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“Alright buddy, have a sit.” Hayden points at the bench in front of Shane’s locker, and Shane stares at him. “Listen man, if you think you getting this huge ass bouquet for Valentine’s day isn’t going to be the highlight of Jackie’s week, you’re out of your mind. And if you don’t sit for a picture for me, you’re a bad friend. So. Sit.”
Shane sits, still in his gear, waterfall of roses behind him contrasting well with the blue, white, and stripes of red in his uniform. He even plasters on his best media smile, before asking, “It’s Valentine’s Day?”
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Five Times Shane had a secret valentine, and one time he figured it out.
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- Part 5 of Retro Writing - May 2026 Challenge
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12 Jul 2026
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“I’m not your ‘buddy’, I’m your husband.” Shane says firmly, and it’s his ‘I’m the team Captain and you’re the team fuck up’ voice that he’d had to pull out on the Metros every now and then. To this day it makes Hayden’s body tense in reaction, and Shane hasn’t been his Captain in a long time.
“No, Shane- Please, it’s me, it’s Hayden.” he pleads, finally looking Shane in the eye, and oh god, he still has some- on his chin-
Shane’s glare lessens, but it’s replaced with concern. It’s a tiny little wiggle of a frown between his eyebrows and he usually gets it when one of the kids is swinging too high on the swing set, or when Amber toddles into the kitchen while they’re cooking.
“What?” he says slowly.
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- Part 16 of Retro Writing - May 2026 Challenge
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12 Jul 2026
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Ilya had thought it was dumb, when Galina suggested it. A code word for when his mental health was bad—he and Shane didn’t even have a code word for sex, and Ilya was regularly tying Shane to the bed and slapping his ass until it was as red as a tomato.
“Is there a reason you’re calling me?” Shane asks now, voice echoey over the phone. “Or is this part of your strategy to win our argument?”
Ilya swallows hard. “Constantinople,” he says.
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Or: Ilya goes through a rough patch.
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- Part 27 of my anonymous heated rivalry fic
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11 Jul 2026
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“He wants doll brushes because he’s seen the girls at the park brushing their plushies with them. Their dolls too, obviously. But he wants to brush that pelt you brought him-”
David sets his crossword book down, giving Yuna his full attention.
“What?”
“The pelt of fur? Looks like a wolf, or maybe one of those big cats?” Yuna says, waving her hand dismissively. “Either way, I don’t think doll brushes are the right choice. We can look into getting him a set of actual grooming tools, he needs to learn that the right tools for the right job are an important-”
“Yuna. Sweetheart.” David interrupts. “I did not buy our son a piece of dead animal as a souvenir from Russia.”
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Ilya loses something important at the airport; years later, Shane gives it back to him.
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06 Jul 2026
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"And there's already so little you can keep, when you're [in a place] like this. Your possessions aren't yours. Whatever events happen to you aren't yours.
All that's left is you."
- Quote from In Stars And Time, regarding suicide in a time loop.
She can't sleep, because she can't stop thinking about it. The gun. How it felt. Her finger on the trigger, the bullet in her head. Her body on the floor.
She wouldn't do it again. She doesn't have a gun to do it with, anyway. It still... sticks. The idea. Like, she can't stay dead—what's the harm in, say, snapping her neck right now, just to see what it's like?
(A look at why killing yourself in a place you can't die is still bad, and a dive into where it leads and what it means.)Series
- Part 4 of if things start getting bad look out they might be getting worse (horror & abstract)
- Part 4 of Author's Picks
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04 Jul 2026