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    “Should call you the Ottawa Puppies,” says the Toronto centre, Svensson. As an insult it makes no sense, so Ilya ignores it, until he continues, “Hear Hollander keeps you on a short leash.”

    Ilya is the captain, so if anything, he should be holding the leash. In English, you can be singular or plural, but he knows what Svensson is trying to say. He is saying Ilya Rozanov, you are Hollander’s bitch.

    “Only sometimes,” Ilya replies, grinning. He wins the face off.

    OR: Ilya trains himself to be a very, very good guard dog for Shane.

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    31 Dec 2025

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    Heaven wouldn’t hurt so bad, would it?

    “Well, it was the words of the Major that kept me going. Something he said at the very beginning, about how we’ll never be number one again if we don’t try. So I tried to be number one. And here I am before y’all.”

    Hell, then.

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    Pete wished for Ray to live.

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    21 Dec 2025

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    All of their clothes had been patched and mended. There was no longer any blood or red-raw skin. The boy whose legs had been ground into paste by the halftrack brushed past Art’s elbow as he took steps two at a time, bounding down towards the ground floor.

    Art thought– he didn’t know what he thought. There was no thinking. They were all just surging, together, forward.

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    Art Baker meets up with the boys in the afterlife.

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    08 Dec 2025

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    When Pete McVries gets one cosmic do-over, a choice to redo the Walk and save Ray, he doesn’t hesitate. The muscle pain, torn-up feet, sleep deprivation, hallucinations, nausea, and finally a bullet — he’ll go through it all again to get five more days with Ray, and to make sure it’s Ray who makes it out alive.

    When it turns out that this is not just a one-time do-over but a time loop, he doesn’t quite know what comes next.

    Or: Can a highway in Maine, like Hill House or the Overlook Hotel, be born bad?

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    07 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 38

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    A waiter glides up to them, carrying a silver tray laid with delicate looking pastries topped with swirls of white foam and spilling with tiny, glittering fish eggs. Ignoring Ray, the waiter holds the tray up to Pete.
    Don’t eat anything, Ray begs him silently, chest tight with horror. He thinks of the old book of Greek myths his father had read to him, of Persephone who was condemned to the underworld because she ate a handful of pomegranate seeds. Please don’t eat anything.

    Or: Every year, the winner of the Long Walk is honored with a celebratory party in the nation's capital. Despite everything, this year is no different.

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    23 Nov 2025