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In a universe where Robin never returns to the Bat, Boone and Freddy hold the world record for the longest game of make-believe.
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Long ago, you swore you would write a song
that could make anybody weep.
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We change, but are not lost. We simply become something else.
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“Is this what you wanted?”
Or: a confrontation between Roy and Dick in the Pequod.
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May time triumph over all.
"...and the sea floods the colonial mansions of the bygone centennia..."
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- Part 4 of A&B Sides
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It was, the covert agreed, an elegant face.
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The only truth that matters is memory.
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- Part 3 of the grief cycle
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Some people you fall in love with because you want to be hurt.
In which Roy courts disaster and fails a fire drill.
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In the world beyond, Diana dreams of Kasia.
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It would be so easy.
In which Roy fantasizes.
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A memory harvested from a dream: Roy young and reckless.
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truth is the first casualty by karples
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Gotham City Garage (Comics)
08 Mar 2020
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It’s exactly what Roy wants after weeks roaming the Freescape, where smooth sandstone formations cast eerie, tapered shadows that the homesick eye wants to resolve into human shapes.
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There is life in the desert, should you look for it.
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- Part 2 of the grief cycle
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What arrow flew straighter and nearer to the heart than Chihaya’s faith, what river ran surer and deeper than her friendship?
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There were so many other ways to be happy, so many other ways to keep baseball in his life. So many other things to enjoy and love.
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When the Syntian nitrate blooms before her like a familiar, magnificent flower, Ezor reaches for Zethrid, thinking: You promised.
(Ezor and Zethrid, from the beginning to the not-end.)
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They hadn’t discussed it.
And now Youichi imagined himself perched on a luminous iceberg of revelation, about to tip, with Ryousuke on the other end.
(In which belated conversations are worked out in more ways than one.)
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"Whatever happens, I'll be here," he'd told Takashi, unaware of the exact nature of his promise. He had been thinking only of what Ruth spoke to Naomi and what comprised so many marriage vows: "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay..."
(In which there is discussion of Takashi, poetry, and dead dog movies.)
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- Part 1 of the grief cycle
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“Oh, fun,” Dick said. “Dress-up.”
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There was no one incident, no single scar.