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Dear Andrew Doe,
I am not picking one of the pen pals that’s in California or whatever. I am going to write a fake name and a fake address and send this letter to a fake person. The teacher won’t let me leave until I send this to someone.
Bye
Alex*
Neil Josten sent fake letters to Andrew Doe for years, thinking they disappeared into the void.
Andrew Minyard received every single one.
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05 May 2026
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“Were you terribly bored in my absence?” Andrew snarks. “I thought you knew how to keep yourself entertained.”
Neil blushes, even though Andrew couldn't possibly be talking about that. He glances off to the side and pretends to read the label on the wine bottle.
But Andrew, because he is Andrew, catches on. A quirk of his brow. A curious glimmer in his eyes.
“Oh, have I kept you waiting?”
“Shut up.” Neil feels it when Andrew's fingers dig into his jaw. “Kiss me?”
And Andrew, because he is Andrew, complies.Alternatively: a (very late) Valentine’s day special starring a vibrator strapped to Andrew's leg, and one sexually repressed Neil Josten.
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19 Apr 2026
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Neil channels all of his energy into looking incredibly unbothered, like getting caught crashing a wedding by the groom’s twin-slash-best man was all part of his grand plan.
The other man breaks the silence first. “Who are you?”
Stubbornly, Neil keeps his ass planted on the ground while he racks his brain for the bride’s name. Kate? Kathryn? Katie? Oh, right—“I’m Katelyn’s cousin.”
The best man tilts his head, observes Neil, and says, “No, try again.”
Fuck.
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Neil is no stranger to crashing weddings. This one would've been a walk in the park, if not for the groom’s twin getting in his way.
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19 Apr 2026
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Neil has some information on Andrew in his binder already, but not much, and it's still mostly centered around Kevin; it also carries the distinct clinging of his life before, back when he was on the run, and Andrew's the one who told him to stay.
While a binder isn't a bad idea, that one seems like the wrong one, which is how Neil comes to the conclusion to just get another.
(Or, Neil revisits an old hobby.)
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19 Apr 2026
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Neil runs because it's everything to him, but he also runs because there isn't anything else for him to do. Turns out, freedom and living are foreign concepts to him. Running and survival? Not so much.
He went back to creature comforts, the only ones he'd ever known. What else was he supposed to do? What else was he meant to yearn for? Can't want something you never knew existed, after all.
Enter Andrew Minyard.
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16 Apr 2026
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"Ow, what the fuck,” Kevin spits. Andrew slowly unwraps his arm from around Neil’s waist and Kevin takes it as a threat, scrambling backwards, his tail flicking sand everywhere. “Neil, call off your mate!”
Oh. Andrew blinks. This is the first time anyone has called him that.
Mate.
Neil’s mate.
The words slipped so easily off Kevin’s tongue that it stuns Andrew. It sounds correct, like an inherent truth. Andrew decides he likes the sound of it, and he has no idea what to do with that information.
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Andrew and Neil take steps to progress their relationship. Oh, and Kevin is there too, much to Andrew’s chagrin.
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- Part 3 of fish out of water
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01 Apr 2026
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Andrew tightens his grip on his gun, positions himself to intercept Nathaniel, then promptly blanks out because what the fuck.
He had read through Nathaniel’s profile: Auburn hair, blue eyes, 5’3”, slim build, scarring along face and arms.
What his profile failed to mention is that Nathaniel is unfairly, brutally attractive. Andrew wasn’t even aware that someone could be this attractive, that someone’s eyes could be this many shades of blue, that someone could have a jawline so sharp it makes Andrew want to punch straight through a wall.
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Five times Andrew tries to kill Neil and the one time he doesn’t try at all.
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19 Feb 2026
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After turning down Wymack’s offer in Millport, Neil runs into trouble. With nowhere left to turn, he finds himself drawn to the Palmetto Foxes and the prospect of what will never be his. Exy, that is. Neil doesn’t need friends. Not even a little bit. And if his eyes water as he watches the Foxes welcome the new striker into their ranks it's because he has allergies.
