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The gods tie a thread around your smallest finger before you are born. That thread is red, the color of blood, of passion, of the cord that binds a child to its mother. Its other end is tied to your soulmate—somewhere in the world, someone whose thread is knotted to yours. You cannot see it. You cannot feel it. Only when your soulmate speaks your true name for the first time, the string vibrates like a plucked harp string, and the sound it makes is the sound of your own heartbeat, heard from outside your body for the first time.
But in the eyes of the Church, a string tied by pagan gods is no string at all. It is a temptation. A pretty lie whispered by the devil to lead good vulnerable boys into the dark.
In the dark, it holds the only place two boys can love.
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24 Jul 2026
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In a world where every soulmate connection is different, Euijoo gets the short end of the stick.
“My connection to my soulmate,” Euijoo says, “is that I get KIDNAPPED EVERY TIME HE BREAKS HIS DUOLINGO STREAK?”
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15 Jul 2026
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Euijoo looks around. No one else is in the store to confirm what feels like a hallucination, and he’s panicking a little. He wonders why Taki is taking so long to get their lunch because he won’t believe him once he comes back and Nicholas is gone, leaving him to tell a tale that sounds too good to be true. “He’s nominated for like, six Grammys, this year,” Taki noted once, when they were organizing the stacks. “Isn’t that crazy?” As Euijoo watches as Nicholas sifts through the offerings, in the little record shop he owns tucked in the corner of the city, he can think of something a little crazier.
When critically-acclaimed rockstar Nicholas comes into Euijoo’s record store, they have a chance encounter that Euijoo doesn’t think will happen again. But when they meet again and their chance encounter begins blossoming into more, Nicholas and Euijoo navigate what it means to fall in love amidst their drastically different lives.
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10 Jul 2026