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    Agott was in love with her best friend, and she needed a plan.

    A plan on how to keep living with her feelings, but without acting sappy or gross or overly affectionate. A plan that would let her appreciate Coco’s kindness without making it painfully obvious that she liked her. A plan that wouldn’t end in a straight-up romantic confession on her part.

    You couldn’t just tell your best friend you liked them. Everyone knew that.


    Sixteen-year-old Agott devises a system for dealing with a crush. It goes about as well as one might expect.

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    07 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    1 Corinthians 11:24

    "And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

    Four years after their duel, Marianne wishes to commit the bayonet wound on Marsha's chest to memory with her tongue, her teeth; the blood once tasted, she tastes again now, and cannot stop tasting.

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    02 Jan 2026

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    *pterodactyl screeching* not a believer but I thank god anyway for blessing your fingers to write such a magnificent and heart wrenching piece

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    In the aftermath of the second Storm, a displaced teacher and a disgraced researcher once attempted to find home in each other again. One taught survival. One taught dreams.

    Now, in the wake of the third Storm, they gather in a Foundation gymnasium where institutional light learns to shine like aurora fire, where science cradles your dreams, where children practice circus tricks while adults practice the harder choreography of wanting permanence again.

    This is not recovering what was lost. This is archaeology of the heart – digging the love that’s always been there from rubble, making forever out of whatever pieces refusing to disappear.

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    Rayashki and Plesetsk families meet to run a winter circus, chasing the season's brief magic while stumbling across something less seasonal: family.

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    09 Aug 2025

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    THAT'S MY OOMFIE!!!! PROJECTILE CRYING INTO ORBIT AND DISINTEGRATING TO SPREAD MY ASHES SO THE STARS CAN WEEP ALONGSIDE ME IN THE FACE OF SUCH PERFECTION

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    [Her expression falls open, suddenly raw and vulnerable. “Oh,” she exhales, pale turquoise irises peering into Windsong’s own lilac, the sound of her voice pours over the leyhunter’s skin like water. “You’re a better surprise than what I usually run into around here. Where have you been?” She asks, but she may as well be asking if Windsong is expecting something, awaiting someone.
    Windsong is a field researcher, and much like the present, she often embarks on trips for extended periods of time, so she’s used to finding herself on the receiving end of that question – yet, she’s never heard anyone say it like this woman does. The emphasis is in the wrong spot, the tone out of place, the sentiment behind it incomprehensible.
    Her instinctive reply – most bewildering of it all – is ‘looking for you.’]

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    Where Windsong runs away, and only later does she realize what she's been running to. Where Vila – earth-shaker, storm-bringer – the almighty Winter Guardian locks eyes with Windsong and thinks, I've seen enough destruction, been through enough isolation. To the girl who isn't even aware she grabs my world and tilts it on an axis, birthing the seasons themselves, let me grow you some flowers.

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    28 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 28

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    Vila is a young mother living with her three-year-old son in an apartment far away from home. One day, a new neighbour takes up residence in their flat – Windsong, the clumsy but charmingly awkward architect. The two women strike up a friendship, which quickly blossoms into love, as Windsong suddenly longs to keep warm next to the cheerful mother’s hearth.

    However, is dating even possible when Vila’s elementary school teaching job, parenting little Avgust, and Windsong’s time-demanding work assignments keep their time together a bitter cold too short? Or will their repeated soft moments lead to something more, despite their differences as a single parent and a childless adult?

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    28 Dec 2024