Original Fiction: "Home is Where You Hold Me"

Title: Home is Where You Hold Me (26,473 words)
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Original Work
Rating/Warnings: Explicit / Explicit Sexual Content (SFW version available; link in notes)
Characters: Widowed Lighthouse Keeper (OC), Shipwrecked Sailor (OC)
Relationships: Widowed Lighthouse Keeper/Shipwrecked Sailor
Summary:

Eight years after being widowed, Esma continues to keep her family's lighthouse on her own, resigning herself to the assumption that this is all life has left in store for her. But when she rescues an injured sailor and agrees to care for him while he heals, she finds her assumption, and her outlook, challenged at every turn.

In an effort to repay her kindness, Argider offers to repair Esma's cabin, which has fallen into disrepair. Hesitant to allow anyone to work on it at first, Esma relents, and finds herself confronting her memories and being drawn back into life itself as the repairs progress and Argider's presence becomes a source of comfort.

Notes: Written for highadrenalineexchange. T-rated (SFW) version available here

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2023 Writing Log - Entry 5

❀ I added a little bit more to my exchange fic, to flesh it out and to enable me to share two versions of it. It's a sweet little story, I think, and I didn't want people to be deterred from giving it a chance simply because one single (gratuitous) scene became explicit.

❀ Still, judging from my AO3 stats, the NSFW version is the one people are clicking on! XD

❀ I signed up for rarepairexchange, but I'm considering withdrawing before the sign-up deadline. As of now, I think I might be matchable on all of one of my requests/offers. I just can't seem to keep up with fandom at large, these days. I like what I like, and it's just not what's popular anymore. Fine by me.

❀...because I still have Tumblr prompts from last year to fill! No, I haven't forgotten! It's just taken my brain forever to come back online.

So, whatever I decide to focus on for now, it will definitely keep me busy!

Total words added since last entry: 2,372
2023 YTD total: 30,555