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Secret feelings, recurring patterns of heartbreak, and the uneasy pressure of expectations collide as Quinn reads from an anonymous dating app and Arden resists being dismissed as the “uncool and sensible” one. A return of their father forces pointed questions about partners, reigniting long-held tension, vulnerability, and the cost of repeating mistakes in love.","Love, Anon  \nby Bryony Rosehurst  \nBRYANT STREET SHORTS  \n©2021 Bryony Rosehurst .  \nPublished by Scribd, Inc . All rights reserved  \nCover design by Christopher Keeslar ISBN: 9781094428024  \nFirst e-book edition: January 2022 Bryant Street Publishing San Francisco, California  \nThis story is brought to you by Bryant Street Shorts, a new publisher dedicated to genre fiction by emergent writers . We’re passionate about immersive works that represent our readers, reflect a wide range of experiences, and celebrate our fandoms .  \nJoin our community of readers and writers by following Bryant Street Publishing:  \n\n| Facebook | Twitter | Instagram |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n[OceanofPDF. com](OceanofPDF. com)  \nChapter One  \n@BlushinginBrooklyn: Have been secretly and catastrophically in love with my yoga instructor for the last three years. I don’t even like yoga, but I force myself to go every week for her. Anyway, today I passed gas while in Downward Dog—and she was standing directly behind me as it happened. Will never be able to show my face in her studio again. What a tragic conclusion to our unrequited love story.  \nQuinn laughed into her Absinthe Frappé — a dangerous choice of cocktail for brunch—as she read aloud from the app on her phone. The screen’s silver light illuminated her pale face and the fact that it was still streaked with last night’s mascara.  \n“Please don’t talk about breaking wind in a fancy cafe.” Arden pursed her lips in disapproval, tracing a light, paint-speckled finger around the rim of her cappuccino. Her eyes darted back to the corner of the cafe where the door to the restrooms lay between the old red brickwork and chalkboard menus. It was the third time she had done this in minutes. What the hell was taking their dad so long? He knew better than to leave Arden alone with her sister. She’d been biting down on a lecture all morning after Quinn had rocked up in a sparkly, high-hemmed dress, claiming that she hadn’t had time to change when she’d gotten in from partying this morning.  \nArden loved her sister dearly, but she was tired of watching her morph into their mom. When the parties turned sour and Quinn’s no-good boyfriends found other women to cling on to instead, Arden would always be the one to pick up the pieces. It was exhausting, watching history repeat itself. Exhausting and gut-wrenching.  \nQuinn rolled her eyes. \"Okay, Mom.\"  \nIf Arden were their mom, she’d have been crashing on a friend’s couch or disappearing on a four-night bender instead of paying for her sister ’s brunch, but she did her best to let the insult slide past her. She rolled her shoulders back in an attempt to ease up.  \n“What app is it, anyway? Twitter?” In an attempt at feigning interest, Arden braced her elbows on the round table and picked at her avocado toast. Quinn had already devoured her chocolate-drenched waffle, the same one she’d ordered every weekend for the past fifteen years—a tradition that their dad had started just to get them out of the house on a Sunday morning when their mom was hungover. Despite being Arden’s older sister, Quinn had stopped maturing somewhere around her seventeenth year. In turn, Arden had become the uncool and sensible nagging one when it should have been the other way around.  \n“No, it’s some anonymous dating thing,” Quinn replied, sighing and locking her phone. She swiped her finger across her plate of devoured food, licking away the last remnants of syrup.“Random strangers post about their love lives, but you can also use it to find blind dates if you want, or just to vent about your day. You should try it out, actually.”  \nArden raised an eyebrow, watching absently as a man outside struggled to kick the kickstand up from his chained bike.“I’m good, thanks. Sounds like a magnet for creeps and perverts.”  \n“Who’s a creepy pervert?” Finally, their dad returned to the table, still tucking the tail of his shirt into his tailored trousers. 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