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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    You sell your body to survive.

    Joel Miller sells everything else.

    In a world where love is a liability, wanting you might destroy him.

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    A fic in which Joel Miller falls in love with a stripper in the Boston QZ

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    01 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 68

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    At sixteen, angry and rebellious, you join a religious group in Utah, seduced by the words of charismatic preacher, Pastor David.

    Ten years on and your compound in Texas is raided by the police amidst allegations of abuse, and you and your daughters - Ellie and Abby - are forced back into the world you left behind. Your only lifeline is Joel Miller, your mom's friend from college, and his daughter, Sarah. Moving onto his ranch, what starts as friendly support becomes something more. In Joel you find the one thing you didn't know you were craving - love without conditions.

    But the father of your children is never far away, and he wants his girls back.

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    26 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 65

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    “Apparently, soul marks are a big deal in FEDRA. You’re supposed to keep them always covered, never disclose your Names. They think it could create unnecessary camaraderie between the ranks, alliances they couldn’t control.”
    “Fucking fanatics,” Joel mutters, and Tess snorts her agreement.
    “Gets worse. That asshole told me it’s even more of a problem when there’s kids involved. FEDRA worries somebody could pick a fight with them, steal away one of their precious free resources. Or that the kids could grow and run – try to find whoever’s on their arms.”
    Joel frowns. “So? Tell’em to cover their Names too?”
    “Not really,” Tess says, finally turning to look straight at Joel. “With FEDRA kids, they erase them.”

    Soulmate AU. Everyone is born with their soulmates’ Names written on their skin. Joel meets his third when he’s fifty-six, and he’s tasked to smuggle her outside Boston’s QZ. This can’t possibly end well.

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    19 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    “No, no, just listen - listen!” Rob stumbles backwards as Joel advances, the door to their ramshackle cabin swinging open. “We don’t have the cards we promised, but we have something! Let me just - let me just show you.”

    He practically trips over his own feet to get to one of the other doors; Joel follows him almost leisurely.

    Rob throws the door open - a shuffling and clanging sound emanates from within - and despite his better instincts, Joel finds himself curious. He steps over the threshold and turns to the right, hand going tight on his knife –

    It’s a girl.

    (where a joel finds ellie a few years ahead of schedule)

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    19 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 21

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    The question of what, exactly, she and Joel are to each other is something that Ellie spends far too long thinking about, and an equal amount of time trying not to think about. The words he’d so clearly communicated last winter, you’re not my daughter, are swimming in her head the whole time she and Joel are hiking back to Jackson after the hospital.

    I sure as hell ain’t your dad.

    There wasn’t much else to it, was there?

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    05 Mar 2026