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He wants Yusuf to hold his hand again. Grab his ankle. Flick his ear. Thrust his sword into his chest and breath into his mouth.
Yet, they have the long ocean of eternity ahead of them. These whims are nothing but a swell under their ship: gone as soon as they come. Nicolo knows better than to jump overboard and drown alone trying to chase them.
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Alternate title: "You'd Feel Pretty Weird If You Developed a Crush on the Only Other Immortal You Know, Right?"
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17 Aug 2020
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The thing about being a thousand years old was that years didn’t feel very long anymore; they were an over-produced commodity. The years of studying at al-Azhar wouldn’t feel like much at all to him now, but back then, they’d lasted centuries, and perhaps it was because all the time he spent without Nicky felt interminable, even before he’d known who it was he was missing. He’d carried with him a vague and inexplicable sense that he was waiting for something to begin, though he knew not what.
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“I think I was in love with you before I knew you.”
Nicky laughed into the corner of Joe’s jaw, breath tickling his neck. After all these years, he’d memorized the shape of Nicky’s nose, the sensation of his stubble at every stage of unshavenness, absolutely every imaginable corner and contour of his body, and the more he knew it the more he loved it, like an old favorite song that developed new layers of meaning every time you listened. “Always the poet.”
“I really do think so, though,” Joe chuckled. “I die of love for you,” he said, switching to old Arabic, quoting Abū Nuwās. “And then I return to life so I can kiss you one more time,” he continued. His own words.
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17 Aug 2020
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To put it mildly, theirs is not a case of love at first sight.
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- Part 1 of Mutual Mistakes
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17 Aug 2020
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"The longest any of them had stayed dead was Joe when a land mine had torn him mostly to shreds in Vietnam; thirty-two terrifying minutes passing until his body had healed enough for him to shock back to life"
An exploration of limb regeneration and the healing process of immortals told through explosions and two men with one soul
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- Part 2 of Immortal Husbands Collection
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Nile witnesses the ways in which Nicky loves Joe.
I think that most of the time, when we think about the ways in which characters love each other, we think about how they show love directly to each other and in front of each other. But what about the ways they love each other when their other half isn’t around? How does Nicky love Joe when Joe isn’t there to see it?
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17 Aug 2020