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  1. Public Bookmark 87

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    Whatever it was Adam expected out of life, it wasn’t this. It wasn’t a series of dead end part time jobs, a shitty apartment over a church, endless night classes at a local university, a life one town over from the loveless trailer park he grew up in. He definitely did not expect the body outside his apartment and the spiderweb of horrors involving mutilated corpses, strange unmarked boxes, and ominous phone calls. And then there’s Ronan Lynch, local farmer and personal nuisance, a sudden support against the fresh hell that has become Adam’s life. Stuck in this new landscape fraught with religious grotesquery in a pattern only he seems to see, Adam must find the killer before he too becomes the sick part of a sick thing.

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  2. Rec 69

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    Falling for elusive indie rock-star Ronan Lynch was not part of Adam's ten-year plan. But when his scathing album review prompts a response from the myth himself, Adam finds his carefully-managed life upended in the most unexpected of ways.

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    13 Dec 2020

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Adam Parrish has spent the last decade of his life at the Aglionby School for Boys, the latter five years as a teacher. At twenty-two, feet restless and mind yearning for more, he takes a position at The Barnes, a sprawling estate in Galway, as lush and green as the woods where he spent his childhood. His pupil is strange and her father, when finally he appears, stranger.

    Adam has been poor and obscure all his life; he had hoped, with time, that he might resolve the first of these difficulties at least. What he had not planned for was the possibility of happiness, or its potential costs.
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    No prior reading of Jane Eyre necessary.

    This fic is COMPLETE.
    Outtakes to be posted in the future.

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    05 Oct 2020

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    Koschei's name was drawn the year before hers, and he slaughtered almost half the tribute field personally, claiming the first victory for their District and becoming an overnight sensation. Media darling Caesar Flickerman had dubbed him The Master, a title that stuck, and he plays his part well, but as soon as the cameras are off, darkness always comes floating back towards the surface. He mentored Theta while his own pain was still fresh, and dismissed her as a lost cause as soon as the second name was drawn. The other tribute for District 3 that year was Koschei's friend, classmate, and neighbor, and Koschei all but told her that he would throw her to the wolves and focus the entirety of his attention on supporting her male counterpart.

    That favoritism did not matter in the end. His friend died first, and Theta won the shortest games on record. Thirty-six hours, one meticulously engineered mass slaughter, and it was over.

    Fifteen years have passed since then, and he still has not forgiven her. 

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    12 Feb 2020

  5. Rec 81

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    Ronan and Adam meet.
    They fall in love and then break up.
    Will this time be different?

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    05 Dec 2019