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  1. Public Bookmark 80

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    Shame washes her in dusky pink, hidden by the night sky, as her boss and her Hinge-find shake hands.

    "Nice to meet you. I'm Jack."

    "Likewise. How do you know Sam?" her date asks.

    Jack throws her a look, bland and flat, and she doesn't know if she should laugh or die.

    (or, three times jack crashes samira's date on accident + the one time it's on purpose)

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    03 Jun 2026

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    The stranger from the stairwell stops beside a bank of linen cabinets and folds his arms loosely across his chest.
    No, not a stairwell stranger, Dennis reminds himself. His attending.
    Dennis steels himself, and tells himself no matter what, he won’t roll over. He can do this. His future is at stake.
    He opens his mouth. “Dr. Robby—”
    “You are a fourth-year medical student on rotation in my department,” Dr. Robby cuts off, “and what happened in the stairwell this morning does not change that.”
    Dennis swallows.

    Dennis Whitaker didn't need fate to tell him he was meant to be a doctor. He just really wasn't expecting his new attending on his very last rotation of medical school to say the words inked around his bicep.

    Or, a slow burn soulmate-identifying marks AU.

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    29 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    In 1823, Father Jack Abbot arrives in a remote town where no priest lasts long and where the dead are never found whole. The Church blames wolves, bandits, and God’s will. But Jack sees the pattern, and every trail leads into the forest. To the witch they all fear.

    Samira is everything he’s been taught to fear. Heretical, dangerous, steeped in blood magic, and most importantly; banned from the Church. She is also nothing he expected: calm, deliberate, and unwilling to kill.

    But she's also the main suspect in the case. Jack doesn't know if he can trust her.

    Drawn together by suspicion and necessity, they form a fragile alliance to uncover the truth behind the killings. But with every secret they unravel, the line between faith and heresy begins to blur, and so does the line between them.

    Because someone is targeting the town. And the closer Jack gets to the truth, the closer he gets to the one person he should destroy.

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    26 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 24

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    Dennis just wanted to get drunk and end the night in someone else's bed.
    Then Robby showed up.

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    23 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    Dennis Whitaker works with the PTMC outreach team, delivering medications and companionship to a bitter, one-legged patient named Greg. Greg, who lives in a sparse studio apartment with no books, no music, and nothing but the ghost of a man named James to keep him company.
    When a bad fall lands Greg in the ER, Dennis expects a routine concussion workup. What he doesn't expect is for his cantankerous patient to start diagnosing the woman in the next bay with the kind of ruthless, brilliant arrogance that suggests Greg was never just a doctor's husband.

    A story about finding purpose, second chances, and the dignity of being seen -and being useful.

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    22 May 2026