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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    He wanted to be small in a way that had nothing to do with height. He wanted to be used gently and then not gently. He wanted Frank to look at him and understand the assignment without Peter having to say 'please make me your problem'.

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    02 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 70

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    A trip to West Virginia takes about seven hours.

    With Frank behind the wheel, probably less.

    The road is dark, the trees silver. Peter watches Frank’s reflection in the window.

    Peter really, really wants to kiss Frank. He’s carried that secret for so long. It hurts only a little less than a high-caliber sniper round in his chest.

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    31 Aug 2026

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    Peter finds ways to adapt to his brand new life. Frank Castle is somehow involved in a lot of them.

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    29 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 32

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    Somewhere Else, freedom is frightening, grief is complicated and safety doesn't still terror.

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    Jon swallowed hard, and raised his hand to join Martin’s at his jaw.

    “It isn’t that. Well – not entirely. I’m not going to pretend that I hated being sure about things.”

    Because I never was before. I was clever and watchful, but small and strange. I had to be watchful to understand the things that came so easily to others. I had to be small, else there would have been no space for me. The Eye made me sure in a way I had yearned for my whole life. It told me terrible things. It nurtured me. It completed me.

    “What is it then?”

    Jon shut his eyes, and brought his and Martin’s hands down from his face, into his lap.

    “If I cannot see you, I cannot keep you safe.”

    Martin sighed heavily. He brought their hands up to his lips.

    “Oh, Jon,” he breathed into the back of his own.

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    30 Jul 2026

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    “Holy shit,” Santos says. “There’s a baby priest in triage.”

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    Dennis Whitaker, in his last year of seminary, is delighted to be assigned to a rectory in Pittsburgh, and to the hospital chaplaincy that comes along with it. Finally, he's out into the world, where he can be of real use.

    Slightly less welcome is Doctor Robinavitch, the senior attending of the ER, who seems to resent Whitaker's presence to the point of deliberate avoidance, even though the man is coming apart at the seams and could clearly use a friendly ear. Still, Whitaker is certain he'll find a way to make the most of the last twelve months before he's ordained.

    It's just that lately he's started to have the strangest dreams.

    Or: Dennis Whitaker and Michael Robinavitch's lovestruck, sacrilegious year of magical thinking.

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    20 Apr 2026