Author's Note:
Simple and Sweet is the product of a long-standing obsession of mine. Malon and Link have stayed my favorite couple for at least seven years now, which is currently a substantial portion of my life. I wanted to do a series about them, not just because I love writing for them, but because I wanted to do a love story. A cute, sweet, slightly idealized love story that I could come back to when I needed cheering up. With so many people not really sure what love looks like nowadays, I wanted to put my take on it out there for the world to see, even if it's naive and not really built on any personal experience of my own. My take on this couple is mostly inspired by watching my parents and grandparents, the people who've taught me what love looks like since before I can even remember.
This little collection has been in the works for longer than I care to admit. I wanted to hold off on publishing any of these oneshots until I had completed a substantial number of them, but recently a fan of my work reached out and asked me about my scrapped Malink content, and I realized that just sitting on these stories when they were ready to go was kind of dumb. Bearing that in mind, I decided to go ahead and unleash what I had so far, with a warning to my readers that updates may be sporadic and these aren't being published in chronological order. Life is still happening beyond my keyboard, and sometimes I can go months without any creative inspiration. But if you're okay with that, go ahead and follow, leave a review, or a favorite. I can't promise that this will be the smoothest of rides, but maybe it'll be a fun one nonetheless.
Ciao!
-Niki Bogwater