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    Before they are ready, before they are honest, before either of them has figured out how to want the other without flinching, Shane and Ilya are outed by a photograph neither of them knew existed.

    Ilya has spent his whole life being wanted for the wrong reasons and discarded for the right ones. Shane has spent his whole life believing that if he is careful enough, good enough, controlled enough, he can keep disaster from reaching the people he loves.

    Shane tries to make it safe.

    Ilya tries to make himself impossible to abandon.

    Somewhere between the lawyers, the headlines, the separate bedrooms, and the vows neither of them knows how to mean out loud, their fake marriage becomes the least fake thing in either of their lives.

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    14 May 2026

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    When Shane takes a hard hit on the ice, he wakes up three days later to find his reality has been shattered. But the truth is, it wasn’t reality at all. Just an elaborate set of false memories conjured by a brain injury. 'False memory syndrome' they call it. Shane calls it a nightmare he couldn't have imagined.

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    Shane doesn’t have amnesia. Instead, he wakes up wanting his boyfriend only to realize his brain concocted a bunch of fake memories of a nine year situationship and Shane has no idea how to live in his actual reality that Ilya hasn’t been a part of. Luckily, Ilya is…curious.

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    10 May 2026

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    When the long game falls apart, Shane and Ilya need a new plan.

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    03 May 2026

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    "There are some that say a church doesn’t belong in Vegas, that hockey doesn’t belong in the desert, and that wanting to kiss other men doesn’t belong in sports. Every rule has an exception."

     

    or: five times someone finds out that Kent Parson and Augustin Berenger are together, and one time they tell everyone.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    When you’re going up in flames, sometimes other people can smell the smoke. On the flip side, at least: when you’re on fire, sometimes other people can feel the warmth.

    Or, scenes from Home Economics, told from the perspective of everyone else.

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    28 Apr 2026

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