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Six months ago, you left the tattered remains of a life in New York behind to begin a new one in Austin.
After eighteen years of raising his daughter, Joel Miller is trying to navigate what comes next now that the job he built his life around feels done.
A chance encounter brings you together. As you and Joel grow closer, the boundaries you’d set for yourself begin to bend, and the life you thought you were building starts to become more than you ever expected.
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27 Sep 2026
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sometimes, love isn't enough to make you stay... and sometimes, it isn't enough to go after you either. but years later, you both meet again and you're different people. time hardened the both of you, especially in this world. would love be enough this time?
this is a reworking of my original fic that i'm finally now finishing.
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24 Sep 2026
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A few days after the outbreak, Joel is a broken man, shattered into pieces. He is terrified of losing you, but he is also seeking to free himself from the pain. (Each chapter will have its own summary)
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24 Sep 2026
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You and Joel Miller were in a six-year relationship that ended in pure and utter hatred for each other. While your writing career soared, his insecurity spiraled, negatively fueled by drinking and resentment for your success. It all culminated in a brutal car wreck that left you lifeless on the asphalt and him fleeing the scene. You woke from a month-long coma to a new, cruel reality: a brain injury that stole your dexterity and murdered your ability to ever hold a pen again. Joel never looked back.
Years later, you’ve traded your dreams for a quiet teaching gig in Dallas, while trying to manage tremors. Then, a name appears on your first-grade roster: Sarah Miller. You tell yourself it’s a coincidence until the classroom door swings open, and Joel walks in to drop off the daughter you never knew he had. The man who broke your life is back, and this time, he's holding the hand of your student.Bookmarked by eleganthottub
24 Sep 2026
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Before the world ended, you had a marriage to survive.
Texas, 2003. Joel Miller is a stubborn farmer with red dirt beneath his boots and, through an old family arrangement, your future husband.
You have no idea that the life you’re trying to escape is the last one you’ll ever have.
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ACT ONE: the marriage before the actual outbreak. This is Act One, how I imagined it. Their relationship evolving (slowly lol) before the outbreak. Act Two should cover the outbreak.Series
- Part 1 of red dirt.
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23 Sep 2026