized where I want to be.” He smiled at me and I didn’t miss his eyes flickering to my lips.

It was exactly what I wanted to hear and it dismantled any guardrails I could’ve put up. He wanted to be with me.

He wanted to be with me.

I have all of him again. I just needed to give him all of me.

At the bottom it reads No Questions Asked @daphnemwrites

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A more provocative #WIPSnips today. Two strangers meet on Spring Break and neither have any idea that their failed hookup will change their lives completely. An auspicious sign indeed. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Romancelandia #RomanceWriters

A clear blue ocean with sea foam on an empty sandy beach. The white text reads No, this is what people do on spring break. Besides, I’ll be your thirteenth. That’s probably lucky or something. An auspicious sign. At the very least you’re entitled to a free coffee or pastry.”
“Did you just call casual sex auspicious? And again, you can do whatever you want on spring break. Fucking me isn’t required.”
This is a snippet from my WIP No Questions Asked as denoted in the picture

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yesterday, I was the only one to show up to class so my professor just helped me with some stuff I was struggling with and then we talked about making vocab stick. So now my flashcards are much more detailed and useful. Whoa boy do I feel SOOOO much more comfortable with the grammar now. Yaaaay!

A flashcard resting on an open Korean textbook vocab list. The flashcard reads:
Word: 일찍
Sentence Example:집에서 하교까지 버스로 가서 매일 일찌 일찍 일어나요.
Question: 어제 학교에 일찍 왔어요?
Your Response: 네, 한국어 공부하러, 반 친구를 도서관에서 만났어요.
There's also a crudely drawn picture of dawn.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm so bad with settings. This is a good reminder to slow down and describe the scenery of everything, but especially important at the lake. I feel like because it's MN, I think well *I* know. But then I have to explain to people what northern pike are. A pike for the uninitiated: #WIPPIT #MayPrep

A long, sleek looking dark green fish with cream colored spots. It's held by the tail in green water by a person in a boat.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The look of abject horror my dog gave me when I sat on the couch next to her like I had just suggested eating her. Now she's smiling a second later. Little weirdo, I love her.

A black husky with white face and legs smiling while laying on a couch

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My #WIP is a romance where the MCs have sex in the eyes of Jesus but not some of the friends I polled. I just like the meme because she asks him how he expects it to fit. It's also a friendly reminder sex in your 30s is better than your 20s. Factually. #WritingCommunity #chaospit #CR #A #romance

A reddit post on Tumblr with the guy looking at another girl meme where the guy is ignoring the g spot and going towards the cervix. It says if I go deeper, it's automatically better, right? Then a reply is Ask the dwarves of Moria about thag.
Then the Tumblr posts say "This might be the funniest reply I've ever seen in my life" and then a photo that says "Balrogs? In *my* vagina? It's more likely than you think." Followed by i am wheezing.

A Tumblr post that reads: i could be your loser boyfriend. do you ever think about that?

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

CODEPENDENT NO MORE × JUST THE TIP For 11 years, friends debate what counts as sex before a pre-writing exercise proves the answer. A mom meddles to get her son laid as she reads his friend's sexual fantasies. Jesus, what am I writing?! Love this pitch event! #chaospit #WritingCommunity #romance

An AITAH mockup that reads AITAH Breaking Up/Mexico Trip
Hi, I (M/31) proposed to my gf (F/30) but she told me I had to remove my best friend Hannah (F/29) from my life if she said yes. I told her I couldn't lose Hannah and she told me "then you're losing me." Called Hannah that night to pack her bags, we were going to MX the next day so I could get out of my head. In Mexico she told me she thought she liked me. Long story short, I kissed her but then told her I didn't mean it because I'm all she has and didn't want to ruin our friendship. She left MX early and ended our friendship. On top of it all, my mom thinks I was a fucking idiot for not just being with Hannah. Thoughts?

A bluesky post that says Shrödingers Flirt: where I am both Totally Kidding and Actually Flirting depending on whether or not you're into it.

A Tumblr post that reads: "their relationship is strictly platonic" "they're so in love" well, more importantly, they are fucking weird and abnormal about each other in an undeniable way

The Bernie Sanders "i am once again" meme that says "Me, to me" up top and below says "I am once again healing my parental issues through writing loving, supportive parents"

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

#WIPSnips This isn't a Why Choose despite Mae being married. She and her ex stayed married so she had health insurance and well, the benefited job market for creatives being what is it...Also I had to teach Scrivener "blowjobs" 😂 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #romancereaders #Romancelandia #booksky

