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1. A Penny for Your Thoughts (A Dime to Keep Them) by TricolorSun

   Fandoms: Original Work  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   24 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Original Character(s)/Original Character(s)
   • Original Male Character/Original Male Character
   • Mr Bright/Mr King
   • Original Characters
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Original Male Character(s) of Color
   • Mr Bright | Project Animus | The Red-Eyed Man
   • Neilton King | Project Susurro
   • Miss Killjoy | Project Viscera
   • Mentioned Mr Starr | Project Astra
   • Mentioned Mr Nathaniel Everett | The Beast
   • The Nameless | J. Leroux
   • Wound Care
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Coercion
   • both of the mental and sexual sort
   • referenced stalking
   • because well Bright's here
   • Singing
   • Hot sauce
   • a normal thing to tag
   • Song: Can The Circle be Unbroken (The Carter Family)
   • Song: I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (The Carter Family)
   • Their relationship gives me hives and makes me want to eat cardboard
   • A questionable love story told in a series of vignettes
   • Implications of Murder
   • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
   • Dancing
   • Non-Graphic Violence
   • Normal Candlewood Awfulness
   • Food as a Metaphor for Love
   • Forced Proximity

   Summary

   His mamma had always told him that a heat wave was enough to drive a man mad. That is how he privately explains the events of the summer of 1970. The summer he and Nielton spent stuck in Paris after Mr. Everett's death.

   Series

   • Part 10 of So Long & Goodnight
   • Part 7 of The Assistant
   • Part 4 of V Does Whumptober 2025
   • Part 10 of The Great Good Place

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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