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  1. Public Bookmark 2

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    I’ll still be your Moritz, even if not theirs. I’ll still scramble not to fail at anything and everything. I’ll be almost the same…

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    The rain is heavy this spring. Suffocating, almost. Moritz can feel it in his bones with just his feet planted in the grass, the chill freezing him to this perfect place. This delicate, silent, secret place… where no one will find him. Good. He doesn’t want to be found very much, anyways. He hasn’t ever found himself before, those million times he so desperately tried, so why should anything change now? Why should anything change?

     

    OR: In which Moritz gets up the confidence to chase after Ilse and escape her fate, finding ten times more to live for along the way.

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    08 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    “Well,” Ray says, flippant, “I was thinking I’ll tell her something like, ‘hi, Mom, I missed you to death, meet the guy who saved me from a science fiction time vortex where we both got shot to death a bunch of times, sometimes he sticks his tongue in my mouth and I let him.’”

    Ray and Pete have just started putting their lives together in Ottawa. And then Ginnie shows up.

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    31 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    Parker and Stebbins get together. Kind of. But not really. Actually they don't really like each other, romantic or platonic. But they're all bored and with the ever prominent knowledge that you are almost certainly going to die looming over your head you'll do just about anything to distract yourself.

     

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    The completely nonsensical story of how Billy Stebbins and Collie Parker accidentally ended up in a non-committed relationship while walking towards certain death. (And credit to Art Baker for being the one to suggest it in the first place.)

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    09 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 54

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    “I think I’m homophobic.”

    Hank chokes on his orange juice. He frantically looks around before leaning in, lowering his voice to an exaggerated whisper. “Dude, what the fuck? We’re on a college campus, you can’t just say shit like that in public."

    “Yeah, well, it’s not like I want to be!”, Ray hisses back, matching Hank’s tone.

    “So what on God’s green earth are you talking about?”

    Ray sighs and leans back in his seat. “It’s just– Pete came out to me like a month ago, right? And since then, I just get this sinking feeling in my stomach whenever he mentions that he’s hanging out with some– guy. Well, obviously not when he meets up with you or Art, but like, guys I don't know. This Harkness kid that was glued to his ass after his gig? I hated seeing them together. Or when he tells me he goes to the gym with Collie Parker, it’s like I feel disgusted by the idea of them even being near each other. When his friend came to visit, I couldn’t stand being in the same room as them. It makes me sick imagining him– him being intimate with any of them.”

    Hank stares at him. 

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    29 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    25 Apr 2026