https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/ Slow burns and sweet endings. Original BL & GL fiction. en https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-14/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-14/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT June's flat, morning Wren woke on a sofa that wasn't hers, under a blanket that wasn't hers, and remembered all of it at once. That was the thing about not being that drunk. She'd… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-13/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-13/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alcántara House, and then the news Roland Haas resigned on a Thursday, for health reasons, and the statement was a few lines long and cost more to write than most people's cars… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-12/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-12/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The landing, Kovač flat Wren rolled her sleeves back on the landing, outside her own front door, before she put the key in. She noticed herself doing it. She stood there with the… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-11/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-11/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT June's flat, three weeks on The messages went like this. Wren, I'm not going to explain. I just want to say that the thing in the file and the thing in the yard were both real… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-10/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-10/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The box room, Kovač flat The box room was the smallest room in the flat and had never had a bed in it, only a bed frame propped against the wall since a move nobody could… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-9/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-9/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The systems room, early The room looked worse in daylight. You could see the dust on the top of the racks and the ring marks on the desk and the fact that somebody had blu-tacked… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-8/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-8/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The systems room, after hours After eight the floor emptied and the room got louder, because the machines were the only thing left making noise. The overhead lights were off. What… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-7/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-7/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vasey Green crematorium, the car park Theo drove, because June had asked him to, because she had known she would not be able to. "You can still not go in," he said, in the car… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-6/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-6/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT St Brendan's, fourth floor They moved you to a side room at the end, away from the ward. It had a window that looked at another wing of the same building and a chair for one… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-5/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-5/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kovač flat, east side The block had four floors and a lift that had been broken since they were children. The stairwell was tiled halfway up the wall in a green nobody would… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-4/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-4/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The systems floor, Alcántara House The room the systems team worked in had no window and one door and a wall of machines that made a noise like a held breath. It was always warm… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-3/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-3/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alcántara House, sixth floor June worked on a floor her father used to walk through on his way to a different lift. It was open plan now, and grey, and had the kind of carpet that… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-2/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-2/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Kovač flat, Merksem From the kitchen window you could see the cathedral spire in one direction and three container cranes in the other, orange, lit all night. Everyone on that… https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-1/ https://berrygoodtales.com/novel/rearview/chapter-1/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT She had her hand in the front of Wren's coat and could not have said when she put it there. The flat was dark. The corridor light was on the other side of the door, and neither of…