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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Of course, Vincent has always known that he isn’t particularly… well endowed, in the same way that, standing at only 5 foot nothing, he’s always been a head shorter than other men around him. He’s also aware that he never developed as much as his peers in his teens, and that he’s always looked noticeably youthful for his age, even now into his mid-60s. And he’s never needed to shave even once in his adult life. But he’s never really given any of this too much thought until now, because he hasn’t seen cause for alarm. Everyone’s different, after all, and none of that had to mean anything. Certainly not when also factoring in his partly Indigenous Mexican heritage.
    But this?
    Before he really has time to register what’s happening, he throws up every bite of the banana they managed to coax into him back in post-op.
    The doctor and nurses assume his nausea is a result of the anaesthesia he was given for his surgery. Vincent doesn’t correct them.
    He never eats banana again after that day.

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    Vincent Benítez, at the age of 64, grapples with discovering that he's intersex

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    The author, at the age of 28, processes the realisation that he's intersex

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    03 Sep 2025

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    Professor Lawrence has enough to deal with, between handling conference business and setting up voting panels for the organisation's new president. He doesn't need any scandals, and he doesn't need a new, unknown senior member cropping up out of nowhere. Nevertheless, this is what he gets.

    (A History professors AU.)

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    17 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    Vincent coughs again, then rests back, winded. His hand drifts toward the apple plate on the bedside table. Thomas steadies it. Helps him take a slice. It trembles on the way to his mouth.

    “They used to say I would fracture the Church,” Vincent murmurs. “Let in rot. Invite sin with open hands. All because I believed the ones furthest from the altar were often the ones carrying the most grace.”

    Thomas doesn’t speak. He doesn’t need to. He’s heard this pain before — in meetings, in private, in exile.

    “They wanted Peter’s fire,” Vincent says. “But I gave them Joseph’s silence. That wasn’t enough.”

    He pauses. The slice of apple, half-eaten, sits in his palm like a relic.

    (Or, ten years after the conclave that elected Pope Innocent XIV, it seems that Cardinal Lawrence will need to organize yet another one in this lifetime.)

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    15 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    James is a high school student that's just trying to get through finals by studying at his favorite book shop. It's going fine until a text from his mother reminds him of the familial conflict he's facing. Vincent Benítez is there to pick up the broken pieces of the boy and put them back together.

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    13 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    As asked on Quora, 2023:
    Do you think that Jesus Christ, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross and temporarily thought of home?

    As asked by Vincent Benítez, after the conclave:
    Can I ever go home again?

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    04 May 2025