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  1. Public Bookmark 50

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    Lady Salisbury is the founder and CEO of Ruth’s Kitchen, a high-end baking and cookware company that, following 40 years of being a boutique line in the UK has exploded on the international market following a marketing deal with the Great British Bake Off.
    Lady Salisbury, too busy to do her own shopping now and suddenly finding herself on breakfast tv and daytime talk shows across the UK, Europe and North America has hired a personal stylist and shopper, Basilton Pitch.
    Enter her troubled grandson Simon.

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    03 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    This whole ‘secret relationship’ business is a lot more trouble than it’s worth.

    Simon and Baz, seventh years, have found a new way to terrorize each other. Ground is unhallowed, property is damaged, and Penelope Bunce deserves a holiday.

    It’s going to be a long year.

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    07 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    I’m discovering that I’m all kinds of pathetic for cute, clumsy boys with constellations of moles dotting their skin.

    Or maybe I’m just becoming pathetic for Simon, I think, returning his smile as I step across the threshold.

    Pain punches me in the gut.

    I double over and pain spreads through my entire body. Sinking under my skin. Into my bones. It stings like the buzz of silver or crosses.

    I am not wanted here.

    The realisation is the only thing clear as the pain. I need to leave. But when I turn towards the door, I find that Simon’s already shut it behind him.

    “You’re a vampire,” he says, voice hard and cold.

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    Baz and Simon meet in a coffee shop not knowing that one of them is a vampire and the other a vampire hunter. After a tense encounter, both of them are left with questions about who they are and their morality. And as if that’s not enough, neither of them can stop thinking about the other…

    Written for Carry On Big Bang 2024

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    06 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    It all started on an island...

    It's 1956, and Baz Pitch is existentially lost in New York City. After graduating from Columbia, he's working for a wedding photographer with no taste as he avoids his inevitable fall attendance at Yale Law School, his father's alma mater. All Baz wants to do is be a fashion photographer, and when an opportunity to assist a famous photographer out on Fire Island falls in his lap, it just may be the key to helping unlock him from the closet of his family's expectations.

    It's 1956, and Simon Snow is wondering if there's more to life than this or if this is as good as it gets. He's been working in construction with his foster father, David Cadwallader, practically ever since he was taken in at age 13, but there's something beyond the water that's calling for him. When Davy offers Simon a chance to manage his family's rental properties for the summer in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, Simon jumps at the chance to finally take charge of something.

    What Baz and Simon didn't expect: the sense of freedom that comes from being able to absolutely surrender to the truest version of yourself, and the choices you have to make when it happens.

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    19 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 72

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    I knew a boy, I knew a man that looked a lot like you
    I knew a time, I knew a place that felt a lot like you

    - Tom Misch, “Man Like You”

    This is a story about football, friendship, and family. It's also about two boys who grew into men and fell in love.

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    Baz is coming home to Solsbury F.C.
    Simon has been waiting for eight long years.

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    17 Oct 2025