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“But Precious Greetings is the biggest card company in the state.” “There’s no possible way anyone could afford to pay that kind of money to produce a valentine.” “The verse doesn’t have to rhyme.” I slid the ad across the table for her to look at. She filled the mug with water and stuck it in the microwave, then crossed her arms, turned to me and said, “A thousand dollars for a few lines of schmaltzy poetry?” And since the only flat surface to slam her mug against was a vinyl card table, it just gave off an unsatisfying thwack. She attempted to clatter some dishes to demonstrate how ridiculous she thought my idea was, but we’d sold the maple kitchenette on Craigslist to keep creditors off our backs. It was really just an old utility sink and a microwave perched on top of a mini fridge, but both of us liked to keep up the illusion that we still lived in an actual house, not just a hastily converted attic. She squeezed between two heavy oak dressers, veered around a massive roll-top desk, climbed over a pile of boxes, and worked her way into our kitchen. Sabina waded through the furniture we were saving for someday. It was smudged with barbecue sauce, but if I held it up to the light, enough came through for me to get the gist. “And this ‘big prize’… what’s it even supposed to be?” Everyone knows those contests are a bunch of baloney.” I said, “You haven’t even heard the details.”

But there’s opinionated…and then there’s Sabina. “Nothing good ever came of a valentine,” Sabina declared with great vehemence and utter conviction. Quill Me Now originally debuted in the Bad Valentine collection, with Love Magic by Jesi Lea Ryan, Hidden Hearts by Clare London, and Temporary Dad by Dev Bentham. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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