Dead Draw

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Series Begun:
2025-12-31
Series Updated:
2026-03-04
Description:

"Each game of chess
Means there's one less
Variation left to be played

Each game got through
Means one or two
Less mistakes remain to be made"

Freddie, Florence, and Anatoly don't know how long they've been in the time loop, only that they each think they are the only one in it.

Notes:

Effectively, the combination of two major obsessions I've had over the past year:

1. An 'one-story/chapter-per-song' style album fic centred around The Mountain Goats' Tallahassee

2. The concept of the entire plot of Chess as taking place in a multi-year-long time loop that resets each time the musical 'ends'

The product? This.

While it is initially designed to be read in song order (the order presented here), as if they are chapters, in theory each piece can also stand on its own (more or less), and arguably (we'll see if this proves out), you might end up being able to read them in any order and still get some manner of story out of it. We'll see. It's experimental.

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3,174
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2
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