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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    Joan of Arc heard the voice of God, and led France to war.

    Thomas Lawrence heard the voice of sex columnist Naughty Nancy, and led the Pope to near-absolute ruin.

    Theologians disagree on which event was greater proof of the divine.

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    02 Jun 2025

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    The papers will love this, he thinks. My God, they’d be right to give me the chair – and then common sense raises its head, and he rushes to Vincent’s side. His beloved was lucky enough to fall onto the carpet; he does not look injured but then Thomas is not a doctor and he can hardly call for help like this, all he can do is pat Vincent’s face until his eyelids flutter.

    “Darling,” Thomas pleads. “Darling, can you hear me? Can you open your eyes?”

    “Thomas,” Vincent sighs. “Oh my Thomas, I had the strangest dream.” With a low moan he opens his eyes, blinking. “I dreamt that-” His gaze goes to Thomas kneeling by his side, to where the apron has ridden up, and his eyes roll back in his head, and down he goes again.

    Thomas sits back on his heels and considers the situation. It doesn’t take very long, because it never takes him very long to start panicking.

    “Vincent!” He grabs his husband’s shoulder and jostles it. “Vincent, in His holy name, wake up!”

    Vincent jerks upward with the gasp of a drowning man coming up for air. His eyes roam frantically over Thomas, over every inch of exposed flesh, and he chokes out a series of words in Spanish too rapid for Thomas to translate.

    “My darling,” Thomas says as calmly as he can, “please listen to me very carefully. What is my name?”

    “Thomas Lawrence-Benítez,” Vincent answers promptly. “The Dean to all others, to I and I alone mi todo, mi corazón.”

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    It starts slowly, the steady disconnect between who he is and who he should be. The man in the mirror becomes a stranger to him; he looks into the glass and wonders how everything became so distorted and backward and...wrong. He notices in bursts: when Teddy grows taller than him, when he’s kissing Ginny on her lips and looking at the subtle smile lines she’s starting to develop around her plush mouth. She’s got the cutest crinkles by her eyes.

    His face is smooth as it was when he was seventeen. Which was 18 years ago. He hasn’t aged a day.
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    Living forever isn't all it's cracked up to be. Harry Potter learns the meaning of immortality when everyone he loves dies again and again after becoming the master of death. After millennia of love lost, Death sends him to "Elsewhere" in order to give his master something new and different.

    Harry emerges from ash in New Asgard. What's a man like Thor to do but offer the traveler a home?

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    21 Dec 2021

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    It goes beyond even this.

     

    He can feel the gravity that traps every living creature on this tiny planet. He feels the force at which the Earth is spinning on its axis. He feels the pull of the moon on the oceans. He can feel everything.

     

    He sees everything and it is not overwhelming. For one moment, he watches the entirety of the universe.

     

    In the next, he becomes the universe.

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Ian was not a virologist. He was a GP—or he had been, once. What he was now, there probably wasn't a word for.

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  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    The sunset that day warmed the sky a tender pink, like a rosy cheek or the color of a fingertip. When Samson appeared in their usual spot, emerging from the wild vegetation, the soft light made the constellations of scars across the skin scintillate like stars.

    Ian hits the dart right over Samson’s heart.

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    31 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    31 Jan 2026