The Shape of Small Things by Jay Jeong un Yang

 

I wrote a lesbian romance story.

 

Here is the summary:

 

 In a quiet bakery filled with the warmth of bread and drifting light, a careful repair technician is called in to fix an oven that won’t stay on. She prefers problems that make sense—things she can take apart, understand, and put back together.

The baker who calls her is different. She moves through the world slowly, noticing small things others overlook—the way flour hangs in sunlight, the shape of a shoulder mid-motion, the quiet presence of hands at work. She dreams of becoming a photographer, even though she knows it may never be practical, never be stable.

What begins as a simple repair turns into something harder to define.

Between circuits and cameras, broken appliances and unfinished loaves, they begin to share space—fixing what can be fixed, and learning to sit with what cannot. Through small routines, quiet conversations, and moments that don’t ask to be explained, they start to see each other more clearly.

Not as problems to solve.

But as something to keep.

The Shape of Small Things is a gentle story about noticing, about care, and about the quiet ways people come to matter—without needing to be repaired or perfected.

Here is the story:

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3380419/1/The-Shape-of-Small-Things