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Scene 46: Festival Evening
(The girls and I are sitting at a table under a pop-up canopy. A buffet table is set up a short distance away, but most of the food that once adorned its surface has been eaten. By now the sun has dipped below the horizon. Stars fill the evening sky, and the canopy is illuminated…
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Scene 45: Spring Festival
Mom (Present me): This is the field the girls wanted to meet in. Let’s see what they’re up to… (I walk out into the field to see a pop up canopy set up in the field. Lark is checking the corner poles and winding vines around each of them. Bloom has taken her fairy form…
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Scene 44: Feeling Fey
Bloom (High school me): Hey Mom? Mom (Present me): Yes Bloom? Bloom: I met with Libra yesterday — she had changed into a fox somehow? Mom: Yes, our fursona. Bloom: Huh. Mom: You seem disappointed. Bloom (flustered): Oh! I’m not… I mean, don’t get me wrong! Changing into a fox is pretty cool — I…
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Scene 43: The Animal Within
(Libra is sitting at a computer, browsing through images. Lark approaches from elsewhere and sneaks up behind Libra, peering over her shoulder at the screen. I watch from a short distance away, deciding not to engage just yet.) Lark (20s me): Aha! (Libra jumps in her seat, spinning around to face Lark.) Libra (College me):…
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Extra Scene 5: Mother’s Day 2023
(I blink a few times, the light from my window gently rousing me from sleep. With a stretch and a yawn, I push myself up to a sitting position and scratch at my hair a few times. It takes a bit of effort to release my hair from my overnight “pineapple” style, but after a…
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Scene 42: Risk Aversion
Bloom (High school me): So are things any better in college? Libra (College me): We make more friends — I mean, we’re around our peers literally all the time, so it’s hard not to. Mom (Present me): Hello girls. What’s today’s topic of conversation? Bloom: Relationships. Mom: I thought we pivoted away from relationships. Libra:…
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Scene 41: Feeling Powerless
(Lark and Bloom are talking together as I approach. Lark is trying to explain something — Bloom is listening, but looks distrustful.) Lark (20s me): So it’s bad, but you’re stuck with it, and what are you going to do? Mom (Present me): Hello girls; what are we talking about? Lark: Corporate politics. Bloom (High…
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Scene 40: Hiding the Book
(Bloom is laying on the floor of her bedroom, reading a role playing rulebook. I step through the door.) Mom (Present me): Hey Bloom. (Bloom doesn’t respond, engrossed as she is in the book.) Mom: Bloom, sweetie? (Bloom jerks abruptly, startled. She slams the book shut and slides it deftly behind her as she sits…
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Scene 39: Making Connections
(I’m sitting at a computer, chatting away. Libra arrives from elsewhere.) Libra (College me): Hey Mom! Mom (Present me): Hello Daphne. Libra: What are you up to? Chatting with your good friend again? Mom: Mmhmm. Libra (pensive): You know, there’s something that’s still bothering me about the last time… (I stop typing and turn to…
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Scene 38: Sapphic Disaster
Libra (College me): We really are a sapphic disaster, aren’t we? Lark (20s me): Are you still talking about that? Libra: I just can’t get over it! I fell into a deep depressive spiral over not being able to get a girlfriend, remember? I almost failed out of college because of it. Lark (pensive): Yeah,…