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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Her mouth hangs open, and they stare at each other until she catches herself absently tipping the champagne glass in her hand. She shakes off a little champagne spilled onto her fingers, reaching for a cocktail napkin from a passing server.

    When her gaze returns to his, it burns. The glow of the warm chandelier above them reflects off her irises, and he can swear he sees fire in them.
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    A Tessjoel Second Chance AU (no cordyceps)

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    05 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    '“It’s that bad, huh?” Joel said gruffly, self-consciously running his hand through his hair, his eyes fixed on the curls on Benji’s head. “I…” he cleared his throat and looked at Tommy for help. 

    “Tess cuts our hair,” Tommy blurted out, pushing a glass of whiskey into Joel’s hand as he came around the couch. 

    Maria blinked at them for a moment, thinking back to literally three days prior when she’d given Tommy a trim. And the dozen or so times before that. 

    “Used to,” Tommy clarified, sitting down. “She always cut our hair. It’s… her job.”

    Joel took a swig of his drink and sighed, not quite able to look at Maria or Ellie yet. 

    “I’m so sorry, Joel,” Maria said quietly.'

     

    A story about grief, and also how hard it is to get a good curly hair haircut.
    Title from Would That I by Hozier

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    09 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    “Bubbles, Tommy? Seriously?”

    “C’mon, Tess. The kids are gonna love them.”

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    How some 20-year-old bubble wands begin to mend a fractured family

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    Good Things Happen Bingo Prompt: Blowing Bubbles/Tess and Tommy (platonic)

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    21 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 45

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    Tess is a powerful underworld figure, brokering information. When an internal threat has her questioning the loyalties of those closest, she must enlist the help of someone who has just as much to lose as she does. A bodyguard/boss AU set in the 1970s.

    His fingertips brushed through the curtain of hair hanging to her waist. Dressing like a goddamn hippie with motivations that were resolutely square. A capitalist muckety-muck playing dress-ups with the beautiful people. Tess had some goddamn nerve and he wanted every last piece of her, Duke’s warnings be damned.

    Because Duke was right – he’d never met anyone like her before. And maybe by getting a little closer he could unravel the enigma, because he’d meant what he’d told Duke – one woman was, essentially, the same as another. There were a finite number of parts people could play. And she was just playing one of them, concealing it a little better than most.

    Tess whispered again in his ear: “You answer to me, now.”

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    08 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    This wasn’t going to be one of those long, emotional goodbyes.

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    08 Oct 2025