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Object: cardboard shoe box, pilfered from Crystal's overflowing wardrobe; location: the London office, on top of their desk; box contents: several labeled cassette tapes enclosed in plastic cases, along with a handwritten note in perfect script; note contents: "Dead Boy Detective Agency - Recorded explanation for my unannounced absence is enclosed. Sincerely yours, Edwin Payne" | Or, the fic where Edwin no longer wants to exist and seeks to make that reality. Inspired by Thirteen Reasons Why, knowledge of series canon not required.
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- Part 1 of the case of the black spout
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your hangman hands have got me cold by gremlininthemachine
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
31 Jan 2023
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At this rate, Carlos's hair was going to turn entirely gray by the time he reached thirty. // Writing prompt: "Please calm down, you're going to make yourself sick."
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- Part 7 of 100 x 100 Drabble Challenge
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in the hearts of men / in the arms of mothers by gremlininthemachine
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
30 Jan 2023
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Once the initial shock of Carlos's secret wore off, TK began to worry about what it meant for his interactions with Carlos's family. Good thing Andrea was there to set him straight.
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- Part 6 of 100 x 100 Drabble Challenge
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better men have hit their knees & bigger men have died by gremlininthemachine
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
29 Jan 2023
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When TK and Carlos hosted another celebration of their engagement so more of their friends and family could attend this time, they didn't expect Gabriel and Judd to get into a pissing match when they stepped out to pick up the food.
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- Part 5 of 100 x 100 Drabble Challenge
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running down to the riptide; taken away by the dark side by gremlininthemachine
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
28 Jan 2023
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Of all the answers Carlos was expecting when he asked the question, it wasn't exactly this. // Writing prompt: "Hey TK, how did you end up with a fish tank anyway?" Oneshot, exactly 3k words.
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- Part 4 of 100 x 100 Drabble Challenge
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“‘Blanc. What is this?” But only one thing could upset Benoit Blanc this much, “What’s happened to Jud?”
“Cy Wicks sent a lawyer down here with some very interesting information…and I’m sitting here figuring you already have a pretty good idea what that might have been.’”
Oh, God.
The truth of Jud’s paternity is revealed when Cy reaches out for medical help, blowing the lid off a secret Langstrom has been carrying for years.
A “What if Wicks was Jud’s Father, Too?” Thought Experiment.
Holy Week 2026: Betrayal
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02 Apr 2026
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Dennis shakes his head, fearfully disagreeing. "Langdon, you're a doctor. You're putting patients at high risk using that stuff on the clock. You know I can't stay quiet about this. We can go to Dr. Robby. He can–"
"Oh, you'd love to bring Robby into this, wouldn't you?" Langdon hisses.
"What are you—"
"I saw you two."
Dennis's stomach falls a hundred stories. The moisture in his mouth vanishes. He's ghost white. It's so obvious to Langdon that what he just said won him the upper hand.
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Dennis knows Langdon’s secret, and Langdon knows Dennis’s. Things get intense.
Title from XO by fall out boy
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31 Mar 2026
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"Shit," Jud says, more to himself than Blanc. "Okay. Blanc, I—" his voice shudders, on the verge of breaking. "I don't think I can be here anymore."
There's a desperate, fatalistic edge to it that makes Blanc's blood run cold. "Where? Why? I'll come get you." He's already out of his seat.
"No, you don't have to— I—"
"Jud, where can't you be anymore," he demands as kindly as he can. He struggles to get his coat on, passing his phone from one hand to the other.
"The church. The church, Blanc. I can't do it."
"Alright. Alright."
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- Part 1 of (un)holy week
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30 Mar 2026
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/ˌɪnˌsev.ər.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/ (the quality of being impossible to sever or separate) by pucktopivot
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
21 Mar 2026
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Dennis stared at him. His antennae were doing something complicated again, the tips curling in a way Robby had learned to associate with deep, complicated emotion. “You’re going to carry me.”
“Yes.”
“Like – like a – ”
“Like a backpack,” Robby said firmly. “Or a child. Or a very large, very attached moth. Which you are. I don’t care. We’re doing it.”
or dennis latches onto a candle jar like a sticky note, and demonstrates exactly why the phrase “like a moth to a flame” is not merely a poetic suggestion but a biological imperative
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29 Mar 2026
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Across from him, Blanc’s voice was soft and worn. “You can tell me to fuck off.”
Jud felt a disjointed thrill at hearing Blanc swear. He closed his eyes. “I don’t want you to fuck off.”
“What do you want, then?”
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In a fun twist of fate, Jud runs into Blanc after his first service.
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28 Mar 2026