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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    "I have to do it right," is what he tells him. The compulsion is a habit now, the rhythms familiar as the ceremony of Sunday Mass to George. He fears that if he doesn't do something that it will upset the cosmic balance, prove an insult to the memory of this poor child, that God will mark his inaction as a failure. That George, when he is dead, will be made to look at the list of people he refused to help and answer for it. Toye visibly fights against some emotion: disgust or fear or maybe even worry, before giving up and exhaling a long, shaky breath.

    "You get two minutes," he says, and surprises Luz by not retreating completely outside. Steady, even here, in this murky space between the living and the dead. He crosses his arms and waits. George gently rests his hand on the jutting ankle bone and prays in fumbling Latin, adding a phrase he remembers from his grandmother at the end: Lord, please grant us the solace of your peace when our trials are over.

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    18 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    45-vuotias epäonnistunut kirjailija Harry Potter päätyy jouluaaton aatoksi nimettömään pikkukaupunkiin, jossa tapaa sattumalta vanhan vihamiehensä.

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    29 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 28

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    In the fall of 1953, Eugene sends an ad to the San Francisco Chronicle. It reads:

    Professional single male, late 20s, located in Dogpatch. Clean, considerate & responsible, seeking similar. Pets O.K. Smoking O.K. First month + security up front. Contact Eugene for details. Serious enquiries only.

    Eugene is freshly divorced and outgrowing the life he had painstakingly made for himself after returning from war. Merriell is grieving, aimless, roaming the length of the Pacific coast looking for a place to collect himself. The first time they speak, Eugene is suffering a late summer nosebleed. Merriell had just pawned his mother's earrings for first month's rent. He moves in the same day.

    feat. splinters, workwear, payphone calls, cruising. the delicate hot-house flower that is merriell. eugene at his most neurotic. sea fog & starlings & improbably hot first time sex. the inherent insanity of falling for your landlord.

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    13 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 96

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    Sometimes, as the winds of Narragansett Bay whip at his cold-flushed face and aching hands, Levi wonders how life has led him here. Here: atop four winding flights of stairs, seventy-three feet in the air, polishing a fifty year old light bulb several times larger than his head.

    His predecessor had complained about the loneliness while showing him around the place. Told him it makes you go mad. Levi doesn’t mind it though. In fact, he finds the isolation oddly comforting. In the middle of the ocean there are no generals or foremen screaming at him to get back to work. There are no sly insults on his stature, or reprimands regarding his attitude. Atop Whale Rock there is only steel, stone, and the occasional seabird cawing overheard.

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    After being dishonorably discharged from the military, the slowly dying Levi Ackerman takes a job as a lighthouse keeper just off the coast. Content in his isolation, (aside from the occasional visit from supply-boatman, Hange) he resolves to spend the rest of his days on the sea tending to the light.

    It's only when a retired, one-armed navy man arrives to serve as a fellow keeper, that Levi has to reconsider if there's something he's been missing.

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    23 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Techie wants a taste of freedom, and gets a taste of friendship...and maybe a little more.

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    19 Oct 2025