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  1. Public Bookmark 58

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    There is no birdsong. The hooting of pelicans and chatter of parakeets is almost as constant as the alligators’ droning hum, the cicadas’ buzz. He picks his gaze up from the battered siding. Dutch’s head is tilted. Bending forward, he leans over the railing beside Arthur, frown caught on something behind his head, eyebrows furrowed in strained confusion. “What…is that?”

    Set primarily during 'Horsemen, Apocalypses', Arthur is forced to reckon with the lasting trauma of his abduction in Chapter 3. Spans Black Belle's chapter of 'The Noblest of Men, and a Woman', 'Fatherhood and Other Dreams', 'Brothers and Sisters, One and All', and 'American Fathers I'.

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    23 Feb 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    Ed always picks the prettiest marks for Izzy, and this one is no different.

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    12 Jan 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Jason spent the rest of the day in the field. It was painful, but who else was going to do it? No one he knew would be willing, and most certainly not his brothers. Justin had called last week, and Josh had been with them at the hospital when their Ma was sick, but they hadn’t talked that much. They never did. They’d sat in silence, staring blankly at the white walls with stoic expressions on their faces.

    Fuck that, Jason thought. He didn’t need them anyway.

    If he were anything like the man he’d been six months ago, he’d be fine. He’d get by.

    Once he finished his work, once the sun had set and darkness stole over the empty field, that same uneasy feeling would take hold of him. Sometimes, he’d walk out into the darkness, hold his breath, listen to the night sounds, and try to stand there in the mud and the cold as long as he could. As long as he could until his breath couldn’t be held anymore. The urge to run would hit him, and he’d wind up sprinting towards the house, images of flying beasts terrorizing him as he reached for a weapon he no longer had. As he called out to the counterpart, who was no longer by his side.

    What was the shield without its sword?

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    30 Dec 2022

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  4. Public Bookmark 44

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    Jee's life. Zuko's rule. Sokka's chiefdom. This is a story of seemingly opposing forces--life and death, love and war, old and new--that all exist on a continuum of dance and song.
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    There is an old fisherman’s port that sits on the furthermost island away from the Fire National capital. For decades it bears no name. Sailors and merchants coming and going call it all manner of things: ‘The Quiet Wharf’, ‘Old Maid’s Harbor’, ‘The Port of Wood Rot’.

    It’s the last that sticks the longest and so it stays. Wood rot. Woodrot. Woodrott. The wooden piles that hold its pier together had long ago turned gray, their splitting grooves riddled with the warts of barnacles. The village of tin shanties bears the soul of an old man. Sensible, for old men born here tend to die here, wind-dried or pickled, and so it is fitting that the air smells of salt and vinegar and neglected things.

    To Jee it smells like home.

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    08 Oct 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    I found him shivering in a stairwell, trying to scrape together enough meth for another hit. He held a gun on me, threatened to blow my head off. So what could I do? I married him.

    Note: Chapters are interconnected and organized chronologically. This means I may be adding chapters between other chapters occasionally as I write them.

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    06 Mar 2022