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    Love's Ballet
    Love's Ballet
    Love's Ballet
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    Love's Ballet

    By Lee Stevens

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    Love's Ballet is a nonlinear love story between Avery, the librarian, and Omar, the ballet dancer, told in three acts set against the backdrop of Philadelphia. From a milestone date in their burgeoning relationship to the delightfully awkward meet-cute to a realization that changes everything, read as this pair does the delicate dance of love.

     

    BWAM interracial romance, HEA, standalone

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLee Stevens
    Release dateFeb 9, 2021
    ISBN9781393711636
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      Love's Ballet - Lee Stevens

      LOVE’S BALLET

      An Interracial Romance short story

      LEE STEVENS

      This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      CONTENTS

      Author’s Note

      the 8th date

      the ask

      the moment

      About the Author

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      This is a nonlinear short story, meaning it does not follow a chronological order. It shows three pivotal relationship moments between Avery, a librarian, and Omar, a ballet dancer.

      The lower capitalization is an intentional choice.

      This work was previously published as the relationship by Ashley D. Stevens.

      THE 8TH DATE

      seven dates to get to this point. standing outside a beige five story brick building, in winter, and holding a sweet beet pie from my favorite specialty pie shop. omar lived in that building, the man i had been seeing for two and a half months.

      flexor hallicus longus tenosynovitis, it turns out, changed things for both of us.

      i inhaled deeply and blew it out. i pulled out my phone and sent a simple text message: I’m outside. in reality, i was a yard away but i didn’t want to look like a loiterer. after all, this was a nicer (read: expensive) part of town and i’m a black woman dressed in a long, black puffer coat. i looked both ways before crossing the narrow street. a small green honda civic zipping down the street caused me to pause between two parked cars. on the opposite side of the street, a woman, pale and freckled with thin red hair, glanced my way. her eyebrows raised. in spite of myself, i looked down and rolled my eyes. not this shit. she didn’t have to say anything but i could feel her eyes on me. it didn’t escape my notice how she slowed her pace as i climbed up the steps to the building to wait.

      i didn’t have to wait long. omar opened the heavy black security door to let me in. there was an openness to his face. the sight of it a temporary balm to my anxiety over the

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