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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Famous actor Edward Teach is trying to do regular things, like get a cup of coffee without being recognized. He's got the perfect disguise and uses a different fake name each time. His little system has been working out just fine for months, no one suspects a thing! Today, his choice of name results in a bit of a mix-up that might just change his life.

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    03 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    The storm flashes a dozen times in succession, so fast it blinds Stede completely, makes his mind scatter and suddenly he’s—

    (—on a beach, in the surf near the shore, wearing bright fluorescent shorts

    in a bedroom, small, cramped, rain hitting the windows

    at a party, the guests around him a whirl of color and finery—)

    —he’s distracted. The boat tips, the waves crash, and Stede is swallowed by the sea.

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    Stede goes overboard during a storm and watches his life with Ed in a dozen different timelines.

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    21 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    He'd not said anything, when they went for lunch in the museum cafe. When Izzy had looked through the sandwiches on display, discarding one after the other. Hummus in that one, horrible squishy texture against the bread. Tomato against lettuce in that one, sliminess against flaccid, stringy green.

    "What about the ham and cheese?" Bonnet suggests. He's trying to be helpful, Izzy knows. It doesn't make it better. It just makes his stomach clench uncomfortably when he sees the mayonnaise dressing.

    Sometimes he's okay with mayonnaise. Sometimes he can stomach it, ignore the weird tang of it as it slides across his tongue and sticks there with its aftertaste.

    And sometimes he's not okay, but he'll go along with things so that Ed doesn't get mad at him, so that Stede doesn't hate him. He'll force things down his throat and keep quiet and just tolerate things, because he just has to tolerate things doesn't he?

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    11 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 4

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    Ed Barbanera (né Teach), nervous of flying, calls his best friend Stede Bonnet from the airport.
    For twenty years.
    This is a record of those conversations from the end of 2004 to early 2025.
    When it begins, Ed and Stede are in their mid twenties and have been performing comedy together in Melbourne Australia, since they met at university six years earlier but recently Stede has decided to leave their sketch comedy troupe called Henry The Horse, just as they are gaining awards and offers of TV work, to settle into a more domestic life and secure work as a teacher.

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    01 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 43

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    When Ed, a burnt-out rock star, ducks into Stede’s quiet vintage record shop to hide, he’s not prepared for the handsome, clueless owner or the connection that sparks.

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    21 Jan 2026