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A burned-out Michael picks up a hitchhiker on a dead Nebraska highway at midnight. He hates soldiers. The hitchhiker is one.
Jack is recently discharged, quiet, bruised by the military in ways he doesn’t explain ends up trapped with Michael in an old Mercedes with no AC
They argue, they judge each other... they absolutely should not keep looking at each other.Bookmarked by Cuthan
20 Jun 2026
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In 2024, the Pittsburgh Penguins, headed up by Coach Robby Robinavitch, select Dennis Whitaker first overall in the NHL draft.
In 1986, two generational talents, both with the ambitions of nations on their backs, meet for the first time at the 1986 World Juniors.
What follows is history.
In which: sports are political, health is political, and everything is political except for politics, which is about sports.
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05 Jun 2026
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this was what they meant, he thought, in the haftarot of consolation, behold I will set your stones with carbuncle, and I will lay your foundations with sapphires, the foundations of his soul had been cleared out and replaced with glittering stones and he felt— free, unencumbered, like nothing and nobody could hurt him, not ever again.
Pittsburgh, 1986-1990.
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- Part 1 of tzedek, tzedek, tirdof
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01 Jun 2026
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The sabbatical was supposed to be an ending. Instead: one foundling infant, one guest, and Jack Abbot on his couch in borrowed clothes.
Robby is learning how to stay. It turns out he has help.
aka Robby was looking for an ending on the back of a motorcycle, and he found a beginning in a bassinet instead.
aka the "Robby takes in Baby Jane Doe" fic that we've all wanted.
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29 May 2026
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In the summer of 1988, Johnny and his mother land in a suburb just outside Chicago, starting over for, well, Johnny's kind of lost track of how many times this is. A few days later, Johnny meets Ruth and her grandson Mike, and he feels almost immediately that this time, it's going to be different.
30 years later, Jack lands a job in the emergency department of PTMC.
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26 May 2026