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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:

    --His clothing was expensive and stylish;
    --He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
    --His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
    --He looked angry;
    --He was wearing sunglasses.

    What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?

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    17 Apr 2026

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    “Now, now,” Snufkin told himself. “It could be a coincidence…”

    A coincidence, that a poem with the exact same title and opening lines as his own work had made its way to publication? Unlikely.

    Snufkin didn’t have his original copy to compare the stolen poem against. He only enjoyed writing poetry. Afterwards, he never really wanted to revisit it or share it. He just left the old notebook behind somewhere and procured a new one, ready to start again.

    There was no denying the familiarity, though. After hearing it in Moominpappa’s voice, he couldn’t remember when or where he penned it, but the work was certainly his.

    That didn’t solve the issue of how this De Hemulton fellow had come to claim it as his own, or why.
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    A very familiar poetry collection has become popular in Moominvalley.

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    26 Mar 2026

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    “It’s a vehicle,” Moomintroll insisted, because he hated to be wrong.

    “It’s an art piece,” Snorkmaiden said.

    “Treasure chest!” Sniff cried.

    “Holding cell,” Little My sneered.

    “It’s a piano,” said a voice. They turned to see Snufkin at the window, opening the latch and pushing it open.

    “A what?” Snorkmaiden asked.

    “A piano!” Snufkin said, folding his arms to lean against the windowsill. “A sort of musical instrument.”
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    Moomintroll uncovers an old piano in Moominhouse. It starts some interesting conversations.

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    26 Mar 2026

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    “Uh,” Moomintroll said, and then because he didn’t even know where to begin, decided to keep his question simple. “What is happening?”

    They both stared at him as though he was completely stupid.

    “Isn’t it obvious enough?” Snorkmaiden asked.

    “Oh, my Moomintroll,” Snufkin said, and Moomintroll had no idea how to deal with hearing Snufkin say that. “You can be slow sometimes.”

    Snorkmaiden flickered a few more colours. Snufkin didn’t let go of his paws. Moomintroll stared at them both, still utterly at a loss.

    Little My threw a handful of raspberry crumble at his head.

    “They’ve swapped bodies, you great useless marshmallow.”
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    Snorkmaiden and Snufkin swap bodies. It raises questions nobody is ready to answer.

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    25 Mar 2026

  6. Rec 49

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    He'd taken it too far, with Slaney. Hadn't he?
    He didn't regret it. He'd shot his best friend, he'd shot John. Out of all people... He tried to kill John.
    He deserved what he got, and more.

    But when he'd looked at John, right after... Had there been something in his face? Something primal, animalistic, dangerous, horrible, that made his best friend's face go from exhaustion and concern to fear. Because it had been fear.
    Widened eyes, inner corners of the eyebrows raised, lips slightly parted, trembling...
    It had been fear.

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    Set after the events of The Dancing Men. Sherlock thinks John is afraid of him. John thinks Sherlock needs his space. Not a great combo.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    John is in love, though he doesn't bloody notice.

    Sherlock notices. Sherlock sees all of the hints, all of the signs, all of the changes in John's habits. But he doesn't know what they mean.

    Naturally, he assumes John is upset with him.

    .......

    Or, I Thought Very Long And Hard About How Pod!Johnlock Would Happen And This Was The Result

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    17 Mar 2026

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    “You’re really suggesting this,” Martin says, voice pulled thin.
    “Yes.” No hesitation.
    “You would- actually do it?”
    “I would.”
    “With me.”
    Yes, Martin.”
    “Why?” Because love is blind, says something cliché and cruel in the pit of his gut. Christ, he never was much of a poet, was he?

    Or,

    When Jon asks Martin to Quit the Archives with him, Martin says yes. Things don't go as planned. In the Scottish Highlands, they hurt, and they heal.

     

    (Re-written as of 22-12-27; see chapter 9 for more info.)

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    03 Mar 2026

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    Martin finds them eventually, tapered white wax, twenty or thirty of them beside a box of ancient (but dry) matches, and a little brass dish with a slot that just about fits the base of the candle. He feels like Scrooge, fitting the whole thing together, tucking a few more into his pocket before striking a match -

    Which immediately goes out.

    “Oh, fuck you,” Martin says into the murk.

    Again -

    And again, the fire vanishes. Quick and efficient as a breath. He shivers in the sudden cold.

    ***

    Martin Blackwood inherits an old country house, but there are more inhabitants than he first realises. When eventually the paranormal occurrences become too frequent and dangerous for him to ignore, he has to turn to a group of misfit ghost hunters for help.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    People do not bring Jonathon Sims tea. Martin Blackwood, newly-minted archival assistant, has apparently not received this memo.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    Was there ever a more conducive environment for strangeness? Leitners circulate in the library system like demons through damnation. Hallways twist into impossible configurations. Above everything, a man watches, green-eyed and pensive, all-seeing. Boys who have been teenagers since the nineties repeat the same grade and watch their teachers’ eyes fog over with memories unshaping themselves.

