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    Gotham in the smoggy summer heat is a madhouse, a powder keg waiting to blow. The lines between Batman and Bruce Wayne have never been so blurred. He sleeps with throwing stars, and he barely gets out of his uniform to crawl into his cavernous lonely bed, and always his head is pounding, pounding, pounding with the pressure of it all.

    On the one night he leaves his window open, who flies in but a Kryptonian shaped distraction.

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    20 Aug 2025

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    Clark wakes up hard and hungry, and Bruce is already there for him, pliant and aching. Morning heat turns into something slower, deeper - where every thrust feels like a claim, and every breath sounds like a moan.

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    08 Aug 2025

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    Bruce has spent weeks trying to get Clark to stay the night, but Clark has been using every excuse to avoid so much as kissing Bruce. When Clark flakes on yet another intimate moment, Bruce has had enough.

    Clark, meanwhile, has a libido that’s driving him crazy and one huge secret that threatens to shatter his fledgling relationship. Now he has two choices: continue being a coward and break it off with Bruce, or scrape together the courage to tell Bruce what he’s never told anyone before.

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    06 Aug 2025

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    Philomena Cunk interviews the vampire.

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    13 Jul 2025

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    Winner of the 2025 Gold Philon Award in the Long Fiction category

    When Spock's mother played the new piano for the first time, he found himself strangely drawn to it. He peered inside at the obscenely bared viscera under the raised lid, wondered at the way the hammers danced and the strings shook. Then, he curled his fingers over the edge of the open instrument, and suddenly he knew the truth.

    It was not just the strings; the whole instrument vibrated. And when he touched it, the vibration rattled in his own bones. Sympathetic resonance.

    And he thought to himself, almost nonsensically: Only something human could thrum like this.

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    24 Jun 2025