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    Technically speaking, all dreams are memories…of a kind. But the visions that Jannik’s been having about Carlos this week have been terrifyingly realistic.

    In them, the Spaniard seems so real. The settings too, are distressingly grounded in reality. Only in these quasi-memories, Carlos behaves nothing like the young man Jannik actually knows from years of playing tennis together.

    Following his retirement in Cincinnati, Jannik finds himself subject to an escalating series of lucid dreams about Carlos Alcaraz. The Italian is certain that they’re dreams, even if they don’t feel that way. In fact, they must be dreams. No matter how viscerally the contents chase after him in waking life.

    They simply cannot be anything but the bizarre fantasies of a fatigued mind.

    Can they?

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    07 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 97

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    January 2026. When Darren Cahill retires at sixty after Jannik Sinner’s fourth Slam and a clean sweep of the indoor swing, the tennis world holds its breath to see who’ll take over the twenty-four-year-old omega phenom—the first in Open Era history to reach world no. 1 (and to hold onto it for back-to-back years, no less).

    The answer: Carlos Alcaraz, forty-three, retired almost-legend, multi-Slam champion, clay court specialist, and eternal golden boy of a bygone Spanish tennis generation. Once Nadal’s mirror-apparent, now everyone’s favorite DILF in post-retirement punditry, adored for his explosive joy and charisma.

    On paper, it’s perfect: fire meets ice, creativity meets calculation, alpha meets omega. In practice, it’s combustible.

    OR: It begins professional. Then quickly grows precarious. Then too close. By the US Open summer swing, the lines are blurred beyond recognition. By the time the first heat hits, everything burns.

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    24 Nov 2025

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    One day Louis answers Liam's phone while he is in the shower.
    That's how he meets Harry, Liam's friend who moved to Italy just a while ago.
    And that's how Liam loses ownership of his phone.

     

    “Do they sleep on the other side of the bed in Italy?”

    He hears Harry laugh for a moment.

    “I sleep right in the middle,” Harry replies. “Because no one will marry me.”

    Louis bites back a little smile.

    “Have you asked enough people?”

    “The old lady walking her dog, just now.” Harry confirms. “She said no.”

     

    Written for the BLFF 2024
    Based on prompt 205: A Larry fic that includes the “I love you,” “no, you don’t” convo.

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    03 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    “You don’t have to do this,” Louis says.

    It’s hot in the little kitchen, even with the windows open and a breeze blowing in. Harry feels a flush enfold him from the inside out.

    “I know,” he says. And then, because he’s already showed up embarrassingly early in the day and made Louis a cheese sandwich, he adds, “I wanted to.”

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    04 Jun 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    Louis stands at the entrance to the labyrinth, and knows that this is the end. No one escapes from the labyrinth. No one can defeat the monster inside and make it back out alive.

    He steps into the darkness and knows that he’ll never see the sun again.

    Deep within the twisting, turning corridors of the labyrinth sits a creature who’s been trapped in darkness for as long as anyone can remember.

    Maybe, if everything goes right, this story won’t end the way it began.

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    03 Jun 2024