    Or: Jonathan Sims (fifteen years of age), a watchful school, the losing of his lonesomeness, and a whole library of books older than your great-grandfather’s dick.

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    17 Feb 2026

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    Jonathan Sims does not believe in the supernatural, thank you very much. But when he wakes up one morning with what he thinks are possibly the world's worst superpowers, he realizes that both his reputation as a skeptic and new identity as a vigilante are in danger from his overly curious boss and nosy coworkers...

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    10 Feb 2026

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    No,’ said Judge Roberta Field, over the top of her pasta salad.

    ‘Good afternoon, Your Honour,’ said Elias Bouchard. He smiled. It was a benign smile, like they always were. And yet it was the sort of smile that she knew brought horrors she couldn’t begin to anticipate.

    Her eyelid twitched. ‘I am retiring in three weeks,’ she hissed.

     

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    Judge Roberta Field is retiring early. No more long days. No more screaming couples. No more family drama. Just a lovely cottage in Scotland. Life is going swimmingly.

    Unfortunately for her, her two least favourite regulars decide to stop by for one last hurrah.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    Judge Roberta Field eyed the next case on the docket balefully. She’d known it was coming. As soon as she’d seen it appear in her schedule she’d cursed and debated “breaking a leg”, since it had been too late to have another baby as a way out. She’d convinced herself that was too extreme, however, and lulled herself into a false sense of security that she must be misremembering and it wouldn’t be that bad. So she’d decided to keep working and let it happen. And now it was here.

    The Bouchard-Lukas divorce.

    Again.

    It had been three years since the last one, which had to be a new record.

     

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    Elias and Peter are divorcing again. In trying to decide the division of their marital property, they need some witnesses to assist their respective cases. This is unfortunate for Jon and Martin, who would really rather be elsewhere.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    Everything should be fine now, except it isn't. Why does Batman still seem to brush Joker off? Why won't he listen to anything Joker says? Why won't he just get that they're supposed to be best enemies now?

    Well. Maybe his roommate Bruce Wayne can help.

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    23 Jan 2026

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    That soulmate AU where you get the name of your soulmate on your wrist...except instead of your soulmate, it's the person who kills you.
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    “Can’t eat this,” Jon says. 

    Georgie looks up from her chicken sandwich. She blanches. “Jesus, Jon. You look—what’s wrong?”

    Jon taps the top left side of his chest. “Name tag. Didn’t see until he gave us our food.”

    “Oh. Oh! You mean...” Georgie looks around like she expects to see the grim reaper perched on a booth cushion. “Shit. Should we leave?”

    “Well I mean—I don’t—I mean he might not be that Martin. And even if he were, there’s hardly anything I could do about it. You know how it is. I’d try to leave and he’d—he’d trip on his way to the kitchen and a fork would fling itself into my jugular or something.”

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    22 Jan 2026

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    Gerry took a wavering step into the room, then another. In the darkness underneath the weird luminous crack in space and time there lay a man crumpled on the floor; he was slight and wild-haired and his face was screwed up in pain, his dirty clothes covered in blood.
    "Oh shit," Gerry groaned and fell to his knees, hands hovering. The man’s breath came quick and shallow, teeth digging into his lower lip and nails digging into the floor. Not surprising, that — there was a bloody knife buried in his chest.

     

    In another universe, Gerry and Sasha acquire a very troublesome roommate. In yet another universe, Martin has to deal with the antics of a spider. A strange one-sided correspondence across worlds ensues, while the passage between realities is slowly closing…

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    21 Jan 2026

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    Martin wasn't alone when he went back to investigate Vittery's basement that night, and he wasn't alone when he fled back to his apartment either. Stuck caring for a boss that hates him, all he can do is pray his coworkers notice their absence.

    Trapped in an apartment with his least favourite assistant and limited supplies, Jon is forced to confront his fear of the supernatural head-on while battling his cravings and bizarrely realistic nightmares. Also, there may or may not be a worm trying to burrow into his leg.

    This is going to be one hell of a week.

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    18 Jan 2026

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    The harmless crush hadn’t taken Martin by surprise. At all. He knows his own weaknesses, and the day he’d first set eyes on Jon, he’d seen every last one of them glaring back at him. But as he steps into the pub on the unremarkable Thursday night on which he will fall in love, he’s thinking about fate.

    Jon, on the other hand, is thinking about how soon he can reasonably leave the pub.

    The next four years? An exercise in bad timing.

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    14 Jan 2026

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    I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.

     

    As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?

     

    Kind regards,
    New Manager

    Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.

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    06 Jan 2026

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