The Write Off

The Write Off

Author: Kara McDowell Listening Length: 10h 41m

Two rival authors are forced to confront a decade of love and heartbreak on the campus where it all started in this captivating debut romance by Kara McDowell. It’s been thirteen years since Mars Darling first met West Emerson on a bench outside their writing class. What started out as a friendly rivalry turned into a...

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Senior Year, Second Semester

Amber was relentless, and West was game, so we spent our sophomore and junior years seeing art-house movies at the Loft, getting high and hiking in Sabino Canyon, sneaking into apartment complex swimming pools after dark, and driving all the way to the café at the top of Mount Lemmon for overpriced slices of pie.

I studied just enough to pass my classes, and by the time senior year rolled around, I’d done everything there was to do in Tucson.

You can only get drunk in the desert so many times before the city starts to close in around you.