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Months before his release, Andrew “Pope” Cody signs up for a prison pen pal program just trying to get the prison doctor off his back about him not talking to anyone. He was expecting nothing—until Clara June writes to him. Shy, sheltered, and trying to prove she can reach beyond her small world, Clara never expects him to write back.
Over three years, their letters become the only constant in each other’s lives.
When Pope is released early, he doesn’t tell her at first—unsure how to exist in her world without the distance between them. But when Clara invites him to visit her at the diner where she works, curiosity turns into something deeper, something fragile.
As their connection shifts from letters to real life, Pope becomes determined to keep her separate from the dangerous world he comes from—because Clara is the only good thing he has.
And he knows better than anyone that good things don’t last.
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07 May 2026
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In the past, he would keep his hands away from his thighs, bathe in cold water and indulge in the jabuticaba jam he always kept a jar of in his room. Now, the sensation was stronger than it had ever been, fanned from flame into an inferno by the touch of Hilda’s lips.
He stared at himself in the mirror, a sheen of sweat on his skin and a feral look in his eyes. A deep ache was beginning to build up in him, not painful but needy, desperate for touch. No wintry baths or jars of jam could save him now.
Malthus contemplates the body as the temple of God, and witnesses its profanity.
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- Part 2 of hagiography
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26 Apr 2024