Bathing ✿✓☀

Daan and Adriaan have been friends since childhood. Together, they move back home to Nijmegen after having lived in Cambridge for years. Adriaan looks back on the live he has lived with Daan, the reason why he moved away in the first place, and why he came back.

"Words quickly began to fail him, and I want to go home no longer made sense. He’d never been home, had he? Not in the place where he couldn’t simply be himself, where he couldn’t be honest. His mam always had a way of making him feel embarrassed. He was strangely afraid that she could somehow see that, ever since he reached puberty, he no longer felt at place within his body of wiry limbs and never ending love for the wrong person. Adriaan tried to remember the last time he had felt at home: sixteen, a cigarette between slippery fingers, wet shoulders, cold porcelain, and of course, Daan."

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Destined Never to Arrive ➼

Markus van Dijk discovers that his old friend and ex-flatmate, Dante Kuiper, has died. He should have known, the universe had given him signs.

This can be read as a standalone, but it does go together with another project I will post at some point (So It Goes).

"The thought of death kept him awake that night, and without sleep he could do nothing but think about death. He wondered, and wondered, and wondered: what had Dante done that day?"

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Blue Panda ✿

Luuk wouldn't say that he ever had a proper relationship with anyone in his life, so when he meets Alex at a party - and quickly falls in love with him - he has to deal with this fact. Unfortunately, talking about it is not easy.

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