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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
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After one deeply awkward encounter with a stranger on the subway, you find out he is your new—and incredibly hot—literature professor. Your relationship quickly becomes filled with twisted sexual encounters, something you realize you need more and more. Before long, you are trapped in a web of feelings for a man who is completely cold, detached, and — above all — married. Sex always finds its way to make things complicated.
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- Part 1 of Teacher's pet collection
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09 Sep 2026
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A new case lands on Detective Miller's desk, leading him to you in an unsuspecting way. He's gruff, impatient, and insistent on getting to the bottom of the case. And you just might be one of the things standing in his way.
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08 Sep 2026
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Back in town, your hate towards Joel transforms into something worse. Lucky for you, he knows just what you need.
Or; you're a veterinarian and Joel asks for help with a pregnant heifer.
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03 Sep 2026
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The Right Life by NotYourLoveMonkey
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Oct 2026
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Joel Miller’s life is already full; work, responsibility, long days, and Sarah at the center of everything. He is not looking for change, much less for someone who unsettles the careful balance he has built around himself.
Then he gets sued and risks losing money he doesn't have, so he needs a lawyer... And he gets someone competent, sharp, impossible to keep at a distance for long, and somehow fitting into places he never intended to make room for.
Because some things do not arrive all at once; they settle quietly, in ordinary moments, until one day life no longer looks quite the way it used to.
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23 Apr 2026
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Miscalculations [PAUSED] by JayIsPunkWasTaken
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (TV) RPF
07 Apr 2026
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Joel Miller is the man of your dreams. Big. Tall. Dark. Handsome. The problem? He’s your boss.
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31 Mar 2026
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After getting matching daisy tattoos for my cousin Jackie’s thirtieth birthday, she is convinced it’s finally time to find her soul mate. Me on the other hand? I don’t buy into fate, matching tattoos or destiny. Across town Joel Miller doesn’t believe in soul mates either, until he wakes up one morning with a daisy tattoo behind his ear. A disastrous first encounter leaves Joel and I firmly in enemy territory. And when Joel meets Jackie at a party and they discover their matching tattoos, it seems like destiny has brought them together. And me? I’m going to keep my own matching tattoo to myself. Why complicate things? Jackie is happy with Joel and I've started dating his charming and sexy brother, Tommy.
Plus, there’s no way the annoying Joel Miller could be my soul mate…. Right?
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31 Mar 2026
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No love lost by in_the_orange_bedroom
Fandoms: Triple Frontier (2019), A Most Violent Year (2014)
10 Aug 2026
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The passing of your runaway father triggers a series of events that brings you back to the place where you grew up. You’re back in Hoboken, and sleep eludes you. Haunted by waking nightmares, you find an unlikely refuge in the basement laundry room of your building, where you keep bumping into one of your neighbors, a certain Frankie Morales. Soon, it becomes obvious that the man is also running away from some ghosts of his own.
Can you two strike a deal that'll help you find some rest? Should be pretty harmless, right?A Triple Frontier / A Most Violent Year AU.
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29 Mar 2026
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Stay With Me by Plaidamoosette
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Sep 2026
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“I think I’m gonna go check on some things in the Lodge, maybe radio in with Tommy and see how things are doing down there.”
“No,” Joel growls softly, shaking his head, his grip tightening around your waist as he pulls you closer. “Stay with me?”
This causes you to smile, and you sigh, resting your head against his chest so you can feel the steady thrum of his heart against your cheek.
“Of course, Cowboy. I’ll stay.”
______________________________20 years into the Cordyceps outbreak, lies a town in the heart of the Teton Range in Wyoming. Jackson, the last hope for humanity. You've crawled through hell to find a place like this, and yet hell isn't done with you.
You've never had to reach out for help to pull you from the depths, so why now? What is it about the handsome cowboy who's invaded your town that's changed everything, that's flipped your world? Why does he insist on saving you?
When you think things couldn't get worse, right when you finally start allowing yourself to feel again, the Devil's just gotta swoop in to yank the rug right from under your feet. You thought the battle was hard when you lost your family?
You hadn't even seen the half of it.
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28 Mar 2026
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Second Chances by bistroyourhuddy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Mar 2026
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After years apart, a woman is pulled back into her ex-husband’s life when an accident leaves him believing they’re still married. Forced to play along for his recovery, she quickly realizes some things, like love, lies, and the past, don’t stay buried as easily as they should.
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28 Mar 2026
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In debt to Joel Miller, your father offers you as payment. However your father sees this as an opportunity for you to gather information so he can take over the Miller empire, what he doesn’t expect to happen, is for you and Joel to fall in love.
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04 Mar 2026
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The Measure of Man by moderatelytroubled
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), Last of Us - Fandom
06 Jul 2026
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There are people of virtue who believe themselves to be monsters. There are monsters who believe themselves to be human. Most of us, though, exist in the impalpable space between monster and human.______________
Joel is saved by a woman he believes to be an angel, who believes herself to be a monster.
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04 Mar 2026
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All The Sinners Rise by Mr_Potato_25
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Oct 2026
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Proverbs 28:13. Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
They say time should heal all that is broken, yet seven years have passed since you walked away from his hollow heart, and still the memories fester. The name 'Joel Miller' remains to taste like poison on your tongue, a wound that never learned to fully heal. But fate is merciless and against all odds, he crosses your path once more. And in the shadows of his return, one question waits with teeth.
How long can you guard the secret you swore to protect?
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- Part 2 of Sinners
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12 Jan 2026
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24 Nov 2025
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"No one wins but somehow they still played" by Igotyoubabygirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
27 Aug 2026
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The cure failed.
A girl died for nothing.
You find shelter in Jackson after the Salt Lake City base fell with nothing but a burden you must carry alone.
Tommy offers you safety.
But Joel, the town's Reaper, doesn't trust you and when you try to move on with your new life, the truth might catch you faster than you think.- Language:
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24 Nov 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of Fix me frantichope
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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24 Nov 2025