fic rec Friday

I've reached the final 13 states for the SUMMER READING ADVENTURE, and I fully admit I'm reaching on some of these. Genuinely was not expecting "read a book where a character travels by boat, is about boats, or set in Michigan" would be such a challenge, but I scrounged up a brief mention of boat travel in this one:

somehow, someway, we all get to someday, by Stratisphyre

“You’re the one who’s going to have to seduce him, A-Chang. This whole thing makes me want to go shave his goatee and then hide in a bottle of wine.”

“I hope A-Ying takes after me,” he moaned through a playful smile.