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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    I turn back to the stove to watch the eggs cook. “So, I wanted to ask, is there anyone coming over today to celebrate?”
    He laughs. Laughs. Like the very idea is ludicrous.
    “Don’t be silly Mom,” he says. “No one wants to come to my party, and even if they did, they'd be the laughing stock of the school. I understand perfectly! I would never do that to anyone. I'll just decorate my own small cake and eat it by myself.”
    Oh.
    And here I thought “it breaks my heart” was poetic license. My chest hurts so badly I can hardly breathe.
    “Rui…” my husband says.
    “Don’t worry, Dad, really!” Rui’s voice is so insistent I almost fall for it. Our son is a talented little actor in his own right. Rui scratches the back of his neck. “Actually, truly, please don’t worry. It hurts more when you pity me.”
    Then, he heads back to his room.

    Snapshots of the various birthdays of Kamishiro Rui, as seen through his mother's eyes.

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    19 Mar 2026

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    genuinely crying at this

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    Akito needs to pass pre-calc or he’s benched for the rest of the soccer season.
    The only person who can tutor him without laughing in his face is the quiet guy from class 3-B who always smells faintly of library books and chalk.
    Akito is not prepared for how much worse this is going to be than failing.

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    30 Dec 2025

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    Toya has always thought his own hands were nothing short of brutish, knobby in all the wrong places, bruised all over with the strain of playing the piano for so many hours of so many days of so many years, and the worst part, the part that makes Toya want to hide his hands so badly, is the way his pinkies sort of twist the wrong way, stuck from a lifetime of stretching his fingers to reach far-away keys. There isn’t a single thing Toya has ever liked about his own hands, not when their only purpose is to remind Toya of how much of his life he’s already wasted and how much he’ll continue to waste.

    Well, there wasn’t a single thing he liked about them until now.

     

    (or, Toya thinks his hands are awful and Akito gives him a Pokémon band-aid. Everything spirals from there.)

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    01 Dec 2025

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    IM GUNNA CRY

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    A click, a moment of silence that cannot be longer than a second yet seems to be stretched out for forever and a day, and then-

    “Hello?”

    It’s Akito. It’s Akito’s voice speaking to him, so familiar and smooth and positively dripping in the warm honey that Toya likes to drizzle in his coffee when he has a sugar craving to fill.

    “Akito…”

    “Toya, what’s up?”

    Suddenly hot tears build behind his eyes for the nth time that night, throat closing with the words on the tip of his tongue now clogging his mouth.

    His breath hitches, and before he knows it, he’s crying again.

    Whenever Toya spirals, he knows he can count on Akito to pull him back to his feet.

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    24 Nov 2025

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    AAAAH

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    "All flesh rots, eventually."

     

    "Eventually? No.. mine always been rotting, maybe too slowly for anyone to notice."

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    11 Nov 2025

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    oh god I hate this make it stop /pos