John, John, don’t give up.
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Many months ago, the luminous machshefa gave me permission to write a piece set in her magnificent Touchstone universe. And here it is, finally, almost a year later: a companion piece to her follow-up story, I leave a trail of breadcrumbs to show you where I’ve been.
This is set in a magical realism/fantasy AU, and if you haven’t read Touchstone or the sequel to it, drop whatever you’re doing so long as it isn’t breakable and go do that NOW, because it is of the sort of heartwrenching beauty that puts tears in your eyes at the wonders wrought by life.