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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    Gale can’t look long, can’t maintain eye contact with that empty cavern of a hood for anything more than a second, or two. Something looks back out at him that he knows, from pure animal instinct, is not at all human. Or hasn’t been for a long time. It makes his ears ring, a pressure vibrating through his head that he fears allowing to grow too strong. He looks off to the left, at the thing’s shoulder, where the robe drapes, soft and gossamer and grey. Like ash-filled cobwebs.
    Its neck cracks as it regards Gale silently.
    “I didn’t see it coming,” Gale says. His voice sounds shockingly numb.

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    31 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 47

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    “This was exciting. Even if it was filling him with dread. He’d been distracted all day, waiting for his shift to end…

    … As soon as he leaves the building, he’s fair game.”

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    28 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 32

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    “It’ll be fun,” Marge says to him over the phone as he’s unpacking another box in his tiny, studio apartment. “I’ve been to a few other classes, it’s a good environment.”

    “It doesn’t sound like my sort of environment, Marge,” Gale says, picking up an astrophysics textbook that pushes the bounds of what a single-handed grip is capable of. It strains the tendons in his wrist as he tries not to drop it on the way to its new home in the built-in bookshelf. The edges of it are bloated, almost rubbery with how many times it’s been painted over in the same shade of white, a few spots chipped away to show rich brown wood underneath.

    “Your sort of environment is on a hill with a telescope, with nobody around.”

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    19 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Sinners AU
    For brothers Smoke and Stack, their newly opened juke joint was supposed to be a way out of the cycle of crime and blood money they’d gotten caught in.

    But dreams don’t come cheap, and debt doesn’t wait for success, so when a mysterious white man shows up with a banjo and a promise to spend money, the brothers decide to take advantage.

    It didn’t take long for it to become obvious, however, that the stranger wasn’t just there for a good time. He was there for them.

    And once invited in, he wasn’t leaving empty-handed.

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    02 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    “Alright, ya sad bastard, c’mon on inside, then!”

    The stranger traversed the yard with an inhumane swiftness. No longer shivering, the man grinned and said, “I promise, ya will not regret it.”

    The moment the stranger crossed the cabin’s threshold, the air changed. Something bitter and cold seeped deeply into Paddy’s bones, his skin tingling with the ghost of an electric shock, and as the stranger closed and latched the door behind him, Paddy got the distinct impression that he had just trapped himself in a tiger’s cage.

    OR: A handsome stranger appears in Paddy's yard one evening, and Paddy unknowingly lets the Devil in.

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    22 Apr 2025