Her Lover's Salt - Revision history

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	Her Lover's Salt is a story written by [[Himawari]]. It originally ran in [[Issue 79]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/.		Her Lover's Salt is a story written by [[Himawari]]. It originally ran in [[Issue 79]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/her-lovers-salt/.

	==Summary==		==Summary==
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	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back into a habit of contributing to S2B2. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back into a habit of contributing to S2B2. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

	Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it ~~was~~ long distance to call ~~people I saw every day during~~ the ~~school year~~. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool].		Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it cost long distance charges to call my classmates over the summer. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool].


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DL at 20:54, 23 June 2019

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	==Author's Notes==		==Author's Notes==

	I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." I hear it in my head with this mix of saccharine, melodramatic, and ~~brazen~~ connotations that I just don't like. I think I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading. It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.		I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." I hear it in my head with this mix of saccharine, melodramatic, and slightly exhibitionist connotations that I just don't like. I think I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading. It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.

	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back into a habit of contributing to S2B2. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back into a habit of contributing to S2B2. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

DL at 20:53, 23 June 2019

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	I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." I hear it in my head with this mix of saccharine, melodramatic, and brazen connotations that I just don't like. I think I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading. It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.		I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." I hear it in my head with this mix of saccharine, melodramatic, and brazen connotations that I just don't like. I think I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading. It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.

	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 ~~for a while~~. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back into a habit of contributing to S2B2. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

	Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool].		Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool].

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	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

	Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [[https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool]].		Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool].


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fixing link AGAIN

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	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

	Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [[~~genital geometric morphometrics is an amazing area of evolutionary research~~ https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM]].		Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [[https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM genital geometric morphometrics studies of marine vertebrates are so cool]].


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	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

	Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [genital geometric morphometrics is an amazing area of evolutionary research https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM].		Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [[genital geometric morphometrics is an amazing area of evolutionary research https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM]].


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	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

	Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because ~~real life~~ genital ~~morphology of marine vertebrates~~ is amazing, and ~~you gotta hold on somehow, right?~~		Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because [genital geometric morphometrics is an amazing area of evolutionary research https://www.google.com/search?ei=vOUPXY66EfDc5gLFrpLoCg&q=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&oq=2D+and+3D+genital+geometric+morphometrics&gs_l=psy-ab.3...23126.24435..24854...0.0..0.233.1120.3j6j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i304i39j33i10.MT63sCpOVWM].


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	<BLOCKQUOTE>I can't stop thinking, lately, of your long legs, so brown and so pretty against my own gray-green skin, and how it feels to wake up and run my hands up them in the morning.</BLOCKQUOTE>		<BLOCKQUOTE>I can't stop thinking, lately, of your long legs, so brown and so pretty against my own gray-green skin, and how it feels to wake up and run my hands up them in the morning.</BLOCKQUOTE>

	Long-distance lovers write ~~steamy~~ letters to each other as they wait for their separation to come to an end.		Long-distance lovers write explicit letters to each other as they wait for their separation to come to an end.


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	==Author's Notes==		==Author's Notes==

	I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." ~~To me~~ it ~~has~~ this ~~blend~~ of saccharine, melodramatic, and brazen connotations that I just don't like. I think ~~that's because~~ I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading? It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.		I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." I hear it in my head with this mix of saccharine, melodramatic, and brazen connotations that I just don't like. I think I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading. It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.

	I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with ~~one of my sweeties,~~ who was in town for a long visit. I was ~~feeling worn down by a lot of good-yet-intense things going on~~ in my ~~life, and a rejection notice that meant promising things for~~ the ~~future~~ and ~~yet stung~~. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while.		I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with a sweetie who was in town for a long visit. All of the people I'm involved with live at least two time zones away, so while one of my sweeties was actually in the room, my mind was on all of the ways we conduct relationships via text and voice, over distance. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while. Since text-based relationship communication was very on my mind, I took a swing at an explicit letter. I finished it and wrote a second explicit letter that weekend, while cooling off in a public library.

			Maybe I decided these characters would be academics separated by distance and funding because we'd been having a lot of conversations about how distance sucks, and about how academia's expectations that you'll move around are hell. I probably found epistolary work to be easy to write when tired because I spent my middle school and high school years writing long letters by hand to a number of different pen pals, even my own classmates, because we lived in a very rural place and it was long distance to call people I saw every day during the school year. Why space, and why an interspecies couple? Because those are my jams, and have been since I was a little kid reading Vonda McIntyre. Why a clasper fold? Because real life genital morphology of marine vertebrates is amazing, and you gotta hold on somehow, right?


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DL: composing author notes

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	Her Lover's Salt is a story written by [[Himawari]]. It originally ran in [[Issue 79]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/.		Her Lover's Salt is a story written by [[Himawari]]. It originally ran in [[Issue 79]] at http://www.shousetsubangbang.com/.

			==Summary==

			<BLOCKQUOTE>I can't stop thinking, lately, of your long legs, so brown and so pretty against my own gray-green skin, and how it feels to wake up and run my hands up them in the morning.</BLOCKQUOTE>

			Long-distance lovers write steamy letters to each other as they wait for their separation to come to an end.


			==Connections==

			No connections to other stories or settings.


			==Author's Notes==

			I used to absolutely hate, and now only tolerate, the word "lover." To me it has this blend of saccharine, melodramatic, and brazen connotations that I just don't like. I think that's because I associate it with the Mercedes Lackey books my first college boyfriend got me reading? It's still not a word I use for real people's personal lives, but this phrase came to me as I was editing, and it seemed right for this pair, and so here we are.

			I started writing this on a rainy day. I was in a coffee shop with one of my sweeties, who was in town for a long visit. I was feeling worn down by a lot of good-yet-intense things going on in my life, and a rejection notice that meant promising things for the future and yet stung. The writing tank was feeling very empty, but I really wanted to get some words on paper during that afternoon in a cafe, and I really wanted to get back to a habit of contributing to S2B2 for a while.


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