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    this countryside's burnin' with wolfmen fairies dressed in drag for homicide / they hit and run, plead sanctuary, 'neath the holy stone they hide / they're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection / nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception / and everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood / sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud.

    - lost in the flood, bruce springsteen

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    20 Jun 2026

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    Joel couldn’t say the real reason he needed Sarah to stay home that night. You were in a fucking sundress with a ribbon in your hair. A goddamn ribbon. And you’d been cooking, the whole house smelled like heaven and you were in a fucking sundress with a goddamn ribbon in your hair and now he was going to be home alone with you all night.
    Not that anything was going to happen. Nothing was going to happen. Not a damn thing.

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    You're a college student in Austin, Texas, who gets a summer job nannying Sarah Miller. It's not long before her dad sees you as more than a babysitter - or more than a friend. But life - and an apocalypse - have other plans.

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    09 May 2026

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    Samira Mohan has built her life on the firm belief that she does not need a man to survive.
    Unfortunately, her father's will disagrees.
    When the trust fund covering her student loan freezes on her twenty eighth birthday, Samira suddenly finds herself facing a dwindling bank account only solved behind a clause requiring marriage. She doesn't want love, let alone a wedding. What she does need is money.

    Jack Abbot, fellow doctor and occasional wing night companion, might just be the most logical solution to a very inconvenient problem.

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    15 Mar 2026

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    She wants him so badly her teeth ache. She’ll never say it out loud. It will eat her alive. One day, when she dies and a pathologist cracks her chest (nipples to navel is no man’s land), they’ll see a heart calcified with the weight of these fatal fantasies. It would make an excellent case study, she thinks, ruefully. They’ll write articles about her– 29-year-old female, South Asian, presented as healthy but upon further examination, was deeply ill. Poor, poor Samira Mohan, besotted with her handsome, brooding, married attending. She died how she lived– desperate, wanting, and alone.

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    Or, Samira has a crush. But that's putting it lightly.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    so good

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    Mike dares Will to play a game of chicken with him.
    Will, like most things, goes along with it.
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    “Chicken,” he said finally.

    Will blinked. “Chicken?” He frowned, trying to picture it. “Isn’t that the one where you get up on someone’s shoulders and try to knock the other person off?” The image flashed so suddenly and absurdly that a laugh almost escaped him. He caught it halfway, feeling stupid.

    Mike shook his head quickly. His pale cheeks flushed, covering his freckles in a faint pink like he was embarrassed, or maybe warm. Will told himself it was probably just the basement lighting. Or the heat.

    “No,” Mike said. “Like… the other game.” He rubbed his thumb against the edge of the blanket, not looking at Will now. “The one where you dare each other to do stuff. And you have to keep going until someone backs out.” He swallowed. “Chicken.”

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    featuring mike queeler

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    06 Jan 2026