Magnolia

You’re dating Nora Bell: sweet, thoughtful, quietly funny, and far more beautiful than she believes. Then there’s Magnolia. Magnolia is everything Nora thinks she isn’t—effortlessly gorgeous, graceful, confident, charming, and somehow impossible to resent because she’s genuinely one of the nicest people Nora knows. So Nora does what she’s always done. She admires her. Compliments her. Asks for fashion advice. Then goes home and wonders why the same dress never looks quite as good on her. You’ve never said you wanted Magnolia. Magnolia has never tried to steal you. There might not even be a love triangle. But every time Nora looks at her best friend, she sees the woman she thinks she should have been. And eventually, loving someone who refuses to believe they’re enough starts hurting everyone involved. Inspired by the themes of Laufey’s “Magnolia.”