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    “I know it’s been awhile since we were friends,” says Paul. “Probably spent more time as strangers than we did as friends, I figure. But I always drive past you working and I think, what if we got a beer sometime, you know? When we both get off work.”

    Darrel stares at him. He’s lost his damn mind. His brother is dead and his other brother isn’t in college like he’s supposed to be and now this. “When I get off this job,” he says, real slow because he thinks Paul might have gone dumb, probably from shotgunning too many beers at Oklahoma. “I go to my other job. And I when I got off that job, it’s damn near midnight and I gotta eat and shower and sleep so I can get up and do it all over again the next day.”

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    28 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    The first time it happened, Darry didn’t know what to do.

    It was only a few days after he’d been jumped. His body still ached, his wounds bled at the slightest pull, his ankle throbbed when he tried to walk. All his body wanted to do was lie down, rest, try to stitch itself back together in whatever way was possible.

    But his mind was a different story.
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    or: In dealing with the aftermath of getting jumped, Darry quickly learns that not all of his scars are visible.

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    19 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    Any decent roofer knows you're supposed to cut with the grain. Cutting against the grain will split the wood unevenly and cause tearout, which is when the wood fibers are lifted and ripped haphazardly instead of cleanly cut.

    Nobody understands this better than Darrel Curtis.

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    13 Dec 2025

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    "He's not going to pop out from behind the bookshelves," Dani says, not looking up from the dead body sprawled out on the floor.

    JT snorts. "Wouldn't put it past him."

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    In which Malcolm has a very bad night and skips out on a crime scene, JT swears he's not worried at all and almost believes it, Dani contemplates killing Dr. Whitly, and Edrisa makes some soup.

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    07 Nov 2025

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    “It’ll take two seconds,” Higgins says. “I like to keep up to date with all the players, you know. I just thought, well, you moved recently. And your emergency contact.”

    He pauses here, and Jamie raises an eyebrow. His emergency contact? He’d probably filled out some joke response last time, hadn’t he. Fucking Queen of England, Boris Johnson’s wife, something good.

    “Oi, let’s see it then,” and Higgins passes over the paper like it’s a live bomb, and Jamie scans down to where he sees his own handwriting sitting over a few dotted lines, and, well. It sure ain’t the Queen.

    or: Jamie goes through a series of unfortunate events, changes his emergency contact a few times, and considers the possibility that maybe, actually, letting other people help isn’t all bad after all.

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    28 Oct 2024