Little Paper Games by Elle Sparrow

Kenna: I have lived at the duplex on 207 Parker Street for over three years now. Three full years in the duplex my parents had purchased. Three full years without Jude Lincoln in my life. Now, out of nowhere he decides to move back in? All I knew was that my life was about to become so much worse with him next door. If I was lucky, we’d both be able to keep our distance.

Jude: Moving back home was the last thing I wanted to do, but when the grad assistant position opened up, I couldn’t say no. So here I was, four years and a bachelor’s degree after leaving this little town, back home and living in the duplex my parents had purchased. Well, they’d purchased it with their best friends. Which meant that I was now a neighbor to McKenna Clarke. The shrew. After surviving four years of hell in college, I could survive one year living next to Kenna. I only hoped she had plans after college. Plans far, far away.

The plan for each of them had been simple; however when a global pandemic hit only a few months after becoming neighbors, the plan went to hell. Isolation and loneliness take hold, and one drunken night reveals a list. A bucket list of sorts. With the game in motion, will they learn to get along? Or will their shared hatred of each other break their lives apart once and for all?