A pink background with vertical off-kilter letters that read love with a pink flower and green stem. The top right of the image says "Fun for the Summer" and the bottom left reads "@daphnemwrites." In the middle of the image is a dusty rose semi-transparent box with white text in that has an excerpt from my WIP, Fun for the Summer, “And we’d keep it between us?”
“That’d be my plan. I’m staying in your legal husband’s basement after all. I’m not trying to make things complicated.”
“Honestly, I don’t think he’d care. But he’d be big on trying to convince us to take it seriously.”
He considered it for a beat. “Fair. So, what, we fuck when we get back?”
I smiled devilishly and put my hand on his thigh, trying to ignore the memories it brought up. “Well, I was thinking I could blow you on the way.”
“Really?” The surprise in his voice was genuine.
“Do you not want that?”
“No, it’s just, I’ve only had like three blowjobs. Ever. And never in a car.”
Damn. Most guys I’d been with had practically begged for them, never shutting up about it. It was honestly really annoying and often led to me ghosting them, especially if they weren’t the kind to reciprocate. “Well, let’s fix that.”

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Just processing emotions. Figured I'd make something pretty out of a shitty evening (the graphic not the poem lol). #WritingCommunity #poetry #poemaday #amwriting #freeverse #poem #writing #writer #poet

A blueish/greenish gray concrete like background with torn beige paper centered on it. There's a cursive word "Lies" and then in serif font it reads "and lies
and lies some more
sweet honey drips
from your still sweeter lips
but you're the pitcher plant
and I the fly
Why do I keep falling in
head first
with reckless abandon
and desire
and desperation
even knowing you only end
in lies
and lies
and lies some more"
Below that in cursive font it reads "@daphnemwrites"

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

#WIPSnips Perish = tatters today. Even as Jack insists Mae isn't his problem, this is how he talks about her. Silly boy. A summer together will certainly test that distance between them. #Romancelandia #amwriting #WritingCommunity #romancereads #contemporaryromance #shefallsfirstbuthefallsharder

A collage with five images-the four corners and a circular one in the middle. From the top left clockwise: a freckles closed eye, the Seattle skyline, a man and woman laying on the floor shirtless with nothing revealed, a black bra with white flowers on an open book, a woman with flowers in her hair whispering to a man.

A pink and purple background with a white box in the middle that says Jack Greyson: What did I care if she was upset she was coming back to Cedar? My therapist constantly told me other people's feelings weren't my responsibility. And Mae Carpenter was especially not mine. We weren't even friends anymore.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A bit spicier than normal but I *am* an adult romance writer, so I'm not going to be ashamed of sexuality (ignore the 20 minute convo I had with Alex to build myself up to posting this). Took zeal and used passion. And Jack would def want it. #WIPSnips #Romancelandia #WritingCommunity #romancebooks

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I'm Daphne (they/them), a nontraditional theatre student with schizoaffective. My WIP is a bi FMC and acespec MMC contemporary romance that features: hella spice, a sexy photo shoot, found family, a sassy grandma, and A SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PERSON GETTING AN AWESOME HEA. #QueerPrompts #WritingCommunity

February 2026 #Queer Prompts list from @CJAralore. Day #1 is Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

So, I had a *day* today. I'm very all or nothing, so the days I have it in me to write, I write it all because I know there'll be plenty of days where I write nothing. Gonna go crash now #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amwriting 🌈✒️

A black background that says Today's progress up top. On the left underneath it is a yellow circle outline with "5,033 words" inside it. To the right, it says:
Today is
Day 8 of 343
Pace needed to hit your goal
597 words per day
Versus your average, you are 4,436 words ahead (phew!)

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

#fridayspark A contemporary romance between 2 former friends stuck under the same roof for one spicy summer. Will they realize they need the other? I'm almost at 11k words in draft 1.2 and I've decided there needs to be more schizoaffective rep in this draft. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #romance

A pink background with pink carnations in the top left and bottom right corners. There's a white sheet of torn notebook paper that says "I stormed upstairs, ready to lay into who I presumed was the culprit (Will would never). Classic fucking Mae. How could she be so disrespectful? Did she not know some of us worked? Did she have any consideration for others? Of course not, this was Mae I was talking about. She did whatever she wanted, consequences be damned. Even in my anger, I knew I was being a little unfair. Mae could be a generous and kind person. But at that moment, all I could think about was how selfish she was." It's taped with a black piece of tape and a pink heart is on top of it. At the top of the page it reads #FridaySpark and the bottom reads @daphnemwrites.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Because you totally don't care Jack. At all. Not even friends anymore. This is from chapter 2 of my WIP: Fun for the Summer, a CR about 2 former friends stuck under the same roof for the summer. Sparks fly. 🌶️🌶️🌶️ #FridayFling #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Romancelandia #RomanceReads #amwriting

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

How I feel every time I think "is it statistically unrealistic for all these people with schizoaffective disorder to be in the same place?" No more so than every man being above 6' tall or without fail making a woman orgasm every time. So you know what? Romance is a fantasy, this is mine. #WriteSky

It's the Bilbo Baggins "why shouldn't I?" meme, but the top half says "writing another schizoaffective character?" and the bottom half says "why shouldn't I add more rep?"

