Lady_Hamcelot



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    23 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    Ryland Grace had a somewhat perfect life with his husband, Simon, and their newly adopted daughter.
    Navigating the throes of being parents and overcoming childhood adversities, when two people from Ryland's childhood come back, bowling into his life.
    [updates every Saturday]

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  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    An incident at Grover Cleveland Middle School changes everything; Colt and Ryland try not to fall apart.

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    Ryland drops the water bottle. It clangs to the ground with a disgusting clang. The sound reverberates in Ryland’s ears, and he flinches. But his brain is spinning spinning spinning, and there’s a man with a gun moving closer. He lunges toward his classroom, twisting the lock from the other side and slamming it closed, leaving him out in the hallway.

    “Barricade this door now! Use desks. Books. Backpacks. Anything and everything you can find! Do it now!” he shouts. His voice doesn’t betray him this time.

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    23 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    His words escaped louder than he meant, in a desperate yell. It just left him in a rush, after being pent up. Grace winced. He hated the way he exploded after building it up.

    He took a steadying breath, then continued. “I’m trying,” he began. “To help you. In the only way I know how- in the only way I was provided! The doctors didn’t outline your entire life, they didn’t tell me whether picking up a shattered mug is too much or too little or if you should even be standing right now, having this discussion and-,”

    “And what about me?” Colt snapped. “Do you not trust me to tell you how I feel?”

    And Grace, of course, had to go and make it so much worse.

     

    Or: After breaking his back, Colt finally manages to push Ryland away- straight into a strangers arms, one that might just show Ryland how to have and be in a family again.

    Colt’s kind of freaking out here.

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  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    "Later, Eva would not be able to reconstruct how three hours passed without discussing the project. Instead the conversation wandered: her childhood in Rotterdam; his extensive travels; the best coffee in Geneva and which lakefront café was worth the walk.

    She had laughed more at that table than in the last three months combined. That should have worried her. It did not. It simply felt good, the way a held breath felt good when it was finally let go.

    When he offered to drive her back to her hotel, she said yes without running the calculation she ran on every offer from every person who wanted something from her. It did not occur to her, even once, that this might be a mistake."

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    The Petrova Taskforce brings on a new consultant just weeks before launch: a man whose expertise no one can quite define, and whose influence no one remembers agreeing to. As the clock ticks down to launch, Eva Stratt and several of the key scientists start acting strangely. Then Ryland Grace disappears. The Hail Mary crew takes matters into their own hands.

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    21 Aug 2026