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A Generation Lost in Space by GayTwinksinP3ril, justcallmenibbs, SweetieBird1250
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), Cookie Run (Video Game), The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien, Top Gun (Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
01 Jun 2025
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CRASHING THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!
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Rat Kiley has trauma. Sorry guys, im a crashout.
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How to Tell a True Love Story by shurishen
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
22 May 2025
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War wasn’t all bad. In between the smell of death and blood, there was still two soldiers, shining in the company of each other.
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I don’t even know why I’m writing this. I’m not a poet. I’m not Tim with the emotional shit. Maybe I thought that getting it down on paper would make the voices go quiet. Maybe it won’t, but the nagging in the back of my head tells me that if scared little Timmy got better, that I could too.
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Azar writes a short story after coming back from the war, and he reflects on his own life and how he’s coped with PTSD -
Under The Lemon Tree by Hualian_lover, nnoxuuu
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
30 Apr 2025
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The story of Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley finding love in the tumultuous times of the Vietnam War. A story of love and loss and grief.
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He suddenly felt like his entire existence wasn’t real. Kiowa felt like he was a little cog in a clock, among the other young men who shucked on their ill-fitting training uniforms. The army—Kiowa soon learned—was more akin to a messy machine than a group of people. Not Frankenstein, but the monster. A vulgar, naive, adolescent monster.
Bad coping mechanisms, denial, and war. In other words, how Kiowa survives Vietnam, until he doesn’t. Told in bits and pieces.
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and the earth breathes by bittersweetResilience
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
13 Nov 2023
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Some nights were worse than others.
(A retrospective.)
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A Different Face (I could save you this time) by Ughhhhhhhhh
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
23 Jun 2023
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This was written for a friend of mine, so I hope you enjoy. This is also my first ever published work. Please be kind. Also, please ignore the title, I'm absolute shit at making titles.
Basically, what if instead of Norman not being able to save Kiowa, he managed to get him out of the mud?
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- English
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- 925
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 7
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- 46
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Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong by RainbowQuartz0
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
14 Apr 2023
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A rewriting/retelling of "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" from Rat Kiley's perspective. Technically chapter 8.5 of my work "What Happened in Dong Lu Trung."
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- Part 3 of What Happened in Dong Lu Trung
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- English
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- 6,497
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 6
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What Happened in Dong Lu Trung by RainbowQuartz0
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
06 Apr 2023
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"Rat Kiley didn’t have as many memories of Curt Lemon as he’d have liked to. Laying in bed, listening to the quiet, shallow breathing of his sleeping wife, he decided to tell himself the story one more time." The full story of how Rat and Curt Lemon fell in love from the perspective of Rat.
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- Part 2 of What Happened in Dong Lu Trung
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Rat Kiley's post-Vietnam story by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
07 May 2022
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This is for my English project. Also, I don't know how to tag, so the story style is contrastly different than the tags.
Also, if you haven't noticed, I am bad with names as well.
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Ten years later at the bar by misterluckystrikes
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
26 Apr 2022
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 884
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
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- 36
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The After-Prayer / Addendum by cheekslikewine
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
29 Jul 2021
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Boy. Body. Disciple. Dancer. Soldier. Saint.
Creek-clear heart, upturned palms, beloved mind: Kiowa, who were you? And, God, what if?
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It was a death sentence to be exhausted out in the middle of nowhere.
(english assignment to write a short narrative piece on a character)
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2020
- Part 3 of Oceantail's other fics
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The Things Will Graham Carried by HappyFuseli
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
04 Sep 2020
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“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.” ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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Cross My Heart And Hope To Die by kycantina
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
24 Oct 2019
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He still carries Ted Lavender, after all these years.
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Part 1/? of a new series. Lemon, Rat, and O'Brien smoke after an ambush. An excerpt from Lemon and Rat's relationship as told/understood by Tim O'Brien.
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- Part 1 of What Happened in Dong Lu Trung
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Over Encumbered by Raiven_Raine
Fandoms: Fallout 76, Fallout (Video Games), The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
23 Apr 2019
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Draven and our three favorite raider-brats are out on a camping trip and the man decides to tell them a true ghost story.
It's heavy.
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- Part 2 of Kill, Laugh, Love
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Rat forgets how to be a medic by Yun_Of_The_Blue_Moon
Fandoms: The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
28 Dec 2018
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In which Rat Kiley has suddenly frozen in his place when his partner Curt Lemon suffers from a minor injury while in Vietnam.
Or in which they end up having a moment for themselves where they can enjoy the company of the other.
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How close were Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley?
(Written June 16, 2016)