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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    There’s a new face at the widower’s group tonight.

    It’s not unusual. The faces come and go, an endless rotation of mourners. What is unusual is how young this particular man is. Twenty-five at most, but she’ll eat her hat if he’s a day older than twenty-two.

    On a late winter night, Pete McVries wanders into a group meeting for widowers, looking for something he’s lost.

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    26 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    The booth is overflowing; Stebbins stretched out long on one side, with Baker practically sitting on his ankle. Across from them, is Olson, and squeezed in beside him are McVries and Parker. They’re huddled around the table, bickering loud enough to carry across the room, even over the noise of the game and the music and every other tired-rowdy group of undergrads in here. From this angle, Ray can just see the edge of McVries’ face, the curve of his scar, tugged taut by his mouth as he leans in to jeer at the others.

    Dragging a hand through his damp hair, Ray feels the corners of his mouth lift up in a grin, breaking through the ache in his muscles and the exhaustion of late-October university.

    or; five times everyone thought Ray and Pete were dating, and one time they actually were.

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    24 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    Heaven wouldn’t hurt so bad, would it?

    “Well, it was the words of the Major that kept me going. Something he said at the very beginning, about how we’ll never be number one again if we don’t try. So I tried to be number one. And here I am before y’all.”

    Hell, then.

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    Pete wished for Ray to live.

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    21 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    All of their clothes had been patched and mended. There was no longer any blood or red-raw skin. The boy whose legs had been ground into paste by the halftrack brushed past Art’s elbow as he took steps two at a time, bounding down towards the ground floor.

    Art thought– he didn’t know what he thought. There was no thinking. They were all just surging, together, forward.

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    Art Baker meets up with the boys in the afterlife.

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    19 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    When Pete McVries gets one cosmic do-over, a choice to redo the Walk and save Ray, he doesn’t hesitate. The muscle pain, torn-up feet, sleep deprivation, hallucinations, nausea, and finally a bullet — he’ll go through it all again to get five more days with Ray, and to make sure it’s Ray who makes it out alive.

    When it turns out that this is not just a one-time do-over but a time loop, he doesn’t quite know what comes next.

    Or: Can a highway in Maine, like Hill House or the Overlook Hotel, be born bad?

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    14 Dec 2025