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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    Varun the Eater meets all its siblings, some of them freshly harrowed, to propose a transcendental plan.

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    27 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 39

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    ”What’s the point of painting someone like this?”

    “What do you mean, beloved?”

    ”She looks like she’s chewing a wasp.”

    “And? What is wrong with that?”

    “It’s unflattering. Unrefined. You’d wonder why he didn’t tell her to, you know, perk up a bit.”

    Armand stifles a laugh with his hand. Daniel glances over at him, and can’t help softly smiling. Preening. He likes that it amuses Armand when he behaves like a philistine.

    ”I still fail to see the problem. There is something to be said for preserving someone in the imperfect stages.”

    Armand can look so tender when he smiles, sometimes. Butter really wouldn’t melt, when he gives Daniel that shy look from under his eyelashes, like they both don’t know what he’s thinking.

    Daniel and Armand, John Singer Sargent, museum visits, companionship, and talking through metaphors.

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    17 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    A young woman stands in her bedroom. Today is not her birthday, but even if it was, she would be a little too old to need it marked with presents, cakes, or other childish things. What she does need, as a savvy sophisticate poised at the precipice of personhood, is a name.

    What will this young woman’s name be?

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    17 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 47

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    “You are not a person,” Armand says, “and Louis desires me more than you could imagine. I am—everything to him. Everything.

    “Yeah,” the boy drawls, following Armand with his hands, his lips, the wet press of his teeth. “Keep selling it.”

    or: Armand disobeys Louis and kills Daniel in 1973. Cue fifty years of haunting, fucking a ghost, buried guilt, and desperately trying to manipulate your lover into thinking all of this is totally fine.

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    24 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Daniel sees life like a river. Thinks he is caught up in a current that only goes one way, that will eventually sweep him out to sea. It’s easier for him to think so. It keeps him alive to think so.

    He doesn’t know that he could stand up and reach the bottom. He doesn’t know he has a choice.


    Drugs don’t work, sex doesn’t work, New York hasn’t worked. Somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, an improbable number of suicides have taken place. Somewhere in a bar in New York, Daniel hears about them. He wants to fill a void. The difference between what is real and what isn’t matters as little to him as the things he’ll find to throw into the darkness. Which, as it turns out, is quite a lot.

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    27 Apr 2025