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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    It is Aaron's first time meeting Kevin in person since she transitioned, and while he has seen the photos of her in the press, he’s not sure how it will feel to see her face to face. He’s worried about reacting the wrong way or saying the wrong thing.

    Kevin as she was is one of the people Aaron knew better than anyone. Now she feels foreign to him again. If she had not been able to show this part of herself before, what other parts did she have to hide? Maybe she has changed completely since Aaron last saw her. Perhaps she is not the person he knows at all anymore.

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    23 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Aaron Minyard lost his scholarship when psychological trauma made it impossible for him to keep playing Exy at PSU, forcing him to rely on student loans to finish college. With bills piling up and Chicago proving far more expensive than he'd anticipated, he reluctantly accepts his roommate's suggestion to take shifts at a stripper club alongside his residency at the hospital. Sure, he wants more than a life consumed by work. He wants to be more than the man associated with a murder trial. But he lost sight of that years ago, when Katelyn broke up with him.

    Kevin Day knows most of his conversations revolve around Exy. He knows he can be demanding, stubborn, and occasionally insufferable when the situation calls for it. That doesn't make him heartless. A shared secret turns into friendship. Friendship turns into something neither of them expected. And while Aaron is determined to keep everyone at arm's length, Kevin is equally determined to prove that some things are worth holding on to.

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    18 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    “Jesus fuck,” Aaron says. It is no less shocking on second sight. The face is humanoid, but the proportions are all wrong. The eyes are far too big. They had been green when Aaron first saw them, but now they’re completely black, no white visible at all. The nose is long and broad, but rather than thinning out at the bridge, it expands, blending into the forehead. The shock of dark hair, slicked back from water, seems out of place atop the head, as do the eyebrows, currently slanted inward. The lips look human, but the mouth is too wide, currently turned down in what looks like a concerned frown. It’s the trademark expression of a bigeye thresher, the kind of perpetual anxiety their faces appear frozen in from the human perspective. Aaron, deliriously, laughs. 

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    10 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 15

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    Then, just as suddenly as the earlier throw, the knife moved again.

    Andrew didn’t flinch.

    The blade buried itself in the wooden door beside Andrew’s head with a sharp crack. A few of the guards tensed, shoulders pulled back and hands straying to their guns. Andrew turned his head slightly and examined the knife now embedded in the oak barely two inches from his temple. The handle wobbled at a small flick of his finger. He looked back at Nathaniel.

    “You missed.”

    Nathaniel’s eyes sharpened. “Did I?”

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    Andrew accidentally walks into an execution and rather than valuing his life he decides to piss off hot mafioso butcher neil even more and somehow makes it out unscathed

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    09 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 91

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    "When Nicky announced that Andrew had been chosen to present his Senior Capstone Project at the Palmetto Research Symposium, the locker room lounge had been a mixture of confusion and disbelief."

    Andrew's fifth year is coming to a close when Neil learns he has been tirelessly working behind the scenes on a research project important enough that he has been selected to present it to the university shareholders. Does Andrew Minyard actually care about something? Did we all collectively forget that they are in college and have to work on academic things while playing exy, outrunning the mafia, and surviving the yakuza?

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    31 May 2026