#Dragonfeathers
READING AGE 18+
Lily is a girl stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, she doesn’t feel safe returning home to her bigoted parents. On the other, staying inside her dorms will almost ensure months of crippling social isolation as the world locks down in the face of the pandemic. She chooses to stay.
Flash forward several months. Lily’s online girlfriend decides to check up on her despite the lockdown and the distance between the two of them. Lily is dismissive, as even if the professional photographer could pull the strings needed to visit her and break lockdown, it could still be days, if not weeks, worth of driving.
When a photo of her dorm is sent to her private messages in a matter of hours, questions and worries begin to emerge. Who, or what, is her girlfriend “Alabaster,” and would she even accept Lily for who she is?
Unfold
The two of us got properly dressed for a trek outdoors, but Scarlet kept putting more layers on me. Two scarfs, my thickest socks, and this girl was still telling me to wear more jackets. At this rate I wasn’t going to freeze. I was going to burn up from heat stroke.
“Do I really need these many layers?” I asked as Scarlet tucked my scarf ……
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