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She’s a fool – she tries to tell herself. There’s nothing she can offer Sebastian that would make him stay in this village he so obviously loathes. She’s just dumb enough to have fallen for the man she cannot even bring herself to ask to love her back.
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09 Aug 2020
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A surprise in her grandfather’s will sends recent college graduate Kay to the dreary coast of Pelican Town, Maine. She’s just supposed to keep the place standing until summer, but alone in a house steeped in family secrets, Kay finds herself drawn to the warmth of the town just a mile down the road. And, maybe, drawn too to the town’s resident doctor.
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28 Apr 2020
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Sebastian remembers, in technicolor detail, the moment he first saw Alex.
Nine years old, blinking out behind his mothers back at the boy with scraped knees and empty eyes. He remembers the lake-water stillness, the quiet stretching out before him.
This is a story about trauma and healing. About the collapse of the things we thought were true and the re-making of our realities in the image of something stronger.
This is a story about falling in love.
This is a story about re-building Rome.
(Or: a jock and a goth fall in love)
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24 Apr 2020
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Joni and Sebastian are both living in Zuzu, their paths on a collision course. Can they fall in love again?
This is the third (or I guess, technically, fourth) installment of The Woods series. It likely won't make much sense without reading the others first!
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- Part 4 of The Woods
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21 Jan 2020
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At 22 years old, Summer moves to Pelican Town to start a new life. Within the year, she finds herself in a relationship with Sam, the charming boy next door. But as the seasons change and she continues to grow and find her way, Summer realizes she isn’t quite sure what it is she’s looking for.
After a year and a half in the valley, Summer makes the time to forge new bonds with some of the town’s residents, and soon finds herself forming an unexpected friendship with a certain Doctor.
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24 Sep 2019
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Farren's had a long year. After not-so-spontaneously quitting her job at Joja, she escapes to her late grandfather's farm for what she envisions as idyllic farm life. She hopes to lose herself in the labor and love of the land, but small-town life isn't exactly what she expected, and it definitely wasn't the quick-fix she was hoping for.
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24 Jul 2019
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Sebastian’s outgrown Pelican Town. Socially, mentally, professionally. He just needs to figure out how to take the plunge and move away. But the new girl in town offers him something he never expected and suddenly the Valley doesn’t seem like such a bad place to be.
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- Part 2 of The Woods
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05 Jul 2019
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17 Jun 2019
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Joni is trying her best to leave her old life behind. Her late grandfather's inheritance might be just the opportunity she needs to start fresh. But Joni has secrets and the longer she stays, the more entangled she becomes in the Valley's complicated web.
Will she find friendship? Will she find love? Will she actually be able to have no strings attached sex? Will she ever figure out how to work the bunny ears on her tv? Stay tuned.
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- Part 1 of The Woods
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05 May 2019
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Haley loves Alex, she always has. She couldn't care less about Sebastian; he's infuriating.
Sebastian can't stand Haley. He's never had any interest in learning to know her; she's irritating.
They hardly ever interact, until that one fall when they keep crossing paths, for better or for worse. When Alex keeps getting closer to the new farmer in town and Haley's heart breaks, will Sebastian finish the job and crush it to pieces or will he be the one person who could put the pieces back together?
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- Part 2 of Rarepair Festival
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08 Mar 2019
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After the revival of the nearby farm, the atmosphere in the town changed, everyone is eager for the addition. The arrival is marked by a noted change in everyone's mood, his own included.
Follows the rough timeline and dialogue set up by the game itself, but takes liberties in adding extra scenes and character development, specifically for Shane's personal friendship/romance.
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06 Jan 2019
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Anne is tired. Tired of being not good enough to move up at a job she's damn good at. Tired of renting an apartment that is too expensive and too small. Tired of the noise of Zuzu City and tired of men being assholes (not including one night stands). She's not expecting to see a familiar face from when she moves to the Middle of No Where, otherwise known as Pelican Town. The stars have put weirder shit in front of her.
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25 Oct 2018
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Home. It's such an easy thing to take for granted, until you find yourself without.
Estelle had lost a lot, and in turn lost herself. When Grandpa Murray gave her a chance to reclaim her life, the best she was hoping for was a stable roof over her head. But there was something about the crisp valley air, the kindness of strangers, and the shy smiles of a dark-haired boy that made her think there might be more for her in Pelican Town than she had imagined.
Note: This fic was originally published in 2018. I have updated the publication date to reflect a major edit, including several rewritten/expanded scenes.
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- Part 1 of Finding...
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25 Mar 2018
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Jen's never had a green thumb, but after leaving her soul-sucking city career, she's invested everything in renovating her grandfather's farm in Stardew Valley. (Call it a pre-mid-life crisis.) And since moving to his aunt's ranch with his young goddaughter, Shane's been slow to adapt to country living--but he does know a thing or two about chickens. Both outsiders with pasts they hope won't follow them to the valley, both lonely, neither went looking for the bond that begins to form between them... all because of a chicken coop.
(You don't have to have played Stardew Valley to follow this story!)
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28 Feb 2018
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16 Feb 2018
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After ten years of living in Zuzu City, Gemma returns to Stardew Valley. She longs to be understood and find a sense of belonging in a cold world she feels detached from. Alex, who lives at home to support his ailing grandparents, dreams of bigger things and a better self. The two collide as they reacquaint themselves. Will they find solace in each other? Or is this the tipping point for both of them?
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05 Dec 2017
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Stardew Valley's newest resident has accomplished a lot in the two years since she moved there, including marrying the romantic, poetry writing Elliot. Only it all happened too quickly and now she's realizing she needs something more in her life than beautiful words.
Spending more and more of her time finally getting to know the rest of the villagers, she soon finds herself enjoying her time with a certain introverted nerd more than she probably should.- Language:
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24 Nov 2017
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Kutone was once a successful businesswoman, an executive assistant who helped expand Joja Co.’s repertoire to the Republic-wide success it’s become. Then, she lost it all. She fell to the depths of modern life’s insanity. And she held on for as long as she could, but loneliness – self-inflicted and otherwise – leaves her empty, apathetic, and unalive. Her late grandfather, however, has left her a gift, a disused, overgrown, but fertile plot of river land, in the hopes of helping Kutone relearn kindness. But even as the peaceful days in Stardew Valley begin to heal her, the past rubs her scars wide open again…
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- Part 1 of A Drop Echoes | Sunset Stars
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27 Oct 2017
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Shane has very real problems. Sophia has an unhealthy desire to save people. The two former city dwellers wind up in the same small town, one by choice and the other by necessity. Both introverts, both outsiders, they’re swept into one another’s orbit until they can’t even touch the ground – but falling in love can't fix everything.
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11 Jul 2017
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It's a pretty classic story. Boy loves girl, girl loves someone else. But life isn't always that simple. So what happens when one kiss with the farmer he loves throws Sebastian's life all out of focus?
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Any comments/kudos would clear my skin and water my crops.Bookmarked by amarre
11 Jul 2017