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    My love letter to Keith and vampire stories.

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    Average, ordinary, everyday college au.

    He Does That Sometimes: “I'm losing my god damn mind," Lance says.

    This Happened Before?: Lance is 120% unperturbed by this turn of events.

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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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    13 Jul 2026

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    "What if I help you?" Grace blurts out desperately, sweating even in the coolness of his house as his words finally manage to stop Adrian from storming out.

    "What?" Adrian says after a tense moment.

    "I can prove it to everyone," Grace says, his heart in his throat. "I'll - I'll make you and Rocky the most celebrated couple on Erid. I promise."

    "Stupid human," Adrian hisses. "You would give up your chance for him just like that?"

    "Yes," Grace says hoarsely.

    "Anything for him."

    ***

    Adrian does not like Grace.

    Which sucks, really, since Grace loves Adrian's husband and all.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    21 Jun 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    Wild has grown. He is older, more confident. He has learned to accept the scars across his body.

    But a portal takes the Chain somewhere new, somewhere where the local Link has a face immediately both familiar and foreign. Now Wild has grown comfortable with the love and support he has amongst his brothers—

    But can he learn to love himself?

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    05 Jul 2026

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  5. Public Bookmark 90

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    It is four in the afternoon. Holland March is six weeks and four days into his second attempt at sobriety when his late wife's parents come knocking.
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    or, Holland gets a visit from the in-laws and a new perspective on his relationship

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    19 Jul 2026