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This was the most I've ever ridden at once. One day I'll do it on my mountain bike! But electrically assisted or not, wow was I hungry at the end. #cycling #ebike

A map of Minneapolis with an orange trail in a very squiggly circle. Below it are stats for the ride: 42.72 miles, 3:49:38 moving time, 11.2 mi/h avg speed, elevation gain 900 ft, average power 70W, and calories 1072.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

FUN FOR THE SUMMER Two former friends hooking up for the summer. How could that possibly alter their life? In more ways than the realize. ❤️ Neurodivergent leads 🌶 3/5 Spice ❤️ Love sure helps, but it doesn't magically solve their problems 😍 Scizoaffective rep #PosterPit #W #R #C #A #OwnVoices

A blue movie poster with a black and white photo of a man holding a woman up as if to kiss her. Cutting across the bottom third of the photo is the title: Fun for the Summer. Then it says below: She wants adventure. He wants stability. They need each other. Contemporary romance; former friends to lovers; #ownvoices schizoaffective rep; WIP by @daphnemwrites

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

FUN FOR THE SUMMER It's important to me to tell love stories of people with schizoaffective as we're often only cast as the villains in thrillers. I want this story to be one where it influences the plot, but never the lovingness. I hope people see themselves in Mae. #QuestPit #W #A #R #OwnVoices

A white background with a quote above a paint streak boxed in on the sides that reads: Breathe. My jaw wouldn't relax. It had been tight all day, clamped down so hard it ached almost from the minute I had woken up. It had been another day of starting with the as needed anxiety med. I had taken two of the three doses I was allotted daily by that point. Under the brackets it says: Jack Greyson @daphnemwrites

A white background with a quote above a paint streak boxed in on the sides that reads: Breathe. My skin was buzzing In the past it often did that. It would buzz like wasps were trapped under my skin and desperate to get out. Every nerve would feel stretched beyond imagination. I would begin to believe something evil was trapped under my skin, begging for release. Tactile hallucinations they were called. Before I knew that term I called them demons. Under the brackets it says: Mae Carpenter @daphnemwrites

A collage of four images and text in the middle. From the top left clockwise: a woman sewing with a sewing machine, rose gold balloon letters that say love, a woman in a sweater and underwear posed suggestively, and 6 light pink hearts on a lighter pink background.

A white and pink background with minimal decoration. It says Fun for the Summer. Mae and Jack haven't talked in four years, but when she comes to stay with their mutual friend and Jack's roommate Will, sparks fly. Now they can't keeo their hands off of each other and are providing the chaos and stability the other needs. There's just two problems...Mae is technically married to Will for his benefits. And she returns to Seattle at the end of the summer.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

FUN FOR THE SUMMER Mae and Jack used to be very close, until something neither is talking about dissolved their friendship. But the attraction remains. When a boring summer looms over them, they find fun in one another. Will their fun lead to something real though? #QuestPit #W #A #R #OwnVoices

A orange/pink background with wavy shapes on the sides. The the top it says Fun for the Summer, Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown. In the middle is a photo of a brown haired woman kissing a man's forehead. There are arrows pointing out from the photo to text. From top left clockwise they read: #ownvoices schizoaffective rep; 3/5 spice; FWBs for the summer; former friends to lovers; bi FMC X demi MMC; she needs him, but he really needs her.

A pink background with a white search bar that say Who is Jack Greyson? Below is a white text box that says Jack Greyson, noun, software developer; hardheaded; easily overwhelmed; doesn't want to change; once artist; AuDHD; love of Mae's life. At the bottom is say in pink text #daphnemwrites.

A pink background with a white search bar that say Who is Mae Carpenter? Below is a white text box that says Mae Carpnenter, noun, costume designer; unemployed; social butterfly; influencer; trouble maker; hopeful; schizoaffective; anxious; ADHD; love of Jack's life. At the bottom is say in pink text #daphnemwrites.

A pink background with a torn page of white paper in the middle. At the top in cursive it says Fun for the Summer. On the white page, it says She wants adventure. He wants stability. When these two former friends are forced to live together one summer, sparks will fly. But how long until they realize what the other wants is what they need?

