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    Neil's new life in New York City is loud and overwhelming. He's barely making things work with a roommate whose just on the edge of too much, a shitty apartment that can't seem to retain any heat, and a never ending job hunt that keeps coming up empty. What he doesn't expect to find in New York is something to keep him from floating away. It ends up finding him anyway.

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    Neil Josten is used to love meaning violence. That's why, when he finds out he's in love with his best friend and it's slowly killing him, Neil isn't worried in the slightest. He's fine. This will be fine.

     

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    Fake illness I created-- Unrequited Atrophy Syndrome. Featuring an oblivious Neil Josten, a possessive Andrew Minyard, and angst.

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    04 Mar 2026

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    Andrew asks Neil to go on a date - only, it's a fake date, to enter a running competition (couples only) for a chance to win the golden prize of a month of free ice cream. Still, Neil will take what he can get.

    Now, if only he could get his stupid feelings under control.

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    04 Mar 2026

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    Neil turns his attention back to Andrew, watching as he fixes a jammed printer by kicking the tray with full force. “What do you know about him?”

    “He went to juvie for a few years,” Matt says. “There’s a rumor that he’s killed someone, or maybe it was two people. Anyways, people call him a psychopath. He always carries at least ten knives on him at all times.”

    “Ten knives,” Neil repeats blandly.

    “Just telling you what I’ve heard,” Matt says with a shrug.

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    The new librarian has a reputation. Neil doesn't believe any of it.

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    03 Mar 2026

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    “It’s a little difficult to think clearly with a knife pressed to his jugular, but Neil manages to wonder if he should’ve let the FBI send him to jail instead of here.

    It makes sense, unfortunately, that after finding Neil bruised, burnt, and bleeding out on the cold cement floor of his father’s basement, Special Agent Todd Browning might have had some concerns for Neil’s health.

    Neil just didn’t expect that concern to include his mental health, too.

    Browning had offered Neil a choice that day - after listing out, like, fifty reasons why he thought Neil might benefit from some therapy.

    Life in prison or a sixty day stay in a psych ward, followed by freedom.

    Neil thought the answer was obvious, but his new roommate still hasn’t removed his blade from Neil’s throat - which Neil is now realizing isn’t actually a knife, but a razor blade taped to the butt of a toothbrush - so he’s rethinking that answer a bit.”

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    The one where Neil and Andrew meet in Easthaven.

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    03 Mar 2026