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    She lays the sage bundle down in one of his seashells, avoiding the label. How he loved cataloging natural items. That sharp mind of his so naturally tended to the sciences, and she’d taken great joy in encouraging him all his life. All the first thirteen years of it. The last year has been entirely different.

    His hand lies just outside the white comforter. When she touches it, the chill of his skin sends a shiver down her spine. His lips move, his voice as soft as dead, dry leaves.

    “What’s that, love?” she says.

    “In the trees,” he says, his eyes still closed. “Is it John there in the trees? I think he’s waiting for me.”

    Viola turns her gaze out the window and to the closest tree, a resplendent cherry in the throes of autumn. In the branches there, for just a second, she thinks she sees it: a black bird, feathers gleaming in the sun.

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    23 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 62

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    A small wooden box filled with clay and feotus bones yields more than just clues to a violent murder. A Halloween Story. Read at your own risk -- and I do not say this lightly.

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    24 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 26

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    White, padded walls. Straightjacket. “Please, John.” - blackalchemist

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    23 Mar 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    In which Sherlock believes he and John are invincible. (A small fic based on the Mayday Parade song Terrible Things)

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    15 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 27

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    "The central law of all organic life is that each organism is intrinsically isolate and single in itself. The moment its isolation breaks down and there comes an actual mixing and confusion, death sets in." - D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

     

     

    Five tumors like five heartbeats like trochaic pentameter, the poetry of John’s body in decay.

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    27 Jan 2025