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    (How a boy living in the desert falls in love, and then kidnaps, a teenager with ocean eyes.)

    Lance's strong, he knows this. It's something his Mama told him through daily phone calls, in every unspoken conversation between them after frustrating talks about finances and fake promises that it would be okay.

    But he can only hold out so long when it's just him, Keith, and wilderness of Arizona's deserts around them.

    This is the story of Lance's captivity over twelve months, and how even the strongest of people can break. But don't worry - Keith will be there for him. Whether Lance wants him or not.

    Update: There's now a soundtrack at my tumblr, https://anawriteshorror.tumblr.com/post/186960729489/im-only-doing-this-because-i-love-you-how-a-boy

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    It's a mismatched family, and certainly not without a few blood stained snowbanks, but they'll make it through living on the streets of Detroit's artic winters on their way to Canada, together.

    I.E. The story of how two androids and a human child learns what it means to make a family, and that everyone, no matter what they did, is still deserving of love.

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    Ryland Grace couldn’t say he’s ever had a best friend. Fudge—he couldn’t even remember the last time he’d gone out on a proper hangout. Well, that was until he met Rocky, his new best friend. A rock spider. And now Earth’s scientists are asking him all sorts of weird questions like “How many distinct notes does Eridianise possess?”, “Is xenonite used to construct Eridian dwellings?”, and “How close exactly are you with the Eridian named Rocky?”. What has his life come to?

    a.k.a. Humans want to establish diplomatic relations between Earth and Erid and Grace is caught in the crossfire.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

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    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    It would have probably been best if Grace recovered a few more memories of his life on Earth before asking the Eridians to synthesize alcohol for him. Like, maybe, all the memories of how dependent he used to be on substances and how much of a train wreck his life was whenever he let them control him. Surely, though, things will be different on an alien planet.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    “Proof of concept,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. “We’ve tested it thoroughly to ensure it fits the specified nutritional profile, and several members of our team have ingested small amounts of it to ensure there were no adverse effects.”

    “You ate some of it?” I ask, rudely. I’m too irate to mind my language. Who do they think they are? That meat is for Grace. In a way, that meat is Grace.

    “Yes,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. They and the rest of the human life support thrum know better than to be offended by my occasionally strange behaviour. “Obviously we weren’t going to risk the life of Honoured Grace on a completely untested technology.”

    That doesn’t mean much. There’s a lot of things that are safe for ingestion by Eridians that would outright kill a human.

    Trust Grace, I remind myself. He’ll have thought of all this.

    (OR: Grace's meburgers from the book epilogue. Let's talk about those!)

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    27 Jun 2026

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    “Not so strange,” Rocky says mildly. “Back in not-so-distant past Eridian eat other Eridian all the time. Top of food chain. After natural disaster, war, not so much else to eat. Ecosystem delicate, especially if carnivore, especially if big. 🎵🎶 good thing to have to fall back on.” 

    “Cannibalism,” I manage to get out. 

    “New word. Cannibalism.”

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