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  1. Public Bookmark 79

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    He has the eyes of a mutt; they’re different colors. One is golden red like sunrise warning, the other a soft and human brown. Daniel has to turn away from them as if from a cliff edge.

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    02 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    “I expect you’ll have a dreary few weeks doing puzzles with the missus? Eating microwaved foods and celebrating your capitalist American customs.”

    Daniel merely rolls his eyes at the bait, fixes the strap of his satchel over his shoulder. “Yeah. How’d you guess?”

    The boy doesn’t respond. He only acknowledges Daniel with a brief glance. “Enjoy yourself. Don’t miss me too much.”

    Professor Molloy resides in the gloomy, fire-and-brimstone walls of St. Thomas University over the Winter break — circa the year 2000. Christmas plans: survive his second divorce, deal with his feelings for a random, online stranger and handle the tension with his obnoxious, European TA, who he’s now stuck with for the next few weeks.

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    02 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 4

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    “Look at me, Daniel,” Armand whispered. His voice a thread of sound, pulling Daniel under. “You know me. From whatever little I left you with. You know the way I look when I lie, the little human tics I still carry, the compulsions I try to quiet but never can completely break off, the shape of all my flaws and idiosyncrasies. I see it in your every thought. You know me better in my absence than most ever do in my presence.” His voice softened, fraying at the edges. “Do you understand now?” 

    Daniel stared into those huge, tormented eyes, and felt the core of his life collapse.

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    When long-gone memories Daniel thought drugs had permanently messed up begin to come back, he's forced to deal with the fact that six days of torture in San Francisco was not the only thing Armand had taken from him.

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    27 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    outfreak (simple past and past participle outfreaked) / (transitive, rare, slang) — To surpass in freakiness.

    Daniel meets Louis and they start working on a book together. Armand, Louis' fiancé, is not a fan.

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    23 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    “The vampire Armand,” Daniel said slowly, the headline writing itself in his mind, “in love with a mortal. Now that’s a story I’m interested in.”

    The gaze that met his was no longer wounded, but predatory-cold. “You’re a vulture, aren’t you?” Armand said, the words soft as a blade being drawn from silk. “Picking at every scrap of exposed flesh.”

    Daniel held the gaze, refusing to flinch. He’d been called worse. “It’s the job. You started talking out of your own free will. You don’t get to be offended when I look for the cracks in the narrative.”

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    After a brutal interview session leaves Daniel feeling flayed open, his most painful memory weaponized against him the moment he got a little too smart-mouthed, he has a bizarre conversation with the Vampire Armand about love, loss and nailclippers. His life couldn’t possibly get any weirder.

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    21 Dec 2025