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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    Cigarette smoke and the ozone of plasma. Hidden eyes and a wolfish smile.

    Two sides of the same coin?

    Or something worse?

    A new player enters the Mojave, and her nature not only manages to drive Vulpes up a wall, but stirs something in his gut that he isn't used too.

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    28 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    This is essentially a direct sequel to the events of the book, written in Pony's first person POV. It's set in a timeline where Dallas and Johnny each meet a different fate, and we see Ponyboy deal with the way his life and relationships are changing. Including finally acting on his feelings for Johnny. Its not primarily a ship fic, though. That's just a little treat.

    Anyway, this first chapter just follows Pony visiting Johnny two-ish months after the fire.

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    07 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Bob Sheldon didn't laugh. Instead he turned to him, expression suddenly grave. "Fuck 'em, let's make a deal, fair between us, yeah? You don't touch one of my gang, and I'll stay clear of one of yours."

    Dallas spat on his hand and stuck it out, in the usual Greaser fashion, but Bob shook his head. Instead, the Social boy pulled off one of the four rings on his left hand. "Here," said Bob, holding it out. "That's a promise to you as long as that ring stays gold."
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    A murder, four gold rings, and a deal that could change the story of the Outsiders forever. But the kids of Tulsa all have secrets of their own...

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    28 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    “The night before kindergarten, I wished on the evening star for a best friend. And then, the next day, I met you. So I really think that our wish is gonna come true.”
    “You really think so? I thought you weren’t supposed to tell people about your wishes, because then they won’t come true.”
    “But we made the wish together. That means it has extra power. And best friends aren’t like normal friends. Best friends are forever.”
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    Cherry and Marcia have been best friends since they met on the first day of kindergarten. They've done everything together: birthday parties, sleepovers, classes, cheer team, boyfriends. But with the trials and tribulations of growing up in Tulsa, not everything is as it seems. Through navigating friends and foes, social pressure and expectations, violence and hurt, the girls grow up together and try to figure out their place in the world.

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    27 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    Marcia looked up and saw the other girls looking at her with compassion. This would certainly be something the boys wouldn’t get. She didn’t need them to. She already had four girls who would always have her back. Regardless of being greasers or Socs, there was an unspoken code between all of them, between all the girls of Tulsa, that they needed to stick up for one another. They needed to make sure that their drinks stayed unspoiled or that they got home safe after parties. They needed to make sure that their bruises or scars weren’t at someone else’s hand. Maybe the reason the boys fought so much was because that code didn’t exist for them.
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    When Marcia gets jumped, she learns that girls from both sides of the tracks have her back.

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    27 Jun 2025