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  1. Public Bookmark 23

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    In the fall of 1953, Eugene sends an ad to the San Francisco Chronicle. It reads:

    Professional single male, late 20s, located in Dogpatch. Clean, considerate & responsible, seeking similar. Pets O.K. Smoking O.K. First month + security up front. Contact Eugene for details. Serious enquiries only.

    Eugene is freshly divorced and outgrowing the life he had painstakingly made for himself after returning from war. Merriell is grieving, aimless, roaming the length of the Pacific coast looking for a place to collect himself. The first time they speak, Eugene is suffering a late summer nosebleed. Merriell had just pawned his mother's earrings for first month's rent. He moves in the same day.

    feat. splinters, workwear, payphone calls, cruising. the delicate hot-house flower that is merriell. eugene at his most neurotic. sea fog & starlings & improbably hot first time sex. the inherent insanity of falling for your landlord.

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    13 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 78

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    Sometimes, as the winds of Narragansett Bay whip at his cold-flushed face and aching hands, Levi wonders how life has led him here. Here: atop four winding flights of stairs, seventy-three feet in the air, polishing a fifty year old light bulb several times larger than his head.

    His predecessor had complained about the loneliness while showing him around the place. Told him it makes you go mad. Levi doesn’t mind it though. In fact, he finds the isolation oddly comforting. In the middle of the ocean there are no generals or foremen screaming at him to get back to work. There are no sly insults on his stature, or reprimands regarding his attitude. Atop Whale Rock there is only steel, stone, and the occasional seabird cawing overheard.

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    After being dishonorably discharged from the military, the slowly dying Levi Ackerman takes a job as a lighthouse keeper just off the coast. Content in his isolation, (aside from the occasional visit from supply-boatman, Hange) he resolves to spend the rest of his days on the sea tending to the light.

    It's only when a retired, one-armed navy man arrives to serve as a fellow keeper, that Levi has to reconsider if there's something he's been missing.

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    23 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    Techie wants a taste of freedom, and gets a taste of friendship...and maybe a little more.

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    19 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    07 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    Gene knows that Babe would share a meal with a fellow soldier in a heartbeat. But that Gene should be the one he's sharing it with? That someone would look at Gene and think to offer him something, think to give him food or warmth or affection when he's done nothing but exist nearby? It's difficult to wrap his head around.

    It's when he's trying that the gunshot splits the air.

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    Or, Gene gets hit, and it falls on Babe to patch him up.

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    04 Oct 2025