Wrestling Girls Series by Kayla Faber

I wanted to say,I would rather have you for a little timethan no time at all.I will remember you perfectly.My memory will touch your skin, your lips.The memory will hurt,but it will be mine. ― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie* * *Pam is happy. She's a professional wrestler, surrounded by friends and co-workers who adore her and a doting Mexican aunt who has been spoiling her since she was a child... moreI wanted to say,I would rather have you for a little timethan no time at all.I will remember you perfectly.My memory will touch your skin, your lips.The memory will hurt,but it will be mine. ― Marie Rutkoski, The Midnight Lie* * *Pam is happy. She's a professional wrestler, surrounded by friends and co-workers who adore her and a doting Mexican aunt who has been spoiling her since she was a child. She and her cousin Sean run their own wrestling club, the Beatcave, in Camden Town, and her life is basically perfect. Emphasis on basically.Lea, known to the world as AJ Käss, is a world-wide famous influencer and journalist coming back to London after living in Los Angeles for the past couple of years. She's popular among her acquaintances in LA, but has always been a loner. Family business suddenly brought her back to England and she's already looking forward to going back to the California sun.Their paths cross one night in the dim lights of the Beatcave, and that is all it takes for their stories to become their story.ORA bunch of queer disasters wrestling in London.Tags & POC protagonists; meet cute; strangers to friends to lovers; slow burn; they don't know they're dating; idiots in love; plain girl/hot girl; romantic comedy less

*** READ FOR FREE ON GOOGLE BOOKS & LULU.COM ***Right after her very first training session, Liv is feeling a little overwhelmed by all the changes her life is going through so abruptly and isn't sure she's up to the job she's been chosen for. Lea, so sweet and kind, happens to be just the right person to talk to.

Liv doesn't have much: a lousy job as a nightclub waitress she hates with every fibre of her being, a hostile mother with whom she has to share their tiny council flat, and a chronically empty bank account due to her mother's drinking and gambling problems. Her entire world crashes when she suddenly finds herself jobless and homeless. Her only hope seemes to be the chance to earn a full-time contract at the Beatcave wrestling club in Camden... moreLiv doesn't have much: a lousy job as a nightclub waitress she hates with every fibre of her being, a hostile mother with whom she has to share their tiny council flat, and a chronically empty bank account due to her mother's drinking and gambling problems. Her entire world crashes when she suddenly finds herself jobless and homeless. Her only hope seemes to be the chance to earn a full-time contract at the Beatcave wrestling club in Camden. She's not an excellent wrestler, but her old friend Rue did teach her something back in the day, so maybe she could have a chance..Walking into the try-outs as a convinced straight girl, she meets Raisa, the most gorgeous young woman she has ever laid her eyes upon. Raisa is a tall, grumpy goth with a ridiculously ripped body and the face of an angel who seems to understand her better than Liv can understand herself. As they go through the three-month probation period at the Beatcave together, the two start growing closer and soon Liv finds herself drawn to beautiful Raisa in ways she can't explain.[ Tags & tropes: sunshine/grumpy; poor girl/rich girl; smol/tol; strangers to friends to lovers; slow burn; staged relationship; sexual realisation; romantic comedy. ] less

The second short story is set shortly after Liv and Raisa’s ‘breakup’ in Chapter 23 of Pretty Devils . This is also my first time ever writing from Blair’s POV and it was so so interesting! The request “Riz telling Blair how to look after Liv if she needed her. Or anything with cats.”

Aura "Rue" Bellamy, 26, left London to pursue her wrestling career all around Europe. And also to run away from feelings that would never have a future.Now, three years later, she's back in town, fresh out of a painful breakup with a girlfriend she loved with every fiber of her being, and she's determined to find a ditraction, which, in her vocabulary, means two work and women... moreAura "Rue" Bellamy, 26, left London to pursue her wrestling career all around Europe. And also to run away from feelings that would never have a future.Now, three years later, she's back in town, fresh out of a painful breakup with a girlfriend she loved with every fiber of her being, and she's determined to find a ditraction, which, in her vocabulary, means two work and women.A fortunate encounter with a charming woman who calls herself the Queen Devil leads her to the Beatcave, a popular high-end wrestling club where she hopes she can find a gig and some fun. But there's something else the Beatcave has in store for a face from her past, someone Rue wasn't expecting to see again, least of all in a place like this. Someone who isn't the same person she remembers.Trying to come to terms with the ghosts from her past, Rue ends up juggling her time in London between wrestling, playing barista in Soho, and steamy relationships that might become more than she bargained for. less

*** READ FOR FREE ON GOOGLE BOOKS & LULU.COM ***Liv drags Raisa to a Christmas fair and asks her to win something for her. Things don't go exactly as planned.Missing Scene #3: A Wrestling Girls Holiday Short Story[ Can also be read as a stand-alone! ]