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    This is part of a series called "stories I may or may not write", where I write one-shots of ideas I have, with further notes after. Everyone is welcome to take these ideas and write their own version of this!

    Here's the Discord server if you wanna come talk about these stories! https://discord.gg/jsQsmZTKCa

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    Jack puts his baby daughter up for adoption at nineteen years old. He leaves her a note.

    Dennis loves that note: the proof that he was always wanted.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    Dennis is Jack's kid that he put up for adoption years ago because they were born with a bad heart

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    By seven, Denny discovers a secret: if you’re clever enough, you can turn intelligence into currency.

    (Or, Whitaker is an MS4 at sixteen years old.)

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    17 Jul 2026

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    Dennis is 16, and documents every injury he's ever had.

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    Ryland doesn't know where he is, what he's doing, or why he's doing it. All he knows is that he's in a universe with no stars and that an organization called the COI found the Hail Mary spinning out into deep space. He knows that Rocky may be injured somewhere, and he knows that the man that currently lays in a hospital bed in front of him should be dead as dirt but has miraculously survived.

    He knows he has been given an ultimatum. Find out what brought Simon back to life or never see Rocky again.

    The task proves more complicated than he thought.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    Grace is being captured by the COI and Rocky is held hostage until he can figure out why Simon survived

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    Whatever happened here was bad. Irrevocably, inexplicably, inarticulably bad in a way that the most basal parts of his being wants nothing more than to escape from. But Grace can't turn away.

    After encountering what appears to be a last hoo-ra emergency mission attempt from Earth caught up in the Hail Mary's wake, Grace and Rocky discover a single, severely injured human being quite literally encased in what Grace can only describe as a crime scene. A horror movie. And when he wakes up? He's mad. Really mad. Talking to the walls mad. Now they have to figure out just where he came from and why. Things are further complicated when all the newcomer (Simon, they learn) can talk about is missing planets, haunted oceans, and non-existent space stations. That and the really weird data they've been picking up on.
    Maybe part of solving that is, much to Rocky's enthusiasm; both Grace and Simon slowly realizing how lonely they are.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    Where simon i convinced Grace and Rocky are lying... and then he isn't

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    A Rocky POV of Project Hail Mary, but add in a sprinkle of originally named astrophages, petrova lines, language barriers, trauma recovery, and extra, extra worldbuilding. Includes pre- and post-canon!

    La traduccion al espanol by MichiHolmes! Gracias!

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    One day, his strumming was not answered.

    The silence that answered his one verse of song was horrible and grating. Incomplete. Empty. A sick, horrible fear built up inside him.

    (He was going to die out here. Alone.)

    ***

    "Iz huhg," Grace sniffled out, sucking back in moisture from his noze, too. There was moisture and water and everything all over the place. "Huhg meens grayt, grayt, grayt affekshun."

    "Oh," he said tentatively. Another hewmin thing! He shuffled closest to the wall Grace was huhging and leaned in. "Oh. Am I doing correctly, hmm?"

    "Yis," Grace sighed out, calming down. He still leaked, though.

    Oh, well. Leaky hewmins were his favorite, after all.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    A retelling and expansion of Project Hail Mary from Rocky's perspective