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    Slowly, she turned to look at him. “They’re engaged.”

    “Huh,” Ekko muttered. “Didn’t take Vi as the married type.”

    “Me neither." Her voice was a mere lull. “But people…they change. They go.”

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    Jinx and Ekko are childhood best friends and roommates who share a complicated history — Jinx struggles with fear of abandonment while Ekko clings to a savior complex he can't always fulfil.

    Isha is a foster kid in need of a home.

    Together, the three of them find ways of redefining family.

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    17 Dec 2024

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    BOOM SHAKALAKA

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    There are two ways in which Nikolai can achieve freedom.

    (or: the tale of how a god and his angel will one day change the world)

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    12 Aug 2022

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    peak

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    fyodor, the god that he was-is-always-will-be, has such great plans in the works -- and, in very few of them, does he visualize a world where nikolai does not realize just how extraordinary the two of them are.

    (alternatively, a series of thoughts, conversations, and events: december 12 to december 25.)

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    amazing ; don't deletee

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    A beat thuds from the stereo, so heavy it rattles the coins in the well of the passenger door. The crease deepens in Vi’s cheek until the smile breaks through, and when they’re back on the highway with the wind thundering through the open windows, sun on her skin and her hair cutting across her vision so that Vi comes to her in flashes of white teeth and black glasses, in arms shifting to the sixth gear, her voice full and loose as she sings, Caitlyn stops herself from closing her eyes around the moment because she can already see herself years from now running her thumb over this one like a worn photo from a wallet and she doesn’t want to be there yet, in the future where all of this is behind her — she wants to be here, now and in it, in the possibility that it could go on forever. Like asphalt, like sun.

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    Oklahoma, 1996. Vi's a storm chaser, and Caitlyn's just along for the ride.

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    “About that,” Vi says. “How’d you end up here? What did a girl like you do to get tossed into this two-star shithole?”

    “Really? That’s how you ask? No subtlety in it?”

    “Uh, yeah? I saved you from getting shanked in the shower, so fair’s fair. What’s your deal, topside?”

    “Caitlyn,” she says. That isn’t right. That wasn’t the answer Vi was after. Names are easily given away but so seldomly remembered in Stillwater, but it echoes in Vi’s head. She almost doesn’t hear the actual answer. “And though I have no doubt a thousand people have given this answer before, I did nothing. I was doing my job, and then I was here. No trial. No sentencing. No crime to speak of.”

     

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    Half a decade into Vi's stay in Stillwater, a topsider turns up, raving about being a Councillor's daughter.

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