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19 Feb 2026
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Andrew knows that Neil is not soft, or delicate, or fragile in any sense of the word.
And, yet.
(or, five times Andrew is struck by Neil's growth, softness, cuteness, whatever you want to call it)
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18 Feb 2026
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A Quiet Little Seedling by Lostintheuniverseslies
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
29 Nov 2024
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Neil had a lot of secrets. He didn’t want much in life except to live quietly, run his botanical store, upload TikToks covering plant care, and for not a single person to find out that he’s the best-selling author N.A.J who published one book anonymously five years prior and disappeared. His life takes a turn when his literary agent tracks him down for a follow-up book with the theme of feeling settled and at peace. Two things Neil is not.
Thus begins his journey of planting roots in a town he’s lived in for years, starting with making friends with people who have tried to bring him into their circle. As Neil gets closer to them and his secrets become less guarded, there’s still that one big secret he intends on taking to his grave. But the closer he gets to his friends the closer he unknowingly gets to that secret being revealed.
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- Part 1 of Branches of Solace
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01 Feb 2026
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Andrew Minyard went to sleep next to Neil Josten in their bed in Denver six years after graduation. He woke up on plane to Tucson between Wymack and Kevin, on their way to recruit Neil Josten, striker sub.
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29 Jan 2026
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Neil didn’t mean to steal a car belonging to a local gang, and he certainly didn’t mean to steal the gang’s getaway driver, Kevin Day, along with it.
Unfortunately for Neil, Andrew Minyard doesn’t care why he stole the car (or Kevin), just that he knew how to drive it - and honestly, who made Kevin the getaway driver, anyway?
A Baby Driver AU, but it's so loosely connected that you don't need to know anything about the movie to read.
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16 Jan 2026
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Making a documentary about the Butcher of Baltimore doesn't have to mean moving into the murder mansion with his son, but Kevin's never been one to do things halfway.
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14 Dec 2025
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Andrew isn't a renowed author. Sure, he has his fans here and there, a few hardcore readers, but he's not famous or internationally known.
So, when he stumbles across his own book in a place where it absolutely shouldn't be and in a language it absolutely wasn't translated to, he makes it his personal mission to find the person behind it.
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13 Dec 2025
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“Will you be able to play?” Dan asks, voice layered with concern.
Neil blinks, confused. “Why wouldn’t I be able to play?”
“What our fearless leader means is—will you be able to focus on the game instead of Andrew’s mouth and impressive biceps,” Allison clarifies, saddling up next to Neil with a knowing look.
“I—” Neil starts.
“I mean, I get it,” Allison continues. “He has really nice biceps.”
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Neil lets a rival goalie take a body shot off him at a bar. Things devolve from there.
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11 Dec 2025
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The game is assassin. It's a game of skill and strategy. Subterfuge. And clothespins.
Andrew plans to win it all.
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10 Dec 2025
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Being a mafia boss means thinking on your feet.
Like when the bartender you just flirted with walks into the middle of an execution.
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10 Dec 2025
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February, 1996: Andrew gets into his car and disappears over the horizon, leaving Aaron and Neil behind to pick up the pieces.
Two and a half years later, he walks back into their lives.
Please do not translate or republish this work.
Complete - posting Tuesdays and Fridays.
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- Part 1 of like water.
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10 Dec 2025
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Neil Josten is not soft- has never been in fact. But when an unintended comment from one of the Foxes throws Neil for a loop, he finds himself reminding them why no one should think of him in that way. But why is Andrew suddenly so distant? And what happens when all of these reminders of his past start to catch up with him?
Aka: all the times Neil proved he was a badass, and Andrew reminds him he's an idiot.
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07 Dec 2025
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“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?” --Richard Siken
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09 Nov 2025