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  1. After the Ashes by

    Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins  

    11 Oct 2025

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    A year after the rebellion, District 12 is standing again — barely.
    Haymitch Abernathy keeps himself busy rebuilding what’s left: houses, fences, broken kids. Between Katniss’s temper and Peeta’s persistence, there’s little time to think about anything else.

    Until one night, he finds a gold bracelet tucked away in a drawer — Effie’s.

    The sight of it drags the Capitol back to him: her voice, her perfume, her impossible hope. He tells himself it’s nothing. But after hours of staring at the thing, whiskey gone warm beside him, he picks up his phone and sends a message to a number that probably doesn’t exist anymore.

    Hey.

    Across the country, Effie Trinket’s carefully rebuilt life stops for a heartbeat.
    Some ghosts, it seems, refuse to stay buried.

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