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Fun for the Summer Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown (mental health rep) Mae is stuck in Cedar for the summer under the same roof as Jack. The two have a lot going on, but they find fun in one another and agree to hook up for summer. Will fun turn to love or not? #questpit #W #A #R

A pink playlist currently playing One of the Girls. There's pink and purple clouds as the song image. Below are the nest songs in the playlist with various punk and purple images. The songs are So Good (Halsey); Snooze (SZA); Flower (Johnny Stimson); Make You Mine (Madison Beer); Me Again (Sasha Alex Sloan); we can't be friends (Ariana Grande).

A pink and purple background with a white box in the middle that says Mar Carpenter: I shook my head. It wasn't worth thinking about that. That was a long time ago and I was much more stable now. Jack meant nothing to me. We weren't even friends anymore.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Buddy reading Pachinko with @thetomatowriter.bsky.social and damn is it ripping my heart out. It's so beautiful I keep coming back for more. #Booksky📚 #readersofbluesky #reading #litfic #histlitfic

A blue cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee with a white/gray/black outline of a woman in a hanbok looking down at a woman with two boy on a path in front of mountainous territory.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I'm Daphne (they/them) and I write predominantly contemporary romance. I'm currently halfway thru draft 1 of Fun for the Summer, which features schizoaffective rep #ownvoices It's about former friends hooking up for the summer and falling in love along the way 🌶📚. #QueerPrompts #WriteSky #amwriting

A light yellow green background. In the center with slightly cursive handwriting it says Fun for the Summer. Five curly arrows come off it point outwards to words. From the top clockwise the arrows point to: spicy and vulnerable; former friends to FWBs to lovers; when your thirties feel just as aimless as your 20s did; stability vs adventure; mental health rep

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just for the Summer X Take a Hint, Dani Brown (for mental health rep) 💫 #ownvoices schizoaffective rep 🌶️🌶️🌶️ delayed "gratification" 💔 she leaves at the end of the summer 💖 they encourage the other to dream 🛏️ his bed is nicer #BookSky #romancelandia #WriteSky #amwriting #romance #readers #moodboard

A moodboard showing three photos on the top: a man and woman cuddling watching netflix with fairy lights, a man and woman holding hands linked by fairy lights, a closed eye with freckles. Then below it is says Fun for the Summer and in smaller print A contemporary romance WIP @daphnemwrites. Then three more photos a man with his knee up resting his arms and head on it, a sign that says Public Market Center in red, and a brown haired woman kissing the forehead of a taller man with dark hair.

In typewriter font centered on a cream background it says: I wasn't yet thinking how I would go back to my normal life when summer ended, I was too singularly focused on how good she felt at that moment. -Jack

Centered on a cream background is typewriter font saying: And then there was the simple fact that he didn't like me like that. We may have been good friends before, but now? Now it was just a lustful desire and a need to find something to do. -Mae

In the center, in slightly cursive font, it says Fun for the Summer and there are 5 curly arrows point out from it that lead to text. The text from the top going clockwise: spicy and vulnerable; former friends to FWBs to lovers; when your 30s feel just as aimless as your 20s did; stability vs adventure

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I was so very confused for a moment but then remembered the rest of the world uses Celsius and it's Americans who are weird.

The Skinner meme from the Simpsons asking Should America use Celsius and then deciding in the second panel: No it's literally the rest of the world and scientific community who are wrong.

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Just a small moment of Mae's efforts she puts into showing off her handiwork online. I haven't included nearly enough of her chronically online nature in draft v1, but it'll definitely come up more in draft v1.5. #WIPSnips #Writing #amwriting #WriteSky #BookSky

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Do I still need to finish Pachinko for a buddy read? Yes. Did I start yet another book that promises to be rough emotionally speaking? Yes, but I wasn't quite ready to read a new Ali Hazelwood romance (love/hate relationship there). This is starting strong though! #booksky #reading

A yellow book cover with black snakes (with green highlights) and a lover half of a womans face blacked out. It says "A Novel MEDUSA Nataly Gruender"

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Daphne M. | FINISHED THEIR FIRST DRAFT!!! @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Fun for the Summer: ❤️‍🔥Just a summer fling ❤️‍🔥Marriage of convenience subverted ❤️‍🔥 #ownvoices schizoaffective and neurodivergence ❤️‍🔥 #grumpy×sunshine ❤️‍🔥🌶🌶🌶 #romance #writing #amwriting #Writers #booksky #contemporaryromance

Nine photos are displayed in a 3×3 pattern. From top to bottom left side: a white sewing machine and pink fabric on a desk, a woman with her hands in her hair anxious in a shower, a sign reading Departures. Middle row: a woman above a man, her hand on his head, then someone tubing over rapids, then a theatre with red curtain and two actors onstage in a white dress and suit. Last row: a shirtless man gripping his head, then legs intertwined on a couch, then a Jeep like vehicle in a temperate rainforest with two people, one on the Jeep and one next to it.

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