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Prompt: "This wasn't supposed to happen."
Sean wakes to a terrible surprise.
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Sean dreams of trees.
Tall trees that stretch endlessly into a pale grey sky. Fir, pine, birch. The branches reach out their bony, grabbing fingers, and the spaces between shine with the eyes of dead girls.
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Here is one that got away and lived to tell the tale, from Karachi Social Club and Griffin Hotel, Wakefield nick and St. Mary’s Hostel, motorways and car parks, parks and toilets, idle rich and unemployed. From shit they sell and shit we buy, from kids with no mums and mums with no kid. From all dead meat and my dead friends, pubs and clubs, from gutters and stars, local tips and old slag heaps. From badgers and owls, wolves, and swans. Here is a son of Yorkshire. Here is one that got away.
After surviving for years in the North, Barry James Anderson tries better luck down South, somewhere where the sun shines brighter and the past won't find him. The sneaky thing about the past as BJ soon will find is that it always goes with you, no matter how light you pack.
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27 Jun 2025
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We're Already Dead by tohaveandtohold
Fandoms: Red Riding (TV), Red Riding Quartet - David Peace
26 Aug 2025
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It's been three weeks since Barry Gannon's death, and forty eight hours since Michael Myshkin was charged with three counts of murder. BJ is running out of ways to be hollowed out.
In which BJ tries to find the right words. It's not easy, given who he tries to say them to.
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26 Sep 2025
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If it bleeds it leads. The lads back home had put a charming local spin on that when he started at the Post: if it bleeds it’s Leeds.
Well, bugger that. London's where he belongs.
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26 Sep 2025
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“This is TK Strand, paramedic with Austin Fire, 126. There’s been a landslide, we’re about three miles up the North-North-West trail with fire passing overhead. It’s hot in here but we’ve got at least four people alive,” at least, he said, but that did not stop him from saying, “we’re still finding the rest,” because they were all going to make it out of this – “requesting immediate assistance. Does anyone copy?”
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Volunteering in Californian wildfires, the 126 is caught in a major landslide that swallows the firetruck whole, throws several of them from the cabin, and does nothing to put out the fire raging overhead. They're hurt, exhausted, and determined to keep each other alive.Bookmarked by merrilark
26 May 2025
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The Enchantress of Wishfield by Letters_From_Miraland
Fandoms: 无限暖暖 | Infinity Nikki (Video Game), Infinity Nikki, Infinity Nikki (Video Game), nikki - Fandom
13 Apr 2025
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This one-shot imagines the current banners (Enchanted Writing and Pastoral Dance) as characters in their own right, who may or may not get around to smooching some day.
In this story, a student mage arrives in Wishfield ready to complete a rural placement but ends up discovering much more than she'd bargained for.
This was inspired by the item description for 'Drifting Strokes'.