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    Want to grab dinner later? I know you're going to be working absurdly late anyway, and there's a new Italian place I've been wanting to try. — M
    Yes, that sounds nice. I'll try to be finished by 7:00. — J
    Oh, yes. God forbid you don't work absurdly late. ;) — M

     

     


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    Or: The notes and letters Jon and Martin have written each other, through the years.

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    17 Sep 2023

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    “What?” the other man asks, wiping the smear of flour of his cheek. He examines his hand, frowns, looks back up. “Did I miss a patch?”

     

    “No,” Jon says, despite there being flour all over Martin’s apron, a bit on the tip of his nose, and a healthy smattering in his hair. Something about Martin in the kitchen covered in flour makes his heart squeeze. Just like this, he thinks, the same way a desperate, brokenly in love man would. Let us stay just like this. His eyes catch back on his hair, looking at the flecks in the roots, the spark of orange that has started to nestle among the black and shock of white (a blessing from the Lonely, because unfortunately, most things that love Martin are not the most kind to him). He wants to run his hands through his hair. He wants to ask about the color. Is it natural? Is it new? Is it Martin’s original color? He wants to know, wants the knowledge inside his head and next to his heart, filling up his chest, and for that reason he cannot ask in good conscience. He cannot ask and still know for certain that the answers are given voluntarily.

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    or: Jon learns a softer kind of knowing, finds his heart, goes grocery shopping, and ends the world.

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    15 Aug 2023

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    Martin,

    I know you'll never read this. I know I'm writing to a version of you that no longer exists. It hurts to think it, still. The fact that you're gone. But I'm writing anyway, because I miss you, more than I can put into words.

    And because I saw you today, for the first time since I arrived here.
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    Martin is intrigued by an attractive new customer who comes into the coffee shop - especially when that customer has a strangely intense reaction to seeing him.

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    07 Aug 2023

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    Time was a constant that- while as immeasurable and nonexistent as ever in the apocalypse- could still be manipulated by a talented seamstress. And she would be well fed by his fear of times already passed. After all, it wasn’t like he was afraid of the future. What else could he possibly fear when he was navigating what came past the end of everything, and completely alone?

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    In which Jon finds a spider, a door to the past, and maybe a way home.

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    26 Jun 2023

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    Gerry took a wavering step into the room, then another. In the darkness underneath the weird luminous crack in space and time there lay a man crumpled on the floor; he was slight and wild-haired and his face was screwed up in pain, his dirty clothes covered in blood.
    "Oh shit," Gerry groaned and fell to his knees, hands hovering. The man’s breath came quick and shallow, teeth digging into his lower lip and nails digging into the floor. Not surprising, that — there was a bloody knife buried in his chest.

     

    In another universe, Gerry and Sasha acquire a very troublesome roommate. In yet another universe, Martin has to deal with the antics of a spider. A strange one-sided correspondence across worlds ensues, while the passage between realities is slowly closing…

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    07 Jun 2023