5 Works by Chris_Mary
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"The New York championships were starting in less than a month, and Florence was doing fine."
Florence attempts to cope with her return to the chess world, Viigand becoming world champion, and the fact that her life is once again full of Difficult People—with questionable success.
Or: *Reliable narrator voice* She was not doing fine.
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- Part 5 of This Time It Will Be
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Once upon a time, Florence Vassy knew exactly what she wanted. On ambitions and getting waylaid.
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- Part 4 of This Time It Will Be
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Katya Sergievskaya struggles to settle in at school. Freddie, against his own expectations, helps. It's a learning experience for all.
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- Part 3 of This Time It Will Be
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On games of chess and days got through, during Anatoly and Svetlana's first month in London.
Or: A former chess world champion and the current chess world champion and the current chess world champion's estranged wife and their possible-future-chess-world-champion three-way mutual (ex?)(girl)friend share a living space and occasionally play some chess. There should be a punchline around here somewhere...
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- Part 2 of This Time It Will Be
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After the debacle that is Bangkok, Freddie and Florence move on. And it's fine. He's fine, she's fine, they're fine. (There is no 'they', really; just Florence and Freddie and a literal ocean between them.)
But then the past comes knocking, and they each have some choices to make.
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- Part 1 of This Time It Will Be