Claire Daverley

A Novel

Talking at Night

Gemma McCarthy

This isn't unusual, for him. He thinks of girls often. What is unusual is the content of his thoughts; nothing about the soft, wet parts of her, the weight of her thighs around his. Just her voice, and her eyes. How intensely she listened, and held all that he had to say.

Jessica Pham

He has found it to be true, what people say: that time can heal, but he has also found that it cannot wipe muscle memory.

and she wonders, as her feet pound the belt, why she is always trying so hard. Who she is trying for. Why everything matters, all of the tme.

Do your exams, Will says. Get those results. And I'll wait

Don't miss out on something good, simply because it’s different

Perhaps you have no time for girls, she says. But you have time for 

wondering where the months have gone, and how the two people he'd want to spend his birthday with are not here, because they haven't spoken,

The world has been slow, and weightless, since the fall. Like nothing sits or stands or functions for any good reason

she loves him, right then, as if she didn't already; it is the moment she knows for sure. 

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