Remind me again why I put up with you?"
''Cause you sold me your soul for five bucks, and now you must submit to my will?' I still had the sheet of paper, written in his untidy fifth-grade scrawl. Gideon David Belmonte. One soul.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: humor friendship

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You're Gideon's friend."
I laughed. Gideon's friend, of course. "Only because his mother pays me to hang out with him."
"Can she pay me?" Elspeth asked.
Iris, moving into the room, rolled her eyes at her sister.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: iris audrey gideon dark-star elspeth

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I glowered back up at him. "Did you need something?"
He didn't move. "Where are you going?"
"To plot your downfall," I snapped. I bent to retrieve my bag and then sneaked beneath his arm. It wasn't the most dignified exit, but it worked.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: audrey leon dark-star

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I already made icing. I told you not to buy any."
"Oops," I said, taking another scoop. "Looks like I messed up again. Guess I'll have to eat this."
He glanced toward me, giving a pointed look to the two containers I had set beside me. "All of it?" he asked.
"Maybe if you're nice, I'll share...But considering you've already met your niceness quote for the year, I wouldn't bet on it. And you can't have any sprinkles."
"There goes my reason for living."
"I thought that was to make me miserable.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: dark-star

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Torture by maths should be a felony.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: audrey dark-star

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But...he's a demon. Isn't that sort of the main category of Things to Smite?

Bethany Frenette

Tag: humor demons

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I loved Granny Belmonte, but she didn't need a costume to look undead.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: humor grandmothers undead

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And still the light kept coming. It poured out of me, boundless and violent. But even as it swelled, it didn't leave me. I felt myself moving with it, a part of it, moving through earth and air, soaking up shadow. And I felt connected to everything. I felt the city, the motion of engines and tires and feet, of doors opening, of throats trembling with sound. I smelled soil and snow, grease, garbage, sweat, breath, heat. I felt the earth, and everything beneath and Beneath.

Bethany Frenette

Tag: beautiful-writing

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Rule #47 of living with a superhero. Don't mess with her costume.

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