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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    His body feels odd this morning, but he hasn’t shared a bed with anyone since Linda left him. He’s not used to the weight of a body next to his anymore, to the heat pouring off another person. For someone whose hands are always cold, Eva is radiating heat against his back, almost uncomfortable.

    He turns over to shake Eva awake.

    Right into his own sleeping face.

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    24 Jul 2026

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    It's been years since Doctor Ryland Grace saved Erid and Earth. He is content with his life, happy just to teach the next generation of Eridians and have the occasional game night with Rocky and Adrian in his dome. For the most part, nothing changes.

    And that's the problem. Shouldn't Grace, y'know...age? When Rocky indicates that he should be sixty human years old by now, Grace can't reconcile the young face in the mirror with the time that his friend has religiously kept.

    Things get more complicated when another undoubtedly human ship shows up at the edge of the 40 Eridani system. Suddenly Grace is playing ambassador between the two species, and tensions are rising between them. Will this be a successful second contact, or is the peaceful life Grace just wants to live too much to ask for?

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    22 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 59

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    People don't usually grow wings. Some people don't even believe that it ever actually happened. Until the end of the world comes skating along a line of Infra-Red light, and now there are two people with wings at the same time and unable to be dismissed as legend or allegory.

    Eva Stratt believes that hope is the thing with feathers. Ryland Grace would very much prefer not to have them at all.

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    19 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 53

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    Another planet has noticed that 40 Eridani is brightening again, and its inhabitants have showed up to say hello... and to make a very strange offer: each of Erid’s representatives may make a wish. And what Grace and Rocky both want most, but think they can never have, is to better understand the strange way in which the other sees the world. No AI was used in the writing or illustrating of this story.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace chose Erid. He chose Rocky. He chose to stay until he couldn't anymore.
    Rocky promised to keep watch.
    The universe, it turns out, was listening.

    ♩♩ Grace? ♩♩

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    10 Jul 2026