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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    Desperate to slip the grasp of a controlling uncle who wants to cage him in more ways than one, Ollie boards a rumbling cargo train he hopes will carry him toward something like freedom.

    But the train offers more than escape. He meets the miners there – broad-shouldered, centurium-dusted men who laugh easily, live simply, and look at him with a kind of slow, curious hunger he’s never been allowed to invite.

    And Ollie?

    Ollie is about to discover just how good a judgment-free ride can get.

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    04 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 52

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    It hits him, then, like anaphylaxis is contagious: his chest feels tight, his breath frozen. He’s mad at Jack for getting so exposed. He’s mad at the patient for bringing in the allergen in the first place. He’s terrified, seeing Jack sweat, hearing Javadi read “90 over 70,” and even as Jack’s breathing begins to slow, and even as his systolic starts climbing, Robby is scared stiff.

    Jack mumbles something around the mouthpiece of the nebulizer.

    “No,” Robby snaps. “Shut up and breathe.”

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    23 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    “I’m coming to get you,” Jack says because he actually hasn’t told him that yet.

    “No,” Robby says weakly, smacking his lips together. “Jack, I don’t want you to.”

    “Tough shit,” Jack answers, and he would argue that Robby does want Jack to go get him seeing as Robby called him.

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    23 Apr 2026

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    "It's late to start riding," Jack said as Robby straightened, a neutral statement that was a protest nonetheless. They knew how to say things without saying anything, the two of them.

    Maybe that was part of the problem.

    Robby stared down at the still-sleeping baby. "I have a lot of things to see," he said, almost to himself, a double layer to that, one that Jack found oddly heartening.

    "And people to love," he said, taking a flier on it because why the fuck not.

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    23 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    Jack was leaning in the doorjamb in a forest green and burgundy skirt suit with gold trim, complete with a cap on his head set at a jaunty angle. The top was a little too small, so his stupid jacked arms were busting out of the short sleeves. The skirt rode up over his knees to reveal freckled thighs and a dusting of hair rendered golden by Robby’s porch light. His flesh and blood ankle was crossed over his metal one, and he was slanting a shit-eating smirk at Robby.

    “What the fuuuuck,” Robby’s mouth let out, independent of his brain.

    “Can I interest you in flying Abbot Air?”

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    23 Apr 2026