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Returning home after your college graduation, you expect the same sleepy rhythm—quiet nights with your dad, maybe a summer job at his firm, and that ever-present question: what now? But the heat stretches long and slow, and you find yourself babysitting your neighbor’s daughter just to pass the time.
Joel Miller—your dad’s best friend, all calloused hands and quiet glances—is supposed to be off-limits. He’s older, steady, and familiar. But something between you has shifted. There’s tension, thick as the summer air, now impossible to ignore.
And as the days blur and the lines between you begin to fray, it becomes harder to remember where the rules used to be—or why they mattered.
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13 May 2025
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You’ve known Joel Miller for years. He’s practically part of the family - always by your dad’s side with that dark, brooding frown.
You’ve never really thought much of him. He’s just…Joel. Dad’s best friend, occasional ride home, somewhat-scowly dinner guest.
Until you come home one summer, after graduating college, and suddenly -
You can’t think about anything anything else.
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11 Mar 2025
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Jake meets a woman at the Hard Deck who does not fall for his charms. He however falls for her.
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- Part 1 of Sleepy Baby Universe
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16 Feb 2025
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When you agree, somewhat apprehensively, to a week-long camping trip courtesy of your best friend Nat, you end up irate to discover Jake Seresin is also on the guest list. He's everything you hate, everything you want to believe you hate. Because the day you met him, he said some things he could never take back. Not to mention his nickname for you grates on your every f-ing nerve. But when the two of you get stranded in the Washington wilderness, it's not just the elements or the creepy feeling you're being watched that has you feeling trapped, it's the emotional baggage, too. Struggling to survive the wilderness is one thing, but navigating the labyrinth that is "Jake the asshole" is another beast altogether. Somehow, you've got to deal with both if you're gonna make it out of these woods in one piece.
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- Part 1 of Set Me Alight
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16 Feb 2025
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When a massive storm shutters every airport in New York, you receive an unexpected call. Jake Seresin, the ex-boyfriend of your college roommate, is stranded at JFK with nowhere to go. Somehow you find yourself hosting Jake for a long weekend in your studio apartment. What happens when you realize that maybe your long-standing hatred for him was covering up something else?
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12 Feb 2025