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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Werewolf Gustave is out on the prowl, and he comes upon a man, who looks like the moonlit-night personified.

    He has to have him.

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    07 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    Belle Époque Paris, 1913. Verso Dessendre is very good at being wanted. It is, in fact, the only thing the world has ever been willing to pay a ruined aristocrat for, and he has made his peace with that.

    Then Gustave Virlogeux — celebrated conductor of the Opéra, one hand of flesh and one of steel, immovable as a closed door — catches him breaking into the rehearsal hall to play a piano in the dark. Instead of calling the gendarmes, he offers Verso a real chance and an honest wage, and commits the truly unforgivable sin of refusing to be charmed.

    This is a story about a maestro who won't play along, a brat who won't behave, and a grand piano that did not consent to any of this. It is also, underneath all that, a story about being wanted for the whole of yourself — scars, ruin, and all — by someone who refuses to let you sell the one true thing you've got.

    Or: a maestro who conducts in bed exactly as he does on the podium, a pianist whose every seduction technique fails spectacularly and repeatedly (until it doesn't), and one grand piano that did not survive the experience.

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    03 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    Gustave babysits Verso Dessendre as a teenager through his High School years.

    Eventually, though, Verso decides that he is too old for Gustave, and they drift apart, even though they spent hours talking about trains every single day for years on years.

    Years later, when their paths happen to cross again thanks to the meddling of his friends and family, Gustave is surprised to find that not only does Verso remember him - there's a spark that wasn't there before. One that... well. He's not about to let slip through his fingers.

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    29 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 10

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    Verso has been enthralled with nymphs ever since he was a little boy. By the beautiful creatures, hidden away from the manicured flowerbeds and the trimmed hedges of manor gardens.

    But what he finds past the vibrant green yews is a world that looks like it was created in likeness of the fairy tales of his childhood. Even more, the man, no, the nymph, he finds standing underneath a weeping willow with flowers at his feet, turns out to be so much better than even his most sensual of dreams.

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    27 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    When Gustave Virlogeux agrees to teach a Painter’s daughter the art of writing, he does not expect to be drawn into the orbit of her brother.

    What begins as simple proximity becomes choice - tender, deliberate, and impossible to keep private - as tensions rise between Painters and Writers alike.

    A story of quiet love, growing courage, and what it means to choose something knowing it may not last.

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    24 May 2026