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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    “Wait,” Erik said, voice rough and slurred with drink. “Stop. I would speak with you, if you're here as a man of God.”

    Reluctantly, Godwin turned back. Erik was looking at him, the moonlight giving his face an uncanny glow. His wretched expression caught Godwin by surprise: his jaw was clenched, mouth set in a tight line, and his cheeks were shining as if with tears. He glared, gestured at the space on the log next to him, then turned back to face the water.

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    In a chance meeting with Father Godwin, Erik seeks answers about Istvan's fate.

    (A meditation on grief, faith, and survival.)

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    30 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    Erik tries to reenact his father’s 1987 road trip across America and falls in love with István at a gas station.

    This is a love story about finding your person and then forming an elaborate conspiracy to kill the successful gay couple across the street.

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    24 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 18

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    Death has left a hole in Henry’s heart that gnaws and howls at him at any given moment. He hears a melodic laugh of a barmaid and thinks of his last conversation with Bianca. He sees the bellows give life to fire and thinks of his father warning him against learning to fight. Every time he walks past the refugee camp, he knows how fortunate he is, but at what cost? To live an incomplete life, not knowing if he is betraying the people he’s lost by living the life he currently has?

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    After the destruction of Skalitz, Henry feels as though his life is bifurcated in irrecoverable ways. Before, he was a good Christian who believed in God and had a sweetheart in Bianca. Afterwards, he navigates new relationships while questioning a god that allows such devastation.

    A journey of acceptance, religion, and love.

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    31 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    08 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 59

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    Had those hands that now dispense charity not stolen, and choked the last mortal breath out of the bodies of fellow men? Had that brow that now furrows over brewing soothing potions not furrowed over deadly poison, too?

    Had this heart that now pounds in his chest like a bell of the monastery not hungered after things forbidden? Had it not rejoiced in dealing pain just as much as it had in helping others?

    Henry casts aside the Benedictine habit after ten strange and sacred days among monks and hymns. Then, to infiltrate Vranik in the service of his liege lord, he puts on a mask—one of cruelty, corruption, and violence— and it proves to slip on a bit too easily.

    He wears it well—and the comfort of it terrifies him.

    An expansion of Henry’s time in Vranik: facing his own dark desires while vying for Erik’s favour—and then facing his worst fears the moment he loses that favour, suddenly and irrevocably.

    Chapters 1-3 explore Henry - and Henry/Erik.
    Chapters 4-5 are near pure Isterik.
    Chapter 6 is catastrophe.

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    30 Jul 2025