3 Works by QueerlyMaxedOut
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Junior year. Max is dating Esme, Abby is falling apart, and the three of them are moving toward something none of them know how to name yet.
Abby drinks vodka at school and draws because it’s the only way she can tell the truth. Max writes a play to make sense of everything she can’t fix. Esme slips out of view in ways that don’t look like leaving.
In the art room, Marcus, Ginny, and Esme build a zine club for the things no one will say out loud. Through her art, Abby starts seeing Esme in ways she wasn’t ready for.
Rotating POV: Max, Esme, Abby. Poly endgame. Slow-burn sapphic. Mind the tags.
Book 1 optional: quick recap in notes.
Book 0 is a non-linear archive of the women who made them (full recap here).
Series
- Part 2 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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A companion to The Break Before the Noise and Hold Me When I’m Quiet
Each chapter is a standalone story told through a different voice, POV, and timeline. Can be read as a standalone collection of character studies. Each one is a thread, pull one, and the whole thing unravels.
Welcome to the architecture.
Note: Rules of Magic crossover in Rebecca's arc starting in Chapter18 (1962).
Series
- Part 3 of Portrait of Max & Esme
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Part 2: Hold Me When I'm Quiet is available now. Check the series page to continue the story or click HERE.
The summer Marcus goes to rehab and her friends disappear, Max Baker discovers there’s a mysterious French girl living three blocks away. Esme Delorme has perfect eyeliner and terrible emotional boundaries. Max is catastrophically intrigued.
A canon-divergent, post-Season 3 story about two queer girls learning to want each other without destroying themselves. MANG and Marcus are part of it.
Series
- Part 1 of Portrait of Max & Esme